The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - NFL Predictions, Texans Opener & Daniel House Latest

Episode Date: September 10, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1201 in H-Town. What's happening in lunchtomers? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. A two-run, home run for Michael Brantley, 2-2. The leg kick and the pitch.

The ball is driven pretty well. Left field and back is Upton. Looking up, it's gone. A home run by Correa on a 3-1 fastball. And the Astros make it five to four on Correa's fourth. Rondo had it stripped by Covington, tracked down the loose ball, finds Hardin, Lobpass Westbrook caught it, stuffed it.

Alley Oop's slam dunk, Hardin to Westbrook, in transition, a thing of beauty. 50 to Green to Rivers, we'll take the three. Turn back on a drive by Morris, brings him away from the rim. Rivers nearest side, one on moment more. Morris at the foul line. Shock locked down to three.

Wide open now in the corner. Here's house. His three ball is good and nice sign for Daniela House. Now he's down that corner three. Uh, uh, uh, what? Pardon? To Green. Stop it.

Don't do this. Oh, no. For a second. Yes, another three for Daniel House. Uh-uh. Rockets were much more active defensively on that possession. Here's house. He takes it coast to coast and lays it up in it.

He wanted to throw it down. on LeBron who stepped away in the last moment. He laid it up and in. What? I leave you to do one thing and you make it very uncomfortable. You asked for Rockets and Ashro's highlights. I did. By the way, we don't have any Texans highlights if we don't carry the game.

I could do one. You want to do the one where they lost by 20 to the Chiefs? That highlight. Mahomes in a five-step drop. Looks over the middle of the field. Caught Travis Kelsey again. That's his 11th catch of the day. Touchdown, Kansas City.

Sorry, Mark. You're going to say rock and roll. No, you're not. I want Kansas City scores. You don't. Well, I mean, if the Texans aren't scoring, you got to do it for somebody. Blues, country western. Smooth jazz.

Touchdown, Kansas. The guy from Kansas City. Kansas City. Another rack of ribs for Kansas City. How about that? Bob Fesco joins us from, they have two sports radio stations. The one that carries the games now. He'll join us.

He does a morning show. W.H.B. Nope, I think the other one. Okay. K-C-S-P, you know, they're all mixed to me. I'm a W-H-B guy personally. That's because they call you once a week. Yeah, it's true.

You're looking for a J-O-B on W-HB. It's what you're looking for. That's not true. Would you leave me for Kansas City? Well, how much money are they going to pay me? Well, I mean, I don't know. If they're doubling my pay and double of zero isn't a whole lot, but, you know, it's still a good. What if you go to Kansas City and hate it?

I have family up in Kansas City. I would actually live there. It's actually, I've only been there. It's strange. I have been a lot of places in my life a hundred times. I've only been to Kansas City once in my entire life. The greatest living cook in our family right now, at Alma lives in Kansas City.

I would be, I'd be at Annapolis's house. I'd be there three times a week. You'd be living with her for six months until you get the apartment that just is the right fit for you, meaning you're trying to save money. Yes. Just the right fit means one bedroom, shady neighborhood.

Sketchy but not too sketchy. Kind of like what I do now. Yeah, I was going to say. What's the difference between here in Kansas City at this point? All right, we have a huge radio show today. I mean, this is, if you don't find yourself entertained by this radio show, then we're just not doing our jobs. Would you call it a big show? No, I'd call it a rather large program.

Okay. Bob Besko joining us from Kansas City Radio at 1230. That's coming up in 25 minutes. The first of what hopefully will be many, many Chris Gordy horrible football Friday periods. Oh, 1250. Brendan Riley has no clue what it's about to hit him. That's right. You weren't here when we were doing those parodies last year.

I have no idea what's going on. So we asked Gordy to do a parody once a week, and he's really good until October. And then he just starts to just like, well, guys, it was really busy doing inside the SEC podcast. And this week in Tiger Sports and this week in LSU recruiting. He's like got 81 podcasts of LSU Sports. LSU softball weekly. Yeah. So we lose him for the parodies.

We're going to hold his feet to the fire a little bit more. Yes. I like that. If we got to feed him. and give him drinks, we'll do it. Should we give him a taste? How will we play with the last one from the playoff game? Do you have it?

Yeah, I have it. All right, this is what you're going to, if you have not heard a Chris Gordy Friday Football Parity, which will be Thursday today, here is the last one prior to the game against the Chiefs. This was during the playoff, which is not the one you're going to hear live. Well, not live, but it's debut coming up in 45 minutes. Turn your microphone off. You laugh too much.

As I'll walk through the. The Gates at Arrowhead, I take a look at my team and say at least we're not dead, because we've been playing and losing so long that I thought that O'Brien would surely be gone. But we crushed Bill even though he didn't deserve it. Four-time division champs, you know that's unheard of. O'Brien's got Deshaunning, and then he's gunning. And if you play in cover, too, he's gonna take off running.

It's like a business trip up to Kansas City. Chief's fans in the snow gonna be such a pity. The Sean Zichonogne that Pat Mahomes wants to be in KC. He won't sweat, leaving with a Houston upset. Been spending most playoffs losing in the second playoff round. Been spending most playoffs, losing in the second playoff round. Keep losing every time. Never been a conference title game.

But if we win up in KC, we're going to play in our first title game. Oh, I'm so excited. Tears to my. We're streaming down my eyes right now. He's uncomfortably good at that. Uncomfortably good. That's the essence of a parody. It's so bad.

It's amazing. The fresh ones coming up at 1250. Can't wait. Oh, football season is back. We are going to be the number one sports show in the market, not because of my material, yours. Yes. It's Chris Gordy's horrible football Friday parody. Can't wait.

43 minutes from now. Can't wait, as Bart Scott would say. All right. Felt prediction hour. 1 o'clock. Brandon will do it. Ross will do it. I will do it.

We'll go over all the division winners. We'll do this quick. We don't need to get into a long congested conversation of each division because you don't care what the AFC North looks like. We're going to break down the Bengals prospects. No, we're not going to do any of that. We're going to put our predictions down.

I'm going to write them down. I'm going to lock them up and seal up in a zip-lock bag. And we're going to see who gets closest to our predictions. We'll give you the predictions of the Texan season two record-wise. We're not going to do a game by game. We're just going to do it grandiose. and we'll give us our NFC winners, our AMC winners. We have a third wild card to put in this year.

I don't know. This is weird. It is a little bit weird. And then we'll decide our Super Bowl champions. Dr. Roto makes his weekly visit with us at 2 o'clock today. And believe it or not, is it coming up at 250? All right, what an incredible sports day we have. First of all, the a little, the Astros, who it should be incredible, but it's just,

Rossi, I did the post-game show last night. It's not going to happen. They're not going to win the West. this year. No. It's done. It's chocked. Yeah, it's done. It's cabashed. Or kiboshed if you're depending on what part of the country. 22 and 22. At least there's still two and a half games ahead of the Mariners.

They've cooled off a little bit. Is it two and a half? I thought it was a little bit more than that. Five and a half to eight. Is it two and a half? Okay. That's two and a half. Okay. That's not enough, honestly. Because the Astros and Mariners play the final week of the season and those games are in Seattle. And the Astros are. And there are a terrible road team. grudge match for the playoffs. Grudge is a strong term. Rivalry game.

Nope. The Astros is beset by terrible injuries. And the Mariners, I mean, I went on an Oakland radio show yesterday. It's not like the Astros are underperforming. I mean, some of the guys are, but the injuries have just crushed this team. Yeah, I would say so, yes. More so than anything else. I mean, like, Springer's numbers are down.

Altova's falling off the map. But too much Super Jack Mayfield in the line. Too much Abraham Toro. Limas Diaz is fine, but he's not an everyday player. I mean, he's a utility guy, and utility guys do have roles. You don't want utility guys playing six days a week. So we got that. Then we got rockets against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Mike Dan Tony will speak at 415 this afternoon. Inactives for the game have to be put in an hour before tip off. I don't know any more about Daniel House than you guys already don't know. but when Daniel House is trending nationally on Twitter, it's not a great thing. Not usually, unless he's laying down a thunderous dunk. At this point, Daniel House, again, this through interpretation and what other people are saying

is maintaining his innocence on any potential relationship that he might have had with a COVID tester in his room or whatever. Hashtag, free Daniel House. So here's the quick on this. I have tried to sniff around around what around just finding out what's going on

okay and I'm getting not pull I'm not getting rudely shot down but no one wants to talk about it and you know because I think frankly there's probably a lot of personal things that are going on right now besides that

the issue is this if he had relations with a woman in the compound bubble whatever you want to call it and she was clear to being in it and that was okay to do that, then there's nothing wrong with what he did except maybe what he has to answer to back here. If he broke protocol, then that's a terrible situation. It's the dumbest thing he could have

possibly done. It's hurting himself personally. It's hurting the organization very badly as well. Is there anything else I'm missing on that? What if he took all the proper precautions? What if he wore a mask while they were copulating? Nothing to do with it. And I feel like when you use the word copulating, there should be like a Xerox machine not too far around. I'm like, you know, what are you been doing? I was copulating a lot of tests. What if he took all the proper, all the proper measures? What?

What are you doing now? No, I'm trying to, this RCS is screwing up and it's pissing me off. Okay. Sorry, let's try this. People don't know the RCS is our audio system we use. Why is this? Just turn it off. It's fine.

So here's the thing. She's in a doggy style position. There we go. Okay, don't play that again. Here, if she was cleared and she was allowed, I don't believe if the, if the story is accurate, that a COVID tester would be allowed to go in the room and have sex. I don't know, my guess is that's not true. Maybe they're playing Scrabble or something.

True, but that's not it either. That's what Daniel House could say. What if they're playing some nice game of Guess Who? Can you play Guess Who with two people? I thought it was more of a group game. No, Guess Who's a two-person game. Okay. all I'm saying is if the worst case scenario is accurate,

he really screwed himself and I don't know if he'll play for the Rockets ever again. You know what I'm saying? I'm in all seriousness. I can't fault the man. Honestly, I'm not mad at him. I know some people are. He's been in that bubble for a long time.

It doesn't matter. You cannot do this in the middle of a playoff series. You can't. Maybe he thought it was okay because he wasn't bringing anyone in. Maybe he was unclear on the rules. You cannot. It's beyond stupid. Free Daniel House.

If the reports are accurate, if they're not accurate, then we need to find that out today. Daniel House is a young man with needs. Free Daniel House. I disagree. I think Daniel House heard his team dramatically if he decided that hooking up was more important than playing playoff basketball in a very tight close series. Very tight. 1213 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790.

Bob Besko joins us from Kansas City at the bottom of the hour. A Gordy parody is coming up. NFL predictions, Dr. Roto and you. 713-212-5-790. The most awkward nooner you'll ever be a part of. This is the Matt Thomas Show. 1219 on Sports Talk 790. Crowd of 17,000 will be at Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium.

Apparently there's lots of rain going on right now. Our buddy Aaron Reese is stuck at the airport. his flight has been massively delayed. Oh, really? Yeah. What's the airport code in Kansas City? MCI. I knew you'd know.

MCI, like the old telephone company? Yeah. Okay. When we do weakest link again, we're going to do airport codes one time. I am out. Well, then you'd be the weakest link, Brennan. You start studying up. You can stick around for an extra round.

I know MSY. I know H-O-U. I'll say, I got like three or four. L-A-X? Mm-hmm. Don't answer this, Brendan, D-T-W. D-T-W? Mm-hmm.

Oh, that's Des Moines, Iowa. No, that's Detroit. Oh, okay. Let's do two more, just as making it. I literally have no clue. You're America's travel whore, so you know all these. Not a travel home, I'm a travel aficionado. Oh, I'm sorry.

Travel whore would be just to go on a trip just to go. You've never done that? Well, that's not true. Let me get, I'll give you an easy one. PHX. Phoenix? Okay, that's real. I was hoping I was right on that one.

PDX. Oh, I know this one. Portland. Portland is correct. Okay, good. Let me give you a couple more. That would be a little bit more of a challenge. EWR.

EWR? That's St. Elmo. Where is St. Elmo? Maine. St. Elmo, Maine is an airport. Yep. Okay. That's Newark.

I'll take your word for it. Okay. MCO. MCO. Colorado. Orlando. Orlando. Whatever.

Okay. You know what? we'll work on this. You know how you do rapper spelling be with me? I said a state, Colorado. Yeah. You know how you work on a state? You work on rapper spelling be with me?

I'll work on airport codes with you. Okay, well. Okay, so 17,000 people in Kansas City. We still don't know about Brandon Cook's availability. Tom Palisera, who works for, I believe USA Today says he is getting worse. He's NFL network, I think. Oh, NFL network. He is saying that it could be very much a game time decision,

but don't rule out the fact that Brandon Cooks is going to play. Let me ask you this. I'm not an athlete, and frankly, I've never been one. Quads, that can linger, right? Yes. Soft tissue issue, Matt. You know those can linger. Ask Russell Westbrook.

So Russell's going through the lingering. Yes. Why would we not think that Brandon Cooks would not be lingering with this for a significant period of time? Well, this is one thing, is we don't know when he had this injury, because the NFL, they were only required to, list the injuries this week. Correct. So it's possibly this is something that he's been dealing with for a couple of weeks and maybe he's okay. So let's do this. But he didn't practice earlier. But if he didn't practice on Wednesday the last day before, not Wednesday, yesterday. He was

limited, I thought. Limited yesterday. Didn't practice at all two days ago. If there's any hesitation, wouldn't you want to hold him out tonight and get him ready for the second game, which would then be, we're looking at 10 days away. I mean, Again, if he's 100% or close to it at 80%, then let's strap it on and let's go. But if he's anything 50, 50 or less, why would you take the risk of further damaging the quadet issue, give him another week off?

He's ready to go 100% you would hope for the Baltimore game. Yeah, I think they'll be watchful of that, and they know this is not the Texans training staff first rodeo, and Brandon Cook is a veteran player, so I think they understand that. So hopefully they're not going to be pushing him or anything like that. But adrenaline's going to kick in. First game of the season.

Sunday night football broadcast crew is going to be there. I could see how he's going to try everything in his power. And I guess that would be probably the right thing to do is to do everything he can to at least give it a go. Because who becomes the downfield threat realistically if Brandon Cooks can't go tonight. Will Florida the 5th. Okay. Can he have a big... He's healthy for this game.

Yes, he absolutely can have a big six. And we're going to go with some potential overrunners on some players and on the Texans in the 1 o'clock hour. But can he be finally the first round speedster that we thought he was going to be coming on in Notre Dame? I was generally excited when the Texans drafted him. Now, granted, when you went and looked at a little bit of the draft reviews, they said hands are very iffy.

And then YouTube certainly showed some videos of him dropping touchdown passes in the end zone when he was at Notre Dame. But nobody questioned his speed. And frankly, Ross, his hands have gotten better. there have been very few drops since what, about the first year or two of his NFL career? I mean, I think he's become much more sure-handed in the last two or three years. He's also been off the field a lot as well.

His hands have become more sure. He's become a better route runner. He's a more complete receiver. The only problem has been a lot of injuries that are keeping them out. Yeah. Okay. So we've got some overrunners on some of the Texans, wild receivers.

We'll get to that coming up in about 35 minutes from now. We mentioned the Astros. We mentioned the Rockets. And again, still no word on whether or not Daniel House will go. And as you and I talked about a couple days ago, it's really hard to get mad at the Rockets for losing the game tonight. When it wasn't so much what they didn't do,

it was more of what Los Angeles did. So today, when Mike Dan Tony gets the boys together for that pregame meeting, how do they avoid the trapping of James Harden and yet still get him involved in the offense? Because sometimes you think, well, if James gets doubled and he stays doubled, the Lakers are basically saying, okay, Jeff Green, okay Russell Westbrook,

okay, Eric Gordon, you beat us. We're not going to let James Harden do it. Yeah, they're going to need a little more off-ball work. They're going to have to free him up. They're going to have to have him is, I think one of the things that happened a couple of times in the game that was good is that when the Lakers are doubling early, he passes it out, but eventually it gets back into his hands,

and then the Lakers kind of don't know whether or not they should double, and then there are defenses a little out of sorts. So maybe even the James Harden resetting there, kind of like, you know, like, well, he came to Lodge when you used to repost, right? You'd dump it down him in the post. He'd kind of check the defense, and then he'd pass it back and then repost. You know, and then he would just go to work. That's what you kind of need.

So get rid of it quickly and hopefully it gets back in your hands with at least. And then as soon as you get back, you have seven, eight seconds left, and then go to work. Because the problem is when it gets to three or four in the balls in his hands, I think he's scared to try the dribble drive penetration. He takes the step back, looks for a little bit of spacing, and winds up being a 29-finding. foot three point shot. Which he can make, but it's not efficient. The percentages aren't great. All right, let's go to

Kansas City next. Now, we have done Kansas City songs on the show before. I'm going to let you, Ross, because you are the music director of this radio show. When Brendan comes back with our guest, what's the most definitive version of Kansas City you want to hear with the music? I'm partial to the Fats

Domino version. The Little Richard original is great. The Beatles is just a straight rip-off of the Little Richard, and they just can't sing like Little Richard, so it just doesn't come off that well, so it's kind of crappy. Albert King has a good one. Just make up your mind. Okay. What do you want?

A Fats Domino. You hear that? Fats Domino, Kansas City. Bob Fesco checks in with us from Kansas City next. He is a morning host in KC. He is with the Kansas City Radio Network as well. And we get all things Chiefs Texans next here on the Matt Thomas show, but first a word for Kronberg's flags and flagpoles.

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Your most complete lineup in Houston Sports. All right, I want to apologize to our next guest in advance. Bob Fesco is a very successful radio host on 610 in Kansas City. Bob, this is Matt and Ross. I want to apologize for us playing this song because every time I go on another radio show in a different market, I have to hear about Houston, we have a problem. But the point is, Bob, is that my partner, Ross and I argue about

who sings the best version of Kansas City, and I let him decide it. I would have gone Beatles, but he hates the Beatles, so I lost. Good afternoon, do you. How are you, friend? Well, I hate the Beatles as well. Oh, get the hell off my show! Oh, my God. I think we could have ourselves a lovely.

conversation. I have thought for my entire life the Beatles were the most overrated band in the history of music. And I think part of the reason why is because, you know, I was born in the late 70s. And so, of course, my dad was from the 50s and 60s. The Beatles were his music. And we used to ride around in his car listening to Cousin Bruce on CBS FM in New York City back in the day where I grew up right outside of New York. And it was Beatles, Beatles, Beatles. And we were never allowed to play music that I wanted to listen to. And so I just got tired of the beat. And so I have no interest in anything that they have to do. You're a man of taste in class, Bob.

Thank you very much. I'm going to hang up with you. I'm going to call Nick Wright somehow. I'll find it to get some Chiefs talk somehow. Oh, my God. This is brutal. All right. First and foremost, has anything gone wrong with the Chiefs?

I mean, first of all, you win the Super Bowl. Then you sign all your players. And you give Mahomes the big deal. He buys half the Royals. I mean, your town has just got to be nothing but 100% positive chiefs right now, right? Oh, it's been fantastic. And people say, like, I'm drinking the Kool-Aid because I've got over the next 12 years with Mahomes' new contract, them going 192 and 0.

I just don't see a loss on the schedule over the next 12 years as long as he's the quarterback. But you're right, 2020 has bit the big one for everybody, right? I mean, like nobody's had a good 2020 except Patrick Mahomes who signed a half-billion-dollar contract or won a Super Bowl, got engaged. Let's see, bought part of the Royals, got all of his other players signed under contract as well,

and the GM and the coach signed new contracts. And so, yeah, 2020's been okay for the Kansas City Chief, but as we say on the air, you've had yourself a good year, but you can't talk about it because nobody else has had a good year. That's true.

Let me ask you this before we get to the game itself. I have been the co-chairman of Eric B. Enemy would look great as a Houston Texans head coach if things go south here. Is there any way Bienami is not an NFL coach in 2021? Well, the only thing that I think holds Eric Bienemy back right now, and this is going to sound ridiculous, is the success of the Chiefs.

I mean, if they keep going to Super Bowls and keep playing into February, it's like there's no time for another team to really do the interview that they want to do with Eric Biener and then hire Eric B. Enemy. I mean, you're seeing guys hired, you know, that first or second week in January, and Eric B. Enemy still has another month to go for the most part of coaching the Chiefs because, you know, of the Super Bowl and all the preparations that are going into the Super Bowl. And so while the success of a franchise is supposed to elevate somebody, I think the success of the Kansas City Chiefs of playing late into January into early February every year actually hurts Eric B. enemy because teams want to move quick and get their coaches in place and not have to wait until February to start their programs. And Bob, that seems like that's one of the huge advantages for the Chiefs to try to repeat is they have.

have most of the coaching staff intact, most of the roster intact. So in a season where there's no preseason, there's very limited training camp, it seems like the chief should be able to hit the ground running more than other teams. Well, and that's one of the biggest reasons why I think they can repeat and run this thing back as hard as it is to do, you know, historically in the NFL, we've never seen a quarterback like this before, and we've never seen a offseason like this before. And an offseason, even pre-pandemic, where 18 and 22 starters return, and We would have had 20th, 22 returning had the opt-outs not occurred with Damien Williams and Laurent Duvonne-Tardis along the offensive line. And every coach is back.

I mean, you win a Super Bowl. And normally your coaching staff is poached. Your players are poached. People are going all over the place. But everybody realizes this is the best opportunity folks have to win a championship in the NFL right now. It's become the new New England that people are taking less money to come and stay in Kansas City. Bob Fescoe is a host on 610 sports. in Kansas City, the brand new home of the Kansas City Chiefs,

with us here on the Matt Thomas show at 1236. So the Texans, at least people that we cover and talk about, and the fans are concerned about the secondary. They're concerned about the linebacking court, trying to stop Travis Kelsey out of the backfield. You've got a couple of running backs that are perceived to be good receivers out of the backfield as well. I feel like, after reading a little bit online from your neck of the woods,

that that might be of similar concern to you and Kansas City. assess the back seven defensively for the Chiefs. Well, I think there's obviously going to be a new linebacker that's going to see a lot of action tonight, Willie Gaye Jr. a rookie, and I'm excited to watch him play. I think Tevra Matthew told us the other day that he plays at 100 miles per hour, and he'll make some mistakes, but he plays so fast. And so I'm excited to see him. I think Anthony Hitchens is going to grow further into this as kind of one of your defensive captains.

And, you know, the cornerbacks, I don't know who they are. You know, they're not household names. Nobody really knows these guys. But I think in the way that the chiefs have their defense set up, they're so strong in the back end with Juan Thornton Hill and Tyron Matthew and even Daniel Sorenson back there playing that kind of safety-slash-hybrid linebacker position because he's not afraid to come up to the line of scrimmage and pop somebody in the mouth. And with the defensive front they have, they have an eight-man rotation right now along their defensive line.

And that doesn't include the suspended Mike Pinell. And so they can get after the quarterback. Frank Clark is healthy. year where he wasn't a year ago. Chris Jones wants to become the most dominating player in the NFL on the defensive side of the football. And so while I think you're so strong on the front half and so strong on the back end, you're going to have to have some areas of your roster where you can't, you know, sign the Krem the LeKrem because of just, you know, financial, you know, implications and whatnot. And I think the Chiefs have chosen to kind of do that at their

linebacker in their cornerback spot. But Charverius Ward is their number one corner. He's very, very good. And, you know, whoever plays alongside of him is the, you know, quarterback du jour. I think right now to Bershah Berylund comes back from, you know, his four-game suspension. I think they're going to be okay because they're not going to really have to rely on those guys to have big games because there are so many other good players around them. Damn, all this news is making Texans fans not have nearly as much hope. I honestly, I don't think America thinks that the Texans are going to win this game. They're hoping to keep it close.

Let me ask you about the opening game hangover, and we've watched football for years. New England's had their issues before. Other teams have done a difficult time of coming up, the ring ceremony, the pomp and circumstance. Obviously, from what we understand, there's going to be 17,000 arrowhead today, so it will be nearly as a dramatic scene. But has Andy talked about trying to eliminate that opening game hangover, which has happened to a lot of teams that are opening up the season on Thursday night. Well, we really haven't had time to get drunk. I mean, since the team won the Super Bowl, we've all been on lockdown with this pandemic. And so there really hasn't

been the time to go out there and party and, you know, do all the celebrations that go along, you know, with winning the Super Bowl. I mean, essentially after the parade happened, the pandemic hit, and everybody's kind of been locked up. And so I feel like the chiefs are approaching this and what they've said to us throughout the entire offseason is that, look, yeah, we won the Super Bowl. We haven't really had the opportunity to celebrate that Super Bowl, so we really don't have that hangover feeling, you know, that everybody talks about. And I think there's big incentive by this organization, by the players, by the coaches, to run it back again so we can actually have a time to, you know, get drunk and celebrate.

and have an offseason of it enjoying being the Super Bowl chance, because that's been taken away from them. I mean, Andy Reid's opening speech to his team this year on the opening day of camp was, like, remarkable. He gets up there and he says, we had a nice year last year, but it's on to the next. A nice year? It's the first time in 50 years his organization has won a Super Bowl.

It's his Super Bowl championship for the first time as a head coach, and he said we had a nice year last year, and it's time to move on. And that's the attitude that everybody had, like, yeah, all right, last year was fine, whatever, but we're here now in 2020, and we want to run this thing back, and we want to win another championship,

so we have the opportunity to actually enjoy it and an opportunity for our fans to enjoy it because, you know, as much as it's sunk for the players, I mean, there's a lot of people in Kansas City that have waited 50 years to see this and to have an opening night to raise a banner and to do all that stuff, and, you know, 16,811.15.5 fans are going to be there.

It's like, man, we got screwed too. So everybody wants them to win it back So everybody has an opportunity to truly celebrate And enjoy it next year Bob, we'll leave it at that Thank you so much. Despite your slam on the Beatles, I consider you a new member of our 790 family.

We're going to call you. Let's see, Ron Wildcard Divisional Playoff Time and maybe we'll call you when UH plays Kansas in the final four this year in college basketball So you're on retainer with us. So thank you for the time this afternoon. That's fine. And I hope we talk a lot because that means we got the Sean Watson

and Patrick Mahomes stealing the show in the NFL and I love to see that. At Bob Fesco, B-O-B-F-E-S-C-O-E, if you want to check out what's going on in the Kansas City scene. Bob, thank you for the time this afternoon. You've got it, man, any time. All right, Bob Fesco, from 610 Sports in Kansas City. The Athletic has details on Daniel House. Uh-oh.

I will read them without comment. Okay. I'll read it as I'll read straight through as reported by the athletic. It's Shams, and it's our buddy Sam Amick. So, you know, Shams, I'm going to read it. wrong, unfortunately. No. Neither does Sam. No, Sam's good, too. Shams and Sam

know what they're doing. It's not like a podcast. Oh, and the Gordy Parody's up. Next. Yeah. We got to do Gordy Parody next or we can talk about the Daniel House and then end the segment with Gordy. Yeah. So details in the athletic and the Gordy parody, 1242, Sports Talk

790. Darrell Mori here. Let's go, Rock this is the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. All right, we owe you a Gordy parody. We're going to give you this depressing rocket news, and then we're going to uplift you with a terrible Friday football parody on a Thursday. This is from The Athletic.

This is a story that was co-written by Shams and by Sam Amick. By the way, when you co-write an article, do you just like basically just you type a word, then I'll type a word? No, it's probably they get together and say, here, I'll put this in, you put this in. This is from The Athletic six minutes ago. Here is what the athletic has been able to confirm via multiple sources. Let me read this in its entirety.

The thing I think is important, and then we can comment after that. A female entered the Rockets Team Hotel on Monday night, passing multiple security checkpoints before being flagged for her entry, sources said. She exited the hotel in the early hours of Tuesday morning, and the league cited early Dana points that implicated two members of the Rockets, House and Tyson Chandler, sources said. When the female was questioned by NBA security, she did not implicate House's name, and it is uncertain whether she remains on campus, sources said. She claimed to have contact with Chandler and another player not named House, according to sources.

According to sources, the Rockets' entire team had to enter a quarantine period on Tuesday due to the potential exposure. Those sources said there appears to be no video-connecting house in the female, only the flagging of her entering and leaving the hotel, and the possibility of a door opening and closing to match those timelines. The NBA is informed in parties that it has circumstantial evidence implicating House. House is vehemently denied to the league that he engage in any proper, improper contact with the staffer.

There's some more to it, but that's basically the gist of it. See, that's why you have to kind of wait and see on this, because that's a layer Rossi that we didn't know about 49 minutes ago. this is like an onion mat it has layers and circumstantial evidence should not preclude you from playing

agreed free Daniel house let the man live or in Tyson Chandler and whoever else the other unnamed player was I am highly however concerned that now we have a third player potentially in the mix on this

yes and that's going to get the internet just running rampant of who it could be. Hmm. Bruno CaboClo? You know what, frankly, if Bruno wants to get a piece of ass in Orlando, I'm okay. I'm okay with that. It's okay. D&PCD or D&C, D&P, OA. If Chris Clements wants to go do what he wants to do, go do it. Chris Clemens.

Is Chris Clemens getting rowdy in the bubble? No, he's probably like, man, I've got to behave myself. I've got a chance to play a little bit here. This isn't good. at all. This is terrible. Something happened. Very clearly. But if she's, okay, is this, this woman stay on campus? This is a woman. Again, let me repeat it. Just, I want to, she passed multiple security checkpoints. So they know who she is. Passing multiple security checkpoints before being flagged for her entry. So let me ask you this. So she's in the bubble and then ultimately gets

flied a couple of times after she was initially cleared. That sounds like that's a security problem. Not, I mean, I just leave with that. It sounds like a security problem. Right? Maybe she went to go and collect another sample, Matt. Well, we don't even know who this woman is

if indeed she is a COVID tester. Okay. That's just that is not. Well, that was the what the Woj report was saying, right? This is not in this report. Okay. Well, yeah, it says a female testing official. That's what it says in the athletic.

Oh, so I don't have that in there. It's the first paragraph. Oh, no, the Yahoo Sports is reporting that. This is not Yahoo, this is the athletic. Okay, it's in there. Yahoo reported on Thursday morning that the league is investigating house for allegedly allowing a female testing official into his hotel room. This is what the athletic has confirmed, saying a female,

doesn't mention who she is, where she's from, what relationship she has, any of these people, entered and passed multiple security checkpoints before being flagged for entry. Has he been tested every day since? He's fine? Let's go. Well, they all were quarantined yesterday,

so obviously they didn't do much. Except there was media availability, and that was it. Remember, PJ talked about him not being named on the all-defensive team. Coach talked. Coach will talk again this afternoon at 4.15. I mean, boy, you talk... This is the drama that you don't need

when you're down two games to one in a Western Conference semifinal series. I mean, I understand there's drama that comes with being in the bubble. But there's, Ross, this is just the absolute worst time for this to happen. You do this during the seating games. You do this when you first get there. You are trying to beat a team that is the co-favorant to win the Western Conference. You don't need this right now because you need him on the court first and foremost.

And second of all, you don't need the drama that's associated with this. You also need your players on the court with a clear mind, Matt. Can't have all this build up. clogging up their brains. I got news for you, Ross. There are ways to... You're speaking of spectravision. Well, among other things, for sure.

Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to end this 12 o'clock guy on a high note. Because Lord knows, I can't, I don't want to go to it on a low note with all this talk about potential other rocket players. 1253, sports talk 7.90 every Friday, well, at least until October starts, and then Gordy gets tired of doing them. I don't know what reason.

And it's the most airtime he gets that's positive on this radio station. Chris Gordy comes up with a horrible Football Friday parody before every Sunday game. But since the guys are playing tonight, the Texans are, it is time for us for the season debut of Chris Gordy's horrible football Friday parody on a Thursday. Tell Kansas City, prepare to fight. Tell them that the Texans will be rolling to. We've got Will Fuller, catch him from Deshawn, and a powerful run game with David Johnson. Because we're the Texans, now you understand. Yeah, we're the Texans.

Texans gonna win. My homes better be ready. Bring whatever he's got. Could be 17 sacks, yeah, from JJ Watt. Billy Owen's offense and to Sean Watson. Tim Kelly calling plays now. What a Texans win. Because we're the Texans.

Texas now you understand. Yeah, we're the Texas. Texans going to win. If I was getting married in 2020, I'd have that as my first dance song. Well, that's a mistake on your part, but still very solid effort. Starting off the season right, another horrible Chris Gordy Friday football parody on a Thursday.

And he put reverb in. Well, he always puts a little effects. I always feel like that sometimes, but that was a lot more than usual. Well, sometimes you got to, if you're a little out of, out of key, you mask it with a little reverb or some, something like that. All right. I need to hear from you. Did you love the parody?

Is it now, is your football night further close to being completed? With that, little ditty? I'm feeling better. I am too. And that was, you know what, that's one of those things you want to, you know, that's a glass of wine, right? You don't, you're not knocking shots back to that song. You're having a glass of wine. You're watching people at the bar.

Contemplative. Yeah. Confident. We're the AFC South champions, bro. Right? Hmm. Chris Gordy, an American Treasure. 1256 on the Matt Thomas show.

713-212-5-790. Ross, Brandon, yours truly. We make our NFL predictions next. It's the Matt Thomas show, hour two. Straight ahead, Sports Talk, 790. Is the Matt Thomas show. All right, a busy sports day in the city of Houston. If you'd like to chime in on any of the three local teams,

Ross, I feel like the Astros' interest is starting to faint a little bit. What have they lost? Six of seven, seven of eight. Yeah, they are five and a half behind the eight. in the West. Yeah, that race is over. How about yesterday, Dusty Baker, why'd you go to Josh James? Because I got nobody else.

I've got no place else to go. Josh is not good. We thought he would be good. We rooted for him. He's having a terrible season. Hurt, bad starter, bad reliever. Strong shirt game in February, but that doesn't count in the month of September

when you're trying to secure a playoff spot. No, it doesn't. All right. Rockets tonight with game number four of the series. We'll have it for you over here on 790 tonight. Yes, 5 o'clock launchpad. 6 o'clock on the tip time, which is actually nice. Usually these bad boys are going like 825, 830.

I'm telling you, I'm pretty relieved. I bet so. Game number 5 will be on Saturday, and I believe that is like a 7 o'clock start. So that's actually somewhat normal too. And then after that we don't know. Yeah, game 6 is still has a if necessary. Well, I better be necessary or I'll be really cranky.

Ross, I'm really blown away by this report that... This is awesome. This is just great. The Daniel House might not have been the one that the girl was with. Yeah, so it started off personal reasons. We didn't know anything. Then Tyson Chandler, and we thought maybe he was the fall guy for Daniel House. Well, let's be honest.

The first thought for people would have been, did the two of them get in a fight? Yes. That's what people thought originally. I thought Daniel House was nursing a black eye and he didn't want to show up or something like that, which I would think is weak sauce. Just show up with a black guy, play some basketball. Let's go. You don't have the first guy to play with the black guy.

But anyways, then you had the Woj report about the protocols, and then the Chris Haynes report about a COVID official or whatever female going to his room. And now the latest from the athletics saying the Daniel House maybe wasn't even involved. It was Chandler and another Rockets player. What a... Sex wins almost every time. It's undefeated, Matt. And it's actually, there's more tersewarm.

word for it, but horniness? Hormones? No, the body part. I mean, yeah, it's undefeated. It's a blank is undefeated. Absolutely. 50 billion and oh. So let me do this for the greatest of all time.

But my point is this, why did it have to happen now? I guess because they won their first round series. They got to bring people in and around. But this doesn't look like an invited guest. And that they were vetting the invited guest. They had to be, couldn't be just some random slam piece. They could have done this they, whoever they are, if this even did happen.

Again, this is very, very speculative. It's all alleged, circumstantial, hashtag free Daniel House. But it's nothing concrete. They're even admitting that the evidence is circumstantial. But whatever happened, this didn't involve somebody that was a family member or a friend or, I mean, this is somebody that, I don't know, I'm just, poor Rockets that behave. You know what I'm saying?

Poor Mike Dan Tony doesn't know if he's got his six-man playing tonight. Poor Rockets. They could have used him in the night. They just could have. Jeff Green filled the role beautifully. But Daniel House is younger,

better defender. I mean... And they had to go to more Ben McLan more than they had to as well. Ben and Austin just haven't been very good in this series so far. This is just bad. I don't know how to...

any other way to shake it. But hopefully, and I'll use this under the, my eyes maybe close on this one, please just tell me this is a lot of misunderstanding and a lot of circumstantial stuff and there's no real teeth to this. I don't believe it may necessarily be the case, but everybody is being remarkably silent and I respect it because it sounds like to me this is more than just whoever's in there, but there could be other players involved. There could also be a situation where there are married men, relationship people, you never know. No, you don't. I just want this to resolve.

If they have nothing but circumstantial evidence, let them, especially if this woman is, I really don't have an issue with it. If this woman is on the campus and she's been tested regularly for COVID, I don't see what the issue is, really, honestly. But maybe it's under the rule you talked about, that this woman is not someone that was cleared originally

and they brought somebody in that was not cleared. Because apparently she came in Monday night and then left early Tuesday morning. So that's probably what, 10 to 2 a.m. somewhere in that range? I don't know. So not somebody that was... Four hours, dang. He guys got to sleep.

And then the Rockets did to get quarantined yesterday? I mean, this is not the vibe you're supposed to have when you're trying to beat LeBron James and Anthony Davis, right? Agree. Okay. All right, now, without any further... A quick note, by the way, the Monday game will be an 8 p.m. start. Wexler just tweeted that out.

Okay. Game 6. It's happening. It better be happening. Probably clinically depressed. 107 on Sports Talk 790. Ladies and gentlemen, we don't usually keep these around because we're so bad with our predictions why we want to bring up bad memories, right? Yes. But I'm going to put a Ziploc bag around these predictions.

Really? I'm going to seal them. Take it to my safety deposit box of the bank. The one with your rockets rings in it? Oh, yeah. Maybe you'll get another one. I hope. Someday.

If everybody behaves themselves at some point. Here we go. It's time for us, for Ross, Brendan, myself, to make our NFL and Texans season predictions. Okay. You know, most people play that generic NFL music. I just want to do something different. Okay.

The Fox one's all right. Well, we got a variety here. Yeah. We're going to play all the networks. Turn us up. This is really good. You don't like this? It's okay.

It reminds me, actually, I'm maddened 1995 in the Sega Genesis. We used to crush my brother. Now, there are some old school CBSes that are my favorite, but neither one of you are live during this time. I like the current CBS. I think number one for me is, God, me Monday Night Football, right? Well, you'll hear that coming up. Waiting all day for Sunday night? Hmm.

Oh, you're telling us. I forgot about Brendan. Do we have Sunday night football music? And do they even have a musical theme? I guess they do. I mean, it's Carrie Underwood. The Faith Hill, the O.G. That's true.

The greatest. All right. Let's go first to what we don't care about. Okay. The NFC first. All right. I believe in the NFC West, the Seattle Seahawks will win that division this year. I am not sold on Jimmy Carapolo.

Oh, you have to call Carapolo. That's not very nice. Well, I mean, if it fits, I take Seattle. I'm a big Russell Wilson fan. I think this is a Seattle team that, I mean, it was a coin flip last year. San Francisco won the game to win the division championship. I think it goes Seattle's way this year. Ross, what do you got in the NFC West?

I will go with Jimmy Carapolo. San Francisco 49ers. They lost DeForest Buckner, but I think their offense is going to be even better. Garapolo is going to develop. And they're still, they still got Nick Bosa and company. Still going to be a great defense. I'll go with the Niners. Brendan, NFC West champion.

Yeah, I think anybody in this division can make the playoffs, but the 49ers are the most complete team. I'm not a Garoppolo fan, but I do believe in Shanahan and everything else on that team. You got San Francisco. NMC North, I think Minnesota comfortably wins this division. And I'm not even the biggest of Kirk Cousins fans. fans. Chicago's got a quarterback mess. Detroit's clinically underperforms year after year after year.

And Green Bay is a wildcard. I mean, will Aaron Rogers embrace having a backup that wants his job? Or will he just say, you know what, it's your job I want out of here. So I will take Minnesota to win the division. I will do the same thing, even though it's boring in vanilla. Yeah, I think the Minnesota Vikings are the complete team. Kirk Cousins had a really good season. People don't really remember that from last year.

Dalvin Cook hopefully healthy and back. They're going to be really good. I go to the Vikings. I think people are overreacting to the Packers' bad loss against the 49ers. They still won 13 games last year. The Vikings got a shot, but I'm taking the Packers to win the North. NFC South, the sexy pick would be to take Tom Brady. I'm going with the most prolific offense in the conference.

I'm going to Northern Saints. Dang it. It's okay. I agree with you. That's fine. Saints are just too good. Never count out Drew Breed. Sean Payton, one of the best coaches in the NFL.

Yep. Enough said. Good. I think this might be one of the easiest divisions in the NFL. I'm with you guys on the Saints. NMC East, this is the easiest division. Philadelphia, I think, will be okay. Maybe we'll have a slight challenge.

Washington and the Giants are absolutely wretched. I think Dallas wins a division by two games, at least. Fine, Dallas as well. I just like Dak Prescott. I like what they added. C.D. Lam. Lam. I think. We'll be the rookie the year.

And all, I mean, Ezekiel, they said they're going to work him more in the passing game. Yep. Mike McCarthy got the vanilla Jason Garrett out of there. You got McCarthy willing to trying to prove that he's a, you know, that he didn't fall off in Green Bay. And you've got Dak trying to go for that big country.

Well, McCarthy talked about being more analytically forward and how he learned. Well, he lied to Jerry Jones and said he watched every single play of 2019. But if he can progress and they kept Kellan Moore, who's really good and I like, so I'll go with the Cowboys as well. The Cowboys, I feel like you can always count on them to underperform, but that being said, they have a room to underperform and still win this division. So I'm with you guys on that one as well.

All right. My NFC wild cards, I will take Tampa Bay. I think Tom Brady is not going to fall off. I will take the L.A. Rams to bounce back after a highly disappointing season. I think their defense will get better this year. They give way too many points in too many games. And I will go with a surprise wild card. Kyleor Murray has got a new receiving threat,

got a younger running back game than without David Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald ain't going anywhere. I'm taking Arizona as my third wildcard team. So I have Tampa Bay, the Rams, and Arizona as my wild cards. So Tampa Bay, okay. I'm going to go with definitely Arizona. I agree with that one. I am going to go with the Seattle Seahawks.

And then I am going to go with Green Bay Packers. Green Bay. Okay. Brendan. The Seahawks are my number one. The Rams, they would have been a playoff team last year in the new format. I still feel pretty good about them.

And then I'm not in love with the Buccaneers, but I'm not in love with the NFC at this portion, so I'm going to take the Buccaneers as my third wild card. Okay. All right, that's the NFC side of things. We'll come back to the AFC side. We will also give you a season prediction record on the Texans and we'll declare our conference champions

and our Super Bowl winner. Next, 113. on Sports Talk 790. This is James Arden. It goes to hard. Three to shoot. Jacks up a three hits. This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790.

Are you kidding? Oh, you know what? I underestimated this song. This is good. I think he might be the best current. Is this better than Fox? Yeah. I say yes.

But you know what? I still think Fox is more recognizable. Definitely. But I, man, you can coin flip on this one for me. Well, remember. we did do fantasy we did fantasy five of best sports things you lost their pregame show i love tony dungy i love rodney harrison dan patrick's okay mike florio is insufferable and peter king's an a hole too he just is you just have personal issues with mike florio yeah i don't respect him

well he lied to us and try to highball us but that's okay he yeah he tried yeah that's another story for another day yeah i wish i had time for that one just be honest with me don't try to sell look, another station town wants me for this. Well, there's a big problem. That guy that you said is all the monies under station is now with our station. He tried to leverage without doing its research. Pretty funny stuff. Cut with his pants now.

That makes him an a-hole. Yeah, he's got an a d'A-hole. But he's a lawyer. And I've not heard anything great about Peter King. You producers, if you ever produce a segment for Peter King, he's like he gets mad if you put him on a hole for 30 seconds. Yes. And even when you try to call him, he'll hang up and be very rude with you. So, all right, with that being said.

AFC East. Guys, to be the champ... This is a tough one. To be the champ, you've got to beat the champ. I just can't fathom the Buffalo Bills being better than New England Patriots. I don't care what they did last year. And by the way, I'm a huge Cam Newton guy. That made to be to my detriment.

I've always loved Cam, still believe he's got something left in the tank. I'm taking the New England Patriots to win the East again. You're right. I want to be... I mean, the Buffalo Bills, I wouldn't call them a sexist. pick. But every year it's the New England Patriots. They've got Cam Newton.

The defense is still going to be really good. They have one of the best secondaries in the entire NFL. And oh, by the way, the best coach that ever walked the planet. And oh, by the way, no one's missing time. You notice that all the stories coming out? Like it's a fresh approach in there. There's a couple stories that say this, they are glad that some players are glad

this was the last year. According to Greg Bedard. That could be just bitter ex-Braddy teammates, but I believe there's some of that in there. Brandon, what do you got? I think the bills are pretty clearly the favor to win this division, but I'm actually with you guys. I'm expecting bills regression. I got the Patriots.

Okay. AFC North. Pittsburgh's going to make this closer than it should be. I ain't buying on Cincinnati. I'll never buy it on Cleveland. There's just too much turmoil there. I think Baltimore is at least a two game better than the Pittsburgh Steelers. Although I think Pittsburgh could be a sneaky on the edge playoff team

as long with Rothensburg's arm stays a part of his body. but I'm still taking Baltimore. Baltimore, Baltimore, Baltimore, Baltimore. They are 14 and 2 last year. Lamar Jackson is still in a rookie deal. They added to the defense. They added to the offense. J.K. Dobbins, I think, is going to be a dynamo from them in the backfield.

And they got a great kicker. I mean, Marshall Gander retired? Is that the worst thing that happened to them? They didn't have a bad offseason either. Him in Kansas City. The two best teams just got better. Harball is embracing analytics and being aggressive on fourth downs. I love that.

And I think Lamar Jackson probably took the last year's first playoff, I've lost very serious that I got to get better. Yeah, I mean, they were, yeah, that was a weird game. They were 0 for 4 and 4th down in that game. They outgained the Titans 500 yards to 300 yards or something like that. Yeah. They were, yeah, it was a weird game. It happens.

We have agreed across the board on way too many of these. I know. But I am with you guys. The Ravens are the best team in this division. I do also think the Steelers could make it interesting, but the Ravens are clearly the favorites. All right, we're going to agree on one more, and then we're going to have, I think, a serious conversation about the AFC South.

So we'll go to the AFC West. Denver might be an interesting team. Yeah, okay. But ain't a-nating. It'll be interesting in the AFC West when Kansas City is winning 12 or 13. I'll take the Chiefs all day long. Chiefs. I mean, you need to say anything.

Yeah, Chiefs as well. AFC South. I've been going first the whole time all the way through. And that's not I just happen to be just... Okay, let's reverse it. You want to reverse? go first. Randy, you're going first.

Who's one of the ABC South? I'm torn here. But I think that the Titans' defense is for real. I do believe Derek Henry can do what he did again last year. I have the Titans winning the South. Philip Rivers doesn't even have to be great. The defense is going to be improved. They traded for DeForest Buckner.

I like Frank Reich as a coach. I think Ryan Tannahill regresses for the Titans. But they're going to be, I think, and Texans, honestly, I'm expecting, well, we'll get to that in a minute. I will go, I'm going to go with the Colts in Philly Rivers. Okay. I think the Colts are going to be much better. I think the Texans will be about what they've been.

And even if Tan Hill Boys takes a step back, they still have one of the three or four best running backs in the game. And guys, I'm big in the belief of, I got a defensive end who wants to sack a bunch of people because he's on a one-year contract. I think Jadavion Clonny is going to wreak havoc this year. And I've been pro-J-D more than I've been anti-J-B. So all that together, I think the Tennessee Titans,

even if Ryan Tannihill isn't spectacular, wins the AFC South. Wild card. Oh, yeah, let's go wildcarts. I'll go first this time. I believe the AFC South will do something they've never done before, have three teams in the division making the playoffs. I believe the other two wild cards will be Indianapolis. and Houston

and I'm not in love with Buffalo but I'm just not impressed with anybody else I was either thinking Buffalo or Pittsburgh and I'll go off of the Buffalo bills just because they did a surprise a lot of folks this year and they are the heavy favorite to win the EFCE

so I'll say worst case they're a wild card so I'll go Indianapolis, Houston and Buffalo was a wild cards Ross I will go with the Pittsburgh Steelers Okay.

As a wild card, I will go with the Tennessee Titans as a wild card. And the Buffalo Bills is a wild card. Uh-oh! Texans Debbie's, I'm going to be happy with you. Well, sorry, Deb. I do have the Houston Texans in a wildcard spot, and I feel pretty comfortable about it. My other two wild cards, the Steelers, I think that they could challenge the Ravens for their division, so I expect them in. And the surprise one, I actually think the Broncos have a playoff quality team.

Okay, that's not, Denver and Pittsburgh seem to be the, hey, go on a limb and pick somebody. Those are fair. All right. AFC champions. My playoff teams are Tennessee, Kansas City, Baltimore, New England, Indianapolis, Buffalo and Houston when the dust settles, wherever they play the games. Kansas City is going to a back-to-back Super Bowl in 2021. I have Kansas City when the AFC. I wrestle with this one.

I definitely have Kansas City in the AFC Championship game against the Baltimore Ravens. Could go either way. I think they're going to meet the AFC championship game for like the next 10 years straight. I'm going with the Baltimore Ravens has come out of this one. Ooh, they win a couple of playoff games this time around. All right.

Brandon? The Chiefs just feel like the best team I can remember going into a season. I hate picking them to go right back, but I have the Chiefs going right back to the Super Bowl. NFC side. I have New Orleans, Dallas, Seattle, Tampa Bay, Rams, Arizona, and Minnesota. I've picked the Cowboys like the last two years and they've greatly let me down, so I'm staying away from you, Big D.

Excuse me? I said staying away from the Big D or, okay, forget it. I can clip that. No, I don't. New Orleans has been snake bit many, many multiple years in the playoffs. They won't this time. The Saints win the NFC. I'm with you.

I'm going with the Saints. I just think they're a complete team, and they're going to finally make it through there. You know what in Saints. Okay. I believe once you get to the NFC playoffs, you can just draw a name out of a hat. I mean, really, I think any of these teams could beat anybody in the conference.

That being said, the best team in the NFC is the Saints. So we all got the Saints. All three of us. Okay. So Super Bowl is in Tampa this year. Kansas City versus New Orleans in my matchup, the Super Bowl champions for the second consecutive year in a highly dramatic 41-38 game. The Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl. Back to back, James.

Ravens over the Saints. They're just such a complete team. They added, I mean, the Chiefs are obviously the hugest threat and probably the biggest favorite, but I think the Ravens break through this year and win their third Super Bowl of this century. Wow, that's a good pull for you right there. I definitely think the Chiefs are the best team in football, but Drew Breeze is too good to only get one title. Sean Payton is too good to only get one title.

And the Saints are still a really good football team. I'm going to have the upset in the Super Bowl Saints over Chiefs. By the way, that would not be an upset. But second, what you just said is basically how John Elway left his NFL career. He's going to win that Super Bowl, walk away, and then if his TV contract deal is still available to him, he's going to go to NBC. Breeze wins a Super Bowl this year. He's coming back.

We are back with the Texans record for 2020. We're also with a few superlatives over-unders on some of our favorite Texans players. 127 Sports Talk 790. Dr. Roto in half an hour here on the Matt Thomas shows you listen. We thank you for that to Sports Talk 790. Real Texans Talk H-H-Town sports all day. On Sports Talk 790? No other radio station said on my pre-section.

Home of your reality. Rockets, your Astros, and your talk. 131 on Sports Talk 790, our NFL predictions hour. Dr. Rodo at 2 o'clock. We have, believe it or not, today, get 250. What is the category of Ross? All things about... Go ahead and play the crickets, Brennan.

All things about Kansas City Chiefs. I feel like we've done that like 25 times. I'm sick of the Chiefs. Me too. All right, for those of you just missed the last segment, where the hell have you been? Secondly, I have Candace... and New Orleans playing in the Super Bowl.

I got the Chiefs winning. Ross has Baltimore and New Orleans playing for the Super Bowl. And you have, who did you have winning this whole thing? Baltimore? Baltimore. And you've got New Orleans, Brendan, beating Kansas City for the Super Bowl. We have the Texans.

I have them as a wild card. Ross, you have them as a non-playoff team. Yes. And Brendan, you have them as a walled card as well. All right. When the dust settles, the Texan schedule. It is beyond brutal the first three weeks of the season, right?

Would that be fair to say? Yes. Actually, the first month. First four weeks are pretty bad. You're paying for the probably top 12 defenses in the NFL, the first four weeks. Yeah. After that, it gets considerably easier. Home for Jacksonville, at Tennessee.

Green Bay is coming here. You don't have to go to the tundra. That's always a pleasant thing. You got a trip to Cleveland, in mid-November. New England's coming here so that you have to avoid going to Foxborough and your ass kicked there. Yeah, they've got their ass kicked in energy by the Patriots as well. Okay, don't bring that up.

Not last year they didn't, though. That's true. Texans go to Chicago in early December, which could be a hot mess. Bengals are on the schedule earlier in the year, and then, of course, you end the season with the Titans in early January. Ross. Matt. They lost their best receiver. They lost their best playmaker.

but they've made sure that their quarterback, their franchise player, feels more and more secure. David Johnson, I don't think it's going to be an unmitigated disaster. I just don't think it's going to be a one-two combination with Duke that's going to make anybody scared. If Wolf Fuller has a breakout year, this team could be a lot better. If Brendan Cooks can play 16 full weeks and is good, that's one thing.

If the Texans defense can cover a tight end, we'll see that tonight with Travis Kelsey. The cornerbacks, the secondary, it seems like a hot mess to me. They're going to win some 38, 35 games, and they'll win nine of them and finish 9 and 7 because, of course, the Texans at 9 and 7, that's the bar.

The Texans are going to have one of the most dynamic offenses in the entire NFL. Deshawn Watson, I think Brandon Cook, if he's healthy at some point, is going to fit in. Will Fuller is going to have a bounce back year. We've talked about injury prone and how that doesn't necessarily predict the future. David Johnson will have enough juice.

I like Duke Johnson. the offensive line is jelling, all of those things. I'm not concerned about the offense as much. Defense, I don't know what the hell is going on. J.J. Watt has been hurt constantly. He's only played 32 of the last 64 games. I like Bernarduk McKinney and Zach Cunningham, but I don't really like a whole lot else in the front seven

as far as expecting production. I wouldn't. The secondary is a work in progress outside of Justin Reed. So I think the defense is going to be a huge question mark. I think the offense is going to be good. and I think that ends to an eight in eight season for the Houston, Texas. And on the outside looking in. Mediocre.

On the outside looking in, the schedule, I think, is brutal. I mean, we talked about the first four, and then, I mean, you have the Titans as a playoff team. They got to play them twice. Same thing for the Colts. I don't know if they split those. And the Packers are dangerous, Patriots as well. Schedule is not the toughest ever, but it's kind of tough, so I think they go eating.

See, I got them going four and two in the division. I have them. sweeping the jacks and splitting with everyone else I have them winning against I'm just throwing a couple out there they'll go to Chicago and win they will beat Cincinnati they will beat Cleveland so that's three right there

that's seven right there at that point so I got seven and two and I'm hoping of the other seven games they can win two of those and when tiebreakers and whatnot they'll probably have a pretty decent a FC record which will help them achieve I think the third wild card

so nine and seven eight and eight and I have 9 and 7 as well, and you basically explained why. They have a lot of hard games in the schedule, but they have so many that they have no business losing. So I'm going to give them all those wins. And I do believe they are good enough to steal a winner or two that maybe they shouldn't get. And as you would know, unfortunately, Brendan, the Texans are going to, are they going to Detroit for Thanksgiving? Yeah.

And the Lions ever went on Thanksgiving Day. So let me add another victory to the list. That's one of the many I consider. They shouldn't lose the Lions. They shouldn't lose to the Browns, the Bengals. the Jaguars either time. They have a lot of games on the schedule that feel very easy. Ross, I think they fall into seven wins.

Can they get Justin Fawcett back for that game, where his knee can be down and then he continues to run for like 80 more yards and it doesn't get called? Bottom five sports memory in my life. Have you ever gone to Thanksgiving Day game there? I went to like three or four of them. That was one. Is it fun?

Do you feel like it's Turkey Day or you feel like it's just a regular day? I've always gone with family, so it is a pretty cool experience to get to do. I would like to go to a Thanksgiving Day game. Like I would love to go see But when I was growing up, it was either A&M, Texas And then it was LSU and A&M for a while too. I think Thanksgiving night would be a great night to go watch. You eat turkey, watch a bunch of football,

get in the car, go to a stadium and just root the hell out of it. I'd go to a Friday one, but I'd never been to... I went to Texas A&M on a Friday. I went to a Friday, A&M Texas game where Ricky Williams broke the record for most rushing games. I went to the one where the Texas lost 12 to 7 to Stephen McGee and then my roommate kicked a trash can over on the way out. Steve, a lot of abusive friends.

well I mean he was mad and we had been drinking heavily the whole day so did you get in trouble no nothing wrong with abusing trash cans yeah trash cans is abuses of victimless crime matt well hell james hardin heard a pural machine after losing oklahoma city i had to take that roommate to emergency room once when he punched the wall too good times i'm glad i didn't take you the emergency room in Vegas after you were destroying office furniture in the hotel room He just went like this, and then now it's grown until, like, I'm the incredible Hulk destroying property in a Vegas hotel. It shattered

the furniture, and we left the hotel as fast as possible. Don't be so soft, Matt. Especially after the hooker was trying to hook you up, you know. Demanding her pay. Demanding her to pay for that kind of thing. That's not here or no there. We don't involve ourselves with hookers often in Vegas. Never, never, but never often.

Well, I've been a proposition by a hooker. Well, who hasn't? One time, the last time, the girl was in, like, in sweatpants on the strip, and I'm like, you're not even going to dress up. Like, she's like, hey, you looking for a good time? I'm like, no. You know what you should have said?

Yes, I am. If? Where are we going? No. No, what if she said, we're going to go to the bar and just have good time? What if she didn't want to have, wanted you to pay for her? A woman on the Las Vegas strip. Yes.

Walking around asking people if they want a good time and she's not a hooker. Play naive. Navete. I'm not paying for it, so I'm not going to know. It's a no. you should have made it a joke out of it. You should have said, yeah, let's go. What are we going to go?

I was more startled than anything. It is uncomfortable. I got propositioned in Hottolulu one time, and I was very uncomfortable. Yeah, I mean, I've been proposition a number of times in Vegas, but it's usually, I mean, they dress up at least. So you want, if you're going to pay for Hooker, you want them to at least look the part. Yeah, wine and dime me, baby. Okay, I got you. All right.

All right. All right. So the three of us have nine and seven, nine and seven, nine and eight and eight. I got to be honest with you all. This is actually recorded. We're actually live today. I feel like in 2015, we were probably saying the exact same thing. Nine and seven is not the bar.

Well, it is for this show. No kidding. In 2017, we probably said nine and seven. It's about winning. Nine and seven. I need to do better. And you know whatever? You know what they've done, Ross?

To Bill O'Brien on the team's credit, they've overachieved. Because I feel like I remember the last couple of years, I don't even think I had the Texas making the playoffs. And I'm not going to be that too. Sorry about that. So what do you all have? Tell me what you think. Now, again, if you are a traveling Texan,

then your vote really doesn't count because you've already got the team going 15 and 1. And that one game is because of a terrible call by the official inning late in the contest. What's the secret sauce? But if you are a Texans fan and at least a decent thinking Texans fan, what do you have your squad at this year? 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. I was really trying to find a team that I wanted to just jump on and go, hey, this is going to be the big surprise team in the NFL. The sleeper team.

Because the Niners were last year. Well, the Browns were supposed to be the sleeper team last year. Everybody in their mother was taking Cleveland doing the E.F.N., including me. I'm done with that. I believe I picked Baltimore Ravens. The trickiest team, the team that's going to surprise me the most is maybe Kyler-Marine Arizona. right? And I guarantee you, boys, we're going to keep a very close eye on those box scores every week because we're going to look and see what old DeAndre Hopkins is doing.

That's true. And we will watch them on the red zone. And we will spend a lot of time trying to decipher what the Texans receivers have done compared to what DeAndre has done in a particular week. All right. So if you want to tell us your prediction, we got 9 and 7, 9 and 8, and 8 here on the show. Most people that I think either are associated with the team or right with the team, I don't think if you're a beat writer, you can say less than 10 wins, or you're going to get ostracized.

Or just turn off your mentions for that day. Probably, yeah. 713, 212, 5, 790. We've also got Dr. Roto coming up in 18 minutes. This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. The Rockets have Red Nation. Matt has Maddie Nation. Things are going to start happening to me now.

You made it. I'm somebody now. More Matt Thomas now. So if you are ready to make a prediction on the Texan season, we'll take them. We've got Dr. Rodo coming up in about 15 minutes. You can join us now if you so choose. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-790.

Ross got him some fresh water and put a mascot. You are just the ultimate team employee here on the old 790. Masking up like another. I don't want to get any more terse emails from management about people not wearing masks in there in the common areas. So I'm making sure it's at least not my fault that we get another one. That's true. That's true. I wonder who snitched.

We never know. By the way, I have an idea. Real quick. Gordy. I did have some taco meat and some taco shells available. Excuse me? I was going to have for lunch on Monday. Okay.

So I go to get that and open the refrigerator. And I see the container of which my taco shells and meat were in. But there was no meat and there were no taco shells. Someone ate your tacos but left the Tupperware? And left the Tupperware in the refrigerator. What? Did you want to launch an investigation? No, I'm good.

I mean, come on, that's office rule number one. You've had, now, somebody stole your plate of barbecue now. Yes. That was a whole debacle. Yes. And now someone's taking Matt's taco meat. Yep. What happened to Matt's tacos?

I have been in an office setting as the radio employee for almost 30 years. Okay. in my life I have never taken anybody's food I have borrowed mustard does that count? No, mustard becomes community I have taken somebody's ketchup before

and that person lost his effing mind over it I know who that person is okay it took just a squirt of ketchup too right just a squirt I have also taking cans of soda Ooh. I don't like that. I'm just saying I haven't done it a lot, but if in 30 years I see a can of soda that doesn't have a name on it, I have taken it.

And I apologize for the three or four times, maybe five of the very most and 30 years of being in a business. Five times? That's once every six years. I've never stolen anybody's drink. That's once in six years. They had free sodas under here for years. I'm not talking about here. Okay. Minnesota? You were jacking people's sodas. I'm sorry, pop. You were jacking people's pop in Minnesota?

Yeah, maybe. Salt Lake, Minneapolis here. I've been in two different companies here. Well, actually the same, but mergers and whatnot. Do you say pop, Brendan? Oh, yeah, I say pop. Okay. I'm okay with soda.

Just don't call it all Coke. Oh, no, that's Texas. Sorry. You lose. Well, I don't know. Tell you. No, I mean, it's just you're going to lose that about. Enough people here, though, aren't from here originally that I can

get away with that thing. With saying pop? I called it what I was... No, it makes sense. When I grew up here in Texas, I never called it pop. I always called it Coke. When I moved to Utah, it was still... It was soda.

When I moved to Minneapolis, St. Paul, it was pop. All the Midwest is pop. Which is it is what it is. Here, it's back to Coke. What kind of Coke do you want? I'll have a Sprite. Yeah, but I mean, I did that when I was like 10. I grew out of that.

I think most people grow out of that, right? Do people... Are there 35-year-olds running around saying Coke for everything? Don't know. But I don't hear anybody saying pop. Hmm. Okay. Well, ask Dr. Roto, he's in Florida.

I have cousins from Minnesota, and when they visited us when we were kids, and they started saying, Pop, we were like, we just made fun of them relentlessly. We were like, what are you talking about? Yeah, I think it's okay. I don't think it's a bad term. And they've had deep emotional issues ever since, but that's another story. Because of the calling drinks, Pop?

Yeah. I'm just kidding. You get them a therapist. Girard, 149 on Sports Talk 7-on-A. Gerard, good afternoon. What's going on? We're ready for a big night of sports. big, big night.

Yeah. Yeah, going down at 6th and then, I got to check that 7-20. I want to make my prediction, man. Y'all get ready to write this down. My NFL predictions. That's y'all making predictions. Now, wait a minute. Are you going to run through every team in the NFL or just one, like two or three?

Yeah, the division winners and wild cards. Oh, Lord. Everybody gets your notepads out. Here we go. Get the bad side. Okay, I got Houston in the south. I got Baltimore in the north. I got Miami and my surprise team in the east, and I got Kansas.

city in the west. My wildcard teams are Indianapolis, Cleveland. That's another surprise scene. Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Buffalo. Now, my bad, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Tennessee. I got Tennessee Asian out Buffalo. I like a lot of California a little bit better than Buffalo quarterback. That's my wild

car team. Intersapolis, Cleveland, and Tennessee. And the east, and the NFC. I got Dallas in the east. I got Tampa Bay in the south. I got San Francisco. in the west, and I got Minnesota in the north. My wildcard teams

are Green Bay, Minnesota, NC, I got Green Bay, Seattle, and Philadelphia. I'm on my wildcar teams. And Super Bowl, I got Dallas and Baltimore in the Super Bowl. I think them are going to be the two teams. I got Baltimore coming out to LFC, and I got Dallas coming out the NFC, and I got

Baltimore winning the whole thing, man. But my surprise team is Miami. Nobody's talking about them. Everybody's talking about Buffalo and New England. I like what Flores doing over there, man. They came alive. at the end of last season. I like their team, man. Fitzpatrick there.

They got two will probably take over somewhere in the middle part of the season that Fitzpatrick kind of starts to struggle, which he tends to do. And I like the team they put together over there in South Beach. So that's my surprise team out of those teams. A quick thing about the NBA,

as far as the Rockers go tonight, obviously, it's a must win tonight. House is not going to be that tonight, man. It's going to come down to hopefully if LeBron James is cooking like he was last game, then Tony would trap, get the ball out of his hands and make Carlwell Pope or somebody else have to make some plays. Rondo, somebody else have to make some plays.

If he gets cooking like he did last night, that might be a small adjustment that Dan Tony have to make. The Rockets are going to have to, when they struggle, if they get to a part where they're struggling to hit threes, then start taking the ball more inside to the basket. You know, take it to the inside to the basket. Hopefully James Hardin and Westbrook, if they're struggling with the shot, those guys are taking up to put in their stuff to get to the basket. and get a shot. Sometimes a two-point shot is good to kind of stymie a cold street. I noticed that in the OKC series when they played the Rock.

They're trying the rocket went on their one. Chris Bauer to go down there and shoot that little mid-range jumper just to get the game back under control, even though the Rock will lead. Just to get them a bucket, get that ball to go through the hole, and then you can kind of try to work your way and chip your way back in it. The Rockers seem like that's kind of like a home-run hitting team, like in baseball. They, you know, they're swimming for a home-runer striking out, relying on a three-point shot.

If it's good, if you click and you win, if it's not, You're losing. So I think just bring a little bit on the versatility, man. If a three-point shot not working, go through the hole, man, and settle for a lay-up or a mid-range jumper. Westbrook got a mid-range jumper. James Hart got a mid-range jumper. He don't do it, but he got a mid-range jumper.

So that's something they can hopefully look at, man, if they struggle at times in this Laker game, man. But it's a must-win for the Rockland night, man. Hopefully Austin Rivers will come alive. He's been disappearing, and hopefully we'll get some good play out of our bench, man. that's been a surprising thing in this series, man. The Lakers, who hasn't not been known to have a good business without playing our offense. You know, we're going to have to wreck the fight in if we want to win game five.

Thank you, Gerard. Question, Ross. Yes, Matt. If I would have ordered DoorDash at the beginning of this segment, could I have gone down there, picked it up, brought it back up here, started eating it during this last two or three minutes? No. You sure? Yeah. It took 40 minutes from any of my sandwich.

much today. Man, I felt like I got a recap of multiple leagues in that one phone call. Yeah, I took a quick map. I'm good. I'd love me some Gerard. Man, he can run it down. Gerard cannot call during the NCAA tournament because he'll get his bracket out. Go through every region.

Go through every region? But Gerard, you're welcome to call any other time, just not during the NCAA tournament, especially if the tournament goes with 325 teams. You know, I got this in this, in my ninth bracket, I got Texas A&M, Corpus Christi knocking off Central Arkansas. Okay, very good. But there's no mid-range. Stop talking about mid-range.

The only person that shoots mid-range and probably isn't asked to do a whole lot of it or should be doing it is Russell Westbrook. It's threes and dunks and layups. And hopefully Daniel House. Yeah, I have some bad news for you. Russell Westbrook is not an efficient mid-range shooter.

No. Chris Paul is. Quill Leonard is. Kevin Durant was. Who's the most efficient mid-range shooter for the team? Is it Harden? Probably Hardin, I guess. And even him, I mean, they have data on this.

They know what they shoot from mid-range. And they're given those numbers. I mean, I don't think Russell Westbrook has handed a stat that says this and goes, I don't believe that. I mean, trust me. He may not like it, but he knows that the rockets keep stats on these things. Yeah. So, I mean, you can find, he shoots probably about 40% from 10 to 16 feet.

All right, we got Rodo coming up in about five minutes here, real quick. If it's not Daniel House, he plays tonight, correct? Free Daniel House, and we needed to play. He's one of their best defenders. He can knock down a three, can get to the basket a little bit. Nothing I've read from the athletic or from Yahoo. Implicates him, well, not Yahoo. Yahoo's kind of behind on this one.

This is the athletic putting the story out in the last hour. Nothing directly implicates him. Correct? Correct. Circumstantial. But does circumstantial evidence mean you don't play? No. Unless the NBA says you're sitting. The NBA, see, I don't think the Rockets can say personal issues.

I think the NBA's got to say, we're investigating and we're not letting him play until we find out. We just investigate, tell them, don't do this bleep again, and let them play. And just don't let anybody in your room again. Mistakes happen. But it sounds like no one got tested with the COVID during this time. Whatever happened between probably 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. So it wasn't like this person

was running around the NBA campus. Right? Maybe he was just getting a massage. No. I don't believe that to be the case at all. We don't even know this Daniel House. That's true. I think Daniel said it wasn't him now. Do you think Chandler knows everything?

Yes. Salty A.F. veteran. Been there, done that. Out for personal reasons. 415. Mike DeAnonio will speak. I'm sure that Adam and Adam will have update on that as soon as that comes down. It will be my guess.

And it will be in the Rockets Launchpad. I'm sure you'll be playing that too. Yes. Poor Mike. I mean, how uncomfortable is this for a coach is trying to hold on to getting a series back to even? He throughout his NBA coaching careers had so many different things go against him, whether it be injuries or remember that San Antonio Spurs where everybody, where Robert He's hip-checked Steve Nash and everybody left the bench and got suspended so they lost that series.

He continues to get close and then just no cigar. I feel bad for him. I feel bad for the entire. I feel bad for the guys that they're behaving themselves. I feel bad for anybody associated with the team, honestly, unless this is just one huge, huge misunderstanding and apologies need to be sent. It's all made up. They played a couple of games of Twister and she left. 157.

The doctor is next on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show. Who's that really? Fantasy football information. The champion of all fantasy football guys is on the radio for another season with us. This is week number two with Dr. Roto, the good doctor. You can find them on Twitter at D-R-R-O-T-O with Sports Illustrated. Good doctor, Howard, thanks.

M-T, I'm getting ready for opening kickoff tonight. Let's do it. You know what? I normally like to start with the Air. and with the Tex and stuff, but since they are the first game of the season, let's play the headlines and play the hits early on. Weather could be a small factor in the game, temperatures in the mid-50s with rain sprinkled throughout. Does it affect either side much, if at all?

And if it does, who it would be most harmed by a nice rainstorm during the game tonight? Well, you know, I always think that people overrate the weather. Okay, offensive players know where they're going. Defense defensive players normally don't. So I don't ever panic. Wins bother me because then maybe your quarterback is not throwing the ball 40 yards down the field. But I think people overrated. But I think for the Texans, clearly this is a David Johnson night.

The Chiefs have a pretty good pass defense. So I think if anybody's going to struggle tonight, maybe it will be Will Fuller just a little bit. Cook is not 100%. So I really like David Johnson. And I think a sneaky play, and Texan fans are going to enjoy this guy this year. I think Randall Copp, I think he's definitely in play tonight. I think it's a guy who runs great routes. He has good hands, and he's where he needs to be, and Deshawn Watson will be able to find him.

So I think he should probably go like six for 60 tonight. So if Brandon Cooks doesn't play, is he the play to go to if you've got him on your roster, or do you think that maybe the other guys pick up the heavy lifting, and Will Fuller is maybe more of a play than he normally would be? I mean, Wolf Fuller is a great play. He's great. I just worry, in his case, the weather because he's such a downfield target. I could see the weather being slightly a factor for Fuller, but not as much for the other guys.

But Will Fuller is going to play him. I mean, he is a very talented player when he and the show around the field together. Good things happen. So I think clearly I'm playing Fuller. I'm playing David Johnson. I'm playing Watson. And if you've got Cobb and you're worried about injuries, you could play Cobb. How much do you – and again, we teased last week about the fact that I – in a keeper league I took David Johnson.

How long do you ride with him if, let's say, the first couple of weeks aren't what you think he's going to. going to be. I mean, at some point, is there a slate of games that he starts to get fat and happy, or is it an early indication tonight and maybe next week against Baltimore is to kind of give us a season preview of what to expect from him? Not necessarily. I think you look at that in a game-to-game basis, right? You're playing the Chiefs tonight. So if he falls behind by 20, is he going to be getting as many touches? When you're playing Baltimore, if you fall behind, it's not going to be a day where he gets touches. So I think it's all about touches for Johnson. If he's getting 20 to 25 touches, then you have the opportunity to at fantasy production.

If all of a sudden he starts getting 15 to 18, well, now that production starts to, you know, dissipate a little bit. So I think it's a question of look at the touches and that's how you're going to see how happy O'Brien is with him. Let's go to the Kansas City side of things. What do you expect from those guys putting on the uniform tonight? Look, I'm as excited as anybody to see the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes and Clyde Edwards and Clare. If people don't know him, you're going to know him after tonight, he's a very, very good. young player. Andy Reeke compares him favorably to Brian Westbrook. And I think he might even be a little bit better than Brian Westbrook, which is saying a lot. So Tyree Kill has dealt with some

injuries during the preseason and training camp. I will say preseason, we'll just call it training camp. So he's not 100 percent. Kelsey's been nicked up. But hey, they're the chief. They got a lot of weapons. You know, you got Hill. You got Watkins. You got Kelsey. You got Hartman. You got Marcus Robinson. You got Darrell Williams. So the chiefs can beat you in a hundred different ways. And it feels like to me this is going to be a very high-scoring game because, let's face it, and there's probably not been a lot of hitting on both sides over the last month or so. Well, it's very interesting. I think it's, you know, like in baseball, when the season starts,

the pitchers usually have an advantage, and sometimes it's the hitters. Here, I think it'll be the offense of the advantage over the defense, because I don't think that the defense has seen, you know, other complex offenses coming at them. So I do think I expect more scoring in the beginning of this NFL season. All right. If you've got a question for Dr. Roto, he will take your calls in segment number two of this radio show. So if you'd want to get him in about your particular team, who to pick up, matchup-wise, 713-212-5-790, 7-13-212-5-790. And we'll get the lock of the week coming in from Dr. Roto as well towards the back of the half hour.

Let's go to some other games. Cam Newton's debut in New England. What do you expect him? Well, I mean, look, the Patriots are saying all the right things about Cam. They're saying that he could be rushing for a lot of yards that we're used to. I just don't think he has the receiving core that he needs. I mean, Edelman is a solid receiver, but McKeel Harry hasn't done it before, and now you have Damiener third and you don't really have a tight end.

So you have James White coming out of the backfield in Edelman. So I think Cam will give us the rushing numbers, maybe 600 yards, 7-8 rushing touchdowns. What are we going to see 4,000 yards passing? Probably not, but we could see 3,500 yards. But look, the Patriots won't win with Jared Stim. and Cam gives them the best opportunity to compete for that division. Previous Cam Newton-led teams in fantasy, you love the four touchdown day,

but boy, those three interceptions would creep in, especially if you're holding on to a tight lean, and he throws an interception late in the fourth quarter. Will Bill Belichick allow that to happen? And so, in a week-to-week basis, especially against the dolphins this week, what are you kind of expecting from him? Yeah, and I think that, you know, I always talk about front-foot cam versus back-foot cam. Back-com. Back-foot-cam is a guy that's just a horrible quarterback.

Front foot, Cam at least you have a shot. And Cannon is maddening. I think against the Dolphins, the Dolphins are not ready yet. Devonte Parker is not 100%. They're still playing with Ryan Fitzpatrick. The defense is trying to figure out how to gel. So I do like the Patriots, and I think Cam is a good play. He's a good play in DFS, and he's good playing seasonal.

But, I mean, as we move forward with the season, I think they're going to face tougher teams, and those are going to be weeks you won't want to play. But I think this week, Cam is absolutely playable. I play Edelman. I play James White. And on the Dolphins side, I'd play MacBreda. And I would play a guy I can named Preston Williams, who I really like, and he's very sneaky in fantasy leagues. What does your gut tell you about Philip Rivers' debut in Indianapolis when they go to Jacksonville this week?

Well, I mean, Jacksonville's just a mess. But I'll give you a bunch of guys in this game that I'm looking at. Philip Rivers is, you know, not a sexy player, but he's solid. But I really like Marlon Mac. And this weekend, I really like Jonathan Taylor. So these are two guys that are going to be Thunder and Lightning. Indianapolis has one of the best offensive lines in the game, and Jacksonville's defense has been decimated.

So I really think that you're going to see at least two or three rushing touchdowns. Keep an eyeball also on Paris Campbell. He was injured a lot last year. He could be that speed receiver along with T.Y. Hilton to help the Colts. On the Jaguar side, I'm going to give everybody a name that maybe you haven't heard of before, but he will be the starting running back. It's a kid named James Robinson, who played in the FCS last year. He was a very talented runner, and he was one of the reasons why they felt they could

released Leonard Fournette. They were tired of Fournet, but Robinson does have ability. Your boy, Minchew is looking pretty good, and I love DJ Shark. He's a very solid receiver who should give excellent fantasy production. When did I ever say Gardner Minchue is my guy, Rodo? Come on. Oh, my God. Last year, every segment, you were like, Gardner Minchue, Gardner Minchre. I thought you had stock in them or something like that. Yeah, I got rid of it. It's a penny stock. All right. I'm fascinated by quarterbacks making debuts in a new uniform, So we've got to go to Tampa, New Orleans this week. Tell me about the Buccaneers.

Tell me about all the threats he's now got. He's got the tight-in. He's got receivers, got running backs. How's Tom Tripp are going to do in his Tampa uniform debut? Yeah, the only thing he may not have this week is Mike Evans. I have some inside info that he, Evans is probably a little less than 50% right now as to whether he's going to play. That said, take a look at this kid, Scotty Miller, who has been all the talk of training camp for the Buccaneers. Tom Brady loves him.

He's like an Edelman type of. a player. I love Tom Brady this year in fantasy. I think he's going to throw for 40, 200 yards, 35 touchdowns. I'm all in on Brady. Chris Godwin is a sensational receiver, and he is absolutely a must start. Grunk, I don't think you're going to see the usual Grunk numbers, but I think you may see touchdowns, right? Maybe Grunk has 50 receptions on the year, but he could have eight or nine touchdowns. Evans is a terrific player, but maybe not this week. As for Leonard Fournette, look, they didn't bring him in not to play him. They brought him in to get 15 to 18 touches, and I think we're going to see that this week.

The bucks are very, very shrewd and good picks to make the Super Bowl, and I think they've got a shot. All right. The Rams defense, they would have to be one of the bigger disappointments of last season. Will they give up as many points as they didn't do two years ago as Dak starts his, I want a fresh contract tour in Los Angeles this weekend? Yeah, Jack wants his money, and his team is loaded. The one thing that I'll say about the Rams defense, I'll give you. three guys to watch for. One is Jalen Ramsey. You just signed a big old contract, and he is one of the top

three shut down corners in the game. So if you put Ramsey and Amari Cooper and you have Amari Cooper on your fantasy team, I'm not loving Amari Cooper this week. The Rams also have Aaron Donald, and they've got this linebacker, Micah Kaiser, who I really like, who I think is going to make a lot of plays if you're playing an IDP league. But for Dallas, Dak and Cooper and Zeke and Gallup and C.D. Lamb and Blake Jarwin, I mean, Dallas is just stacked. So look, if there's any year that DAC is in a contract year, man, he can throw 35 touchdowns, and he's going to get paid in the offseason. But will you do it against the Rams this week, though?

I think he will. I think Dallas is just too good. It's going to take one of the top teams in football, and maybe not anytime soon, maybe starting like week 7, 8, 9, maybe Dallas can lose a game then, but in the beginning of the season, I think this offense is too good. Their defense is solid enough. Dallas is going to start the season very strong. All right, we'll run through a few more games, and take your phone calls.

next. If you've got any questions for Dr. Roto, two ways for that to happen for me to get him to him is you calling us at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Also on Twitter at SportsMT. The good doctor is with us. I'm Matt Thomas, and you are listening to Sports Talk 790. 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 Merciless. Back. to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Wow, a brand new song makes the list on the fantasy with Dr. Roto. How about that, Dr. Roto? We added production value here in 2020.

My daughter would love it. She loves silly joel. So I'm cool. Okay. Hey, by the way, before I go the phones, is there anybody that we drafted, we collectively all of our fantasy owners in the early rounds that's not playing this week because you just hate the matchup? I really don't like Amari Cooper this matchup.

I think Jaylorans are going to shut them down, going to shut them down. And Mike Evans could be out. So watch for those two guys. Okay. Let's go to the phones. Talk to some folks. We'll start with Brian and Mission Ben for Dr. Roto. Hi, Brian.

Hey, guys. How's it going? Good. So I was wondering, should I start Marvin Jones over Jujoo? And also should I start Tyler Lockett over Keenan Allen? Okay, great questions. I love Tyler Lockett. That's a very high-scoring game.

So Allen's a very safe player, but I think Lockett could have a long-distance touchdown. I don't like either of the secondaries in that match-up. Juju and Marvin Jones, look, I think that does. The Chicago-D Detroit game is going to be high-scoring, but I don't think there's a time you said Juju against the giant defense. I know James Bradbury's back there, but he doesn't worry me, so I would go with Juju. Is there any defense at first blush? And again, we've got a long way to go here.

Is there any that, you know what, I've got a load up on every single player because this defense could be giving up boatloads of points every week. And that's what I do sometimes is you find favorable matchups because some teams just can't cover anybody. Are there any teams that are on that watch list? And I hate to say this, are the Texans one of them? I look at

secondaries, right? When you can't cover anybody in the back, that's a problem. So the Texan secondary is not very good. The giant secondary is very suspect. The Jet secondary is pretty bad. So, I mean, good receivers take advantage of bad secondaries. So I think

You know, a lot of people, there's something called a wide receiver cornerback matchup chart. And I tell you people out there, check out s.i.com, the fantasy. We have a football plus thing. We have that matchup chart. And you can check it right there. And you're like, this guy's got a good matchup. I should play. And this guy's got a matchup.

I should sit up. All right. Let's continue. 713, 21, 212, 790. Let's go to Kvon in the Montrose. Hello, Kvon. Hey, how's going? Good.

I've had a question about what I should expect from. Philip Lindsay this year as my second running back and what to expect out of DeAndre Swift. Yeah, so Philip Lindsay, I do like, but he's going to share touches with Melvin Gordon. If Gordon is ever injured, then Lindsay is in a great spot. I don't think I want Lindsay as my number two running back. I think I'd like him more as my three or four. DeAndre Swift's a really good young player, but I mean, he's not 100% right now. They brought in Adrian Peterson because he knows Darrell Bevel's offense.

I think that you're going to see Peterson be the short yardage and goal line back to start the year. I think Swift has the most talent, and talent usually wins out, but it may take seven or eight weeks for him to get the bulk of the touches. Thanks for the phone call. Let's continue and say hello to Trey and Katie with Dr. Rotto on 790. Hi, Trey. Hey, Doc. Other than Jonathan Taylor, what other rookie running back to the high on guys like Acres, Moss, and Dobbins got a lot of buzz during the camp? and I was just wondering who we like in PBR.

Thanks. Yeah, I mean, first of all, we love Edward Taylor. You know that. I like Ken Akers and PPR. You're dead right about Jack Moss. I'm a big Zach Moss fan. Look, he is like a young version of Frank Gore, and he's big, he's strong, he's their goal line back, and he can catch.

J.K. Dobbins, let's not sleep on him. Greg Roman has already said that they're going to go on a week-to-week basis. Dobbins is a terrific stud there. So if Ingram should ever get hurt, Dobbins will win somebody a fantasy league. And keep your eyes on a kid named Joshua Kelly for the Chargers. If Echler should ever get injured for any reason or if I had Austin Echlor on my team now, I would make sure to get Kelly as a backup. I think he's very talented.

Breaking news out of Denver, Cortland Sutton just went down with an apparent shoulder injury going to the locker room with the trainers. Yeah, so, I mean, that's not good news. But I think you bump up a Jerry Judy immediately. If Sutton's out for any length of time, you know, It's a bad loss if that happens. I see that news right here as well. I see good catch.

I do like Jerry Judy. I like Noah Fant. These guys are studs, but we don't want to see the Broncos lose Sutton. I mean, after losing Von Miller, you lose Sutton. All of a sudden, your season is totally different.

Same with water receivers. Got feeling on Stefan Diggs as a Buffalo Bill. What are you thinking? Like but don't love. I mean, it's a very, very talented receiver, but the bills like to run the ball. Josh Allen is very inaccurate. Josh Allen connects with less than 60% of his passes.

He's got to get that number in that 62, 63% range. If he's hovering at 58, 59, Stefan Digg is going to be a little annoyed, right? So I think he's going to have big plays, but I don't think he's a guy that gets more than like four or five catchers a game. All right. Let's continue 713-212-5-790. Garrett's in Cyprus on the Matt Thomas show. Go ahead, Garrett with Dr. Roto. Hey, Matt, Dr. Roto.

I got a quick tight-in question. I drafted Grancowski and Hayden Hurst. This week, I'm going to put Gruncowski on the bench in favor of Hurst. I was wondering if you thought that was a good move. And then just real quickly, I just wanted to know your thoughts on FourNet. Yeah, it's a great move. I love Hayden Hurst in a PPR format. He's one of my top five, six tight ends.

You've never got to see what he could do with Baltimore because I had Mark Andrews, but he's a very talented player, and I really love. him. As for Fournette, look, they brought him in because they need to protect Brady and they're trying to win a Super Bowl in the next one to two years. And Fournette is a guy that can do that for you. He can grind it out. He's better at the goal line than he showed last year. I mean, the Jaguar's offensive line is not very good. He can pass protect. He can catch. He can do it all. And I mean, when you look up Ronald Jones in the dictionary, his picture is next to the word mediocre. Okay, so Leonard Fournette's a star player here. So let's not kid ourselves. Fournette has a chance to be a very solid

RB2 and fantasy. All right, ladies and gentlemen, this time during our visits with Dr. Roto, I asked Dr. Roto to come up with one player who is going to dominate, who's going to own, is going to help you win an opening week. We call that Dr. Roto's lock of the week. Yeah, this week I really like Alan Robinson from the Bears. I know it's hard to get behind a Mitch Trubisky-led offense, but Robinson is clearly that number one receiver. The Lions, number one quarterback, Gary Slay is now in Philadelphia. Desmond Truffon is there. He's up about three steps. Trabisky if he wants to keep his job,

he's going to get to go to Robbins. And I think Robinson gets double-digit patches, something like 10 for 110 in the touchdown. And that is Dr. Roto's lock of the week. Wait for it. There you're going to wait for it. It was called a pregnant pause, my friend. All right, you're going to be busy.

Now, have you, you've done all your drafts? You're done. You can't draft anything after tonight, correct? This is it. You're done. I'm wiped out. Wiped out. All right. And remind folks who they can find you between now and tonight and obviously before Sunday's big games. Absolutely. You can find me at Twitter at DRROTO. You could also find me at SI.com backslash fantasy. I've got a podcast on Spotify with SI Fantasy.

And of course, our football plus product is absolutely terrific. To myself, Michael Fabiano, Sean Kyle's a lot of high-stakes winners, guys giving you the best information that you need for your fantasy football championships. And last question for me, is there somebody so vague that wasn't draft? that we're all going to be running to the waiver wire on Tuesday to go grab. Is there anybody that has crossed you or mine either was a super late or wasn't drafted at all that you think could have a really impactful week, which means somebody that gets hurt, run to that waiver wire as soon as possible to go try to grab.

Yeah, I'll give you two names. One, if you didn't grab them, I love Brian Edwards for the Raiders. I think he might actually have a more productive season than Henry Ruggs. And like I said earlier in the show, Scotty Miller is really good. and I think people don't know who he is, but you will know that name come Sunday night for the Buccaneers. Enjoy opening night, my friend, we'll talk again next Thursday. You too. Take care. You got it. That's the one and only good Dr. Rodo with us here on Sports Talk 790.

We have a new word in investigations that I never thought we'd ever say. I'll say the phrase and explain it in regards to the Rockets. 227. Sports Talk 790. Texans talk here. Any interest in the Houston area, man. Houston Sports Talk 790. All right, we've got, believe it or not, coming up in 20 minutes from now. What is the topic today?

I know you've been working on the feverishly with Dr. It's the Kansas City Chiefs franchise. Really? Okay. Astro is about to get underway with the Oakland days. If something special happens, we will carry. We have a chance to do a live listening. We didn't do it last time because there was nothing worth listening to, yes?

So maybe they got something cooking between now and three o'clock as they try to salvage. They've gone one and six in California this week. Is that bad? It's not great. And then after today, they get a day off tomorrow, which Friday day offs are so rare. Never. It's just the weirdest of the schedule. Why is it?

Why? Just the schedule. Does that ever happens? In any sport, really quite, well, I mean, as far as the everyday type of sport, it's like a basketball. If they're off Friday, they're. They play Saturday. You play one or two every week. So that's more of a common occurrence.

But Friday, days off in baseball and very, very rare. I had to triple check. I saw it like last week, I think. I triple check the schedule because I was confused. So then they get to play the Los Angeles Dodgers. And you ready for this? There's a Gibroni Dodger fan that got a hold of the Astros Charter schedule.

See when they land in L.A. tomorrow. They want to get a bunch of people out to the private air terminal to boo the Astros. Imagine being that much of an obsessed loser. Okay, I got news for you. I know where they land because we land in the same spot. General people are not allowed back there. So those people that are going to get up on a Friday,

miss work, or maybe they're getting off their night jobs, I don't know what they're doing, are going to be thoroughly disappointed. They're not going to get close to the team. They're just not. It's wasting their time. There's a reason why the terminal is private because they don't want public gibronies

that like Dodger fans go in there. But again, your team is kicking ass. The Astros are barely in the American League West playoff race. If you wanted the Astros are good to come up and they're getting it. All right. So we got that going. We have Texans tonight. We haven't done a final score in tonight's game.

I will go... Everybody wants... Oh, we did yesterday. Well, Joe was there. Yeah. Everybody wants to go comfortable on. Didn't we really make a prediction on the score? Yeah.

We just did his score. I don't think we mentioned the score. No, we did. What did I say? You said 34 to 24. Yeah. Can I amend that a little bit? No, hey, change it up.

It's not that dramatic. 3421. Ooh, even worse? Yeah, there'll be a cover. Okay. The line's been really nine and a half, depending on who you're seeing. Well, it's about a 54 and a half total, so you have that over by a point. Yeah.

3421 Chiefs, good game, but I will have to say never in doubt. There's never a point where the The Texans get up 21 to 28 to 3 years 24 to nothing They could They can get up 24 to nothing On the Chiefs, Matt

We've seen it before Yeah, and they can also give up 51 In a very short period of time Well, yeah I think 33 to 27 is what I said I'll stick with that. You're staying with that. Brendan, what do you got?

I'm going to go lower score and then you guys, Chiefs 2721 Oh, you know what? Did I say lower score? I think I might have paid under. You did you had the under on that. I had 2421 or something like that. I'll accept that.

I don't know. Give me both. By the way, we'll officially make... I'll play Matt Thomas and give us. We'll play our picks tomorrow, but with the other games. Okay. We keep track of how much money we make. Ooh, beat the schmose.

This is how we should have to do it. We should have one contestant represents you and one contestant represents me. And if I beat you, they win. Or if you beat me, they win. It's too much work. Why not? Because we... Part of the problem with the beat-the-shmows is we had to call them and we had to get their picks.

It's a logistical nightmare. Yeah. But if you have just one person, one person represents one and the other, then we can have win. Or do you not have prizes. Oh, I don't think we got pride. Oh, hell no. It's not going to be a mom bonifico. No, we have prizes when we're a normal company again.

Yeah, well. We're kind of in a leaner time. Isn't everybody. Everybody is. Because these are, of course, unprecedented times. Yes, and they are very uncertain, Matt. Okay, so everybody's writing stories about this Daniel House situation. Yes.

Including now Jonathan Fagan. He put a story out a little while ago that says the Rockets are, quote, not optimistic that the NBA will reach a final decision on whether or not Daniel House violated the House. health and safety protocols. The league, this is his story. We mentioned the athletic story earlier. The league has informed information that one of its contracted COVID-19 testing employees, boy, this is more definitive, right? This is backing up what Chris Haynes of Yahoo said late last night.

Entered the Rockets Grand Floridian Hotel late night on Monday and has based its investigation on the house on door data. Have you ever in your life heard of door data? I've heard a door dash. I've heard of door knocking. I heard a knocking doors down. Yeah. This door data shows that house's hotel room door opened sometime in those hours.

Now, to me, I don't think that's super exclusive to what's going on right now in Orlando. My guess is if you went to a hotel, any hotel, maybe we need a hotel employee to help us out. If you've ever worked in a hotel before, help us out with this. I think if you went to the, we have three hotels within about a block of here. I bet you any of those three could tell us when doors get opening close. When doors are opening close. Yeah, I don't imagine. I don't know if that's crazy to what's happening in Orlando.

Maybe he went out for a late night game of Pinole or something. You continue to push this playing things that involves sex. I mean, I just. Because you just want to hope for the best. And I applaud that. Yeah, Matt. I'm optimistic. I'm a pie-eyed optimist.

Well, you know what it is? They play naked peanut peanut, apparently. Or naked twister. Or naked scrabble. So if any of you ever worked in a hotel before, and it could be past tense, it could be now. I don't care. You can hide your name. I don't care.

Can you tell when a room is open and closed? Yeah. But I mean, how do they know that it was her, though? Because no, they don't know. So the circumstance is she checked in at the next time and then five minutes later, his door open? No, they don't attach her to the door data. They attach the room being open. Right, but they know when she checked in, though.

So that's what I'm saying. If she checked in at 1005 and his door opened at 1007. Yes. Is that what they're saying? That would my guess. Well, that's what we're deducing that. And then she checked out at 203 and his door opened at 201. Mm-hmm.

Maybe something like that. That's circumstantial. That feels to be less circumstant. that feels more concrete. What's the opposite of circumstantial? Hard evidence. Hard evidence. Concrete evidence?

That her leaving. Direct evidence? Yeah, that coincides with the room being open and the room being closed. Circumstantial. You can argue that he went out for some bugles. Some of the things that come out of your mouth astonish me. Much like you probably say the same thing about me.

I'm just saying, you can argue, look, any good lawyer, we can get big angry up in here. He'll tell you, any good lawyer, he can get big angry up in here. He'll tell you any good lawyer can argue that he was not doing if you have no direct evidence. It's circumstantial. Not enough. You must acquit. Hashtag free Daniel House. The late Johnny Cochran's loving this.

Yes. The woman, according to the Chronicle story, implicated Tyson, Chandler, and another player and not house. Tyson Chandler and another player. So it was a threesome. No, that's not true. they're implicating that there's another player for a total of three doesn't mention house apparently yeah there's a house another play in her but there's no I don't know what the hell's going on

I don't know either by the way Tyson was cleared by the NBA investigation today okay that's good so maybe Daniel house will be will be will be cleared today it all depends on the door data okay let me see if anybody on Twitter's ever worked at a hotel before at SportsMT. Let's see. Let's see the tape and don't let Scotty Foster on the review, says Houston H-Town horn. That's pretty funny.

Or Steve Javie either. That's so funny. Yeah, I don't, I'm trying to put the pieces together. And here we are, we're just doing as a live radio show. So it's not really our responsibility. So if you've worked in a hotel, let me know. Because I've never, it's one of the places I've worked in restaurants before. I would imagine.

I would have been golf courses. I feel like I thought that would, I would imagine there would have been cameras everywhere. Maybe the players negotiated that there wouldn't be? Because aren't there cameras in every hotel hallway? Why would they turn them off? That's what I'm saying. Kareem Hunt will tell you that there's cameras everywhere. If anything, they probably said we want the NBA.

I guess everything is collectively bargained, but the NBA would absolutely want it. Because the NBA not only has this philosophy, but the players do too. The players do not want this league. shut down. If they're in this bubble for this period of time, Ross, they don't want to week off because people didn't behave to themselves. Look at how pissed off Major League Baseball got with those two Cleveland Indian players that took off. That's true. So, Clevenger got shipped off to another team. Yeah. So they're not interested in everybody getting asked. They're interested in making sure you follow the rules. Yes. Wouldn't they have

elevator video too? She not go up the elevator? She hoofed up the stairs? No, this is all the things you are saying could very well be in play. I'm just wondering. And we're just thinking out a lot because we're trying to figure this thing out. Not optimistic, according to this source that the Fagan has. Not optimistic that he'll be able to play? Let me ask you this. If they're investigating this, they either are doing this with a fine tooth comb or they are waiting to find, they're waiting for the evidence to roll in because this happened supposedly what Tuesday, we're looking at Thursday, there's nothing else they're investigating.

It's not like, you know how me IRS is going to. audit somebody there's like 80,000 other people that are going to audit, we'll take our time with you. What else the NBA investigators doing right now? Nothing. There's no COVID cases. Correct. There's nobody, Joe, breaking out of the bubble. This is the only

case. And when they figured out Lou Williams, that didn't take them very long. When Richard Holmes did his thing, they didn't take them very long. That's true. Lou just wanted some nice wings. And he got it when he was in Atlanta. You're thigh and a leg.

Something is really fishy. I really, this story will eventually come out. Is it going to be now? Is it going to be a week from now? Is it going to be years from now? I don't know. I can't wait for the whole story to come out on this, though. I would love to be reading about it.

Here's what I'm, and this is no BS, this is what I'm most concerned with, is if there is another player involved that asked Daniel to help out here. Like a player that would have a beard and. No, I'm not saying, I'm talking about anybody. I'm talking about any player because they're all. Bruno Cabo. I got news for you. Or Michael Frazier.

They're all grown men. They've all been in this bubble for two months. They're horny as hell. They've got needs, Matt. But why, again, if he, what would possess, if House is completely innocent, why would possess him that he would want to take the fall for this? He's a rotation player. That's true.

I mean, I understand why Tyson got in there and was like, yeah, I can't do anything. Maybe they're, maybe he's next door to whoever, and so it's more believable. No, if it's, if it's, if it's, House is door. It's house is door and his room. Well, they have sweets, right? Maybe some of them are adjacent. I don't know. I don't know either. This conjecture just pissing me off. That's all we can do. 242. I wish we had the information. I don't have any. And then somebody wants to call in time what it is. It knows I'm all for it. I'll keep it anonymous, but I just, I'm flying blind on this one.

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We just turned the Astros A's game on. It's 1245 there right now. It looks like it's 8 o'clock at night with the fog. I was going to say, is a fog rolling through? That ain't far, bra. Oh. Should they be playing in wildfire smoke? Well, Chandler Rome on the Chronicle just put out there that normal healthy air and some scale is either pre-150.

Now, you know what? I don't want to erroneously speak to this. Let me... Okay. Why don't you... Let's see, let's see. Let's see what he did earlier. Apparently, the air is extraordinarily unhealthy.

Air Quality Index is 168. Anything between 150 and 200 is unhealthy. Then why are they playing? So he's at 168. Can't you sue for that? Well, here's the reason why they're playing, to be really honest. They're not going back out to California again. This is it.

This is their second to last road trip of the year. Okay. Well, what if their lungs stop working? Well, COVID already took care of that. Okay. And somehow, some way, 2020 is going to get your lungs. Either through the air you breathe in California. Or the vid-19.

No score, by the way, in the bottom half of the first inning. All right, before we get to believe it or not, if you missed it earlier, he's an American treasure. He's going to provide us as long as we keep bothering about him. And by the way, an Astros deep playoff run hurts these parodies. But you know what? I don't know if that unless it'll be the case in 2020, unfortunately. Ladies and gentlemen, we ask you to please sit back, relax, and enjoy the season debut of a Chris Gordy, horrible football, Friday parody on the Thursday. Kansas City, prepare to fight.

Tell them that the Texans will be rolling tonight. We've got Will Fuller, catch him from Dushaw and a powerful run game with David Johnson. Because we're the Texans, not a taxon, you understand yeah we're the Texans Texas's gonna win my homes better be ready bring whatever he's got could be 17 sacks yeah from JJ Watt Billy Owen his offense and to Sean Watson Tim Kelly calling plays now

What a Texans win Because we're the Texans Now you understand Yeah, we're the Texans Texans gonna win Again, I mentioned this two hours ago It repeats itself Ross, if I was going to have a song at my wedding

To dance to my bride for the very first time And I was a fan, if I was a, if I was a, traveling Texan, I would use that song. I would probably go another direction, but I do not fault you, Matthew. But are there any traveling Texans? Any goofballs up in Kansas City? You can. Well, I guess you can't, yeah.

Yeah, 17,000 for sure. How much of those tickets going for? Now, my guess, you'd have to scalp the season ticket holders, right? Scout from them. Yeah, but I mean, do they, is there any sort of other allotment? No, but, you know, they can always still run to the City Hall of Kansas City like they did last year and put a Texans flag over the banner of Kansas City and then get a beat down. Tickets seem reasonable right now on StubHub, 140, 143.

Good seats or, I mean, lower level? I think there's a bad seat. Reserve 343, that's in the top, but still. Top corner for 153 bucks, 143 bucks. It's not bad for opening night. Are they doing a ceremony or no? Keep those guys out on the field as less as possible, right? my guess they celebrate this thing a little bit later in the year.

Just like our buddy Bob Fesco was saying, they didn't really celebrate because once they won the Super Bowl, we were COVID a month later. Cut everything out. Let that be the problem for them. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports game show.

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I got him like eight times in a row. He's going to win one. Frank on 790. Frank, you're ready to play. play, believe it or not? Well, yeah, I am. Lamar Hunt was eventually convinced to change the name. He considered using the Kansas City mules,

but the chiefs were chosen after a name the team contest. Believe it or not? Not. Didn't you win yesterday? Why is Hank changing his name? Can we get regular people that don't change their names?

It's prize horrors, Matt. You know how the game is playing. Please, prize whores, do not call. Regular normal people. Regular, not horse, prize horse. Lewis on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Joe Montana and Marcus Allen were inducted into the Chiefs Hall of Fame in 2011.

Believe it or not? Not. Statement number two for the win. Andy Reid has the third most coaching victories in Kansas City Chief's history. First is Hank Stram. Believe it or not? Not. That is right. Marty Schottenheimer.

Use that question before. I feel like it. Are you sure? Congratulations. That's two winners. All right. Time for one more. Let's go to Chris on 790. Chris, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Oh, we have no prize? Okay. Chris just is for the hell of it. In 2013, the Chief's mascot, K.C. Wolf suffered broken ribs, a fractured tailbone, a collapsed lung, and other injuries after falling from a zip line from a stunt. Believe it or not.

not. Yeah, he did. Sorry. Also broke his spine. What kind of stunt is that? He fell 75 feet from a Zipline. So Chiefs dude goes out to a Zipline park somewhere in town and just drops? He was practicing a stunt for the game.

And the bungee cord snapped and he fell 75 feet. There's another show in the marketplace that's going to get that kind of information. Casey Wolf. He's back though. Brian Tee with us tomorrow. Hell yeah, or not us tomorrow. We've got Paul Nome for some handicapping picks, and we're going to break down rockets and Texans like a mudder.

So too. Well, Adam Clanton and Adam Wexler, they are the A team, and they're up next on Sports Talk 790.