The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Eagles Earn Redemption With Super Bowl Win, How Close Are Texans? Rockets Snap Losing Streak

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap Super Bowl LIX that saw the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in New Orleans. Matt and Ross also:review Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show performancediscuss how the Texans can reach the top of the NFLreact to the Rockets snapping their six-game losing streakcomment on the New York Jets moving on from quarterback Aaron Rodgersplay "To Tell the Truth" and more.

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 103 in H-town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Not checked the update on Philadelphia downtown. Any riots, anybody climbing poles and falling off?

Did anybody behave themselves on Broad Street? Couch is on fire? Yeah, cars being flipped down. over. I think they greased the poles in New Orleans. I heard. Yes. That's good. You ever been much of a pole climber? No. How much of a

hooligan do you have to be that your team wins a football game or baseball because they didn't originate with the Phillies win in the World Series? Right. Your team wins a game and you're like, I'm going to climb up a light pole and endanger myself. And somebody did die this past year. They did? Yes.

It was a young kid, a temple. How old was he? 19 years old, I think. I mean, I don't mean to make light of it, but God, just celebrate properly. No, if you climb up a light pole and you die, that's Darwin, says hello. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, thoughts and prayers out to his family, but

Chuckie says hey. And good morning to you. Chuckie Darwin says, what's up? Chuckie Darryor. What does Pavlog's dog have to say about this? No, not a whole lot. All right. Little E.J. here for you.

Elton John? Yeah. what do you rate at this among his all times you're going to see it's a little bit we've fought on this before we have fought on this before this is not a top tenor for me oh it is absolutely a top ten for me i know and that's okay yeah we all have different taste ma yes we do is we found out yesterday during the half time of the super bowl all right connor it's a jam though uh you are i don't think we've discussed but i don't think you're a huge elton john fan correct do even know who elton john is yes he does Yes, he does.

I like a lot of his songs. Yeah, kind of knows a lot of ball. So do you kind of rock to this song? Yes or no? I see, before we started doing these intros, I didn't really know it. To be honest, I didn't think it's not one of his more popular songs. Oh, it absolutely is one of his most popular songs. He sang this on Soul Train.

And everybody was dancing to this song. Way back in the Bay. Ellen John went on Soul Tour. Rolling Stone has a top 50 Elton John song. Oh, God. You got to click the song. 50 pages. Oh, no. Can you do it really, really fast? I'll introduce the show. Hi, everybody. It's 10.08 on Sports Talk 7.9. It is the

Monday edition. 31. They have it 31 out of 50. Now is that, now Rolling Stone. This is only Elton John. Is this their critics review or in terms of popularity? No, it's done by one of their interns. No, I think it's a critics review. Because I took, there was a Facebook reel of the top 10 songs, I want to say of the 80s or something. Or like, by sales. And I did it and they said, well, I, so people, I put it on Twitter and they're like, oh, I don't trust anything Rolling Stone has to say that they have a bias towards.

Yeah, Rolling Stone, I mean, look, it's an opinion, it's one opinion, Matt, and to each its own, his own, and their own, and your own, and our own. Yeah. So, you know, it is what it is. We have a lot to get to on the, like, The whole Sunday. The Guardian has it at 13. So again, it's just, it's a purely subjective conversation. I happen to, and I wouldn't pay it.

It's my number one, but it's certainly my top five. Rancor.com has it at 17. Yeah, so each is on. Okay. I have a new thing I'm putting on my pre-show tweet. It's, we're called a little daily quiz. Oh, really? And I thought we'd get some interaction from the audience.

Where do you put this, Matt? At SportsMT. I'm trying to build you up. Go ahead. I know I've been crushed a little bit lately. So my question was today was, what did you do? And people thought it was, they were asking, people were trying to guess what I was doing. So I had to rephrase it.

Oh, we don't want to get into that. You know what I did? I unpacked. Oh, that's good. Yeah. I unpacked. Yeah. You were like a kid coming home from college.

I know. You were out on the road for quite some time, Matt. Kim's like, bring me all your dirty clothes. Yeah. So, oh, I forgot my dry cleaning today. Oh, I forgot about that. I was going to get a dry cleaning down today. That's okay.

You and Dusty Baker both. I know. Dust. Big dust. Okay. So the question was, what did you do once the game became a blowout? Now, it was obviously on all of our televisions at our house. But once it, I mean, once I got a four touchdown lead with all the field goals after the touchdowns, I checked out. Hmm.

So I didn't see the Xavier Ward that catch down the very end. Longhorn legend. You notably mentioned that Pat Mahomes got to us overrushing or passing yards with that bomb late in the game. That's crazy. If you had the Pat Mahomes under, my deepest sympathies to you. Because you made the right call. Part of it is you shouldn't be betting that kind of stuff anyway. Yeah.

But check out draft king's pick six. The crown is yours. Well, how is the crown these days? The crown's not doing so hot. Yeah. My picks didn't do so great. So let me ask you this. Did you?

I watched the whole game. You sat in your same spot. Absolutely. Did not. Okay. See, I, once it got to, I don't know, 30, it's all the field goals to, 31-7 or whatever it was, or it was a shout-out for a long period of time until Mike Florio told us that there was going to be a shutout until... And then he was wrong.

And he was wrong, but that's a different issue again. And they deleted the tweet. Well, it's good for him. That's weak sauce. No, no, you should make mistakes. I made mistakes before. What did he say? He said the chiefs have not been shut out since a 30-0 lost to the Texans in 2014.

It was the Texans that were shut out, not the Chiefs. Oh, okay. Okay. You can delete that. I thought you were saying he was predicting a shutout. No, no, no, no, no, no. If he gets something wrong, you can certainly get racist for sure. So what did, so I, like I said, I'm packed.

I think I heated up some more food. We had a little spread last night with some big city wings. Shout out to you boys out there. But it was just, I couldn't pay attention to it. It just, first of all, the game had, it was Philadelphia. I mean, the Kansas City offensive line could not keep Pat Mahomes upright. No. And that was going to always be an issue.

And it was way worse than I thought anybody could have thought it was going to be, right? It was more, I thought there was going to be a lot of pressure. That's why I picked the Eagles. And I thought they were going to win both lines of scrimmage, but I didn't think it was going to be this bad. But yeah, they got destroyed. I mean, it's probably what? The worst Super Bowl we've had since Bronco Seahawks? Probably.

We've had, I mean, when I was growing up, we had one dud out of the other between Buffalo losing four, Strait and Washington and Denver. I mean, there has been a bunch of, I would say, for about a 15-year stretch. I'm not literally 15, but it felt like that way. One of them was ugly because it was low-scoring on both sides, but at least it was close. Seahawks Steelers, wasn't it? Was it? It was all the Steelers, did it not?

I was going to say, no, even more recently than that. It was one of the, it was either Brady and the Eagles or Brady or Rams or something, or when of the Rams were there, there was an ugly game in there somewhere. And they're not all classics. They're all not going out of the wire. But this one was terrible. As bad as dut as it can get. This was bad.

I thought I liked the national anthem. I liked God bless America. Jean-Petit-Batiste. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, they went full New Orleans fair, which I loved. Which the number one thing, and we'll obviously get to Kendrick Lamar, is that the number one sentiment I saw besides what I thought was going to happen, 50% people hated it 50% thought it was awesome.

I'm going to say 80% hated it. Probably so, but I didn't want to be polite. That's okay. Is that you could, with such. a rich tradition of music in New Orleans. Could you have gone with a New Orleans group of artists that would have made it a New Orleans as a show? The reality is you could have put the game in any American city.

They're not going to do it based off what the city is in. Now, they may do it for the national anthem, which they did. But they're trying to appeal, get the biggest possible star for halftime. The biggest stars in the history, not the history, in the current world of music, perform at halftime of the Super Bowl. So it didn't really matter where it was going to be. It was not. They probably would have said,

oh, this New Orleans thing is nice, but we'd rather have bigger star power. Well, there were a lot of people upset when Kendrick Lamar was picked over, they wanted Lil Wayne to do it because Lil Wayne is from New Orleans and has a very wide mainstream appeal, also appeals to older and younger audiences because he's been around for a while. So there were some people wanting Lil Wayne to do it. Because he's from Noola, baby.

Yeah. Yeah. Which did you see some of the pregame? They were all leaning into the Nola baby stuff. Everybody loves to New Orleans accent. It was a cliche thing to do. Yeah. It was a clicky thing to do.

By the way, shout out to New Orleans. It looked like a really, really good time. And the stadium looked filled. I'll tell you what. You know the Superdome? It's going to be 50 years old this year. Is it getting updated recently? Well, it was during Katrina.

Okay. But from what I understood, and Brian T. was there covering the game for a talk sport and a lot of other reporters are like, this place looks fantastic. And it's a really great venue. I have been there, I don't know. I've only been there for football. I might have gone for basketball. I don't remember, but I've probably been to the Superdome 10 times before.

I've always had a good experience. It's easy to get to in and out. You can walk from most of the hotels from downtown New Orleans. I'll tell you this. My wife and daughter saw Taylor Swift at the Superdome as compared to what they sought energy. And they said the acoustics of the Superdome were 10 times better. Oh, wonderful. So if you're a person that strays away from domes or big venues like that,

then maybe I guess the Superdome does it okay for you. For the audio files out there. Correct. Greatest place I've ever saw an event, obviously, was at the sphere. Good job. Sphere. I'd just slow it down. You were close.

I'm kidding. It's not going to be 100% ever. That's okay. All right. To the game itself, the Kendrick Lamar, to the must win the Rockets got yesterday. You still have that cough. I've been gone like a month from you and you still have that cough.

It's getting 1% better every day. You better not get B6. I'll be healthy by June. Thank you. 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. A lot of things for me yesterday into Super Bowl. By the way, welcome to the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

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All right. 713, 212. 570. 7192-1-3-2-2-790. 5-7-9-0. So I'll look at the headlines at ESPN. It says, dominant Eagles defense fueled by Chiefs Three-Pete talk. Can I say, come on?

Can I say that you're playing for a chance at a Vince Lombardi Trophy? You're having an opportunity to play to be the best team. team in the NFL for the 2012 season. And you're telling me you have to use the people talking about the Chiefs 3P as a reason to get yourself fired up. It feels like a question asked and answered that a storyline was trying to be generated just to create a headline. Right?

Yes. I don't think the Eagles are sitting there on third down and 13. Like, we've got to stop this three Pete guys. Let's get this stop. My guess is after the game. Hey, did the three Pete talk fuel you? Yes, it did. Yeah, we wanted to do this.

Yeah. That's what you say. Yeah, I don't think they go ahead. Ladies gentlemen, I want to hold this press conference here before we get going. You know, like, let me get an example. Who was the kid? Let me give you, let's see, who, Josh Swett, two and a half sacks yesterday, right? Do you think Josh Swett after the game said, before y'all asked me any questions, I got to tell you something.

When I was thinking about this game and going to play to win the championship, I thought of only one thing. We've got to stop the three feet. I'm glad you brought it up, Matt. Because we do have Josh Sweat quotes. We didn't change the game plan or anything. We just rush and cover together, and whoever made the play made it. Fangio made the calls, and we executed. Yeah, pretty much football.

In a nutshell. And that's especially at the professional level, when you have guys who are so motivated and mentally strong, if you need an extra layer of motivation at the freaking Super Bowl, you don't. You shouldn't be there in the first place, and you probably wouldn't be. No. No, you can say, did it hurt a couple of years ago to lose the game?

Yeah. Is that a motivating factor? That makes plenty of sense. winning the game itself because you have fought scratch and clawed your way all the way up to the top to get there. You need to come up short again for a second time in three years. Would that motivate you? Of course it would. Or in itself, the motivation should be you're playing in front of hundreds and hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

And you get a chance to raise the trophy and win a championship for a city. So, you know, to me, and I'm going to give you just some generic statements about the game. And by the way, if you want to chime in about anything about the game itself, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. I don't think the Chiefs walked in, Uber confident. I think you just got their ass kicked. And sometimes that happens in sports.

I don't think they practice any less. I don't think that Andy Reid didn't game playing differently. I don't think that Steve Spagnola, who is obviously very highly, is it Spagnola, right? Yes. Yeah, very highly regarded defense. Paganolo. Stephen, you know, he wasn't working on his latest chicken palm recipe.

I mean, he was figuring out ways to stop Sequin Barclay. And for the most part, he did. He couldn't get Jalen Hertz under control. Jailen Hurts came up huge. He was huge. I thought that was the first thing, was that that was just one team simply outperforming the other. And I thought Pat Mahombo is pretty honest.

And when he said yesterday, he says, look, the wins are awesome in the Super Bowl. The losses hurt more. because think about it it is it's the biggest stage and you get super close it's like being a runner up at a Miss America pageant

you're beautiful wow but you're not as pretty as the winner someone right next to you is a little hotter and he had a bad game he was a terrible game those those pick sixes that he had

I mean he could have had more picks as well Cooper Jean Cooper Jean all over the place and he was under pressure he was under duress a lot of it wasn't his fault but a lot of it was. He was just

he was pedestrian at best. Yeah. I mean, the game, the final score is not indicative of how frankly, awful the football game was. I mean, we haven't had a,

we haven't had a done in a long time. I mean, he threw a frozen rope to Xavier Worthy at the end for a touchdown, but that was, the game was over. Yeah.

And I was like, bleep this, I'm chucking in deep. DeAndre Hopkins gets in a Super Bowl drops that pass. I mean, early on in the contest,

now I was, came back, came back and helped the cause a little bit later, but it was way, I was out of hand. it was just that was just a four-hour ass kicking is what that was. It was a beat down from the get.

And Philadelphia deserves it. They were the best team on both sides of the ball. Now, can I be honest with you? And I don't think for our audience is going to spark a tremendous amount of debate. I thought it was an OPI in the first quarter. I did. I thought when you go for the face mask and grab, I thought it was. He hit him on the face.

And everybody, everybody jumped on it. Everybody was losing their mind. Unbelievable call. Including the Pereira. Yeah. It was like, when Pereira came on there and was like, yeah. Go ahead.

He was like that. I wouldn't have called that. You have to allow a certain level of physicality in that play. I was like, physicality is one thing. When you grab his face mask and push him aside, I thought it was a flag. Yeah. If that had gone the other way, if that had gone the Eagles way, everybody would have been talking about it. Yeah, that was the right call.

He slapped him in the head. Yeah. It is what it is. It didn't make any different than the game, but it was a terrible, unfortunate part of the early part of the game. Was it minor contact? Yes,

but was it offensive pass interference? Yes. You hit somebody in the face mask. Even if you want to, don't call an OPI, you want to call hands the face. Yeah, I agree. That's still a penalty.

I agree. That was issue number one, early in the contest. Issue number two, which I never thought in a million years people would flip out about. America hated the scorebug. It was done by somebody

that was 11 years old. I didn't realize scorebug conversation was such a dominant part of a television broadcast. But people were losing. It was very elementary. It had no bells and whistles around it. You saw the score.

You saw the stats flash on the left and right of the team names. You saw the clock. You saw the down and distance. Yeah, they went with taking as little space as possible to give you most of the screen. And that was okay.

I didn't really have an issue with it. I didn't think it was like the graphics were not, they weren't powerful. But they were there for what you needed to be there for. Give me the score down in distance. What's the clock? What's on the play clock? And you don't want to slot a number about how Pat Mahomes is doing in this particular drive or how many receiving yards, or rushing yards at Sequin Barclay has?

I mean, I was just, it was funny to me what, and I guess a singular broadcast of any sort is going to have the microscope on it. Yeah, it's the freaking. Super Bowl. It's weird that they rolled it out for the Super Bowl. It'd be like complaining about the size of a band that Bruno Mars has at the Grammy Wars. Why is there only like six, three bass guitars behind it? You know what I mean? It was just, it was weird. But I think when you have something that is watched by so much of the population that everything is going to be discussed with a fine-tooth comb. And the scorebug was as big of a thing in the first quarter because it was different. Yeah, and simplified.

And that's how logos and everything, people over the years, they've been, getting more and more simplified. Well, the reality is this, if you would have put a bunch of, you know, stars around it or Flue de lures around it, you know, Flood de Lee. The Lee, the Lou, whatever. Good job. Coat de lore, whatever. Cote de Loire.

Yeah. They would have been crazy about, get rid of that stuff. Let me see the game. Yeah, it takes up very little of the screen. And overall, at first I was shocked by it or just jarred. Surprise, for sure. Yeah. And then I was like, and then I didn't think about it once after the first quarter.

Yeah, but it was that, the OPI, the OPI and the OPI and. And the scorebug was the dominant 50 minutes. And by the way, when it's cancer, do you're going to show up? And the answer was they didn't show up. 1029 on Sports Talk, 790. What were your observations of the game? And a question I have on the daily quiz, which will be something on my pre-show tweet. What did you do while the game was out of hand?

If you want to tell us, it could be cook, clean, take a shower, go to bed, change a channel, have relations, plant flowers. that'd be kind of weird. In the middle night? But I mean, I want to know. How did y'all kill the time? Not kill time, but how did you spend the rest of your evening once the thing was a dud? It was pretty much a dud at halftime.

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But shout out to Spags and all those guys over there. But we got A.J. Brown, Devante Smith, Dallas Goddard, Jalen Hurts, Shahan Dotson. We got the super team and we got the job done. Sequin Barclay was languishing with the Giants, unloved, unwanted, didn't get the money he wanted. Said, trade me biatch and Eagle stupidly traded him to an individual, individual opponent. and he won the freaking Super Bowl. What trade made turn out worse? The Luca Donch's trade from Dallas to Los Angeles

or the Sequin Barclay move from Philadelphia to New York to Philadelphia. You're letting him go, man. Because they wanted to pay, what's his face? The quarterback, Daniel Jones. Remember we wanted him here in Houston? Joe Mixon was good, but Sequan Parkley would have been pretty nice. I'll accept Sequan. Sequan.

It's Sequan. I think it's Sequan. It's right. I would say Sequan. That's fine. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Seguan. I can't get the arena in Las Vegas name, right? And the Barclay family. I appreciate your people.

Yeah, the kids were cute on the post game set. I watched a little of that yesterday. And the Eagles are Super Bowl champs. How much would the Texans have lost to the Eagles by? About 40? Well, if you are obviously watching it through the Texans' glasses, you had to say the Texans offensive line would have basically gotten CJ murdered.

You just got to sit there and say, you know what? We're not in that league. How close are you? I'll tell you, and again, I'm not a Texans fan. You are. Do you feel further away from the title because of what you saw yesterday? Or no change.

It can be no change. I would say a little change. Feels a little further away. They're not anywhere close to the Eagles level. And the way that Jalen Hertz played, and that was going to be one of their big questions, question mark. So they're going to load up to stop the run. Can Jalen Hertz make enough plays to win this Super Bowl? The answer was yes. A resounding yes. He had protection. He scrambled a little

bit. He had a couple nice runs, in fact, very, very good. Yeah, and their offensive line is, I mean, all year long, you know, we went through the offensive line rankings, P.F. They had them in Lions basically won two every week. So they were, this is one of the best offensive lines in football. You get one of the best offensive lines in football, great weapons, a good quarterback, and the greatest running back in the league, things are going to go well. So the reality is this. If you're building a football team from scratch,

if you're overhauling it, you first of all, you've got to get the quarterback right. Yes. Which the Texans do. The Texans have it right. The offensive line has to be the second most important thing you attack address. Yes. And the Texans don't have that right right now.

No, they don't. So if you don't have the second most important thing right, you're not as close as you think you are. Right. The thing is, though, that every other, and we're doing, you know, a show, Matt, in Tampa Bay or Miami or wherever, they're all saying the same thing. Offensive line, offensive line, offensive line. And everybody knows that. But you've got to go out there and you've got to get it done.

And you've got to find the right pieces. You have to, first of all, to scout it properly. You got to draft it where it's supposed to be drafted. Yes. And then you have to maybe once in a while overpay to get somebody to leave the other team to come to your side. Yeah, but then of course there's cap implications with all of that And you still need weapons And you have to build a whole team

This is why it's hard This is why it's hard in a hard cap league Drew Scrogg was the second round pick Because Blood Fisher's second round pick Kenyon Green is a first round pick Yeah Ain't gotten it right yet

None of those guys are hits yet Yeah They could be I think Kenyon Green's I think we figured out his world I don't know if the ship sailed But it's in port Matt It's leaving pretty quick

Where's it going, by the way? It's going to Busville. I think it's headed to the golf. Is it Gulf of America or Gulf of Mexico? I'm kind of giving you a few years about that. I'm just going to Merz Rital Car, assistant manager. Those guys make decent money? Yeah, I guess.

Man, it's a busy business. Hey, you probably gets to take a car home, don't you? You probably get a car, don't you? Yeah. If you work for a car rental place and you're like, I'm not saying you're like the 40-hour-a-week shift worker, I'm talking about the manager. Don't you get plenty of choices?

Probably. I mean, you don't, I don't think you, literally sell every car every day so you can take some home fresh every day. If there's emergency, bring it back. Yeah. Take another one. Like Gary, if you ever gone to a rental car in your entire life and they literally have like the entire air, the pathway, the driveway is empty. Like no, you know, no, there have been cars where there's urine it and it's gone. Now that happens. I feel like half the time. Yeah, we have you for a midsize. We're out of those. Every, it's like every time. Can I give you the little secret here?

Here's what they do. And I'm not a. big fan of flying at night because you get in late and you you can have longer lines. But the later you fly into a city and rent a car, the better chances you're going to get a car better than what you paid for. So what they're going to do is they're going to say, okay, because you're going to be renting a car for us. Yeah, when are we getting in a West Palm? You're flying to Fort Lauderdale. I'll meet you there. So I'm hoping for a delay.

No, no, you get in an 8 o'clock at nights. You're going to be a prime spot. Okay. You get to 400 and 8 o'clock. Okay. You and I are driving, I believe we're going to compact because we don't, we hear at I heart, don't spend. significant money on travel expenses. There's two of us.

Compact's fine. It is fine. But that's the reason why I booked the compact. Yeah. It's because they're going to try to upsell you to a premium. And you're going to say, let's rehearse this. Okay. Hello, thank you, Mr. Villarral.

We appreciate you joining us here at XYZ. Thank you. I've got you in a compact here. Would you like to upgrade to a premium, maybe a little more space? Because you're a taller guy and maybe you've got some additional luggage. Would you like something like that? You know what? That sounds great.

How much? Let's do it. It'll be an additional 90s. $1999 per hour. Okay, I'm not paying for it. Let's go. No, you didn't do it that way. This is not, this is exactly what you're not. Oh, I'm glad we rehearsed this.

Yeah. Here's what you're supposed to say. Let me give me another take. Go ahead, try it. No, I will not do that. I am okay with the compact. So me being the disgruntled employee, he was trying to upsell you. Okay. Here's the SUV anyway.

Oh, thank you. That's the scam. Thank you, Kenyon. Why do you put Kenyon Green? It's a random name. Could have been anybody. No, it's not. Could have been anyone.

You could say Laramie. No, he's fine. You've seen that contract? I know. He's not working. He may own the dealerships, but he won't be running them out. Yeah, so that's the key. The later you go at night, the better shot you've got to getting a better car than what you purchased.

Wow. In this segment, we just broke down the Super Bowl and you gave rental car tips. Mm-hmm. So they call me travel empty. It would be a little travel whore empty. No, they didn't. You forgot a word. No, they didn't.

All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-a. Real quick, I put the quiz out today. When the Super Bowl became a blow on, I spent the rest of the night. People thought they were trying to answer my question. Like, what I did the rest of the night. And there's some rude people.

One, singing Elton John songs via karaoke in the Kingwood Castle. Might have happened. That could have happened. Wally says, Smalling, great name for America. Dre says, reviewing Taylor's prop bets. How'd they do? Well, I think she had the Eagles on the money line. No, she had the chiefs on the money line.

Did she? How do you know? Because I know. Because some certain people always send me every one of her posts. Who would that be? I got no names. I'm not going to name the nameless. I think I know who it is.

No. And maybe I don't know who it is. Is it not me? I don't send them to you very often. I've sent you some of her stuff. I mean, she was in Costa Rica this week, and she looked like she's had a good time. Costa Rica's lovely. But she didn't pay for that.

Probably not. She didn't go alone, did she? She probably got a sugar daddy. Oh, for sure. For sure. Good for her. I caught myself in a Sugar Daddy reel on Facebook. Oh, really?

This girl says one... Because she signed up for that website? This one girl says she makes $100,000 a month off of one sugar daddy. And she doesn't even like him. I'm calling BS on that whole thing. I mean, that's probably fair. Maybe somebody's doing that, but... There's not a...

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Matt and Ross returned. on Sports Talk 790. We will get into a deep dive conversation of the halftime act coming up in a little bit here about Tomas show Ross. It is 1049 on Sports Talk 790. This is your guy. This is the Not Like Us, the final blow in the Drake versus Kendrick Lamar beef. Now, how do you say it's a final blow?

Maybe they get back after it. It's been since June. and they were coming out with songs like every week. And Drake's already filed lawsuits. Multiple. Now, my son is a huge Drake fan. He despised the halftime yesterday. Well, stay with it.

We'll talk about it. Drake fans would. Yeah. All right, so we'll get to that coming up in a little bit here. Let's talk to some people, the great citizens of Houston, Texas, that have decided to spend a little time with us. And for that, we thank you. 713212-5-79.

7-13-212-5-790. Grant is in Katie on the Matt Thomas show, Ross Grant, it's Matt and Ross. Thank you for holding and good morning to you. Good morning. I just want to talk about the Super Bowl. You know, that was not the best of games I've ever seen. That's my best of luck. Yeah, a bit of a blowout, Grant.

Yeah, and especially with a sports meeting, that was abysmal, honestly. Would you have the under? So who did well yesterday when it, I mean, everything, all the Philadelphia is superlatives, right? Philly and over. Sequin went under. Hurts went over. Shoot. And then I took first touchdown, Jalen Hurts.

Oh, and John Dawson stepped out the one yard line and drove me out. That was nice. That was an easy call, by the way. By the way, how does that side judge miss that? That took one small replay to notice that he was a full half yard or a yard short of the end zone. That's the thing of the NFL. They can't get their replay stuff together, it seems like. No, they actually, that replay helped it out. The on-field guys couldn't get it right. They're also supposed to be the absolute best officials of the best officials this year.

And it was well short. So what they do is, and I know this is the mechanics of it here, the side judge did not raise his hands at the very last second. He kind of went around, looked around, and said, eh, why not? Put the hands up. But it was wrong. Maybe he knows if he does that, it'll be reviewed. That's exactly what he did because all touchdowns are reviewed. So that meant an automatic review.

you. And the sports book, the betting, the points for it was like, you know, one and a half. And it went down to 0.5 a half at the kickoff. And I was like, ooh, I got Philly locked in at plus one and a half. I like that. And then, you know, what was it, what was it, what was it, 40 to 22 or 40 to 6? I don't know what it was. Yeah, 40 to 22, yeah. Yeah, exactly. And then it's just like, we can't ever get a good Super Bowl. It seems like at this rate. We've had some. Last year's is really good. I thought I was going to say, thank you, Grant, for the phone call. I appreciate listening. I feel like we've had more good ones and bad ones

the last decade. Yeah, the Bucking, and then the Chiefs have been blown out twice. I was actually looking at pulling this up. I wonder what the point differential. Pat Mahal probably has like an even point differential on Super Bowls now. But last year, yeah, last year was literally overtime. And the year before that, the Chiefs beat the Eagles like in the last drive of the game. Year before that, Rams beat the, yeah, it was close.

We had like four close ones in a row. Well, three close ones in a row. And it's been beat down. Yeah. And by the way, we were talking about, talking about commercials a little bit. Yeah. We as Texans,

the state of residents of the state, we have to insist on sports gambling because you couldn't go a minute and a half into any sort of broadcast, whether it was the Super Bowl pregame, the game itself, the commercials, the endless hours of pregame programming on a variety of networks without

something in terms of gambling being a part of the mix. It would be like saying everybody in America can drink beer and drink liquor and have all sorts of good stuff, but we here in Texas, you know, we know that you drink it, but we're not going to let you do it legally. Marijuana is like that. It's legal some places and not others. Yeah, that's true. That's true. It is absolutely

ridiculous that as popular sports as sports is, with the amount of gambling that is now associated to, and it's in such a mainstream conversation piece that we here in Texas cannot get it done legally. And I'm talking about the good old-fashioned legally, download an app, bet on the game. Now we have various sponsors allow us to do things on fantasy, on prop bets. It's not the same. But it's not the same. Strictly betting the game itself, we cannot legally do in the state and it's it's a it's it's frankly an injustice because again if you don't like to gamble or you have a philosophical difference against gambling no one's forcing you to do it but how so many other

states in this country allow you to do it legally and responsibly and again everybody's got an addiction issues i mean we sell beer and wine we have addicts and that yeah i it's readily available i do feel like there could be there there might be a little bit of an oversaturation with these sports books because a lot of these sports books too if you turn out to be a sharp player they'll just cut you off completely

and that means they're just looking for gambling addicts and people to prey on which I don't like. I like having the option I want the option. But you just said right there is that the reason why I know you know the answer this. That's not the reason why we don't have gambling in this state

is for the sharps. No. I'm just talking about in general terms. Not in this state. In this state it's because of the casinos. the casino owners that are in Louisiana and or

will mostly go home I've heard, right? No, I think there are some people in elected government positions that are still opposed to it. If you buy enough politicians, you can do anything. If that's the case, and we should be buying off guys a long time ago. That's very apparent.

But I mean, if you can't figure it out that if you go to a casino in Lake Charles, Shreveport, or at the Louisiana on the Oklahoma, Texas border that's not completely filled with Texans, then you're just stupid.

You are turning a blind eye to something that now I'm not saying the majority, but a large group of people in this state enjoy doing. Yes. And it's your responsibility to keep it under control. Now, I'm not placing

the blame on the state. I'm not placing the blame on the companies that are the casinos that run these things. Just give us option. I don't like cigarette smoking. I think it's dangerous for you. I've never done it myself. But if people want to use cigarettes, go for it.

Knock it out. Knock it out. Knock it out. Down a pack of marble reds. That's my right as an American. Yeah. Or Paul Malls, Ultrly 100s? I don't know if those are going to exist anymore. They probably are. I'm just throwing that out there. I like that. All right. Let's go to Philip in Pearland at 1057 on 790. Philip, good morning.

Good morning. Man, Ross. You know, you guys have heard about the idea that this Monday be designated a national holiday, haven't you? Yes. Yeah. I mean, I think that, you know, I think that's a real, that's a really good idea that, you know, I think they might do that. As far as the game went, I don't know. It just looked to me, I don't know, that, you know, the look at the chiefs was like they were really

happy and laid back like it was just going to be given to them. I don't know. Like right before the kickoff. But the Eagles, man, they all looked really intense and focused. And it was an interesting game.

My problem with the halftime is I couldn't understand the lyrics. I haven't turned on closed captioning and it, you know, he speaks so fast. I never thought about that. But Philip, but Philip, But, Philip, you're not the demographic.

Philip, I don't mean to ask you, but I'm going to ask you. How old are you? 67. Yeah, they're not looking for a 67-year-olds to enjoy the halftime, but just not. I don't know if you want to be offended by that, but I'm just dealing the realities. Well, I like Creed and, you know, Snoop Dogg is interesting. Also, I do think it was poorly mixed. It was kind of hard to use.

People were saying there was a lot of issues with the sound of it. I think I watched the replay on YouTube that the NFL put up. It sounded way better. I think there was a mixing issue. You could hear Samuel L. Jackson just fine. That's true. Yeah, I would like to, we'll save this for the next hour. We'll discuss it.

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Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Your Super Bowl champions are the Philadelphia Eagles. Your three-time AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs. I did see some Texans fans Rossi on the Twitter streets going, man, now the Chiefs are vulnerable now. We're going to get them now. We'll be back in that spot next year, taking over.

You had your shot, and it really was clear who the better team in that game was. Yeah. I don't think if Travis Kelsey retires all the sudden. sudden the chefs become some of this second-rate team. Xavier Worthy, second half of the season started to emerge as a number one wide receiver. Excellent. Now, I think it's their ground game going of any sort. Mahomes needs a better off.

They're going to work on offensive line. Yes. I mean, when you are a late first round pick, it's a good spot to go ripe to get that offensive line to fix things. And Andy Reese still probably one of the five greatest offensive minds in the history of the NFL. Yeah, he's pretty good. Steve Spagnola is one of the five best defensive minds. Nobody's hiring them off. It's perfect.

The reality is this. The Chiefs sucked for one day. This is the rest of it. If they play this game next week, the Chiefs could have won the game. I didn't, I watched that game, and maybe you saw it differently. As credit of the Eagles,

they put an insane pass rush on a very average offensive line at best. They took an average offensive line, they made them look woeful. because I haven't seen that kind of pressure on Mahomes to the extent where he couldn't get out of it. Now, he's his great escapeability, but he was sacked.

I felt like every other play. And sometimes two times on a particular drive. Yeah, he was running for his life. And actually, the Super Bowl they lost to the Buccaneers was the same way. Both of their tackles got hurt in the championship game. And that Buccaneers defense just ran rough shot through it. They had no shot. So do I?

think that if they played 10 times in 10 weeks that the chiefs would win more than the Eagles, no. I'll give the Eagle six. But I'll give the Eagles six. Maybe seven? Could be. That's six. But Philadelphia just was better in just about every single thing.

Even their kicker, is it Elliot? Is that his name is? Jake Elliott. Jake Elliott. Who was like, oh, he's got a suspect leg. He was bombing the bad boys yesterday. That's why you want the Super Bowl indoors. And in front of the show,

Braden Mann had one big punt in the game. He did. He wasn't too busy after that. He wasn't necessarily needed. He wasn't needed. He was a silent MVP. Do you think he even took a shower after the game? I would say yes.

Did you see the long cooler of beer that was sent to the clock room after the game yesterday? Mudmite. I don't spend money with us. So screw them. No, actually I do. Wish matter, Schmexler. Well, they don't spend with us. So they aren't getting the run.

Oh, you know what? I'm going to do it because I support the money. The A team. Bloodlight, ice cold and refreshing. It's fine. It's a mid. All right. So back to it. Oh, they just played really well. It was a dominant performance against an excellent football team. I don't come away going, Kansas City was flukish getting there.

I just don't. I think it just fell off if you play better. Yes. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Now to the big debate. Connor, you must jump on this as well. So let me do some preface.

They call me Mr. Preface. They call me Mr. Preface Thomas. As you and I have teased about Kendrick Lamar many, many times before he was even announced as the Super Bowl Act. It's not my cup of tea. It's not my genre. I'm not as demographic. I have no interest in learning anything about him. I have no interest in learning their lyrics because I can.

couldn't figure out what the word he was saying. I'm not a hip-hop guy. It's not me. But it's you. Yeah. It's also millions of others of people. But there was also millions of other people that just don't, are either Drake guys. Hated it.

Or Jay Cole fans, or both. Or both is the case of my oldest boy. Yes. And there's also large generation. segment of population that doesn't like hip hop yes so the pick Jay Z heads up the pick

was curious in the first place I was surprised when Kendrick Lamar was chosen I love Kendrick Lamar as an artist but he's not the most mainstream rapper ever and as was evidenced by the way that he went about his show

he also doesn't care about being mainstream and doing things and fall in line, right? To a lot of people, this is like the biggest honor ever. I got to play all my hits. I got to make sure everybody likes it. And that's how usually you get selected for this is because you can appeal to the

widest audience possible. Some people think that Jay-Z had such hate for Drake. They've had beef over the years. And the young money. So they've had so much beef that Jay- Money is that beef with them? Yeah, young money, you know, Lil Wayne. Sure. And the people over there. So they're like, Jay-Z's doing this really to kind of turn

the screws on Drake. Rather that being a really good popular pick and then that's kind of what happened with the show. So did you watch the whole show? Absolutely 100% of it. Okay, so to me, Kendrick Lamar is an artist. So there was a lot of art happening there. Were there any

motifs, themes, things you picked up on that he was trying to... And I mean this in all sincerity. Give to the audience? I couldn't pick up on anything. Okay. First of all, it was impossible to understand the lyrics. It was poorly mixed. I didn't understand the Samuel

Jackson mode to it. There was a woman out there that eventually sang for a little bit too. I don't know who that was. Cizza is it was a guest. Okay. So the Sam Jackson thing, did you hear what he was saying? Not really. Okay.

At the beginning, there was a loading screen, right? And it said loading, it's a game. And then at the very beginning, Sam Jackson says, are you ready to play the American game? Okay. And so what the game is, and what Kendrick has talked about his entire career, is playing mainstream pop,

hits and doing pop rap or staying true to yourself in the streets and being a kid from Like doesn't he do his own version of a Taylor Swift song? Of, uh... Well, he's on a, he does a guess verse. Is it bad blood? Yes, that's exactly right.

Okay. That's my wife, my daughter told me that. Yeah. But a lot, like, for example, his album that came out a couple years are called Miss Morrell. It didn't have a lot of pop hits. People hated it. Some of these early stuff as well. And that's what Sam Jackson is talking about. Playing the American game. When he did his first couple of songs,

he started, Kendrick Lamar started his Super Bowl set with a song that has not even leaked yet doing the beginning of that. You just don't do that. It's an unreleased song. You come out there and you play your hits, right? Kendrick said F that. I'm not going to do that.

I'm playing an unreleased song and then he followed it up with one of his recent songs. And then Sam Jackson comes on and he scolds him. He says, you're not playing the game. You got to play the game. And then there also was the dancers They were making an American flag

They were making it split It's the split dichotomy Of America Having some people like it Some not liking it So that's what it whole Uncle Sam, he came out and said I was Uncle Sam like America

Okay, you gotta come out here You gotta play the game You gotta play your hits And then Kendrick Lamar He played a couple of his hits When Sizzah came out What the song you're hearing now Luther

And then at that point Sam Jack was like All right, you're playing the game You're doing it right This is what we want to see And then he played the disc songs and that's when he played

one of the disc songs you saw where it said okay the lights in the background did you see at the end it said game over yes I did see that in the middle when he played the first disc song it said warning wrong way like hey don't play these dis songs don't do this street stuff

go out there and play the pop hits and play to the mainstream and this whole set was Kendrick Milara saying I'm not going to do that I'm going to do a little bit of it because that's what he's done throughout his career so really this is kind of apparent this whole set was kind of a parallel of his career. And also, if you notice,

did you see the street lights on the? Yes. Okay. He's taking the streets to the Super Bowl. That's what the street lights were, in my opinion. Now, this is my interpretation. That's fine, because I didn't think of it. You obviously following him and were really intent of seeing it. Yeah. I just, and this is

a God's honest truth, I sat in front of my television to say, hey, can I catch something that I thought was interesting and appealing to me? And because I couldn't understand any of it. It just went over my hand. But it wasn't for me, and I understand that.

I'm just saying, why does Jay-Z get to run who the Super Bowl hacked is? Does the NFL give him that opportunity? He's been doing it for a few years now. It just feels like to me that was so many hundreds of millions of people you got. Look, first of all, it's impossible

to find somebody that reaches every demographic. I mean, I guess Taylor would reach every demographic. But even male hard rock people don't like to i mean there's she got booed yesterday in the superdome before the game and i love us because of eagle fans it's just it's just made me too hard to find somebody that generationally everybody loves i just thought it was a very curious pick and while i appreciate your explanation i don't need an explanation about my halftime act i wanted to sit back and

relax for 20 minutes that's why kindrick that's why it was a square peg in a round hole Kendrick is more an artist and we've talked about this. He's more about art and artistry and sending a message than he is necessarily about going out there and dancing and waving his hands and doing a bunch of pop hits. That's what he's talked about his whole career.

That's what he talked about in this set and that was the message. That was the whole Uncle Sam message and the whole game thing in the background. That's perfectly, I thought it was perfectly played in that way. Now the sound mixing, now some of the song choices, that was his song choice. he did play Humble, which is one of his bigger hits.

Yeah. And the sound mixing was horrible. You could, it was hard to understand him. I don't know what they were doing. Like I said, I went and saw the one on YouTube. Okay, so your love of him, knowing what you love, one out of ten, grade the score, give it a score. Eight.

Okay. I'm going to give it an N-A, not applicable. He could have gone. Because I, there was no way I was going to enjoy it. Let's do it another way. If he could have gone all 10, all the way pop, fun songs, he probably went to like a two. he did this for himself.

And that's kind of what he's been talking about. If you listen to his albums and his career interviews and stuff like that, he's like, I don't care about anybody. He's won a Pulitzer. He's won 22 Grammys. He didn't have to do anything for anybody. And he just did that at the Super Bowl. It's pretty crazy, actually. All right. Connor, we got about 30 seconds.

What do you got? What do you think of it? I mean, right, yeah, Ross put it together pretty nicely. Everything Kendrick did in his set and his songs was intentional. I just don't think people were looking for more entertainment and not like an art show. or... Yeah, I mean, I don't think

Ross and you and I had fun debates about this. I don't think you need for a halftime show to be a message sender. You are 15 minutes to have some fun and loose. It's a Super Bowl.

I don't think you necessarily need to have a voyage through somebody's philosophies about art in... I mean, it would be like, hell, I don't know. Yeah, it wasn't...

But that's the... It would be like Bruce Springsteen playing songs to talk about his distaste for Donald Trump. Or a Bob Dylan coming up and playing protest songs. He's kind of like that. And no, yeah, he wasn't supposed to be in this sphere. He's not this type of artist.

And he did, he just said bleep it. And I love that. And he also, I didn't know, I didn't think he was going to play not like us. There was a big lawsuit from Drake. It was basically like a cease and desist. Drake tried to stop him from playing that song in the Super Bowl. And he hinted at it a couple times in the set. They want me to play their favorite song, but you know how they like to

Sue. And he did Euphoria, which I didn't think he was going to do. That's like a straight up gangster rap diss song. And he did that at the freaking Super Bowl. And then he did not like us with the whole stadium singing A minor. That was insane. So I really liked it.

But like I said, I understand it ain't for everybody. That's like I'm a huge, it's like if you're a huge, I don't know, like we said, Bob Dylan or whatever. And he goes out and plays the hits, then I'm going to love it. So I understand it wasn't everyone, but I liked it

a lot. All right. Back on the phones we go Roger and Brian. Brian says he was at the game yesterday. Hmm. He was. Cool. He must know people. 1116 on Sports Talk 790. The Matt Thomas show with Ross continues on

Sports Talk 790. We have to tell the truth coming up at 1130 today. It's our Monday to get together. I will have four sports takes boys. Sports takes, not facts. but opinions of mine and you'll only believe one of them

is you okay with that? So Ross, three of the four you believe? I do not believe. You do not believe? One I believe. And I'll make sure we go over that once again with you. One of the four I believe

the other three I do not. That's coming up in about 10 minutes from now. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Let's go to Brian was supposed to be on my screen here. take a look and try this again. We've got a great engineering here at the company.

Let's go to Brian, who was the game. Brian, first of all, how did you get to the game? No, not like literally, but how did you get a ticket? And once you tell us how that happened,

how was the entire event for you? Well, to be honest, I didn't get a ticket. I was there in a working capacity. And Ross, you know what I do on the side. So that's why I was there.

But it was fun. It was awesome to be there. I had a prime location where my position was I was actually at the back of the Eagles end zone so I can actually see everything they were getting ready to do for the halftime show like the number of pieces and people to put that together

just the stage and the whole setup was impressive there had to be 300 people that put all that together between the camera and the boom lifts and everybody bringing out all the stuff but inside the stadium it had to probably be a 70 30 split Eagles fans. And it was very loud. I don't know. I haven't watched the TV broadcast of it, but

it was really loud, and I think the Eagles getting up early. I think they kind of hit the Chiefs in the mouth. The Chiefs have never really experienced from a really good team like that. Most of the time that punched him in the mouth and just kept coming at them.

And you can feel it last night in the stadium that the Chiefs just had no answer for what was going on. And hey, all kudos. But yeah, I agree. Chiefs could easily win that game on any other given day. This isn't all the Chiefs are over. They're done. Break up

the Dynasty. But all credit to the Eagles, they played well. Jalen Hurts. So glad to see the Houston boy doing well. But that atmosphere last night in there was pretty neat. For having never been to a Super Bowl,

that was really cool in that building last night. And the Eagles fans, for all the crap and that they gave they were really humble last night and they were really happy to uh to win that title and i'm sure they uh tore down bourbon street pretty well last night uh good show guys and i haven't actually seen the a sstra i can't wait for everybody to report this week and we can actually get uh some baseball kicked off here soon agreed on that thank you guys thank you for the phone call by the way we will be uh ross and are going to florida one week from uh tomorrow Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, which will be the 18th, 19th, and 20th.

The Matt Thomas show Ross goes to West Palm Beach for a handful of days. Wow. Unbelievable. It's not unbelievable at all. It's just already here. That's unbelievable. It's around the corner of it. We've gone before.

And Bregman hadn't even signed yet. We don't even have an update. Got feeling. You want to do a gut feeling on a Monday? When we talk to Dana Brown next week, which I imagine we'll get him on, will Bregman be signed. Yes. I say yes too, but I've been saying this for weeks.

Where? No clue. Yeah, I don't know. Not Houston. But what if Houston's the best offer that's out there? Wow. There is a report. I saw it on the 4-U and I should have kept it.

That the Cubs are offering three years. Three years without doubts, right? Yeah. No one's giving him the seven, first of all, the seven-year bid is a done deal. And I think maybe one. Maybe. No, I think it's definitely done to you. He's got six, he's got six from the Astros and he keeps turning it down.

Yeah. So he wouldn't turn down a seven. If it was out there, he probably would have taken it. I mean, it's seven with not as much money as he wants. Yeah, the 175 number isn't around at this point. Scott Boris. Brian Lehm was talking about this today on the Sean Sosbury show. And you and I have debated about this quite a bit.

if you're a top seven, not even top ten, top seven player in the sport, you want the super long mega deal, big of dollars, big long contracts, you're going to get it. You're also the top seven,

you're not getting it. Mookie bets got it. There's more than 10, 7, 10 guys on big contracts. I'm talking about for the future. I'm talking about 2025 and beyond. for the phone Okay I

Kyle Tucker ain't getting it Getting what Mega deal We got or he got a bet on it I know He's getting a mega deal He's 26 or 7 or whatever Good deal

I'm sorry He's 27 or 28 maybe Not that it makes a big difference Actually It makes a big difference actually Yeah Okay actually he's 28 He'll be 29

That actually helps me Well I think the I think the line we said is good. Seven and a half is our line. Yeah, seven and a stuff is our line. I think it's a good line. He ain't getting an eight-year deal. What's our current bet? I think it's, no, fast, casual lunch.

We're going to have to up that. Okay. Stick dinner? Now, I should actually wait for him to actually play for the Cubs before I say these things. Well, it could happen to both of us. If he gets hurt, I lose. If he has a great season, you lose. It's more likely that he, I mean, it's harder to have a great season. So you want to keep it fast? casual. What do you want to up it to? Sit down place? Sit down. Sit down lunch? We don't have, well, we got it too. First of all, you're gone the entire year.

This is the first time I've seen you since a happy new year, by the way. It's the first time I've seen you. Happy New Year as well, yes. Yeah. Mookie, Soto, Otani, Trout back in the day. I listen to Lima said this morning. I think he's right. I think I think the super mega deals, unless you are a top seven, top eight. I mean, I don't know how far you want to go down. the list. It's not there anymore. Roger with us at 1127. Hi, Roger. Good afternoon, Matt. Hey, yeah, I don't like living vicariously through any team because, you know, as a Houston

sports fan, you know, we have our issues, but I, that's pretty much of a gratifying win of those ever saw without being my actual team beating their ass because, you know, I don't think you've ever seen another team to go through 12-1-score games. in one season and win. So I just thought they finally got exposed. They're not frauds by any means, and we still got to get through them in the AFC, believe it or not, we still got to get through them next year and beyond. But that was pretty gratifying to see.

And, you know, I just hoped that the Texans can get a kind of a blueprint from the Eagles as to you get some big hogs up front, man. If you want to keep CJ, you know, not throwing those toe burners. Like, you know, it takes a little bit of pressure at those three quarters, and, man, Mahomes is a different quarterback. So you can imagine what C.J. Stroud went through, you know, with that crappy offensive line, and to get 10 wins out of it, it was pretty amazing in itself. But, you know, I just think that the Texans think just a little piece of that group

for the Eagles have, because their defense is there. Their defense is fine. You know, I just wish they, you know, maybe take a little bit of notice on how the Eagles did it. and, you know, make it their own, of course. And that's it, Matt. It's all I had. I made wings and hot poppers and fajita nachos for the Super Bowl. All grilled, all smoke.

Wow. Wow, that's got some good little dinner right there. Where was the invite? I don't know. We didn't get that invite. I wouldn't have gone, but I mean. Not me either. I mean, I love you, Roger.

I was happy to stay home. Oh, my God. I have been traveling so much. I had a game yesterday. I had a rocket's game yesterday. It couldn't even rest on Super Bowl Sunday. At least it was a pretty and fun game. game, right? Hey, it was a win. It was a must

win. Okay. It was the ugliest win of the year. 1130. Let's play to tell the truth next. Rossi and Connor are going to figure out which of the four takes I actually believe. 713. 212.5. 790. 4 on Sports Talk, 790. I have

four sports takes, and I have a lot of sports takes, but not all the best. I get it. Can't always agree with everything I say. People getting mad at me on Twitter. I have this douche. Fight with me on Twitter yesterday for absolutely no reason. I'm just telling you, you just... I'm sorry, man.

And then when I go back at you, you go, oh, you're so soft, man. You know what? Your soft-ass bitch is what you are. See whatever your name is. He goes, you're going to block me. I said, no, I'm going to block it. I'm going to continue to make fun of you. And then he'll follow me on Twitter.

I'm like, I win, Vyach. Suck it. Get him, Matt. Seriously. Twitter beast at SportsMT. All right, four takes. Connor, how many of these four takes do I believe? One.

Okay. Ross, four sports takes. Yes. How many do I believe? One. Okay. Connor, we got this straight here so he knows. Okay.

Even if it's a wrong, bad take. Correct. It was last week and several other weeks. Well, I really didn't think that the Jimmy Butler thing was going to happen. I really didn't. That's okay. It was a take. It wasn't like it was a prediction.

It was just a take. All right. Ross, you are right. Kendrick Lamar was, I would say three quarters of America didn't like it. Okay. I think Jay Z or whome was in charge of it, we need a rock band that next year's Super Bowl

in Santa Clara, California. Just a good old-fashioned rock band. Now, the band that Adam Clinton is pushing for, apparently I think Metallica is from the Bay Area. I don't think you should regionalize it to where the person is from. It's a nice little anecdotal thing. I mean, they have wide appeal if you're in. thrash metal.

Yeah. I'm not a Metallica guy either, so I would have the same feeling towards Metallica that I would against Kendrick Lamar. Now, would I know some more Metallica songs, probably? I mean, it's compared to Zero

to Kendrick Lamar. Yeah, sure. So, one. Metallica, I respect Metallica. I don't know my jam, but I respect them. I think the NFL needs

a mainstream, good old-fashioned rock and roll band for next year. To kind of change the vibe of what the hell was that yesterday? Okay. Number two, the Dallas Mavericks general manager, Nico Harrison, is going to be and should be fired at the end of this season. Especially when now word coming out that Anthony Davis has an abductor injury and it's going to be out several weeks.

Non-contact. He didn't even play the full game against the Rockets on Saturday. He was dominating before he did that. That's the Anthony Davis story. He's really good until he can't. That game was the Anthony Davis story. He was great and then he got hurt. Attendance is part of the great. Just is. Okay, I'm sorry. Nico Harrison should be or will be fired? We'll be fired.

Okay. I think public sentiment is going to crush him, especially the fact that AD misses some time. Number three, speaking of firing, Alex Bremen needs to fire Scott Boris. Ooh. I think Scott was blowing smoke up

Alex's ass, unfortunately. Do you know that Yahoo Sports has their fantasy baseball listings out for fantasy numbers? Now again, this is just a bunch of of jabrones that are picking up, you know, how certain players are going to do. Yeah, their projections.

The projections. Like everybody has got him. Yes. Alex, Bregman should be the 10th different third baseman picked up. He's 10th in terms of, yeah, because you get no defensive value in fantasy. No, it's all about offense. Yeah. So if he's the 10th better, best offense.

But the reality is, if you want to go a glove. But the reality is, if you're the 10th best, you're not the year to be a right free agent looking to make major money. if you're the 10th best offensive producer. Christian Walker, I went and looked at him. Yes, seventh among American League first baseball. Wow. So that should give you a little pause for hope.

That's a premium offensive position as well. Yeah. Yeah. So Alex Bregman, you got some terrible advice from Scott Borris. You got up. Is this a rotissory or points league, Matt? I don't know. I just looked it up. I was the headline. I'm just blessed with you.

And number four, next year the Super Bowl is going to be in Santa Clara in California. Yes. It's outside. I think the NFL, Roger Goodell should say, if you want to host a Super Bowl, you must have a roof on your stadium. I don't think you want any sort of weather elements to play a role in the most important game of your season. So I'm sorry Tampa. I'm sorry Miami.

I'm sorry. Who else would be an outdoor facility? Amongst Atlanta's closed. Charlotte has never had one. San Francisco is going to have one next year. San Francisco, hope you enjoy it. You're not getting another one. All future stadium Super Bowls should be in indoor facilities.

Okay. So let me give me the four recap. You guys figure out which one of the four I'm telling the truth on. One, we need a rock band, a mainstream rock band at Nature's Super Bowl. Number two, Nico Harrison should be fired as the coach of the Mavericks, the general manager of the Mavericks after making this deal. He won't last a season. Addox Breggman should fire Scott Boris, and all future Super Bowls should be indoors. Which one of the four am I telling you the truth? How are we feeling, Connor? You know what I always make you go first? You want me to go first? I'm struggling because I don't know if he believes any of these. Actually, this is one of the better list that's put together. I agree. Normally, he butcher's him. I feel like you're making fun of me right in front of me. It doesn't feel nice.

Would you ever I do it to your back of your face? If I go, if I go leave the room and then you do it. Normally, I'm complimenting you. Thank you. I said this is a good list. It's so rare. And normally they're horrible. Anyways, I don't think he believes the last.

two. To me, it's the first two. You think... No, okay, hold on. No, number one, let me ask you. He's still going to get fired? Nico Harrison. Okay, let me ask this. I'm sorry. You say a rock band needs to be at the Super Bowl

or a rock band will be at the Super Bowl. Needs to be. Needs to be. I think that the... It's an important distinction. Negative backlash off of Kendrick Lamar yesterday. There was plenty. Yeah, I would say...

You say 70, 30. I think it was more 60-40. But again, depends on who you're watching and looking at on social media. So whatever. I struggle with that one because Matt might actually believe that there needs to be, but whether he thinks there actually will be a rock band? No, it will be. It's a prediction.

I'm telling you that if Roger Goodell called me and say, what do you want next year, I would say, Raj. I wouldn't call Roger called Raj. We need a mainstream rock band at the Super Bowl. That's my take. If you believe, I think number one is to take. I'll go with one then. I was going to sit down and lean towards one.

I was, and now I'm between one to four, but I'm going to go one. Y'all ready? Yes. Okay. They're playing more games in Miami. There's no roof on it. Miami, yeah. They're going to play a lot of games in dome stadiums,

but they're not going to require a dome stadium. Santa Clara should be fine, too. I don't know, early February and San Francisco can get kind of chilly. Put a jacket on. They're going to play in Tampa again, too. Yeah. The warm weather, the Florida cities are going to get their run. Jacksonville will make, if they ever get a new stadium there,

they'll get a Super Bowl too. They get a new stadium in London and there'll be over there. Will there be a dome there? Is there a stadiums domed there? They should be. They'd have domed once, yes. Okay, but the point being is... I think New Wembley is...

You're going to see a lot of dome stadiums coming up, but I don't think it's a requirement. It rains all the time in London. They need dome. Number three, Alex Bregman is not going to fire Scott Boris. I don't think so either. He had to know that he had to take a chance on this, that Scott was going to be a ruthless negotiator.

And sometimes you win, sometimes he just. lose. Breggman, I mean, Boris not had the last good couple of years, but Scott Boris has a decades of track record to getting the most money for his clients. So, even though I think that Alex perhaps overestimated his value,

he's not firing Scott. So it comes down on the final two. I almost went with two. Nico Harrison's not going to get fired. Oh! Because the owner had to sign off on this. There's no way that the ownership of the Dallas Mavericks would freely send

their franchise player away under any circumstance unless without the phone call and a seal of approval from ownership. So Nico Harrison may eventually lose his job, but it won't be the end of this year and shouldn't be fired at the end of this year. They got to say how this thing plays out.

We're going to need a mainstream rock band at the Super Bowl next year to level things out. I'm not saying that hip-hop can't be a part of the Super Bowl in the future. But I think this year, as expected, Rossi got a lot of negative backlash because of the unfamiliarity of who Kendrick Lamar was the theme to it, hip hop in general.

The reality is, I think we're going to need somebody of, and I'm not saying metallic is it, but it's going to be probably. And you know what? You may even go on the medley of people, right? You'll go back to a bunch of people. What was it, like cold play, and then Beyonce and Bruno Mars came out? Yeah. But I'm going to go on and say, I think it's going to be a real rock and roll band next year. My thought was they need to go rock and roll. And that's my to tell the treats of boys. Congratulations. You both got it right. Thank you, Matt. Good job, Connor. Thanks, Ross. The news at noon is coming up in about 15 minutes. It is.

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Now on Sports Talk 790 We have the news at noon coming up At about 11 minutes from now We'll give you details We'll have a little Philadelphia freedom to open up the noon hour We'll get to the headlines of the day And we will chime into some other things But largely about the Super Bowl

I'll tell you this And I think I I'm just like everybody else. If the game isn't great and on the edge of your seat, you wind up talking to your buddies a little bit more. You wind up getting in your phone a little bit. I didn't pay much attention to the commercials yesterday. I can't even,

I remember the one with Eugene Levy's eyebrows flying off. I can't even remember that. There was, I actually watched a little bit. The SEAL one was terrible. That was creepy. Yeah. I don't think SEAL was a lot to come out and play and have regular stuff.

What do you mean? A little bit of a checkered past. Does he not? Does he? What happened? I mean, besides sleeping with Heidi Klune for 20 years. Wasn't there something about... Maybe I'm mixing up my stars.

Something about some young relationships. I mean, I honestly don't know. Okay, we'll skip past that. I actually watch a Today show today, today. And they went to the top three. They said the number three... The first two, I don't really even remember the number three was interesting.

It was when they were playing pickleball and they were playing for a bolter beer. Oh, yeah. Yeah, which nobody does. I saw her a tweet. It was funny. Thank you, Matt. I had you muted before.

That's okay. By the way, you crushed me for saying something about the officials. Yeah. And you thought I was bit stealing from you. I really didn't see that. I know you didn't. But you made me feel bad. Oh, you did?

I was just messing with you. Yeah, but it hurt. It's all in funny, really? Because, I mean, let me tell you something. There are people bits stealing me constantly. You're supposed to say great minds think alike is what you're supposed to say, Matt. I actually put long, sorry, long muted. That's okay.

That's what I went with. But point being is I just, it's nice that Philadelphia, one, because we don't have to hear about the official crap anymore. Yeah. And that was like, we both agree. That was the right call with the first one. I'm talking about in general. I mean, yeah, the first call.

So I just. And I made a joke about the officiating. And one dufist thought I was being serious about it. Oh, okay, yeah. It's very good. That's the guy you got Twitter beef with, right? Yeah, yeah. You guys are beefing hard now.

No, he's, he wanted me to, he thought I was going to block him. I'm like, I'm not blocking you. I'm going to mute you. And he thought, oh, muting is way worse than blocking. Why is it way worse? Because he's an idiot. I send everyone into Mute land. I hate to tell you this, but not everybody that lives in Houston, Texas are smart people.

Yeah. We have dumb ones here in Houston. Like they're dumb ones everywhere in the country. Have you been on these roads, Matt? Yeah. I have conversation with some of these people. Apparently on Twitter as well. That's true.

I saw he follows and I'm like, but some surprise you follow these people. I'm not surprised, actually. Interesting. So, yeah, but I didn't really spend a whole lot of time catching commercials. I did, however, watch that show

the, I don't know, the Rob Lo game show after. The floor? The floor. How was it? Let's get the game show review from the game show expert.

It was okay. The gameplay itself wasn't bad. Yeah. But the rules about who you go against, what your specialty is, and how the floor is determined, it was kind of confusing. See, now isn't that one of the keys to a great game show? It's kind of easy to understand. That's what I'm saying. If you have to go into a deep dive of how to play the game, you lose me.

So half the game is really easy. It's like going to GameNet with your friends? You're like, I don't know what's happening here. Yeah. But half of the game is really fun and interesting. Okay. And the other half was very confusing. But I actually watched more of it.

Now, somebody, Greg Rajan, who writes for The Chronicle, one of their editors, was like, remember when used to have these great TV shows that would be debuted? Yes. Like, the Wonder Years debuted after a Super Bowl back in the late 80s. That was a time of the classic. for me. This is us debuted after a Super Bowl before on NBC. Now that's, again, that's not in

your will house. Finn requested me or whatever? What about that one? No, that show sucked. Wasn't that one on there? You love that show. No, that show sucked. I never watched one episode and you hated it.

Like that one in Bob Hart's Abashola. That show was a mess too. Okay. I'll take your word for it. It's interesting that somebody at Fox said, hey, let's put a game show on. Right after the Super Bowl.

Now, again, the average person is going to turn the television up, but not everybody does. I would have put on a ridiculously awesome show that I thought was going to be one that could be generational that could be on for a nice long run. It's compared to one of these high-tech game shows. Yeah, I'm trying to find out a list of shows that came out after the... There's got to be a list.

Unless he came on after the Super Bowl? Is that right? In 1967. That's crazy. Did you guys already say The Voice? Oh, on NBC, huh? Yeah, okay. They debuted after the Super Bowl.

That's what I'm saying, not that I'm in charge of television programming, but I would think you'd want to put on something that you think is going to be. And maybe the Fox folks think the voice, I mean, the floor is going to be one of this 10-year game show thing. Maybe. And Rob Lowe, I mean, fairly popular, especially with the younger crowd. Well, when he was younger. Oh, they went straight to the Olympics in 2022. The Equalizer, I remember that, the Masked Singer.

Oh. This is us, like you mentioned. Yeah. Brooklyn 9-9. Oh, but Matt Fox is a bad idea. But it's the Masked singer the biggest embarrassing show on television today. It's ridiculous. It's basically a bunch of weirdos.

Connor Lovett? No, I'm just saying it's pretty popular. I know, but so is. Well, so are the Kardashians. It doesn't make a great quality television. The Office, Gray's Anatomy, the Simpsons. It's been a lot of big ones after the Super Bowl. X-Files back in the day.

Did John Laracette show, 94? Oh, how'd that go? I didn't last the season. I mean, seriously, if you don't rate, if you don't... Airwolf in 1984. Airwolf? That's Clinton's favorite show. This is, believe it or not?

Or are we going to do Eagles? It's up to you. It's actually pretty good. We've got two hours. Yeah, we say Air Wolf, 1984. Let's do this. Listen, we're going to, we're going to see people listen to the show. We're going to, did this show debut after a Super Bowl?

Lassie, 67 is a believe it? Airwolf 84 is I believe it. And let's do a knot here. Let's give you help. Let's give you nine. We've got to write these down now. Let's give you Friends 95. Okay.

What if it's true, though? I've got to make sure. You better check it out. All right. The news at noon is coming up next. The big headlines today plus a little Philadelphia Freedom as the Eagles celebrate another Super Bowl title. And Pat Mahomes said the two losses in the last handful of years have heard as much as the big wins. Do you believe them?

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Houston, Texans. Hugh Stent, Texans. That what it is? Is that the only, I don't know. Okay. Got to get ready. I'm going to give my battle red folks and figure it out. My battle red peeps.

Maybe they need a traveling Texans meeting. I think they haven't tweeted in a while. Yeah, they're probably getting their shots and stuff. What do you mean? I mean, they probably have some disease. Yeah, a little bit of that. Okay. Lessy D action, maybe.

It happens. You never know. Hey, you're going to go out in the rain. You got to wear your rubber boots, Matt. We're putting that in a shirt, too. I like, I feel like I'm working with Gump sometimes. Forest Gump? Yeah.

Well, stupid is. It's a stupid does, Matt. Yeah. Remember that blank happens and then he wipes them out on his shirt? Yes. I don't mean to give way a spoiler. Come on, man. That plus Jenny was a whore, but that's a different issue for a different

Spoilers from 1994. I know. 1206. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got a Super Bowl champion. We've got NFL fatigue now or non-fatig. You know what it was? My wife thought it was weird that I was talking about chief's fatigue yesterday.

Why? She's like, do you really think there is? She's fatigue? I said, absolutely there is. I think there is. But she's not feeling it. No, she's not because. Is she like a pro-Taylor, then pro-thus?

No, the family was pro-chiefs because of Pat Mahomes. The only reason for it. Oh, okay. I mean, everybody in the house, Carly went to a, party. My son, my oldest went to a party. He had to work, actually. They're all wearing my home stuff. They're pat my homes fans. Okay. So that naturally is going

to gravitate towards the team he plays for. I didn't care one way or the other. I was wanting a great game and I didn't get it. I don't think America got it. And if you're, Philadelphia fan, you loved every minute of it. Like for instance, when the Rockets won their championship

in 95, it was 4-0. They beat the magic, right? Yes. We loved it. Oh, yeah, we didn't care. 80% of America's like, this is a four-game sweep. Nick Anderson, Bricks, free throws, this is not fine. Yeah, when you're a fan,

you want four 40-point sweeps. Yeah. Philly doesn't care. When the Astros won the 97 World Series, that game 7, which was anti-climactic, 2017. 2017. Yeah.

With President Trump at the time. It was a game 7. Yeah, but it was a lousy game 7. One of the greatest games anyone's ever seen. Jeff Luno. Did a great job of skippering. Yeah. That wasn't a great game.

We loved it, though. No, we didn't care. Yeah. But it had no drama to it. No. 2020 had some drama. Oh, for sure. For sure.

But you have a feeling of what the game is if you got a local team involved in it, that you're going to love it a lot more than America did. And I think America largely, and we all watch, because there's nothing else on. You know what I normally have done in the past, which didn't do yesterday? I didn't flip around to see what else was on. Now, one of the TVs in my house at 530, we didn't have turned on. We turned it on.

It was on Channel 2. And Lester Holt was doing a Sunday night newscast. That's the main news anchor on NBC. I'm thinking, man, why are you working on a Sunday first and foremost? Second, well, you're wasting your time. Lester's out there grinding. Maybe he is.

You're making big money. You're going to work six days. I'm sure he's doing fine. Yeah. I mean, he's going to go in there and read what somebody wrote for him is all I got to do. Not doing it live. Well, not everybody can do it, Matt. That's true.

Anchorman had an issue. Yes, he did. But yeah, I didn't, do you flip around to say what else was on? No. What did the SPN have on during the game? Fox had great. The Fox 4K picture was great, by the way. Yeah.

Normally it's like, eh. But I thought it was really, it was captivating to me anyways. I mean, if you're a non-football fan on sports fan, Lifetime was right up your alley because you could watch all your show, your HDTV, your Bravo. They didn't have to change your programming. The puppy bowl on? I don't think there was.

Bo, did you catch in this Eli versus Payton kicking thing? I didn't watch it at all the fiender thing. Yeah. I think I saw it on, I saw it on either Twitter or maybe YouTube or something. I think it was the, the kicking. The kicking event was live. And they had some commercials that were pre-done to determine who the winner was. I think I saw it after it was done.

Yeah. Which, Peyton Manning doinked one. which is pretty incredible. And Eli kicked it right through. Yes. You know why Eli did that? He's mad he didn't get in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Well, he didn't deserve it.

By the way, speaking of that, so they announced the people in the Super Bowl that were going to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Everybody but Sterling Sharp was there. And that was confusing to me. Where was he? I don't know if there was, I have not found out if there was a reason for his not,

being there, but you get your first opportunity to wave to the crowd going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I mean, I hope he's not sick. Maybe he was busy. Maybe somebody with the family, I don't know, I have not Googled it up, but it was just, it was odd to me that he was not there.

He was the only one of the group that's going into the hall. And I guess the hall is going in with a very small group. Yeah, there's only four, right? Right. And he was not one of them. I just wondering if he was doing, because he was mad about something or whatever the case may be. but he was not

at the event last night I saw the video when his brother told him he was the one he was making it into the Hall of Fame Did he go skip He was in disbelly No he didn't say

Skip skip skip skip My brother's going to the Hall of Fame Hey Shannon Ersterlin did you see in that video I put out a few months ago She Shee Uncle Shee Shee No

He's with his brother It was a great moment They tear up Hug Yeah they hug I think Shannon was tearing up More than Sterling If I ever get to the

Texas Radio Hall of Fame. Will you come to the door, knocking my door and say, Matt, you got in? You want me to be the one to tell you? That would be awesome. Okay. Now, let's get you voted. Can you pay my dues so I can nominate you? So basically, all it takes is you just paying dues to get to this thing and making this out.

I can only nominate you if I pay you dues. I don't know if you're going to win. All right. So anybody that's listening, that's a Texas Radio Hall of Fame wants to pay the dues for Ross to nominate me. I can't. You can afford it. You can afford it. That'd be a conflict of interest.

No, it's not. Why? How did Ross get in? Matt paid for it. No, no. You get it. We're getting you in. Oh, I see. Okay. The Hall of Fame.

You got a shout to. You've been in the business over a decade. Okay. I've seen who they've honored the last few years. It won't be that difficult. I'm not worried about it. Me either. I'm worried about paycheck to paycheck. Line.

713-212-7-0 if you want to join our conversation. 7-1-3-2-5-7-9. I put out a question. I'm putting this in the pre-show tweet, Ross. I don't see how this is going to go. Mm-hmm. And my pre-show tweet. tweet, which was earlier today, was

what did you do once the game got out of hand? Meaning, how did you spend the rest of your night? And let's see what people had to say. Tiffany says, I spent the rest of the night watching the football game. Good for you, Tiffany. I watched the whole game too. Bato says,

I spent the rest of the night enjoying KC. self-destruction. Hmm. All right. Then, when people thought they were trying to answer what I did the rest of the night. They go, Dre says, reviewing Taylor's prop bets.

I bet you were. I did not see how she did. When we get a recap from you, Matt? How about tomorrow when she puts out her next tweet? She'll tell us how she did. I'm good. Plus, if she's in Costa Rica, I may make sure she, you know,

people were concerned about her tan line. Did you notice that? No, I didn't notice. All right. Let's see here. Yeah, just a lot of stuff about what I was doing. And then Pollard's Vision comes in and says, the Texans promoted an offensive line coach

would be the new head O line coach. How does that improve an horrible O line? Make zero sense. Maybe that young assistant coach was being hampered by the old guy that was around, not the old guy, but the guy was in front of him. Yeah. Now Mr. Cole Popovich can flex his muscles.

Yeah, Cole's like, I really want to do it this way. And then the guy's like, no, no, we're going to do the old school way. Yeah, but I can make Kendrick Green a much better place. No, you can't. He sucks. Maybe Nick Cayley will be a better fit with the offensive line personnel, man. That's what people are thinking. So you have a first-time O-line coach and a first-time offensive coordinator. First time, play. I play caller.

Play-call, right. Calling the Texans offense. We'll be breaking it down. Constant this guys in the next five, six months. Jimmy's and Joe's matter better more than X's and O's. So get some players and these guys will be smart enough to get them in good position to win. You ready for some draft talk? Absolutely.

Every day? Hours of it? Hours of it? I'm ready. We got spring training first. I'm actually not ready. Got rockets. I'm getting ready.

You know we forgot to do? No. We'll do it next. The news at noon. Oh. It is such a... Yeah. You're thrown off from being here.

That could be accurate. The news at 1220 is up next. That's a good segment. News at noon-ish. Yeah, noon is. Our news around noon. 713-212-5-790. I got to be honest with you.

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if you're putting people together for the upcoming NCAA basketball tournament or just watching us a day of basketball at the house. It's big city wings and big citywings.com. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal. Sports Talk 790. You know, sometimes the timing of the show is my fault, and in this particular case, it is. 100% my fault. It's the news at 1220.

Here's Ross. All right, Matt, yes. Of course, what is going to be the top headline of the day? Well, that would be what happened yesterday. The Super Bowl is the Eagles destroyed Padma Holmes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Six team sacks for the Philadelphia Eagles. harassing Patrick Mahomes into a... Why is he Irish?

Oh, Patrick Mahomes. What a lovely lad he is. A couple of interceptions. He did have three touchdowns and did go over on his total with that bomb to Xavier Worthy late. But a lot of that coming in garbage time, Sequan Barclay largely...

Sequan. Barclay, bottled up by the Philadelphia Eagles. But Jalen Hertz dared to do his thing and he did 221 yards. Did have the bad pick, but also a couple of couple of touchdowns. Eagles thrash the Chiefs, 40 to 22, and it wasn't even that close. Any thought of giving the MVP award to one of the two or three defensive players for the Eagles? That's the real MVP. That's just not how it really goes. I mean, maybe you want to go with

Josh Sweat or somebody else. I would have to have sacks for him. I would have to go through, look through pressure numbers and stuff like that. You want to do that? You want to keep it simple, which they do. Right. Just give it to the quarterback. I got you. He threw two touchdowns. He looked He was really good. That's fine. They were averse MVP to me who really cost, well, probably the Chief's offensive line, but Pat Mahomes was not good.

Here's what he had to say about his turnovers. Obviously, the turnovers hurt, and I mean, I take all the blame for that. I mean, just those early turnovers swing the momentum of the game, and then they capitalized on them, and they scored on the one, and then they got a touchdown immediately after. So that's 14 points that I kind of gave them,

and it's hard to come back from that in the Super Bowl. That's kind of been the story. a lot of the playoffs, man, even though the Eagles are the better team than the Chiefs, they're not 18 points worse. No. Did Vegas get this wrong? Or was it just a good old fashion? The Eagles showed up and played significantly

harder than Kansas City. I think they had the wrong favorite. But I also think it was really close and I also think that what rang true throughout the playoffs, the team that took care of the ball best won most of these playoff games. And that's just what it comes down to. Yep.

But again, and Ross and I brought this up hour ago. If the Eagles and the Chiefs played 10 times, maybe Eagles win six, but I wonder like the Chiefs couldn't have beat the Eagles yesterday. If they would have made adjustments to their offensive line, kept an, maybe an extra running back in staying in to allow Pat to have a little bit more time. I thought the blitz pick up yesterday by Sequin Barclay for Jalen Hurts was a big part of the reason why he was able to see downfield more so than Patrick Mahomes was. Yeah. So the Eagles playing better on both sides of the ball, getting the victory. In the Super Bowl, Matt, where the halftime performance, Kendrick Lamar, a nation divided on how well he did.

You did not care for the show, correct, Matt? But I wasn't going to like it regardless. It wasn't because he was going to surprise me. It's just not what I would have wanted to watch. I mean, for instance, if you took me to an art museum, like going to an art museum to me sounds like the most boring thing on God's green earth. There's no way I'd go to a art museum and go, oh, this picture of Picasso. choking up. I wasn't going to love.

I wasn't going to hate it. I was completely indifferent to it. I watched it because of your benefit. It was confusing. It was impossible to understand. The mix wasn't good. I didn't understand the storyline. You did a very good job of explaining what the storyline was.

Just let's give me some rock and roll next year. That's all I ask. I think you're probably going to get it. We'll see. But it will be up to Jay Z's decision. By the way, a museum of modern art in Houston. A lot of great stuff. I'm sorry.

Arts in Houston and the Manila collection also has some good stuff. The last museum I went to that I actually enjoyed, the World War Museum in New Orleans. I went to the Oh, the World War Museum was great and I also went to the Museum of Modern Art in New Orleans, which was great. They had

a lot of stuff that I didn't think they were going to have. Yeah, I can only do one museum per New Orleans trip the rest time. I'm usually at... I can do all museums. At Reesers. Table limits get high in New Orleans, Matt. I wonder what it was. Did you see, did you see Burbin Street the night before the game?

Apparently it was pretty crazy. Packed. You couldn't move. I mean, thank God nothing happened in terms of crowd control issues, but I'll say this, and not that I look at a lot of pictures of Bourbon Street on on Randall Knight, but it looked like to me of all the photos I've ever seen about Bourbon Street, it was the most packed I'd ever seen it.

Yeah, that just does not appeal to me. No. I love Bourbon Street, and I'll go there usually on regular, like I wouldn't go, I've never been to on a party grotto. Marty Grail, Super Bowl, New Year's. I mean, I was in New Orleans for New Year's, but we went to a private party.

It was different. Anyways, what are we talking about? News and noon? How about, let's get some Matt Thomas voice in here. How about two highlights? I won. Okay. Jalen with a lob to Joc Landell,

giving it back to Jalen. Shock Clock at 5. Crossover, straight on, step back, three. And for the first time, the Rockets have a double-digit lead. 86, 76. Jalen was 15. All right, you have to play the, Jeff Green highlight.

Which one? There can't be that many. Jeff Green doesn't play that much. Jeff Monster Jam? Sounds good. Why are we just inundating people with highlights? Here's Shepard across midcourt. Hands at the Jeff.

Screen by Reed. How about this? Jeff down the heart of the lane! Where am I? We're watching 24-year-old Jeff Greed. 14 for the contest. And obviously the big part of that highlight was the Reed Shepard screen to allow Jeff Green to go down the heart of the lane.

Reed Shepard with all of team. points. 0 for 3 from 3. Rockets doing just enough to defeat the Raptors to snap their 6 game losing streak. 94 to 87. No, it's not 1998, Matt. It's 2025. It was a must win for me. It was an ugly, ugly

game. Dylan Brooks with 19 doing just enough. Jalen Green had 18. And how about Jack Landau with a double double? Alper and Shingoon only playing three minutes in this one, leaving the game with back spasm issues. You were already down Stephen Adams with an ankle injury.

Down Tari Isan managing his injury. Jowari Smith Jr. with the hand injury. Fred Van Fleet with his ankle injury. Rockets are road weary and beat up but got the victory, Matt. And I tell you, EMA is like, can you give me six minutes tonight? I'm like, for what? We were running. They were running about as a man.

I thought you're usually two to three. Well, I could have gone six for him. 1228. Connor McGovern. Go ahead and write that down for us. That's terrible. I don't know if he's paying a six. attention. Hopefully he is. I need a thumbs up.

No, he didn't see. He didn't hear it. Thank God. We'll hear that one on Friday. Elsewhere, Matt, NFL news over the weekend. Aaron Rogers no longer going to be a New York jet. That's the right decision. You got to move on. First of all, he was never mobile to begin with, but he could run a little bit.

He had some escapeability. Now he's got no escapeability, and he could make throws off his back foot as good as he could when he steps into his throw. The back foot throws because pressure came or like pop flies. I think he can get on with a team, but I certainly wouldn't build a football team around him.

I think Aaron Rogers can find himself back in a football team if someone gets hurt between, say, now and the start of the preseason. Other than that, why would you want a 41-year-old who just doesn't have much left from the fastball? He just doesn't. Hall of Fame career, one of the all-time greats. But they were... First ballot, Hall of the Hall of the... Famer. Oh, he is.

I agree. He is. He's just really weird, too. Mm-hmm. And that's your news at noon. Okay. Ish. That's fine. Again, it's on me for messing that up. 1230 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

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Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. 1234 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are with you till 2 o'clock this afternoon. 713-212-5-790. Believe it or not, today is highly Googledable. We've already discussed the topic on the show earlier today. So you have no excuses.

Connor, what are we playing for, and believe it or not, today? We got a, the prize vault is abundant with prizes. Yeah, we got a four pack of tickets to Mardi Gras Galveston and then a pair of tickets to Brooks and Dunn, not the Houston Rodeo. Marty Grasden? It's fine. All right.

I've been. I mean, Marty, I would say, it's a third best place for Mardi Gras in the country. Okay, number one's New Orleans. Two, Mobile. The home place, the birthplace of Mardi Gras. Now, what about laughing?

Now, Maddie. Come on now, baby. I don't want to go to Copeland's and get some fried food and you charge a lot of money. I've been to Marty growing Lafayette. It's nice. I've been to Colvin's. It's nice and more family friendly. And Lafayette?

Mm-hmm. They have gambling there? I don't believe so. They got gumbo, though. Oh, quite delicious. Denver's got gumbo. I mean... Oh, stop.

Is it better in Lafayette or Denver? They got the rouge there, what they call it? Rue. Rue, whatever. Yeah. Mixed. Made with, of course, the Holy Trinity. of Creole cooking.

That sounds like a... Celery, onion, bell pepper. Let's go get some... Let's get some gumbo off for the show today. Good. Let's go. It's too warm for gumbo, though. Like two weeks ago, it was perfect for gumbo.

Oh, it was perfect. Yeah. That's always a good time for gumbo, man. God, we were in Minneapolis. We left yesterday. It was 10 degrees. Hmm. I think to myself again,

what the hell was I thinking? I have a stupid question. Please. How do they keep, like, ice and stuff off the plains when it's just 10 degrees? The icing. Yeah, they just like, what does that even entail? They put like a, it's like a blue solution on there. Okay, do not mark this.

Uh-oh. It's a blue fluid that's sprayed all over the place on the plane. And it melts the ice. Yes. And they do that before you take off. Yes. Okay, I told you it was a stupid question. Now, as long, if there's no precipitation, you can, like, we left the other day, where do we go?

It was like 30 and we left and we didn't have to de ice. I can't remember where it was. Actually, I don't think we de-ice to Minneapolis either. The only time you have to worry about icing is if there's any precipitation in the air. Okay. If it's just cold, cold, it's fine. It's fine.

You've never been on a plane that's been de-ice before? I don't think so. That's really weird because you've been in northern... I don't fly that much, but yeah. But you've been in northern venues. Yeah. What they do is they have these huge trucks, and it's just this long white pipe

and they just spray the whole plane, and usually the wings. But these are ones are getting on the plane. God, this is awful. I didn't mean to set this up. You set this up. I really did not. I swear. You set all this up.

No. And look, I have people that are listening right now that have been on planes. I'm describing it accurately. Yeah, I'm sure you are. I just don't fly as much as you do. Yeah. But it's a little bit of a pain in the ass because you have to wait. And then you realize, well, it's probably going to save our lives.

It's probably a good thing. I'm okay with it. You can take an extra few minutes. So, yeah. But normally you have to have some sort of precipitation in order for it. So if it's like 15 or 20 or 20. degrees you can do it but if there's any water accumulation that adds with the cold it ice is over and that's when they want to take care of that a lot of it was because of a plane crash back in the early

80s and ironically enough national airport in dc they didn't know about de-icing or didn't de-ice the plane and that's when they decided to find this formula that would help him take care of it so wow thank you aviation is true with matt thomas it's morbid i'm going to dc this friday to matter of fact i'm a little creeped out about wizards uh no my daughter's got a volleyball tournament. No Wizards. It's all-star break. I thought they already played the Wizards. It's All-Star Break. Real quick on the NBA.

Anthony Davis kicks the ass, Rockets' ass for a half, right? Yes. And then it's hurt. He had the ab injury, I think, is what he recently had when he was training, right? And no one touched him as he got hurt again. That's worrisome.

A doctor. A-D-D-U-C-T-O-R. A-ductor I really don't feel a lot of sympathy for Mazz fans. I kind of almost do. So let me tell you about Saturday. So Saturday we leave the hotel at 1130. Games at 2 o'clock. And we're driving in our hotel from the arena is probably no more than 10 minutes. There were about 30 or 40 people out there with signs.

Yes. You know. The protest. The protest. We get in the building. I do all my pregame stuff I've got to do. and I had some friends of mine that were out in the arena

and they were on the concourse and they were shooting. It got to a fairly large number of people out there. Now, what are those people came in the arena to watch the Rockets by the Mavericks? I don't know. Because AD got a very strong applause when he was announced.

And when he was first put on the jumbo tron as he came out for warmups, he was well received as well. And then he has this awesome first quarter. He was dominating. I'm here. I'm here. Don't forget about me. I'm here.

Yeah, he was... We're like, we know you're here. And then third quarter, he's not returning due to a stomach issue. We know you're not here because you're not here in the training room. Poor Mavs fans. You're like, you know what?

Maybe this isn't so bad. Adi is dominating. And he's hurt. By the way, Luca? I think I saw this on... Sidelined for up to a month, by the way. The latest on Anthony Davis. God almighty.

Street-closed Davis is what Chuck calls him. Chuck calls him that. So Luca, I think, did himself a solid for Los Angeles. Here it is. He is giving $500,000 to the Los Angeles area for recovery for people's homes that have lost in the fires. Who is that? Luca did. Oh, really?

They're going to love him there. Well, hopefully not the millionaire people that lost their homes. Let me read it to you. It's been so sad to learn more about the damage to the wildfires since I landed in L.A. I can't believe it and I feel for the kids who've lost their homeschools and places where they used to play with their friends. Today, my foundation is donating $500,000 to immediate, to immediate. Mediate, is that right? Mediate?

Yeah, mediate recovery efforts. I am also committed to helping rebuild courts, playgrounds, and fields that were destroyed because every little kid needs a safe place to play. To everyone effectively affected by these fires, we're here to help now. and for the long haul, your new neighbor, Luca. Oh, that's very nice. They're going to retire his damn jersey already. 77? Well, I mean, I'm sure it was available.

Yeah. So if he ever tones up a little bit, like he's got, he never had muscle definition to begin with. No, he's always been. Doey. But if he gives a damn about his body and stops a bitching about officiating, he's going to win the, he's going to have the Lakers win more titles. You understand this? It troubles me.

This is really interesting. Because I always think about, you know, not always, but you think about if things could have broken a different way, what if the Mavericks don't trade him and sign him to a Supermax and he never learns to get in shape and he never cares? What if this kind of rattles his cage enough to where he says, you know what, maybe I need to get a better shape? And he works with LeBron who's 40 years old and works out like a madman. Yeah. And this makes him better than he ever would have been as a Maverick. Because he's a top fire player when he's Doey.

Imagine when he's not Doey, how good he could be. Because look, doy players, guys that are out of shit. Have soft tissue injuries. Yes. It's not by accident. And he was breaking down in the finals last year. Yeah. Did Nico Harrison unleash that beast? Did he make him even better?

But Nico Harrison damned if you do, damned if you don't, if you do keep him, maybe they would have the problems that they did. If you're, look, you got a chance to get, like, you know, like, There's like a handful of in-and-ounce in Dallas. You got one like every street corner in LA. It would be fine. They got Del Taco, too. Let me tell you something about Del Taco.

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So with a game being kind of lousy, kind of not kind of, It was definitely less. You were trying to find other things. Commercials didn't really hit home. I mean, I know some people really enjoyed them. Some were like, you know what, game's not good. I'm going to just, like I had it all on the television, but I was doing other things when the game got out of the hand.

I thought Tom Brady, for me, he's going out of his way to rip officials. And that was something that he never wanted to do as a player because he wanted the officials on his side. But I wonder if somebody put a bug in his ear and said, hey, don't be a fence-setter on this. Don't have a strong take about this. Yeah, but he's not supposed to be able to criticize the officials.

He's not. That is a big no-no. So that's why I'm saying I'm kind of curious as to... Is there some kind of relaxing of the rules? Well, you know, he got to speak to the coaches and players this week. He's never done that before because the NFL said you can't do that. Now the NFL's like, okay, you can go there and talk to it. I think maybe, yeah, the rules, you can let the rules go, probably in the playoffs, as long as the Raiders aren't in.

and certainly the Super Bowl. I mean, there's no advantage they're going to gain being in a meeting with the chiefs and learning about practice or how they practice this week as opposed to how is that going to affect them next year. Yeah, the reality to me is that probably they're going to have some flexibility with this because Tom is the number one analyst on one of the broadcast networks. He's going to be there. And if you believe what everybody else has been saying from Fox and from Brady's camp, that Tom Brady's going to finish out this contract because the money is crazy.

but yet Ross for a guy that owns just a sliver of the writers he was intimately involved in Pete Carroll's hiring he was interviewing people most guys that have a minority stake in the NFL franchise aren't involved in the day-to-day operations of it they're just doing it because they want to have it

most guys don't have seven Super Bowl rings but you know what I'm saying though I mean that's why the NFL and it's funny because Tom Brady did admit I think he was on Colin Coward's show that he said, look, I have to call a Goodell all the time. Am I doing okay? I'm just okay. Am I able to say this?

And so he has a direct link. And if you're Roger Goodell, you're taking Tom Brady's phone call about this. So it is a bizarre situation. I still, and I will fall on my sword on this, I think Tom Brady's thirst for running a football team, I mean, really making the most important things will be something that he's going to still strive for. And I still don't think he's going to finish out the contrary.

I think if he takes any more of a leadership role within an NFL team, whether it be the Raiders or some other team, the other owners are going to say, enough's enough. I can't have an owner in a broadcast booth talking about other players on their teams. Because Tom Brady, if he is a lot in those interview rooms and you got a quarterback who is unhappy that wants to test for agency or wants to be traded, Tom's like, man, we can certainly use you in L.A. I'm going to talk about just quarterback. I'm talking about any position. LV.

Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Yeah, I think it feels like this is just kind of there only going to allow him to do. this when Fox has the Super Bowl. That's my gut feeling on that. That feels about right. Sometimes the game is so big you have to have the,

because I mean, you have to be as prepared for that game as you have to be prepared for any broadcast in your life. Because every single thing you're going to say is going to be judge and evaluated. And the person hates him most, it's probably his Fox teammate Greg Olson, who said I should be doing the game.

Greg Olson hates Tom Brady more than anyone on this planet. Trying to be polite about it, but it's just not going to. He's like, you took my job. I got a downgrade. Instead of doing the big games at 325, you know, commanders versus cowboys, Packers versus Rams,

I'm doing Panthers Saints at 12. Yeah, by the way, Fox doesn't get another one until 2029. So they just rotate with ABC, CBS, NBC. Which all the way, all of the way, all of these paired with streaming networks. NBC Peacock, Yeah. ESPN, ESPN Plus.

Right. CBS Paramount Plus. And Fox and Tooby had the game last night. What is Tooby? I've heard of it. It's a free streaming service. But it's everything. So let's say you want to watch a movie and it's only on Tobey.

You can watch the movie, but it's going to have ads. Okay. But it's free. Yes. I just don't know. Are there people? And it's owned by Fox. Okay.

Which I just found out. Are there groups of people that are not, that have cord cut? So let's take that group. The money that you're saving from the cord cut. But you're buying Amazon. You're buying Netflix. Yes. You're buying Paramount Plus.

Peacock. You're buying Peacock. You're buying Disney Plus slash ESPN Plus. Hulu. That's six, right? Six networks. Ridiculous. So if I take the six networks,

Mm-hmm. Am I really saving that much money over just having the old channels? No. What happened is people said these cable prices are too big, too good, or I'm sorry, too high. I'm going to cut my cable. And the networks all said, we're going to get on my channels. money one way or the other. We're going to get it one way or the other. Because

what I just described, you can watch everything you want off of just those six channels. I hate when you're looking for a movie. Oh, well, we forgot about Max. We forgot about Max. Yeah, we even know about Max, which is Warner Brother Turner. Yeah, yeah. So if you want to watch

the NCAA tournament, I'm assuming that's got to be Max, right? You can do it on Max, yes. It's insane. It's too much. Now, I will say this. it is a nice benefit for those of us that travel a lot to be able to get on our phones and watch whatever we want off of those channels. And through my direct TFE subscription,

I do get to see things on CBS NBC on their general app. But like if a special show is on Paramount Plus, I have to wait. I don't have, I don't pay for Paramount Plus. It's very confusing. It's too much.

It's ridiculous and it's annoying. But let me ask you this. Even though it's annoying, you are still paying what, what each one of those networks? About $14, $15 a month, basically? Depending, yeah. Peacock's less. So let's say you spent, you bought five networks a month. Let's say you were a Amazon Prime person, you are a ESPN plus person, and you are a peacock person.

You're spending 50 bucks. That's one meal when you're going on. I mean, do you, are we, I know everything adds up. But if disposable income is going to give you 30 days of your favorite TV shows and your sports events and your ability to watch it on remote, is it, I know it's painful, but is it really game changer to say, I'll go without seeing it? Because if you wanted the Super Bowl yesterday, you figured out a way to watch the game, whether you went to your friend's house, you went to a big city wings or another bar. You went to Tubey. You went to Tubey. Antenna.

You went to your antenna. Or you watch on your phone because you were traveling. Or illegal streaming, which is big. Yeah, but a lot of porn ads show up. Yeah, so you get distracted? I would think so, yeah. After you spend $200 on the live streaming lady? I've got to be honest with you.

I've looked at a bunch of games on illegal streams. There are 50 pop-ups. I'm popped up free. I'm tired of the pop-ups. Okay. That's what you got to pay up. Pop-up or pay-up, Maddie? You know what?

They got me. They absolutely got me, Rossi. I'm paying up. I'm tired of the pop-ups. Especially I'm afraid they're going to, like, put viruses on my computer and stuff. I don't need that. Yeah, don't download anything. Oh, God, no.

Don't ever click anything on those pop-ups, Matt. Thank you very much. That's today's Ross's sage advice. Yes. All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90. Our friend Nietziel's going to come in. Is he cord-cutting or is he trying to cut the cord back?

I wonder, remember ten years ago, Ross, everybody was cord-cutting and was so braggadoches about it. Are we now coming back saying, you know what? I'm off the grid. I'm cord cutting. Hey, can you get me your password to the ESPN Plus? I'm trying to watch this game. That's how it always was with me. Everybody I knew there was a cord cutting, like within two months,

we're asking me for my passwords. Feels about right. So you're basically just being cheap. Yeah. If you're bragging about cord cutting, you're just a cheap bastard. Maybe they're reading more books. Nope.

No. What books are you reading these days? Which is the last book you read? I'm still reading that Jim Thorpe book. Okay, I have... It's like 600 pages. I got one episode left of the Jerry Springer, um,

uh, Netflix documentary and then I'm going on to the OJ Simpson one. Apparently that was fantastic. Next I'll be reading that book they wrote about dream last year. Hakeem the Dream. Oh, really? I like I'm reading any books. I'll like it to you afterwards.

I'm good. 1258, final hour. We got, uh, in 50 minutes, believe it or not today, highly Googled about a topic we just talked about earlier in the show. So if you listen to the show earlier, you have already been set up and locked and loaded. 1258, sports talk. 7-9.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. We're down to one hour on this show. We call the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We thank you very much for spending part of your day with us. We want you to spend all four. We've got to figure out something to take care of those that are listening to us at least 15 hours per week. Wouldn't that be nice that we could do something?

We'll figure out. Okay. But I want to do like, you know how when you fly a particular airline you get like points? I like that. Like we need a frequent listener club. How do you have them collect tokens? I don't know. We're going to think about this.

We need to brainstorm. Maybe we'll get you some rocket tickets or something. I mean, I want to be something nice. Let's do that. Because I think that, you know, we need to be, you know, I want to take care of those in the radio business they call them P1s that don't ever change the dial. I want to take care of you guys. B1, which means preset 1.

Yeah. Which I never knew that until I was in the business for like 10 years. Well, there should be a radio station in Dallas, still as they called all their their main list they call them P1s. What do we call our listeners? Everybody has a nickname for their listeners.

Smarter than other stations listeners? Day drunks? That's fine. I mean, again, you could drink during my show. I don't have in problem with that. Just don't drive. Yeah, that's true. Stay safe out there, folks.

Unlike Pat Mahomes' father. What happened with him? He's had multiple DUIs. Ooh. Speaking of that, a current news reporter in town has a second DUI. Hmm. By Isaiah Mary.

Okay. You know that is? I do. Okay. I've met that person and it was, uh, he was very nice. And he put a nice, long message out, so that I got to change my life and good for him. Yeah, just, I don't care what you drink. Just don't drive.

Sometimes when, yeah, you haven't, I don't know that he has an issue. I don't know him personally or anything, but sometimes you got to get your cage rattled. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And hopefully there's a wake-up, a wake-up call. And hopefully you didn't hear anybody, which it sounds like he did not. Okay.

Okay. All right. All right. Um, Super Bowl in 49. We got, so it's not 49. 59. 59. We're at 60 next year?

60. Super Bowl 6th. Santa Clara, California. I got news for you. All these stations brag about going to radio they ain't going next year. First of all, the guest lists are horrendous as usual. Secondly, it's going to cost you five times

the amount of money to go. So these advertisers that you hoodwinked into spending money to send all the radio host to go to parties, they're not spending it. I want to go. It's a bunch of radio blowhard just talking about,

oh, this is why I did it? show today. What did you have a new show today? Oh, how did you... Got any work? No. We said true of the court. We had great guests on it. We didn't spend a dime going there. Well, Gordy did, but I think... I don't know if he paid it or not, but... He's hanging out with his broskeys, I think. Yeah, he did great. He got more guests than any other radio show in the marketplace, and he was by himself, too.

You're staying at Mee-Maw's house. I just made that up. It sounds like something you'd say in Louisiana. No, I think they call their grandparents by their first letter of their first name. Like I Grandma G. G Gladys. Oh, really? Granny G. What up G?

I don't think they say what up. What? It's New Orleans. Say, what up, baby G. What up, baby G. Yeah. Let me hold 20. See. Yeah. When we go with this? I don't know. Oh, we just had great guests. Gordy, shout out to Gordy for getting some really good guests. Chris Cordy. You had some great guests on Lockdowne SEC this week as well.

Did he really? Really like whom? I think so. He probably had some bunch of linemen when I never. heard of before. That's okay. I'm sure it was great stuff. And Gordi is going to be out in Florida for pitchers and catchers reporting Thursday and Friday. So he'll check in with us. Oh, wonderful. From West Palm Beach. He'll kind of advance our trip, which will be coming up a week from

tomorrow. Courtesy of Carbog Brewing and the Crawford Buck. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-7-90. Rockets win last night, ending their six-game losing streak. Thank God. It was a must-win necessary. Because let me tell you the reason why it was a must win. Here we go. you would have had amongst your seven losses in a row.

Two to Brooklyn and one to Toronto. You don't think that they would have been throwing hands in that rocket locker room if they lost that game? I think they would have been fine, but I would say if we were going to go to a must-win card, it would have been the one against Brooklyn that they lost. It choked hard.

It's terrible. Thanks for bringing it up. Sorry. It's terrible. Get the All-Star break here. They got two days off for the first time in like three weeks. I know. I get to hang with you.

I'm here all week. I know. Stunning. Then they immediately get put on a back-to-back right of the All-Star break. No rest for the weary, as they say. Well, I really do believe the NBA has got to fix the schedule a little bit. I think the long break in between.

Now, they do play two games after the tournament play in the end-season tournament. They're not on the schedule. But they play two games in like seven days. That gives them a little bit of an early break. But, man, it feels like to me the NBA has given us way more double-double- back-to-backs in years past. Rockets currently in the four-seed in the West, half game ahead of the Lakers,

three games ahead of the T-wolves. One game back of the Nuggets. And unfortunately, Memphis has won a lot of games. You want that three-spot. You're going to want that three-spot. I don't want the Thunder in a potential second-round series. We're getting way ahead of ourselves because we were talking about the meeting and making a playoffs.

We do get ahead of ourselves. Oklahoma City I don't want to say would be a choke job if they don't win the West but they beat everybody and they only beat everybody they beat him on the road they beat him at home they beat up people they went by 20 30 points did Chet Holngren come back yet

yes he did okay but he's not playing every night I know he's played at least once I don't know he's very limited brisley's the box score and I don't see him on here yeah okay all you're gonna do is so If they would play, if they're the three seed, let's say they would be the sixth would be Minnesota.

They could beat Minnesota in a seven-game series, I do believe. Yeah, you could beat the Grizz in a seven-game series. It's just to kick Anthony Edwards in the private party area. Well, yeah. They can beat Minnesota. It'd be a tough series. A lot of travel. And Grizz, they could beat Memphis.

That'd be a tough series. Yeah. They could be in the Western finals. Are you saying there's a chance? I'm telling you there's a chance. I like it. And maybe the Thunder, I don't know, all of the, them decided to walk the earth and become monks.

And Isaiah Hartinstein wants to foul five people in five minutes to play. Well, he's going to do that no matter what. And Shay Gilders-Alexander doesn't go the free throw line, 23 times a game. He's probably going to do that. That's true. And all the various Jalen Williams's, we're very good. Let me, real quick, before I go the phones. What happened?

When did we, when did today's, not today's? The moms in the, 22 years ago. Everybody is named Jalen. Jalen. There's a million Jailens in the NBA. I mean, I don't call an NBA game with either a Kentucky player or not in the roster or a Jalen on the floor. One minimum Jalen. And it's J-E-L-E-N.

Yes. J-A-L-I-N. There's a J-A-Y-L-E-N. There's a J-A-Y-L-N. I'm trying to think who 20 years ago was the most popular J-L-L-L-N? Ah. The first person with a prominent name Jailen says Google, Jalen Rose. J-E-L-E-N.

J-L-E-N. J-L-E-N. J-L-N-Rose's mother made that name up. That's what Google says. And now it's the most popular name in the NBA. Oh, that comes zero surprise to be. Wow. And it's for a play-by-play guy, it's a pain of the ass. It's a combination of James and Leonard. J-Lenn.

There was a guy for the Raptors yesterday named Jacoby Walter. Mm-hmm. in a in a tribute to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant Oh Hmm I mean look

I named my kids After Cameron's after Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke Yes Peyton's after Peyton Manning And Carley's just I like the name Carly Simon I mean it wouldn't be

It wouldn't be the worst thing But the way people Spoke Carly's name is all over the place That's true And I put a Facebook post You know Carly did this and people will comment about it and they'll still spell her name wrong

even though I just put it in. Yeah, that happens. It'd be like me congratulating Ryan Presley's family and getting his Presley name wrong. Yeah, why would some idiot do that? Yeah, I mean, dang. Mistakes can happen, sports, Harvey.

It just can. Neidiel at 11-790. Neidreel, good afternoon. Good afternoon, guys. Well, I guess I'm a cheap bastard. That's what you called me, Matt. Because I cut the court about five years ago, and I haven't looked back. I bumped my high-speed internet up, so I pay about 100 bucks for that.

But literally, I can watch everything, like any network, any channel, any pay-per-view, any sporting event, everything. There are apps for everything that you could want to watch on a fire TV. Like, literally, there's no bound to what you could watch. Yeah, there's people who do that. too, who have the services that I'm not going to mention. Some of those are unreliable, though. Sometimes you've got to switch the stream like five times. It gets overloaded and all that.

Can I tell you something, Nigel? I don't know, about 20 years ago, I had a friend of mine who would send me these cards. And I would take the original card out of my DirecTV box and put this card in. And Nealil, I got every channel. And I mean every channel. for instance I got all the ESPN

We understand Matt I got all of the You're watching a lot of Fox I got all the different local TV stations Like I got CBS Nashville CBS Albany New York I mean I got like literally 2,000 channels

Which did include A wide variety of Riskey stuff that you don't want your kids watching That's why they call you Spice Thomas So then I was thinking to myself Nidjo this is the greatest card ever And then the card they kept zapping it I finally got it like after the third time

I said, I'm done with the zap. Well, me and you are the same age, Matt, so you remember they used to sell the bootleg cable boxes when it was Warner Cable 2, where you could get all the channels. You'd find a guy, and he'd sell you a box for $100, and you'd be good for about six months to see all the channels. Yeah, you know what I want?

There's not enough sinister cable and direct TV operators anymore. What happened to that group of guys? What happened to those folks? I think with technology is easier to keep tabs on who has what. That's too bad. Yeah, thank you, Needser. Go ahead. I have one more thing.

I have a great idea for, believe it or not. Hmm. How about Ross, how about putting down the first person, because you guys were talking about salaries earlier. So all four major sports, the first person that made a, had a million-dollar contract, 50 million, 100 million. All right, Angel, thank you very much. We already have one. Yeah, we have one. Thank you, though.

And we have, thank you and user for the phone call. We have today's category. A cagulable one. And something we talked about earlier on the show today. So if you listen, you're going to have already a puncher's chance of one of these fantastic prizes, which include tickets to see Brooks and Dunn. What? Yeah, I know. On the neon moon?

With, you know you can also go with? What? My Maria. I only know boot scoot and boogie and neon moon. Is that there? And my Maria. Okay. It's a, it's a, uh, what they're not reboot.

It's a cover of another song. Okay. And then it better, frankly, than the. original person. Ooh, spicy. I don't. All right, one more thing. You know, we'll talk about us to come back. 114. It's a Matt Thomas show. Ross 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

Matt Thomas, Ross via Real. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. All right. I don't want a bit steal from the morning show, but they had an interesting topic today. I think it's worthy of bringing up here about the Super Bowl. Did we learn simply from a Texan's perspective, all that's needed for the Texans is to go improve the offensive line? Can we dem it down just like that, or do we learn other things about yesterday?

Offensive line, defensive line, win in the trenches, Matt. It's a cliche. Oftentimes things are cliches because they're true. Let me give you some other things. You can refute them if you like. Okay. Veteran coaching staff.

I think absolutely necessary. Big Van Joe has been around a long, long time. See, I think this is what I talked about when Damiko-Oryans was hired. This is the formula. Both teams in the Super Bowl are showing what you need. You need the offensive mind, and then you need some defensive coordinator who's been fired a couple of times, and he's just going to stay there. Vic Fangio is not going to get a head coaching job.

No, he's not. He's not one chance only. Steve Spagnolo has been mentioned, but, I mean, he's not getting a job from anywhere else. They're really great defensive coordinator. Nick Siriani never had to worry about the defense. This is an offensive, exactly. This is an offensively driven league. So unfortunately, I love Damico Ryans.

I'm not saying I don't. I think he's a great coach. But you're always going to be the offensive coordinator, because this is an offensive driven league, is always going to be a turnstile one way or the other. Hired away or fired. Hired away or fired. Mm-hmm.

And I think that's part of what people were able to do yesterday was you looked on the other side, the sidelines of the two teams. not in all four positions, but of the coordinators, and again, Annie Reid runs the offense of the chief, so we don't count that. And Nick Seriana, I think, is heavily involved in the offense, correct? For the Giants, for the Eagles. Yes, yes. You want to be able to outsmart your other coordinator. And you've got another first-time play caller coming here to Houston.

Now, everybody at some point has got to be the first time of something. So you got to have, you got to get your shot. somewhere to be the first time of something. So maybe Houston has become that breeding ground that maybe D'Amico just likes the young, innovative plucking guys off of other staffs and giving them an opportunity to do it. Bobby Slovak got that first opportunity,

worked beautifully one year, and then worked the next. Does the new OC at the Texans become this, hey, you know, I had the shackles around me because Sean McVeyva's calling things in Los Angeles. Now this is my own ship. I get to run the call the plays. if you thought we were good in Los Angeles, guess how good we're going to be,

even with the younger and more able quarterback and C.J. Stroud. Yeah, maybe the flip side of it would have been, maybe I'm trying to think of who's the, like the veteran offensive play callers who have maybe been fired but still highly regarded. Chip Kelly, I guess, getting higher with the Raiders. Chip Kelly, it's a great example.

But that was a bunch of money he got. Six million, I think. They said per year, which three million per year was the highest pay. They cash with them. They said, we're going to give you as much money. He said what? Yeah. It's like, you're going to be this much?

And there's no state income tax. And I got to live in Vegas? And there's no state income tax in Nevada. Let's do it. Yeah. Las Vegas should be a better football team. They've got everything in the world. They've got site.

They've got stadium. They've got plenty of money. And Aiden O'Connell. Poor Gardner Minchew. Maybe the quarterback. Any quarterback bad. Not a time. A quarterback,

step back down. That's true. Can he call the game and be playing? And be part of the owner of the team. Might as well do all three. Doing the call of the writers versus I don't know, the chiefs. It's Tom Brady and Kevin Burkhardt and

on one play he's got one headset on and on the next play he takes that headset off and puts another one on. He calls the game from his headset. Yeah. He's like texting in between plays. No, from like the microphone like the helmet headset. No, he's got headset. It's got one ear on the Raiders sideline and one in the bruce. Yes. Those people, I mean, there are probably people worried about that. I can't.

I'll go ahead and tell you this. This is easy. There's no way that Tom Brady is ever calling a Raiders game. Not that the Raiders may be the number one game of the week. Yeah, they can't put him on it. He should be too biased? 100%. Yeah. I'm sure it hasn't even been discussed because, first of all,

most of the Raider games are on CBS. Not all, but most of them are. And I can't imagine they would allow him to be anywhere near the booth. They got Herb Street calling Ohio State games. He just went to college there, a little different. He doesn't own a whole. Ohio State. Yeah.

Okay. So Aikman, I'm calling, actually punish Akeman by making him call Cowboys games. Yeah. You're not going to do five cowboy games in a year. Oh, they live. All of them. Slop. The only benefit is under the travel.

I think he lives in Dallas. Yeah. Oh, that's good. So. But now he's on ABC, so he's getting to do different games every week. When you've got the Fox package, you're putting that, you're putting the number one team on, always on the cowboy game. Yeah, that's interesting.

I don't know. We'll see. Okay. So we learned that I learned that I want experience at the cornered her spot, and right now the Texans don't have that. Correcto. I learned that the Texans need a better off, that the Philadelphia offensive line allowed Jalen Hertz to play one of his best games of his career. The Texans don't have that. Yeah.

How often was he just sitting back there with all the time in the world? A bunch. Yeah. And how often did Pat Mahomes have to run for his life? because his offensive line through largely injuries. The one because they didn't address it. They just had been banged up.

We just didn't have enough depth. We are owed a pretty fast decision on Stefan Dix coming up here pretty quick. Explain. I think there is some sort of Saturday cap a ramifications on dead and space and that kind of thing. So we're not going to be waiting four months

figure out whether or not Stefan Diggs is coming back. We'll get a capologist on it. We are? No, we're not. Is there such a thing? Absolutely. there's a capologist for the NFL. Are they nice people?

Oh, are you going to say they're nerds? No, I was asking. You don't fornicate. You always talk about numbers nerds. I'm sure some numbers nerds have sex. Yeah. Well, many of them have children and families, Matt. That's right.

That's right. But most probably aren't. Most probably don't have many friends. Jeff Luno is a numbers nerd. He has a lovely family. He does. But he isn't a ministering. James Click, I have no idea.

I think he had a wife and kids. He's a numbers nerd. That's Jim Crane. Dana's got a wife, but Dana's not really a number. He's not really a number of guys. No. You know what we've done?

He's a both. He's a mix. We've gone two hours, three hours and 27 minutes, and we've not done it, you know what. Hmm. Is there one? No.

Why are we going to do one? You know what? I bet I could find one. We've been talking about this trash for four months. Will he just sign somewhere, please? You know what? I'm going to comb the internet streets. Okay.

And I'm going to get you. a fresh pregnant update 7. By the way, Yon Easy doesn't even know what Spice was once a cooking is a cooking channel? No, Spice is not a cooking channel. Is it even around? I think he was joking. I am, I do not know. Oh, yeah, you do? No, I don't. Let's look on this TV guide at work here.

Oh, you want to do that? Let's go. I'm going to I'm going to Google it. Spice TV channel. Huh, that's already in your history. Why is that, Matt? Stop it. It's not. We'll be now. Spice TV is Oh, my God. No, it's been, no, no, no, no. It's, uh, no, it ended in, um, it launched in 1994.

Mm-hmm. Spice channel on YouTube. Different kind of spice. Mm-hmm. No, not that spice. No, there's no spice right now. Oh, my God. The base channel's gone.

Playboy channel still around? I think. Didn't they relaunch the magazine? I think I saw that on the Twitterverse. I did not see that. Would you buy it? For the articles? Yeah, for the articles.

Good journalism, good interviews. Yeah, I'm sure they're great. 128. A Breggard update of some sort. Next on 790. Lunch timers.

It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. We will be having our first meeting of the Jake Myers fan club down into West Palm Beach another 10 days or so.

Actually, our first day of show will be there a week from tomorrow. Be there for three full days. I like it. Wonderful. Interviews, analysis, insights. And probably,

maybe. One of these? Maybe one of these? I don't know. Let's find out. The bit's never going away, much of the chagrin of some. ever. Bob Nightgale says that a Detroit Tigers

of Boston Red Sox and the asteros have all made offers of at least four years to Breggman, but no one has been willing to meet his asking price. Nightingale goes on to say the Cubs have been unwilling to go over three years. Three years.

Three years. That's not going to cut it for Alex Breggman. Cubs also addressing the Alex Breggman question in their first news conference of the spring Sunday Jed Hoyer, Cubs president of

baseball operations, asked about adding Alex Brugman said unclear. I think you always look for an opportunity, but right now we're going to focus on the guys we have in camp. That's the plan. For another 30 minutes, according to this Bob Nightingale article, sent to us by Greg in H-Town. Shout out Greg.

Shout out, Greg. No matter how many times this is brought up indirectly or directly, they didn't really offer any clues. Basically for 30 minutes, they got Pepper with Breggman question. So let's play a little game here. Who's breaking this story first? Chandlero.

Let me give you the candidates. If it's not Astros related, it will not be Brian McTaggart. I can't imagine Brian McTaggart, who works for Astros.com and MLB.com, is going to get a story that involves another team. You would think that the team's reporter would get it. So we're going to take him off the list. Chandler? Chandler. Now is it going to be Chandler with Ken Rosenthal or Ken Rosenthal?

or Ken Rosenthal Roy with Chandler Rome. Oh, that's a good one. I'm going to go, we're going to put Chandler by himself. Okay. Rosenthal, Passon,

Mm-hmm. Nightingale or the field. What are you going with? Chandler slash Rosenthal and some iteration of. I'm going to go Rosenthal reporting with Chandler Room.

Final answer. That would be the heavy favorite. I think you're right. But if I set up, but if we separate. them you're saying neither one is a favorite if we separate them. Hmm. What if,

let me tell you something. This is what Bob Nant-Gill says about that. Why do those guys have to tag team that? I can get this started by myself. What y'all doing tag team? I don't have a tag team partner. I don't know. Passon's like, I don't have a partner.

Well, does the athletic do that to also, I mean, the Chandler does great report. He does. He does. He does. It's very good. Yeah. But Ken Rosentthal is the bigger name.

And Chandler will be the first one to admit that. So I don't, I don't know how that works. Maybe Channer's like, man, I get this without Rosenthal. Bye, Kenny. Say, shut your bum ass up, Ken. I'll be the one on Fox on weekends doing the games. I don't know if he has aspirations to do that.

I'm sure he's got aspirations to be. I can see Chanor being a national baseball guy ultimately, up around the 30 MLB clubs. His true calling is writing. He's a great writer. I love the athletic. Wonderful pros from the pen of Chandlerone. No, the computer.

Nobody's writing stuff down. anymore. I know, but you still see, that's what you say, man. You do? Who says that? Everyone. Okay. Yeah. That may be more of an interesting battle than where actually Breggman goes. We've narrowed it down. Cubs, Red Sox, Tigers. Tigers Astros. Field. Yes. In this report also from

Bob Nightingale, Tigers, Red Sox, Astros all made offers of at least four years to Breggman, but no one is willing to meet his assing of price. Yeah, I just said about a man. I'm sorry. Thank you very much. I was listening. That's fine. Okay.

So let's go back. Let's play. Let's jump into Alex Breggman's body for a second, okay? Okay. I got 6-156 sitting here in Houston. Mm-hmm. I got it apparently been upped. Okay, I'll say, yeah, let's got a bump to 160.

Look for just blank and giggles. He's doing a short-term deal. The more it goes on. Sorry, go ahead. You got, the Cubs are only offering three. Mm-hmm. Four to everybody else. Nobody says five.

Astros confirmed six. Nobody is saying seven. What happened to the Blue Jays? Apparently they're done. We got our team. We've got to make sure Flaggareals stays with us long term. I think he's a free agent after this year, correct?

Yes. Short term. Has anybody been falling on their sort on a long term on this? What do you mean? Is anybody who just said, oh, this is going to be a long-term deal? Is Scott Boris telling Alex, the weight will be worth it? You will get the long-term deal that you have been at. I mean, the more it drags on, the more it's likely that this is just going to be a short-term opt-out type situation.

And is this a guess example? I'm not saying that Bregs didn't do this, but is this an example now that we have to start determining in telling these baseball athletes and all these sports athletes? Let's not rely on the agent much more anymore. Let's, if you hear something you like, take it. Don't stretch this bad boy out. because unless Bregman is telling Scott I deserve this, I need this

and Boris is like, I can't get this to you. Wouldn't Brigham at that point to say, all right, if that's the best you think the streets are offering, I got to take one of these deals. I can't figure out any of this. I'm not to get Breg's drunk at some point. We're going to just have a real hard, and I don't mean to get him alcohol,

but I mean, it'll open up his truth serum a little bit. And people, when they drink, they tell the truth. Do they not? sometimes they lie though I'm a truther okay that's your truth here you give me a couple of pops I'll tell you anything you want

I will spill my guts all right let's do that only with a couple of beverages though all right West Palm what do you want to know I'll tell you everything anyway that's true we'll take channel around

he'll tell us some stuff that's yeah we will that's so we'll get the real truth to get him some pops we'll get him some pops but I mean I don't I don't necessarily understand because it's so late in the game now

that Scott's gonna be like man I don't want to take you into spring training. That's short-term opt-out is going to, that's the favor right now. Short-term with opt-outs. So, okay, let's say that's what he's going to go for ultimately. Then you then go to, is can somebody, he's getting offered 26 a year here. Does he take a two-year-60 million dollars? Is two-year $60 million out there floating among the baseball universe?

We don't know. I would say yes. I think so? For short-term deal? 30? Yeah, I can see it. You still getting very much prime Alex Breggman. I would do a two-year $60 million deal in Houston tomorrow.

I would too. It's not my money. I'm not in the luxury tax. But even if I'm in the business, I would do it. Yeah, you should. He's a really good player. Really good player, and he will be worth that contract. Paying him $30 million in five or six years may not be worth it. Most of those long-term deals don't pan out.

That's the reason why the Astros were pretty much firm at $6156. Maybe he's just stuck on, I want to make more money per year. AAV should be higher that it was in my previous contract. I don't know. We're going to get him drunk. Maybe he doesn't drink anymore. Maybe we'll get some gummies. Okay.

Or maybe I just give him a big fat steak and just some baked potato side salad on a nice dessert. Is that what gets you singing like a canary? I think food and drink does for sure. Yeah, okay. A little red wine. How about this? We go to the casino and I, he gives me, and I give him 200 hours and chips say, enjoy yourself. Let's talk.

he's going to sneeze on that 200 bucks Alex Bregman I mean that's probably three bets One bet You're not bet $200 a hand You're not putting black chips Yeah Blackout

Now I did play once with an NBA player That was betting $600 $700 a hand So that would have done me very long But this guy was a fringe NBA He was just a mid-NBA player Okay I was like

Are you sure you can afford all this He goes yeah By way dinner me. I said, thank you very much. We get over there, have dinner. He has a couple of ladies with us. He's like, I count time to eat, I go back to the table. So it was me, two other people, and these two strange women

have a dinner together. That's wonderful. That's one for the memoir. And they and they, uh, we couldn't eat all the food they brought out. It was like crab leg, shrimp, steak, lobster, dessert, side dishes. And the two women said, hey, can we live here in this town? Can we

take it to go? Can we have take it to go? That's great. And they took four doggy bags back with them. That's awesome. This prime stuff too. I was a little jealous. I was like, man, if I lived in this town, I'm going to want to do that. That's what since going to a high-end steakhouse and taking four doggy bags back. Okay. Good stuff there, Matthew.

I just telling you, this will start in the memoir. Yeah. Yeah, that's, that the person will not be named. In the memoir? Oh, I have to say in the memoir? Absolutely. Okay, that seems fair. Never mind. All right. I thought I said wax, but never mind. No, wax is not calling. Let's play, believe it or not. You ready?

Yes. The category today is highly Googledable. It's about Super Bowl television programming. Why would you even give that much away? That's as far as we're going. 143 on Sports Talk 790. Where I need to talk to you folks, again, about synergenics. And you probably heard me talk about

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Back to it on Sports Talk 790. Home of the Stroes. 148, Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got, believe it or not, coming up in just a couple of minutes. 713, 212, 579. You use that number to play, believe it or not. Let's go to line three.

Of course, my computer's not work. There it is. Let's say hi to Wes. My buddy, Wes. Wes, what's a good word today? Hey, man, I know you believe it or not, sign a simple quick question for you. if a player wants to take a lesser deal,

does the union frown upon that because it weakens a position with the owners? I mean, I'm sure they can frown about it, but they can't force a player to take a deal that is less advantageous to the union. I mean, they can do what they want? I mean, if, put it this way, do you think Breggman is, what's your example? One year deal is compared to a six? No, they're not going to say anything about it because they're going to say that West,

they're going to say that Breggman's going to bet on himself another year in 2025 and get more money in future years. I was just curious about the whole AV thing. I mean, his stance have steadily declined. So why is AAB such a big deal to him? Instead, it may be like long-term security or short-term and a chance to bet on himself. I didn't know the union is a frown. No, that's that, Wes, that sounds like to me, it's an individual issue.

Like, I was talking about this last week. I am more of a person in my negotiations in my life that would take less money for longer year's guarantee than taking a shorter term deal with more money. That's just how I roll. Absolutely. So I don't know how you roll, but that's how I roll. I mean, I'm, go ahead. I would take the security over

the unknown of what could happen in another year or two to my body or my performance. Yeah, exactly. West, good to hear from your friend. Take care yourself. Go Dynamo. All right. Yeah, that's, no, the union can't step in on this. And the players don't need the union to step on him.

He's not being unfairly, he's not being held, you know, there's not a low number of three being thrown at him. Six for 156 for a guy would be making more than Matt Chapman who just signed a comparable situation in San Francisco is not hurting the system. Does the union want as much money and as much AAB? Of course they do, because it ups everybody up at that position. But no, I don't think the union's going, If you want to bet on yourself for another short-term deal to try to go get some more money in a couple of years to make more A-AV.

I'm okay with that. 151 on Sports Talk 790. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play. You're just a fraud. America's fastest growing sports radio game show we simply call it. Believe it on.

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Don't even know what that is. Yeah, the last precinct. It was a pilot. Let's go to line number two. Lee, in the Medical Center on 7-90. Lee, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Let's do it. 2021, the Equalizer on CBS. Believe it or not?

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Yeah, CBS. He does everything good. Yeah, he does. Did you listen to radio at all in that Super Bowl? I didn't. I didn't either. He didn't be bored too. Well, he probably makes the game sound better.

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No party. A party's coming up next for the next to four hours. It's the team. Talk to you tomorrow at 10 on Sports Talk 7.9.