The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Morey's New Job & Worst Coaching Decisions

Episode Date: October 28, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1201 in H-Town. What's happening in lunchtimmers? Good afternoon to you. Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show, where there are a lot of little things dropping by the minute around these parts,

sports RV. Headline after headline after headline. Sports news for days. Sports news of the day? Well, we got some breaking news right out of the get-go. It is basketball related. It's someone has to do with the Houston Rockets, although it's not the head coach of the Houston Rockets,

or soon to be named. Darry, according to a woge bomb. Who? Darry, our favorite ex-general manager, has got himself a new job. Yeah, you want to pop the top on one? You sure can. He is going to be the president of basketball operations.

This is really kind of a, I don't think it's a particularly large secret. The Philadelphia 76ers. Elton Brand, their general manager, stays as general manager. My guess is probably for a year. Yeah, I mean, what is exactly, that was a bizarre follow-up to me from, I guess just because he's got a contract and yeah and you can segue move on from one sort of thought process to another and so about a year from now we'll be seeing a press release we we the philadelphia 76ers thank elton brand for all his great years we wish him well in the future or elton's gone and found something else

and to pursue other basketball opportunities of course um i told this to ross off air and i'll tell you guys as an audience as an audience and this is no real um great uh by the way the report on The bottom says, Mori in advance talks. I got the impression he was going to beat the job. Yes, that's what Woj just says, in advance talks,

and a deal is expected within the next couple of days. Okay. So we're going to go and presume that that's the case. Well, he had to get that out there. You got to beat Shams, you know?

Yeah, that's a big battle there. So when a coach, a general manager, a politician, a head of state, a CEO of a company says that they're going to step down to spend more time with their family,

probably doesn't mean spending more time with their family. Not in every case. But I have been around a lot of coaches in my life. Professional, collegiate, been around a few front office people in my life as well. Every time you go to the family card, it means there's something else. And it could be a variety of things.

It could be, I hate my boss. I'm sick. I've had some extracurricular activity that I need to make sure that no one knows about. I mean, Rossi, there's a variety of things. The family card usually takes care of it until you find that next job. Because that's what I read in the Darryor Mory release

was that he wanted to spend some time with his family and, you know, it just made sense. Well, I know that Daryl Mory loves his kids tremendously. He loves his wife, Alan. As a matter of fact, I'm big fans of the Mory family. But when he said he was stepping down for family things, It's not like he had not seen them. Yeah, I would have been more rather to believe if he said, I want to go pro and pickleball.

Or something like that. I want to further my table tennis career. Yes. Or ping pong. Is that the exact same thing about it? I'm starting a chess watching Twitch. I would have believed that more from Darrell Morey than what he said. Yeah.

Because he's into all of those things. I've heard it all. And people in my business, I've heard it. You know, I want to take some time away from the family, meaning I've got a non-compete. I've got to sit out. Yeah. You know what I mean? So I'm going to give you all a little heads up.

When I retire from this radio show, which hopefully will be never, it will be more of a forcing out and you'll have to say, oh, I'm spending more time of my family. It's going to be, when I go to the family card, don't believe me. Either they didn't renew your contract or you're in some sort of tax evasion entanglement.

Correct. I owe millions of people. I'm in a Ponzi scheme and I'm going to need really time away from everybody, not just my family. So yeah, just don't believe anybody when they go to the family card. And especially not Darry. So he's now going to be the 70.

So the out of 76ers have Doc Rivers. They have Darry. Yes. They have young superstars. Well, they're going to move one of them. There's no way that Joel Embed and Ben Simmons are on a Darryl Morey basketball team. Ben Simmons, bye-bye, then. You think that's the one?

He's a guard that doesn't shoot three-pointers. How do you think Darrymori feels about that? How do you think about Elton Brand putting his back to the basket? Oh, you mean? Not Elton Brand. Well, I guess he did that, too. He actually did. Joel N. B putting his back to the basket.

Yeah, but Joel and Bede is actually very efficient. But actually, Ben Simmons is very efficient getting to the basket as well. Both of them aren't very good. I mean, aren't necessarily what you would think of Mory Ball, but Moray ball is about efficiency. Everybody says, oh, three-pointers, three-pointers, three-pointers. It's about three-pointers. It's about three-points. It's about, you know, points per processions, whatever is. Yeah, exactly.

And points per possession, Joel and Bid and Ben Simmons are actually pretty good. So you surround them with some shooters? So do you think they're going to be together, or do you think that's the first thing he wants to do? I don't know. I wonder what kind of value would you get first? of Ben Simmons. Again, I'm terrible value. What if he orchestrates a trade for the guy that rhymes

with Marms Barton? Mames Martin. Mames Martin. Who was just traded eight years ago yesterday? Hmm. Ben Simmons. Hand on chin emoji. Would you take Ben Simmons and a load of draft picks? Probably not. Why not?

Because then you have Ben Simmons and Russell Westbrook and neither of them can shoot. Well, I mean, where are you as a... I think if you're moving James Harden, you're a re- Calibrating the franchise. That's true. How good are the first-round picks going to be? When you have James Hardin and Joel Embed on the same team,

I think that team is going to be pretty good. It's true. Yeah, if you put Doc and Surly and what are angry, what are the name of the dwarves, whatever their names are, sleepy. Sleepy, snuffy, nasal head, decongestant. Oh, I'm talking about pet bozum. There's a snorty.

My name, my NyQuilmer. I'm not talking about Pepto-Bismol. I was talking about the dwarfs. Yeah, you put Doc and sleepy at the 4-5. By the way, that's going to be a room. You've got a current general manager who's getting a new boss. It's a layer between him and the owner. You're getting a new coach who has been very demonstrative about his time in the NBA.

I mean, that's going to be, I'm not going to say combustible. It's just going to be highly charged when decisions are coming in. What is Darrell Mori? I mean, is he reaching out to talking to Elton Brand right now? What is the conversations like, hey, I have your job. you should go play some golf. What are the Darry-Mory Elton-Bring? No, my guess is Elton-Brand will do a lot of scouting,

would be my guess. Okay. So he's just basically been reduced to a scout. Well, I mean, if I'm going to call the Philadelphia 76ers, and I want to get a deal done, am I calling Elton Brand? Am I calling Dary-Murie? Exactly. I think. I think you do.

I mean, again, I would think that Elton Brand, not knowing the 76ers organization at all, would be this is a year of transition. You've got a new coach. You've got a new president of basketball operations. You need something to kind of tell me how the lay the land has been. And then now, Brian, we'll find something else in the next 12th calendar months. A new tweet from Wojj.

Conversations with the Sixers and Daryl Morey started shortly after his departure from Houston. Escalated in recent days and will culminate with Mori becoming the Sixers' new president. Sources tell ESPN, Doc Rivers and Mori have a strong relationship and history together. We do. That's right. Boston, back in the day. Boston. Yeah.

Okay, good for all of them. I like Doc. I like Darrell. I'm glad they're in the Eastern Conference. I like Doc Antle more than Doc Rivers. Who's Doc Antel? That's okay. I don't know that is.

It's from the Tiger King. Oh, is it? See, I don't know these people's names. You never watched it? I did watch the Tiger King. Okay. I just didn't know their names. He was that weird blonde guy with all the hot young chicks.

Yeah, how did that dude get all those girls? I don't know. Okay, we can talk about that another day. That's during baseball season. Speaking of baseball. I have compiled the list. In my list, I want to go 10 deep on this. So I've followed the first four of amazingly bad decisions made by coaches and or managers.

And look, say what you will about how much I liked AJ Hinch. Still like this AJ Hinch. Matter of fact, I root for A.J. Hinch to get a job either with the Chicago White Sox or the Detroit Tigers. I think it was a good manager. But even the best managers Rossi make mistakes. and I think if you poured some true serum into the punch of A.J. Hinch, he probably would say, I never should have pulled Zach Grinky. And if I really still wanted to pull Zach Grinky, I probably should have gone to Garrett Cole over Will Harris. Will Harris had been nails all playoffs.

He had been, but he'd also pitched over the previous two days. Correct? If I'm not mistaken? I don't know if it was two in a row. Whatever, but he had obviously pitched. You had a Garrett Cole locked and loaded and ready to go. Doesn't mean it guaranteed success. But if you've got Garrett Cole sitting there waiting. for you who had been so good. Wasn't he on like two days rest? It's game seven of the World Series. They told, they said, we're not arguing this.

I know, I know, it's just a good argument. He said before the game, he was only going to use him in a traditional closer role, and it wasn't a traditional closer role. Yeah. But you had the lead? Yes. Six outs. Correct.

So he's going to use him in the ninth. What's the difference? You're going to him in the bully. Madison, Bunnter helped the Giants on the World Series by doing exactly that. in the bullpen in a game against game. That's true. Guys will come on and we're a short rest in. Clayton Carlshaw come on in short rest and out of the bullpen and he's terrible. But if you were to say you've got Garicol locked and loaded ready to go on two days

rest over Will Harris, you're probably going to take. Who had been great, but not perfect. Again, I liked Will Harris too. I'm not going to destroy the decision like everybody else's, but you could certainly, but a lot of people have. Even the dumb baseball minds have and smart baseball minds have. but I'm going to put it on this list. When I come back, I'm going to give you three more on the list, and then you guys are going to help me finish it up.

We know AJ is on the list of pulling Zach, Kevin Cash pulling Blake Snell yesterday, maybe on the top of that list. And there's a couple other ones, but I want us to finish out the list of ridiculously questionable decisions made by head coaches and or managers. We'll discuss that. And oh, by the way,

Justin Turner does not care about COVID. protocol. Clearly, nor do the Dodgers. Nor to the Dodgers. They just don't care. Mookie Betts was damn good yesterday, though. 12, 12 on the Matt Thomas show. Lots to get to today.

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What's Latin for no contest? No contest. What's Latin for no contest? No conteste? Sure. I think it sounds good. Il contesti? In the contesto, meaning no contest. I just made that up.

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Well, Matt, everyone keeps leaving. I mean, what we're supposed to do? It stepped down and went to the Sixers. It's not our fault. It's not our fault. One of the greatest general managers in the sports history. Step down and left a mess of a salary cap with a $40 million point guard who can't shoot

and then went to another franchise in the east. It's going to be a little easier to win with bright young stars. What am I who can't shoot, by the way? Yeah, but he shoots, he's like 58% from the field or something. He just can't shoot the outside show. Yeah, he's very efficient. Oh, there's a lot. Ben Simmons, there's a lot to him, Ben, I like.

I'm just saying that. No, I understand. From a pure, if you're a jump shooting fan, you don't like Ben Simmons. But he doesn't take jump shots. We got a guy who takes jump shots and can't make them. That's not efficient. He was different after December 15th. First six weeks were kind of, mm.

And then what happened in the playoffs? he wasn't the same player maybe he was a quad injury I think he was quad I think he's going to be okay the rona was probably a some factor to it too that's true

Cam Newton's in a post-covid fog it seems like god everybody is thank God you and I are bright and spry I feel like my brain I don't know if my brain has been more foggy afterwards

or it's just that I never get sleep anyways because sometimes I'm like oh man I can't really think today and I'm just staring at Matt's forehead but that happens to me all the time Thanks. I think. All right.

So let me get to this World Series bit for a second. Oh, about, let me give you the things here. And I want you all to think about this. If you guys have some other things to this list, these are top 10 in my mind, questionable,

hire, not hires, questionable decisions made by head coaches and or managers, okay? I put AJ in the list. I didn't want to, but I feel like if I wouldn't have put on the list, that people would say,

you're just, you're completely glossing over. Yeah, but screw them, Matt. Sometimes you've got to make a stand. It wasn't that bad of a decision. I don't need to make that big of a stand over this. Okay. Kevin Cash pulling Blake Snell yesterday at his pitch count when he was dealing.

I mean, lead off single-de-in inning. So what? Okay, he was going to face Mookie Betts with a third time. He had owned Mookie Betts the previous two times. And Blake Snow had said as much after the game. I was feeling I was ready. I was going to change up how I was going to throw to him. It was just a bad decision.

Kevin Cash had done that a couple of times in the Astro series. It didn't bite him in the ass too badly. This one didn't say cost of the World Series, but it's a painful, painful decision to make when the entire sports world is watching what you're doing. All right, so I put him on the list. Pete Carroll throwing the ball to Russell Wilson, having Russell Wilson throw at the one-yard line for New England intercept the ball.

Pretty much brain dead. That's one that came to mind. Because you had Marshawn Lynch in the back, though, correct? Am I right about that? Yes, I think. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Pretty sure.

Yeah. His name is Beast Mode. Give him the ball. give him a bag of Skittles, hand the football, he'll go to the end zone. Try it three times. I guarantee you that really, I mean, and look, New England had a great defense, but it wasn't like it was Baltimore 2001. Give the ball to Marshawn Lent three times.

Take your chances. Throwing a difficult pass in a crowded area in a small part of the field, probably wasn't the smart thing. And then the fourth one I thought of was Grady Little, the manager of the Red Sox at the time, did not pulling Pedro Martinez, the American League Championship series, Yankees scoring a bunch of runs winning that game.

And Grady left Pedro out there to throw, what, 150, 120 pitch, something like that, and it was a disaster. So those are four. Anything else that comes to mind, you guys can get yourself involved. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

If you want to tweet us what you think are other very noticeable, questionable, backfire managerial and our head coaching decisions, let us know on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Brendan Riley's underscore. So either one of you two jimokes.

Hold on and throw one in there, and you're more going to do that. I know there's a grandiose list, but those are the first four that I thought of without going to the internet. Okay. Well, I went to the internet. I'm just looking around.

Okay. Pete Carroll is like a consensus number one. Yeah. For sure. For sure. People do not like that call. Give me a couple more before. Kyle Shanhan's entire second half in Super Bowl 51.

Again. When they got up 283. Oh, yeah, yeah. His play calling. They're passing the ball a little bit too much for people's taste, I suppose. Joe Madden in the entire 2016 World Series, just every decision he made, I guess, people are upset. If you went to Chicago and talked to Cubs fans about that, they felt like they won the World Series in spite of Joe Madden. So there's lengths of that.

Yeah, they do. If you won a World Series with his manager and they still hate him. They still do. How about this one? guarding Michael Jordan one-on-one with Brian Russell. What jazz defender would you put on him? I don't know. Put five of them on them.

Oh, you're saying double team. Yeah. Okay, I get that. Somebody, John McNair sticking with Bill Buckner. Oh, an 86? Mm-hmm. Okay. Rather than the, apparently he spent, the entire 86 playoffs,

he would sub him for a defensive replacement. Late in games. Dave Stapleton. Okay. And he didn't do it in that game six. No, and it didn't work out well. Whoops, see, Daisy. Yikes.

Okay, so if you all have any more, let us know. At SportsMT, at SportsRB, at Brennan, Raleigh, underscore, and, of course, on the phones, at 713-213-2-5-7-90. Larry and Leport at 1224 on the Matt Thomas show. Hi, Larry. How you're doing today? Larry, I've been hitting the outside pitch. No, no, no, we're still not doing it.

Okay. Did you see the beginning of the game last night? No, I did not. Okay, the very first pitch was an outside corner strike to Azare. He took the track. The second pitch was a slider on the same place outside corner. What did he do? He drove it to the right field for Homer.

Why can't we do this? Because we're not capable of doing it. Correa cannot knock that ball out of any part of the park. instead of us taking the outside first cause track, drive at the right field, go with the pitch. You know, uh, you made a false statement doesn't it? You see, I've been calling eight years. It's three. Oh, okay.

This will probably be my last call until next baseball season. Wait a minute. Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry, in December around the holiday time. I'm going to need to hear some outside pitch conversations. We're going to do it soon. If you notice last inning we played. Brighman batted four times before he went to right field with the pitch. They're pitching Grisle inside, and they're jamming him.

So instead of him backing off the plate, he stands there and try to pull his arms in. We have to adjust to what they're doing. We're not hitting smart, but, you know, we're going to get better. This was our World Series to win, but we gave it away. because it couldn't get the outside pitch, Larry. I understand Larry, I want you coming back in December, my man. Rossi, about December 15th when we're kind of thinking about gifts for our families. Given the gift of getting a call from Larry will make my Christmas holidays complete.

We're thinking about turkey and stuffing. And hitting the outside pitch. Yes. And eggnog. And don't take that one. Don't take strike one on the outside corner. Take that pitch. Go with it.

Send it the other way. Arise of Rainer or whatever his name is. He's been hitting a bunch of opposite-filled home runs, apparently. He's just a strong human being. Yeah. Cuban. Strong. Randy Arisarina.

A Rosarina. A Rosarina. A Rosarina. A Rosarine. Yeah. Like Benardin. A rosarina. Who?

Who? Rednardrick. By the way, Aaron Reese, our buddy from the athletic says that the Packers are calling the Texans about Will Fuller. Make the deal. Let's go. Apparently, according to Aaron Reese, the Texans are not going to make a deal just to make a deal. That's the bad philosophy, I believe.

even. You make a deal just to make a deal. What are you going to do with Will Fuller? He's an unrestricted free agent after this season, correct? Right. Get something for him. Go get it. I don't care what it is. I don't care what it is. Go get something. Get a washing machine. I don't care what you get. My bad feeling, by the way, is the Texas will not draft into the second round next year. I hope I'm wrong about that. No, they will not. That's terrible.

But they need to do something in the next six days in order for them to get a second round pick. Packaged people. I don't care what it is. Get some money out the salary cap and get your ass in a second round. So the new general manager, who hopefully will get rid of Jack Easterby in a millisecond, will be able to reconstruct this franchise with at least a second round pick. You can find starters in the NFL right away with second round picks. Do we have a Carlos Dunlap defensive inn who put his home on the market that was promptly traded from the bingles of the Seahawks?

Do we know what he was traded for? Because Everson Griffin went for a sixth. They could turn into a fifth. Yeah. Yonick and Gakwe was a third and a fifth. Conditional fifth. What was, do we know what Dunlap was traded for? I believe it was a seventh and a backup lineman.

So basically, Romeo Grenet was in line by saying that they're being offered peanuts. That's okay. Get some peanuts. Peanuts will hold you over to the next meal. Peanuts are protein. Yeah. Maybe high in salt and fat, but they still get protein. But it's not your first choice for a meal, but if you're starving,

Yeah. If you're in the desert and you have not eaten in a week and I offer you peanuts, you're gobbling them up. Speaking of the Texans, they've closed a facility. Details on that. Plus, if you have any bad managerial decisions or head coaching decisions that you remember in sports, let us know right now. Bill's got one in Porter at 713-212-5-790. Besides the ones I've listed, Kevin Cash, AJ Pete Carroll, Grady Little, what else have been bad decisions involving head coaches and or managers? 713-212-5-790 on Sports Talk 790. Yeah, guys, I got to talk to you about how you feeling. I'm a little sluggish today. You feeling like you haven't been yourself? Sometimes you're like, okay, well, is it the weather, or I haven't been sleeping, or stress at work, and all these things.

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You'll want to be a part of that coming up at 250 this afternoon. Houston Texans released the following statement earlier this morning. Like last night, we received notice from a Texans player tested positive for COVID. In accordance with NFL protocols, the player immediately self-isolated and our infection control officer and other members of the infection, response team began working with the NFL to perform contact tracing. Our facility will be close today to players for deep cleaning. We are in close consultation with the NFL as well as our team of independent doctors and

specialist and will follow their guidance regarding our scheduled byweek operations. The health and safety of our team as well as our entire staff are of highest priority. Good. It's all nice things said. What is an infection control officer? How do you sign up for that gig? That is, I believe that's the former head trainer. Oh, okay.

What does that pay? They don't make it available. I mean, I guess you could call Jamie Roots in the... Okay, I'll call. So how's that kind of my resume? Jamie, this is Ross, Villarreal from Sports Talk 7-90. You're not home for Texans football, but you're very unofficial home for Texas football. I'd like to become your infectious control officer.

What's the salary on that? Do you get a company car? Do you get a cell phone? Do you get a pager? Do you get a expense account? Are you going to be providing the N-95 masks? These are things things. Also, Wisconsin game with Nebraska. Canceled. Not postponed. Canceled. Wisconsin closing down all their activities. They also have some COVID testing problems or positive test. And this Saturday's game will not be played.

Was it an outbreak? I know there are two quarterbacks had positive tests. The backup in the third string, I think is what I was told, right? The first string was hurt. And then the backup played pretty well, I think, in week one. then he got COVID and then his backup got COVID so they're going to be on the four stringer. Well, not this week they're not. Well, yeah. So if you win the Big Ten, you're going to be playing,

if either one of those two teams does, they're going to be playing one less game, which I'm sure Ohio State and Penn State. His coach Paul Chris got positive as well? I did not know that. What's going on over there, Wisconsin? Oh, isn't Wisconsin? Then like a hotbed for tests right now for positives right now?

Well, it's funny. Madison. is where the school is. It's the capital of the state. It's basically, and I feel terrible of all the years that I lived in Minnesota, I never went to Madison because I've heard it's just a spectacular place. It's supposed to be a bunch of hotties up there, right?

It's supposed to be the Austin of the North. Okay. I mean, I've heard nothing but comparable mentions of Austin, Texas, and Madison, Wisconsin. There are some hotties in Austin. There are. There are some hotties in Annapolis, Maryland this weekend. Those Navy boys, nothing to worry about.

Nothing. Okay. Well, Colletown's just going to have beautiful people, period. That's true. That's true. I went to Lubbock a few weeks ago. Austin Hooters always had good talent. Oh, is that true? Absolutely. You think deciding on how the Hooters is in your particular town is how the girls in that particular city are. Yeah. I think you're absolutely right. Yeah. I think you can judge what your city's like based on the Hooters and or Twin Peaks girls. Yeah. That's true. Well, they're pretty strong all over Houston.

What? I haven't been very disappointed at any of them. Webster's nice. Kirby's pretty good. Oh, you're talking about Twin Peaks? The Woodlands? Oh, Twin Peaks for sure. Oof, I went to the Woodlands one.

Yeah. The one in Webster? I thought it was at a strip club. You just probably wouldn't be worried about eating there. You just want to just go in for the scenic views and drink the super cold beer. Yeah, I don't know how the health inspector feels about wearing thongs all in the kitchen and stuff. I think he's got zero problem with it. I don't know about that.

I'm going to go ahead and say, as an inspector myself, I would say there's zero problems with that. 713-2125790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Let's go to Bill and Porter on the Matt Thomas show. Hi, Bill. Hey, how you all doing? Wonderful, what's going on? Okay, two instances of the 1960 World Series, Casey Stingle, didn't want to start Whitey Ford in Pittsburgh.

So he started someone else, and anyway, it ended up costing. in the World Series cost him his job. You know, Whitey Ford pitch of 12-0-N-Nothing shut out and attended nothing shut out. And another instance was when Guy Lewis, and I love Guy Lewis, he's a great coach, but when he went to the slowdown against North Carolina State, and it cost him the game. Wasn't there also, wasn't Clyde also in foul trouble for a lot of the game, too? Got a bunch of fouls early on? He may have.

He may have. Yeah. I'll get you. You know what? Go ahead. What? No, you go first. I was just going to say, please, Rockets, don't sign Jeff Van Gundy as coach.

He's so negative, and I think he's a sorry coach. He's not happy unless things are going bad. He's Mr. Negative. And even when he is an announcer, he contradicts himself in the same sentence. So I just hope they don't hire him. That's just me. I'll pass it along to the people. And one more thing.

Sure. Friday, last Friday, George Gabby Sims, who played for the Baylor Bears in 48, 49, and played for the Rams for a couple years. He's the oldest ex-NFL player still living. He turned 93, and just want to shout out to him. Happy birthday. Is he listening to show? I don't know. I don't know, but he was a teacher and a great coach, great person, role model to so many people.

and he still holds the Southwest Conference record for Interception Return Yards. Wow. All right. Well, thank you for all that information. I appreciate it, Bill, very much. Of all the things he said, I will probably, and I hate to do this, Ross. I'm going to put Guy V in the slowdown against North Carolina State on the board as really questionable decisions. I'm sorry, Matt.

Because athletically, there's no way in the world in North Carolina State should have been able to stay mono-a-mono with the University of Houston. You play to win the game. Well, how about Doug Marone in the second? in half against the Patriots in that AFC championship game when they were way up. He sat on the ball too, and they lost. You think it was so questionable to put it on the top ten? I'll do it if you want me to.

It's French. Okay, well, hold on to it then. It cost the Jaguars a trip to the Super Bowl. That would have been really putrid. Then the Texans would have been the only team in the AFC South and never to go to the Super Bowl. At least they and Jacksonville share that at this point. True.

Along with the Browns and Lions? I think that's everybody. Why is Doug Maron's for the coach? If Bill O'Brien got the hook, why isn't Doug Maron not far behind? I think he's even a worse coach. He's not going to survive. There's no way.

Remember a year ago we were arguing who's worse or basically who's better, but who's worse? Jason Garrett and Bill O'Brien and they're both fired now. How about this? Speaking of coaching, I'm of the firm belief. Not I'm in transition to sports, but I'm going to anyway, that Mike Dantonia was going to be the head basketball coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, if not for Doc Rivers going at the very last second. They could have Dan Tony and Mori. Isn't that weird? That could have had.

wonder if that would have impacted Darrell's decision to go to Philadelphia one way the other. He likes Mike, right? Oh, I think he does. Absolutely. But it's funny because Philadelphia went after more a couple of years ago. And Darrell got a new deal here in Houston and then decided not to go to Philadelphia.

You could have traded them at that point, right? Can you trade GMs? No. Oh. Dang. Try to get some draft picks. Have you ever seen a transaction in life involving a general manager for a general manager with draft picks? No. That would be awesome You're just thinking that maybe... I mean, how else are the Rockets going to get draft big?

They don't have any for the next five years. I don't know, I don't know Raffel at all, but I would hope maybe Raffel wouldn't trade... Is it not Raphael? No, it's Raphael. Why? That's what mom... Let me talk to this guy. You're more than welcome to.

Isn't it spelled R-F, R-F? E-L. Yeah. Okay. Like the Ninja Turtle. I don't want to let me know that Ninja Turtle's that much. Okay. When it's Simon Theodore and Al

No, no, no, it's Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. And one of them is always made fun of, because it looks like Russ, right? Well, they all look like Russ, basically. That's not nice. They look the same. They're ninja turtles. The only difference between them is what color their headbands are. Of course, Michelangelo is orange, and he was the rambunctious one, so he was my favorite.

Okay. Much easier to understand now. I was always a Michelangelo guy, Matt. I'm trying to think of the last cartoon I watch on a regular basis. Well, as an adult, it was Beavis and Budhead. Oh, as an adult, I watch, if Sponb... If I see an hour and a half of SpongeBob on, and I'm flipping it on. No, I would say that...

Spongebob! Don't shake your head at me, Brendan. You don't want SpongeBob? I was never a SpongeBob fan, not even as a kid. Okay, forget about you being an adult. As a kid, the last cartoon you remember watching on a regular basis. Probably X-Men? Okay. That was my jam.

I got to be 12. Every Saturday morning. I got to be 10 or... I may have watched the Smurfs as a young guy. when they first came out. Okay. That's probably the last one I remember. I love the Flintstones.

I love the Jetsons. But those were those were, those were a cartoon 30 years ago. And they just moved on to Laverne and Shirley for some reason. You jump straight from the Smurfs to... I went to the Smurfs and... To Mark and Mindy. Super Friends to Sanford and Son and the Jeffersons.

That was a latchkey kid. That's what you had to do. 1244, the Matt Thomas show. 713, 212, 5, 790. Joel Clyde at 130. We're still trying to think of. some more super questionable head coaching decisions made by managers or coaches in basketball and baseball. Kevin Cash, AJ, Pete Carroll, Grady Little, and Guy B. Lewis. I'm putting Guy

V on there and I love Guy on there. I love the family, love Cougars, but the slowdown against North Carolina State was certainly painful. It's the Matt Thomas show. We appreciate you listening to Sports Talk 790. My buddy, Bo, listening to the show says anything Dan Quinn's done as Atlanta Falcon coach has to be questionable, right? That's true. How about, well, it wasn't really Todd. I mean, Todd Gurley made the mistake, but do you think somebody from the Atlanta bench would have, Rahim Morris sort of said, do not score any circumstance? And I think he knew he wasn't supposed to score, but he did anyway.

He forgot at the last second. Yeah. I mean, you're a running back. You see the wide open end zone. He's run for it. I was thinking about this. How about Jim Eddy, who was the older's defensive coordinator, his approach to stop in the bills in the second half or lack thereof in that playoff game? Did he have an approach? No, well, if he did, it didn't work. It was, I mean, it was, I don't think you open up the second half in prevent defense, but it happens.

And it did. And it was the worst loss in Houston's football history, for sure. Well, I got to bring that up, man. I don't know. We're already getting kicked in the nuts enough right now. We're getting kicked in the cashew's bad. Finally, for agency is officially underway in Major League Baseball. The Astros have four.

Michael Brantley, Josh Reddick, George Springer, and Brad Peacock. Chances, any of them are back? I'll give you a number. Go ahead. Over under one. Well, actually, you'd be 0.5, right? No, I'm giving you one. Well, then I can bet and just say one and be done with it.

No, you can't. You have to bet over and under. You can't push. I can't. Your rules? Yeah. What do you mean? If the spread is seven and it's seven, it's a push, you don't win.

You need eight or six. I'm going to believe it's a push. I will say, no bet. You have to pick. Oh, it's a stayaway for you. You know what? I respect the stayaway play, man. Okay, if you force me to.

A penny saved is a penny. I would take the under. I think there's zero percent chance George comes back. I think it's 10 percent that Josh Redick comes back. I think it's 10 percent that Michael Brantley comes back. And Brian Peacock, I don't even particularly. Why wouldn't they give Brantley whatever he wants? Because, well, here's the thing.

Major League Baseball's in trouble. Do you see how much money they're losing? I mean... That's what I'm saying. Market may not be that great. I've been saying this. But if the market's not great for Houston, it's not great for other places, too. So why would you think staying here would automatically be a better choice?

I mean, if the market's only going to give George Springer $20 million a year, he's going to get it from somewhere, the question is going to be, would Houston be one of the team's offering $20 million a year? You might get a bonus on renewing your lease at your condo? I don't think he's particularly worried about that. just don't. Okay. So, yeah, even though baseball financially is in the blanker, it doesn't mean the guys aren't going to get paid. It just will be, it'll be where you want to get paid. Like, for instance, George can't, George, the Astros can't say, well, if you play for us,

you can make $25 million. If you play for the Miami Marlins of the New York match, you're only going to get $15. It doesn't work that way. Money is money. What if Scott Boris or these collective agents collectively decide that maybe the shrewd move is to take short-term deals and then, and then, uh, like, oh, didn't, uh, Bryce Harper do like a one and a one or something like that one time? Sounds right. So maybe like a two-year deal with a player option and then next year, you see what the market's like and then you can opt out.

What you did describe, I could see, Josh, I could see, excuse me, Michael Brantley doing. I think George just needs to get out, period. Not needs to. I think he wants to. Reporters keep talking about how he doesn't. They don't want their head from their ass on that. Okay. I mean, seriously, I have seen so many stupid tweets.

What does Joel Sherman have to say about this? And Jeff Passing. I will include him in the mix. I know somebody that knows George personally very well. And I can go to that card. And I would get the true answer on that. But I don't need to do that. It's been in my pores since they left.

I'm just telling you Rossi, when you have one of your own and you don't lock him up, like you've locked up Bregman, like you locked up Burtlander, like you locked up Granky, or you inherited Granky, the message is there. We'll get to you when we can. And I think players get put off by that, especially those that have been homegrown by the Astros organization, or for any organization for that matter. I'm going to miss Georgie boy.

Me too. Best lead love hitting the game. One of the best. But at 31, if he wants a six-year deal, that's, Too rich for, I think, just about everybody's blood unless you are a team that is looking to make a splash for age and hire. So sign up Carlos Correa is what you're saying. I'm saying. You and I've argued about this for five months.

If you had one thing to do in this off season, what would it be over anything else? Get rid of COVID. Okay. I'm talking to baseball. Number two would be signed Carlos Correa. I think you and I've been saying for two years, you can't have Carlos Corre and George Springer at the, the money they want on this roster. As long a term of his deal he wants or as sure does,

he might want a short-term deal. He might want like a four-year deal. I think I think, I think, I think Carls wants to go to the major metropolitan cities at some point in his career. I think it's in the Astro's best interest to make sure that that's delayed. Don't huff and puff. It's just the truth. I know you're right. All right. So I make sure. Team J. Correa wants to be a star.

Cecil, South Houston on 790 and 1255. Hi, Cecil. So this is a no-brainer. You remember when the coach from Alabama, Nick Saban, tried to kick that long field goal against Auburn? Yeah. That is 100% on coach Saban for kicking that thing and having all those 300-pound linemen who looked like fence posts

when he was running that ball back to the end zone. What do you think? Wow. So you're saying that was one of the boneheaded decisions that a coach could make on a particular game? I mean, come on. You got to, when you make $7 million years, head coach, you have to plan for every scenario. Well, let me ask you this.

How often does that happen in college football? Oh, not often at all. But when you're the head coach, I never get something Bear Bryant said. I've never seen a head coach win a game. But I've sure seen head coaches make bonehead decisions that lose games. True words were never spoken, in my opinion. All right. Well, I'm going to ask the group here. Do we put Nick Sabin going for that kick and having it returned by Auburn as one of the ten most crazy mistakes a head coach can make?

It was a dumbass decision. It was a bad one. They were because they missed that they were supposed to go overtime, right? Yep. Do you want to put it on? I'm asking you. Do you want on the list? Put on the list. I don't think it belongs. It's a bad decision, but it's not a historic bad decision. It was a historically awesome play. Right.

But the play never happens if the return man drops the football, right? I mean, it was, it wasn't like, for instance, when you, didn't you guys know when Blake Snell got pulled yesterday that it was going to end poorly for the race, especially how well he was performing, Blake's now was. Didn't you feel it in your bones? Nobody in your bones thought the ball was going to be short where our Auburn returner was going to grab the football and then run 100 yards of the direction. That seemed to be very gimmicky to me. So I'm going to vote on a two to one no that we don't put on the list. Okay. Don't hate me, call her.

Cecil, I appreciate you. Come on, Cecil. See how Matt treats you. You brought up a valid argument, but I'm just not completely going to buy into it. Second hour, the Matt Thomas show starts in a matter of moments. News the day, NBA, GM in Houston, now going to get a presidency role with another NBA team. If you haven't heard earlier, we'll tell you next on 790. Is the Matt Thomas show.

Lots going on at 101 on Sports Talk 790. I think Rossi, I think we've done a very good job of moving the topics around in the first 60 minutes. Texans COVID. Yes. Justin Turner COVID? Yeah, what's going on that? I don't know if we're doing much time. I don't know how much time there is to spin on.

Yeah, I mean, he shouldn't have been out there. It's a bad example to set in majorly baseball and the Dodgers are hiding from it. Done. News we open the show with today. Daryl Morey is now the, I guess we'll soon be the president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 7th. any sixers. And the strange part is, is that Elton Brand is still going to be the general manager for a year. Right? If you're out in brain, you're not keeping, unless the money's just really good. I mean, because why would you want to intentionally live in Philadelphia? It's a rat hole.

You could stay in Atlantic City. Here's a thing. My daughter got our volleyball schedule this year. Yes. And we're playing a couple of out-of-state tournaments. Why? Because that's what clubball is like an AU same deal how much is that costing no don't get me started we're going to ralando such a racket and then we're going to fill it off you fell it off you sucks you can go see the liberty bell not in the love sign then they're done that pets and genos no I'm fine all right so darrell morey um as I told you all in the first hour yeah and this is not an indictment against him it's an indictment against people in sports people in life using it if anybody tells you at your office. Like if your boss at your office says, I'm going to take some time off because I want to spend

more time with my family, don't believe them. If a CEO of your favorite airline or your favorite Coca-Cola or Amazon says, I need to spend more time my family, no, that person's thinking of the next job. They're getting investigated by the SEC. And I'm not saying Darrell's doing that, but using the family bit is a bit. Daryl wanted to leave. Tellman's like, okay, Bye. We wanted to focus on a family for two weeks. And now he's the president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers. Good for him.

I mean, it's just, I mean, as I said 40 minutes ago, it's probably going to be the loudest conference room in the sport because Doc Rivers is the coach. And you know, Darry, and Doc's going to be afraid to say how he feels about something. Then you have on top of that Elton Brand, who is the GM, at least a name. And then you got Darrell who wants to carve and shape up that organization. I think that's actually a good thing. Elton Brand's been a general manager. Doc Rivers has been in general manager. You have Daryl Morey, one of the smartest general management in history.

They'll be one of the most experienced teams in terms of front offices. Exactly. As far as making smart now, I don't know if their philosophies are going to be all the same. And having smart people with different philosophies can be a good thing. So, I mean, it feels like almost like a three-headed general manager monster you could have there. So the Rockets front office of a year ago had Daryl. Yes. It had Raffell Stone, who is now the GM of the team.

and Monnie McNair, who is one of his assistants. Monty's now in Sacramento running basketball. You have Darrell now running. It's like the Mori coaching tree. It's the Mori GM tree is all over the place. How great has that been? Gerson Roses is... It's very early in the game.

Sam Hinky was... The process. A lot of people in Philly still like Sam Hinky, though. They thought he was unfairly or unjustly fired. Yeah. Because he didn't get to see his plan through. Yeah, he asked, everybody to trust the process and then the 76ers didn't trust his process.

Yeah, we trust that we're firing you. Yeah. So it's pretty deep. And it's not necessarily a Darrell Mori thinking GM tree. It's more of a metrics. Every one of those teams are going to be more metricically inclined than they were before. Maybe not the Rockets, obviously. So all I know is that Daryl, when he went to the family card, I didn't necessarily 100% believe him.

and that's okay because he's not the only person remember how about Urban Meyer all those years need to work with the family need to spend time I'm having issues I'm having health

family same bit he was gone from Florida one year and then he went to Ohio State he has been gone from Ohio State a couple of years doing his Fox TV bit he's seen plenty of his family he'll be back coaching before you know it

maybe USC maybe at the university Texas. That wouldn't hurt my feelings. Would you take Urban Meyer right now if you get a chance? What are you talking about? I'm asking you a question.

Why would I? The answer is yes. You would take a guy who has had success, but yet has left a lot of peril in his, after he's left these particular schools for the guy who has dreamt as a kid about coaching the University of Texas. You just asked me if I would take Scarlett Johansson. Oh yeah, she gets divorced all the time.

She seems crazy. She latches on quick. I don't care. Let's go, baby. The times we have together are going to be beautiful. I'm going to ask this to Joel Klatt. Let's see how close you get. If you believe Urban Meyer and Scarlett Johansson, what is Tom Herman right now?

Oh, no. Is he Milakunis? No, he's that Tinder date that looks great when you're swiping and then talking. And then when you meet them in person, they have 40 extra pounds on them. Oh, so you're saying the weights and issue. He looks great far away at U of H. when he's dominating the AAC. When he's beating up on Tulsa.

When he's beating up on Tulane and getting blasted by Yukon, he looks a little bit better. When he steps up to the big boys' actual football, that's when he falls short. So whose mistake was it to go get into beginning? Just like every U of H coach. Paper Tigers over there. Then the mistake was made. Paper Tigers over there in the whatever ward, the third war. Don't loan listen to him.

His hatred is just oozing out of his pores right now. I'm upset. You sold us a lemon. U of H. Oh, no, do you think the University of Houston said, Here, have Tom Herman on a silver platter? No, you stole him from us, and that's fine. Selling lemons, Sumlin, Bryles,

and now Herman. Dolen out lemons all across the south. They were all very successful when they were in our school. They should have realized they had reached Mecca so early in their life. It's Pop Warner level football. Anybody can coach over there. And then you step up to the SEC and the Big 12, and that's when you have issues.

Well, our paralysis is winning. He had other issues. He didn't have other shoes. Moral issues. Okay. So to wrap up a little bit on the rocket situation, we still don't know who the coach is. I get asked 10 times a day.

You're making you sad, man. Why are you sad? There's no coach. I'm not very optimistic about the future. They're in Capel. You've got a green general manager. He lost Darry to the Philadelphia 76ers. And the Lakers are looking.

right for a title. The Clippers are only going to get better. Wait a minute. How do you know the Clippers are going to get better? Steph Curry and Clay Thompson are coming back to the Warriors. That scares me more than the Clippers getting better. What a top two pick. Is Paul George ever going to really get better? Or have we seen the best of Paul George? Well, they said their issues they had were chemistry.

You would imagine that would get better over a year, right? Well, if Lou Williams would not have jumped to get his wings, that would have been a problem. Once the COVID's over, they can all go to Magic City together and they'll be fine. That's what I'm saying. Stay away from the stripped clubs until COVID's done. Oh, by the way, the New Orleans Pelicans are going to be good. They're up-and-coming talent. The Dallas Mavericks are going to have when they get Christop's poor Zingas back,

and they got Luca Donch at your young phenom. Now you're depressing me. Sometimes awkward silence is necessary on a radio show. Oh, John Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies. And what is the name, Justin Jackson, Jaron Jackson? Jaron Jackson. One of them Jackson. Triple Jays.

Look, yeah, Tito and Jackie Jackson and Jermaine. They're all going to be great. I'm upset. Rockets' all the first round picnic, sure. You hope? Well, there's a swap. right? Oh, that's true.

I forgot about... Thunder can swap it. It's okay. In JVG, in John Lucas, or in Steven Silas we trust, right? Cool. Come on now,

don't... At least we're going to get a season in like eight weeks. That's true. Provided COVID doesn't destroy those four. LeBron James is not happy about that. Yeah, by you guys have not heard. Some of the veteran players

are not real cool to this starting up in eight weeks. Yeah, but didn't they get three months off? So Danny Green's like, what are they whining about? Danny Green's like, yeah, I wouldn't expect LeBron. So those television executives, you may want to push those LA games back a little bit. That was a little leverage play, right? Do you think by them saying, come out and saying that, LeBron might not want to play the first month? He's going to play.

That's what I mean, they were off. Oh, we just finished the season. Yeah, you didn't play for three months before that. They'll figure it out. And what happens during the entire summer, guys like James Hardin and others are all playing in the Drew League and all that all. Yeah. So I mean... Adam Silver's going to go to LeBron and say, look, LeBron,

we did everything we could to make sure all your social issues were addressed. Get your damn ass on the basketball court and play basketball. That's what he's going to say. He's going to say, I have been nothing but pro player this entire time. Our owners are losing money hand over fist. You have got to be ready to play basketball. Now, will he skip out in training camp some of those days? will he show up on December the 19th for December 22nd game?

Hey, that's my birthday. I don't care. Point being is he needs to, they're going to play. Now, he may miss, he may skip some games early on, but Christmas Day is the day the NBA shows off. And the stars are going to be on there, and there'll be a rematch of last year's NBA finals between L.A. and Miami.

And LeBron will play in that basketball game. If not, Adam Silver is going to say, good luck with us trying to negotiate with you in the future. Because if you won't show up on the games, we need you to show up at, this league will not make the intense amount of money that you so virtually think you deserve. Yeah, there was the tweet from Shams a couple of days ago. A December 22nd start versus later could be mean as much as $500 million for the league.

Yep. They're going to start. They're going to play 72 games. 70 of which will be on your local regional TV channel so they can get all that regional television money. Better get all 70 in there. Space it out. By the way, no All-Star game it sounds like, but they are scheduling a break in the

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I'm somebody now. More Matt Thomas. Now. Sports Shock 790, the Matt Thomas show. We take you till 3 o'clock this afternoon. 713-212-5-7. I need lots of things to get into. Blake Snell. Wow.

Betts and company were 0 for 6, the heart of the order for the Dodgers. 0 for 6 with what six strikeouts and the manager, Kevin, drawn a blank. Kevin Cash decides 70 pitches was enough. Bonehead, Ross. Bonehead. Boneheaded. You know what that is?

Boneheaded. That is analytical guy not having a feel for the game. 100%. That's why I like analytics. I don't love them. And Kevin Cash is Analytics 100, you know, class 101. The charts say third time to the order is not going to be nearly as good for Blake's now.

But you know what? He didn't use a seeing eye test. He didn't use how effective he was. And yeah, give up a lead off single. So what? The guy was mowing down batters. You saw it in his face. You didn't see any fatigue setting him at Blake's nail.

It was Kevin Cash going to his computer spreadsheets and saying, The Red Zone says he can't pitch it and get guys out the third time through. It's game freaking six of the World Series. The guy was mowing down people. I like analytics. If you are somebody that says, I don't believe in those fancy spreadsheets. I don't believe in look at the numbers.

Then you're stupid. But to use them exclusively, I think is a detriment to any sports. organization. That includes Major League Baseball, and that certainly includes Kevin Cash. So you can warp me, you can wisp me, you can what else can you vortex me, you can do all those things. WOMA. You can do all that to me. But give me the seeing eye test in game six of a world series. And Nick Anderson began up runs a lot. Yeah, his forp had to been terrible. He'd been, he'd given up runs his last seven times out. Is that right? Yeah, Nick Anderson, the baseball player.

Or six times at that point. Much closer to Nick Anderson, the basketball player in key moments. Oh, that's not nice. He didn't do that badly. And then he came up and gave up four. Do you think race fans are saying thank you, Nick Anderson for your great work? No, I don't think so. Do you think Nick Anderson is Orlando Magic fans still love him?

Probably not. No. So they're one of the same. 713-212-5-790. Jays and Cyprus at 1-20 on 790. Hello, Jay. What's up, guys? How y'all doing?

Well. Good. So, yeah, we're talking about worst decisions, and I don't think this one gets a lot of thought because they actually won the game, but I'm talking game seven of the World Series for the Cubs with Joe Madden's decisions. He was this close to be in Kevin Cash. He took out Callah Hendricks after four and two-thirds when he was cruising with a 5-1 lead, brought in.

John Lester, when he said he wanted to bring him into a clean inning with people on base, and Lesser probably gave up two runs that he brought in. Chapman late in the game for multiple innings for the many second or third time in the series, and he ended up giving up a homer to tie the game. I mean, they ended up winning, but I mean, it was a lot of bad mistakes. They won the game in spite of him. You know, it's funny, Jay, we brought up, we brought up Joe Madden in the last hour of the show. We said that if there's a manager that was hated by his fan base, despite one of the World Series,

it was Joe Madden. So everything you just brought into play was completely 100% accurate. We looked at a list earlier. and yeah, not a lot of love for Joe Manning and his Cubs decisions. In fact, you could probably find a headline. It would take you two seconds. The Cubs won the World Series despite Joe Madden's decisions. Absolutely.

Yeah, and I love as innovative as a coach, but it blows my mind in the playoffs, how managers seem to just outthink themselves. And like you said, avoid the eye test and see what these guys are actually doing and work themselves into trouble. Yep. I totally agree, Jay. Thank you for that information. It's good stuff.

Okay, Ross, you are a little more analytical. political than I am when you're looking at things. How much important you put on the eye test? I put the eye test at about 40%. If I was looking at a body of work for somebody. I mean, I think it depends, especially in the issue of a pitcher, because sometimes a pitcher is going to have it some nights and he's going to not have it others. I mean, because they're going to have different fields for different pitches.

Oh, maybe your slider's not working, or maybe your curve's not working, or maybe you can't locate your fastball, so you go away from it. That's, to me, pitching especially is something that's going to be on a night to night basis, on a game to game basis. So I would say a higher instance of a use of the eye test when it comes to pitching, for sure. I would also use the eye test in the biggest moments. If it's a July 19th game where you're worried about a guy getting a tired arm, you're worried about a guy trying to overthrow, a guy trying to just a stat pad.

It makes sense. But my man, that was to keep the. series alive. That's the guy you wanted on the hill. That's the guy who threw 73 pitches of which 48 of them were strikes. This cat struck out what, uh, nine guys, nine of his 16 outs or strikeouts. That's what the seeing eyes got to say. I got to give this guy, especially because Anderson had been used so much, especially because you were going to eventually have to go to that bullpen. winning World Series with hot starting pitching and shortening up your bullpen is how you keep series alive.

And I think that that was even Kevin Cash tried to explain it. You know, I love that. Would you do it over again? Would you do it? And he said, of course I would. So then basically doubled down on the dumbass mistake. To me, seeing eye test plays more importantly in the emotions, in the adrenaline of an October game than it would be, say, if it's a middle of August or something like that.

I agree. But they also have lifetime analytics. You can tell if his velocity is going down, if the spin rate is going down, if he's fading. And I don't have that information. Was Blake Snell's velocity going down? Was he not spinning the ball as well as he was early on? The lead-off hit in the sixth inning was his second hit. That was a second-hitting.

That was a second-hally-lawed. That's true. But if he's fading, it can get worse. I mean, a lot of times, what do they say is an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? Yes, they say that. So you're trying to prevent getting into a worse situation. Rather than remedy a bad situation. I'm telling you what they're thinking.

I know. But sometimes your thinking's wrong. We're not right all the time. What if Blake Snell stayed in and he gave up a home run the next bat? We don't know that. That's true. But if he gives up the home run on the next at bat, he still leaves the game,

what in a tie game. And you just said, Blake Snell, hell of a job giving us five and a third. True. Actually, no, if they would have, if they gave up the home run, it would have been down three, because I think he left the game at 2-1, did he not?

I'm trying to remember. I think it was 2-1. No, no, it was top of the 6. It was 1-0-0. So, yeah, the home run run would have been. It would have made it 2-1 because it would have been a 2-1 run home run. That's right, because both those guys came around and scored. It's just the element of the unknown.

That's what makes baseball is the second-guessers delight. Oh, for sure. But Kevin Cash had had a history of doing it in the Astro series, and you don't want your mom. manager. You're not, you don't want to be scared of your manager. You know what I'm saying? Wasn't it Snell that they pulled earlier? Was it either, was it against the Astros? There was somebody in the Astro series that got pulled him early. I think it might have been Snell or Glass now too, right? Didn't he not pull Glass now early? I'm not, it's, it's all

mixed together at this point. But Kevin Cash has their reputation because Kevin Cash, unfortunately, I think, sticks to the analytics books before he sticks to Blake's now is dealing. And I'm going to give him a chance. against the lineup in front of the next three batterers in front of him had not had a hit against him. That was only a second hit allowed the entire day. Well, the analytics took them to Game 6 of the World Series with a $60 million payroll. It's true. But Blake's now could have gotten him to a game seven.

Could have. Or he could have gotten him out a whole run. Or he could have struck out the next three batters like he did the previous time. Hey, and then so the Dodgers win this thing, right? Yeah. And they celebrate. And Justin Turner gets pulled to anything because obviously he's tired. supposedly.

Or he tested positive for COVID. When did they know? That's what I want to know. They say midgame. I saw second inning. And then he stayed in there, right? It's all conjecture until the celebration. Where he not only comes on the field.

Nope. This becomes an NCAA situation. They used an in an eligible player, revoke the trophy. Well, of course. Take the trophy. The Dodgers didn't win in a gimmicky season. They won in a gimmicky season. I've been saving that for a long time.

60 games. expanded playoffs, weird, people opting out, and you played with an ineligible player. Your tweet on that was perfect. Oh, thank you. Did you see it, Matt? Yes, unfortunately. Why are you saying?

Yes, unfortunately. Because it was halfway decent. Usually your stuff is disappoints. At Sports RV. All right. Well, I don't know, man. All right. Joel Clyde is up next for some college football.

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It was the first game for everybody in that league. What did you think what you saw in the game you witnessed personally and what you thought of the league overall? Yeah, I mean, I thought that Ohio State looked, you know, as good as I thought that they would look. They're having to replace a lot of guys on the defensive side. I think early in the game, I was expecting a little bit of rust. I was expecting, you know, them to not look, you know, great. And that's clearly what happened. But they settled in, made some quality adjustments and ended up playing.

well the rest of the game. And then from their offense, I really thought that we were going to see a better passing attack than we had last year from Ohio State. And that did come to fruition because they're talented on the outside. Young, albeit but incredibly talented. And then Justin Fields played such a good game. I mean, he was efficient. He was safe with the football, used his legs when he had to. And I thought he was excellent. And then around the league, the other thing that stood out to me is that Penn State clearly is going to struggle without some of their players, like Journey Brown and Michael Parsons. They lose another running back today, the injury. And Michigan looked really good. Michigan kind of combined the best parts of what Harbaugh's offense used to be,

and then what Josh Mattis brings now is the kind of spread offensive coordinator in which they've got the spread principles. They can get out there in space and speed and attack you. And yet, Matt, they still got big, moved to former defensive one. He was a fullback, then a defensive tackle. Now he's back to the fullback. His name's Ben Mason. They moved him back to the offensive side. They got big, and they started running some of those power gap scheme things that Harbaugh has been good at for years.

That pops some big runs. So now all of a sudden you can get big. You've got a good quarterback. They defensively rushed the passer well. So I was really impressed with Michigan after last week. We found out the Nebraska-Wisconsin game has been just flat out canceled. And your talks with Big Ten people, they're not necessarily worried about who wins the league this year. They're just worried about getting as many teams if possible into the

college playoff, correct? Well, you know, they're behind the eight ball without the off week. And I told you, and I've told it, I think I've said this on almost every interview I've done over the last couple of weeks, there's going to be cancellations, just period. And I don't think that a sky's falling scenario, but it's certainly not good. And the problem is that the Big Ten did this to themselves. They did this to themselves because they punted on the season. originally. And then now they had to go back. And in order to get back on the field, I feel like from an optic standpoint, they thought that they had to go above and beyond what the protocols were in

other leagues that stayed the course and played basically or relatively on schedule. And so what they did is they threw out this 21-day period in which a player has to sit out, which is arbitrary and nonsense, to be honest with you, in particular if you've spent any time around some of the medical professionals that around these leagues and these programs, which I have by. the way. And they've said that that is an arbitrary number that really doesn't mean anything, but they did it from an optic standpoint. Well, in order to, you know, Curry favor with that sector of people that thought that they needed to do that in order to have football, now the seasons in jeopardy are ready for Wisconsin. It's an eight-game season with no off

weeks, and they lose this one against Nebraska. I highly doubt they play Purdue next week, and Michigan is the week after that. So depending on how many of their players actually test positive versus have to get contact trade, they might be decimated to the point where they can't play any of those games. And then we're sitting here in the middle of the Big Ten season and Wisconsin's 1 and 0. Like, what are we doing? It sounds patently absurd, which you just described to the audience. But, man, what you just said is going to happen.

There's going to be somebody in that league that plays less than three league games. and how do you even look at this season as being that serious that that's going to potentially happen? Well, I mean, I don't even know how you would crown a division champion. That's why I said. I don't think you'd even worry about it. I think you worry about just playing the games and hope that one or two your teams gets into the college football play out.

Other than that, this was a waste of time. I mean, you know, if Wisconsin is 5 and 0, do they win the division and go play Ohio State who's 8-0? And then, I mean, you know, I mean, who knows? I don't have that answer. And, and yeah, I think this is where kind of the dark, I don't know if it's dark, but the dirty little secret is that this league is playing in large part because their best team and most influential administration pushed the hardest for that to happen.

And the reason that that administration pushed as hard as they did is because they have a national championship caliber team. You can make an argument, although I don't like to do this often, but I will in Houston. You can make an argument. The only reason we're seeing Big Ten football is because Ohio State has the potential to go to the playoff and win the national championship. And the fact that they pushed for that meant that the PAC 12 was boxed into a corner and basically like, well, we can't be the only league that doesn't play football.

So they came back as well. But that's kind of the subtext of what's going on right now. But like I've said, and then we've mentioned, it is a mess up there. And that's, by the way, right where the virus is kind of sitting in our country. And those of you in Houston, no, and in the south, and I'm on the west coast. We know what it's like to live through kind of one of those waves. And that's what's happening right now in places like Wisconsin and Nebraska and Utah. And so it's going to be very difficult to play football.

to be honest with you. I think football should be secondary to make sure that we're doing the right thing so that we can get past this as a nation. Yep. So if areas of the country are handling it well, keep going. If not, you know what, shutting it down would be the worst thing. Let's get to some games of regional interest here. Sam Pittman, tell me about him and why people in Arkansas are so happy that they're

two and two and that they may pose a little bit of a threat to A&M this weekend and college station. I think it's because there was zero X. expectation around Arkansas. Wouldn't you agree? Like people, they hadn't won an SEC game. I don't know the exact number. Maybe you know.

Was it 20 games? Well, they just couldn't get rid of Chad Morris fast enough. They just couldn't. Sure. And so they're excited, one, because of that, and two, like, they're seeing some success on the field. I think it's very similar to how Rutgers fans feel, right? And I know Greg Chiano is a little different than Pittman because everyone knows

Chiano and Pittman is a bit of an unknown. But the Eastman bases are like, man, this is light ears better than what we expected, what we thought was going to happen. And he's certainly done a nice job at Arkansas. And by the way, I think back to week one. And remember that the narrative after week one when they played Georgia tough? And everyone's like, well, maybe Georgia's not very good. And it's like, actually, Arkansas was way better than what we expected and should have expected. So I'm happy for them, man.

I think that anytime guys have success and they can help build a program and kids invest and commit to being better and then are, it always makes me happy. And it's one of the reasons why I love college football. And that's the reason why you're on the number one team with Gus Johnson. You'll be on the Michigan-Michigan State game this week. Another Fox game is the Longhorns at Oklahoma State. Do you give Texas much of a chance in that game? Yeah, I do. I think that they're certainly talented enough.

You know, it's not like Oklahoma State is just going to roll out there. They're not going to roll the helmets out there and beat Texas. Now, they're a good team. And defensively, they're very strong. Now, one thing to pay attention to is that Oklahoma State, yes, they're strong, defensively given up only 12 points per game. They have not faced a team that's in the top 40 scoring offenses in the country. They're going to face that this week with Texas.

Texas, I believe, is sixth in the country scoring 45 points per game. Like, this is the best team that Oklahoma State has faced, even better than I think Iowa state from a talent perspective and maybe even from an overall perspective in particular with Sam Ellinger. But this is going to be a tough game for them. And this is the gauntlet for Oklahoma State. They've got this game. They've got Kansas State coming up.

They've got Oklahoma coming up. So we're going to know everything that we need to know about Oklahoma State here in the next few weeks. But rest assured, and I'm convinced about this, Matt, like, if they go undefeated, they'll go to the playoff. the committee's not going to sit a Power 5 undefeated champion home. They just, they aren't going to do that. So I'm going to bring this back to your area.

If I'm an Aggie fan, I'm rooting against Oklahoma State. I am rooting against Oklahoma State. And I don't mean that I just want to bring this up because I've been an Aggie, you know, antagonist. I really like Texas A&M right now and their position that they're in. Did you know, and I'm sure you do? Jimbo Fisher is 20 and 10 so far in his tenure. as the head coach of the Aggies. People would be like, well, we paid $75 million for better than that.

Yes, that's true. But did you know that eight of those 10 losses are against top 10 opponents? Last year alone, they faced three teams during the season that were number one in the country at the time of the game. Clemson early, Alabama in the middle, and then LSU late. That gauntlet was incredible. Now here's a coach that is 18 and 2 against teams that are not in the top 10 in the country and the rest of his schedule.

You're sitting there looking at it. None of those teams are ranked. Now, maybe some of those teams are going to get into the top 25, but they're not top 10 teams. So I think A&M has a real shot. Maybe not at the playoff. I'm not sure how the community is going to view them. But they've got a shot to be a one-lost team. And maybe they're not going to win the division.

Probably not with Alabama sitting in that division. But what a difference a year makes in terms of the strength of schedule that they played a year ago, and now the strength of schedule that they're playing this year, and the opportunity, at least, to maybe be just a one-lost team at the end of the year. And the only tricky game I'm looking to schedule right now, Joel, is a trip to Auburn. Other than that, nobody's fearing playing Tennessee anymore in Knoxville. No, and nor should they. That Tennessee team was a total force and an aberration.

You know, I was like, eight-game win streak, eight-game win-strike. That's not a very good team, and they've been proven as such over the last couple of weeks. So I agree with you completely. I think that the only tough game is Auburn. I think the other ones, they should win pretty easily. I mean, I know that that sounds crazy with LSU on the schedule. right, but LSU doesn't scare me this year. Well, I would think, if anything, if LSU can win at Auburn,

that probably gets them feeling a lot better about themselves. I know they were very disappointed on how things turned out at Missouri and whatnot, but that would be the only team that can maybe get better as the season moves along. But other than that, there's nobody on that schedule that A&M should be not at least a nice favorite against. And frankly, this would be the year that, you know, I think Jimbo had basically said, give me some time, let me have two or three recruiting classes, and I'll get you to the 10 wins you need, which would be enough to ultimately maybe make that playoff.

Yeah. So, you know, if I'm an Aggie fan, I'm certainly encouraged. And on the flip side, I think that obviously Red River was a must win for Tom Herman and Texas. And I think this game against Oklahoma State might be the same. You know, I have heard, I have heard from really reliable sources that the money is there in Austin.

And so let's just put it down on the table. it has to turn around, period. And I don't think a loss this week would be survivable. I want to tell you one thing. I'm going to get Ross into conversations. We were talking about Urban Meyer, your colleague at Fox. He compared him to, and Ross jumping on this, you compared him to Scarlett Johansson.

Urban Meyer and Scarlet Jones. At least now we know that losing sucks. And if anybody knows how much losing sucks, it's Matt Thomas. I'm outstanding. This is Whitney Mercer. Back to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Well, Lisa was a current athlete until he maybe gets traded.

Doubtful. So Rossi, our buddy Aaron J. Reese from the Athletics says that Will Fuller is getting some attention from the Green Bay Packers, although the Texans are not going to make a trade just to make a trade. You know what that sounds like to me? That sounds like a team that thinks they're just that close to being getting over the hill. When nine straight, rip off nine straight. straight and they're in this thing, Matt. Deshawn Watson, throwing touchdowns.

Eric Murray. Pretending to tackle people. Eating lunch, I don't know what he's going to do. Do you think Eric Murray brings Hannah and Cal lunch? He should. He's like, Hannah, get out of here with that. He owes Bill O'Brien big time. Who owes Bill O'Brien the most?

David Johnson. he was well he might have been cut i guess well no because david johnson's ego has been bruised he got dropped the third team making all this money and david johnson got traded for dionre hopkins laramie tonsle oh for sure laramie would have been very highly paid yes but laramie saved himself some money by firing his agent because he didn't need him

and he got probably more money than any other NFL team would have paid i'm negotiating bill o'brien yeah i don't need an agent yeah fire that guy uh randall cobb should thank bill o'brien Randall God needs to send Bill O'Brien a gift basket for Christmas in perpetuity. Like, you know how sometimes people send TIF's treats to people? You get like a box of cookies. Oh, that sounds good. You would have to give him Tiff.

Well, the treats and then Tiff would have to personally deliver it. That's how much. Is she around? Well, I mean, I would assume Tiff's not unattractive. Do you think Tiff is, you think Tiff's. 5, 9 and 420 baking the cookies? Well, a lot of times chefs and bakers

are what they eat. No. If you've been cooking cookies every day, you're not eating the cookies every day. You get tired of that. Oh, look, is this Tiff on the right? Yeah, right. But no, regardless of Tiffin's happily married, Matt. Okay, so Randall Kemp, Laramie Tensel,

David Johnson, Eric Murray, Kimey Fair Baron, Yes. Whitney Merciless, Zach Cunningham. Look, Ross. How many fingers do I have up? You're almost on the whole 53, man, man. Seven.

Seven people that should be thanking Bill O'Brien for everything he did as a general manager. You said Jack. You used to be right. Well, yeah, I consider Jack and Bill the same person. Okay. Well, I'm saying Jack, you used to be your thing, Bill. Oh, yeah, because Jack apparently, well, Jack was sold Bill a bill of goods, and Bill's like, I'll buy it. whatever. Come on. You don't know. It's like, it's like, Bill O'Brien, like, helped him up over a, over a wall or something, and then stepped on his face to get up the next one.

That is, by the way, a Noster Thomas major hit that he was going to outlast Bill O'Brien. We'll see if he's here next season. He's going to be. Then it's a hit. Do you believe Cal's not going to make the mood of a move? Can you wake up? No. I want to believe he's going to wake up. No. That's why I'm so confident in this. I don't want you to be right about that. And not really, well, not only because you're going to be smarting about it. Oh, for sure. Also, also because. I don't think he needs to be in the Texans organization. That's the biggest reason. Yeah. Although my smartiness towards this. It doesn't hurt.

It's going to be good. Yeah, it's going to be not great. It's going to be great for me. Jack freaking Easterby. You know what we haven't done today this week? Checked his tweets? Let's do this. Open up the 2 o'clock hour.

Okay. So Brandon get the music ready. Those of me that need a little inspiration. We get it from Jack Easterby. The man who put together seven bad deals. And I maybe forgot. gotten something. Oh, Nick Martin, overpaid for being a center? Yeah,

that's true. That's eight. For being a mediocre center. Who else? Oh, uh, we count the draft picks in the Laramine Tunsell as one. Yeah, we have to. Whoever's getting drafted by the dolphins? Oh, not getting much for

Judevian clowning. That's nine. The dolphins in general. The dolphins love this deal. Oh, the dolphins are sending the Texans' Tiff streets. Or Bill O'Brien. wherever he is. Oh, he's probably in his house in Westview. He's fine.

Okay. Take a vacation. A little chilly around here. It's one question I did ask. It's a more tropical? I didn't ask that to Vanessa, Richardson Channel 2, who did the Jeff Leno interview. Has Jeff, has anybody seen Jeff in a grocery store? Has anybody seen Bill in a grocery store?

I mean, when he gets curbside. Like, for instance, AJ Hinch kind of keeps to the woodlands, but people have seen him out and about playing golf, that kind of thing. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. People like to tell me things. I don't know. I don't know why. It's not that important to me.

What people, but when you are a public figure and you have been fired in the middle of something, what do you do with Bill O'Brien is at, um, H.E.B. Do you go up and say, sorry, coach things didn't work out? Do you go, you suck, you suck too, glad you're gone. Do you try to avoid him like the plague? You leave him be. But what if you're like at the meat counter and you don't even real, like you're, you're in a line. You're the pull tab eight and nine.

You're getting a primary roast or something. And you're nine and he's eight. He's like, oh, yeah, give me some of that roast beef over there. Like, God, that sounds familiar. And then you're right next to him. Do you just freeze? Or do you try to small talk? I don't small talk in general.

So I'm not the right. I'm a small talker. I know you are. And I'm not. Like when we're at the craps table, you're all small. I'm like, man, just not talking. Now, I don't small talk on an airplane. I don't want to speak to my airplane.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I do not speak on the time. I got trapped by an old lady once. That was terrible. And then one time on Vegas, it was a cute girl I was talking to the whole time. And I got her phone number and she never texted me back. You text her first? Yeah.

Was it her a legit number? You don't know. Maybe it was fake. So you thought you left the airplane feeling good about yourself. I was feeling good. And you've been crushed ever since. Yeah. Yeah.

I will small talk you in a line. I will small talk you at the grocery store. I will small talk you in the DMV. No. I'm not small talking you on an airplane. Uh-uh. Don't care for the Airphones are on.

70s music is on. My daytime are in play. I don't small talk. So I'm an inconsistent small talker. Because you would think airplane would be the best spot to do it. Unless it's like a friend of a friend at a bar or a party or something

and I'm being polite. Fair enough. Don't care. Don't care what you're doing. Yeah, the weather's great. I mean, it's been crazy out here. Unprecedented times. Cool.

Let me go about my business. But if you're cute, you want the digits. What are you talking about? All right. Jack used to be tweets to open up the final hour plus rotten five. And what is today's edition of Believe it or not at 250? I don't know.

Doesn't sound overly encouraging, but it will be. Darryl Morey. All things about the Philadelphia 76ers. She's on number three. And she's marrying that dude from Saturday Night Live too. He's not going to regret that, no matter how that turns out. He's going to have tremendous amount of relations with her, and they'll be divorced than five years.

But he'll be the five happiest years of. his life. Oh, what? She's got torso tattoos now? 158 on Sports Talk 790. KBME Houston and my heart radio station. The Astros. Astros baseball. The Rockets. Pascopold. Your home for your home teams. This is Sports Talk 790 from the classic Chevy Sugarland Studios. Find New Roads.

This is the Matt Thomas show. Big news of the day. Besides the fact that Justin Turner had COVID celebrating with his Dodger teammates is the fact that Daryl Morey is now going to be the president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers.

Rossi on a scale of 1 to 10, how surprised are you? One being completely blindsided, 10 being, I knew this was coming. I guess I feel more like I should have known it was coming rather than I knew it was coming. So I ought to go to seven. I will say his getting back in the league within three years would have been a 10 in terms of no surprise. Him getting into the league two weeks after he announces he's leaving the rockets, I'd put more like a five.

Okay. I went with seven. I'm pretty surprised. I'm pretty surprised at the 76ers. I'm pretty surprised it happened this quickly. I thought maybe there was going to be a gap year. You know, take some time off, hang with the family, decompress. I feel like he's a guy who is

one of those workaholics in a way where he's always, well, not maybe not during COVID, but traveling around and going around the country, turning over every stone and attached to his phone and on three phones and doing all this stuff and always so busy and all that type of stuff.

I figured he might want a little bit of break from that, but he's jumping right back into it, apparently. And Philadelphia was a team that came after him a couple of years ago and decided to stay with the wrong. Rockets. He and Doc apparently had some sort of relationship over the years. I'm just assuming that when you're in the NBA circles, you do.

I don't think, did Doc and him ever run a trade together? Was Doc the general manager during the Chris Paul trade? I believe so. Because I know that Doc was in charge of both for a while. And then he lost his duty. I believe he was the general manager. Well, I'll say this. Regardless of whether or not he was, you know Doc was involved in this trade.

Yeah. Okay. And I don't know if there's much more to that beyond that. There could be some NBA, you know, Olympic stuff or something with, you know, Team USA that maybe Doc and Darrell was coach and president at that time. Okay. So, yeah, my guess is that Doc was paramount in making that trade with Chris Paul to the Houston Rockets. Three short years ago. Why does that feel like, I mean, why does it feel like a lifetime ago? So the number one question I'm getting from my buddies that are tweeting me and texting me is, Will Darrell try to go get James for the Philadelphia 76ers? I would imagine you would try, but I don't know.

Well, here's the thing. He can try until he's blown the face. Yeah. If Tillman, because let's face it, when you have a new general manager, you're still going to go off of what the owner wants you to do. If Tillman is all in on James, and James loves it here, and James loves having Russ as a teammate, and James loves what's currently in the structure,

James Harden will never be a Philadelphia 76er. the moment that James picks up the phone and calls Tillman and said, hey, if there's somebody that wants me and you really want to rebuild, then maybe Tellman will change his mind. But I don't get the impression that Tillman is not completely 100% behind everything that James Harden is. And that's the reason why I would say it's extraordinarily unlikely. James Hardin is popular here in Houston. And if you have James Hardin on your team and, I mean, four replacement level players,

you're probably going to get close to winning 50 games. And that's something that Tillman is interested in and is having a good team and having a team that's going to make the playoffs and get that extra money and be profitable. Even next season, which will be with partial crowds probably laying a lesser schedule.

That might start on December 22nd. But Chris Haynes just tweeted out a few minutes ago, substantial factions of players and star players are pushing for the NBA season to start on January 18th MLK Day with free agency commenced. December 1st.

That to me sounds like it makes sense, but the national television contracts, Rossi, a big day for the league, the big day for those networks are those Christmas Day games. Yes. I sit down and watch basketball all day on Christmas, and I love it. There is not another day in the calendar that the NBA gathers more attention than Christmas day. Agreed.

Even with a Christmas Day football game. that they've been sneaking in the last couple of years. It's the NBA's day. I don't have an answer for that right away. I do money. NBA is going to, I mean, well, I guess, do the players have to agree? Is the CBA up now? Well, there's something going on where if they don't have something agreed to by Friday,

that things could get really dicey, potential lockout situations. Don't hold me to that, but I know that there is a lot of stories that I've read around the NBA and about this whole season that, Friday is an important day for everybody. I've had enough labor strife talks on this show this year. Major League Baseball. Oh, they want full pro-rata became a phrase that we were using every day on this show. I don't want any full pro rata.

I don't want to talk about that. Well, let me ask you this. MLK Day is an important day for the NBA. As well, yes. But it doesn't carry the same Claudus Christmas Day. Correct. Does LeBron call Adam Sovere and say, you start January 18th, we, play a 60 game schedule. I'm all in. We're going to go. We're going to play like it's an 82 game

full season. Or does Adam Silver come back and say, bra, I need 72 games. Do you all want your money? Do you want your money? If you don't give, if we don't give each individual team 70 local broadcast, we are screwed. We're already not going to play in front of full arenas. We're not going to see a full arena like I predicted a long time ago until 2022. at the very earliest, unfortunately. So what do you do, Ross? What is Adam Sober do? Let's just put ourselves in his shoes for one second.

I think you have got to figure out and explain to the union that December 25th, that week of Christmas week, has to be your starting week. You just got to figure it out. I think that's going to be communicated to players. Because here's the thing. You can also do that. I think you're right. I think you have to leave some space in between.

games for COVID issues, for rescheduling, because you don't want to play 64 because 64 doesn't get you to 70, 70 doesn't get you the full payout. 70 games for local television deals are paramount to just about every NBA team. And all by the way, you're giving up a television window that gives you a chance to promote your league all damn day long. It just does. And after we open up our presents and we open them up and we try on our sweaters, what are we going to do at 11 o'clock, 12 news?

We put the NBA on and we watch NBA games all day long. We even care about Eastern Conference games we don't even care about. That's true. Another thing to think about. 76ers bucks, let's go. Another one for this. You ready for this? Toronto.

It's got to go find a place to play this year because it sounds like Toronto can't. They can't go back. They can't go to Canada. No. Wow. They're excommunicated from their own country? The two cities that have been talked about more than anywhere else. Buffalo, New York, and Kansas City, Missouri.

Oh, they go by the Buffalo Braves again. Well, no, because that's the Clippers. But that's a problem. They've got to, you know, this NBA, they've got to go get rent from somebody. They've got to go find an arena playing. Because the Raptors aren't going to play 82 road games, 72 road games. That would be unfortunate. So, man, a lot of stuff on the NBA that needs to start.

Again, that's how. Who wrote that? You said, Chris Haynes. Chris Haynes getting this from a handful of really impactful players. He always gets stuff from players. So, yeah, they can bitch and moan about it. They would like to start January 18th. But Rossi, we're still talking about eight weeks away.

Well, it comes down to leverage. How much leverage do they have? I don't know the details with the CBA. If you take six weeks off, and they've already been off how long? Two. That's only the Lakers in the heat. Everybody else has been off a month. That's plenty of time.

You step on a basketball court 10 days before, and you play a preseason game to get it all the and you start playing. They play it first of all, 10 or 12 of the teams or whatever it was, Didn't even go. Didn't even go. Right. Eight of the 30. Number of the teams didn't even go.

Then another number of the teams were out in, what, a week and a half? So, yeah, outside of the, even the final four, you're talking about everybody's been off for two months at that point. And you only played eight games maximum or, you know, 15 games maximum. You need to play Christmas week. There's just, yeah. This really, to me, Ross, is not negotiable. The time off thing just doesn't hold water for me from, from Danny. Green because they only played how many games did the Lakers play they played eight regular

games they played and then there was a five game series every the time except for six in the NBA right yeah yeah so what's that 15 and we're talking about dwindling number of teams they play 28 games yeah or 29 games in 60 days 70 days yeah and they're going to be off for two months you still have eight weeks left again you don't need four-week training camp have two weeks of training camp play one exhibition game no one's like to run up down the floor and get back on there. This is an optimum, but nothing in 2020 has been optimum. All I know is that Daryl Morey's vacation lasted two weeks.

And now he's in the Philadelphia 76ers organization. Ready to make some deals. Will he pull the trigger for James? I highly doubt it. All right. We owe you Jackie's to be tweets. They are for sure next. 213.

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Houstonwoodhouse spas.com. This is not the kind of music we would use for Jackie's to be repeats. Let's get something a little more that fits the tone of a handful of retweets from one executive vice president and interim general manager of the Houston Texans. This is Jack Easterby on its Twitter account.

Yes. Five things I know about you. Is this real? Yes. This is awful. You are stronger than they think. Your heart. is bigger than they know.

You have more in you than they can see. Your positivity is greater than their negativity. You are more powerful than their doubt. Who do he retweet that from? John Gordon. John Gordon's getting more airtime than I'm getting on my own show. Jack Easterby loves John Gordon. Next.

And loves his tweets. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy. Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln. I have failed over and over and over and over again in my life. And that's why I succeed. I should just have you guess these.

Who said that, Matt? John Gordon. Michael Jordan. How many tweets has he had since the last time we did? Jack, you should retweets. Just as stars shine the brightest in the darkness, positive leaders shine the most through adversity. I think I read that one.

Let's see. Here we go. Gotta stay planted. Thank you, Lord. That's a retweet of Deshawn Watson. Kind before clever. Others before you. Give before getting.

prevent before solving listen before speaking shame perish beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance what hell does that even mean George Bernard Shaw if I was Cal

I'd ask for Jack to resign right now cow is eating all this up character is like a tree and reputation is like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it. The tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln.

Today, let's look for the positives. Believe in yourself and others. Be thankful. Learn, improve, grow. Now you're just making stuff up. Encourage someone. This is more John Gordon greatness. God.

Replace have to with get-to. Focus on solutions. Trust and positive intentions. Let go of things you can't control. That's a good one. And do your best. Are we done? I thought I was going to like this segment.

This segment just pisses me off. We all need others to show us what we can't see. I guess no. Our blind spots. Discomfort leads to growth. If you want to get better, you have to be willing to be uncomfortable. Hmm. To handle yourself, use your head.

To handle others. Others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt. Wait a minute. Isn't he the interim gym of an NFL franchise? Is he got time to retweet all this stuff? It takes a second. Please tell me we're done.

One more retweet from Jack Easterby. This is a retweet of the Houston Texans PR. Late last night, we received notice that a Texans player tested positive for COVID-19. In accordance with NFL protocols, the player immediately self-isolated and our infection control officer and other members of the infection response team began working on with the NFL team perform contact trees. Can I be brutally honest with the two of you and the tens that are listening to show right now? Millions. I really thought this would be one of my favorite segments of the week.

I like it. I hate it. I'm so inspired right now. I enjoy it. Okay, maybe then I'm in the minority then. Because when I hear this, this cat doesn't have an original thought in his mind. That's not very nice. Well, why does he tweet something himself?

Well, he's tweeted a few ones. How about this one? He's tweeted a few lawyers of yourself. I'm really lucky to have this job. I pulled the wool over Cal McNair's, whatever. Oh, he didn't say that. We read some that he tweeted himself the other day. How about this one?

If somebody offers me a second round pick for JJ, by Felicia, that's what I would want to hear. I don't want positivity. I don't use the, I don't use quotes to, and fire myself up. maybe I'm in the minority on this. Does Ross's soothing voice not do it for you? Nothing. I thought the whole thing works. No, it's just terrible.

Care for others. Work hard. Pay attention. Admit when you need to improve. Get better. Repeat. Suck. That was Jack.

That was Jack. Suck. How about this one? Hey, Jack, eight terrible deals since you and Bill O'Brien have been the front office of the Texans. Discuss. Just because it's not easy doesn't mean it's not possible. Shut up.

Let me try this one. I tell that to my five-year-old niece all the time. time. Hey, David Johnson, please rush for four yards on first down so this trade has not become the worst trade in NFL history. Love Jack. Focus on the opportunity, the process, and the effort, not the burdens, the naysayers, and the problems. Hey, Eric Murray, please stop playing Devante Adams and press coverage so he doesn't grab double-digit passes against us again the next time the Packers and Texans play each other, or hopefully it'll be gone by then. Justly. Love, mercy.

Walk. Humbly. Micah, 6.8. Hey, Zach Cunningham. Please wrap up Aaron Rogers when you get the chance, instead of letting him go and let a play continue on. Love Jack. This is my favorite Jack one right here. It's a great day.

To have a great day. I despise him. I've only said five words to him. I feel like Matt's got a lot bitter this year, and I love it. I love bitter MT. I'm just tired. I mean, I'm tired of going to my Twitter account and seeing these Texans fans try to sell me hope on a franchise I've never had hope for. 18 years of this.

Thankfully, I was gone for five of it. So I really am only on the clock for 13 years of it. Welcome back, Matt. You're welcome. From Dallas. No, I wasn't from Dallas. Gerard on 790. Gerard, good afternoon.

Hey, how's it going, Matt? Amazing. You. Okay, God. All right, all right. Quick thing before I talk about Dale Morris. I'm kind of arrested and Mike Dan Tony, man. You know, he decided not to come back to the Rockers or seek to come back for another year with the Rockets.

And I think he thought he was going to probably get another head coaching job. You know, I know he was in line for the Clipper job, but they came with the Doc Rivers. His name was probably mentioned with the Pacers and the Pelicans. I think the Pelican signed Stefan Gundy and Pacer signed the assistant coach. I can't remember his name. And Dan Tony didn't end up getting the job. I don't think he regrets leaving Houston because, you know, I think they kind of played around with the contract negotiations before the season. they didn't extend him.

I think he was kind of tired of. He's ready to step away, but I know he thought he was going to end up getting a head coach's jaw somewhere else, and it doesn't look like it's going to turn out that way. I'm hearing that he's going to be linked up with Steve Nash, be his lead assistant. And I think that's actually a good decision for him. He go over there with Kyle Reed and Durant.

You know, Kyle Irvin is a bald-dominant point guard, and Durant is a one-on-one player that need his touches. So I think that Tony is going to actually fit in good over there. He made it work with James Hardin and Russell Westbro, when a lot of people didn't think it was going to work. He made it work with James Hardin and Chris Paul. So he's definitely an offensive genius and offensive guru. I think he'll fit in good over there,

maybe have a chance to win his first championship as, you know, a lead assistant. Won't be a head coach B to be as an elite assistant. So I kind of wish he Antony well. But it's kind of interesting to see he didn't get any of these jobs that he was being probably mentioned with. Quick thing on, quick thing on Dowell Murray. It's obvious now that he left because he wanted Tyrone,

Lou and the owner one is Jeff Van Gundy and he left. He didn't want to have nothing to do with it. He wasn't going to be able to make that final call. That's obvious now that you see his name is being mentioned with the Philadelphia 76ers. So that's what that case may be. As far as the Rockets go, but quick thing on him going to Philadelphia. He's going to go over there with Doc Rivers. That's kind of ironic.

Doc Rivers was head coached with the Clippers and his lead assistant was Tyron Lou. So he's basically, that's kind of fun of how that work when he wanted Tyrone Lewis. He didn't get that. He didn't get his way any left, so that's kind of interesting to see. But as far as the Rockets go, quick thing. They need to, to me, man, I think Silas is the best fit. No, I think he fits the system that Rockers want to run with the small ball, shooting threes.

Jeff Bunnughey is a little bit of old school. I don't see, he would definitely have to let one of his assistant coaches run the offense, and he'd be basically the head coach de facto defense coordinator. If they can do it like that, bringing an offensive-minded assistant to kind of run the office with Hardening the Bush. Maybe it'll work that way. But if he tried to implement the same office, he ran with the Knicks, and he and Houston with McGregor, and y'all mean, man, that's not going to work out at all.

So I think it's going to come down to either one of those two. And I think John Lucas would definitely be on the staff, whoever they hire out, Jeff Van Gundy and Paul Siles. So we'll see what happened, man. Hopefully they make a decision sometime this week on what they're going to do as far as head coach for the Houston Rockets, man. But that's just my thoughts on the thing with Dan Toney and Dale Moray. What's your thoughts on there? All right. Thank you, Gerard.

Appreciate that. we've kind of spent a lot of time talking about the different thoughts. I don't think it's a battle of coaches. I think it was just Darrell was looking to find a new challenge. I don't think Darrell left because his guy wasn't the one chosen. But you know what? Those are very intimate conversations that will really know the real details on. 229 is a time.

Let's find out the rotten five in the NFL. Will the Texans be in that rotten five? By the way, those of you playing at home, Jari was at 256, 256 for those are you playing at home. 2.30 on the mat. Thomas Show Ross. Dry can't get you fired up, get you feeling better about yourself, what can. Yeah, how are you feeling right now?

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Cougar Sports Magazine tonight, 7 o'clock until 8, Sports Talk 790. Before that, I think we're airing a best of something. I don't know. Well, actually, it's a well, every show is the best of, So you're not really that far off, Matt. It's a nightcap. Every show is so fantastic. They're pretty much all best up.

So basically two to three segments of my show. That's not true at all. Okay, what's on the big show? 6 o'clock tonight? We're going to talk about all the pressing matters of the day. Darry to Philadelphia. Is he a traitor? Probably not.

We're going to make fun of Justin Turner. We haven't even mentioned the statement that the MLB came out with. I'll read it if you can find it for me. Where am I going to find it? Yeah, I'll read it. You know what? I think you should read it. Can we get back the Jack Easterby music?

I think you should read it with the Jack Easterby music. You know what? I'll try it. I'll try it because I did study oral interpretation in college. You did? Yeah. I bet you did. Excuse me? So where am I going to Ken Rosenthal? Okay, I'll go to Ken Rosenthal. And then you're going to do the... And then I'll do the Rodden Fife. The Rotten Fife. Ken Rosenthal. We like Ken Rosenthal. Yeah, Kenny Rosenthal. He's not nearly as dorky as the rest of those douchebags are that cover it. Well, he wears a bow tie, so he's kind of dorky, but he's not as smarmy.

All right. Let me get into character. Ladies gentlemen, I present to you a statement from Major League Baseball on Justin Turner. In response to inquiries, Major League Baseball issued the following statement today regarding the circumstances involving the Los Angeles Dodger third baseman, Justin Turner. Immediately upon receiving notice from the laboratory of a positive test, protocols were triggered, leading to the removal of Justin Turner from last night's game. Turner was placed into isolation for the safety of those around him.

However, following the Dodgers victory, it is clear that Turner chose to disregard the agreed upon joint protocols and the instructions he was given regarding the safety and protection of others. While a desire to celebrate is understandable, Turner's decision to leave us, leave isolation, and enter the field was wrong and put everyone he came into contact, with at risk. When MLB security raised the matter of being on the field with Turner, he emphatically

refused to comply. The commissioner's office is beginning a full investigation into this matter and will consult with the Players Association within the parameters of the Joint 2020 Operations Manual. Last night, nasal swabs were conducted on the Dodgers' traveling party. Both the Rays and Dodgers were tested again today, and their travel back to their home cities will be determined after being approved. by the appropriate authorities. Love MLB. So, two things I get from that. One, the Rays and the Dodgers are still in Dallas,

and they want to go home. They've been in their bubble for, what, four weeks? Yes. Maybe a little less. Yeah, right. Okay. That's pretty big. Let's go home and celebrate,

or let's go home and just get into our beds and kiss our babies and... Thanks, Justin Turner. Justin Turner is going to be suspended for a lengthy time to open up the 2021 season. He is a D-bag. He's going... The line about he, uh, what is it, emphatically refused to comply?

Basically like, F-U-M-LB. Yeah. Gentlemen, I'm ready to tell you that he's going to miss 15 games next year to begin the season. Write it down. If and when there is a season. Which you all got. I say 15.

What do you say? That's probably somewhere around there. I'll go 10. Okay. I think 15. I thought you were talking like way longer than that. Fifteen feels right. 30 they'll never get.

They'd like to suspend them for 30. They'll never get it done. You get appealed? Although all these rules were collectively bargained. I don't know how that appeals going to go. Rossi, 15 will be appealed. Okay. 15 games.

Two weeks. Two weeks. So Justin Turner was told by MLB, do not go on the field. He said, kiss my ass. And apparently they found on the second inning, and they didn't pull him until they were leading, right? Oh, boy, you're really going to conspiracy theory. I'm just saying.

Ladies and gentlemen, every week on this radio show, it takes zero ability to tell you who the best five teams are in the NFL. Green Bay, we certainly saw one of them. Kansas City, we've seen Baltimore. We've seen, man, hell, the top five in the NFL is Linnard Ross with teams of the Texans have played this year. So, too, have the bottom five. The schedule is going to soften up.

It's going to. It has to, compared to what it was. Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you something that we do in terms of research. Cal out of A Segment Killer. It's Sports RV and this. They've gone bad. Hey, they draw flies. Ooh, it's Ross's Rotten Five. This don't smell quite right.

All right, let's get right into it, folks. And you know what? The drama ends here. That's right, the Houston Texans. Welcome back to the Rotten Five. Let's see, what is there in the Texans? The Texas's a spot in the Rodin 5. First of all, they're one in six.

One and six. Which the record says you are. Yes, you are, JJ. The team fired their coach after four weeks. The wheels have fallen off on the defense. And the only thing people are talking about with a team is that they're going to trade the face of the franchise for peanuts. What's that like, J.J. Watt? What do you think that's like?

I don't think it's very good. Also, not to mention the Texans defense giving up over 400 yards of offensive game and 31 points per game as well. and they're second to last in the NFL and rushing yards per game. Frustrated, I'm angry. It sucks. I don't know. It sucks. And add all this up, the Rotten Five panel of operatives have determined the Houston Texans, the fifth worst team in the NFL. This is a fuck, too. F*** you! All right, moving along. Well, well, well, if it isn't our old friends,

the Dallas Cowboys, a Texas twofer in the Rotten Five. Sure, they have some excuses for being here as they lost franchise quarterback, Dack Prescott for the season to a horrific injury. but let's not pretend that everything was coming up roses for the squad before that. Let's go ahead and do a quick rotten five symptom checks for the Cowboys. Symptom number one, players are leaking information that they're unhappy with the coach. Symptom number two, they're trading away assets in Everson Griffin for draft pigs. Symptom number three, Jerry Jones is being gruff with Dallas radio hosts.

I don't have the patience to jack with you today. All right, well, with those symptoms, the diagnosis is the Dallas Cowboys, the fourth worst team in the NFL. Woo, how about them? All right, the New York football Giants followed up their first win of the season with a typically Giants performance on last Thursday night. They led the Eagles 21 to 10 with six minutes to go in the fourth, but I think all of America still knew their chances of winning were between slim and none.

Carson wins, who has struggled all season, orchestrated a comeback in the Giants, just sat there and took it. Daniel Jones continues to fail to impress, and they have the second worst offense in the league, only besting the Jets, the New York Giants, the third worst team in the NFL. I think it's a disgrace. I'm with you, Donnie. All right, the Jacksonville Jaguars, they're back on the list.

They won week number one against the Colts. They were looking pretty good, and since then, well, they've rattled off six straight losses. The clock seems to have struck 12 on Gardner Minshu, who does have a great mustache, but doesn't seem to have a great rapport with his receivers as of late. Adding to that, a defense that let rookie Justin Herbert go off for over 300 yards and four total touchdowns. You have to figure Doug Marone hanging by a thread in Jacksonville or the Jaguars with the second worst team in the NFL. Oh, we've been strong.

We're just playing by the rules. I just love having Jaguars Lady back in the Rod and 5. All right, you have to give credit to the New York Jets for consistently being the worst team in the NFL, but also consistently giving me things to make fun of them about in a weekend, week-in, week-out basis. The Jets lost to the bill is 27 to 17. Not necessarily noteworthy. What is is the fact that they gained only four, four-yard.

in the entire second half. They're dead last in the NFL and yards and points per game, averaging a paltry 12 points per game. The Jets are so bad, Trevor Lawrence says he's thinking about returning for his senior season. The New York Jets are terrible. They're the absolute worst team in the NFL. This sucks more than anything that I've ever fucked before.

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are going to keep their general manager, at least for now. You know, I mentioned this earlier in the show, Ross. It's kind of weird that that was Mike Dan Tony's job in Philadelphia until Doc got it at the very last second. So you really, really could have had a massive reunion if Mike and and Daryl were there. Instead, you get Doc and Rivers. I don't know. I don't think it's officially anywhere.

I don't think he's in Oklahoma City. somebody told me a rumor that maybe he would go to Brooklyn and be assistant alongside Steve Nash. I don't think

he would want to do that, right? I think you should just take a year off. Four or five coaches get fired over here. How many, how often is 70? He'll be 70 next season.

Maybe he wants to keep his name in the game by being an assistant somewhere. We just come back to the Rockets. Wouldn't it be fun, though? If you just come back to the Rockets? And then the job's still open. And that's kind of weird to say that.

But would it be fun if you had a protege and that that guy gets his chance and now you get to be kind of hit like his number one lieutenant. You kind of say that all the time, don't you? In life? Where doctors have young interns and they help all of a sudden

they run their practice and you kind of help them out along the way? I don't know if Mike wants that. You don't go to be their assistant. I think it's happened before. Haven't coaches been head coaches before and gone have been assistants under other head coaches?

Like, was it, I mean, it's probably happened somewhere. I'm sure it has. Tony was kind of a special assistant in Philadelphia before he got the Rockets job. So, yeah, I don't know. My guess is that Mike still... I'm like Bill Belichick coming to be Bill O'Brien's defensive coordinator.

No, I'm saying that if Bill Belichick had a... Let's say Tom Brady wanted to coach. And Tom said, Bill, come be my special assistant. Help me out on these game days. He probably would do it. I don't think so. They probably hate each other. Yeah, they hate each other.

That's bad example. I do unfortunately believe that Mike's attorney didn't do him any favors. He thought the market was there for probably Mike to go find one of variety of jobs and other jobs got scooped up pretty quick. I can't, yeah, I can't believe he didn't end up with, I think the 76thage job, he felt like he was going to get it. That's right. And got bamboozled by the Doc Rivers situation. Yeah. Or whatever, I mean, it wasn't necessarily bamboozle. I don't see Doc as a person that would say, I'm better than Mike. I think they probably said, before we give Mike the job,

let's see what Doc's going to do, because I don't think Doc, people thought Doc would be available. and he was and whatever he said at work, not only got a job there, replace Mike, but he got a five-year contract. They must really like Doc. Daryl, too, because Daryl wouldn't take that job

unless he thought he liked the new coach, right? Is Doc Rivers going to play Mori Ball? Yeah, they're going to take a lot of threes. Or does Mori ball change a little bit because Doc's the coach? We'll see. I'm kind of curious. I'm really, it's curious to see how that works out.

I bet you they'll be among the top teams and three-pointers. Most teams are. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports game show. We simply called it. Believe it or not,

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Max Muncie currently has the largest head in the MLB with a size hat of 8 and 1 4th inches. Believe it or not. Believe it. Not. Where did you get that from? I'm embarrassed. Why?

It works. Hi, Bill. Hey, man, have you ever stayed a woman with a wooden leg before? A woman with a what? With a wooden leg. No, if you're ever seen a girl, man naked? I mean, no, I mean, I was considering it, but I broke it off. Come on, let's go. A.J. Pollack is a huge fan of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers and has become personal friends

with fleas and is becoming an L.A. Dodger. Believe it or not. That's easy, man. Believe it. Nope. Sorry. We take great pleasure in that, by the way. Line five. Mark on 790. Mark, you ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. January 22nd, officially Justin Turner Day in the city of Los Angeles. Believe it or not. Could you repeat it, please? January 22nd, 2019. Officially Justin Turner Day in the city of L.A.

Believe it or not. Believe it. Why is it January 22nd? I don't know. Oh, you just, okay. That's why I asked L.A. Is it his birthday? All right.

Are you looking stuff up on Google? That sounds like a yes. That sounds like a yes. Out yourself right now, Mark. You have to answer this next question. immediately without repeating. No, no, no, no, no. That was just a guess.

I just assumed it's his birthday. Okay, I'm telling you, you're getting, you're getting no seconds here. You must give me an immediate answer. Here it comes. Sure. While with the St. Louis Cardinals, Joe Kelly disguised himself as an old man

and interviewed the rapper Nelly. Believe it or not. Not. No, he did. Bye. Get him out of here. That smelled fishy from the get-go. Joel on 790, Joel,

you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Cody Bellinger's brother, Cole, was drafted in the 15th round of the 2017 MLB draft by the San Diego Padres. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it. He was. Can't give away this raging cage in, my friend.

Rick on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Mookie Betts is cousins with Megan Markle, Duchess of Sussex. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Dave Roberts. Manager of the Dodgers is a wine enthusiast and is a part owner of a winery in San Diego, San Diego County. Believe it or not.

Believe it. Hey, we got a winner. Finally at the end. Speaking of a winning show, Cougar Sports Weekly tonight, 7 o'clock until 8, 7 o'clock until 8. Fantastic lead-in. The fantastic lead-in will be Adam Clanton and Adam Wexer. Then we have an hour of dead air. The night cap, 6 o'clock. Sports Talks, 7.90. All right, that's show. And then mine, Cougar Sports Magazine. Talk to you all tomorrow as well at noon. Rodel among our guests, so is U of H coach, Dana Hoagerson.

Have a great rest of your day. Adam Clinton. Adam Wex are there next. They are the A team on Sports Talk 790.