The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Extensive Super Bowl Recap, Rockets Take Down OKC, UH Beats BYU

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

Extensive Super Bowl Recap, Rockets Take Down OKC, UH Beats BYU

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-01 in H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. Jonathan Allen is our producer. You lovely people, especially you 10 o'clockers, are our guest. People we like to bounce things off of. And I got to say, Ross, I don't like to use the the term suck very much. Okay? You can suck the heads off of a crawfish, right?

That's the bit. All right. I don't want to do this. Okay, but it's a terrible... It's like we kind of play tennis sometimes going back on forth on things. You hit it and then I hit it. I'm not hitting that back to you. Okay, that's fine. I'm letting that one go over my head. You're not playing

long with me. Okay, I can get that. So, point being is I don't like to use the word suck a lot. The Super Bowl sucked yesterday. It was, and I've been watching every Super Bowl. This is, my first Super Bowl I ever watched in its entirety was Super Bowl 16. It was the Niners against the Bengals at the Silver Dome in Pontiac, Michigan. Okay. So that's 44 years in a role of watching the Super Bowl. And I don't have vivid memories of every Super Bowl because obviously none of my team's ever competed in it. But sometimes you had too many Long Island teas. I did. But I remember some great moments. I remember the Scott Noward missed kick or the John Taylor. Hitler catch or the 28 to 3 comeback. The Tyree, you know, catch. Yeah, I mean, there's been some moments over the years. That gave a while, too.

It did. It did. I'm going to admit something that I probably shouldn't admit, but I'm going to tell you I knotted off twice during the game yesterday. Oh, okay. I thought you're going to tell us you flipped it on the Lifetime Network. No, no, no, no. That's not going to happen. Now, Grant, I was battling a little bit of a minor illness, was I'm already passed, thankfully. It wasn't a cold, did it? I didn't give you a cold. I've been trying not to. Especially as the play-by-playman of the Rockets, I can't have that.

I try not to get you sick. Yeah, I've actually been pretty lucky, but I have not been sick much at all this year. But, yeah, that game sucked. The commercials sucked. Yeah. I mean, the Dunkin commercial with all the different celebrities was kind of cool, but nothing else was very memorable to me. But if a lot of AI, CGI faces.

Yeah. If that's how you're doing your commercials in 20, you know, I'm going to tell you so that. I got news for you, Rossi. Go ahead, Matthew. I'm going to do this. I don't think. Spreading the news.

We should, as America, should stop talking about the commercials. Because when even going back 10 or 15 years, they were amazing. And then it feels like the last five or six or so, they've gotten too cute or they've become documentaries. I think Super Bowl commercials should be clever, interesting. Not necessarily on the edge of your seat. but make it a memorable 30 seconds. Funny, memorable water cooler talk. Did you see that commercial?

Yeah. I can't think of one commercial I saw where I'm like, did you guys see that? That was hilarious. I guess you mentioned the Duncan one. That's kind of a talking point one, but I thought it was a little over the top. So there's nothing, and we don't have a,

we have a water cooler here, but our sales folks are busy out selling the stations. There's nobody to talk to. Yeah, but you do chat people there. Sure. We get the water there and then coffee. and you're at the microwave reheating whatever various leftovers you have.

Spaghetti, thank you for asking. I got that letter today. The reality is this. There's nothing that, like, we walked in this morning. We didn't say, man, did you see that, that Laze commercial was unbelievable? Oh, that Budweiser spot was, I mean,

Budweiser used had it for years. Yeah. From the frogs to was up. They had the Cladsdale and the Eagle was America. Yeah, the one guy that went to grab a beer and all the beers fell out of the cooler out of the convenience store. I mean, there's been Doritos, there's been all sort of.

There ain't nothing anymore. I guess the Bud Light Keg one with Post Malone and Peyton Manning, it was okay. Yeah, but I mean, it's been like a five, would you say a five-year run of suck when it comes to commercials? Or are we just being bitter old men shaking fists at clouds? No. Jonathan, you watch, we always got to get his perspective now. Did he watch the Super Bowl?

Jonathan's texted. No, it's frozen. Oh, is it frozen? Okay. Yeah, it was a sub-bole. Okay. Did you like any of the commercials or anything? I'm like, wow, that's amazing.

No, the only, honestly, they sucked, but the only one I really liked with the, the beer ones, like Budweiser and Bud Light. Those were the only ones I could tell you that were kind of funny. Like, some of them were clever. Okay, the commercials sucked then. Isn't it funny to, it's funny to me that if you don't get me with commercials

early, like I was not sitting around last night waiting for, oh, there'll be a good commercial coming up. You always wait for the first break. The first break, like the whole, everybody's, I don't know how many people you watch the Super Bowl with, but normally everybody's like, oh, commercials. guys, here we go. Yeah.

And then after that it's kind of like goes down and down and down. It's almost like that first break in the first time out. Yeah. That should be, that's the big money spender. Whoever that is should be spending a lot of money. Thus, you'd want it to be memorable. I know. But there's movie previews.

There was an AI, Elon Musk thing that I didn't figure. I couldn't figure out what the hell that was. I was. It was AI.com and then it was Musk. It was by, eh. Half time to me, I'll be brutally honest to you. I didn't change a channel. I kept it on because I'm a number.

normal human being. Oh, you didn't watch something else? I didn't watch something else. Okay. I didn't like it because I don't understand. You didn't like it. No, I did not like it. But that's fine. You actively didn't like it. You're like this is bad. No, I didn't, no, there was nothing about yesterday that I was active about. It was all passively. This game passively sucks. Okay. Half time to me. I don't understand a word of Spanish. Yes. I don't like the music. It's not me.

But they're not looking for me. And that's fine. I could tell, I mean, the only thing I, yeah, I mean, it was fine. I didn't understand. understand what he was saying either. And I will say, I mean, obviously he was trying to show off Puerto Rico with the sugar cane stuff and the Puerto Rican hats and the guys playing dominoes and all that stuff. I mean, he was like, this is Puerto Rico, this is my culture and stuff like that. And apparently I went and read, I did some reading afterwards. Oh, you did? Yes.

The light pole thing was a reference to how the infrastructure and electricity has been bad since Hurricane Maria. and I think many Puerto Ricans fell like America's kind of leaving them for dead and they haven't been helping rebuild their infrastructure and stuff like that. So there was a little, there was like statements and layers in their performance.

Maybe I should have gone and done that instead of watch the game because... Yeah. I did it after the game. I'm trying... A Lady Gaga came out. Jessica Alba's looking good. Ricky Martin looks different.

Ricky Martin, I was like fighting with my family. I was like, that is not Ricky Martin. That guy looks way. too young. That's why I tweeted that Super Bowl MVP is Ricky Martin's plastic surgeon. He looks good, man. Good for him. He's got to be in his mid-50s, right?

He's 55. I looked it up. I told you, we like, you know, when you're fighting with your family everybody gets their Wikipedia out, everybody's like, no, you're wrong, no, you're wrong. I was like, that is not Ricky Martin. Yeah, yeah. They're like, Ross, you're wrong. and I was like, he's 54. So I would say, generally speaking for me, it was an unsatisfying

complete Sunday. It's just, the commercial sucked. I didn't like Bad Bunny, but again, I didn't think I was going to like, I was like, I wasn't I'm, I wasn't really pleasant. I mean, he's just not my music. So it'd be like, um, if Benny Goodwin did a halftimer, I wouldn't like that either. Who? It's a orchestra back in the, way and back in the days. Oh, Benny

Goodman. Goodwood, good, whatever. His cousin. Yeah. All I think I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you're so ridiculous. I want yacht rock next year. I'm so sad how many retweets you got. I don't even know what the count, what is the count out of these days. I didn't even look. Um, give me, I, I, I, I, at, when

I first saw this half time, I was like, eh, whatever, and I actually went and read about it, and then I watched it again, and I appreciated it more. Yeah. So he was, yeah, it was a Puerto Rican type, and then he called out all the, he said, this is, he said, God bless America, and then he mentioned all the countries of North and South America, and he's talking about us being together, and he had a message in Spanish where he said, you know, to all you young people, I never thought I would be here, you're stronger than you imagine, trust me, something like that. Like, he was like a message to the kids, and he was talking about bring America. America together. So yeah, I appreciated a lot more once I went and read about it.

Yeah. I would, the only thing I appreciated the whole thing at halftime was him spiking the ball because nobody else did. Yeah. There was no spike. There was no spiking of anything else on the field. There was a, there was a message on the ball. It's, I can't remember it. I think it's a follow sports MT on Twitter. Actually, you should Photoshop that. That's a pretty funny. Yeah, the football said, together we are America. So there was a message on the football as to, he mentioned all the American countries. countries and I think, you know, together we are America and he spiked the ball.

Yeah. The whole night was sucked. I just, there was nothing in the game. I mean, finally got some scoring late in the second half. I was going to say, yeah, that under got a little dicey. And so I had it. I was invested. I had a 2818.

It went up being what, 29. 2913. Yeah. Yeah. So you had it over. I did. So. I had 2717.

We were both very close. that's going to be a gut-feeling hit for both of us. Another weird one for me, just before the game started, they go down to those silent reporters, right? And it was first, it was Kaylee Hartung, I think talking to, was it talking to Jackson Smith and Jake by, I think. And then it was over to... Kaylee Harttong, very nice.

We see her all the time on Today Show the morning. I don't watch the Today Show. I know you're asleep, but I get up. Don't don't it's not it's not if then I get up every morning whether she's on there or not She's in very pleasant She's okay Oh Melissa Stark

Okay So Melissa's asking Drake May about A couple of things about being there A big moment kind of thing What's it like me And then I don't know if everybody caught this But it was a little journalism 101

Not to do He goes off And then he she says I also talked to Drake May earlier in the week. He was on the injured list all week long, and he said his shoulder was fine, and he's been going fine. I would think the first question out of the gate would have been,

how's your shoulder? She wanted to get her report in. I mean, I don't know if she was told she can't ask anything serious. It must be fluffy. Yeah, maybe that's true. But maybe there's like, maybe Vraibs was like, no shoulder questions. But it was odd. I just thought it was weird that if that was a,

storyline because it was he was on the injury report all up until i think Thursday that his shoulder was and he had been battling it throughout the entire postseason and whether the shoulder had anything to do with it um CJ Stroud had zero issues with the way that Drake May performed as I said

and I expected uh there's an AI with Bob Barker and Drake May yes it's already available for you oh there's already there was already CJ Stroud and Drake May uniform did that one I did not it's bad And by the way, there's something we need to talk.

Well, I know. And you and I are going to completely agree about it. We'll do it in a minute because I thought the exact same thing. We got some Myopic Texans fans that just don't deal in realities. Thankfully, I don't think I'm working with one. I don't think so. I would say I'm a fan. And I cannot say that I'm 100% unbiased.

That would be incorrect. But I would say I keep things pretty even keeled as far as fans go. that's of rockets, Astros, Texans, Longhorns. I have never came on this airwaves and said, Texas Longhorns are winning the championship this year. You've never heard me say that. I've actually been more pro-Texing Longhorn than you have, which is strange. Yeah, well, because I'm more defeatist.

Like, there you haven't disappoint me again. Well, that's what sports does. That's how I'm feeling next year. So, yeah, that's what sports does. You're ready for more of that. All right, 713-212-5-7-90. If you want to chime in, I'm going to challenge the 10 o'clockers. to give us an assessment of the game.

Could you imagine Ross being a national radio show having to chop up that bad boy for four hours? Yeah, you can talk about the Seahawks defense, how great they were, Sam Darnold making plays, Kenneth Walker, Super Bowl MVP. And by way, another thing, Texas fan, he ain't coming here. Stop it. The price of poker just went up for Kenneth Walker. Interesting article from John M. Alexander the Chronicle.

About 10 things he'd like to see the Texans do in this offseason. Okay. We're going to go through them because I think it's an interesting group. I don't agree with all of them. Okay. But there are some that I do. 1014. It's a Matt Thomas show at Ross.

713, 212, 5-790. 1020, Sports Talk, 790. It is Matt and Ross. Jonathan with you here on this Monday. It is a let's break down every facet of the Texans, I mean, of the Super Bowl yesterday kind of show. God, it sucked. Seattle's defense. Now, look, we don't spend a lot of time talking about Seattle because they don't,

they play a different conference. The Texans did play them. this year, so we already saw a small sample size of that. Sam Darnel was okay, but you could be okay when Drake May was terrible. And I thought Chris Collinsworth spent much of the time going, this Drake May looks nervous in his own skin. He was unbelievably overthrowing, underthrowing. Granted, the Seattle pass rush was amazing. So that's going to do it.

But for anybody that was saying, Drake May, to, took advantage of a weak schedule and a weak set of playoff teams, they kind of have scoreboard today because he was atrocious. Yeah, I mean, honestly, it factored into me thinking that the Patriots weren't going to be up to snuff in this game, but did you see

the new Drake May nickname? I can't even guess. You just said the word. They're calling them the schedule. Ouch. So, that's pretty good. That is awful. So here's the thing.

he finished second in the MVP. He's a really good quarterback. It's not fair. But we need to see him against the first place schedule. I don't think he's been 100%. I think there is something to the shoulder stuff. Because he just has looked horrible. And a lot of people are like, this is historically bad.

Look at the yards or whatever. Okay, let's give him a mulligan for a game that was in a freaking snowstorm too where nobody was throwing the ball. So I do think he's getting a bit of a harsh rap for. sure. All right. The schedule made me laugh. So there was something of showing up on my, and again, I did a lot of four you tabbing,

which if I could ever shaking that, like for instance, I don't smoke. I'm not a heavy drinker. I enjoy gambling, but I don't consider myself a gamble haul. I'm a gambling connoisseur, but I don't, I've never left. Actually, it's not true. One time of my life, Ross was with me, I think, yeah, when I lost a lot of money in a very short period of time and I went and got some more money and I lost all that. That was probably the downpoint of my year when I was.

I was going to tell Ross and Michael Conner were going to go at stakes and want to go on the Taco Bell instead because I had lost so much money in such a short period of time. That was my lowest point ever. But I don't ever lose that much typically and I don't ever win that much typically. So I don't have a compulsive personality.

I do. So, I forgot how I was going with this. Oh, but I'm compulsive to 4 UTAB and I should stop doing it. Okay. But I don't know how. Because I follow a very few number of people but I still want to get a vibe of what's happening in the world, even for people I don't follow.

So the narrative for people that I do not follow on Twitter, and there's a reason why, is because there are so many Texans water carriers out there that were saying, this should have been the Texans. They would have given the Seahawks a much better game. Damn you, C.J. Stroud. I was given through all that. And you can obviously still say, damn you C.J. Stroud because he was awful.

Yes. The Texans would have done no better. And there's, by the way, you had a chance to win the football game. You cannot take out a narrative that was the narrative. Exactly. That's why I couldn't believe that kept popping up on my timeline as well. The cognitive dissonance it takes to say, oh, Texans would have been right there. Texans played this Patriots team, and they lost by multiple scores.

And there's no guarantee they would have gotten past Denver Broncos in that game. Oh, they would have crushed the Broncos. Would they have? It was frankly, bootlicking. And the Texans don't need to be bootlicked. I mean, they like it. Trust me, they credential everybody and their mother for those things when they're not meaty or not. But they don't need bull looking on the Super Bowl Sunday.

There was nothing that I saw from the Texans that made me think, even when CJ wasn't throwing four interceptions. Guys and gals, this was a mid-offense this entire season. Yes, and it was bad against the Seahawks. They played this. That's the thing too. You have to disassociate yourself from the fact they lost the Patriots, might not even have beaten the Broncos, and they actually lost the Seahawks. Now, it was in their home

and everybody's going to me, because I made a tweet about it, oh, one score game, one score game, one score. Do you forget? Did you not watch that game? They fell on a fumble in the end zone for a touchdown in that game, and they scored a touchdown with like four minutes left where they were out of that game.

The Seahawks dominated the Texans in that game. Yes. They did. And it would have been the same thing on Sunday. So we can talk about, yeah, it'd have been nice if they made a Super Bowl, but they didn't even get close. If they had a loss of the AFC championship game on like a last second field goal, I can see why we're lamenting this. Okay, here's what it is.

But they get crushed. I'll give you the statement. The Texans would have been in the Super Bowl if Pat Mahomes is the quarterback. Okay, there's your statement. Yeah, they would have been. But as constructed, this Seattle pass rush would have destroyed this Texans' offensive line. They wouldn't have scored anything. It might have been a lower scoring game.

It might have been, I don't know, 17 to 10 Seattle. I mean, at least the Patriots had a little bit of a running game. Stevenson was okay. But the Seahawks would have beaten the Texans. So I couldn't believe that I was seeing so much. Oh, I would love to see the Texans in this kind of matchup. What? You were two playoff games away.

You were not fourth down, four seconds left, and the Broncos kicked the field goal to beat you. You're the Patriots. You were dominated by the Patriots. and you know who knows what I have in Denver but you weren't even close divisional round is not close it's someone close but it ain't close enough yeah I was like come on I mean I try to have your backs Texans fans but that was ridiculous it was like excuse me it was Texans faux media that was doing it wasn't necessarily the fan you know it was like

it was like it was like uncle Rico and Napoleon he was like man if coach would have put me in we would have won state man if if CJ Strave the Texans would have been in this Super Bowl Oh man, I would love to see this match up. What? Do we not watch the Texans in this playoff run? I couldn't believe it. The Texans had nothing that the Patriots didn't have. Or for that matter, the Broncos.

I mean, it was just really. It was a lot of places too, yeah. It was too many places. And maybe that makes you feel better? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I'll tell you what.

It should make you feel worse. The Patriots got their ass kicked. and they beat your ass. I mean, I'm Battle Red Ross. You are about Red. I love me some Texans. I know. But I wasn't sitting there saying,

darn, guys, we almost had the Super Bowl. Yeah. Couldn't we have, what was that song? Couldn't we have it all? Couldn't we had it all? Yeah.

It was just odd. There was so much of, well, we were just that close. No, you never were really close. There was a zero percent chance. By the way,

you played in four quarters, you're going to beat the Patriots. We were just four plays away. Those four plays, interceptions. We were just, One pick six away. What?

It's odd. Yeah. All right. So, yeah, I do want to run through the Jonathan Alexander article today that was interesting about, he has. He got it right because he puts things in 10. People, when you do list on stories, it gets you to click in. It gets you to click in. You get to lock in.

Because you don't have to spend, like that. There was a huge story about the Los Angeles Lakers ownership problems with Jeannie Bust and selling it and all that. The thing was like 20 pages long. And that's on my phone. And I was like, I'm not looking at all this. But if you broke it down into a little quick ones? I really hate reading long articles on my phone. It's not good.

But I was on a plane. I thought I'd give it a try. And then I was like after by... I'll get you an iPad. 12 minutes. I was done. All right. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I thought everything from the Super Bowl yesterday from... I didn't watch you the pregame. Honestly. I watched basketball. It was on. I wasn't watching it. If that makes sense.

I didn't watch the Clippers beat that in Minnesota. I asked. That was not bad. I was just hanging around with family, playing with my nieces and nephews. Yeah. Did you bring him a gift or any sort? No, what's for? Just to bring candy over from Uncle Ross.

They got too much candy. Oh, okay, that's fair. We were at Grandma's house. There's more, there's snacks coming out of their ears. Okay, so let's discuss, can we discuss the food? Oh, at my Super Bowl? Yeah. If you want.

Now? No. When we come back? Was there anything you didn't like? Because you were very honest about your food. That's true. I will be. Okay. Mine was really dumb down.

Oh, I hope Uncle Augie's not listening. Uncle Augie? Turn the radio up really loud. 10, because he's going to rip you. That's not true. We haven't been invited to Teresa's house since then. Love you, Og. All right.

713-212. That's so faux. Nobody believes that. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-9. If you want to join us via Instagram or Twitter, you can follow us at SportsMT or at SportsRV. 713-212-5-790 with

1033 A shout-out to the folks of big city wings Took care of us on Saturday night So we did not eat wings yesterday We went with the atypical We just had spaghetti at the house I know it's not that Super Bowl fair But we had wings a night before

When I got back from Oklahoma City So okay, yeah Look, we don't have to follow convention We don't thank you I appreciate that to just get wings and French onion dip and, uh, I don't know, K-So, like, yeah, you can go off the, I kind of like that. Yeah.

My father was coming over. I wasn't feeling great, so I didn't want anything super heavy or spicy. I'm just, I'm telling you. Oh, I put a little red pepper flicks now when I make my spaghetti sauce. Getting older sucks. The spice in my life is just kicking my ass. I'm with you, Matt. I know.

I'm with you. I know. Damn. Oh, hush. 23. Whatever. Okay. Okay. So you went over to mom's house.

Yes. And let's run through the quick entrees before we go. Because you're a critic. Yes, I am. Even for your family. But I'm just telling you, family good cooks. I'm just letting you know. All right.

Go on. So let's see. My cousin, Cheyenne, she made a charcutor. She's the charcuttery wizard. She always makes an excellent charcutter. Underrated. For sure. Those chocolate covered pomegranates to die for.

So meats and cheeses and all that was incredible. Uncle Augie was over. He got some, my cousin had shot a hog. So he got some hog shoulder. and he had been smoking it all day. And so it was really good and flavorful. And then he put the, like the juice on it too. And it was great.

And then he put like four bottles of barbecue sauce on it. And my mom tried to tell him not to put them. And then he got all defensive. My mom was like, Why are you putting all this sauce on here? He's like, hey, let me do it the way I do it. And we're like, all right, sorry, I'll googie. But it was too much sauce.

But other than that, it was very good. The smoke flavor was good. We got some Hawaiian rolls. My mom made some homemade rolls. We were putting it on that. And let's see. Shian made some sliders. It was all good.

So we had charcutory, pulled hog shoulder that was smoked deliciously. Okay. And then they ordered some cookies from a place that I shall not mention. Yeah, they don't spend money. They don't get to mention. All right, John, what were your eats, by the way? Would you eat? Big city wings.

That's what I'm talking about. My girl loves a place, man. Did you call it? Did you call ahead? No, no. We did it half time. You said, do you know who I am? You said, do you know who I am?

I'm Jonathan Allen. I'm hog nuts from the Matt Thomas show and Ross. You get the hog nuts special. It's not as a plug, guys. Biggie wings is that good, guys. You get the hog nuts special? Yeah. Big ass wings.

You get the biggest of the wings. Oh, my God. Rocky Mountain Oysters. I don't even know what that means, but it's got a connotation to it, doesn't it? It does. Okay, very good. All right. 7-1-3-2-1.

One, two, five, seven, ninety, if you want to chime. We've got open lines for you today. Again, we, this is the, this is maybe our toughest week of the year for a variety of reasons. One, because there's really nothing piping hot. Rockets do play Tuesday, Wednesday against the Clippers, who did beat up on the Wolps. That's what I watched before the Super Bowl. I watched that game. That was more from my just getting ready for the Clippers.

And then one week from today. Clippers prep. I like it. Who knows who the hell's left on that team? Kwai Leonard was still there. Oh, my God. He's bawling. John Collins still there.

Okay. And then some guy with a really long last name, it's got hyphen in it. Not a guiseachshend or not as long as long as that. But one week from today, we're going to be in West Palm Beach. Yes, we are. Isn't it crazy? It is crazy.

It's always fan fest is like the first kickoff to where it starts getting the ball rolling, baby. Before you know, it'll be opening day. Yep. I'm excited. Yep. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of next week, we will be down in West Palm Beach with the local baseball team. And I guess the question will be, will Isak Peretti's be a part of that team? The Boston Red Sox went and got their infielder today from Milwaukee.

So that's going to probably check them off the list. Our buddy Chandler Rom, in front of the show, says they were at one point, there were five teams that were interested. Yeah. And perhaps kicking the tires on parades. I would knock that down to four. Yes. The Red Sox had made their trade.

He mentioned he did not want to claim a lot of teams publicly, but he did say that the ones that were perhaps showing a little more interest in others were the Boston Red Sox, which they've obviously resolved their situation. And the Pittsburgh Pirates. being a team as well. Yeah, and apparently the pirates getting Ozuna, Chandler-Rome says shouldn't remove Pittsburgh, but does decrease likelihood. Okay.

But there are apparently others. I'm going to still stay with this. He's getting traded sometime this year. Unless, may I use it? I think gut feeling hit for you, by the way. Yeah. Unless there's an injury that would preclude, that it would be a need for him. If everybody stays relatively healthy,

I think Joe Espada will lose his mind having to try to balance us. Whether it's in front of us talking about it every day or his guys. Guys have egos, Ross. It's difficult. Yeah, absolutely. Christian Walker must be out there every single day. Remember last year when we had him on and you asked him D.H? He's like, D.H. I don't even know what that means.

He didn't say that, of course. Right. He was very, he didn't scoff at you, but he bristled like, I'm going to be out there every day. Well, the only way, and I thought about this, little bit. It's kind of an elementary analysis. The only way it doesn't become really an issue is

if Yordawn plays more than we think in left field. And I keep getting the vibe, at least publicly, that that's not what they want to do. I wonder if there's, we're not going to say like fights, but like discussions. Like, it feels like maybe

Espada wants Yordon out and D.H. every day. Maybe more than, first of all, more than Yordon does. Didn't, didn't Joe say, like a Yordon sitting him highlight reels of him making catches in left field or something like that? Well, I'll say this. I'll give him credit. I don't think Yorna shies away from playing left field. Yeah, he likes it. But that's just

adding a 50% probability of further injury. Yeah. You need a guy who needs, you need to be upright, 145 games this year. If you had him 145 games last year, you're in the playoffs. Yeah. Easily. Easily. So that's, it does add a little bit of, not drama, because a drama would be not having enough players. Intrigued is what I would call it.

Yes. Storylines. Yeah. There's a lot of material for Chandler-Roman, Brian McTaggart and the lads. And I'll do talk about the baseball team too. Yes, of course, which we like. Yeah, we'll be definitely getting into that as well. We like talking points.

Yeah. So I thought it was interesting that today the Red Sox did make a trade. They did it with Milwaukee. They get Caleb Durham away from the Brewers. The Red Sox will send. These are people you don't even know. Kyle Harrison, Shane Dronen, and David Hamilton. Oh, man, unbelievable hall.

I don't know. I'm just kidding. Well, Caleb Durbin solves their third base spot. Okay. So I'm still telling you, Rossi, the number one thing that scares the bejes out of me is relying on the three outfielters that are expected to be the starters opening up the year.

Or whatever the outfield can go on. I don't think there's enough power. Well, maybe enough defense, but there ain't enough power. I don't think that Dana Brown is looking for prospects in return for Isak Paratus. I think he's looking for outfield help. Yep. He's trying to kill two birds of one stone.

Cut this infield log jam and get some outfield help. And apparently it can happen because the Red Sox and Brewers made Major League Player moves today. Isaac Paratus is the top three hitter on the Astros. I'm going to be sad. I know we've got to figure out this log jam, but I'm going to be sad if and when he's traded. And the number one thing we should continue to mention over and over again just to make sure

is that the person they want to trade is the untradable one. I guarantee they would rather have Isak Predus playing first base than Christian Walker. Yeah, there's going to be direct correlation between value to your team and value to other teams. Yeah. So if you don't think you like him, why would other teams want to like him? Now, you are rooting for like heck that he bounces back and has a better season two than season one. It was not atrocious. It wasn't like Jose O'Brayo atrocious, but it certainly wasn't Jeff Bagwell or even Lance Berkman.

You need a bounce back. The problem is, father time doesn't usually allow bouncebacks. Could be wrong. But a guy north of 30, a lot of money attached to it. High strikeout rate. George Springer bounce back. Christian Walker's a nice player. He's not the athlete that George Springer is.

I'm saying it can happen. I believe. I believe. And I'll tell you this. If it happens, it'll be the most wonderful ride for the Astros this year. I'm going to say the oblique got him off to a bad start, got him in some bad habits, took him while to work out the kinks,

and he had a better second half, and he's going to be ready to go in 2026. Okay, so let me ask you this. If we get Christian Walker down in Florida, do we say how much does the oblique affect this season? And will he go, man, leave that alone. I have something in the past. We could absolutely ask them. I think it's, you know what, it's a fun.

And guys will be more honest the next year than they will be in the middle of the season. It's a fine line, because I nobody wants to use the injury every single time no but his struggles in Arizona directly correlate to his oblique situation maybe that was the reason why the diamondbacks were like you know what we love you you do hit home runs for us but we know that that that oblique's been something that's been a part of your past and it's probably going to be a part of your future he's bouncing back I'm buying Christian Walker stock okay like I'm buying bitcoin come bounce back how's your bitcoin by the way uh it's crashed really hard, but I still... What made the crash? I don't know. Hmm. Economic panic?

My stocks went up and down. Gold is gone way up. Gold's always doing well. Gold has been crushing it. People just have gold sitting around in their backyard or something or... I guess, yeah. You put it in your volleyball pit? That's funny.

You can dig for treasure in there? Come to my house and see what kind of things are underneath the sand. Or, dig for me, gold. Wait, I don't know why I'm Irish and a pirate. Irish pirate. you an Irish pirate in a Kingwood backyard. Picture that, ladies and gentlemen. Rockets did get a win Saturday.

Who is that? Taylor Biscotti. Oh, God. Okay, come on. Hi. She's got way too much makeup on. I mean, that thing is, it's Kate, but... You know what? I'm going to be positive.

She's doing great. I'm wishing her the best. Okay. It's a new me. All right. 713-212-5-7. 713-212-5-7-90. From her to Mike McDonald's.

You got good hair, by the way. 38 years old, youngest quarterback coached ever won in Super Bowl. I've got the third youngest I've coach. 38-27 days old. Ross, what were you doing at 38-227? I was probably here. Now that guy's a Super Bowl winning coach.

I think I was probably covering the Astros World Series. Serial life wasn't that bad. Yeah. I mean, I don't have as much it's progressive. since then, but you know, that's each is great. I'm doing life is beautiful. I'm glad you

hear that. There's only one major problem in my life. Jonathan, that's really rude for him to say that. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Astrohole. Astroho. Shout out to you. You know, if we had Christian Walker quarterback and CJ at first base, the results will be the same.

All I'm saying, fellas. Wait, but Christian Walker is not the CJ Strata of the Astros. Hey. That's rude. Kenneth Walker, Super Bowl MVP. How about giving it to the kicker? What do you think? Guy kicked five field goal. He got war-worked to anybody else.

I was heard for Ken Walker because that was my gut feeling. I don't even remember that. I mean, if you got it, you're good for you. Yeah, I did. I'm saying good for you. Sam Donald was a chalk pick. I don't. Oh, Jonathan, I believe, said Stefan Diggs.

And then he picked the Seahawks. That was confusing. Well, half and half. You're hedging your bets. I like that. I'll tell you what. He predicted. Now, he was kind of right in a way.

He added a lower scoring game, which it was until the very end. How about this? If you're a New England fan, which I assume there's very few of you here. What if Christian Gonzalez didn't have the game of his life? Yeah. My God, he was knocking back everything. He was playing very well. You didn't give it the one long pass.

But generally speaking, if you were to ask for a cornerback's perfect game, he was about a 9.8 out of 10. He was very good. Didn't get to pick six, but he was good. Yeah, I told the guy. behind me at the Rocks game is getting to pick six man a white guy back there telling me he's wearing a Patriot gear yeah

I'm trying to think Ross if that was the suckiest Super Bowl I've seen in 40 years what's the second? No there's been blowouts oh I'll tell you what there was worse ones didn't Arizona and Pittsburgh play one that was dreadful? Seattle destroyed the Broncos like 40 to 8 but at least there was offense

in that that was horrible though there was the ugly one with the Philly Special when the when the Eagles beat the Patriots, that game was ugly. It was the final score on that one, like 13 to 6 or something like that. I'm going to ask Google AI who they liked. Okay.

What is the worst Super Bowl? This was up there. And thank God there were some scoring in the second half. Yeah, Patriots 13 Rams 3. That was horrible. That game was like 63, but that was a bad one. And look, yeah, oh, it was 43 to 8, so I had it wrong. Hey, that's what AI says the worst ones were.

Oh, 49ers 55, 15. 50s 10 was the worst. Biggest margin. Oh, when the Ravens trashed the Giants. Oh, Seahawks being the Broncos 43-8. I remember that one. I remember that back when 1971. The Colts beat the Cowboys 16 to 13.

There were 11 turnovers in that game. I want to live. Oh, my God. Nicknamed the Super Bowl. I like that. Can I just tell you, if they're calling Drake May the schedule, that is, I don't know who did that. But that's phenomenal.

It's so good. Phenomenal. Rockets got a win in Oklahoma City on Saturday. That was the best part. Daytime game, got home, picked up Big City and the way home. Life is good, baby, when you win those games. Worst guy is falling Rockets guy.

We're okay? Everybody all right? They lost two games, and everybody's calling me and talking about this is the worst, and EMA Doker needs to be fired. Raphael Stone's the worst GM, and he needs to be fired. Feeling better if they beat the Thunder.

Let's go. folks. Hey, when the next two, you're going to be to high watermark for wins this year. By the way, they have won nine of 13 games. No, they're terrible, Matt. They're horrible. Everybody needs be fired. He may Duncan doesn't know, his head from

his ass, blah, blah, blah, blah. Terrible. Let's go to David on 7 ony. Hi, David. Well, hey there, guys. Ross is exactly on point. I'm calling to take credit for the Rockets swim. Oh, really?

because it was me. I called after the Charlotte loss. I called into Rockets. It's pronounced the rockets and no better than mid in the entire conference. It's okay. You were being emotional, David. Yeah. No, no.

I was making that call from every listener you have and they're pretty much assured that the Rockets would win their next game and make me look like an ass. So there you go. You did great, David. And if they can win these two games against the clippers, I mean, we're going to be feeling good. But that's pretty much it.

Super Bowl, you know, hey, I agree with you on Christian Gonzalez, by the way. If I'd have a vote for MVP, I would have voted for both a defensive player and a player on a losing team, none of which are ever going to win anything. But to me, that was the MVP of that came yesterday, so I like your point. Yep.

I'll tell you what, David, it was, that was the only thing I really respect and thank you for the call. He was, Donald was, at least that they were attempting to go deep. Drake May couldn't go deep because he didn't have enough time. Yeah, he was... And then he was... Intermediate routes were thrown behind receivers.

His feet were shuffling. I mean, he was playing like C.J. Stroud. Marcus Lawrence was all over him. Longhorn legend Byron Murphy. I mean, yeah, that Seattle defense was insane. And that's the thing that we kind of talked about this earlier, where people were like, man, Texans could have been right in this one. This is their type of game.

C.J. Stroud would have been, being harassed and destroyed this entire for four quarters. Yeah. Again, if you want to make the excuse that Drate Mae took advantage of an easy slate, I mean, you got a little bit of credit today. Weather wasn't great in any of those games. The weather was good. It was an exemplary defense. It was by far your hardest opponent you played this year.

It's supposed to be when you're playing for the Super Bowl. Yeah. Seahawks were the best team, I think, at football all year. So, I mean, it was them and the Rams to me. And they were in three knockdown, dragout games. Seattle won two out of three of them, one in the playoffs, deserving Super Bowl champion. As part of the tale the truth today at 1130, I will have two teams for next year's Super Bowl

and whether I believe that or not is one of my Super Bowls to tell the truth. So what do you think about that? All right. I'm intrigued. I'm glad you should be. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

Coming up at the top of the hour, we're going to run through Jonathan Alexander's article about 10 things he'd like to see the Texans do. Now, some of this is a little minutia. So we'll kind of glaze by those pretty quick, but there are some that probably do are worthy of conversation. We'll get to that. We have Astero Spring Training kicking off with pitchers and catchers

Wednesday down in West Palm Beach. We have the Rockets with the win. We have safe to say one of the worst Super Bowls ever. I mean, even if it's not the worst, yeah, I mean commercial I didn't understand halftime

and... It was a total sweat at the end. There was. That's why, man, betting on sports is not always fun. Oh, I had a good time. I bet you did. I'd rather just throw money playing in the black check table with people around me

that don't know what they're doing it makes it much more enjoyable for me okay good for you Maybe we should just bring some people with us Like if you want to hang out with you and me In like Charles or Vegas We have to have like a little

If they have like a quiz To make sure you know what you're doing Okay By the way there's a video out there On the real streets of a guy that hit 17 At a casino And there was a brawl right after it Really?

Mm-hmm Where? Some can see, I don't know where it was, but Detroit? It could have been. I've seen one person hit 17 and it was in New Orleans, which is, again, their math is a little diskewed. So that wouldn't be a total surprise to me. That would have happened.

713-212-5-7-0. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We'll take some more phone calls. By the way, the Cougars, basketball. Yes. U of H. Went to BYU. Yeah, we're talking about them Cougars.

Talking about them Cougars. That's got to be good for the kid. 20,000 people in that arena. Really? Always 20,000. That arena is huge. For BYU basketball? Huge.

It wasn't on a Sunday then. No, it wasn't. But it was close. It was Saturday 930 Central. By the way, college basketball, ESPN, you got to stop scheduling these games at two hour times. These games are going 215, 220. I had to watch ESPN news for the first 10 minutes of game.

So if you're just at rando... They always do this. So if you didn't have ESPN news, let's say you were in a hotel. Yeah. And you want to watch the Cougars BYU game, you would have not have seen any of the game until 10 minutes remaining in the first half. They haven't had two-hour games in like 30 years. That is accurate. I don't know what they're thinking.

Just ridiculous. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. You know, every mile does tell a story, and you can add savings to yours with the shell. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. On Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here, and we are taking this program today until 2 p.m. 713-212-5-790. If you want to join in the conversation, 713-212-5-790.

You want to follow me on Instagram. You may do that at SportsMT. SportsRV also did a little video with a bunch of stuff behind you. That was interesting. I caught that over the weekend. Oh, thank you, Matt. Yeah, I'm trying to get back on my content game. How was your content game?

It's not great. I mean, we got like 50-something likes and 1100 views. It's not bad. No worries about that. It's more than I got if I didn't post anything. That's the way I see it. That is true. All right.

So Jonathan Alexander, who is the Texans beat writer, he's legit media, by the way. Why are you laughing? Because you make me laugh. Okay. Many of others have said that. That's right. Okay.

He has a list, and I'm not trying to steal all of his joy, but I mean, if it's a good material, I mention his name, I've given him credit for it. Yeah, we've given him, look, Subscribe to the Chronicle folks. Yeah, it gives you good stuff. I mean, that's legitimate media and that aren't... I subscribe there and I subscribe the athletic.

Yeah, those are the two things you go through. All right, here we go. His is a 10-step plan to get the Texans to a Super Bowl. Oh! Ten steps. Okay, that shows you how long it's going to take. Right there, baby. In no particular order, and some of these are more important than others.

Number one, he says... So here comes a bunch of ads. Stay with me here. I can read it for you. I have it. Here we go. Number one, cut running back Joe Mixon and defensive and Mario Edwards.

Oh. Hey. Wait a second. What? Was that, first of all, that startled me. So good job on that. Second of all, come on, man. He didn't shoot himself in the foot.

When Super Bowl's over, by the way. Do you owe me coffee yet? I owe you coffee in a Danish. Okay. good. When are we going for this? First of all, can we get the Sabachi thing out of the way? All-Star brakes coming up. When I get back from New York. Can we do it in West Palm? Oh, no, we need Jonathan there. No. I told you I'm not paying for Jonathan. I'll pay for Jonathan.

I got his water. So Jonathan, we're saying that Joe Mixton is out according to Jonathan Alexander. Okay. Hey, come on, man. What? I don't hear anything. He didn't shoot himself with the foot. You don't know that? I don't know that for 100% true. Nobody's that stupid, are they? Jonathan, what do you think? Okay. So you're telling me.

Well, I thought you were doing old y'all, old yelering Joe. So you're telling me that the Texans would keep this injury a secret for a calendar year. Nick Casario said nothing irresponsible. Well, he could also lie to you. He could. People lie constantly, and I am endorsing of a lie. said nothing irresponsible. I would say,

shooting yourself in the foot with a gun qualifies as irresponsible. All right. So, and again, number one is getting rid of Mario Edwards and Joe Mixon. There you go. Let's go to number two. Here's an interesting one.

Restructuring contracts of Daniel Hunter, Derek Singley, and Nico Collins. All that makes sense. Totally. Now, it takes two to tango on those things. Of course. They all have to be willing to do. that. And my guess is they probably would, as long as they don't lose any money on the deal. Current cap numbers are too high, apparently. Number three, extend the contracts of Dalton

Schultz and Al-Zis Al-Shire. Shultz still in the prime of his career. Shire's been excellent, too, best season of his career coming off that? I'd like a tight end than to the draft. I don't think that's out of the question. Because I mean, what caged over and who's the other one that just came back from injury? Brevin Jordan's been heard all year, but then there was some other guy. I mean, yeah, exactly. There's not enough there. Look, I like Dalton Schultz. He came on in the second half of the season, but also, I mean, he's just, he doesn't

bring a super dynamic. He's a nice safety blanket, security blanket? Correct. But he's not a playmaker. But the problem is he was put in the work of being the second biggest target on this team, and that just can't be the case. Next. He's no A.J. Barner. Exactly. Picking up options on Will Anderson and C.J. Straud's

contracts. That kind of goes without saying. Of course. All right. That's going to happen. signing Cade Mays at Center. Carolina, Panthers is the team he plays for. Oh, okay. I don't necessarily think it needs to be Cade Mays. It doesn't be somebody better. Anybody not named Jake Andrews, please, I'm sorry.

Just terrible. Juice Grugs didn't work out. Is that going on as a draft bust? Yes. Second round pick, too. Oh, if we, they would be lifting the Lombardi Trophy if Nick Casario could draft lineman.

if Kenyon Green and Drew Scruggs and Blake Fisher and Arionte Ursi were all big hits but they'd be Super Bowl Chains and Ersry could be Ursery right TVD yeah yeah Blake Fisher played a little better this year but not like the third

But he was also your extra alignment He was a third tackle yeah I would hope that you'd help you out as being six Composal guarding five But I think some people are saying We're seeing a little potential maybe that But we'll see Here's an interesting

Third year's big for Blake Fisher. Signing Bruce Hall to a three-year contract. Now the reason why apparently the Texans were not overly aggressive in grabbing him is because he was going to be a he was on a lame duck contract for NC rental. Now Jonathan believes that you go give him some good money. You're not going to get Kenneth Walker out of Seattle.

They're going to make sure he gets taken care of. He had paid by senior. And, Brees Hall, best year ever for the Jets in his career. I wouldn't be opposed to that. I mean, honestly, let's be brutal on this. Woody Mark's not an everyday running back. There's nothing left in the tank anymore of our boy.

Joe Nixon? No, no, no. Oh, Nick Chub. Nick Chub. By the way, Nick Chub probably going to go somewhere else, too. He's probably thinking I got more left in the tank. You're not showing to me. Yeah, I think he's going to play with the Barcelona Dragons.

That's true. here's one, re-sign Ed Ingram to a multi-year deal. Yeah, that's going to cost you. I like that, but that's going to cost you. He got himself some cash. And Sheldon Rankins in a new contract. I like Sheldon Rankins, yes. Yep.

Next, this is very interesting because it's only happened one since Casero took it over, and it was a pretty big jump. He says use draft picks from Washington to move up from number 28 to number 13. Ooh. Okay. He's talking about the Rams pick. Tunsel deal. Yes. He's basically, I'm going to, I'm going to go ahead and assume that Alexander is saying, get into the top 15. Yes. Whether it's 13, 14, 15. He wants them to get Ola and Iva Vega, Ione. Ome. Poor Vandermear. Arienta Ersi and Olai Vaiva Vega.

That's a lot. Ioni. That's a lot. Yoni. Next. That's fun. Draft a defensive tackle in the second round and a tight end in the third. Okay. All right.

So we're kind of on the same page. I'd like to see a tight end. Honestly, I'm going to disagree with those. I would think I could probably go down around on each one of those. I think third round tight end, you can get an impact guy. Well, first of all, anybody. I'm of the belief I've always said this. Your third round players should be starting for you within two to three years.

In theory. In theory. In the end, you've got some. many positions, not everybody can be in the first round. You should be able to get quality as a number, the 90th pick in the draft. Yeah, one, two, three, you should get, one should be impact, two should be a good starter, and then three should be a starter who can hold their own. Yeah. And then anything after the fourth round is gravy. Gravy. Yeah. And then the last thing he says is establish identity on offense earlier. Okay. Well, what, we're going to have a long time to talk about this, but what, what

position group would you like as far as you're talking about to go down a tick? Another offensive line? Like take two? Yeah. I'm not going to tell you you're crazy for saying that. You know the term run it back? You hear that all the time? Yes. Even the Astros used it one year. Yes. Or the Rockets. After 18 when they lost, right? Didn't they do run it back? I thought the Astros ran it back. Take it back. Okay. Take it back, run it back. Go back. I don't care what you used. Yeah, the Rockets did run it back.

and then they were out in the second round, even with Kevin Durant ripping his Achilles in half. Yeah, I will say this, you can't give me enough quality offensive linemen. You just can't. I agree.

I think if you're going to resurrect, and honestly, it's a resurrection. Quality is the key. Word there. I know, and you're not trusting the people that are in charge. You have to give CJ.

And I don't think rookies necessarily do that, but if you're going to extend CJ, and make him your franchise quarterback for the foreseeable future, you absolutely have got to give him a better offensive line. You just do. I think a better offensive line would probably calm the nerves down of CJ. It would make him so fidgety. And I think it could absolutely, because he's got the arm strength.

He generally speaking, although his accuracy has gone down a little bit. Some of the decision making, I think, has significantly suffered in the last couple of years. And I think a lot of that is because he doesn't trust the five or six guys. as in front of him. You can't, for me, you can't give me enough offensive line, especially in the first three rounds. I think a couple things. As the playoffs have gone along, I've been thinking Texans aren't of this class, but also as they've gone along, I've been thinking, you know what, C.J. Stroud had nothing around him.

I mean, the offensive line, the running, I'm watching these teams. I'm watching like Ken Walker streak down and make plays. I'm watching Jackson Smith and Jigba and all these other guys. and even the past catchers for the Patriots are better. These guys are great quarterbacks, the two super bowl, or very good quarterbacks. They're also in much better situations than CJ Sharad is. I'm not telling you, Houston,

that he's going to be dynamic and amazing, but it's at a low point, and you might as well give him a couple of things that can make him feel better. A couple of linemen. And I don't even necessarily believe it's the draft. You can go get, like, at this center, this guy out of Carolina, if he's available,

how much difference it would be if you had a quality center, how much it would change. I also think the running back, I frankly would go more running back over a tight end. You might as well add numbers there. And then you're pushing winning marks. It either be better or you replace him. But you need an RB1. This team does not have an RB1.

You're telling me you have a hodgepodge offensive line and no RB1, and we're expecting CJ to be better next season. Yeah. Good luck with that. 1114 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. We're going to talk to Will and more. and we come back. If you want to chime in and get in after Will, you may do so at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. To tell the truth, bottom of the hour here on 790.

I just put a tweet out yesterday, and again, so the last two years have not done anything for me with Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny. It's my turn. I want yacht rockin' at the Super Bowl 61. Let's make that happen. So you want them to bring out decrepit Christopher Cross? First of all, Christopher Cross would wear Earl Campbell, Jersey, like he did back in the day. That'd be awesome, number one. Number two, all of his songs aren't recognized. You gave me Kenny Loggins, you gave me Michael McDonald, and you gave me Christopher

Cross at a halftime show, the place be a jumping. The place would be a sleeping. No, they won't be a sleeping. They'll be an enjoying themselves. I'm called the halftime sedative. Let me give you the song list. Ride like the wind. Exactly.

I'm asleep already. A keep forgiven. Forgetting. Forgetting. Forgetting. You give me Danger zone. You give me, I'm all right. Yeah.

You give me, oh, danger zone is not really a yacht rock. I'm all right. You give me. That's not a yacht rock either. It was catty chat. You can't even make one set list, Matt. You know what? I will come up with the ultimate set list.

Oh, no, it's fine. I'm just thinking off top. And we're all good. But don't you think it's my turn? No, why is it your turn? Because they should rotate. Rotate for that. International crowd.

No, it's no way of that. How about the regular crowd? I'm about the regular guys who like the music. The regular crowd is the most listened to artists in the entire world. But I don't listen to them. That's not me. I know. But they're not looking for you, Matt.

They need to look for me. I'm being selfish. Can I get one year of a group that I actually like? That's all I want. I've given you two years ago as you like. They are trying to. to grow the brand of the NFL globally. They want to take it a half time.

They're coming for Brazil and Madrid and Germany and England and the entire world. I want Arthur's theme. The best that you can do is fall in love. Arthur does as he pleases. So you think because they're trying to take over the world and expand their reach, they should go with Christopher Cross and Kenny Loggins. I just want to be entertained at halftime. I'm not trying to overthink it.

Okay. I don't need global branding. I don't need global awareness. Roger Goodell said, shut your bum ass up. I'm sure he does. I don't agree with him on much of anything. So that's just another thing.

Okay. You'd rather enjoy like a Beatles cover band. You know what? Get Paul McCartney out there for two songs. Oh, stop. Let's go. One thing they can AI him. You know what?

Give me John Cooke or Mellencamp. He's back on the streets. I'm going to see him in August. You don't mean to tell me that Jack and Diane and Pink Houses wouldn't bring the house down? Absolutely. They would not bring the house down. I just want something I like. I know, man.

And I'm not being selfish. Well, I got an idea for you. Do your own halftime? Like something after 1976 and you'll get something you like. I've tried. Lady Gaga doesn't, I like her. Okay. She was good.

She was in Houston, right? Yeah, but I mean, I know I have some of her songs. Okay. Who else where I like that's like the weekend was good? Weekends not terrible. but that wasn't bad. Brumar Marz wasn't bad. Good?

Yeah. Yeah. What are you wanted about? But the last two have been personally for me. Yeah? No, no political editor. Okay. Two years.

I didn't understand a word bad bunny said and didn't like the quote-unquote vibe. The vibe was good. That's your interpretation. That is. I mean, I was just, it was not my vibe. You didn't like all them. And then Kendrake Lamar. You didn't like those dancers?

I mean, I didn't dislike them. I mean, they didn't have an issue with it. But I can put it. You put a hot dance. dances around Christopher Cross. Jessica was so hot. Good. It's cute.

All the timer. Mount Rushmore. Oh, Mount Rushmore. Oh, yeah. Not even close. You know what my number one of Mount Rushmore is? I try to split it out. Valor Bertnelly.

No. I think Margo Robbie. Ooh. Spicy. She's in a new movie, too. I don't care. Just go watch Wolf of Wall Street. Wolf of Wall Street.

My God. Wolf of Wall Street. Oh, my. Okay. We're focusing back. Let's go back. The last really great one was... I mean, Weekend was okay.

Gaga was good. The last really great one was Prince, right? Loved Prince. But Prince wasn't putting out anything new. That was... When was Prince? I'm looking for it. But he played all of his old hits.

Yeah. He did. Again, 2000... Oh, my God, was it 2007? See, I don't... Again, I certainly do not represent anyone except me. This is just me talking. Okay.

But I think people at halftime want something that they... know and recognize. I forgot Usher did. Yeah, I mean, okay. But, you know, I just, it's just. Kendrick Lamar won record of the year. But. Very influential. To whom? Usher was before that. Usher had some hits. I like Usher.

I could find 50% in the interesting. Rihanna before that. Oh, the Dr. Dre Snoop Dogg M&M one, Matt. You loved that one. That wasn't terrible. No, that was good. See, again, there's some stuff that I like. The weekend. Oh, Shakur Jennifer Lopez. Like that. Like that. Although I'm not a big J-Lo singing fan. just watching her doing a thing is fine. I mean, if you're going to give me songs I don't like, Maroon 5, I'm just going through the list.

No, Maroon 5 is fine. They're not great, but... Was Nickelback ever a half time? No. Justin Timberlake? Not by couple of it, but I know some of his songs. Then Gaga before that at NRG Stadium. Oh, then Coldplay?

Katie Perry. Remember when the sharks came out? I liked Katie Perry. Bruno Mars, Beyonce. I know you love that. I like Beyonce. I got that right. Madonna. The problem is, is you, there's only a certain number of major,

I mean, major big name world impact stars. That are frankly alive. And then have it, that are alive and then haven't done it. Like the biggest star who hasn't done it right now is Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift is the only one. And I don't think the next most popular worldwide renowned star is a far distant second.

Yeah. I'm going to have to, yeah, number one global Spotify was Bad Bunny and two. It's been Taylor Swift. Swift and Bad Bunny like every year. Yeah. But Taylor's... Arrana Grande.

Grande could do it, although I really listen to Ariana Grande sing other people's music and she impersonates them. I'm trying to find most listen to artists. Yeah, Bruno Marr's done it. We can't done it. Do you think country music gets one? Oh, Justin Bieber? Bieber could do it for sure. Oh, Drake. Brown, his half his foul words in it?

He's fine. I mean, yeah, so did Kendrick Amar. He just danced around the words. and bad bunny. That's what I do constantly. Dance around words. But also, well, Jay-Z hated Drake and he was running the thing, but I don't know if... Billy Elish.

She's got a bunch of hits. Yeah. I'm going to say Billy Elish. I don't know that is. Don't put your hands across your face like that. No, I'm just a new year to do me. I'm so nice. It's not. I always try to be nicer, too, and it doesn't work.

You do the same thing. I didn't say anything. I didn't even said a word. All right. Well, on 7. 9-1125. Hi, Will. Morning, guys. How you doing? Good. Okay, you were talking about the Texas,

how about I just follow the Chicago Bears roadmap? They signed two off-season offensive linemen, and they drafted one. See what they did for their quarterback. Yeah, he had a better year. Yep. But here's the thing I called about guys, and I know my wife tired of listening to me yap about this. Well, that's what we're here for you.

I'm watching the rocket, and I get aggravated every day, and I love watching the Rockets. But it reminds me when Akeem was here, and we had Sam Cassell, Kenny Smith, and Vernon Maxwell, right? Neither one of those guys can make a damn pass to the post. Neither one. What we do, we didn't went out and got Robert Orie. And Robert Orie was second only to Magic Johnson making passes to the post. he was that good. He was that good.

So now I'm watching this team, and what troubles me is, not only do we can we not pass to the post, the people that's receiving the past won't come toward the past. And it just aggravates me. It really does. I mean, I'm like, this is basketball one-on-one, fellas. But the problem is, Will,

your king facilitator is your center. Ain't that amazing? Well, he's got the skill set. that. So if he has a skill set to do that, I'm not opposed to that. I mean, I'm not, you know, they're not, they're not asking, they're not asking in, uh, in San Antonio

for Victor Women Yama to run the offense. They're, they're giving it to Alper and Schengue because he can dribble the basketball. Now they're giving the ball to Victor to go downhill. That's not going to be Alper and strong suit. But Matt, doesn't that trouble you that your chief facilitator is not re-shepard?

Um, in small doses it is, but not, not the big picture. Not at this point in his career. And here's the thing that I would do with Reed Shepard. I would make Reed Shepard get a video of Mark Price and watch it for 24 straight hours. He could be effective as Mark Price. And you saw Mark Price play. I did. What did Mark Price do? Shoot. He went to the file line, extended, and shot jump shots. Which Reed does. He's actually done a lot better. He doesn't do it enough. I would like to see him do it more. Okay. So he's got to get better. I mean, Mark Price is one of the greatest shooters ever walked the planet.

Well, he's not there yet. I mean, you're right. If the end game for Reed Shepherd is Mark Price, I'd be more than happy with that. But he's got to get to Mark Price level. Yeah, thank you, well, for the phone call. This is his first extended plaintiff. To me, I know there's some defensive tangibles. He does steal the ball quite a bit.

He does intercept passing lanes. Yeah, he gets attacked by every. But the dribble drive is just, either he's. not athletic enough or the slide step isn't good enough. It's not consistent enough, surely, certainly. Or surely. Yeah, or either. Also, the thing we have to remember is he's played double the minutes that he played all

last year. This is really his rookie year, to be brutally honest with you. He's playing rookie minutes for the first time in his life. Yeah. Has six starts. He's coming out of it, but he's been in a funk for a while. Yeah. He's been as, he's been like Jabari Smith.

He's been on a roller coaster all year. There are some nights you want to hug him and say, thank you for hitting five threes. And other nights you're like, don't ever shoot a three again. Yeah, I think it's, it might be like a little bit of a rookie wall he's hitting.

And I also think of man, Thompson's kind of feeling that right now. I agree, because you ask so much of him on both ends of the floor. Yeah, that's why I thought the Saturday victory was so meaningful because not only did you not use him, but you won the game and you got him off his feet for a game.

He's got now, we've had two days off. We've had two days off in between games and God knows how long. You get two days off, as you said, and you were down, what, 15, 16 in that game? What was the most they were down? I can't remember. But you were down big in that game.

Honestly, it looked like it wasn't going to happen for you. And then you pulled it out. You got the victory. You get the two days off without him in Thompson. Huge win. Even though there's no shade Gil, just Alexander on the other end. But still.

Everybody had players gone. You play who's in front of you. Yeah. Sorry. Injuries do happen. And by the way, they're not going to re-evaluate SGA until after the All-Star break. So it could be more than just coming back post-all-Star break. To tell the truth is up next.

It's 1130 on Sports Talk 790. But the thing of it is, folks, I do know how to tell the truth. Tell the truth. It's not my favorite thing to do, but I do tell the truth. I thought we should put on what a fool believes for this segment. You know what? I'm just kidding. That's Michael McKeown.

You know I got zero problem with that. You're not a fool, though, Matt. Some things I am. No, you're doing great. We're all proud of you. My character evaluations have been better. What does that mean? Nothing.

You're all right? Yeah. I'm just getting over a cold. I'm like 90% over it. All right, here we go. Here I've got four things, guys. Yes, three of them, I believe. Okay, so one lie.

One lie. Let me write that down. Three truths, one line. Tandy truth. Number one, my first blush for Super Bowl 61. Uh-oh. Don't hold me to it, but this is just, these are opinions. We got feeling this a couple weeks ago.

I don't remember what you picked. I don't even remember either. But this is, what has just happened. This is fresh and brand new. The game is in Los Angeles, and the Rams will be hosting a Super Bowl in their stadium. Okay. Rams and Buffalo Bills next year for Super Bowl 61.

Man, you love the Buffalo Bulls. bills. You're picking them again the Super Bowl every time. I love them like you like the Baltimore Ravens. You love the Buffalo Bills. You just can't stop picking the Buffalo Bills. You're right. Super Bowl 61.

Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams. Okay. First blush. I mean, that's, see, I don't, there's no way for me to judge that that's a lie or truth. That's completely reasonable. Okay. But I could be telling you a lie. You don't know.

I know. Number two. Women's basketball in college basketball for years ago went to four quarters. We need that for college basketball too. Establishes new foul counts. Doesn't let games go on and on with a bunch of free throws at 17 fouls at the 13-minute monitor of the game. We're shooting free throws the rest of the way.

By the way, can we get them to do a jump ball? That doesn't bother me so much. No, they're grown-ass millionaires. Let's go. Let's get a jump ball going. They are grown-ass millionaires. Why did they even do that rule? Well, we're going to do the sporting thing.

We don't want to hurt anybody's feeling. So we're going to give you the possession arrow. That doesn't make any sense. How do they sound like that? I don't know. They sound like they're just arrogant butlers. Yeah. Do that again.

I don't even know what I did. Just try what I'm trying. Possession arrow. Yeah. Why? Can they jump it up? Let's go. All right.

If you can speak for Mertz Mineral Car and make $2 million, you can jump up and get a ball. That's true. But that's something I take. Okay. Four quarters in college basketball. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

Number three. I don't think I've ever thought I'd ever say this. I actually agree with Randy Moss on something. Drake Cash, me? Well, I always believe that. He made a very, very interesting point that maybe we should let players and coaches vote on a Hall of Fame voting. And that stodgy media should be out of it.

You can get rid of biases. You can talk about performances. They can know about what's happening, literally in the locker rooms. Okay. Okay. And number four, people like to create Mount Rushmore's of things. Okay. I am taking a Mount Rushmore of Broadcasting.

And I'm adding Mike Toriko to the list after what has happened with the NBA now, the Olympics, the Super Bowl. This is going to be interesting. And all the golf he does, anything Mike Tariko does. And he's a Syracuse guy, which those guys usually pricks. But this, I mean, he's. Oh, hey. Okay, dorks, me? You know what, I think I have his number.

Arrogant? He's busy, though. We're going to try to get him on when he does an NBC game soon. Okay, I'll give it to you. So Mike Tricco, I'm putting on the Mount Rushmore of broadcasters with the way he, everything he does, he just does exceptionally well. And that's my four takes. Guys, one of those I don't believe. Which one am I not telling you the truth?

Gentlemen, discuss. So, the funny enough, Jonathan, we went through the Mount Rushmore broadcasting and I can't remember exactly how far we got. Definitely, I think Matt had Vince Scully up there and Al Michaels. And I can't really remember after that. Probably Nance, I probably had up there. No, you said Nance is terrible and went to a bad school, I believe. No, I'm Aline Eagle, no?

No, no, I'm alibi. So that one kind of, I'm gravitating towards that one a little bit. Because Torrico is fantastic. I love Toriko. I don't know if he's Mount Rushmore Worthy. And we're looking for a lie. Also, yeah, that's what I'm saying. We're trying to root out one lie.

I mean, first plus, Super Bowl. Look, if that's the lie, that's the lie. But, I mean, Rams, Buffalo Bills sounds totally reasonable. Four quarters. Matt does complain a lot about the quality of college basketball, so I don't know if he's trying to improve that, so I can buy that one, too. And his team did lose last year.

But letting the coach, and Matt might believe letting the players and coaches vote on the Hall of Fame is true. But he should get rid of biases. I mean, come on. players are as biased as anyone like some cowboy's not going to go for some eagle and stuff like that but I can't believe he's really

going to put Mike Tariko on the I don't think Mike Tarrico is on the Mount Rushmore there's no way I'm taking three I'm gonna just lock my answer in I'm I'm taking three So you have to get in the mind of a madman and this is what makes this so difficult

No I'm very normal in many regards Name one I'm way more normal What? Hey. Dude, that gunshot's too real. That scares me. Can you soften up a gunshot?

How about get us like a BB gun? Yeah. Because if his get the foot, it's not an explosion. Maybe it did explode the foot. You never know. See, if his foot exploded, stop. All right. I'm locking in three.

I'm locking in three. I'm not going to say you're crazy. And also, hmm. That's too could be good. No, I'm not going to say. I don't want to give away my secrets. You know what? I'll just be, I'll just... I'm unsure. You know what? You know what, whatever.

You can't put Tarika. Are you putting Tariko up there? Really? I'm going to go with four. This is a good one, Matt. I'm not the line. Thank you. Well, I don't believe either of these last two. So I'm going to see what you believe. All right. Number one, I do believe first blush, Buffalo and the Rams. Okay.

First plus, but I'm allowed to change that. That's fine? Yeah, you love Josh Allen. Number two, I do believe they should go to four quarters in basketball. We're just getting way too much congested. The other two, you guys narrowed down the two most difficult ones. Okay. I'm going to tell you something. As a play-by-play broadcaster, as a talk show host, I try to be perfect.

I have never in my life done a perfect NBA broadcast. I still strive for that. It's probably never going to happen because I'm speaking thousands of words. You just can't get literally everything right. Mike Tarrico has done every sport. And to these somewhat trained eyes, he never makes a mistake. Okay. He is so exceptionally good and vivid.

And the story about the kicker for Baltimore who blows the kick in the final week. Yeah. I mean, he's awesome. I wouldn't have put Mike Tariko into the, on the Mount Rushmore maybe a year ago. Really? He does NBA. Okay. So that's my, I believe that too.

Wow. I do not believe that players and coaches should only be voting for Hall of Fame. Okay, see, that's what I thought. But then I couldn't see you giving someone else their props. You know why? Because, shut up. Because you even talked yourself into it. There's biases among players and coaches.

And by the way, do you think you're going to go ask Randy Moss to go do a deep dive on 20 players? Those reporters, now, again, they're still stodgy. But I would presume. assume that if you're giving a Hall of Fame No, this is good. You're going to give the working. This is what I would have chosen, but I didn't know if it was what you would have chosen. Again, the game is to get in the mind of a madman. That it is. I was wrong.

Yeah. Jonathan. Jonathan wins. I told you. I'm a competitor, man. Are you and Ross tied now? I told you, I'm in the fight. I'm in the fight. And I also just went different, just to go different. But I lost. And again, it's hard for me to brag on a Syracuse person. I know. They're

typically A-holes. And a contemporary of yours? I just didn't know that it was going to happen. he's amazing he just doesn't do so good and i'm i am completely envious of the fact that and and if we had mike on the show he would say of course i make mistakes because everybody does but he hides his whatever they are and you don't ever catch him he has the right words he has the right timing yes the energy he doesn't force it he doesn't for and again it's hard for because i don't like Syracuse people. But, I mean,

my Mount Rushmore right now would be dead or alive. I'll go, let me go all, dead or alive would be Scully, because he's just the voice of baseball. He's got no weaknesses. Toreko would be,

I'd probably go Al Michaels, and then I would probably go Kevin Harlan, because God dang, Kevin Harlan's talented, too. But Ian Eagle's probably right on the cusp. He's, he's climbing up the wall. He's good.

Nance is right there, too. Mm-hmm. I think Nancy, unfortunately for Nance, he's getting dragged down by people hating Tony Romo, and they're thinking that he sucks too. And Jim Danza doesn't suck either. He's awesome. And neither does Tony Romo. Tony Romo's fine. Tony Romo is fine. I think

we talked about that before. He gets way too much hate. He's not as good, since he's gotten away from the game and isn't studying tape as much as he did. Remember how that first year where he was like literally predicting plays as they were happening? He was just out of the league. Yeah. He had tape on everyone. So congratulations Jonathan. You got it.

Congratulations. Yeah. By way, did you see, real quick, we've got a break here. So Tony Dungey would not announce his Hall of Fame voting. Yeah. And Rodney Harrison went right at him. Really? Matter of fact, all in air?

Let me find the audio for you. They came to blows? No, because Rodney's got more respect for that. He got his belt out and said, who's your daddy? I don't think he got any belt out. No. No. I mean, pants would fall.

But yeah, we'll try to find the audio plate coming back here. It was, I would say a little uncomfortable. 1146. Matt Thomas Show at Ross, the news at noon in 15 minutes here on 790. I just got worried that RarRox is giving away free coffee today. I'm getting me a 12 ounce in the way out. We're happy about that. What do you have to do?

I don't know, but I've got two hours to figure it out. Okay. Trying to cut my coffee back. It's just not going well. And by way, I got a decafane and coffee has way more caffeine than it should for saying decaf. When something is D something, I thought it had none. No.

Am I wrong? It's got some in it. Oh, really? Yeah. How much. I had a conversation with my cardiologist just about that the other day. Oh, really? That's, you need to bunk.

No, it's 2 to 15. It's not great, but it's still caffeine. Normally 95. 80 to 100, I think, depending. That's better. Why, are you drinking decaf? I'm just trying to cut back in my caffeine. I've eliminated iced tea in my life.

And sodas. I never was a big soda drinker. You know, I hope you cut down on caffeine. Better sleep. Yeah, I didn't dream last night. You're supposed to dream some, I think. No, I'm done with dreaming. They're on the weird.

No, no. No, you're supposed to talk to the Sandman to bring you a dream. Make him, make her the cutest I've ever seen. I was going to say him. That's fine. It's fine. Yeah. Okay.

So. You love the dudes on dudes podcast. By the way, how many podcasts have we promoted on this? on this company. We need to get them on Plinkos and PowerBonds. That have gone away. They've flat out gone away. Is that true?

Yeah. Is John Walsall doing this podcast? Probably unlikely. Possible. Dudes on dudes? Is that still going? Maybe they're still doing it. Let me look.

Oh, do I know what to Google? Yeah. Everybody, hey, Ross is going to do dudes on dudes on his company computer. I'm putting the podcast. Yeah, here we go. Mm. Four days ago they did one. How many, how many,

How many views? Gronkin Jules on Super Bowl. 53,000? That's not bad, right? That's good. That's good. Yeah, the dudes are doing great. Give them a listen.

After the show. Yeah, after Adam and Adam. Well, after the nightcap. Do it at 2 o'clock. After launch pad. It's 2 o'clock's fine. 2 o'clock's fine. No, we'll listen all day long.

All right. Start with 7.01. The morning, the morning drive. Yes. With Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson. Correct. Then us. Then the 18.

Whatever we call this show. Yeah, it's been called a variety of things. The midday lunch break. All right, hey, so I've been spending the first two hours, and I shouldn't do this, but it is what it is. We've got to deal in realism here. Was there anything redeeming about the Super Bowl? Was there something going, wow, but like the National Anthem guy.

I don't even know who that was. Charlie Pierce. All right, I got to come clean. Go ahead. I know I've been calling you old for not known Bad Bunny and Billy Alice. I know Jonathan. can get mad at me. Get them. Y'all got to, y'all have to

get on the modern times. Y'all you know who Charlie Poof is? I didn't know who Charlie Poof is. I didn't know who Charlie Poof was. I'm sorry. What is this best hit? I'm gonna, I'm gonna play a song when we come back. No, because my sister got mad at me and she was playing me some from Charlie Puth. I recognize some of it. Is you gonna know? You're gonna know.

It's like poppy. It's fine. It's great. Well, let me let's talk about real life here just for a second. If you go to somebody and they like something. Yeah. And you've never heard of it?

You never heard of it? That's because they didn't, they, it's not my responsibility to be well-versed in music. It's, if I hear a song I like, I'll listen to that group and listen to that person. I'm not going to bash you. Like, for instance, we always play some of the older stuff for me. And I say, Jonathan, do you like it? And then if he says, I don't like it, then I go, I say, okay, I'm moving on. I don't think it's anybody's responsibility to try to push a genre of music.

music on you. No. Yeah, but when somebody's apparently like this mega star and I've never heard of him, yeah, I feel out of touch. I'm, I am very, that's the one thing about me, and whether you love me or hate me. Oh, he did the Marvin Gaye song with Megan Trainor. Yeah, I know this guy. I know, I know

you guys know this guy. Okay, 1220. You're going to play this song for it. I know we said Charlie Pooh, I guess. He was good? I like, I mean, it was nice. Yeah, did you have the over or the under on that? I didn't make a single bet on any of that. So did you did you had, you had action on what, the game itself? Under it and Cahawks minus four and a half.

Good for you. I bet, yeah. Not money. Matt. Of course. And what is your not bookie's name? Lorenzo. Lorenzo the non-Booky.

Lorenzo Giacomo? Yeah. You know what? Not that we serotype on the show. Yeah. And you met him at church too. Yeah, I did. Catholic church.

The bookie game is strong. Is it? Oh, yeah. I don't have a bookie. The youngens, too. I wish to do that. I went to Lake Charles and I came back, Matt. That's right.

Good. You crossed the state line, made you a bed on the phone and came right back. And I drive friendly the Texas way. Yes. Can you believe they say that? We don't drive friendly in Texas. I've lived in three cities.

Three major metropolitan cities in my life. We're the best of three. Really? Salt Lake City was the worst. Why? You getting cut off by everybody? No, because the people would, you know, you're leaving a parking lot of a department store or a grocery store.

they lean their car out way more than they should. So if you're in the far right lane... I'm talking about that. I'm talking about getting in road rage incidents. Oh, no, we're Texas number one in that. Okay. Mrs. Thomas may be the leader in that group as well. Yeah?

I tell her every day. No road rage today. Good. Make sure she's not packing. So, like, we're driving to Dallas on Thursday for Carly's volleyball tournament in Dallas this weekend. And I love that my wife drives, but she likes to give me the play-by-play.

Everybody doing things around us that is not good. And I'm like, honey, you're, you know, You're not Pat Summerall here. Just, let's not go nuts on this. But I take the good with the bad. If she's going to drive, because I hate the drive, I got to take the play with it. That's true. And you're yelling and screaming.

And meanwhile, me and my daughter are the only ones in the car that hear her screaming because the person in the other car doesn't hear what we're saying. It's almost like when you like it, if you could be able to directly dial the person in front of you saying, listen to your jackass, stay in your lane. It probably would lead to more incidents. Oh, more. or lead up to incidents every single time. Bad idea. Yeah. Forget what I said.

That's a bad idea. All right. The news at noon is coming up. You will run through the extensive numbers from the game yesterday. Sure, why not? We have the Rockets with a win. We have the Astros, Pitches and Catchers Reporting Wednesday through Friday. What is, believe it or not today coming up at 150?

All things, Kenneth Walker, the third and the second and original. We're going to revisit a topic that we had early in the show today that we've, got to get across because Ross and I are responsible media people in this town. Okay, good. Don't you think we have to do it again? Because it feels like it needs to be said. Okay. And it's a direct to you Houston Texans fans.

We do love you. Ross especially because he's one of yours. Let's go. Battle Red Ross. But says hello. I'm wearing a Texan shirt today. You got to keep things in check. 1158, Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Number three of the Matt Thomas

show with Ross here on sports. Sports Talk 790. Ross Vierreel, Matt Thomas, and Jonathan Allen with you. A lot of different things we need to get to on the show, including delicious spaghetti. With a tanning, by the way, today. Oh, okay. Not a hot Italian, or do you go with the sweet a tangy?

No, we go with the medium. We go out. I like the sweet of tangy and I like the hot Italian sausage, too. Really, you're just all stereotyping now. I didn't even do anything. You don't do that with other food. Is that with the ground beef? Is it like meatballs or it's ground sausage?

Ground sausage and beef or just sausage? Just sausage. It's delicious. It was delicious. It was delicious. And peppers and spaghetti. Okay. I wouldn't be opposed to it.

Bell pepper's good. Oh, yeah. I'm Team Bell Pepper. Okay. All right. There's a Super Bowl Sketti. Yeah, it was good. We had Wink Saturday spaghetti on Sunday.

Time now for the news. At noon, ladies gentlemen, we present to you the Mike Tariko of sports headline reading. Oh, wow. Now we're going to a little too fancy. Take your time. Oh, my, stop, please. All right, yesterday, first of all, you're already making me hungry because it smells delicious. And then you're just going to scarf it down in the middle of this segment. Just great. All right. News at noon, of course, going to be led by the Super Bowl. The Seahawks dominate the New England Patriots, just like they would have dominated the Houston Texans, but I digress. As they beat

them 29 to 13, they also got a pick six in the game, or I'm sorry, defensive touchdown. Did the Seattle Seahawks as Drake May just had nowhere to go. He was 27 to 43 for 295 yards, a couple of touchdowns and a couple of

picks, but it wasn't even that good. He got sacked six times in the game. Sam Darnold didn't do much of anything, but he didn't have to. Kenneth Walker, your Super Bowl MVP, 27 carries, 135 yards, five field goals. Matt, any controversy on your end? Should it have been Jason Myers for Super Bowl MVP?

Are we going to go with Kenneth Walker? I think there's just a prejudice against kickers. If he had made the winning kick, if his fifth kick would have been the game decided it, it would have been a no-brainer. Because he was just basically finishing up the ineptitude of the tech. of the Seahawks offense. Also, his long was 41.

If he'd have kicked a bunch of 55, 60 yarders and was winning them the game, I would have bought it more. But 41 yarders and 41 and in this day and age in the NFL are gimmies. Yes. So he did his job and did it very well. And it was a huge part of the game. But the storyline of the game was not the Seattle kicker

was doing all this great stuff. It was that if you frankly wanted to give an MVP to a side, they made Drake May the schedule. When you get nicknamed the schedule, that means you really must have done some special things. Poor Drake May, but he was lost, but they completely got shredded. That Seattle defense was special.

Some would say, best in football. You see Kyle Shanahan's comments, the pregame, which is going to feed into what we're going to talk about in the segment number two. Only two defenses he felt were Super Bowl winning, as in if the offense didn't mess it up, the defense could win them the Super Bowl. He said it, of course, was the Seattle Seahawks

and the Houston Texans, but the offense did mess it up. All right, elsewhere in the news at noon, Saturday afternoon, a matinee game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Houston Rockets got a victory, 112 to 106. Here's some of what it sounded like.

Alpy maintains a dribble, Out three point line right Timers down the nine Baseline right for Durant Met there by Caruso Here goes Sengoon down the lane he goes off the window Miss the shot to tap up there That's Tari Easton with 25

Nobody box them out And the Rockets make them pay 105 101 Durrott at mid court Looks It's a combo stills a ball in his midsection Timers at seven Durant goes left side

Bumped by Wiggins Pulls up left elbow jumper Get it And a timeout to Oklahoma City. Houston now up by six with 64 seconds remaining. Big win for the Houston Rockets. It was enjoyable for me because I was feeling bad for me because I called two crappy losses in a row. To get up there and steal one away, I know SGA wasn't playing, but I'll take it. Neither was a man. Nope.

Yeah, Alperin Shingoon playing well in the game. He had 17 points and 11 assists and 12 rebounds with the triple double. and he only turned the ball over once, which is key for him as well, Matthew. And Appie did so much ball handling in this game. I mean, is there a center? Maybe Yokic would be there that handles the ball as much as Opperon does. Briss bring it in the front court?

Yes, I think it's got to start. You got to start the list with Yokich. Reed Shepard getting the start. He had 16 points. Just 1 of 4 from 3, but 7 of 12 overall, 6 assists. He did turn the ball over four times. Rockets with two crucial days. days off, then they will play the

clippers on a back-to-back, and then much needed, it will be the All-Star Break. And Alper and Ching-Gung got named the All-Star break because of Shaggildas Alexander. I know I know Alpe was never going to turn it down.

He should have turned it down. I mean, I love him, but he needs it. He needs downtime. He's a lot of minutes, too. His ankle's on 100%. It is what it is. Oh, he did apologize to the female official for calling her a dumb bee that our night. We got him tossed. Oh, that's good. Did he get fined for that?

Haven't seen anything. Maybe the going into the lockerman giving the handshake and I'm sorry and helped out. That's good. Because an injection will cost you money as it is. Yes. And even one technical foul. All of it does. All of it counts.

All right. Elsewhere in the news, according to Chandler, Rome and Kiddon, Rosenthal of the Athletic, The Ashros, Cardinals, and Red Sox discussed a three-team trade that it would have sent Brendan Donovan to Houston and Isak Paratus to Boston. It did not get done. Apparently there were as many as four teams interested in Isok Paratus. The Pirates being one of them, but the Red Sox have traded for Caleb Durbin, and they have now signed Marcel Ozuno, so that could take the Red Sox and the Pirates out of the running.

But it sounds like there's a lot of smoke. coming with Isak Paredes being traded, when, if at all, will there be fire, Matthew? There could be smoke for months. I don't know if this could happen in two days. It could happen in two months. Two parameters I'm putting into play. This will not stay the course for this year unless they make a concerted effort to use Jorn and Alvarez and left field more than they're saying, which I don't believe to be accurate.

or an injury in the infield precipitates the necessary change. Short of those two things, ESAC Pretias will be moved because I can't think the Astros are feeling great about their outfield. Cole, Myers, Smith, unless Cam Smith has an incredible bounceback, which he very well could be.

He is the first round pick. The pedigree is there. All right. Elsewhere, Matt, some Olympic news. We talked about this last week, that Lindsey Vaughn was going to attempt to ski downhill on a torn ACL. Yes, she didn't.

She did it. Everyone thought was crazy. Well, unfortunately, Vaughn lost control within seconds of leaving the start house on a Sunday. She clipped a gate with her right shoulder and pinwheeled down the slope before ending up awkwardly on her back

with her skis crisscross below her and screams ringing out as medical personnel arrive. She was taken to a clinic in Cortina, then transferred to a larger hospital in Treviso, a two-hour drive to the south. She underwent an orthopedic operation to stabilize a fracture,

reported in her left leg, and now, of course, critics are saying, should she even have been allowed on the course that is known to be dangerous, even to perfectly healthy skiers? You know what, that's a world I have known nothing about? No, she needs to pay that helicopter bill. Let's go.

Yeah, are we paying for that? Yeah, seriously. You're willing to go down there and toward ACL? We've got a life flight you out. Come on, Lindsay. That's not the way she should have ended his career, her career for sure. But apparently, if you kept the audio of it, there's howling. She was in pain.

Well, apparently other skiers are coming to her defense. As well, they should. People don't know that they don't know ski racing, don't really understand what happened. She hooked her arm on the gate, which twisted her around. She was going probably 70 miles an hour and that twist your body around. So I guess she could have done this without a torn ACL. That's what they're trying to argue. I don't think the ACL had anything to do with it.

It's what I understand. Probably didn't help. No. All right. Well, yeah, who gets billed for that? I guess that's in the IOC have to pay for that? Life Lab. Just get a corporate sponsor to pick up the tab.

Italian helicopters aren't cheap, man, as you know. Maybe your ex-boyfriend Tiger Woods could help out. All right. And that's your news at noon. All right. Richard and EZ. We get to your phone calls. Plus, we have the audio of Rodney Harrison.

shaming. Tony Dunjy. Shame. What's the last time you were shamed? I'm ashamed of daily. No, and I shamed. Oh, who shamed you? I don't know.

You? Yeah, that's fair. Within the last week for sure. People, do you hear what he's saying? You say that all the time. 1213. It's a Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 7.9.

It's been a long day. Oh, I know this song. I told you. And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again. Charlie Pooh's got the hit, yo. That's my dog. Single guys, listen to me. This song comes on, the clothes will start flying off.

No, this is like a breakup song kind of. It's for Paul Walker, remember, Fear 7. Oh, yeah. I know this. I know Charlie. Yeah. See, you know what?

Give me a little more credit for that. I know. There's people I know I just know their names. I knew. I knew. I was like, thank God. Charles got the hits.

Great and national anthem. It was fine. It was fine. You know me? No, I don't. God bless America. Greater than the National Anthem. No.

Why are you such a star-spangled banner or hater. You say, oh, Canada's better than that? It's a mid-song. You say, God bless America's better. That's not even close. America the Beautiful's better. What? You heard me. I didn't stutter. America the Beautiful? Oh, yeah. A spacious skies and amber waves of grain? Yes. You're going with that? Yes. Over the land of the free and the home of the brave? Y'all tweet at him, SportsMTN. Please. You are way off. Give me Ray Charles. Okay. That's great. That's different.

Give me Aretha Franklin. Okay? Give me anybody that got a little soul singing those songs. Yeah, they're good songs, I guess, but I mean, Star Spangled Banner is a jam. You give me God bless America and America the Beautiful over either one of those other starsmengel banner. That's going to be you and Craig Ackerman, I think. And okay. It's great song, too.

But I only sing it once a year. I don't sing it at home. Man. So you hate America. No, I love America. It's a landscape. that I love. I stand beside her and by her.

Seriously. You're going with that. Okay. Give me, Rossi or Jonathan, give me Ray Charles singing America the Beautiful. That's a great version of the song.

That's because the song is great. Yeah, but give me literally anyone else's version and it's not better. And give me, give me Winnie Houston Star Spangled better while we're dialing stuff up. You're not topping that.

You're right. I'm not topping that. Come on now. Those are the, you mean those two? Should be in the system, both of them actually. America the Beautiful. Ray Charles, Whitney Houston, Star-Spangled Banner. We were supposed to plan on a Friday show, do we not?

I don't know. We messed up. We don't need to do this right now anyways. All right, let's go to the phone. We get some lovely people that want to talk to us. I need to recover from this moment. Oh, please. I didn't realize you were a star-spangled truther.

I'm not a star-spangled truth. Yes, you are. You truth that all the time. I just said there's better alternatives. I got to remember not to argue music with you. Oh, no. This is great. This is an all-timer.

This is spectacular. Of course. It's more because it's Ray Charles than because of the song. Same things about wet in Houston. No, that's not true. Because I can bring you the Marvin Gay one. I can bring you 20 star spangled banners

before you can bring me three America the Beautifuls. Shut your mom ass up. No, this is a jam. Used famously in? Couldn't tell you. You're killing me, small. killing me he's adding words too i like it

it's like this of the deep cut no this is he's using the whole song yeah there's the more verses yeah it's great i have this on my phone yes or no no absolutely i do okay thank you very much thank you i thought you were limited on storage all those videos you've been saving hey now

and delete button for a reason. All right, back on the phones. Let's go to Richard in League City. Hi, Richard. Good afternoon. Thank you for holding. Hey, guys. Good afternoon.

I know it's a retired bit, but y'all's, I think this calls for like a, whatever the contest, the top five at five or you pick your five entries. Fantasy five? Fantasy five on Fridays. Uh-huh. Top five songs about America. Mm-hmm. That's right.

But since there aren't like five good ones, you've got to include. like a combo like a good one in like a rosam bar or carl lewis whoever puts together the best live all-star and all all all suck like win so just an idea okay um so i'm calling for two reasons the first one's a quick one on the rockets sure so i just want to say reed shepherd we're five and one when reed starts i don't know if anyone's paying attention to that um i'm kind of ready for the amen as point guard experiment to be done i love oman i hope he's with us his whole career but I want to see the reins handed over to read. And I know he's going through a bit of a slump,

but I love the aggressiveness during the game. So that's just my kind of Rockets take for the day. Okay. And the second take, I don't know how to say without sounding like a grumpy old man. So I'm going to say it as positively as I can. But before I do, my qualifier is I'm a believer. I'm a Christian.

I pray every day. Mostly I pray for people that I honestly don't like very much. and I'm working on being a better person. But it was really nice to see after the game last night just the interviews. And I didn't see all the interviews, but Sam Darnold and the other players on Seattle, they were so humble and so thankful and grateful to the fans and the team. And I didn't hear one person give all praise and glory to our Lord Jesus Christ. And I have to say, I was like I honestly found it kind of.

refreshing to see the team handle their business that way, especially in light of everything that's been going on in the world to see those guys play that game and then handle the victory the way they did. So you were happy that it did not mention Jesus or that you were happy to they did? I was happy that they didn't. Okay, okay. I got you. Yeah, I was happy that they didn't.

Okay, that's fine. Thank you, Richard. Go ahead. Final comment, go ahead. That's it. Okay, thanks for the phone call. Yeah, I am a religious man. I am of faith, as I was presumed most people are, not everybody, but most.

I've never, the only time I ever think about religion when it comes to sports is I appreciate when an athlete will use religion. saying, I'm thankful to be put in this position. I'm thankful for the opportunities have been given to me. What I don't like is I don't like it when it's when using the Lord to say, well,

thankfully he gave me the ability to knock down that free throw or was able to swing at the pitch and get the home run. Because that would then insinuate that the other person on the other side of it, that he didn't pray to the god to say, please let me throw this pitch so it's a strikeout. I, and

that sounds kind of a little bit. I'm sorry. I'm just saying that I think when you use religion, it's I'm very appreciative for being here, for being in this position, for my health, for my well-being, for my teammates. That to me means a lot to me.

I want to thank the Lord for being able to knock down that 13-footer with four seconds left. I got news for you. Our Lord Jesus Christ probably got bitter things to worry about than a 13-footer. Or he really hates Drake May. Yeah, I mean, does God hate Drake May because he made Drake May have a terror game?

Run for his life? Yeah, I mean, Or throw it. Does he hate C.J. Stroud? Because he threw four interceptions? I mean, come on. I don't think so. So, yeah, don't give me, my point is, don't give me tangible things that happen in a game and tied to religion.

Because that means the other side was given the negative juju. I don't believe that at all. I don't. I'm not religious at all, but if people want to talk about it and that's their beliefs, it doesn't bother me. You know, just don't swear. I'm not talking about religion. I'm just like just don't swear in period because that's a little hanging fruit to swear. You're on a national television?

I know I know you're like I know because you're deviant. Why not? Because swearing is illegal on television. Why? Stupid. It doesn't mean stupid. It's the rule. There's a lot of rules that are stupid but you can't do it.

I don't, I'm not disagree. How come I can say truck and buck, but I can't say something else. You're right. We have to live by rules. We don't always love all of our rules. They're nonsense. Nonsense rules. I know.

Well, if you would like to buck that trend. What we see what I did there? Try it. We'll see how far it goes. Make sure I'm out of the room. Maybe I play by the rules. Maybe we're doing it on a day when I'm not working. You know what?

Maybe I should. I mean, it was certainly gained attention. Hi, my name is Matt Thomas and this is what I have to say. Oh, that's terrible. That's terrible. I can't believe you did that. Easy. Easy money.

That's a Billy Joel deep cut. Okay, that's great. You know, if Billy Joel's healthy, let's get you back out there on the piano at half time. No, that's fine. All right. He's like 80, isn't he? No, not 80.

He's probably 70-something. He's got heart-he got a heart. 76. He still rocks. Still rock and roll to me. Yeah, well, he's still not going to be doing the Super Bowl to me. Let's see. Easy Joe, Joe, Brian.

Up with you next on 790. To answer the first part of Richard's question, Look, Reed Shepard is a rotational player in the NBA. Good for him. I still want a man Thompson running my offense. Now, you want, ultimately, him running the offense for rest of your career as a point card. It may not be his best role. But on the situation you've got, Fred Van Blyde is not coming back this year.

You've got to find the next best guy to do it, and it's going to be a man Thompson. Rie could do it in spurts, but even Howell in Reed's doing it. We talked about this earlier in the show today, Rossi. We got outper and Shingungren running the point half the time. Reed is, we're going to stop. I'm not saying that people are doing this in general, but I think we have to start learning here in 2026. Today's NBA world is not point guard, shooting guard,

small forward, power forward, center. It's five interchangeable pieces. Because a true point guard, Reed Shepers on it doesn't have the ball handling skills. Does the ability to separate from defenders? I don't know. I just don't get why. I guess it's just because we have like a backup

syndrome and it's like Davis Mills. It's not towards that extent. Reed Shepherd's better than Davis Mills at their prospective jobs. Absolutely. But it's like this Reed Shepherd love. It's like watch how he gets attacked on defense. And he has been in a prolonged shooting slump.

He's a good player. I like Reed Shepherd. But I don't think he is the savior of the Houston Rockets. And I just don't understand why it keeps... I don't get in pain. it that way by certain people. The easy question is do things move more fluidly with Reed Shepard? The answer to me

is no. No, I don't think so. It doesn't. It wasn't like it was running poorly with Reed out there, but is it a remarkable improvement? If Shade Gildes-Alexander is on Reed Shepard, how is that going to go? It's per 36, four assists 1.8 turnovers. 4.3 assists, 1.8 turn. Like, it's good, it's decent. It's 2.5. Yeah.

I'll take 2.5. Yeah, but it's 4. Assists. It's not like he's Chris Paul reincarnated or something like that. I don't understand. So think about it. If you played 36 minutes in a game, he'd get you four assists. That would not put you in the top 30 among NBA guards and assist. No.

He's good. He's decent. His shooting numbers have improved. Three points while dipping. It's at 37.8 now. It was at 40 for a while. Yeah. It slipped a little bit.

Look, I'm team Reed. I like, I do too. I just make sure. This is the thing, too. I don't want to be like I'm hating on the guy. No, and I'm not. But he's not the savior of the rockets. And putting him in the starting lineup is not going to solve all their problems.

I don't understand why people are thinking he's some pure point guard who's out there slinging all these crazy insane passes. Now, could his overall improvement as he grows to his game help out read and get into the ball out of his hands a little bit more out of a man? Sure, that's a goal. He can grow, but this is not some proving ground out there right now. This is not to 20202 rockets or something like that. It's hard to grow when you're playing the Denver. Nuggets in the Minnesota Timberwolves. You're not playing a non-conference schedule against, I don't know,

some schmose like Texas. 7-13-212-7-90. Big win over Ole Miss over the weekend. Congratulations. Come on now. Six and five in SEC play. It's above 500. Go make that tournament. Let's go. Your power ranking is pretty good, aren't it?

By the way, Cougars are top 40. Cougars number three in the AP poll this week. And number five in Kim Palm. Well, let's go. So I'm going, Ken Palm. You know, I said, even when they were underranked Kim Palm, I stick with Kim Palm. They're fifth. By the way, Ken Palm was at the game. on Saturday night in Provo. Can Pomeroy? Longwoods are up to 34th.

You know who's 33rd? Who? Texas A&M. Ooh, they got their ass kicked by Florida and then they got a cheap shot foul called on them as a guy dug into a Florida player. And the assistant coach was calling the other guy out and say, let's throw hands. That assistant coach is a friend of mine, Carlin Hartman. He and I did Rice games together in the late 1990s. Calvin Hotman. Carlton Hotman. Love Colin Hartman. Went to Tulane. The adjusted net ratings from Ken Pomeroy, top five, Michigan, Arizona, Duke, Illinois, Houston. Is Arizona going to run the table this year? I don't know anything about them, but they're undefeated.

They're 23 and 0. That's pretty good. Power 4 conference, big-time Power 4 conference. Arizona Houston tickets are going for 500 apiece. American? Yeah, what do you mean? Nova Scotian. Okay, that makes sense.

Canadian makes sense. Easy on 7-90. Hello, Easy. Well, man, I'm glad I had the break happened because I had to follow America. The Brave debate and then Richard bringing stuff up. I'm glad we can let the air out of the tires. One thing I was going to ask you guys, are we going to root for Framber and Tucker when they come back? if that's

plausible. Number two. Like, I mean, are we going to love them still because they're not here no more, but I mean, do we still cheer for them as as players? No. Now, will you honor them when they come back?

Yes, I think Kyle Tucker... He got a video. He got a video last year, so that's done. Frumber will get a... We'll get a round of applause, clearly in a video tribute when the Tigers come here, for sure. He might get a little smattering of boo. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's smattering, but it wasn't very much.

I mean, from Cesar Salazar is going to boo. Sayer Salazar is going to say, get that guy out of here. His chance is still talking about it. Yeah. The second thing was, what best halftime show ever? I know this was the one. And you guys could tell me top five and I'll hang up a list. Oh, you want our top five?

Sure. Prince One Captain Tenele Michael Jackson 2 Sammy Davis Jr. I don't know I'm just making stuff

I don't have a list The Florida A&M band That was Carol Channing back in the early 70s Yes Yeah Carol Channing was a part of We've done a believe we're not On a halftime acts by the way

Yeah we did The Dr. Gray And with Kendrick Lamar Of course featured as well And that one was a good one Shakira Angelou. Oh, Kendrick Lamar, of course, is in my top five. Oh, Shakira J-Lo.

Woo! Woo! Mm-hmm. And then, of course, you got to put Janet Jackson in there with Justin Timberlake. Yeah. You got to slip that one in there. You do have to slip that one out there. So you took the only pun I could take off of that.

Sorry. No, there's more. Can you name one more? It was a protruding performance. You know, the building was kind of cold, kind of nipply. Nippy, Matt. Oh, I'm sorry.

Did I say niply? Aerosmith and InSink? I'm trying to look at this list. By the way, guys, send me a tweet. Metallica was a San Francisco band. You could have gone to Huey Lewis in the news, too, but the problem is Huey can't hear anymore. And how are the news doing?

They're like, they're not nearly as good without Huey Lewis. It's like, you're going to see a concert with just the Pips? No. In 1994, it was Clint Black, Tanya, Tucker, Travis Tritt and the Judds. Is that the last country act we've had? Probably. I guarantee you when the Super Bowl goes in Nashville, we are getting a country out.

New Kids of the Block and Warren Moon? In 1991, is that true? Not Warren Moon was out there with new kids in the block. It says New Kids in the Block, Disney characters, Warren Moon and 2,000 local children. I don't know. The things you learn. Let's talk to Brian on 790. Brian, thank you for holding what's going on.

Hey, what's going on, Matt? What's going on, Ross? Happy Monday. Same to you. man I was listening and I could have swore maybe I'm crazy maybe this was after the NFC game championship but JSN in his interview first thing he said to the reporter was given his props to the Christ and his Lord and Savior and blah blah blah am I crazy did that not happen I as soon as the game was turned off done I turned it off I didn't watch

any in the post game oh okay well that was one thing but I also have a a little tidbit for the hardest working man in radio, a story from 1990, if I'm not mistaken. 1990, May Creek High School, yep. May Creek Cologne, 94 right here. Nice. Wow. Rams for life. For life.

So I'm a-lose to cave for life. I was at the high school's playoff game, and I was in eighth grade at the time. So I am just doing stupid junior high crap running around and stuff. And I happen to look at the stand south right next to the edge. And I look down and I see the. Ram's mascot. And I'm like, oh, cool. Look who's right there. And then it was the first time I was ever really close to a mascot. And I, the ram head looked up and inside that dark black guy, I saw the sweatiest, like just no happiness inside that outfit at all, working man,

boy, whoever. I didn't know it was you, Matt, but I totally know now in hindsight, I'm like, oh, that's not a fun job at all. Oh, my God, that looks terrible. He looks miserable in there. Let me tell you about life being a mascot. Thank you, Brian, for the phone call. Go Rams. First of all, the ram head was poorly constructed to begin with. I could not see straight ahead of me. I had to look out of the corners of my eyes.

So if you wanted to clock me, like punch me in the face, I would never see it coming. Mm-hmm. And that suit was hand-sown in 1930s, correct? Okay, second, shut up. Number three, they had to get a bigger suit for me because I was a bigger guy. I'm sorry, I've not trying to laugh. You should. Well, it's not funny.

They had to custom order a suit for you. That is accurate. I would lose between five and seven pounds per game. Of sweat. Of sweat. Because it was so hot. Ew. In that suit?

And then I would go to the kettle and eat the breakfast buffet at 1 o'clock in the morning and gain four to six pounds of that back. Okay. That was the place that we went to after games. Okay. It was the kettle on Katie Freeway and Mason Road, if you all know where that is. Shout out Katie O.G's. That's a great story, Matt. And then my mom would have to wash the costume.

How? Carefully. Would they hose that thing, turn it inside out and hose it down? We would never dry because it would actually, you know. It would shrink. And Lord knows it was tough enough, me getting that thing to begin with. Why are you laughing? I'm not saying it.

I'm not laughing. Yeah, he is. He's silent. He's covering his face up. He's sweating from his pores. I got caught. I'm getting this second. Oh, it was cold.

It was fun, but I didn't like you. Kids were great. Some of the people, I generally speaking, loved me, but there were some people that were in high school that didn't like me that just wanted to punch me, and I couldn't see it coming. You got punched often? No, not often. Okay.

I'm sorry. A couple of people that thought they were funny said, let's go punch Matt. And you could because I couldn't see directly in front of me. You always mess with the mascot. I mean, that's what teenagers do. The worst thing I ever did is I was conducting the band. We played at Willis High School, I think my senior year. And I was doing it.

I was conducting the band. And I fell from the rap from the bleachers. Oh, no. Went down about four rows. Are you, what? Were you okay? I was fine. So I got back on the field, all the football players, like, you okay?

We saw you take a tumble. I'm like, thanks. I was embarrassing. Thank God. There's no video back then. That'd have been ugly. You'd have went viral. It's funny.

I was just showing one of our salespeople at the office. I'm the Main Creek Hall of Honor, first class. Yes. There's no mention of me falling or my costume being. Yeah, it's all about your wonderful, great accomplishments, man. That's right. Thank you. Joe, wants to talk about the Super Bowl.

We'll get to him next. 1244 is the time. Plus, I've still got to get to that sound of Rodney Harrison shaming Tony Dungy here on Sevedite. 1249. Matt Ross with you on a Monday edition of the show. Believe it or not, coming up in an hour from now. You know what? I don't even promote the prizes we're doing poor here on believe it or not today.

Category is? Kenneth Walker. Seahawks franchise. Probably hasn't done Seahawks franchise. It's up to you. All the time leading passer, Sean Salisbury. All right, here we go. We're playing for Monster Jam tickets with pit party passes.

Or a pair of tickets to see stained on their Break the Cycle 25th anniversary tour. Oh, love it. Featuring Sither with special guest, Hube-B-Stank and Hinder? Okay. It will come as a zero surprise that I don't think I can name one stain to see their Huba Stank or Hinder song. Teresa from over at 94-5 can name every one of them.

Stain had some hits back in the day. Did they? Mm-hmm. At 25 years, I'm missing something right. Yeah. Where is it? At the Cynthia Woods. Okay.

What day? It is on October the 17th. Oh, the weather would be nice by then, you would think? October. It's still hot. No, 17th, it could be a little warm. Get down the lower level. You can just hang out.

It's a night show, Matt. The evenings will be fine. Okay. So, yeah, stained or monster jam tickets this week on, believe it or not. Oh, I love it. Let's go and talk to the great people of Houston, Texas. Joe is with us on 790.

Hello, Joe. Hey, how you doing? Good. I got three questions I was going to ask you guys. first is this Super Bowl is the worst Super Bowl in my opinion I've watched in a long time and everybody I was hanging with felt the same way we mentioned it multiple times

during the game the halftime show my name's Gonzalez last name so the halftime show was horrible I'm Mexican but I knew zero songs from Bad Bunny everybody were hanging with like 15 people we were hanging with none of them and they were

all Mexican didn't know any of the bad money songs we ended up like Dominoes you're hanging up with 15 Mexicans and not one of them knew what bad bunny song nope we listen to rock and roll and punk rock I mean not everybody

just because you're black I'm pretty sure you don't listen to rap you know anything like I'm anyways we have 15 Mexicans None of us. Well, I'm just saying out of 15, I would have guessed one. No, nobody.

We all listened to, anyways. And then the commercials were horrible. I remember in the 90s and early thousands when Budweiser and Coca-Cola and all these companies, Doritos, had all these funny commercials. And it was just, in my opinion, the most boringest Super Bowl. I've watched in a long time. And I just want to hear you guys' opinion. That's all.

Yeah, Joe, I brought up myself. if there was not much redeeming of anything in the Super Bowl, the game itself was the most important thing. Everything else is the side dishes. The main course sucked. Now, if you're a Seattle fan, you loved it. Yeah, Seattle fan loved it. By the way.

Under, loved it. Our friend, loved it. Yeah, how's he doing? Is he okay? He's on cloud nine, right? He's really doing well. Is he still on a bender? They just landed from Seattle.

They got back into Seattle about an hour ago. Let me ask you about what this statement does, and if you have somebody in your life that's like this. Okay. We're going to talk more about this in one o'clock hour because it happens a lot with Texans fans. Or for that matter, any sports fan. He tweeted 38 minutes ago,

changed two plays, and the Seahawks likely have four Lombardies. Do you like that guy? That guy that does the change this, change that? Because I'm going to tell you, I love Softie. I don't like that guy. because you also forget I mean if you change a couple of plays

they could have lost to the Niners and who knows we can go throughout their other he's talking about them them running the ball with Marshawn Lynch I imagine and the Russell Wilson interception yeah that's right and the other one I don't know about he's talking about which one against a Packers

in a championship game back in the day or which he's trying about the intercept yeah we're talking about the same play right right right the Marshawn Lynch should have ran the ball and Russell Wilson through an interception that's one yeah and I don't know what the other one is I don't particularly care. What's the other one? Some kind of I don't mean to remember. Because I got news for you. We can do that with everything. I was just thinking about this

with the Texans for a minute. You know, somebody's like, well, if, you know, if CJ would have been better. How about this? You played the Baltimore Ravens without Lamar Jackson and 80% of their defense. Are you really going to, would Baltimore fans say if Lamar Jackson was healthy and all their defensive starters that the Texans went out a loss in Baltimore? You played Kansas City

and the chiefs were on an epic slide. It didn't even make the playoffs. You didn't really, really beat a good Kansas City team. You beat a team that was down and you did what you were supposed to do. I'm just not go back and recreate moment. Oh, is he talking about the pick six? I'm trying to pull up this Super Bowl from when they were. Oh, is it the Seattle Green Bay game, the playoff game were Hasselback?

No, when Steelers, when he threw the, it was James Harrison or whoever, right? Got a pick six. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on that, I guess maybe? I guess. No, not buying it. Sorry, that's weak. If Emmanuel Sharp did not double dribble with 10 seconds left,

the Cougars won the championship. I can't say that. Well, you change one play. You don't want me being that guy, do you? Oh, wait, no, they crushed the Niners. Who was I thinking of? They had a close game. Oh, the Rams, that's what I was thinking of.

Did I say Rams or I say? If you change one or two plays of the Rams game, they lose the Rams. Literally every game you can change. I mean, nah, not buying it. That's weak sauce. Sorry, Softie. He isn't sorry.

He's happy. No, I'm sure he's doing great. My point is, I don't do a lot of that. I don't do that, you know, like if the Rockets would have missed their first 27-3s. The only one of those. The only thing I can tell you is, and this has been tried and true for Rockets fans, because I speak to them more than anybody else. Yes.

A lot of people would have said if Chris Paul would have played, the Rockets could have beaten the Golden State Wars. They would have, and they would have won the championship. I will go to my grave saying that. I'm getting it on my Gravesday. That's that guy. I'm getting it on my gravestone. Rockets, 2018 NBA champions. How about this?

I'll give you one. If Clyde Drexler wouldn't have been whistled for three fouls early in the game against North Carolina State, there would have been North Carolina State miracle. Yeah, he should have been ristible for five, though, by my count. You weren't even alive. Shut up. You're right. You know, that makes you the worst.

You don't even know the game and what happened, and yet you need a little extra dig in there. You know what? You know what I'm joking, though. just having funsies I'm not having funsies about it it's been haunted me for 40 years All right I'm sorry

If I ever can seriously If you ever catch me going If only this would have happened Guy Then you need to hit me Not like a soft tap Okay Yeah Astros

If only If only AJ Hinch would have put in Garrett Cole That happens all the time But he didn't I got one for you too That I don't really remember What if Mike Renfro would have caught the ball?

which he did and was considered a touchdown. That was just to tie the game, though, right? Would that have changed the aura of the Steelers' Oilers' championship game? I don't know that. I don't know. I don't have a memory for that. Me either.

I don't know. I think changing one thing doesn't completely change a whole narrative or a storyline. I agree. Now, you can say if officials would have swallowed their whistles or not cold things or the strike zone, I mean, it's, I just sports. That's everyone.

That is second-guessing and re-chrating. Any championship we can go back to. But, man, he's just coming off of a Super Bowl, and he's already about the two that he lost. They were not better than that Steelers team. A Patriots one that could have won. Should have won that one. I mean, that would have haunted me if I'm watching

Russell Wilson try to throw from the two-yard line, whatever it was. Hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch, let him get his chicken and get out of there. Yeah. Sometimes coaches are too cute, Ross. They just are. Final hour. The Matt Thomas show at Ross will start. Well, Gilbert keeps calling and then hanging up. I mean, I'm supposed to get to you within five seconds? Is it that Gilbert? I don't know which Gilbert it is. But Gilbert call back. Is it the legendary Gilbert? Could be.

713-212-5-790. We got us, Ross is going to straighten out some of you fellow Texans fans when it comes to the narrative after, during the game last night. And then we're going to play the Rodney Harris. I swear we've got to play this Rodney Harris and get your thoughts on this as he chastises Tony Dungey for not telling us who he voted for for the pro football. Football Hall of Fame, 1258 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 102 on 790, Matt and Ross, for the final hour of this program. If you'd like to be a part of it, we'd love to have. You've had some great caller interaction. We appreciate those of you on Twitter following this as well. If you'd like to follow Ross or myself, it's very easy.

It's at SportsMT or at SportsRV on both of our Instagram and on our Twitter accounts. And that's a good way to interact with us. We won't be generally pleased. And we'll give you Woody Reparte and your blood pressure will go down if you follow each one of our accounts. If you don't follow our accounts, you could be having some bad health in your future. 713-212-5-790. So as I said, I didn't watch any of the post game last night. The game itself was enough in the halftime and all that.

I did not watch any of the pregame show. I was actually watching a lot of the Clippers' Wolves game. but apparently Rodney Harrison and Tony Dungy were talking about this endless conversation about how Bill Belichick did not get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first go-round. He's the greatest coach of it all. I mean, I don't think there's any necessarily arguing of that, but there were some dicey moments in his resume. And I think you and I are the only ones that are kind of saying, I kind of get it. We are deeply in the minority.

We are deep in the minority. So the conversation came up and apparently Tony Dungy had been asked. I don't know directly by Tony, by Rodney, or by somebody else, about announcing who he put in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And Rodney Harrison on the NBC Super Bowl pregame show, who works with Tony every single week, said this when it came to Bill Belichick. Any list that doesn't include Bill Belichick at the top is absolutely wrong. And a lot of those players that we mentioned,

they're great players. I played with Drew Brees. I played with Adam Denetary. But there's nobody more deserving. to be in that Hall of Fame than Coach Belichick. I've seen his greatness. I've seen him design defenses to stop your offense. And you just look at the players that he's impacted.

He's been unbelievable. And when I look out throughout the Hall of Fame and even a guy like Tom Brady, Tom Brady wouldn't be Tom Brady without Billa Check. And that's the disappointing part of it, coach. And you guys got it wrong. All right, there it is. You guys got it wrong. Rodney's going to stump for his guy.

Bill Belichick's actually been stumping for Rodney to get in the Hall of Fame. Did he get in? Interesting. There's bias everywhere. And the thing that continues to drive me crazy about this is that people that have any IQ understanding he's getting in next year. Yeah. That is also the thing.

If he was banned for life, I would say that was way too harsh. Mm-hmm. And that's a key component of me not being up in arms about this. It was a major, major scandal. Deflakeet it was a major, like there was investigations. That's good old-fashioned cheating. To try to steal intelligence. That's cheating.

That's, yes, exactly. Just like the Astros cheated. That's intelligence. They did. Yeah. The L2 has to wait a year. We're not going to be happier in here. We're not.

We're not. But I'm going to say I get it. I'm not going to bring that up on Thursday. I just don't get it. But the only reason why I would probably bring it up is because you can't find anybody that says that Jose was directly involved in that. Right.

It's an apple It's an apples to oranges comparison that some tried to make. That would be like if AJ Hinch got left out of the Hall of Fame for a year, I would get, wouldn't you get that? Of course we were. Yeah, he's the manager.

Even if he tried to destroy that. Alex Cora has to wait. Well, I don't think he's getting in, but you know what I'm saying. Right. Yeah. So I get it. I get it.

The owners are all upset. Is it true? Was that AI? Was Jordan Hudson wearing an orchids of Asia shirt. I have seen that multiple times. Let me tell you about it. It's real.

And they're spectacular. I mean, good for him. I don't know if the juice is probably not worth the squeeze long term there, but anyways. The juice is not worth the squeeze. Okay. Long term.

Can I get eight ounces? Yeah. you know, weekend in Cabo, it's probably worth it. She's following you around campus all day. Talking to recruits. You're having second thoughts. Fair. All right.

Yeah, it's an Orchids of Asia shirt. At a North Carolina tar heels, this is real. I was like, this has got to be fake. This is because you never know in this day and age. She's wearing an Orchids of Asia day spa. Of course, that's the Florida massage parlor. tied to Robert Craft's 2019 prostitution bust. Which you and I have driven by?

We did? I thought we went to... Didn't we go to Jupiter one time? I thought we said, drop me off and... Okay, don't add to this story. Don't AI this story. Yeah, I thought it was crazy. You bought me tickets to a movie and said, go ahead and drop me off here. It's not right. The movie was two hours. It's 20 minutes in. You said, I'm ready. I think I said you... I think I sent you a note to come pick me up.

You know what? I'm sorry. I like to apologize to our audience. It doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, they were photographed together Saturday, Chapel Hill is a North Carolina basketball game. And she's literally... And Bill let her out of the house with an orchids of Asia shirt. Why do they have such beef? Is it because he basically was fired, not... Didn't quit?

I guess. That's got to be it, right? I mean, this is, this is more... What's bigger than shots fired? Drag hits? This is full-on war. Like, this is the declaration of war. Yeah, it's bad.

It's... It's a terrible look for her and for him, for that matter. I thought they had broken all the ice at the Tom Brady roast. Yeah, but they're all cool. No, apparently not. Let's talk to James and Klein at 109 on 7-90. James, what do you have today? Yeah, that's Super Bowl, the things that were good in the Super Bowl was that,

did you see the Goodwill hunting commercial, the play on that? Yeah, it was fine. Duncan, it was six out of ten. Yeah, that was hilarious. And I don't know if you caught great. Green Day. You didn't catch the beginning of the pregame. Yeah, you're a big Green Day fan, right? I'm not a Green Day fan, but they did a really good job

I thought. I like some of their songs, but I thought they did really good. That's fine. Yeah, somebody wanted something good about Super Bowl and, you know, Seattle won, which I like Seattle when better than I like you. I would agree. I think most of America was deaf land than New England on the Seattle side, for sure. Yeah, well, I just thought I'd give those two observations. Perfect. Thank you, James.

One more thing. Oh, sure. Can I do one more thing? Sure. Yeah. How's that Kevin Summerlin interview going? Very busy. You're sitting in another football team getting ready to play. Yeah, nobody cares. Whenever you get to, let me know. Yeah, I'd wait for a while. Thanks for the phone calling that one. Who's he coaching now? The gamblers?

Yeah. We have to stop this U.F.L thing. It's just a disaster. Well, just let it go, Matt. I'm letting it go. Apparently, Russell Houston is as well. they're going to, where are they playing? At Shell Energy Stadium. Oh, okay. They had a big fan fest, apparently. I mean, they don't even.

I thought they were at Aldine Auxiliary Stadium. Well, they probably were playing at, uh, at club middle school. Delmar. You can't have a league with people you don't know, and they don't even live here. Well, the quality of football is not good. Quality football is awful. And we love football, clearly. We do.

We just don't love subpar football. But you know, you know what they do, folks? They do this last year. I don't know if they're doing it this year, but they've done it in the year's past. They house everybody in Dallas. They practice, they eat, they live in an apartment, and then they all go to their respective cities to play the game. That's not how you build. That's not a franchise.

That just has to be a location where a game is being played. Yeah, that's not good. It's just cost-cutting measures instead of really, I mean, not that living in the city 12 months a year, but the problem is the roster just get flipped all the time because those guys don't want to be gamblers. They want to be in the NFL. I was like, man, I cannot wait to be a seven-year NFL gambler, or a seven-year gambler. Well, those contracts paying anyways. Can't be much.

I thought the Rock was supposed to save this league. Maybe he could suit up. You tell me, if a rock was just show up at a game, people would go to that. Autograph session? Hell yeah. Why does that advertise him more? I forget that he's even the owner of the league. I don't know.

Probably try and distance himself from it. I do. Nope. Is that my audio on the background? I'm sorry. Is that 40 page? What was that? That was something as me on AI, I think.

I pulled the mat. I got live audio on that home on my, bleeding through my microphone. Ross, we've got to tell some Texans fans that the guys dealing in reality. Was that next? Yes, come on now. 112 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-7-90. All right, 16 on 7-90. There was a narrative out there that Ross caught immediately, and I had a chance to kind of, take what he said and go, yeah, I'm running into the same problem. We're running into Texans fans sports RV that believe the Texans should have been in the Super Bowl, if only for the four interceptions for C.J. Stroud.

Yeah, I just, it's almost, it's an extreme version of what we were talking about earlier, with softies. Oh, there are two plays away from having four Lombardis. Well, the Texans were a lot of plays away from being in the Super Bowl. And I'm with you. I saw people, I don't know, pundits around town. and stuff like that. Like, oh, man, this is this is a perfect type of game for the Texans. This is this knocked down defensive drought. It just makes you, I can't watch this without thinking about how the Texans should be here.

What? They played this Patriots team. They lost by two scores. I'm going to tell you right now, it's a coin flipper game for me between them and the Broncos on the road in those conditions. I can't guarantee you that the Texans would have beaten Jared Stidham. Now, was the Texans defense? We've mentioned this, I don't know, five million times. Was it Super Bowl caliber?

Absolutely was. Yes. Offensively, it had a tough time scoring in the CFL. You had no offensive line, no run game. You had an inexperienced play caller, and you had a quarterback turned the ball over a million times, and you're acting like we're a couple of plays away from the Super Bowl? I don't know if people understand,

and I think you logically thinking Texans fans understand this, but logically, your offense was never going to give you a chance to win games. It was you're hoping that your defense could make sure the other team didn't score at all, or you rely on your Deems defense to either get a score on their own fumble interception, or get you an interception of fumble, a sack recovery, and put you on a short field. Short of that. I mean, how many times is CJ going 90 yards and 419 off the clock using 11 plays? It happened a few times.

You did lose the game against the Patriots, and it wasn't close. Could it have been closer? Sure. It's probably a coin flipper game on the road in Denver. now the Texans defense, it would have been like a 10 to 7 game like it was. It would have been 10 to 7, whatever. Texans could have lost that game. And then you were playing the Seahawks team that beat you early in the season.

And yes, the Texans played better down the stretch, but so did the Seahawks. The Seahawks destroyed the San Francisco 49ers. They beat the L.A. Rams. And then they absolutely destroyed the Patriots team that took care of you, no problem. So how are we How are you jumping through all these hoops to get to Oh, this could have been the Texans year And all by the way, that game in Denver, right?

Yes. How was the weather in the second half of that game? Horrible. How did the field goal kickers enjoy that game in the second half? They don't. What is the best part of the Texans offense this year? I think Kimmy Fairbairn. I think Kimmy Fairbair wouldn't have enjoyed the experience of kicking.

That game would have ended 6 to 3 either Texans or Broncos. I mean, both, it would have been all defenses and nothing going on elsewhere in that game. And C.J. Stroud probably turns the ball. He was fumbling in Pittsburgh. What, it was it? Five fumbles in Pittsburgh? You lost two of them or whatever it was? He fumbled five times in Pittsburgh and there was no snow. So I want all of you that are sage, wise, interesting, logically thinking Texas fans.

To scrub the thought of, I wish it was us. Now, you can say that because you're a Texan fan and you're rooting for them to get there. If the offense were great, yeah. they had no more justification of being there than frankly New England or for that matter even Denver would have had. And they would have got slapped by the Seahawks they would have.

Because Seattle slapped everybody in the playoffs. They just did. So it's just crazy. I saw like three or four different people. So what you did is if you put that out there in your social media then you gave other people like yeah that sounds about right and then it

grew and I'm like no. Yeah. And then I tweeted like, come on, folks, let's live in reality. I had to mute the notifications on that one too, because there were so many people. It was a one-score game with the Seahawks, guys. It was a one-score game. Come on.

Did you watch that game? It was like 27 to 12 laid into that game. The Texans, they only had one offensive touchdown. One of them was because Sam Darnel fumbled and they fell on the ball in the end zone. And then the other one, I can't even remember how the offense, but they scored it at the end of the game. When the Seahawks were playing prevent defense because there's four minutes left.

Remember, that was the game that started at 915. Remember how late that was? We don't have great memories of that. Yeah, everybody was going to sleep because the Texans were getting destroyed in that game. It was, they were down 14-0-0 to start the game. They were never in it from that point. So you can go back and be like, oh, yeah, it was 27 to 19. It was a one-score game.

It was a one-score game. They got out-gained. They got out-muscled. They won the turnover battle four to two in that game, Matt, and lost. They were not anywhere close. You got to the divisional round. You got to the divisional round. And you play like you normally do in a division of round games.

It was not competitive. I know what I was saying. You're a quarterback and an epically poor performance. He had no running game. You had no top shelf running game to go to to rely on. C.J. Stroud would have been running for his life against DeMarcus Lawrence and this Seattle Seahawks front. They would have been getting destroyed. I'm sorry.

It would have been what you saw last night. New England was better than you. And look what happened to New England. Well, let me ask you this. The people that you saw, was it, hey, we could have gone and beaten Seattle, or was it, hey, we'd have been at least good enough to win? Yeah, watching this is making me long for the Texans in this game or making me think what could have been, stuff like that. It's like, stop, sometimes you've got to stop looking it through your own fans' eyes. You've got to look at it from the big macro view point of this.

And the macro view was Seattle was probably better than everybody else. We just didn't want to give me any shot because we frankly didn't know much about them. And now we do. Probably would have lost in Denver. probably would have just and they couldn't even get to Denver. Like, what are we even talking about? It's ridiculous.

It was a little, and again, I feel like we have to preface this almost every time we're bringing up a social media thing, that it's such a small minority of people that are getting involved in that. No, there's a lot of people like, oh, this is one-score game

with the Seahawks thing. Like, you guys must have forgot. Y'all must have forgotten, as Roy Jones Jr. would say. Because it was not that close. No. And I wanted to be closer. me too. I'm wearing a Texan shirt right now.

I want the Texans to be in there. But I'm not going to delude myself and I'm thinking they were this close. I'm wearing a Joe Mixon T-shirt right now as we speak. Yeah, you are. Go ahead. Let me prepare myself. Thank you. I was looking to see if he was going to, if he was listening. I was scared.

That first time it startled me. It was like I'm back in Greenspoint. I'm sorry that I still believe that Joe Mixon shot his foot off. I'm sorry I do. I think you want to believe it more than you do believe it. It's a good story. Or do you got some inside information? You don't know?

I don't know. I don't know. Matt, listen. I do. When you weren't here, he was talking to me and he was like,

I kind of believe it. I was like, Matt have sources or something? Because sometimes Matt says some off the wall stuff and it comes true. I'm like, oh, he's talking to his peoples. Matt Thomas gets the whispering wins.

Why is this? I don't know. Here's the problem. 80% of the stuff I'm told, I can't believe and I don't typically believe. This one was just too juicy. You have to believe it. It's just,

something so sorry well i've been talking to my sources and what you got i don't think he did i don't think he shot himself in the phone okay so if it's something that they will never announce all taking my gunshot aside it could be any number of things what would be the top three in your list uh he harpooned himself on the foot on a fishing trip in cabo what if he did that by the way you lose on that we're talking about firearm by the way so would it be safe to say that joe makes it Did something, I'm going to say that Nick, he's lied. Well, he said nothing irresponsible. I think he's lying.

Because if it was something responsible, just tell us. Maybe he went and got a surgery he wasn't supposed to and they don't want to throw him under the bus. That's fair. If that's your number one answer as to what could have happened, I would invest in that. Okay. He went and got a procedure done that went sideways and there's maybe the thing. there is some malpractice involved. Maybe lawsuits.

Maybe he went to a doctor he wasn't supposed to go to. The guy's van in the alley. Maybe he went against judge's orders. I mean, no, judge's orders. Doctors' orders. They paid them. Oh, yeah. They didn't have to pay him.

And people on the non-football injury list all year long, you do not have to pay them. And they didn't have to answer to any immediate questions until the very end of the season. Do you think you pay a guy who shoots himself in the foot with a firearm and gets his own surgery? Perfect. It scared me. I think you don't pay that guy. Hey, look up, John, I'm starting to feel, I'm starting to feel better. Look up BB guns, because it's startling Ross every time he does it.

Yeah, I know it's coming. What does it sound like? Bing, ding. Yeah, it's more, it's not like that. It does startling me. I told you. Get flashbacks. Look up BB.

Green's point flashbacks. Oh, Greenspoint. It's the first video. Let's see what it says. Nope, gunshots better. That's all. That's all. No, that was, yeah.

Well, it's not like a rifle. Yeah, let's just use that. That's better. Oh, man, that's multiple hits. Okay. Now that you've given me some logic to this, botched surgery against doctor's orders. Give me my coffee.

If you shoot yourself on the foot, they're going to put you on the NFI and not pay you. And we would have heard about this for somebody. But what if Joe said, I'm going to be fine for the season. Trust me, I'm working through this. like he told Ian Rappaporter shut his mom ass up. And he did. He tried to come back.

He believed he was going to rehab and come back. He was wrong. Tank Dell tried to too, too. But by the way, I thought Adam Sandler was a Jets fan. He's wearing Patriots gear at the Super Bowl. Because they always change their deer. They always change their gear. I mean, but Sandler's like a true, true, true blue sports fan. Daddy is. Big Hooper, too, by the way.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-790. If you want to join us, we've got Believe it not coming up in 20 minutes. All things about the NFL's MVP, Kenneth Walker. Focus, my friend, focus. 127 on 790. 132. Good afternoon. It is Madden Ross. We are here every day between 10 o'clock until 2. And next week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Ross and I will be heading to West Palm Beach, Florida for a few days of Astro Spring Training coverage. It'll be the All-Star break,

but it works out well that you and I get to go down there for a few days. Looking forward to that. Will the Astros still have a congested infield by the time we get down there one week from today? It seems like there's a lot of smoke. And this Eastside Paredes trade fire. Now, does the Boston acquisition today... Does he mean change all that?

Don't know. Boston could. Pittsburgh apparently picking up Marcel Lozuna. Now it's not like, you know, he's a third basement, but they might change a configuration of how what they're trying to do with their roster? I don't know. according to Chandler Rome

in theory Marcelo Zuna signing with the pirates should not remove Pittsburgh but it does decrease the likelihood. Other teams remain in play. You need to tell me you can't find a team as a surplus of outfielders hopefully preferably with a left-handed bat and changing for a guy who could play and start for just about every team in baseball.

Now let me throw the opposite at you before we go to Vince. What if you're like, if you're so strong why would you hurt an area of the team that would make you Uber awesome on your depth chart. To have a guy like Issoc Paredes moving around

mixing him in four to five days a week. By the way, he'd be your first pinch hitter off the bench. Why would you do that? He's your top three hitters. He needs to be in the lineup every day. Answer my question. Why can't we sell the audience on he's going to stay?

Or should stay? Oh, he could stay. Yeah, should stay is different. Man. Because you could actually... 8.09 OPS. You could convince me rather easily. See, I'm doing it not because I'm an anti-Easoc paretas. He's been fantastic.

But I'm just really nervous about what production you're going to get out of the outfield. Especially if Cam Smith is not ready to be the everyday right fielder and that Zach Cole is not ready to be your everyday left fielder. And we know who Jake is. We love Jake. We love Jake. But we know what is black. lack there of power brings.

Jake's not going to the All-Star game. Unless he buys a ticket. I mean, yeah, I mean, he could be in the outfield during homerun derby so those kids don't get hit. He could cover everything. He actually would. He'd be calling off kids. He could be taking home runs off a wall. Hey, he calls off everybody in the outfield.

He'll call all them kids. Yeah, get out of 11-year-old punk. Yeah. Trying to get my zone rating up, son. Yeah. See what I'm saying? You could argue easily, and it would not be a foolish debate to say, if you have such strength,

you have to trust your outfield. And that if any of those three guys aren't ready, you give Zach the Sinsso a try. You keep finding any combination until something works. You could say that. Unless, again, you also want to say that you alleviate the issue by moving and playing Yonan more in left field

than you're willing to advertise at least in early February. I don't know what's going to... It just seems like something's going to happen. If I had a... Well, you've got feeling... tomorrow. I'm saying with mine. At the moment, my gut feeling is he's going to be gone.

Yeah. I have him not here at the end of the year. Barring injury. Yeah. Or barring that Yordon all of a sudden becomes a left fielder for six days a week, which not going to happen. That's not in his best interest. Let's talk to Vince in Midtown at 136.

Vince, how are you? I'm doing fine. Guys, thank you. Hey, I got one question then to follow up. Sure. On the rockets. Are we ever going to get anything out of Albert Finney Smith? You mean Dorian?

Well, no, he's Albert until he starts acting like Dorian again. Hmm. There have been some nicknames out there that are not particularly nice to him. Neal is to say he has been a disappointment. So, I mean, what do you think the problem is? I don't know if it's the ankle. He's had quite a few. he's had quite a few games.

Yeah, he's got 19 games under his belt. He's shooting 24% from 3, 29% overall. Probably got to work himself in the shape, work himself into the rhythm, hasn't had enough time to get out there with teammates. I mean, doesn't play back to back, so it's either going to be one of the other. He doesn't play back to backs.

Yeah, it's, he's the problem, Vince, is that he is also competent and quite well. He was a significant free agent acquisition. Exactly. Let me get to my next question. So what do you think it would take for the Rockets to get in a position to draft Fleming's from U of H? 0% chance. The only way that would happen is if they were to move up in the top five.

Don't say that. Okay, I'll say. You know what, I will go ahead and say less than zero. If there's a negative zero, I would create a way to find that unless the Rockets traded up for that. But Kingston Fleming's, this NBA draft, the top five picks and this NBA draft are, once these slots are made, they're not being moved. This is a very deep NBA draft. I got you, man. Well, I appreciate the time, guys. Sorry, I couldn't give you better news. Thank you, Vince, for the phone call. Yeah, Doreen finish contract hurts. It just does.

And not that you're sitting there watching every dollar being spent because you can't hit it all, but you'd like to be able to get more out of what he's been able to give you, and he just hasn't shot very well. He was one for six in Oklahoma City on Saturday. Kingston Fleming's on the tankathon big board number four. There's the Kansas kid. Yes. Well, Cameron Boozer's up there. Darren Peterson is number one. Peterson is number one, although they're worried about his injury history.

Cameron Boozers. Two. And then AJ DeBanza. DiBanza. At BYU, we just saw them and Cougars beat them. Third. Kingston, Fleming, fourth. And Cinnac would probably be a first-run pick. I don't think he'd make the top.

He's 23rd on this. Yeah, that feels about right. Hey, that's a lot of money. That's two first-round picks in one year. Oh, real quick. Can I imagine? Dahlia Swayne Longhorn Legend 30th on the board. Hey, that's good.

I got to tell you one quick thing here, because we talk about the business of math once in a while of sports. So, you know, there is money that schools can directly give to the athletes that doesn't involve NAL. It's revenue. In the max, you can give a particular school is $20.5 million can split up to its athletes. Some do less, most do less, some do very few do all 20.5. and it goes up every year by 4% rate of inflation. So I sent this to my daughter yesterday,

and she thought it was like, oh gosh, here's what Penn State did. So Penn State, with its NIO revenue share with its students, gave out to its athletes. This is Penn State Rossi, $18.3 million. Okay, not the 20.5, but it's still a lot. of the 18.3 13.3, 13.3

who went to football. Honestly, feels about right. It feels a little low. Maybe even low. Basketball men's got 3 million. Okay. So right there between those two sports, 16.3 of it's 18.3. Wrestling came in third at BYU, at Penn State. I have a big wrestling program, I guess.

Apparently. $1.449 million. Wow. The one of the top wrestling programs. Yeah, I think they are, right? Here comes the rest. Jonathan, you'll stay close to me on this one. Uh-oh. Baseball.

How many players on a team? 35. Something like that. They had a budget of $300,000. Okay, you get 10 Gs. It's better than none. Some are getting 10. Some are getting $20.

Some are getting $58. That was Penn State baseball last year. Probably not good. Women's basketball, $110,000. Okay. Split up among $5. That's something. Men's hockey.

Penn State's got decent hockey. Do they? Yeah. Sure, why not? 95,000. Stay with me. Men's lacrosse. Oh, they're decent, right?

I don't know. 50,000. 50 Gs. What's a lacrosse roster looking like? That's got to be 20 deep, right? In there, give or take? I have no idea. I don't even know how many you've called lacrosse.

How many people are on the field in the lacrosse? I've called indoor lacrosse. I've called indoor lacrosse. I mean, it's not fair. They called box lacrosse. Yeah, I literally don't know how many people are on the field. Men's tennis. I'm assuming.

I know how many are on the court then. One, maybe two. Maybe two. Maybe two. The roster's probably 12 deep, right? Maybe two. They were given $10,000. For the whole squad?

For the whole squad. Women's volleyball. Penn State, by the way. Ready for this? No. They won the national championship. Women's lacrosse? Women's volleyball.

A woman's volleyball? Penn State? Penn State. When did they? win the national championship show. Okay. A&M one of this past year. National champion women's volleyball. $10,000. That's at Penn State. That's a Penn State. And my guess is the numbers. My offer for her to promote my Instagram just went down.

Wait a minute. The market changed. This should go up. No, the market's changed. No, sir. We're changing with the times. In light of this new information, we're dropping an offer down. We need you more because if my schools, if Rhode Island's not giving my daughter any money, She needs an NIL from great people From Ross Villarreal Enterprises Low ball offers coming It looks like there's a good 20 guys on this lacrosse

So the reality is I don't know how these lacrosse coaches do it But my guess is they probably take three or four guys They will give you five Gs each And the rest of you just be lucky to get your scholarship Yeah But it's I just want it up and eat your free chicken tenders I just wanted to point out the discrepancy that

Yeah This revenue That is split among athletes athletics really is going to primarily football with a much smaller extent to men's basketball. I think the Cougars at University of Houston, I think we're paying more than for men's basketball than $3 million. Okay. It would be my guess. So I just want to pass that along to you.

Hey, yeah, NCAA champs in 2004. 24, sorry. No, they're a powerhouse. And the coach gets 10 Gs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 24 champions. And they're getting 10 Gs? Does Penn State got a good drag program or does they even have one? They used to have a really good track program.

I had a high school team that went there, but I don't have too short right now. I know they had a really good hurling squad up there, but you're not going to pay nobody to track. Oh, my God. I wonder how are you of age, because we have a great track program. I guarantee you it's very low. Is it? Well, I mean, I think anything. Carl Lewis there.

Yeah. You're going to work with Carl Lewis. Is Carl going to show something out? Let's go, Carl. He's probably lucky. I didn't make any money in college. You can't make any either. He's notorious for not paying his athletes, by the way.

U of H has not have a good track record on the track program. Damn, look at you throwing out that. It's a known fact. It's known throwing out. I didn't know about it took this now. Yeah, Matt thinks everything U of H is the greatest ever. I mean, they're good. They're good.

I'm just saying, you know, very cut throat over there. He run a tight program. Do you know Carl Lewis at all? No, no, no. I've seen them. I would like to meet him personally, of course. Okay, I'll make that happen. Just don't sing with them.

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Of course. Remember that kid that used to called you a couple times while I was gone? Yes. Where is that young man? I hope he's doing well. I don't know. He's very smart. He knows ball.

He probably can take one of our jobs eventually. Let's talking about Ryan O'Hern and whatnot. Oh, yeah. I wonder how he's mentioning. up this baseball off season for the asteros. I don't know. We need to get his insights. Maybe make him a special correspondent. Maybe he can do some 10th inning shows in a weekends. Child labor, Matt.

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