The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - AFC South Rivals Firing Staff, Former NFL Coach Doesn't Give Texans Any Chances Vs. Chargers

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" discuss the Texans' AFC South opponents going through major personnel changes after the Jaguars fired head coach Doug Pederson, the Colts fired defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and the Titans fired general manager Ran Carthon. Meanwhile, the Texans are preparing to host the Chargers for a playoff matchup, but former NFL head coach Rex Ryan does not give the Texans a chance, saying, "Chargers, basically I never realized they get a bye. Oh wait, they gotta play [the Texans]. What's the difference?" Matt and Ross also: preview the Rockets vs. the Wizardsdebate the future of NIL in college athleticsrecap Week 18 in "Ross' NFL Rewind"talk about who has the coolest mustache in Houstongive their latest "Gut Feelings" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10.2 in H-Town. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. I'm here in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., where every airport was closed yesterday, Ross. Thousands and thousands of people stranded, and basically five inches of snow closes down. America's capital. How'd you make it in?

You guys got in early enough? I don't, you know, honestly, I don't know. Maybe private aircraft has a little bit more leniency than the commercial aircraft. I don't know. But we got in. That's great. Glad you made it, Matt.

I mean, America needs Wizards rockets tonight. Absolutely. Is there going to be snow leaking through the roof like there was rain the other year? Oh, my gosh. There's been rain. there has been broken baskets. There's been all sorts of different things over the years that have delayed games. Not finding a good net to put up.

I mean, having the rims not calibrated properly, all sorts of things that keep the NBA delayed. But the games must go on, Sports RV. How the hell are you? And they do. I'm doing great. A must-win game for the Rockets tonight. It is far from it.

Far from a must-win game. Okay. And my goal for you in 2025 is to downgrade the absolutely, certainty of which the term must win comes to the... No, you just make varying degrees of gray area and I take it out, Matt. No. But sometimes you need gray. I mean, you've got gray. Sometimes you've got to

take out the judgment calls. Like the NFL did. Remember they used to have the push-out rule? They're like, that's a judgment call. We're going to take that out. We're going to eliminate it. We're going to make it easier on everyone. That's what I do. I make it easier on everyone. Some people say week 11 against the Cowboys is a must-win game. I don't. Yeah. But you're

fighting this battle by yourself, I think. That's okay. You and that comedian. You and that comedian. Oh yeah, Brian Regan. Brian Regan, yeah. He's funnier than you, so I'm happy he's on my side. Yeah, how's his career these days? I think he's a multi-millionaire comedian? Wow.

All right. So maybe I should go to his side of things. Let me see. Let's go to Celebrity Net Worth for a guy, Brian Regan. Do you believe those websites, by the way? No. All right. This is 7 million is what this says.

I mean, I'm close to that. In the negative. In terms of debt, Ross. All right, so let me tell you what life is like here. First and foremost, there isn't a lot of Rossi, let's be brutally honest to the audience. We don't like to lie to him. There's a lot of piping hot sports news of the day, right? What do you mean?

Tons enough going on. Well, I will let you go to those main headlines. Okay, the Titans have fired their GM, Rand Carthon. Brian Callahan is going to remain there, coach. Matt, your thoughts? It's a hot mess of an organization. Amy Krunk's drunk. I hate her. I hate what they've done to my former team.

And I despise her. And that's about it. To round out the AFC South, Doug Peterson fired. Ran Carthon, fired. And then Indianapolis and Jim Ursae sticking with his guys. Yeah, the general manager and the head coach both sticking around. So, all right, I got you on that. So back to my initial point, when there's not a lot of hot piping sports headlines, I've been going to the 4U tab

and it's probably a major mistake. Oh, geez. There are three things that have been on the 4U tab all day long. One has been the Washington snow, which I didn't realize they don't get, they get snow here, but they don't get like heavy dumpings of snow. You know what I mean?

That's surprising me. It does to me too. I was like, this, like, we're staying on Pennsylvania Avenue. There's a bigger, there's a more important building down the street. But there wasn't a single, person out last night about seven o'clock last night i mean nobody we stayed at the hotel on a we nobody did anything just just hunkering down in our hotel and the the area which we were in

which is called georgetown which obviously about by the school is a fantastic it's a west got a west you vibe to it lots of restaurants lots of bars lots of shopping it's really really cool but no one was out because they were telling everybody don't go out because of the weather so that was the first thing i saw in for you the second thing if i'm joy taylor rossi i'm not looking at anything social media, maybe forever. Was she tweeting last night? No, she went on her show last night. What else is she supposed to do?

No, I don't begrudge her from doing that, but it's, the jokes are endless. I mean, they are non-stop about what a hooter she is. Excuse me? I must have a bad connection there. Yeah, I must have. the line is blipping from Washington, D.C. Maybe somebody from the government's checking this out. Yeah, okay.

But Jason Whitlock, her former FS1 colleague, has not been afraid to put out thousands of tweets about her life. Okay. And so Joy Taylor is for a show that no one watched, and I believe that when I say that when no one did, I don't think anybody did, right? I never watched it. I still don't. I mean, yeah, her most,

before yesterday in the last 48 hours I mean she was like the sidekick on Colin Coward show for a while and that's where people kind of knew her but not really a lot I mean she was just a as Jason Whitlock said got peanut butter skin and

you know large Jason Whitlock said what she had peanut butter skin hmm when okay that's weird so that's number two and Dean thinks that's weird

yeah number three Netflix and the WWE Raw debut last night was the third biggest thing I saw on Twitter. Oh my God. My 4U tab is pushing that. My 4U tab thinks that I'm like the biggest wrestling fan. I feel like agendas get pushed on the 4U tab because I had never

done anything wrestling related. I was getting a million tweets about Monday or Night Raw. It's funny. The same thing for me. I get all these scantily clad women saying do I look at it today. Oh, no, no, no, no. That's not true. No, no. No, no. No, no. Just like you. That is zero. Locked in,

in the crosshairs right there. No, no, no, no. Come on now. Uh-uh. Not true at all. I look at nothing except sports information. Entertainment news, that's about it. That is the perfect fit.

Mm-mm. Not true at all. All right, so that's the three things, and I was thinking about this, and you and I have kind of had debated over the years about how far streaming services are going to become a part of our sports world. I still believe, and I will fall on my sword,

this. We will never have a Super Bowl on a streaming service. I don't know why you would go down with that ship. It could happen. I'm going to stay with it. It could be 10 or 20 years, but it could happen. I feel like it very well could happen. But for a show, and Raw is a weekly series, has been around probably 30 years. I mean, it's a heritage entertainment show. Well, I mean, millions of millions of dollars made off the show. Large ratings, no matter of what network it's on. And the WWE took a huge paycheck to go to Netflix, where they probably will have Rossi amazing numbers.

Look at the NFL two Christmas games. There were two really, frankly, dog games. Netflix cannot brag enough about how many people watch those two games. Which made me think, I think maybe, and you know I have our kind of figured this out. How many people do we think Netflix, people have Netflix subscribers are? I thought it was 300 million or something like that. So what would that be out of every 10 people? what do you mean like one out of ten americans has netflix oh okay no no there's like 350

let's see 208 i'm looking it up 282 million subscribers i think there's like 350 million people in america i can look that up too but is that 282 worldwide or it's got to be world i think so yeah the u.s population is 335 million but it's crazy to me that it was more than that we're going to see and i don't and what i misjudged is the amount of high-end programming that will affect go to streaming services. Yeah. Would college basketball,

would the college, now college football championship is tied into ESPN for a long period of time. But could the final four when their Turner deal ends go to a streaming? Does it have the, does the, does NCAA basketball have the cachet to go to streaming? Could you see a, I mean,

we've already see a weekly NFL package on Amazon Prime. Could we see additional playoff games? one so far this weekend. I mean, to the levels that I never thought streaming would take sports to, it's going to. Yeah. Like I said, I wouldn't even put it off the table

that eventually a Super Bowl would be. Now it's not going to happen in the next few years, but 10, 20 years down the road, I could absolutely see that happening. Everything's going to streaming. How about opening ceremonies and closing ceremonies of Olympics? Sure, why not? You can find them on the peacock.

Yeah, but the problem is, if they're on peacock and they're on Paramount Plus. Those are sister companies, those are spawns of the big networks. Correct. I'm just curious at some point will who would

really separate themselves from a commercial television network to go. We're going to put all of our good crap on Netflix. And the WWU is the greatest example of that right now. Isn't it extremely clear that Netflix is trying to contend with those big boys? I mean, they literally bought Christmas NFL games and they have the Monday Night Raw like you're talking about.

Yeah. And they bought two games at $150 million, which we thought was a joke, right? It was like, come on, there's no way to make the money back. And then they had great viewership on terrible games. Terrible games. And I think, and if you're Netflix stockholder or is it privately held or publicly? Yes. I believe it is publicly.

If you are that and you are the executives, you are smoking cigars, you are high-fiving each other. You're like, this is the best thing we've ever done. you know honestly you know i'd be mad at i'd be mad at the nf i'd be mad at the if i was a television network cbs fox nf uh uh abc i'd be mad that the nfl is is pushing these games off these streaming services because it's giving me less and less games i'm sure everybody's mad that's what that's what's interesting to me everybody they like cbs got mad or i'm sorry ESPN got mad because they were getting bad matchups. Prime was getting mad because they got bad matchups.

Like there's only so many good games to go around. Yeah. I mean, you got to stick Carolina somewhere. Hey, Carolina's pretty good. All right, you got to stick the Giants somewhere. Don't have me read the Bryce Young versus C.J. Stroud graphic I read earlier this morning. Oh, too soon, sports RV. Too soon.

All right. There has been some, a little bit of disrespect from the national folks about the Chargers Texans game on Saturday. Disrespect. First of all, they're saying the time slot is appropriate, which is really a disrespect. It's just it is what it is. But no one, I shouldn't say no one. Very few people

think this is going to be a Texans win. Your thoughts on this use in Texas. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We have gut feelings coming up at 1130. Ross, you have your gut feeling from yesterday on the Rockets? We've been saving it for 24 hours now. I forgot.

No, you wrote it down. There's no change you forgot. All right, fine. You did forget. God. All right, Ross, very slowly. Gut feelings today, 1130. Okay, what else?

Please. I'm locked in. I'm listening. News at noon, 12 o'clock. Oh, crud. Your final NFL rewind of the season. Oh, thank God. 1230.

We can do playoff rewinds for at least for the first round. Yeah, for sure. And believe it or not today at 150. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm here in D.C. tonight's Rockets Wizards game. This is Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal.

It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. It is 1018 on Sports Talk 790, the Matt Thomas show with you today from Washington, D.C., where they are trying to thaw out, and the Rockets and Wizards will be playing tonight in D.C. Rockets will be going to Memphis on Thursday to play the Grizzlies, Saturday, and it Atlanta and then home for a game against Memphis and back on the road next week. So a lot of rockets travel 13 of the next 17 for the rockets away from Toyota Center. Rex Ryan Rossi said the Chargers basically get a buy against the Texans. Agree or disagree?

Oh, man. That's cool. I mean, that's too simplistic. No, it's no, it's stupidity for reactionary. So he knows they're not getting a buy. He's just saying that. he's trying to what what platform was this on what stupid show is this that nobody wants to watch is on uh it was on the uh on the on the espn prime time show that the show he's on by the way he's still

he's still up for the job of the jet he's not getting the jen there's no way god it's so weird that anybody would give him the time of day i mean he's been gone for a long time what is going on with the jets not that we particularly overly care but that's just a that's a really distant unfamiliar I mean why aren't they going after you know John Gruden or why don't they get

Urban Meyer back for a second go around I mean what did Rex Ryan do except maybe have a couple of good years in New York and then really after that nothing why would the jets bring him back is he still close boys with Woody Johnson or something? I don't know he said apparently on

is Rex Ryan off of his meds apparently he said on ESPN New York he thinks 100% he's getting the job yeah he's high yeah he's high not that's wrong with that as long as you're not driving and you know under the influence of something but yeah I mean it's fine but I think and again I'm not for Baltimore material because Baltimore material is in 2024

especially 100% overrated but you can't say Basically, it's a buy. I mean, that's basically discounting anything that any NFL team would have done. And look, the Texas are 10 and 7. They have been very vulnerable the last, I don't know, 17 weeks. They won a very poorest division. I don't think anybody has grandiose thoughts of them making a deep playoff run,

but there's no reason why they can't beat the Chargers on Saturday. Now, whether you want to talk yourself into doing that, it's two different things. but there are when C.J. Stratt has got going, he's got decent pass protection, which is a huge question. He's been able to establish a huge combination with Nico Collins. Joe D.Mixon has been fantastic as long as he's been healthy for the most part. The offensive line gives him some sort of, I mean, and the defense with Will Anderson out there and Denial Hunter and the rest of the group. I mean, Stingley has had an all-pro season, basically. It's not void of, I mean, this is not a complete fluke.

no, they're not in the operational on the AFC, but it's not flukish. They didn't win the division with a 7 and 10 record. So if I'm Rex Ryan, I mean, let's stay away from the hyperbole a little bit, don't you think? It's stupid. It's ridiculous. It's trivializing what the Texans have accomplished this year. Rex Ryan doesn't even believe that himself as an ex-NFL coach. He knows that you have to get up and game plan for every single game that anybody can lose on any given Sunday. So for him to say this is just completely disingenuous. and he's just sensationalizing for, I don't even know what,

eyeballs on whatever show this was on that he said this. And this is just where sports discourse is heading, and that's fine. It's actually where it's already headed years ago. But to come out as a former coach and somebody who's been around the NFL this long to call the Texans a buy, you're either stupid or you're trolling. It's one or the other. Yeah, it's a troll job. And honestly, you know, maybe that's part of the reason.

why Rossi, not to get grandiose on the sports media industry. No, yeah, I know. I think about this every day, Matt. Every day. I really think about this being a wonderful career that we, you and I've established, and we try to keep it as extremely lighthearted as possible. Yeah, we try to have fun and we try to have a good time. We try to inform and we get things wrong and we predict things and I predict things wrong every week.

You predict things wrong every week, Matt. But, I mean, to come out and say that it is an absolute buy week for the loss, Angeles Chargers to go on the road to take on a division champion that won 10 games. And it's ridiculous. It's absurd. Yeah. It's saying that if you want to say the Chargers are going to win this game, that's fair. And if you said the Texans, the Chargers are going to have it be a 10 point win.

That's actually fair. But to call it a buy, I mean, and again, I don't think any, first of all, there are 1% of the people in the Texans locker and that know who Rex Ryan is. among the players. And so it starts and ends a conversation here. But it's what I think, I mean, he said that so the ESPN PR people can put tweets out saying, man, Rex Ryan really comes down hard on one playoff team. Right.

And then, you know, he gets mentioned, it gets aggregated, the show gets mentioned. We talk about it to this show now. Yeah, we do. Yeah, but that's what we do. No, we are a reactionary program. We don't organically bring things up. We react to what we see in what. watch. So if we're watching and we're catching sports personalities, and I use that term very loosely,

saying things, then you have to react to them. Yeah. And I'm always of this belief, and I always find it funny. People say, you know, don't give those guys a time of day because they win. They don't really win. I mean, if Stephen A. Smith says terrible, stupid, illogical things, I would not I would if I said look I have said goofy stuff over the years I fully admit that but I don't I don't think it's a win

if I say something so ridiculous that people make fun of me and I want up being wrong that to me is not a win that is an ego hit to me that is a credibility hit to me and I'm not in for that so anybody says and people will say well

all publicity is good publicity I think Joy Tiddick would argue with that Well, I don't think TV Well, I'm sure her IG count has gone up higher Yeah? I'm sure the DM number has increased. Good for her. But I don't believe that all publicity is good publicity.

I'll say 99% of publicity is good publicity. I would disagree with you on that. I mean, when you think of Joe Taylor now, do you think of her as a female sports commentator? Do you think of her as her as her as her? as a what? Again, the lines blipping out again, I think. Oh, damn.

Sorry about that. I didn't mean to hit that. Maybe I'm hitting one of the buttons here. Yeah, I'm only remembering Joy Taylor for two things. Peanut Butter, Skin, and Big Hoo-Haws. Oh, okay. I was going to say on the left and on the right, but go ahead. Oh, fair enough.

You mean, the guys are, like, in general, political stance? Yeah. All right. To me, I don't know. I just feel, I, I, I am, I am, not of the buyer of all, especially with social media. I mean, do you want your name dragged on social media? Because Joe Taylor, you've got to go.

Shannon Sharp, you've got yours going. Stephen A. Smith, Bumbles a name of a person that's dead who thinks he's a starting quarterback in the NFL. It hurts his credibility. Thank you, Stephen A. Thank you, Stephen A. 713-213-2-2-790. 7-1-2-790.

If you want to jump into the conversation, we are with you today until 2 p.m. We've got gut fillings coming up at 1130 and what else we got going on today? We got the NFL rewind. How about my cougars last night, Rossi? The best defensive team in the country

says everybody. Let's go. How did it go? Who do they play? They played Texas Christian University, who by the way do not Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. TCU. Come on now. Yeah, I knew I was getting in trouble. Longhorns have a big matchup at the Moody against the number two Auburn Tigers.

Ooh, very good. Craig Way is going to do his seventh game in eight days? They are 11.5 point dogs. At home? I have a bad connection. Did you say something? 11.5 point dogs at home in college basketball? You get a lot of points in college basketball for home.

Right. More so than probably in the pros. It can be ugly tonight on a big Tuesday. Are you going to watch or no? And I'll watch it. Is it on the regular network or is that? Oh, wait, no. I'll probably do in post game around then. I'll mean, I'll have an eye on the game. I'll watch the game.

Okay. That's my squad. What do you mean? I'm not going to not watch. So tomorrow, when they upset the Tigers, we're going to have a huge celebration. We'll play the opening segment of the show at 10 o'clock. It'll be Craigway highlights. Okay. Hopefully, we need Trey Johnson to drop 40. Let's go. Let's go. 1029. Sports Talk 790. This is Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Where the Rockets and Witches are good after it tonight. Do you see the Chargers have a new running back for Saturday's big game? Gus Edwards back? Nope. Kamani Vidal? Oh, you're really going to

the weeds now. Who, who, they signed somebody? Zeke Elliott? Yes. I had no idea. I was just guessing. Oh, I guess, I know, I know the J.K. Dobbins came back. Nope. Zika Elliott has been signed as a playoff push for the Dallas for the,

San-Boh, but where is he going to be on the depth chart is what I'm asking is Kamani Vidalhert? Well, how many carries could a guy that just got to the team like a couple of days ago get? Well, he's also not very good. God, if he rushes for like 50 yards against the Texans, it would be just salt on the Texans wounds. There's no way. He's going to be behind Dobbin.

Did Dobbin gets get hurt last week? I don't know. I used to be on top of all these things because of fantasy football, but the season's over, so I don't care anymore. Well, we should care because they're obviously assigned him to play him. I don't think he's just putting a uniform on just for blank and giggles. No, they might have assigned him just to have as depth. Yeah.

But it is interesting. that they're going to get somebody just for the playoff run, which actually happens a lot more than you think it does in sports. He's signed to the practice squad. Yeah. Hmm. Okay, Gus Edwards,

J.K. Dobbins, healthy, it looks like, Gus Edwards questionable. And then I guess they hate Kamani Vidal. He was playing okay earlier in the year. Look at you with all this charger knowledge. That's how you win championships, Matt. Come on now. Yeah.

Well, I'm done with that. I know. it is a huge relief. We're going to miss you. Yeah, I know. The league's going to miss your free money. Dang. Yeah, that's fine.

You mean the charitable contributions I make to the... Oh, I'm sorry, yes. The 501C we have. Absolutely. Exactly. All right, 713, 212-7-9 if you want to get in, 7-1-3-212-5-7-9-0. So the energy level for the Texan Chargers,

I think, frankly, right now. And again, it's Tuesday. but it's meh right energy level is low then how are other stations in town doing 12 hours a day on it well that's their job that's their thing okay those are their hits and they play them man i need a hit what kind of we we need a hit here

we're bregman to go sign somewhere so we can have our final farewell you know we played your uh you're pre-recorded while you were gone when you did the astro oh yeah when the i don't even remember what i said What was this again? Can I hear it? Connor, I mean,

playing for Ross. This is, this is already locked and loaded for the moment that Alex Bregman signs. Oh, this was in case he signed while I was away

in Asia. Right. Okay. Let's see if it fits. To Alex Bregman because he is not going to sign here. Now the only question will be is will he sign somewhere

while Mr. Villareal is away from this country. Alex. Alex. Alex, Alex F. Bregman. We really appreciate you as a representative of the new era of Houston Astros baseball where we didn't have to watch

Bo Porter Bumble through double switches where we didn't have to watch Brad Mills just call everyone special when they were replacement level to where you finally got some national You, Carlos, Correa, Dallas, Keiko, Lance McCuller's Jr., Jose Altuve, the foundation

of the new Houston Astros. We will always remember how you could hit 40 home runs when there was a juiced ball, at least. We will always remember you calling Trevor Bauer Tyler and being brash and young and setting the edge and having an attitude

about the new Houston Astros and all the great times you've given us and all the great plays over there at the hot corner. Go ahead, Adele. Two-time All-Star. Gold Glover. Crawford Box shots. Sure, you couldn't hit home runs over 400 feet.

But they still went out. We appreciate you for that. An all-time Astro, great. Well, welcome you back for your orange jacket to be in the Astros Hall of Fame. Go ahead. And as Marshawn Lynch would say, get your chicken. and we appreciate you and we won't be rooting for you as you play for

insert team but we'll always love you and respect you and remember the greatness of Alex F. Brickman you know what we should have done oh that was perfect it was fine we should have like inserted

a bunch of teams like yeah uses only when he signs the tigers the Detroit Tigers the Boston Red Sox the Oakland A's You know what you could do? You know what you could do? You could record some for each individual team. It's still eligible to grab him.

Like do a Detroit-centric one? No, we'll just delete insert team and just insert the team. It was very simple. Oh, that was a touching tribute. Wow. A couple backhanded compliments, but that was kind of rude. From you or from Instagram? Who else was on it, Matt?

It was just me. Yeah. So you thought you did great. You wanted to give yourself a pat on the back. I'm going to myself a B-plus. if you were if you were an aisle to say buck i'd get a buck eye on your helmet thank you okay

at least modus is part of your decorum of these days i said b plus oh that was higher than that oh thank you now you should have guessed it on the exact day it was going to happen which is still hasn't happened yet no it hasn't i thought i'm a little shocked and it'd be interesting to see what happens now going forward well i mean if anybody

if anybody can wait it's him I mean, it's not like he's, you know, living his life paycheck to paycheck. Yeah, but these teams got to fill out their rosters. I got to figure out who's going to be playing third base for them this upcoming year or second base. Yeah. Man, I wish I could call him. I could call him, but he's not going to return a call. But I was like, are you getting a little nervous?

Send him a text. No, let him be. I wish him congratulation when he gets the deal done. Say, what up, Breggie bombs? Who you sign and wit? And just put WIT. You know, I could do it. I could slow play and say, hey,

man, I haven't got any salsa in a while. You could. Although it's not Breggiebaum anymore. What is it? I think it's a national brand name. It's peace, love, and soul or whatever? Is that what it is? Yeah.

I didn't realize peace, love and soul is a salsa bread. Yeah. How do you spell soul? S-O-U-L? Yeah, soul, like Sun in Spanish. Oh, I got you. Okay. Well, he's trying to make it go national.

That's a reason why. I'm wishing him the best. Because my guess is Alex Bregman isn't really well-known in New Hampshire. You think so? No, I said he's not. There's probably Yankees fans there to hate him. What if he goes to the Yankees? I can't hate him then.

That's true. That's Boston territory. I don't want him to go to the Yankees, but just for the pure hypocrisy of their fan base, it would be kind of funny. It'd be a silver lining. The lowest level of hate would be if he was a Detroit Tiger. Because, I mean, how do you, it's a Detroit, you can't hate the tigers. Why not? Because they're not hateable.

You could hate the reds. Who do you mean? Suck it, Spencer Torkelson. Oh, is that right? Yeah. Tarek scubel, you suck. I hate you. I hate you.

I do kind of hate just tarik scubel just because he's so good. That's because he throws two hits over every nine innings. That's it. Especially facing the Astros lineup. Not good. All right, 713-212-5-7-90. 7-3-212-5-7. How's the weather back home?

Is it still... That's chilly. It's not too bad, though. It's good. It's a nice chill in the air. I like it. I like it much better than the 80 degrees you were stumping for, recently. Oh, give me 80 every damn day. Give it to me. It's January, man. A little chill in the air.

It was perfect. It got just at freezing, so nothing iced over. There was no problems. You can put a hoodie on and wear some sweatpants. You can actually feel like you live somewhere. It gets a little chill in the air. It's perfect right now to me. By the way, they're telling people in Dallas, be super careful for the big cotton bowl. Yeah, apparently, yeah, I'm not making it up there. I don't want you to go there. Although this could cause the 10. Tickets to go super nuclear low, and then I might think about it. And then you're going to get stuck in, like, of course, a can and can't move. Do you really want that?

No. I guess you can see your aunt lawyer there. I mean, think about that. Yeah. Aunt Janet. Shouts to Aunt Janet. She's a big Longhorn fan. Her and Uncle Jim.

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Our time is 1050. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm here in Washington, D.C., where weather shut down the city yesterday, about half a foot of snow in the area, which I didn't, again, I thought they were used to this kind of stuff. They were not, so everything has been closed down. And all the airports were closed for the most part yesterday. Some flights were getting in and out, not many. We were able, fortunate to get here for the game, take on the wizards who are, hands-down, Ross, the worst team in the NBA.

So you get that going for you. must win game let's go it is not a month no one said that now it'd be a very embarrassing game to lose some in some respects it is a must win you don't want to lose to a game to a team that's got the worst record of the NBA exactly so thus it isn't you know I'm glad you brought this up it is a must win oh my god it is a must win couldn't have said it better myself oh my god I don't know why I did that yeah what are you doing back I'm sorry I was crinkling up some trash I thought my Mike was off. So what happens when you leave?

I'm sorry. What are we talking about? Let's go Rockets, baby. Jalen Green, questionable for tonight's game. What? What's going on with him? Well, he's, you know, these injury bugs hit every once in a while. Yeah, it's mid-season. You're getting about 40 games in and it happens.

Yeah. Tar Heeson's injury bug has been hitting for a while. Yeah. It's right, you know, having Jabari Smith gone for four to eight weeks is not a great thing. That's a wide, that's a wide, net they threw on that bad boy, by the way. We'll see. By the way, he is

Jabari, or say, Jalen is questionable tonight with a right knee contusion. Okay. Well, I would say sit this one out. They should be fine without him. I mean, if you can't win without Jalen Green, then you weren't meant to win, period, right? Cam Whitmore can come in and do a great job, I think.

Oh, Cam will take up 30 shots. By the way. He would love this opportunity. Can we have a little discussion about Jalen Green and his perimeter defense? Why not? It's been really good lately. Better than the recent Twitter conversations evolving Jalen Green.

I was sitting there watching the game on Friday. There were like three possessions where he locked up Jason Tatum. And even as Coach Doka mentioned, there's one of them. He forced them into a 24 second violation. I was like, oh my God, Jalen Green, let's go. Now, his perimeter defense has been good all season and improved all season, but I've really, really been impressed with the way that he's grown from that standpoint lately. Oh, the Rockets are going to win games this year just by sheer intangibles.

Defense, rebounding, not turning the ball over a lot. But there are going to be some nights, and the Rockets will be the first two minutes. They're going to shoot better. Yeah, they're going to hold opponents to, like, under 100 points quite often, or under 115 and under. Celtics only scored 109, but you only scored 86 was the problem. Eesh. Yeah. Rockets, I think, were giving up about 106 a game last time I checked somewhere in that range.

I'm trying to find the last opponent to score over 150 on them. It looks like it was the Kings a few weeks ago. Yeah, I mean, for all the things that people are kind of saying, are the Rockets real, is this flukeish or whatever? The standings don't lie, right, Ross? The standings can lie. I think they're lying in the case of the Lakers, as I told you last week. They're fraudulent, and then they lost to the Rockets.

But for the most part, yeah, it'll shake out by the end of 82 games. Yeah, Rockets are the number two seat right now in the Western Conference at 23 and 12. There's one team in the top nine in the Western Conference with a negative point differential. It is the Los Angeles Lakers. Yeah. By the way, speaking of that, you know Oklahoma City, they never lose. They've won 15 straight games. Is that good?

I think it's amazing, actually. They're taking on the Cavaliers next. Ooh. That game is on ESPN tomorrow. Well, thank God ESPN. I'm tired to make that change instead of putting on the bucks for the ninth time in the last two weeks. man Oklahoma City

Thunder Cleveland Cavaliers is the biggest game in the NBA you know it's funny if you took the two smallest NFL markets nobody would care

because the NFL has such amazing branding through it depends on who the teams are okay the two smallest the smallest NFL market would be I mean technically green bay

but Milwaukee is really Milwaukee's team right yeah So Milwaukee would be what in the market size among the 32 probably? Yeah, Jaguars Titans not getting people excited. No, no, I'm talking about for the Super Bowl. Oh, for the Super Bowl?

Yeah. Yeah, if they're really good. If you had a Jaguar Panther Super Bowl. Now, it wouldn't carry as much cachet as, say, a Steelers versus Cowboys. It wouldn't be close. No. But we'd still watch it. I have a feeling.

And this is maybe this shows you the separation between the NBA and professional football, is if you had Oklahoma City Cleveland in the NBA finals, you might see epically low numbers. I'd watch. And it would be the two, it would be by far the two best teams in the league. I mean, these two teams have left, what's there? I mean, look at their records right now. I mean, Cleveland's lost four times in 35 games. The Thunder have lost five times in 35 games.

Yeah, but let's say we did this 10 years ago. And it was LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, and it was Kevin Durant and the James Hardin and Russell Westbrook-led Oklahoma City Thunder. It would get a lot of cash. It would have a lot of cash. It's about the star power. It's also about the NBA marketing and developing these stars. They keep shoving and cramming Steph Curry and LeBron James 40-year-olds down our throats.

They need to cultivate and figure out that they need to get people invested in these other star players. Shegiel Gilles-Eleges-Alexander should be a star. Donovan Mitchell's having a great season for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Evan Mobley and other guys on that team. Like, it's just the NBA marketing has fumbled hard. Yeah. But let's do this. How do you delicately do that, but not put all that out? I mean, if you put all your eggs in one basket and Jay Gildes Alexander and Donovan Mitchell and ratings are epically down and interest is down, you lose your job, right?

Who's going to lose their job? Adam Silver is going to fire himself? Somebody. No, they mean, my point is that you have to satisfy. the networks. And the networks have known for a better part of 10 years, putting the Warriors and the Lakers,

or the Knicks for that matter, those are three incredibly high branded, high marquee teams that the Celtics are thrown the same mix that are going to deliver numbers for you. Right. So it's being short-sighted, though. You're saying, oh, it's A to B. Oh, this gives

us numbers. We just want numbers. Here are these teams. You have to invest in the future. These guys are going to get old. They're going to retire and eventually they're not going to be the faces of the league. Also, it's on these players as well. Michael Jordan was also a huge star because he was great, but also he had charisma. People liked him. People liked hearing him.

He was on commercials. He was everywhere. And you're like, you know what? That guy's kind of cool. You need charismatic characters as well. Donovan Mitchell to go on Stephen Coagher this week. Kauai Linder was never going to be the face of the league because he just had, you know, not that he doesn't want to have charisma, so he has no charisma.

So it's a number of factors. So what Adam Sover should do is take these four or five teams in these smaller markets. Their most recognizableable players and say, let's get out, let's go out. Maybe not throw every single game of theirs on national television, but let's introduce them to people. Get them interviewed. Get them out places. Yeah, absolutely. Try them on the Today Show. Put them on the Tonight Show. Partner them with some of your sponsors. I think She Gilles and Alexander has a good personality. You know what? I don't, you know what's funny, and I'm not trying to be glibu, but I don't know if he does or not.

he does I think I've heard him do say funny stuff I don't know but as a general sport I mean if you and I went to a

rando sports bar in Houston and said hey tell me what you know about Cheyilders Alexander right a lot of that's the failing of the NBA too yeah

I get you I think you're absolutely right about that 1058 it is the Matt Thomas show Sports Talk 790 with Ross 713 212-5790 713

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Sports Talk 790, 713-212-5-790 if you want to get it. Ross, what is on the Houston Streets? What's the buzz around the Houston sports team today? Let's go Texans. And they're basically a buy. I'm hearing. That's what the people are saying. Basically a buy for the Los Angeles Chargers.

Well, I did a little more digging during the breaks. I can't find many people that like the Texans. First of all, did anybody like the Texans against Browns last year? No. No. Especially after Cleveland came in here and beat them during the regular season? No. And then I think the Texans put 45 on.

the Browns, right? Somewhere that. Something like that. I was also Joe Flack. I don't think Justin Herbert's going to go Joe Flacko. And it's not like the Chargers have this long, ridiculously successful postseason history themselves. They do not. Well, Justin Herbert's never played a playoff game.

Which is surprising to me. Correct. Was he the best quarterback going into this year that never been to a playoff game? I'll say yes. Just because nobody else is coming to mind. immediately. Right, right. That makes sense.

It's only 26 years old. 23 touchdowns, three picks. And they hardly used him in terms of passing early in the year. Well, early in the year, yeah. Well, then he came along, as you saw. Man, there is such a relief that I don't have to play fantasy football anymore. It's, it's, now, we're going to still have Dr. Rodo on because that's death taxes and Roto on this radio show, but man.

He was over 20 fantasy points the last three weeks of the season. Yeah. in must-win games because they were trying to make the playoffs. You see? There we go. What I am seeing, though, for maternity is that most people think, hey, this will be a closer game, that it should not be considered a foregone conclusion. Chargers still favor.

Has the line moved beyond about two and a half three? It's been fluctuating two and a half three, so it's where it's been that I've seen. I don't know, to me, I always feel like people that try to talk about point spreads or goofs when it comes up, well, that half-point means everything. It doesn't really mean everything.

Well, it depends on the half-point. 2.5 to 3 is huge. 9.5 to 10, 10 can be big, but, you know, 12.5 to 13 is not that big. It depends. Yeah. And the over under on the score on the game is? 43.5? ish. Let me go back. Did it go down a point? Could we see 2317? Absolutely, right?

Absolutely. I'm going at this point. Got feeling at the moment. Don't hold me to it. I'm thinking 2017, Texas. Oh, you're going to Texas with the win? Yeah, let's go. Wait a minute. You had the Charters winning yesterday. I know.

I told you as the week goes along, I'll get more optimistic. You are so battle red, seriously. So what? Give me some space here. Texas PR. Listen, the only person you send gifts to is Wexler. It's time to put Ross on the list of gifts. I don't go to games.

Send him some cookies. Send him a T-shirt. Give him a jersey. Let him hug Hannah, because apparently it's a big deal for a lot of media. types in the town. Well, not media types. People that think they're media. I mean, come on. It's down to 42 and a half, by the way.

Okay. I think, and again, I don't like to bet sports when I'm in Vegas because that just feels better. I mean, I just feel like I don't have the same, I don't have the, I have degenerate bones in my body, but that's not, sports betting isn't one of them. Why don't you just call the recorded line

and get in your locks at a week? Coy, and then we could call WFN and brag about him after. The Jets and Giants playing this week. Oh, F them. Get you a proxy. A lot of Northeastern teams aren't in the playoffs. Well, the only team is, what, Philadelphia?

Representing that whole sector of the country. Does that count? Who? Buffalo, or is that not Northeast? Oh, Buffalo counts, for sure. Okay. Yeah, yeah. And to zero surprise, I believe, isn't the Buffalo game?

What time is the Buffalo game? The Buffalo games at noon on Sunday, I believe. Oh, that's crazy because usually the NFL likes to put horrible weather and prime time so they can have that be a huge part of the game. Yeah, I'm not, I'm a little confused why they went with commanders, buccaneers. Hmm. That's interesting.

For the Monday night game? No, no, for the Sunday night game. It's not the sexiest of the match. What is the one of all the games this weekend? Denver, Buffalo, no. Washington, Tampa could be close. I think Packers Eagles. Packers, Eagles could be close.

The closest spread is Commander's Buccaneers, Three. Until Monday, Vikings, Rams. Maybe NBC said, you know what, that's the one we think it's going to give us the best game at the end of the day, all of them. Yeah, I wonder, I mean, I imagine there was a pecking order and teams had choices, or I don't know. And my guess is if your pecking order is this week, the next week the pecking order changes a little bit. You know what I mean? Yeah, I have no idea. There's so many people with skin in the game now with ESPN, NBC, Fox, and,

CBS and now Prime Video. And soon, the Hallmark Channel. Yeah, I love that. They will have you on the pre-and-post game show from a Christmas tree farm. And soon, every network will have at least three games a week, which means the CBS NFL package will be one game. I think Wednesday night football, in 10 years is Wednesday night football a weekly thing. Oh, my God.

Every other Tuesday football on A&E. You know, we're all about player safety and protecting the players. They are the product. the heart and soul. Anyways, guys, see you on Wednesday. You know what basically the NFL owners tell Commissioner Goodell, just go get us some more money. Keep the television partners at a distance. Like, you know when Netflix, when the NFL said we're going to put two games on Netflix, the CBS,

NBC, and ABC are like, hey, man, we're giving you all this money. What are you doing? No, it's going to be fine. We're going to give you some better games. and then when Netflix gets the games, oh, you should have gave us better games? Oh, no, we'll give you some better games next year. I think, and what does Cadele make about, $45 million a year, give or take, somewhere in that range? All he does is

he has to keep five television partners happy at all times by lying to them. Yeah, by the way, we got corrected. Justin Herbert did play once in the playoffs. You know, if that's on me, I read that on a tweet, and I meant to fact-checking, and I didn't. that's stupid I shouldn't have believed everything I read on Twitter

I'm sorry that's my bad I meant to fact check that yesterday actually and I just ran with it today okay well there you go but am I right though I mean you got every television network can complain about their games

but yet the owners are like do this Goodell we're paying you $45 million a year keep everybody at bay and we can collect all these checks yeah it's just it's about money and it's all

nobody likes any of these commissioners too but they all do they all keep their jobs because you know they take the fall the it's the they do the bidding of the owners yeah everybody hates roger goddalen roger godd goddell's just doing what the owners tell them to do he's making a bowl of money for them and he's taking the fall he goes out there with a bold face and lies to everyone and and gets made fun of and the owners are like man good job it's but you're basically the lackey for the owners you are a lackey who basically has you know how i always sell the average person lies four times per day you dell's like in 10 11 easily yeah you have to go ahead we care about player safety we care about our television partners we care about their athletes we care about the coaches we care about the uh

uh social freedoms we care no no you care about the checks that that make you billions of dollars every i mean they you know how every every every company said we had 10 percent growth from year a year or we had 11% or we had 4% or we were dormant. The NFL doesn't even count the percentages. They don't need to. Because that was last year they this past year Ross, they found $150 million they didn't have. Two Netflix games.

Dubb does beg the question. I've kind of been thinking about this too, is where do we go from here as far as there's always this. We've got to do this to make more money, more money, more money, more money. It was an 18th game, I guess, is going to come. Yes, that's coming. Eventually, I'm

thinking sponsorships on Jersey, It's already hit Major League Baseball. It's already hit the NBA. So I feel like the next dominoes are going to be 18 games, sponsorships on jerseys as far as avenues for revenue. That's not going to bother me. No. 18th game, I think, is a little much.

17 is already, what was this last weekend? What was this last weekend? Really the last two weekends of this NFL season? They were dog terrible games. And most of the 90% of them didn't matter. Yep. Well, here's what's going to happen. You're going to get the 18th game.

It's going to bring more money in, which is going to give you another television partner to pony up. Like somebody's going to buy an additional set of games. And then ultimately, Ross, you're going to get the most incredible amount of international games you've ever seen before. Yeah, I think that's another one, too. Because they're eventually going to tap themselves out of money in the United States. These teams are all walking wounded, too, by the end of the year, man. It's crazy.

Yeah. such as, but that just shows you the powerful football. It is, I've never in my life been around an industry that could harass its employees, treat them like, again, they're all being kind of comps, so I don't want to say they're treating, you know, they're being treated poor. Because they're not. Everybody is a guilty association of this. If we, Ross, if we hated the NFL, we wouldn't spend money in the tickets.

If we hated the NFL, we wouldn't spend money on the Sunday ticket. If we hated the NFL, we wouldn't spend money in the jerseys. We're all sitting here complaining about what's wrong with it, but yet we dial into it. It's almost like NIL in college sports. I mean, as much as I despise the rampant craziness that is that there's NIL that I think is going to destroy the sport. It doesn't destroy the sport. Yeah, but the question is how long is that going to last? How long if you continue to ignore your constituents who complain about this and that and everything of the game,

and they continue to I don't think ratings will continue to just go up and up and up and up and up forever forever. At some point you hit a tipping point. At some point you do need to invest in your audience and give the people what they want. Well, I do believe. I think we're seeing that with the NBA right now.

Oh, yeah. The NBA, and I am afraid that college is going to crater at some point that there's going to be basically about 20 schools playing for one championship. Because I think the NIL, I mean, I saw it now. I saw the other day. Virginia Commonwealth.

Okay, VCU, mid-major Atlantic 10. They did go to the final four. What was it about a decade ago, want to say? Shaka smart. Shout out Shaka. Now, again, like you said before, you don't always trust everything you see on Twitter. But every one of their players can at least $275,000. That's great. But how does that sustainable?

VCU doesn't have the television dollars. or the enrollment or the size of the arena or the endorsement dollars or the presence. It's Virginia Commonwealth. Good for them. I'm happy for those players. But what if the checks don't clear? Well, then they're going to sue them like the FSU players did. Well, they were sued because they were promised to be a lot.

You're a lot to by a coach. I just, I don't, I don't, you're tanking Virginia Commonwealth and giving those guys 275 a year and you're to go to do what i mean i guess just as a salary and if you can pay two seventy five a year then imagine what the big boys can really pay like the number one recruit in college basketball for next year

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Summaring about this VCU. In the 2025-26 school year, VCU athletes may soon see their hard work payoff in the former dollar signs. The university joined hundreds of others in a lawsuit settlement that will compensate college athletes. This will be the first time the VCU athletes can make money directly from the school based off their name, image, and likeness. McLaughlin, the athletic director says the school will allocate $4 to $5 million to compensate them. He says that money will have to be generated in several different ways.

He says men's basketball will likely receive more money than other sports. And he said, bigger priorities of school should be putting towards money. Student athlete compensation is still a big one. They deserve to be paid for like anything else have done to the school. These are sports marketing majors, blah, blah, blah, blah. Point being is that VCU's got to find 5 millie. Ooh, Texas and A&M, hold my beer. That's not an issue for them.

Ross, it'd be hard for the U of H to find $5 million next year if they were going to pay athletes, that kind of money. Got to get you cutting them checks, Maddie. Let's go. I'm going to need to. I feel like it. I didn't realize that at this point, NIL, VCU was so strong. Yeah.

And they must love that team. Who's the most famous? They got some kind of billionaire alum? you'd be surprised. I wonder who the most famous VCU alum is. I'm trying to look it up. Not a whole lot. Trudy Benson, abstract painter?

The first question I would ask is what exactly is an abstract painter? You know, abstract. That's kind of free form, I guess. It kind of doesn't conform to norms. Is that right? Or like abstract radio host. I guess. Here's the official dictionary definition.

Existing in thought or as an idea, but not having a physical or concrete existence. The Matt Thomas Show of Ross, 10 to two weekdays. Yeah. I mean, you really couldn't define it any better than that. Let's talk to Scott on 790-11-22. Scott, good morning. Hey, good morning. I just wanted to say, I don't think it is sustainable with these athletes getting paid.

I thought, I guess I grew up in a generation where the, getting the, uh, dad gummit words, I'm sorry, getting the scholarship. The scholarship was the form of payment for these players to come to their school. And that was their payment. Now, I, I agree that they need to make more money, and that's where they should be, the door should be open to advertising and local businesses and things like that to make up a little extra money so they can afford things.

while they're going to school. I absolutely agree with that, but I don't think, I think it's a dangerous and slippery slope to start paying these athletes professional money, basically. Well, that's just my opinion. I got it, Scott, thank you. It's already happening and it has been the last couple of years.

And we have not seen a downturn in terms of interest of the marking events. But it's just, and again, I don't have the numbers because I'm not an economist, but it just feels like to me the renegade style of NIL right now is not sustainable. For the long term, whether it be for financing of athletic programs, whether it be for just like we had the Florida State situation where a coach says, hey, I got you, I'll make sure you get taken care of.

And then the players are like, where's our money? I mean, there's no governing board. There's no watchdog group. There's no advocate for the schools. There's no advocate for the athletes. It's just do whatever you can. And I don't care how cash flush in industry is or how successful is. If you don't have some sort of regulations, it's going to wind up destroying something.

And I don't know what that is. Yeah, destroying what? And the guy said dangerous. Who's in danger? There's no way. But he was being metaphorical. He was saying danger of the sport itself. Nobody's going to get hurt or something.

I mean, if I told you that half the schools that compete right now in Division I, athletics are going to go away in 10 years because they can't stay into this, frankly, the other half are going to be like so. Okay, bye. More for us to choose from. I think the HABs don't have any empathy at all for the have-nots. They just don't. Unless they have not say we're never going to play you.

We're never going to come to your building and take your check for a million and a half dollars to get our ass kick for three and a half hours on a football field. We're not going to take your money to play a basketball game at $100,000 and lose by 25 points. But they're going to do that. They need that money. They need to fund their programs. As I'm saying, there is no, you'd have to absolutely say, we're not going to play you. If you are Alabama or your USC or Penn State, you can't find anybody to play except schools that play with the same sort of economic situations that you're in,

which will essentially mean you'd have one league of about 12 to 16 teams. Or if there was somebody out there that said, we want to play with the big boys, we'll contribute. Like, for instance, the rumor is SMU is going to have plenty of money here down the road. SME wants to be in the big boy game. They want to say, hey, we've been in the big boy. second tier conferences for a long time. We've got a lot of people that want to back the athletic program. We want to take care of these athletes.

We want to be in the same level as Ohio State and Michigan, in Florida, in Florida State. We're ready to do that. Isn't that a good thing? More teams of skin in the game? No, because there really will not be more teams in the game. They're going to be less teams. How's there less? Who is?

Because instead of having anybody play anybody just for the competition, you're going to have down to about, you're going to have 16 teams playing for at one championship. How many teams have been playing for the championship anyway? Who's the last have-nought that won a championship? But it's not even the whole thing of it is. March Madness was built on 68 teams

playing with upsets and the grandiose of the event. You don't have March Madness if you have 16 teams. No. You don't have, it's a completely different sport. Yeah, it's a one elimination of a basketball game. Who are these have-nots that have been involved in the playoff

and have been competing for champions? It's a year after year for years. It's never having just to have it. You mean, there are millions of people that go to college football games every year that know the team's not going to play for the national championship. Yeah, like SMU fans. And if they want to, hey, they want to pull up their money and get their skin in the game, they can. Yeah.

And they'll be in that initial group. There's going to be 100 other schools that have fan bases, that have alumni, that want to be a part of a Saturday, that will be in a second-tier group. And that's what we're coming down to. And that's where they've been. East Carolina University doesn't just all of a sudden going to win. win a championship before or after NIL.

You're saying at that point that there's no, that East Carolina will never have a chance. They will never have a chance to be in the top 12 in the tournament. They will never have a chance because there will be no more tournament. They do have one now. And they have as much chances they had before. Very little. Well, all we're doing here is

is we're recruiting the Titanic. And the schools that have the money will be able to stay alive and those that won't will go away. they'll go down with the ship is what we got. I mean, we have the have. If you believe in a have and have-and-had-nought society for college athletics, then that's what, it's okay. I believe it hasn't always has been and have-and-have-nought society for college athletics.

I don't know. Florida Gulf Coast went to the final four a couple of years ago, and they will look up. We're talking about football. And where's Florida Gulf Coast been? And where did it vault them? Did that get the, that's one magical run where they won a couple of basketball games? Are they a powerhouse now?

I don't know. How's their recruiting classes? That I don't know. But I'm telling you, the memories of the people that went to Florida Gulf Coast that went to those games, that went to the final four, had memories for a lifetime. And they enjoy that because they got their moment in the lawn in the sun. And it got them nowhere. I mean, that's great. And that's basketball.

I thought we were talking about football. Yeah. No, we're talking about everything. We're talking about essentially what we're going to see is we're going to see the current makeup eventually cut down to 20 schools and then another group of about a. And again, if you want to be the top in the tier two group, tier two group, I guess that's going to be good, too. You're going to sell it that way. But it is the current process of NIL and the rampant dysfunction of it is not sustainable.

I think it's going to, the train is going to keep rolling like it has been before. Until you have more athletes leaving because they're being promised stuff. And then you're going to have teams. They're going to be, they're going to have walkouts. You're going to have, I mean, if anybody thinks, thinks there doesn't need to be any regulation that's just foolish do i believe n i'll should still be a part of college athletics absolutely but we got to figure out somebody it's going to have to kind of see some kind of washdog operation on this i can't i can't believe if you could go

find anybody that would say all this except for the the true blue bloods there's nothing wrong with nal we're in it we're good i can't i mean i can't believe that there's america's going this is a great system that even the even the very successful schools the same second tier, the Texas text, the bailers, the Colorado's, the, give me some other school, Washington's. Are they loving this?

They're worried about it too. Everybody, it should be. I just think, I'm happy that the players are getting compensated. They're getting some money. They used to get, as the caller was saying, I thought the college scholarship was the payment. Yeah, well, okay, if you want to be

communistic about it, every single person gets a scholarship, why should somebody who's at the Texas Longhorn Program or Ohio state or Notre Dame creating all of this revenue get the exact same payment of somebody from Kansas, Kansas Jayhawks football, who is not generating the same revenue.

Why do they get the same pay? If you get a little bit of extra, and also it's what's being offered of these players, it's not like they're stealing this money. This money is being offered to them and they're accepting this money. Are they getting paid, though? That's a big question. It sounds like to me there are a lot of kids that are not getting paid.

I don't know. There's a lot of kids who are getting paid. And like I did, this is a bit, pay for college football has been happening since early 1900s. As I told, I was reading the book about Jim Thorpe. He, he was, there wasn't even a college he was playing for. It was called Carlisle School, and it was for Native Americans, and he was getting paid $50,000

bonuses in 1909. And the players were getting paid. It'd been happening over a hundred years. Yeah. So, my argument is, can we get somebody to regulate it, or are we just going to let it? The NCAA has to do it because

it's been a broken system since the beginning. beginning. The NCAA broke the system by going on this amateurism stuff. And it used to be, yeah, 19, well, like I said, even 1909, it was corrupt. But the theory was, hey, we're a bunch of college people. We want to form a club. We want to have some fun. We'll play some football. Then they started selling tickets. And then it started going. And then that's when the revenues got it. And that Carlyle School that Jim Thorpe was playing for, the teams would pay them to come play because they would sell a lot of tickets. It's been about money for over 120 years. Let me tell you. There's not on a radio show in the marketplace. The more Jim Thorpe talk.

I'm here for you. I'm just telling you, it's been a broken, messed up system for years and years and years and years. I'm happy that the players are getting an over-the-table bigger piece of it now. And they are, look, the incident. And we've got to get to break. NCAA has been able to take advantage of generations of players. You cannot possibly argue that. It was exploitive, quite frankly, to me.

But again, I don't know the answer. And that's the problem. I don't, what is currently going on is not sustainable. It just isn't. And it's too bad because I do believe it in the day that you should be able to keep as many programs alive as possible and treat them fairly and have as many people in the game as possible.

But that's not going to happen if there is no regulation of it whatsoever. And I don't know who would want to regulate it. Because as I said before, Ohio State has no interest in keeping Nevada in this mix. They want to say we are Ohio State, We are going to be able to pay you more and give you more the Nevada. And we're not going to let Nevada or Colorado State or South, I don't know, Southwest Missouri into the game. Yeah, but they were never in the game.

But now they can get. If a bunch of a Nevada alum's want to pull their money and get in the game, they can't. But before they had no shot. When's the last time Nevada? I mean, when Colin Kaepernick was there back in the day, they maybe won a bowl game? Hey, Nevada's got a rich history of sports, I think. Go Wolfpack. Go Wolfpack?

All right, time now for some gut feelings. 713, 212, 5, 790. 713, 212, 570. It is time to make some sports predictions. You've got them, we want to hear from you. If you go and you call in and you give them right, you call us back the following week and brag on them, if you're wrong, we'll largely forget them. 713. 713.

It is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross, this is Sports Talk 790. This has been so appealing. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. Time now, ladies and gentlemen, to give us your sports predictions at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. You make a prediction, you get it right, you brag. If you get it wrong, no big deal.

Now, just to peel a curtain back, the only person online right now for the gut-feeling. as Brad. Christ. And the longer you get to call in with your predictions, the less you get to hear from Brad. Please, guys. I'm begging. This is a personal appeal for me. Ross, hi.

Please get in line ahead of Brad. Please. 713-212-5-7-9. How did we do last week? All right, Matthew, let's take a look. You were on fire. You were just the hot take cannon was in full bore. C.J. Stroud will not finish the first half, said you.

That was correct. Tennessee Titans will win the game. Wrong. Incorrect. Penn State wins by double digits. I think that was very easy to win by 20 plus, correct? Yeah. Ashton Genty does not run for 100 or more yards.

He ran for 104. Of which 26 was on a late in the game, but that's fine. You had the final four? Oh, you're a one-off. You had the final four of the college football playoff as Texas. Ding. Oh, no, you were too off. Penn State.

Ding. Oregon. Oops. And Georgia. Oops. You had Amin Thompson getting a two-game suspension. Ding. And you had Fred Van Vleet getting one game suspension.

Wrong. And then another way. Like I said, you've got like 10 predictions. All I gave you was material this week, my friend. We appreciate that. You also had Quinn. You were going to transfer. Yep.

Still believe it's going to have. happen. I think the NIL will, I think the NFL, NIO will be more beneficial to him than his draft status. We'll see. All right. I have C.J. Stroud playing four series or under. He played one. Yep. So that's a win. I had Davis Mills throwing a TD. Unfortunately, he did not. He tried. He tried. He tried mightily. He almost got a rushing touchdown. He failed mightily. I said Damien Pierce leads the team in rushing. That's a hit. It's true. Why is it pain you?

I had my... Was there a 92 on one play? Which again was 92. It is what it is. I had my final four. I hit three out of the four. Texas, Ohio State, Penn State, and I also went with Georgia. Mm-hmm. I said Boise State covers the 11 and a half. That did not happen.

Nope. And I also have Quinn... I think this is going to be right. I'm sticking with it, Matt. Quinn Ewers declares for the NFL draft. Now, let's go to that for just a second. Why would he declare unless... he thinks he's going to be drafted a lot higher than he really did.

I told you this. You and I don't think Quinn Ewers is going to be a good NFL quarterback. Quinn Ewers probably thinks he's going to be a good NFL quarterback. What is one year in college going to do him unless he's doing it just for money? If he gets a wallet whip from somebody and now he's had a really good game against Arizona State. But also, think about this. If he has two more, if he plays really well for two games and they win the national championship, then his draft stock's going to go up.

So if he plays poorly, then also who's going to be? And then if he plays poorly, he's not going to want to come back to Texas because they're not going to start him. And why would another team want him? Do you really think his draft stock can go up after two more games? Yes, CJ Strax. I think C.J. Well, that's true. He had one game again, but he was still considered top five. Yeah, one game against Georgia and it vaulted his draft stock. So I think it can happen. I think the book is written on Quinn yours.

I agree. And like said, you and I agree. We don't think he's going to be a good NFL quarterback. and if he's so if he's not going to be really good why is a team going to pay six million dollars for him well unless that's just a faux report that that schools out there are not going to win again if that's a full report then he's going to go declare for the draft six million dollars for a mid-quarterback even a third round rookie deal i think is a good four and a half million dollars but not better than six years for six million for one year again i i just there i well we'll see if i guess the the guy who's not even set foot on a college campus, who was the quarterback that Michigan allegedly played $12 million for.

But I think that's also over four years. Yeah. So it's one year. So that's what, $3 million a year? Maybe we shouldn't believe the $6 million report. We can make a bet on this. I'm going to discard it that, whoever that was. How to Connor do you do?

Oh, I was trying to get another bet. No more betting with you. Why, it's fun. No, because we haven't cashed on the Alex Pregman bet yet, so we're not going to do that until we cannot add a new bet until the old bets are resolved. Texans starters play until at least half time. That's said Connor McGovern.

He also had the Texans losing to the Titans. He didn't believe in Davis Mills and Damien Pierce. Shame on you, Connor McGovern. He had the blues being the Blackhawks. I have no idea. I sure did. Nice. Okay, and that's a win, and that's all I have for him.

All right. Let's make a couple more quick, and then we'll go to the phones after this. I believe the Chargers are going to beat the Texans by a touchdown. You're rude. I didn't say 14. I didn't say you're wrong. I said you're rude. There's a difference. All right. I believe Laramie Tensel will be called for a penalty this week.

Oh, come on. That's a minus 500. You big, overpaid, over-hyped. Offensive linemen who would be lucky to play in a week. a flag football game. Overrated, period, end of story. Pro bowler, scoreboard. The highest paid tackles in the league. Scoreboard. Here's my scoreboard. False start. 78 offense. Five yard penalty still first down. Here's mine. Holding 78 offense. Here's mine. Illegal formation, 78. That's my school board. Hey, he hadn't had an illegal formation a long time.

All right, that's true. All right. Texans was by a touchdown. Whatever. What do you got? I will say Texans. beat the Los Angeles Chargers. The home crowd makes them rise above the haters. Suck it Rex Ryan. The Texans beat the Los Angeles Chargers. Connor, what do you got? Joe Mixon scores a touchdown on the way to a Texans win over the Chargers.

You didn't even... Hold on. Joe Mixon what? Touchdown with the Texans win. Oh, right. All right. That's what I'm liking here. You didn't ask me about the one I've been teasing, Matt. Rockets quickly

Okay Matt The greatest of this young Rockets core Of the top first round picks Yes I'm talking Jalen Green Alper and Shingoon Amin Thompson Jabari Smith Jr.

Who else is in there? Somebody I feel like I'm Reed Shepard Amend Thompson Reed Shepard to the G League Amin Thompson will have the greatest career of all of them including Alper and Shingoon and Jailen Green Huh

I'll give you one just as a pure gut feeling a man Thompson never leaves a starting lineup for the Rockets ever again Ooh I like that That's

It's got a little spice But I mean I could see that I like that That's a perfect gut feeling That is a pure It's not a mega hot take But it's yeah I like it Nope

And it's not like email is telling me that No that's a pure gut on my partner I don't know you guys are so close We are close Anything else Connor before we go to the phones? Rocks. Rockets win three of their next four.

Ooh. Rockets by 11 tonight over Washington, by the way. Add that to my list. What was the spread? I forgot. That didn't matter. They were by at least 11. I think it was 11.5. Take the points.

Don't take the points. Give the points away. Rockets win by the spread. Well, 12 and a half, actually. So you got the Wizards plus 12 and a half. I'll take the Rockets minus 12 and a half. Okay. So your rockets.

cover. Yes, absolutely. Wizards are terrible. They do suck. All right. We go to the phones next. 1146. Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross

on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a good feeling. Lunch timers, gut feelings continue now on the Matt Thomas show. All right, two lines open. If you'd like to get in line ahead of Brad, please. Let me stave this off for as long as possible

here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Gut feelings at 713. 212-5-9.797-13-212-2-5-790. Jim, in the Heights, you are first up. What is your gut feeling? Well, my gut feeling is probably from me being a victim to social media clickbait. But I got a gut feeling that free agency and baseball is going to roll right up to players reporting

to camp. There's just not enough movement right now in some of these big names. What do you mean? Like some Tandor, our own Breggman, you know, some of the, yeah. So I just think, you remember a couple of years ago? Yeah. It happened last year. You remember a couple of years ago? Yeah.

It started kind of trending that way, and I think we're going to see that this year as well. That's my gut feeling. Jordan Montgomery and Blake Snell didn't sign until extremely late. Thank you, Jim. Appreciate that. And then Jordan Montgomery fired Scott Boris over the whole ordeal. All right, 713-212-5-790, the phone number. Let's keep it going on some gut feelings with Jesse and Conroe.

What's up, Jesse? Oh, man, I have a gut feeling that there's something fishy up with those. footballs that they're putting in for the field goal kicks in the NFL. I'll tell you what, watching that Detroit, Minnesota game the other night, the referee stopped the game because they had to put in the official kicking ball.

Me and my dad looked at each other and said, hold on, there's no difference between one football or another. We've had a suspicion about all these field goals. They do have different fields. Yeah, they have different balls that they kick. I think they soften them up. Like, the kickers like they kick them a bunch and, like, soften them up. And they do

designated kicking balls. That's been a thing for years. Well, I know right after they stopped the game and put in their special kicking ball, that ball hooked hard to the right. We've been suspicious about all these hard hooks. Maybe like a bowling ball, who knows. But anyways, so the

Vikings will play the Rams. Is that correct? Is that who they're going to be up against? The Vikings visit the Rams. They're one and a half point favorites. Right. Okay. Well, I predict that they're going to blow them out. it's going to be a 28, 14, 14 point butt kicking because they just let the lions get away with every hold. I won't get into that, but I have another prediction.

I have a gut feeling that Scotty Sheffler is a bad alcoholic, and I'll tell you why. He's driving up to the Masters tournament at 4.30 in the morning. I think he was still drunk from the night before. He runs into a cop, then gets out and gets belligerent. with them and they take him to jail. And then all of a sudden the other day he falls and gets class

all in his hand. And if you've ever had any friends that were winos and bad alcoholics, they often fall and break wine glasses into their hands. So I have a gut feeling, Sheffler will be in rehab in about the next three years. Okay, Jesse. I like this one. By the way,

quick correction from Connor McGovern. It was the PGA championship. Okay, good deal. Good deal. love the show and thanks for the guys up there who are rooting for the Texans I mean you gotta have mercy you gotta have one troll in the pile though that picks the Chargers I guess yeah Matt Thomas I mean he's the absolute worst Jesse I'm with you thank you Jesse appreciate it I'm I'm going with the Texans in an upset just because it's a home game under three three and point and under spread home teams are pretty

good I think the Texans can get it done even though the chargers might be the slightly better team all right 713 212 5 are we on the air still. 713, 212. Hello. If you'd like to get ahead of Brad

on the phone lines. What do you want? We still on the air. What do you want? I got locked out of the room. Are you serious? Oh my gosh. It's got the

blood flowing there, Rossi. I got the gut feeling. Matt Tom was going to have a heart attack within the next six minutes. Are you okay? Yeah, but I was in panic because I had to go up down two flights of stairs to go get down to the...

You poor baby. Two flights down? I had tell him I got locked down. I was like, I got her hurry. Like, oh, sir, we need to have to identification. I'm like, I'm looking around for my idea. I finally found us. You're huffing and puffing, Matt.

Like a manuacho in a video in his car. I go for some peanut butter. How about you, Ross? All right, 713. All right, we got a lot of people left and a lot of times. This is your show, Matt, so I don't know what we should do here. We have a lot of people on hold. Let's go.

We got got feelings to get you. Go for it. All right. Let's go with Tom and Monro, Monro, Louisiana. Monro, Louisiana. You're on Blackhawk talk. Is that what they call him? Black Hawk's.

All right. Warhawks, yes. Warhawks. Yeah. My gut feeling is that Alex Brickman won't sign with a team until deep into spring training. Wow. And when he does sign, it will be with the Detroit Tigers.

Hmm. All right. I think that's not a... I don't think it's crazy. It was my original gut feeling. I know, but you swap. You're on the Yankees now. I'm on the Yankees and I messed up.

I should have stayed with the Tigers. I think Scott Boris says screw him over. Might have. You think he fires Scott Boris after he signs his deal like Jordan Montgomery? Sure. Why not? I would. All right, thank you, Tom.

By the way, at Tiffany 722 says this guy sounds like an idiot. Did you have a bad call? He was saying his gut feeling was that the NFL was rigging the games because they went to kicking footballs. Huh? Which, Matt, they've had footballs designated for kicking for years, correct? Yes. And then he also said his gut feeling was that Scotty Schaeffler is an alcoholic

because of his recent activity, puncturing himself with a glass. He thinks he fell down with a glass in his hand. And then that whole incident where he, what, at the PGJ Championship? That's a randle gut feeling. Longhorn legend. All right, we got some more gut feelings to get to. Oh, Brad is still there, huh? 713, 212, 57.90 to hop in front of Brad.

All right. Jimmy, Mike, others, then Brad. And the news at noon. All starts the next hour. What? Wonderful. You're not going to do the news at 1213. Okay, well, I love it.

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Lunch timers, this is the day. the Matt Thomas show. All right, let's get to some more gut feelings. We've got a lot of folks that want to get to them, and then we will go to the news at noon. Jimmy and Tom Ball on 790-123. Jimmy, the floor is yours. Hey, good afternoon, guys.

Happy New Year. I got three gut feelings. First and foremost, if Matt has another episode, Ross, like he did five or six minutes ago, whatever that was, yelling in, are we still on the air? I have a gut feeling that this will soon be the Paul Ross via real show not featuring Matt Thomas. Wow.

He's all right. I'm fine. I just rushed to get back. I'm glad to know you're all right. I feel better. Secondly, I got the Texas winning. And thirdly, and I guess secondly, most important because the Via Rea show was the first one. I do think that the great people of Houston, Conroe, Cyprus, Tomball, Willis, Baytown, whoever else is listening in this great city and state of ours will effectively keep one Mr. Brad and Miami off the radio today. It's working out so far. It's working out so far.

Thanks, Jimmy, for the phone call. Let's go to Mike in Cyprus. Mike, what's in your gut this week? Hey, first off, first gut feeling is that Brad is going to have a gut feeling that sucks and no one else is going to go. with. A second, that feeling is that you really you really ought to look into the

Bluetooth hotel keys to help you get into your room. Thank you. I'll lose my hotel key all the time. No, good feeling on the Texans. I'm against what everybody is saying.

I really think the Texans are going to pull it out. Don't think it's going to be a blowout or anything. I'm even going to call Texans' field goal. in overtime to win the game. Oh, the game's going overtime. Wow, all right. That would be certainly a dramatic way to start the playoffs.

Overtime for the game. Very few people predict overtimes. What that? Write that down. You know what? Yeah, I'm going to put an addendum on mine. He's inspired me. Kimey Fairbairn, game winner.

Oh. You mean the guy that misses extra points? I don't know who you're talking about, but I'm talking about Kaini Fairbairn, the greatest kicker in the land. And Gio and Ataskasita, what's in your gut this week, Gio? Hey, guys, great show. I got two quick gut fillings.

First one, Matt Thomas, you're over-under on Taylor Mathis's views today on her page or 10.5. I'm taking the over on that one. Okay. By the way, Gio, hold on. Gio, before he let you go, she's in an airport. Just want to let you pass it along to you. There we go. I already know what you're talking about.

Anyway, second good feeling is I don't think Matt Thomas is going to be done with the fantasy football. I think the Toros are going to be back next season. Matt, I think I don't think you're going to miss the camaraderie and the friendly competition. So I think it'll be back next year, man. Gio, you're a great friend of the show, and we love you, but I'm done. That's all right. We got people lined up. Good.

I'm glad you do. I don't have to face any sort of pressure. No, wait. Taylor travels with a dog. Did you know that? No, I didn't know that, Matt. I have her muted on my feed. She's got Bradley Beal over two and a half assist.

Don't care. Okay, what kind of deep thought and analysis that she put into this? Does she run her algorithm? She has nuggets plus six. She's got nuggets all right. T. Wolves on Money Line. The Hawks on Money Line. And Georgia Basketball Money Line, if you're bold, she says.

What does that even mean? She just said it. I'm just repeating what she said. No, you know what that means? That means if this hits, I'm taking credit, and if this does and I'm not. I have no blame. She's got you on a stranglehold, Matt. Do you ever travel with a dog, Ross?

No, I have never traveled with a dog. And shame on you people who are totally fine and get your dog, the emotional support dog stuff, just so you can selfishly travel with your dog. Nobody wants to hear your little yipping dog on the plane. Save this for Thursday. Yeah. Actually, no, tomorrow is such your bum-ass to. I was going to say, yeah.

You're off tomorrow? Yeah. Oh, crap. Look at the schedule. Not because I want to. You know me. I'd like to work. Yeah, I can tell.

Well, I mean, I don't lose my team. You're on that Johnny Carson schedule lately. No, I mean, usually if we were traveling to Memphis right after the game tonight, that I would be able to work tomorrow, but we're traveling middle of day tomorrow. That's fine. And that's the reason. I'm used to you being gone. It's fine.

I mean, I don't want to make early January day. off, I'd like to hang out with you. Yeah. And tell us people to shut their bum ass up. I need a small segment on Thursday show to do that, because I know something's going to happen. Let's go to Josh on 790. Josh, what's in your gut?

Ola, guys. Happy New Year. Same to you. Good, good feelings. First one. Thank you, sir. Your next Super Bowl champions are the Minnesota Vikings. And second gut feeling.

I just wanted to keep bread up there, suck your breast. All right. Well. Thank you, Josh. Gosh. You're the best part about Josh's calls are. It says on the screen when it says, Josh,

where you're calling from, it says from non-swinger Kingwood. Hmm. We do not have a large swinging fan base in Kingwood. Uh-huh. I can hear you winking from Washington, D.C. That's more of the, that's more sand implantation.

I mean, let's be really honest. Okay. What a noble cause, by the way. Doing your best to keeping Breton. Oh. Well, that's true. You're satisfying people across the globe.

Taylor's dog looks just pretty Okay, seriously, that guy, Gio was right. You're over ten and a half views, aren't you? No, I wouldn't look at it ten and a half times per day. But it's a once or twice a day, Gander, just to see what's going on with the sports pitch. Gander. More of an ogling. When you're drooling, it's not a gander.

Gordy Fowler. That's no surprise. Yeah, the people... For her hot gambling tips, I'm sure. 20-something people that I follow that follow her. I've got 19. Ooh, Lordy.

Sean Salisbury follows her. Are you out-outing these people, Matt? I'm not outing these people, Matt. Yes, you are? Wex follows her. Wex does. Why don't you give Wex any grief? Because I'm not on a show with any of them.

I'm going to show with you, and you bring her up to fight. Five times a show. At 3 o'clock today, when you see Wex, you've got to tell them, or 2 o'clock today. Not saying a word. Brandon and a task acacetia. What's in your gut this week, Brandon?

I got a couple of things. First one, my gut tells me that Matt's going to have to take a snowmobile home from the arena tonight. That's true. Good for you. Good work. And secondly, I think Ross is going to be looking for tickets in Atlanta in a couple of weeks because sex is going to be playing. Oh. Let's go, Brandon, thank you very much.

By the way, I'm not giving you my prediction. Ross, Texas beats Ohio. State in Dallas. There you go. How about that? Let's just say it's a stay away for me. Oh, look at you. All right, real quick. Texas beats Ohio State. Did you want to make a prediction to the other one?

I'm not a dog in that fight at all. Just pick a team. Penn State. Ooh. Okay. Chris, Jersey Village. What's in your gut, Chris? Hey, guys. I think that Alex and his agent have messed things up. so bad and along with Alex's officers offseason surgery, Alex is going to say no to everything

and say yes to a one year $35 million contract and then come back and try to get a long term after that. Bye. Well, if that's the case, I would win on that one because I do have less than six years. I think that's the only way you win. It is a short-term deal with opt-outs. I've said that for a while. I don't think he's not going to sign a five-year deal anywhere. We need a ruling. If there, the number of years on the contract is the number of years. If there are buyouts or options, those don't count.

Which really helps you out. Yeah, if it's a seven-year deal, it's a seven-year deal. You're right. So that's just make sure we're clear on that. Okay. All right. Last but least, Brad, what's in your gut? Ah, thank you for letting me in.

I'm going to say Aaron Glenn kind of like D'emico Rines is going to get a head coaching job this year I'm going to say Sam Darnold

is not going to get re-signed by the Minnesota Vikings he proved that he's good but he's not great and they need to play that rookie and I'm going to say

the Longhorns lose the Texans lose and Baltimore and Detroit go to the Super Bowl. And that's it. Oh, he and I agreeing on the same Super Bowl picks? Baltimore and what? God, it's too much from Brad.

Because he likes to come back and brag on these, so I like to ride him down so he can bring up the wrong ones. Right. What was it, Baltimore and what? Detroit. Yeah, I would say... The Vikings are not getting rid of Sam Darnold after one year. Sorry, I mean, no, that's not happening.

They may not give him a long-term deal. They may franchise tag him, but they're not. getting rid of him. They're not saying thanks, but no thanks to a rookie quarterback. And then he said, Aaron Glenn gets a head coaching job. Nimitz Cougar legend? He's getting a head coaching job. That's a, that's a... I would say, probably.

He's going to win on that. That'd be so proud of him. It'd be great for the school. All right. Very last gut feeling. Roger, North West Side. What is in your gut, Roger? What's going on, Matt? I've got a gut feeling that Reggie's holding out because there's some

unpublicized health issues that may be lingering. And when the Astrosis do find that out. They're probably going to sign Santan Deer and go over the fact that the double-attached threshold. Also on the Super Bowl, the Super Bowl run on the playoffs, I think the choice going to win the Super Bowl, and it's not even going to be closed. I think they're going to vote race most teams, including the Super Bowl,

maybe by 10 points or more, opening up a five-year stretch in which all teams that never won Super Bowl finally get your chance to go. And that is my good feeling, Matt. Thank you very much. I have my last gut feeling. You ready for the very last one? No.

Too bad you're getting it. Jimmy Butler does not get traded. There's already been a report that teams have been instructed to not trade for him. Now, we have over a month until the trade deadline, so I could lose on this. I'm going, Jimmy Butler stays in Miami. Not because the Miami Heat want him. It's just that there's no place for Jimmy to complain. Yeah, but what happens?

He's been suspended seven games for conduct detrimental of their team. He'll sit out the rest of the year. He'll either sit at the rest of the year. He'll either sit or rest or finish up in the line. He's not getting traded. I mean, Miami's in a playing game right now. All right. The news at 1220 is up next.

This is Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross. On Sports Talk 790. We are a precision radio show. We do everything on time. We make no adjustments. We present to you the news at 1220.

All right, Rossi, what do you got? Okay, Matthew, as we go along here in Houston, Texas, of course. All eyes, I mean, the city is a buzz. Yep. As all eyes, look to NRG Stadium this weekend against the Los Angeles Chargers, Texans holding. as three to two and a half point dogs, despite Rex Ryan saying that it's basically a bye week for the Los Angeles Chargers. They're going to play the game this weekend. And there has, of course, Matt, been a lot of talk about Bobby Sloick and what the job that he's been able to do as the offensive coordinator for the Houston Texans.

Here's what D'emico Ryan's had to say about Sloick's ability to adjust and he thinks that he's grown in that role. Yeah, I don't know if any season is smooth. You have a lot of ups and downs, even, you know, when you win in kind of those things kind of go under the rug. But their ups and downs as coaches. And as coaches, you have to grow and evolve. You have to do things different. And sometimes you set out to do or you have a mindset of doing things one particular way. And you always have to kind of tweak those things and do what's best for the guys that you have and what they're capable of doing.

So I see where I think Bobby is definitely grown in that area. of being able to adjust and put our guys in position to where they can be successful. He's not going to find any anywhere. He's not getting fired. He's, I wouldn't, okay, not zero percent chance. No, no, nothing is zero. Very low probability. Very low probability.

He's either A staying or B getting hired away. He has interviewed with the Jets. I have not heard about him getting interviewed anywhere else. Again, it's not because it's not that I'm this big Bobby Slovak defender. I'm just saying it's a bad trend to, go from the hottest team in the NFL to a guy that everybody wants to go and that you're begging him to stay and you give him a raise to fire in the next season. That's just a terrible look.

It just is. And injuries have hurt, offensive line, lack of development. I don't know if it's his fault or not. But I'm not saying slow-eck is here for the long term. Am I even saying slow-x is a guy that could be an NFL head coach? I'm just telling you, I don't think he's getting fired. Yeah, I think I'm with you, Matt. I think I'm with you.

Well, I was also going to go around the NFL, but we were doing that next segment, correct? Okay, so I won't do too much NFL stuff. Let's move along with the NBA as the Houston Rockets, as you know, Matt, in town to play the Washington Wizards, 12 and a half point favorites in this one. Jalen Green, questionable now with a knee contusion. I think he sits this one out as the Rockets can handle it. You put Cam Whitmore maybe in the starting lineup or at the very least give him some more minutes. Jaylin doesn't miss games, Rossi. No, he doesn't.

So it's... Is it 139 he's played in Roe or something like that? It's something crazy. He's... I mean, say what you all about some of the key players in Rockets' recent history. Like the Alpha Dogs, if you want to call him? I mean, James Hardin didn't miss games unless he was super, super, super hurt. Jaileng, in Alperin, in Aparan don't miss games unless he's super, super, super hurt.

It would be a coin float to me. But if I would say this, if he's less than 100%, I would not play Jaling Green. You got a big game with Thursday coming up with Memphis. I think you want to play him. You want to make sure he's feeling as good as he comes out. That would be two, is it two out of three against Memphis coming up? Yes.

So Washington, then Memphis, then at Atlanta, then home for Memphis again. Yep. And then on the road for Denver, Sacramento, and Portland upcoming for the Houston Rockets. Man, you're going to be out of town this whole month. I know. I'm not looking forward to it. I like to travel, but not as much as we're about that. We got 13 to 17 coming up here.

We know you like the entire, we know you like the fancy Matt lifestyle. Would you like to play guess how much things cost game? Okay. Not right now. We're doing the news at new. Oh, it is the news. Well, that's part of the news, Matt. No, okay.

You got to turn the music off. You're going to that. No, let's just get to, let's go to an off-the-beat track story. Please. Matt, do you know who the dictator of North Korea is? No. I'm going to go with... No, I couldn't even guess. You'll know it. Kim Jong-un.

All right, thank you. Kim Jong-un. Apparently, Matt, is cracking down on a certain treat that you rather enjoy in North Korea. The hot dog. North Koreans have reportedly been banned from eating hot dogs as part of a crackdown on Western culture infiltrating North Korea. Wow. Kim John Un declaring that serving the... sausage is an act of treason against North Korea, amid the rising popularity of a South Korean dish

inspired by the U.S. People caught selling or cooking hot dogs face the prospect of time in the country's infamous labor camps, while Pyong Chang, which is the capital, has also decreed that divorcees could also be jailed. What does that even mean? People that get divorced? What does that have to do with hot dogs? So if you get divorced, you can't have a hot dog either? I guess that's I think you've got to go out of the country if you've got to have a hot dog, Matt. Okay.

So I can go ahead and take North Korea off the list of places you're going to visit. All right, real quick. Perfect hot dog for you, Ross. Has what on it? One line of mustard, chili, and shredded cheese, not that nasty nacho cheese. Yeah, nasty nacho cheese.

But if I'm not going chili, if we're just going dog dog, I would go with one line of mustard and relish optional. Sometimes I feel like it. Sometimes I don't. I could go with all the following. Mastard, onions, chili, relish, sourcrap.

Oh, this is the dish. I had this. The Korean dish that they're trying to rail against called Army stew. I had that. It's basically drunk food. You get like this hot, spicy broth, and they put ramen, hot dogs, and Span. You know, when the Army was there in the 1950s, they put together everything that they, anything that they had, they just piled in a stew.

And it became known as Army Bay stew. And it's very popular in South Korea. But at fundamentals, if I'm not going fancy, mustard onion. I'm okay with that. And then extra ketchup, correct? No ketchup. Not unless you're six years old. People putting mayonnaise on a hot dog is gross, too.

I love mayonnaise, too. You hear me? I love mayonnaise. You know what I've come to liking, actually? Olive oil mayonnaise. It's less fast. fatty and more delicious in my opinion. All right.

So noted. Yeah, give it a shot. Thank you very much. I'm here to help, Matt. And there is your news at noon. All right. Now, real quick, we're going to play how much that things cost. You ready?

Okay. Did not leave the hotel yesterday because the weather was terrible. I had a hamburger, double smashed. Double smashed? You know, that's a new style of burgers out. You know, no, people love the smash burgers, man. I love it. But I'm just saying, even this is the Horty-Tordy does this now.

Can you double-smash a Wagyu? Wagyu, yeah. Wagyu. What do you mean? No, no, double-smatch as in two patties that are smashed? Yes, these are two thinly smashed patties. Are they Wagyu? I don't think they were.

Okay. But ground beef is supposed to be the entrails. Well, I mean, I guess a Wagyu cow has entrails as well. Yeah, they sell that at Rach Re-Re-Re. Okay, so I had a hamburger. It was beautifully cooked. It had grilled onions on it. It had double-s-packed.

It had a pickle on top. A very nicely toasted sesame seed bun. Okay, and this was at the hotel. It's at the hotel. I had an order of fries. Yes. That came with two different types of aoli. Oh, boy.

Oh, you fancy. And when they said, would you like water still or sparkling, Greg Rackerman said sparkling. Oh, that's going to cost you, brother. That's how they get you. I said still. I should have said tap. Yes, exactly.

That's how they upsell you. You say still or they say still or sparkling. You're supposed to say tap. Yeah, it's not your fault, man. I got good. They grifted you. Yeah, they grifted me. So I had.

I had still water, order fries with three different dipping sauces and a burger with tip. How much was my dinner last night? Okay, burger, fries, still water. Still water and tip. Okay, you're pretty cheap tipper. Not true. I'm going to say, you get within $5. Just messing with you.

$44. Connor, what do you say? No, no, $46. $46. I say $55. $70. What? Mm-hmm.

What do I win? Nothing. Damn. My left over pretty, yeah. I'll take it. $70. When I saw the charge for the water,

bottle of, the water charge of $11. Oh, my God. In my head, I budgeted like $5 for the still water. I did a double tape. How big of a bottle was it? Did you give you a gallon?

No, by no means a gallon. But I never in a million years thought I'd ever be charge for water. But now no to all of y'all out there. When they say, do you want still water? You say, no, I want tap. Yes, I'm with you. That happened to me multiple times in New Orleans

and Korea. It's like the new grift. Well, would you like, would you like still water or sparkling? You should just say tap. That's how they get you. It happened. We fell for it a couple times and then that was it. And that is today's edition of how much it things cost. NFL Rewind is up next.

1230 on Sports Talk 790. Right after this, we have the NFL Rewind. Come on back. Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross 1234, Sports Talk 790. When you hear a fifth of Beethoven, makes you think of two things. Dancing in the 70s and Ross's NFL rewind.

All right, Matt. Normally we rewind games and happenings from the past week, but I mean, what a slate of crap games. So let's talk about what is going on around the NFL right now. There are some head coaching vacancies with the NFL, and starting with a number of teams, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the New England Patriots, the New Orleans Saints, the New York Jets. And also, well, actually that's it. Excuse me, is it just four? I thought I wrote down five.

We got GMs getting tossed too, don't we? Oh, Chicago Bears, I missed. All five head coaching openings. It feels low, actually, from year to year. You like windows or aisles, by the way. On the plane? Yeah. You know I'm a window guy.

All right, I'm getting your window. Thank you. I appreciate that. Unless we're talking exit row or something. No, you know, I'm paying for that. Let's go. You know better than that. No, no, no.

Sorry. A lot of talk, of course, about the Gerard Mayo firing with the New England Patriots. Only one year. They did go four and three. Didn't have a whole lot of work to team as far as a roster to work with. Bill Belichick won four games. Gerard Mayo won four games. Also, you had Robert Kraft calling it the hardest decision he's ever had to make.

his life. Believe him or not. Not. That's atrocious. Okay, Matt. Well, let's move it along around the NFL. Steelers this weekend, 10-point underdogs in the wildcard round.

The second straight year, they've been 10-point underdogs. Last year against the Buffalo Bills, they were 10-point dogs, and they lost 31 to 17. What do you want me to say? Oh, I thought you were, I don't know. I'm just going to keep talking then, I guess.

Yeah, this is good. We have a little bit of breaking news out of Austin. I want to get your initial thoughts on. Oh, out of Austin? Yeah. Oh, is it about the president? Yeah. I saw that.

I don't know. I don't. You don't care? I'm so good. Sorry, if you don't care. I don't know. You don't care. It's all right.

It's a school president. I don't know. Was he not setting the right prices? in the mess halls? No, I think he was the one that was putting a lot of money into Steve Sarcajian's bank. Well, doesn't the athletic director do that? No, I thought director has to go to the boss.

He said, we've got to pay Sark all this money. Yeah, he says, okay, yeah, sign him a boat of money. Continue on. Okay. I mean, you can break it down if you want. What's his even name, Jim Hartsall? Something Hartsall? I believe it's...

Steve Hartsall? Larry Harts, Curly Hartsl? I believe he's the president of the Hart's Chicken family there. And he's going to S-M-U. Speaking of you talking about, there's money being spent. He knows where it's going. Southern Millionaire's University. Getting the president of the University of Texas Longhuns.

I honestly don't even know what a president of a university does. Exactly. So if you say they're the ones signing off on the budgets, I thought the AD signed those contracts. But then they just have to get approved by the president? Yep. Adi's got a boss. I always got to have a boss.

Of course. Okay. All right. What else you got? Let's keep it moving, Matt. apparently Tyreek Hill not backing off

on his comments about not wanting to be a Miami dolphin. There also are reports that Mike McDaniel met with Tyreek Hill told him it is not going to be acceptable going forward

to leave games. It will not be tolerated. First of all, it's weird hearing Mike McDaniel put his foot down on anything. Second of all, is Tyreek Hill even going to be a Miami dolphin next year?

Can I ask you a generic question? I ask you once per year. Okay. When did and why have wide receivers for the last 25 years? Been the biggest divas in the NFL. I don't know. I think it's because you're out there on an island and you have to get open and it's all about you. And when you catch the ball, you make the plays.

Is it the most me, me, me position? You would think it's the quarterbacks. Those guys are divas too now. All they are. but the wide receiver diva I mean I could go like Aara Rogers is a diva correct right now in the NFL

Yes Tom Brady was a diva correct Would you say Now of course Every position on an NFL field Has a baseline of physicality It's a physical sport Is it the least physical

Besides punters and kickers DBs and wide receivers I'm just going to run through a list for you Jarrell Owens Andre Reising Chad Ocho Cinco Tyreek Hill Hey Andre Johnson was nice and quiet

Andre Johnson was nice and quiet Jerry Rice was nice and quiet But Ernest Gibbons back in the day For the Oilers was a massive massive diva Dez Bryant Massive Massive Deva

Help me Houston Help me sports fans Why are wide receivers such massive divas? I don't know, Matt. We won't have a chance to answer, I don't think. It might take too long. Apparently, Miami Dolphins, GM Greer, and Mike McDaniel talked about the status of one Tyreek Hill, Matt.

And I'm telling you, or I'm just going to tell you, we're talking about a wide receiver that is not happy in his current situation, wide receiver that is 30 years old. By the way, you can stop right now. Nick Asero is very happy with the wide receiver room for the Texas. Oh, he said that publicly? No, I'm just assuming he's saying it. Okay.

Wide receiver, much maligned? Nope. Wide receiver? Nope. You could stop right now. Right here and right now. Should the Houston Texans? Nope, don't do it.

Pursue. Don't listen to him, folks. Tyreek Hill. This is a moot conversation. He's not going after him. Stefan Diggs was as brash of a move as Nick Casarro's ever made, and then he downgraded as soon as he got here to a down to a one-year contract for a second round pick. And then he tore his ACL.

Yeah. Nope. Not happening. No chance, no way, no how? T. Higgins. Okay. It could be a Houston Texan before. Tyree Kill.

End of the season stats for Stefan Diggs. Eight games, 496 yards, three touchdowns. Okay. Not happening. Okay. They need wide receiver help. An aged wide receiver? Who's a diva wants big cash?

Yeah, that's exactly what the Texans want. Yeah. I don't think it'll happen either. All right. Anything else? That's all I got for you, Matt. On the NFL, Rewind. Nicely done.

Thank you. You're off for an hour now. Oh, my God. What's next? Well, yeah, believe it or not, what's the category? Oh, but best of. Oh, we have prizes today?

Yes, sir. Sure do. Oh, yes. We have prizes. I'm so happy. What are they? Four pack of tickets and pit passes to Monster Jam. Oh, those are good prizes, too.

Oh, yeah. We are moving ahead nicely. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that'll be coming up today, 150 best of believe it or not 713 212 5 790 713 212 5 790 come on and join us we've had a good time today we've really enjoyed you guys being with us here on this Tuesday by the way Ross I want to wish everyone a happy new year Matt happy new year to you as well 713 212 5 790 stop that wave busting the wave since the stroes were in the dome who you're going to call

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Prizes coming up here in about an hour or so from now. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. We'll be getting in some college football conversation we're going to visit with our buddy Sam Khan in a couple of days. We'll be Madoca in a couple of days. Ross, you got shut your bum ass up tomorrow. And we have a check-in in Los Angeles on Friday for the Texans versus the Chargers.

Did you ever make your Super Bowl selections? I have Ravens Lions going. I actually wanted to get together a fine-up NFL playoff bracket. I wanted to put it in gut feelings and I forgot. So I'm glad you asked me. Okay. Give me five seconds. Stahl. All right.

Follow me on Twitter at SportsMT. If you're not a porn bot or a crypto person, I love to have you follow me. At SportsMT. Ravens Lions, you said? Ravens Lions. I feel that's a good one. I'll go Bill's Eagles.

Why not? No, you don't have to be different. Yeah, I do. Sometimes joining me is good. I've seen the history. You've jumped on the SportsMT train. Look where you are now. Oh, exactly.

Still at the caboose. Yeah, but at least you're on. You're in basic economy, but you're in. Yeah. I see them coming to check my ticket. I'm getting kicked off. Oh, man. It's a round trip.

I wouldn't book you one way. Lord. I'm going, yeah, I'm going, I have Bill's, Bill's just on the defense, though. All right, fine. I'm going to Eagles Ravens. It's final answer, final answer. You really believe that, though.

Yeah, I'm going to go. I just don't, I think the Lions, are going to find a point, and it might not be until the Super Bowl. Is it a defense that you worry about? Exactly. I think they're going to find a point where a defense is going to, they're not going to be able to keep up. And I think that could be, gosh,

Ravens Lions with the Ravens winning sounds good too. I'm going to go, yeah, I'm going to go Eagles Ravens, though. Why not? Ravens win it all. Okay. So let's do this. It's actually more fun sometimes to discuss what they don't do. if you're Baltimore fan and you flounder the playoffs, meaning lose a game.

But what's Raven talked the next day like? We've got to get more help for Lamar. Now, obviously, we don't know they're in result. I don't know how to they... Can Lamar throw for 300 yards and the Ravens lose a game? Can you explain to me how they lost five games this year? Like to the Raiders and, like, didn't they have another bet? Yeah, the Browns?

Here's the thing about Lamar that you only get to see, You only would have made this assumption about him if you only watch him once or twice a year. He is insanely accurate. Yes. On the run, too. On the run, falling away, guys wrapped around him. Yeah. He throws darts.

He throws darts. And you would think a scrambling quarterback would have issues with accuracy? To your point, I don't know how they lost five games. Because Derek Henry literally reinvented himself in one year. Lamar is a top three candidate for another MVP. Their defense remains ferocious. How do they lose five games? He had 41 touchdowns and four picks.

And they lost to Pittsburgh one time. They lost it even score. Now they turned the ball over a bunch against the Raiders. I think they had like four or five turnovers. It's hard to fathom. Seriously, what it is. It's absolutely hard to fathom. Okay, so I would presume if the Ravens lose is because Lamar has a bad game, correct?

I guess. Yeah. Because if they do lose Ross, think about this, and I'm not trying to sit here saying this, because I have the Ravens going to the Super Bowl. What do you do if you continue to put up these superlative numbers in a regular season and you win these individual accolades? And Derek Henry has this incredible bounceback. if you're the Ravens, what do you possibly do?

Oh, golly, gee, shucks, we finish second again? Yeah. Or do you make drastic changes? 30. What do you do if you're the bills and that happens? Or the lions or the Eagles. Yeah, yeah. You're Josh freaking Allen.

What more can Josh Allen do? Now, he's going to have a dud game once in a while, but the guy is as filthy with his legs and running up, I mean, double-digit touchdowns, right? Rushing? Yes. I think it was 12 or 14 somewhere around there I mean Jesus what more can you ask these guys they're making $50 million a year

and they're worth every penny of it at least from a football perspective now if the lions don't get there they still have time to grow and they could also say our defense has been really hit hard I think they had at 1.6 week one starters from the defense on the IR yeah yeah or on I on IR

it's just Rossi, someone is going to be devastated. And if you're a Texan fan, you hope it's both of them. I mean, I don't feel one bit of I owed a bad of Kansas City if they don't finish this thing off. Oh, by the way, yeah, Matt, I was saying, are we, why are we not talking about the team that was 15 and 1 in games they tried and their back-to-back Super Bowl champions and they have a buy? It's funny that we're like, we're spending this time talking about the Ravens and the Bills. What about this team, the Chiefs that's back-to-back Super Bowl champions and went 15 and 1? Yep.

They're going to be the worst ones of the group. Because if they win it, they're going to be like, guess what we did while y'all are sitting there bragging about yourself? And people are saying, oh, we barely had a chance. We barely won games. Pat Mahomes is not even a pro bowler or Travis Kelsey's old. The worst revenge the Chiefs could get is against one of those two teams where Travis Kelsey catches a 20-yard touchdown pass with a minute left to go in the fourth quarter. Man, it's going to be fun. You know what I want?

I hate the Chiefs now. I don't want this to happen for them. Because I think Bill's Mafia would be a cool group to hang out with. They set themselves on fire. They jump on tables. They party when it's 11 degrees. No, that's fun to watch. It's not to fun to hang out with.

I'm not looking to live with them. Yeah. I've been at parties where people are acting like that, and it's like, yeah, this is dangerous. The cops are getting called. I'm out of here. Like, Ross, I don't think I want to ever tailgate at a Bill's game. game in December, but give me September 15th, I'd be all for that. Me, imagine going and sitting down and having a hot dog with no ketchup on it,

mustard, relish, a little chopped up onion, and seeing a really hot girl jump through a table and then setting herself on fire. I mean, that is what you want before a game. Hmm. Okay. Not happening energy. You think darling would set herself on fire before a Texan's game? She's not going to self-immolate before a Texans playoff game.

No. Think you jump through a table? As much as you'd like. I mean, would battle, would deep steel, Dan, jump off of a minivan onto three or four tables and break them in half and try to elbow smash somebody? No, you don't see that in Houston. You want to go to Buffalo for that. You know, it hasn't won them anything.

Now, Grant, now most of the time I think the people that live in Buffalo, why the hell would you live in Buffalo? It might be Ross, one of the five worst weather cities in America. Yeah, those people have been through a lot. Because that lake effect snow destroys their town. Like here in Washington, people are flipping out over five and six inches. They get two feet in Buffalo and don't think twice about it. Well, they think twice.

They've moved games, even though you wanted them to play. I did want them to play. Nothing says an NFL game standing in five inches of deep snow before kickoff. You know what to mind that? The NFL. They love it. Yeah, but the roads were undrivable, Matt. Nobody cares about the roads.

Uber. The Uber's go on the road, Matt. You need to take an Uber chopper? Take public transportation. There's got to be great public transportation. Uber, hot air balloon? You want to be in a hot air balloon during a windstorm and snow and blowing snow in Buffalo? No, you stay at home and you cancel the game.

That's weak. Gron-ass men go out there. Okay. I mean, the women are big, too. The women are as big as a men are in Buffalo. Hey, come on. You've got to have that extra insulation. Well, they wear those Buffalo Sabres hockey sweaters, and they're, you know, they can put the extra pounds in.

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Had a great time. So satisfied listeners, go hang out. Ross, I may have a poker night at Two Creeks, and you're invited. Let's go, baby. I haven't played poker in so long. I'm just not very good, but I want to play because I think it's a great bro's game. Oh, yeah. Let's play then.

You're not good? No, because every time I get a good hand, I sweat, and it's like very apparent. Okay. Start betting big? Hashtag, no poker face. I like that. All right. So if you want to do a bro's weekend.

Poker face is just look straight. Just find it. Pick a spot on the felt. Stare at it and don't look away. How about to wear sunglasses? Will that be better? You can do that if you'd like, but mostly douches wear sunglasses.

All right. They're like taking it way too seriously. And like people with just mustache is and no beard. Yeah. Like are there cool people running around town right now with just mustaches on? Matt, the mustaches come back. But it doesn't mean they're not. It doesn't mean they're cool people.

Yeah, why not? I want you to think about this. Everybody driving around right now, name five people in your life that only have mustaches. How many of them are d-bags? Reed Shepherd has a mustache. He's not a d-bag. Not a debag. I said that's one out of the five.

He's actually down in the valley right now. So that's one. Taylor Scott has a mustache. He's a nice guy. Wouldn't great to us. I think he's cool. He was really good. He was rude to you, which, I mean, that just warms my heart.

and for no reason, by the way, right? I was just being plent. I was being nice. Maybe he just woke up on the wrong side of the bed. All right. So, about narrow it down to people that you would consider your friends. Oh, I don't have friends. I mean, I don't know.

I'm sorry, I'm asking the wrong person. I can't name five friends with mustaches. I don't have five friends, Matt. That's true. Just everybody, think about this. Any of your friends that have mustachees that you consider friends, are they debacks? Think about it. Okay.

All right. 713212-5-790 who's the coolest person on earth with just a mustache if course the answer would be uh would be victor newman from the young un wrestless who eric brayden that plays victor newman i have no you you might as well be speaking cantonese right now you don't realize how good that show is yeah me and the rest of america i guess it's only been on since 1972 okay i'm gonna go with that timothy shallame is the the best mustache in 2024. Oh, did you see the movie about Bob Dylan? No, I did not.

I have zero interest in Bob Dylan. Zero. I would have a zero interest in a Bob Dylan biopic. I'll go catch it. I mean, I forgot. What's it called? Peyton saw it. He said it was pretty good.

Oh, he's a Bob Dylan guy? No, he's a biopic guy. Okay. Well, that qualifies. He did qualify. What did he have to say about Timothy Shalameh's acting job? He said it's good. But Payton never hates any movie.

oh okay like every time he'll say how was the movie pain he'll go it was good and I'm like was it really good or just sort of good then he always gives me a breakdown after he says the good part okay oh there's a must there's a mustache subreddit it was like somebody says how was your trip okay and you have to say well what went wrong

and then they get into a long explanation of well the travel was bad of the hotel was bad of the car was expensive I mean yeah the mustache subreddit has 139000 members All right. So among Houston area people is Reed Shepherd the coolest guy with a mustache right now?

No. Tom Selleck? Tom Selleck's not in Houston, is he? No. But nor is Victor Newman either, but he's in, he's a Genoa City. What is Genoa City?

That sounds way up. That's where the Newman's like. Is that fictional? Yes, it's fictional. Okay. All right, I will ask Houston, who is the coolest person in Houston just with a stash?

Could be your next-door neighbor. I don't know. Don Schultz sometimes just has a mustache. Oh, yeah, is that right? I think he's got the beard going on right now, but he's had just the mustache before. Now, Connor, you're a broskey, so how many of your brosges only?

Like one. And you like him, generally speaking? Yeah. It's not like a thick mustache, though. Oh, it's wispy? Yeah. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah.

Like a Larry Bird style? It's not very flattering for him. But he keeps it. Ryan Presley was keeping a stash for a while, wouldn't he? Do you have the stones to tell him? If he asked my opinion, I'll tell him. Yeah, why don't you let him do his thing? You don't have to bring it up to him.

You know, well, let's get a Llema to get a broskey mustache going. He seems like the top candidate of people here at SportsC-Sev-N-Hen-N-Hen-E. If anybody had 7-90 that would go with a stash, it would be definitely Brian Leema. I think you should do it. No chance. But here, big stash, a little bit of a sole patch, and then the bald head. I think that would look tough, as the kids say. Let me tell you something.

I am very attractive with facial hair without face. Like I said, Matt, we need to change. I'm not going with... What did you call it down low? Between... Soul patch. No. That's not just a mustache.

That's a mustache with a sole patch. That's true. Yeah, but it's pretty good, though. It's a good combo. It's classic combo. What don't you do it? I could. Get rid of that little chin here you got going.

I went with the... I went with full mustache when I went with... When I was wearing my Pablo Escobar costume. That worked that well. Yeah. You got a lot of DMs in your IG? No, I didn't. I got a lot of comments that I looked like a registered sex offender,

so I went ahead and grew up the beard. That seems fair. Jacob, Northside at 109 on 790. Jacob, good afternoon to you. All righty, all right. Hey, I'm with Ross Farr. I got the Eagles and the Ravens. And Lamar, not only is he a scramble.

He's just an accurate pass. period. He broke all kind of records, accuracy records. He can just, what it is in today's game, because the linemen and the linebackers are so fast, you've got to be able to move. Ain't no more sin in the pockets. Joe Montana

and all the ones that y'all idolized growing up, that's over with. Because they can't, because the linemen are so fast that they got to be able to move. Even Kansas City, my guy in Kansas City, the quarterback,

He moves. But I wonder why people never call him a Scrammel. Because he moves and he throws the ball accurately on the run. Because you've got to do it. Because in today's game, if you don't, you sit in that pocket, it's going to collapse and you're going to be eating mud on the ground. It's just what it is. I'm sorry, guys.

The sitting in a guy, Montana, Brady on him, that's over with it. There'll be not another one quarterback that's going to be sitting in that pocket and win a Super Bowl. It's over with. Joe Burrow disagrees with you. I think Joe Burroughs going to win a Super Bowl eventually. Hello? Also, a quick thing on the mustache. Phil called it and said we forgot Cal McNair. I said cool people.

Oh, man, he's got swag. Throwing up the H's. Let me tell you, anybody that throws up the H's like he does or looks more like it. Over the age of 60. Yeah, seriously. Come on. You got to know your space. It's working for him.

his approval rating's got to be up the last couple years. Oh my God. Whatever the PR firm is was in charge, I think it was probably Hannah McNair Enterprises. I was going to say, Hannah McNair Incorporated. Hannah McNair and Associates? Great job by you. Isn't that the wife's job, though? Dress up the husband, make them look better, more likable?

You know what? My wife dresses me up. Absolutely. When's the last time you bought a sliver of clothing? By the way, I'll be debuting tonight a new pair of Lulu Lemon dress pants. are washable that are the rage of southern they were the rage of southern california we were out there okay that's good man i would i would model them off for you but that'd be kind of weird la is a good spot to pick up on the latest not latest i'd say it hits paris and the new york

then l.a and then it hits hughes about six years later and by the way she still is mad at you because the burcomstocks still are very popular she's still mad at me about your jesus cruisers she's mad because you don't ever give burcomstocks any any uh shine well you're the one walking around looking like you're going to the Battle of Thermopyly. It's not my fault. I don't wear those anymore. You know that because I got cheating by you. It's fine, Matt. She goes, you've got to stop listening to Ross. He didn't know what he's talking about.

I'm like, you're right, huh? You're right. I don't do it. I wear literally, I'm wearing sweatpants and sneakers right now. Dirty ones. Which dirty shoes or dirty pants? Both. You wore dirty pants to work today? No, I'm not like dirty pants. Oh, God.

These are actually freshly washed. Is Cal McNair? Okay, so let's just put this out there. Is Cal McNair the coolest mustache wearing? The coolest Houstonian wearing a mustache, Cal McNair. That seems hard to kind of digest on that, honestly. But if it is, it is. Look, he's a billionaire with an attractive wife and his, what do they call it, Q score?

And he earned every bit of it. What he did? He earned all the success he got. Yes, he did. A graduate of the University of Texas, got an MBA from Rice. You don't even believe your own sentences. He does have an NBA. Those are all facts.

you think he ever went to class what has it hurt that the business was it a business school meeting a building that is named after robert c mclair and large donations just throwing it out there you know what

I hope one of my all time put my names on it are wrong which one is that one the texans go to the super bowl with mcnair is running operations because i don't know who's going to buy that I mean, look, the McNairns are going to keep this. The kids are going to own the team. Or Cal's brothers are going to be like, I want it. Yeah, Kerry already took the hell.

He tried. Carrie's like... Carrey was like $6 billion. This sell this bad boy. Yeah, he would have done quite well. Hannah's like, I don't get in the newspaper by me not being a former owner of the team. I don't get to ride behind Beyonce if I'm the former owner of the Texans. Of course, we are speculating and guessing.

about what? What's happening? Yeah, I think they're probably They're not best friends. There's no way in the world. Carrie and Cal aren't broskeys? No. They're little brothers.

I bet Hannah's driven some wed between the brothers. Just guessing. Just a guess. Just a guess. I'm not saying you're wrong. Yeah. That's true.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-1-790. It's 114. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross here. on Sports Talk 790. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross via Real. On Sports Talk 790. Slim Thug, Ross.

Coolest guy in Houston with a mustache? I know Slim Thug has a beard. He only has a mustache? Somebody sent us a photo. He said he just got a stash going. Is that current? I don't know. I don't know what Slim Thugga is up to these days.

Here we go. Is it Slim Thug or Slim Thugga? It's both, Matt. It's like you're Matt and you're Maddie. No, but nobody walks around and call me Maddie. Somebody calls you Maddie T, T-Bone. They don't call me T-bone. What's up T-Bone?

They may call me T-Rizzle. What does that mean? Okay. All right. I was in a... Never mind. It looks like he's got a beard. Okay, so we're going to...

We're going to knock him off the list. Yeah, if you're going to have the cool stash in Houston, you cannot have any sort of any sort of chin hair under any circumstance. He's got, did you know he's 6 foot 6? Really? And stick in yo chick? Joy Taylor? Oh, apparently, okay, this is Instagram from, oh, he says too many gray's had to chop off the beard.

So maybe this is recent. I don't know. I don't follow Slim Thug on Instagram. That's my B. What's his most famous song? I'll probably say, yeah. Yeah, probably that is, famous solo song would be either that one, Thug.

He was on Still Tipping. He's the opening verse on Still Tipping, which was a huge, massive hit. Yeah. He had his own, yes, like a boss. This was a hit back in the day, Matthew. He got signed to Star Trek Records. He was on with M-E-R-D. What were they called?

What were they called? It was Pharrell and that guy that he... Sounds like he did him dirty. You see the dirty South Bows. He's slim thug a mother-w. Whoa. Whoa. The Neptunes.

It's censored. That's a Houston legend, Matt. Slim Doug. Northside represent. Let's get him on the show. Okay. I don't know if that's, I mean, I mean. He and ESG had some songs as the boss-haust.

outlaws, of course. Oh, he was on that song. Check on it with Beyonce. That was a number one hit. Okay. That's your Slim Thug update for the show today. No other station, Towns can give you that kind of information.

And I guess Cal McNair is the coolest guy. What's your favorite Slim Thug song? Huh. Let me look at my phone and see how many songs I've downloaded. Now, I always butcher this. Uh-oh. Does you don't do it? Say his name, then.

Who? Go ahead. Oh, line one? Nigel. What if it's Neal? You're just so observant, man. When it's Nigel, when it's Neegel, it says Neidel next to it.

And this has the pronunciation next to it when it's that guy. This is Nigel. You're on Sports Talk 790. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Well, it's still morning here in Vancouver, but regarding the, I think Mr. McNair probably does have the best mustache in Houston.

But I should tell you, There was a Canadian-born, adult movie star from the 70s and 80s by the name of Randy North that had a very great mustache. Of course, there's Tom Selleck. Something to look into. I love Lulu Lemons. I used to live around the corner from their head office, and I just bought a new pair of Birkenstocks, and they're great. Regarding the Texans, they're going to lose this weekend, most likely, as much as I hate to say it. I think that for them to win, the defense is going to have to play.

Absolutely lights out with Camari Lassiter, in particular, having a massive game. It would be nice if they could find somebody else to catch the ball this weekend and or have a stout running game, but I don't see any of that happening. I guess we could be in a situation like Seattle or Cincinnati where we catch lightning in a bottle, but I fear this could be a very short playoff season. And as always, thank you very much for your show, guys. I really enjoy it. Thanks to hear from nice.

Nigel taking care of our Vancouver cluster of our audience. Ross, to me, it would be overly simplistic to put it on one guy. You've got to make Justin Herbert really uncomfortable. We were talking about pocket passers. Rossi, he wants to stay in the pocket as long as possible. He will scramble if necessary. He can run a little, yeah, but not much. His greatest progression is a seven-step drop, looking at different options down the field,

throwing to the titan if he needs to, got a big arm, throws a great, great intermediate pass. I think his biggest mistakes are when the pass rush is intense. I mean, it's got to be Will Anderson's Day, Daniel Hunter's Day, Al-Zee Chaire, it's got a surprise.

I think it's going to, this is cliche, but it starts with the run game. That's especially early on the season, they were establishing the run. They got J.K. Dobbins back now. Gus Edwards is questionable. They signed Zeke Elliott. It's very clear to me that

they're going to try to win with the run game. And then, oh, By the way, as a backup, you got Justin Herbert, and Lab McConkey has been great moving all over the play in the slot. I would have to say to go along with your theme, the more third and sixes, third and sevens that the charges have, the better the Texans will be. Because I think watching enough Herbert that his play action ability on third in shorts really confuses defenses. He can take a third and two, go for a deep bomb and find a guy downfield. and make some special things happen.

I think limiting the Texans, or I should say limiting the number of third and shorts will be the number one thing for the team. I mean, look, turnovers are always a part of the game, getting Joe Mixing involved offensively, giving CJ Stroud time to throw the football. Those are all things that go without saying. But the little nuances of the game would be,

I think, getting Herbert out of his comfort zone. I think him facing third in longs where he will sometimes try to thread the needle into some plays that he probably shouldn't do. And for the Texans, just keep CJ upright. Do you think, do you think CJ, I know the answer before I even asked it? Will he ever say, man, it just wasn't my ear because I just didn't have the feet placement. I wasn't able to throw in the lanes that I wanted to because the pressure was,

it felt like double that it was last year. It may not have been double. But it just feels like it's been a much bigger storyline. last year, Ross, we talked about the offensive line last year. But CJ was able to overcome that. Why this year, as the offensive deficiencies, the line deficiencies, cost him more troubles this year than it did last year? I think it was just that much worse.

And again, I don't think he was close to 100% as he was last year. I mean, he's taken a boatload of hits this year, right? Yes. So, you know, I, you know. But I would think at this point of the year, in the playoffs and you have been through 17 weeks. I mean, he looked pretty crisp against Tennessee.

Yeah, it was a nice little dress rehearsal. You're playing the worst team in football. Was there any sign of him slowing down? I mean, could he have gone another series, probably against Tennessee? Absolutely. I'm sure he could have. Yeah. If he needed to. It went perfect. It went two script. Six of six, touchdown, get him out of there.

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principal office, Katie, Texas. Matt Thomas, Ross via Real. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Ross, they got a rocket email. And I think I'm seeing two different players that Wayne and I are seeing. It says Matt, you and Ross discussed Jalen Green and his improvement on defense earlier.

How about Alperin Shingun's regression offensively? He has not played anywhere near the level he played last season. Alligator arming five-foot shots, turn the ball over every time he puts the ball on the floor, and the falling down every time there's contact is getting old. I thought this kid was going to be the centerpiece of the team's offense. Doesn't look like he did anything in the offseason to improve his game offensively.

I'm at the point where dealing him is something I've actually considered. What the hell is going on with him? I don't see that. And again, maybe I've got the different color glasses on. I get that. And while, to me, defensively, there are still going to be issues without be. From an offensive standpoint, he wakes up in the morning with double doubles. He's had plenty of 30-point games.

he has his scoring is down i will say this i'm not a fan of the one-legged up in the air five-foot shots is he talking about what are you talking about the push floater or the fallaway flamingo either one i like them both i want him attacking the basket they look like a 76 year old out of the court putting up the one-handed push shot i think that's fun number one um teams are aware with the leap that he made last year and teams of course caught on to how important he was to the Rockets offense but I think he's

getting zeroed in more on this year than he was last year and I think there are things that he is going to have to figure out. I actually we get Coach Udoca on but we only have so much time with him but he was getting doubled by the Celtics where they were sending Christop's forezingus and Luke Cornet at him and he was deer in headlights

he was turning the ball over he wasn't making good shots and a lot of times. I think he struggles with bigger, stouter centers. Johnston. Yeah. The lengthy guys, like the Wimbe's and the Goberes and the Anthony Davis's, he can get physical on those guys. Because he got a lot stronger. I thought he should have been more aggressive against Bam Otabio, the internet against Miami. I felt like he spent most of his fourth quarter at the elbows. He struggles with really strong guys. And he just needs to get stronger. He's 22 years old. He can

continue to grow into his body. And I think, you know, I was actually talking with a Rockets fan when I was on that trip in Asia. There was a Rockets fan. We were talking about it. And he's like, how does Shinggoon get better? I think the way that he gets better is strength. He's not going to get more athletic. He's not going to get more explosive.

He's not going to all of a sudden, you know, be this high flying guy. He can dunk some. He can get to the basket quickly some. But I think he needs to build up his strength because I think he does struggle against those top-tier stronger guys. And teams are more aware. of him. So he's getting more double teams. He's getting confronted. If you remember the Golden State Warriors doing that with Draymond Green. So teams

are mixing up against him and his his shooting percentage are significantly down. They've gone down last three years. He went for 55% to 53%. Now he's at 48.9%. So I don't think that to me that's, I'm not saying we're writing him off. He's just going to have

to readjust and to me get stronger and more aware of how teams are zeroing in on him as far as defenses, which he has a very high basketball ball IQ. He's a smart, intelligent player who works hard. So I think he will get better. There are some matchups, though. Yeah, there are some matchups Ross that he lives for.

Like, he doesn't mind going against Victor Women Yama. He doesn't, he doesn't mind going against Rudy Gober. By the way, Rudy Gobert for being all defensive team for all these years is a minus defender right now. Teams are attacking Rudy Gobert. Right. Like I say, he can get into the chest of those guys.

He can be physical with them, but when it's other stout guys, I think he can run into issues. Yeah. Again, the little five-foot one-leg fade-aways to me sometimes are painful because he's too

finesse on those, some of those, I think. But when they drop, they drop on a semi-regular basis. It's almost like how he does on his first two or how he's going to be in the next seven or eight that he takes. Again, there's no evidence of that, but when he wants to take over

a game, when he puts us back to the basket, he's got the ability to score with both hands. How many centers have that. Not many. Yeah, he's extremely skilled, extremely smart, extremely good player. His defense is much improved from last year to me. It's more court awareness

for him that is a lot better. Staying in front of guys, being in the right place at the right time, all that type of stuff, competing. The defensive metrics on him are better than they were this year, this year than they have been in the previous years. But I just think from a love of expectations, to me,

Alpi is my triple double guy. They get it from me any single night. because he is a very good passer. He is a score. He falls into rebounds. The three-point shot is still not a part of his arsenal. It may never be. In fact, I think he's down under 22-20%.

He's worth 21-2%. Yeah, that's... That's why he isn't doing very much. It's not a part of his game. It was alarming when I heard he got beat by John Lucas in a three-point shooting contest in practice the other year. The other year, oh, okay. What if I beat him in a three-point shooting contest?

And then that would be extremely alarming, and he might need to retire if that happened. That's not true. He's got a fresh contract. Now, again, have you done your research on the poison pill on the contract deal? No, I haven't. I don't want you to go. We need you to be the resident capologist. Actually, it feels like it's a question for Wex.

You think Wex has gone through the aprons? Oh, I bet you. I feel extremely confident if we asked Wex to explain the poison pill element of Alpi's contract, he could do it. Now, again, let's summarize this very. very, very small. The poison pill is you sign a guy like the rocket signed Alpi and signed Jalen and then you try to trade him

in the same year. There is some sort of financial kicker that makes it look bad for the team it's trading him. Yes. That's all we're going to say at this point. You know President Carter's being laid to rest? Is it here in Washington right now, the live TV coverage of it?

Jimmy Carter? Yeah. That's not going to slow a traffic. He was that was a week ago? I hope not. They haven't had all this ready to go. I mean, we're on Pennsylvania Avenue right now. Did you see? I think it was somebody, I think I saw it on Twitter. His obituary had been written for so long. The person that wrote it for the New York Times was already

had been laid off by the New York Times. Oh, I think he was dead. Yeah, they died. That's what it was. Oh, man. I can't believe President Trump on a mobile has not called the show today. I mean, of all times for him to for them to call in. You get the Rockets and Wizards tonight, and he is not called in.

Hmm. I think we're good. I think we're good, too. All right. Yeah, Jimmy Carter, one, do you want to live to 100, Rossi? No. Most people I ask say no to that. That depends. I bet you if you ask me from 85, I would say yes.

So if you ask me now, I say no. Let's play a game called predict when Ross is going to pass. I got you. The favor in the clubhouse is you at 61 passing. way ironically enough. This says if Houston wanted to trade Shingoon, his outgoing values 5 million, while his incoming value

would have to be 31 million. Hashtag poison pill. This is confusing. Now let's talk about aprons. Just wait for wax. Wex will break it down. I think a full hour breakdown in the next show. So they're going to do poison pill talk for three to four to them? Yes. Two to three today? Actually, I think it's been, you know what? Words coming

in, Matt. It's been extended. It'll be two to four. Poison pill talk. Two to four. And then a complete break. breakout of every Los Angeles Charger. I hate you both. Hey, Adam, have you heard, is President Trump on a mobile calling in today?

Not confirmed. Cannot confirm or deny. You could not confirm. Actually, he's in Greenland today. I don't think you can even sell service. Working hard to get our 51st state intact. Is it Greenland? What is it going to be?

I don't know. He needs to get rid of like three others. He's not of Canada. One of the two, right? Trade like three others. Can't we trade Oklahoma? Oh, they got a lot of oil, I guess. Are you a Trudeau fan?

Who is that? Who? The Prime Minister or Canada? Yeah, the outgoing Prime Minister. He just resigned yesterday. Oh, Justin Trudeau? Yes. I got it. Good job.

I don't know his policies. I don't know anything about him. I'm sorry. Either one of you know who Jack Trudeau is. Yeah, that was the host of Pyramid in the 70s. No, that was Dick Clark. This Jack Trudeau, I think, wasn't he a backup quarterback for the Colts for a long time? Is he related to Justin? You don't think so?

Oh. Now, how does it work in Canada? Are you voted and you run for prime minister or does the parliamentary house vote the prime minister? Yes. I don't know who you're asking on this. Well, this is our political expert right here. Justin should know he intends to resign. Okay.

And he will resign once the new party leader is elected. Okay. But I don't know how the party leader is elected in Canada. I don't know. Adam, are you working with me tonight, or is that the other one? It's somebody named Adam. So it's not you? It's me.

Okay. You got me the next two. I'll keep you in line. I'll talk to you guys on Rockets Wrap tonight on Sports Talk 790. The other Adam has the local pregame because it bleeds in to our show. Okay. How much Joy Taylor talk you have on the show today? What?

What's that? How much Joy Taylor talk? Oh, what about Taylor Mathis? You know, we... Thank you. First of all, thank you for not outing me for not following her. I can't believe Wex follows her, and I can't believe how much you talk about her. And not in that order. I will defend Matt for one second.

She's hot? Write this down, folks. I'm not disputing. Somebody else brought her up. The collar did. Yeah. I'm actually super proud of Matt for not bringing it up this guy. There was your first mistake right there, Matt.

I mean, she asked her today why people aren't following her on IG, and I think she got a bunch of new follows on that. and you don't see how that's pathetic? She's just with a new betting company. Let her live her life. That'd be like a radio host throwing himself a party every time he gets a certain amount of followers on social media. That'd be like somebody bragging about how many YouTube visitors they have in their Twitter account. Or lack thereof?

All right. Time for a break. Two to six. Hey, team. Believe it or not, best of. And we're playing for nice prizes. I believe we're playing for Monster Jam tickets. If you want to play, believe it or not,

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Rossi, they announced the broadcasters for the Texans Chargers game on Saturday. Ion Eagle will do the play by play on CBS. Charles Davis will be on the color analyst role. Evan Washburn, the sideline reporter. That's the CBS number two crew, Ian Eagle, great friend of the show. Nickelodeon is going to have the broadcast as well. Nate Burleson will call the play-by-play.

His two analysts will be SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Starr. Oh, wow. That's a good get. on one side line Dylan Schaefter don't know who that is and the other side line Sandy Cheeks I don't I'm assuming is that a mascot

No Sandy is from Texas on SpongeBob come on man I have not watched SpongeBob in decades And then who's Dylan Schaefter Is he related to Alam I mean to add them That probably is Dylan's

That's probably his son don't you think Yeah I believe you're right about that So can we get to Nate Burleson for just a second? Sure. We got to believe we're not coming up here. Nate Burleson host, one of the co-hosts of the NFL today, does a nice job, right? He's the host, one of the co-hosts of CBS this morning, which is like the Good Morning America. Okay.

Which I don't think it's the lowest rate of all of them. Nobody watches it, but that's fine. It is what it is. Okay. He's also the host of the Hollywood Squares now. Ooh, how does it make you feel, Matt? Pissed off. They even ask you?

It's messed up. So let's run through five game shows that I can think off at the top of my head that are hosted by people that shouldn't be hosting game shows. Okay. The GE College Bowls, and it was hosted by Peyton Manning, who didn't do a bad job, but he was a straight man because his brother was on there. Cooper was trying to be the comedian in the group. Michael Strayhan butchered the pyramid. Pissed me off there. Okay.

Let's see, what else? We got Nate Burleson hosting the Hollywood Squares. We have, let's see. Oh, we have that show, who was the Rob, Rob Lowe hosting some sort of crazy show. How about a bounce back for Rob Lowe? Didn't he have a sex tape come out and all that stuff? Yeah, and all that's done his career has been tremendous since. Yeah, he's on that 10.

terrible show 911 Austin or whatever. Ross, if you ever really want to get rid of me, I mean legitimately ever want to get rid of me. Hold on. Let me write the notes out. Get me to host a game show. Oh, no, you're going to try to do both. I know you.

I can't do both. You're going to try. I would try, certainly, but not, but the chances of you being successful. Here's Matt Neon on the internet from Burbank. It's great. What if the announcer for the person? prices right quick. I'd go for that job.

I'd leave you for that. I don't think. Yeah, you're, yeah. You might as well say if I could get rid of you, I could make you president. I don't think it's happening, Matt. But Nate Burleson's hosting the Hollywood Squares? Nate Burleson. You guys know who Nate Burleson is, right?

Yeah, he's a great receiver for the Lions for all those years. Nate Burleson, does he have the hoodspot to host the Hollywood Squares? Uh-huh. Clearly he does. clearly he does he's got the style the charisma and the panache matt and you have none of those things relative to date burleson five minutes left in the go on the show what should we do let's play america's fastest growing sports radio game show we simply call it believe it or not and here's how it works you'll call seven one of three two one of the believe or nots earlier this year statement from one of the believe or not only accurate you'll say this last year belive it last year excuse me one of the statements is completely completely full of bunk and made up and made up and wrong you'll say this not two in a row win your prize what we're playing for by today connor d magoverd a four pack of tickets with pit passes to monster jam on

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