The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets beat Suns, UH beats Syracuse, will Chiefs vs Cowboys set a viewership record?

Episode Date: November 25, 2025

Rockets beat Suns, UH beats Syracuse, will Chiefs vs Cowboys set a viewership record?

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 10 o'clock at H-town. Good morning, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross from Phoenix. This is Sports Talk 790s. And the Suns 92. Yeah, the Rockets came together, no Tories and no Freddy V. No Kevin Durant In Sports RV

A lot of Aaron Holiday for the second time in 10 days. The best shooting holiday According to Austin Rivers When he interviewed him On Peacock How was the peacock? The broadcast was good.

I thought when we talked about this in the preseason how they were going to have one guy on one bench and one guy in the other bench. You know how nonverbal communication is very important on any broadcast with your color men. I thought it was fine. I mean, it's a little off here and there, but overall

pretty good. And that dude, what's his name? Grady, something Grady? Yeah, Michael Grady is the, uh, was a voice of the, uh, wolf, but he does some national stuff now. Yeah, I think he's pretty good. Yeah, uh, it was weird because the feed they gave me

from my broadcast spot was the peacock feed obviously usually like at the space city feed and uh there's stephen adams got his legs wrapped up and like austin rivers is like within two feet of the guy i mean the access that these analysts get with the headset literally right next to the bench is uh you don't find it anywhere else you don't you don't get that sign on the reporters at football don't get that as close as those guys get yeah and one of the uh there was a moment where step adam said are you live uh say hello to my mother in austral where it was like Stephen Adams

wants me to shout to his mother and I'm not going to say no. Yeah, I was going to say I wonder if they have Peacock in New Zealand. Sure, why not?

It's a strange network name it just is. Why? What's weird about it, Matt? It's a beautiful family. I don't need to worry about it. Yeah, NBC Peacock. Let your feathers fly, baby.

I mean, if that's the weirdest name for network, what's the second wordest name? I don't think it's the weirdest. What is the weirdest? Tubi. That's true, but is that a network or is that a service?

Tube is a streaming service. Fubo is a streaming service, too. I mean, but Tooby is more of a streaming platform. Fubo. Well, Fubo is in a dispute. You know what? I guess I can save it for tomorrow. They're in a dispute with T&T and NBC right now.

Oh, no. And I'm trying to switch, and then I'm on the phone with the AI Xfinity person for 30 minutes. This is the worst. So, I'm so mad. Oh, man, I didn't mean, I apologize. Yeah, thank you. I was actually having a pretty serene morning. I know, okay, but I want you to think about this.

If I think Peacock is the weirdest name for a channel, if I'm wrong, tell me what's the weirdest cable channel that's legitimate that's out there. It was quibby, but they folded. Now it's Tubeby, which is owned by Fox, I believe. It's like their, their streaming service. And I think it's everything on there's free. It's just got commercials. Yeah, I watch the. old game show channel. It's called

Buzzer. That's B-U-Z-Z-R. Oh, B-U-Z-Z-R. They take the E out. Apparently. Yeah, you take the vowels out to make everything cooler. Yes. Today's kids. It's crazy. All right, that's Ross. I'm Matt here in Phoenix. Rockets came together last night

and knocked off the suns. Dylan Brooks, not overly happy with the officiating in last night's game. We'll let you hear about that. He says the Rockets are flopper sports RV. Not an I mean a docket team. No chance. way no way no house right what shut you above ass up i don't know alprin shingoon alprin he looks like the inflatable uh a flailing arm dude in front of the car dealership come on i love alpi shingoon but

let's be real i love alpi shangoon no i will not besmirge his great name let's be real come on now i don't know ross it feels like to me that's the european game and it's been that way for 10 years now. I mean, it is what it is. It gets calls. It works. Yeah. Yeah.

So, Dylan will, in his cerebral way, we'll be explaining how I'm happy he is. It's funny. He wasn't bringing this up when he was teammates with Alperin-Shingo. No, you don't have a problem with it when it's on your team. No, that's all right. All right. We got a lot to get to you today. We've got a busy show.

We're going to check in in Indianapolis coming up at the top of the hour. Derek Schultz, our friend from Indies. But he's been on as long as I think Roto has been one of our correspondents. Isn't that crazy? Maybe longer. Yeah. But our buddy, Derek Schultz, who covers a lot of things that Indianapolis is going to join us. I think he's on the Locked-on Colts Network, which, you know, lockdown is a lockdown for life.

You know, Gordy's a lockdown OG. So we'll talk to him. We got gut fillings at 1130. The news at noon. E. May Addoke is going to join us today at 1 o'clock. We have NFL Rewin with Ross at 120, and at 1.30, we have a Houston fighter by the name of Joshua Vann, who is going to be in an MMA bout, and he's representing our community. We get some guys together that represent Houston.

We like to get him on the show. His nickname, Rossi, the fearless. Hmm. I like that. If you're going to be a cage fighter, being fearless is probably a good quality to have. My nickname, Rossi, you don't know this? Oh, no. Totally in fear.

The fearful? Oh, yeah. Fearful, scaredy cat, whatever you want to say, I'm afraid. I thought your nickname was Mr. Mac and Cheese. So we had a conversation on the bus yesterday by the mac and cheese. No, let's move on. You know what? I feel like we're picking on you now at this point.

No, no, no. First of all, it's Thanksgiving week, okay? So food is going to be a huge conversation piece. Number two, if I'm listening to the Matt Thomas Show Ross and I hear myself, I'm yelling at the radio. Okay. I absolutely am. But I can't change who I am, sports RV. I could lie and say I love all these things, but I just don't.

It's part of your charm. Well, or irritants, whatever. But wait, do you put ketchup on your tamales, by the way? No. Oh, Lord. We're going to throw you out of Texas. First of all, I don't like tamales, so it's a moot point for me. Oh, okay, good.

But I'm seeing people talking about, I've seen it on at least two different tweets from two different people. putting, and I needed to save them, and I apologize for not doing so. People are putting ketchup on their tamales. Oh, my God. That sounds, first of all, I'm not a tamale guy, but I understand why they're popular. But you would put like a gravy

or a cheese or something. I don't think ketchup was on the list. No. No. It's not good. Not good at all. All right. So what did you think the last nice game? Rockets won. no Aaron Holly we talked about

a man Thompson was great it was a night where the Rockets got out to an early lead and they tried several different times I thought Dylan Brooks played really well last night for them Booker was just Booker who else was really good Reed Sheper was okay in the starting lineup

you had J.D. Davison getting some minutes I mean it was literally and again I chose the song come together because you kind of have to go sometimes deep to that to that bench and that's exactly what EMA I doke and the Rockets did last night. Yeah, I thought it was a good game. As you mentioned, Dylan Brooks was going off,

and you could clearly tell that he wanted to try and punish his old team. And, you know, he had some games like that for the Rockets last year, where he's, like, making every single turnaround jumper. He's being aggressive. Like, his offensive game is really good. He came in averaging 21 points per. As you mentioned, Reed Shepard, a bit of regression. And he was due.

He's been shooting like 53% from three in the last 10 games or something like that. So that was due, but I like the team ball. I liked Amin Thompson and Alpern Shungoon. There was that one moment where Jabari Smith Jr. And Amin Thompson were working the ball back and forth, like playing together. As you said, come together was a perfect choice for the song. And it was great team ball, the athleticism of Amin Thompson. I was saying this to absolutely nobody listening on KTRH last night, Matt.

But on a, in a league of like the, biggest freak athletes on the planet, Amin Thompson sets himself apart. The plays that he can make, these little in-out, like, many Euro step dribbles that he can make the quickness. And actually, on the Peacock broadcast, Austin Rivers was talking about this.

Like, he knew he was athletic. He knew he could jump. He knew he was fast. But he didn't know until seeing him firsthand how quick he is. And he's six foot seven. Like, he's so quick. His zero to 60,

zero to 30, zero to 10 is so good. he's so explosive and he's just the control that he has over his body and I would say the same thing for Alper and Shingoon for how big he is it was just on full display last night and men Thompson put on a show

and I'm going to say this you know a lot of those guys when I go to the Eurostep like James would do that he would have to go right to the lane he's pulling up at the dotted circle which is about a seven foot jumper those should be made but easier said than done and that's what he has to do that's what makes it that much more difficult

But everybody on the planet on both teams knows that a men Thompson's not a great jump shooter. So what do they do? They sag off of them. They back off. They play the drive. If they're playing the drive and you're still able to drive,

you're really good. And the men Thompson's able to do that. This is my obligatory and I do this every time after I call a game. Please, Houston. I love you. Please embrace this team. It's going to be a fun season.

I cannot guarantee supremacy in the NBA. I certainly cannot promise supremacy in the Western Conference because I don't believe Oklahoma City is ever going to lose again. But it's so much fun. And look, I have the great pleasure,

and I'm honored and privileged to be at these games directly to see this stuff going on. And I talk to the Phoenix media or people that are fellow broadcasters. I'm like, God, y'all are good. I'm like, and the number one thing. Like, I saw, can I name drop here for one quick second?

Oh, here we go. I talked for about 10 minutes with Tom Thibito yesterday. The former Knicks Wolves coach, Chicago Bulls coach, could not have been nicer. I mean, I was like, are you sure this is really you? Are you, this is an AI version of you? And he's like, y'all are really good. He says, the West is so filthy, but it's just y'all, you know, think about it. Tonight, last night was a group of made okay starters, obviously, but.

I know. That's all, how many people are so OG. How many people are getting that? I respect the hell out of it. So the funniest thing was we're talking about the game last night, and I told Debs, and again, here comes another one of those things. You can go and play it as often as you can. I said, my first year calling basketball, he was the, you were the coach of the wolves.

And we put a crowd mic on the court table, and I'm broadcasting for my broadcast spot in Minneapolis, which is the top part of the lower level. And there is somebody just MFing everything. And I said, we realized midway through the first quarter, I said, it was Coach Thibito, just, I mean, and I told him, I said, I said, I had to turn your microphone off because you were just MFing, and he laughed and they apologized. He could have been nicer. He's going to get another job again. He's a good coach. He weird and very temperamental, but man, he can coach.

But he was there last night. He's like, y'all are really good, and it's going to be fun to watch how this thing plays out. West is so filthy. So please, again, I would love to be able to tell you this is a 60-win team that's going to win the West. I would love to tell you that, I can tell you, for minimum, Rockets play the Thunder. It's going to be in a very entertaining series. We saw that an opening night, as a matter of fact, against the Thunder.

Just say a small prayer. Said that the Fountain of Youth hits Kevin Durant, and he scores 36 points a game in every one of those games against Thunder if they play them in the playoff series. God bless it, Ross. Oklahoma City just won't lose. the thunder are feeling like they're 17 and 1 and Jalen Williams still hasn't played

17 and 1 yes 17 point differential 16.9 they set the record last year with 12.9 or whatever it's not it's not good you know what big picture

Hey, you play the games in front of you. That's right. They didn't look like they were overmatched by the Thunder in game one. Sure didn't. We got a few more with them coming up this year. All right, 713212-5-7-90. If you want to chime in on the Rockets, Cougars last night, go to overtime to beat Syracuse in the Players-era tournament

for the big check. Good, congratulations to them. Your beloved Longbournes last night. No other college basketball needs to be mentioned. Oh, okay, that's fine. We can't, we can't, no, it's fine. I'm not going to do that to you. It's fine. Whatever. I actually, I know, well, I was up. I was on air until midnight, by the way. And I actually forgot the game was on when I went home because I just went straight to bed.

And then I checked it this morning and I was disappointed. I'm sorry. How sorry are you, one to ten? Nine. Oh, you're such a lot. Why would I, why would I be? I'm sorry for a Maui invitational loss? I think you need to recalibrate.

Okay, four now. Nine is like my dog just died. Okay, 2.3. Back with more in a moment. We're the Matt Thomas show with Ross until 2 o'clock today here on Sports Talk 790. 1022 on this Tuesday edition of the show. Ross, are you okay with our tornadoes back home? That was crazy yesterday, huh?

Yeah, I'm okay. I know some people who They're okay too But they went right by them as well Like over there I believe it was like in the spring area Yeah It's crazy man

I don't know what the heck's going on There's looked like there's some A lot of tree damage some house damage as well I don't know much more beyond that But it is pretty wild stuff I have never thankfully been a part of it Now look we've all been around tornado warnings We know friends that have been around it

But everybody that they've ever talked about that says they've been in and around a tornado knows it's a sound that you'll never forget. Yeah, the train horn or something like that. Yeah, like the destruction and worrying about whether or not you're in a safe space or not. I mean, when we were kids, we were like, we had to go hide in a bathtub or hide in your closet, but I don't even know if that even makes a difference anymore. These things are so powerful. It's crazy. And to me, like tornado, it's a hurricane, you can kind of prepare yourself for earthquakes, no, but.

still tornadoes just seem terrifying man like what do you even do you know I have a quick story at west Kentucky there was a dual tornado that rampage to bowling green and all you could do because we were in apartments and dorms all you could do was just sleep and hope you didn't get hit

and thankfully went around campus but the entire city got destroyed yeah this is over 100 homes destroyed in northwest Harris County in the Klein area yeah an old co-worker of mine at the University of Houston

One of my old directors on the U of H broadcast, his parents' home just got demolished, and he put some photos up on Twitter. It's, I mean, nothing we can do to say. We're very sorry, and my goodness, just our sympathy is gone to anybody that has been affected by that. But my gosh, it's crazy. It just feels like to me, and again, maybe it's climate change. Maybe it's just our weather that's as warm as it is right now, that these bad boys are kicking our ass a lot more than they did when, you know, Yeah, I don't know.

It just seemed like tornadoes have been worse, but I don't know. Yeah. All right. So, uh, hopefully, it's weather okay back home today? You guys are going to make it today, all right? Yeah, there's supposed to be some rain, I think, again, but it was pleasant this morning. And it's supposed to get chilly, I think, into the 40s tonight or tomorrow night. Uh-oh.

You'll be a good, good night for some chili, right? Oh, yeah. And some watching some talk on the Pichock. Chili, they got a great review from Jonathan. You know, Jonathan, that made me feel good. I'm glad you got me a good review. serious. I'm not even going to sugarcoat it. It was really good. Did you use sausage or ground beef or none of the above?

Huh. It's a secret. Oh, okay. No, I'm just kidding. It was, normally I make three meats. I do a stew meat, a, you could call it a filler meat, and then a sausage. I used, for the stew, we used a venison backstrap. My brother-in-law had recently killed a deer. And then I used some. Yeah, some chili chuck, a ground chuck, and then I used some Italian hot sausage. Nice. Those are all great. Mm-hmm.

I love Italian hot sausage. I love deer meat, and, you know, who can go wrong with some ground chuck? Yes, sir. You know, Ross, let me say, folks, can do more than just, you know, come on and babble about endless nonsense. He can give you some good cooking tips. Yeah. Like a little pop-o shot. Yeah, I'm thinking about making a chili truck, but that sounds very much.

really hot in Houston. I think I should go north and further north for that. Let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen. I have sponsored Ross one thing in life. It was a poker event. I lost my ass on that. But how about this? Why don't I sponsor you in a chili contest? Could you win? I don't know. We'd have to talk to our

chili competition guy. Where is that guy? He's got to be bringing us some samples. Yeah, I know. He's a national champ. He's like international champ. Yeah, I don't think I can measure up to that. Well, all I'm saying is he's going to taste it. he'd be the real judge.

If he doesn't like it, you know, it's done. But we need, like, we need somebody to do a real taste test. I'm the people's champ, Matt. You are the people's champ. All right, real quick, we mentioned to Dylan Brooks not overly happy with some of the officiating yesterday as a Rockets. I mean, I thought the game was brilliantly called. I didn't see one air on either side for the entire two and a half hour broadcast. It's going to be honest with it.

That's okay. I mean, Dylan Brooks flops around too. Oh, he does. He had five fouls. But so did Jabari Smith had five. I mean, there were a lot of guys in foul trouble. So here is Dylan after the game talking about how maybe the rocket's got a few calls their way. On the play, but I've never seen so many flops being rewarded on the other side.

And honestly, it felt like I was in a Feeba game, like playing basketball on FIBA where you just get rewarded for flopping. And that killed every single run we had. couldn't be physical but the rockets were physical grabbing and holding and when we try to do it there was calls right away okay

uh okay that's just him it's just him being him it is what it is yeah the rockets do alprung shingoon probably the worst offender but everybody flops around a little bit it's the NBA. It happens on both sides

and Dylan Brooks flops around two. Devin Booker flops around two. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. But one thing he said does kind of ring true is the Rockets force

the referees to relax a bit to where it kind of like in football where there's holding on every single play and they're not going to call it on every single play. The Rockets do do a lot of clutching and grabbing and pushing and shoving and they're physical and they set a tone

and they set a baseline to where there is going to be a high level of physicality and the referees aren't going to call it so I mean that's that's not an accident that's something IMA ad doka will tell you they do that like they get physical it's what they do it's their brand of basketball do you know why the officials give the rockets breaks one because we deserve them and two because

you may ad doca gives you the death stare you want to run far away from that that's true I mean, if you were going to go, you know, if you were going to do what do they call it, fight club, he'd be the first guy coach you'd take, correct? Yeah, it wouldn't even be close. We're going to take J.J. Reddick? Come on, man. You're not taking Steve Kerr. No. Steve's car is getting folded like a lawn chair.

Exactly. You're not taking J.B. Bickersap. He's a lover or not a fighter. You know, it'd be sneaky good, I think. Who? It's got some sneaky red-ass. Eric Spolstra I got one for you here give me a ruling on Jason Kidd

Ooh I think Jason Kidd Would be a good one Is Chonsie Billups on or off the board He is definitely off the board He's at home Not available to media He's out on bail Still paying out that 5 million bail

He's out on bail literally That's so crazy to say out loud All right we're going to come back We're going to play an audience This is why the Matt Thomas show Ross is so beloved by so few. Ross sent a soundbite to me in our show group yesterday that I sent to Jonathan and said,

we need to play it. Yes, it's an all-timer. It is an all-timer featuring, and I would think Ross in the history of the Matt Thomas show, Ross, we have played less than three Creighton play-by-play calls. It makes me laugh just thinking about it. I can't wait. All right, so the Creighton Blue Jays radio play-by-play announcer loses his mind. We'll hear it next.

That's an understatement. Matt Thomas show, Ross, continues here on Sports Talk 7.9. I'm here in Phoenix after the Rockets beat the Sons. We leave later today to go to San Francisco to take on the Warriors. And we'll have it for you tomorrow. And that will be then Thanksgiving. It's our final show of the week tomorrow. So looking forward to spending a lot of time with you guys tomorrow.

And certainly today, if you want to join us, you are more than welcome to do so. We are, I want to say, Ross, are we the only really. show in town that enjoys talking to people? Everybody else is just monologue radio, right? Yeah, what a bunch of idiots and losers. Yeah, idiots. We like y'all. We don't mind talking to you. Yes, yes.

It's not love sometimes, depending on who this. Some of you have some terrible takes, but generally speaking, we enjoy visiting with you. So, let's do this. Let's let me hear the audio. We have our buddy Gary in Spring has an early gut feeling. Now, can you not wait till 1130? I mean, isn't there a rule that gut feelings at 1130? Yeah, but he told me that he got

like something to do at 11. He wanted to get Oh, he did. Okay. Okay. So Gary, hang out. He's got his summit 11. We'll get his early gut feeling because he's an OG listener. I do want to play the audio. Creighton played Baylor yesterday. Ross, how much of the game did you see before this highlight? Zero. Me too. Yeah, it's not a top of mind game. But there are two good teams, Creighton in the Big East, obviously Baylor and the Big 12. And there was a controversial call made in that contest. I happen to see the video of it. There was a blocking foul that was called. against Creighton, and the Creighton announcer on the Blue Jays Radio Network, not overly pleased with what he saw. One second. Car into the paint. Miss the dunk. And I'm fucking foul.

What are you talking about? That was two seconds after the play ended. Car driving. He's outside. the circle. He's outside the circle and he's set. He was outside the circle and he was set. Brack Smith blew it.

He was outside the restricted area. He was straight up and down. He was set like the statue sitting out in front of New York, New York and they called that. That's an absolutely hoarse crap call. In a game

that's been played out like this. unbelievable bailout call by an incompetent referee and bald don't lie this is in Vegas by the way oh my god that's incredible okay so I am going to I'll have an opinion about this but I want to give you two an opportunity first to say what you want to say about the raw emotions of the voice of the Blue Jays, the Creighton Blue Jays. By the way, Baylor won the game 81.74.

With that call, now first of all, did you see the call? What did you think of the call? And then more importantly, what did you think of the play-by-play call? Yeah, so it looks like it was a bad call. I mean, it was barely a bump. The guy was standing his ground outside the restricted area. It looks like that's a pretty bad foul call. And he moved up the way, too. Yeah, like he barely touched

Like that's a bad call Number one Number two, I don't know I guess I am curious your opinion Matt if it's unprofessional If it's not becoming of a play by playman To complain about the officials But I will say

Entertainment 10 out of 10 Professionalism 2 out of 10 But this is a clear And obvious bad call It was a terrible at worst case

Ross a non-wistle there was not enough contact secondly what made it worse was the fact the whistle as the announcer said came so late I'm just going to tell you I've been doing play by play on the radio

since 1996 I've never lost my mind that much in a call in doing this for 29 years. Can you recall ever getting close? What's the most you think you've lost it? Oh, I got one.

When Kevin Durant's, both of his feet were out of bounds? Yes. In Golden State, and you were on the call of Craig? That was incredible. I think we have that somewhere. Yeah. Because Craig didn't see it, but I did. And he's like, so I'm telling Craig what's going on.

This is when Durant was had. I mean, did he have both feet? out of bounds on the sideline, I want to say? Both. He was both feet were out of bounds by like two to three feet, and he threw the ball back in bounds and it didn't get called. I know exactly what I'm going to be all talking about. It was ridiculous.

That was the game where I was on the color for that game. And yeah, I guess I was incredulous to that. But there was no interpretation needed for that. That was cut and dry how far his feet were out of bounds. Because say what you will, fouls are still subjective. they shouldn't be, but they are subjective. How much contact do you allow? Is it the offensive player that initiates it?

Is it a defensive player? Is it a no call? Those things can clearly happen. But I lost my mind in the most professional way like, wait a minute. He's out of bounds. There's no offense or bots. He's out of bounds. In terms of subjectivity on a call, I don't remember losing my mind like that.

And here's the reality of it is that. In 2025, while I appreciate the energy, he had to have known that his rant, it was about 40 seconds, he was going to go viral because any time you do something like that in today's world, you're going to go viral. Someone's going to catch a piece of audio of that and play it. So I don't know if that's his stick in general, or he just was really upset, or he knew the moment was going to be arbitrary for him to say what he wanted to say. I just know that if I took every one of the bad calls that I see when I call NBA games, Ross,

and had that kind of energy every time, I'd have no voice and probably would die on the air. It was great stuff, though. It was a bad call. I thought he was going to say horse bleep, too. He said horse crap. He was awfully close. I'll say this. I probably would have been on his same level if it would have decided the game.

but it did not do so I think what was the score at the time like I told you they won 81-74 and let's see 72 to 66 so there was still quite a bit of basketball left two minutes yeah but yeah two possession game with two minutes yeah

it is what I mean look I don't know if that's who he is I don't know you know we've not heard of him before right well how many Omaha announcers have you heard of in your life zero now you got one i don't know what's the guy's name we even know larry just plainly he's goes by larry he goes by one name like michael michael i can i yeah let me let me see if i can print i don't think the creton blue jays announcer is a single name person i mean if he is he must be that popular i didn't know let's see here

crating i'm googling this is great radio creighton blue jays radio announcer let's take a because he's got a name one of the comments says is this Gilbert Godfrey that's funny let's see here

John Bishop is his name and the ball don't lie is like the coup de grace that's Jonathan didn't need a ruling on that can old white men say ball don't lie or is that out of bounds no that's a basketball thing

ball doesn't lie yeah you say that I was in an all game versus Orlando ball don't lie you know I did for the first time yesterday I think in probably five or six years. I said bang.

That's a Mike Breen thing. Oh, you stole a bang? I didn't mean to. It just came out. That's fine. It's supposed to be natural, visceral. That's what the great play-by-play men do. I never write anything down.

Yeah, I don't force it. By way, U of H stole my nothing but nylon. You see on their tweet, I had to call them out on a bit steel. That's been used since like the 70s, right? As far as I'm concerned, I'm the one that created it. 1044 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We're going to go to Indianapolis at the Unitedapolis at the United States. the top of the hour. We'll talk to Gary in Spring because

Gary is at O'G, and he has an early gut feeling. We must get that in. It's 1044, the Matt Thomas show with Ross, here from Phoenix on Sports Talk 790. Rossi, I'm 20 ounces into my first 24 ounce coffee. I'm going to take a break at some point during the show to get a refill because it is free.

I have free, they're all up as $8 in the coffee, so. I've had more coffee in this trip. Oh, my God, I am so wired now, Rossi. Ooh, Lordy. I get your tolerance up. You need to be careful. I'm serious.

It starts a bad pattern. Yeah, it's, I've been trying. That's why I don't drink any more iced tea because I feel like I drink so much coffee now that I have to balance it out with the water. First world problems. All right. Matt and Ross with you here. We're going to go to Indianapolis at the top of the hour. Let's talk to Gary in Spring who hates the wave on 7-90.

Gary, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, guys. Great show as usual. Well, man, that was kind of a blast from the past when they had, what's the guy used to play for us in the game last night was crying foul? Dylan Brooks. I heard him on that take y'all had there. And a big old bully was just a whining and a crying.

But I miss him. I love watching him be the bully on our team. I miss him. And he was a great defensive player. Anyway, I was calling about, when I called in last week, just remind you from last week I called in on shut your bum ass up and there was that one guy

I think his name was Mark he was calling in just dragging the Texas through the dirt next three games 0 and 3 and I called him a DB and you didn't really care for that but anyway so

proofs in the pudding from what he was saying that's what he is but I just wanted to toot my own horn there I commented on that take there that the Texans were going to win that game 23 to 19 and lo and behold guess what they won at 23 to 19 so just a little toot on my own hands

do you know that Gary that uh Brian mctaggart uh the Astros reporter for mlb.com heard you he texted me on sunday and said I heard a caller to your show say 23 to 19 so Gary your words were heard by a respected reporter in the marketplace oh beautiful beautiful but I do have a premonition it's too early for uh gut freedom but my premonition is and you may out like this one either but but turn about it's fair play you know what's good for the goose good for the gander the one of the uh starting players on the oklahoma city thunder within the next 30 days they will they will go down with a serious injury to bring them back to the pack so that's just what what the feeling that i have going forward in the future so hopefully that one doesn't

hurt your feelings as much as when i called marca a db but you call him a douxie but anyway just going to calling and tell you guys great show and thanks for everything. All right, thank you Gary. One of their starters is down. They're 17 and 1. By the way, I think it's Ray that he was talking about, not Mark. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, it was Ray in Miami. Ray's in Miami great listening show, but he was

I think it was yesterday when Ray called he was much more positive towards the Texan. I think he said they're only going to lose two more time before the end of the year. What was he all upset about? I can't remember last week. I think it's how poorly they played against the Titans and barely won. I'm not too sure.

Something about, was he talking about C.J. Stroud or something, too? Yeah, there's some C.J. Stroud hate. By the way, I'm thinking about muting C.J. Stroud and muting the words Davis Mills. Do you think that's the right thing to do? Yeah, you can do it. You can also put a time to mute. You can mute it for like a week. I mean, look, I just think for my mental health, I need C.J. to throw for 350 yards this one against the Colts. Well, you're going to do it. I don't know, but I don't know if I want to live in a world, Ross.

what we're talking about whether or not who's a quarterback. It doesn't matter. C.J. Stroud is the better quarterback. You don't even have to speak that into existence. No, it's the truth. It's the truth.

That's crazy. Okay, so there you go. Yeah, so Gary and Spring literally got the game score right. And that's why tomorrow when I make my prediction, I'm going to give you some obnoxiously weird score.

I like that. like i'm gonna go like 17 to 11 or something crazy like okay well maybe 11's a little crazy a little scoregami there all right 713 212 5 790 if you want to join the conversation 713 uh 212 5 790 uh real quick rossi uh tv analyst of sports you know writers and whatnot are predicting at least 50 million people to watch the chief's cowboys game on thanksgiving it would make it the most watched regular season game in the history of the NFL. Really? 50 million?

Which I'm curious. For a 6 and 5 and 5 team and what are they 5 and 4 and 1 or whatever the Cowboys are? Or 5 5 and 1? I would think for two reasons. Well, three reasons. One, it's the only game on at that time. Two of the Dallas Cowboys have this hellaciously big following, which we

don't understand. And three, the Chiefs have a huge following. And my guess is, would there be a shot of seeing Taylor at the game? Because at his Thanksgiving. Oh, Taylor Swift. Yeah, you get that angle in there. But if you're Taylor Swift and you want to have Thanksgiving with your fiancé,

you just wait for him to come back. You're not going to have Thanksgiving dinner with him before the game. You're going to have it when you get back to Kansas City. But you get any, no. It's interesting to me that there are several, because I do follow a handful of sports media writers, this, they're talking about this being. the most watch game in the history of the regular season. Now, I don't even know what is the most watch game.

I guess I could do a group of research and fight on. Probably involves the Cowboys. But Kansas City doesn't, I mean, the cash aid for Kansas City is incredible. I get it, but isn't it more about the Cowboys and more about the only game on at 3 o'clock on a Thursday afternoon on Thanksgiving day to anything else? I mean, three o'clock on Thanksgiving. That's like prime time. That is sweet. They both need this win, right?

They both need this win and try to get a playoff. Is it a must-win game for the Dallas Cowboys? It really is for them. Not for the Chiefs, but it is for the Cowboys, for sure. So my guess is, look, the Eagles, I mean, the Cowboys have played the Eagles before on Thanksgiving. They've played the Giants on Thanksgiving. They've played Packers. I mean, it's not because Kansas City's bringing his straw.

It's because I think the game is really good, right? Kansas City's part of it. Yeah, of course they are. It takes time of tango. Yeah. Kelsey or whatnot. So, by way, Rorto is going. going to join us tomorrow at

1 o'clock. Most watched is 22 Cowboys and Giants. Also, they've changed the Nielsen rate. It probably is going to be the most watch because haven't they changed the Nielsen rating? They're counting more streaming and stuff like that. Yeah, they're kidding. So yeah. You know what? Chalk it up. Gut feeling. I'm going to lock it in. Most watch game ever. In a regular season.

Are we supposed to be like a plotting NFL? No, I mean, it's cool. It's good for them. Yeah. By the way, also, Roger Goodell is saying they're going to probably add some more international games. I'm telling you, Rossi, I made a gut feeling about two years ago that I think everybody's going to have to play one international game. And then you wanted to back off that.

You wanted to back off that? You back on? I know. I'm back on. Because thinking it does make sense if you're playing a 17 game schedule, at least for now, you could have eight home, eight road, and one international game. I guess it's ridiculous.

But whatever. I always thought it made sense to have one neutral site game, like put it at a college stadium or something. You can put the Cowboys against, I don't know, the Saints and put it in Austin. I think that would be really cool, but they don't care or care about the college markets. They want to go to Amsterdam. They want to go to, you know, Sydney. They want to go, you know, they want the NFL game to travel the world because people do watch those games.

And you do create a new fan base, and you do have an opportunity to sell more gear. Yeah, you want to expand your reach. They've already dominated. They've already won America. So now you might not go ahead and win the world. Yep. Jay and Ray? Hmm.

You can call them a Jay. I can forget it. Those two gentlemen will get to you coming up in a few minutes. I'll friend Derek Schultz from Indianapolis. He's the locked-on culture reporter. Long-time front of the show joins us next year at 1058 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1102 Sports Talk 790.

It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We're coming to you today from Phoenix, Arizona, where the Rockets beat the suns last night in The city of San Francisco tomorrow to play the Golden State Warriors, but now we're going to spend some time talking about the football scene, and we'll do that with our friend, long time in front of the show, Derek Schultz, 9 at Shultz 975. He is with Locked on Colts. He's Golden Blackcom. He's life at Purdue.

I mean, how many jobs? I mean, I ask you this every year. Are you up in like nine jobs now, Derek Schultz? Yeah, it's probably too much. I have an 8-year-old son, which would be, I guess, the biggest job of all, right? But, yeah, it's getting up there. I think I'm approaching my bandwidth maximum, for sure. Really quick, 30 seconds on this.

You go from the Indiana Pacers winning the Eastern Conference with a team that might lose 60 games in one year. How brutal is that for a transition? It's brutal. But the hope is that, you know, they're the 97 spurs all over again, right? And then everything gets back to normal right away. But, yeah, they've lost all the momentum and buzz. And it stays.

It stays to the fan base and the Colts are pretty good again. So it's been a tough slot for the pace, there's no doubt. All right, Derek. Tell me about the Colts. I don't think anybody anticipated them being off to the start they are. And look, they have been on top of the AFC South or about since the start. What did you think about this team going in? And I'm going to assume that you are beyond elated on how they've turned out so far

with a handful of weeks left to go in the season. Yeah, I think I thought what most people saw. Okay, here we go. Here's another team that is not devoid of talent, but they've got enough talent. to go 8, 9, 9, and 8, and not matter for the 10th straight year, 11th straight year, however long it's been. They haven't won this division since 2014. They've won one playoff game over that span, and they've largely been stuck in the NFL's

purgatory. You know, the old saying is, be good or be bad, just don't be ordinary, and the Colts have been really ordinary over the last couple of years. So, you know, for them to jump out to a 7-1 and 8-2 start was a very nice surprise around these parts. And, you know, they're still in good position now, even struggling a little bit over the past three weeks. But, you know, the fact that, Matt, they were the most efficient offense in the NFL this entire century through the first eight games. If you're asking me, if I had any idea that they would be better on offense than the 2007 Patriots, albeit over an eight-week stretch, I would have laughed you out of the room.

So, yeah, I mean, this is, this success so far, for the most part, has come out of nowhere. But then you kind of look at it at, you know, Jonathan Taylor's been a good player for a long time. The Forrest Bukter has been a good player for a long time. It's a lot of the same names and faces. It's just, you know, Daniel Jones really stabilized a quarterback position that had been grossly unstable over the last decade or so, to say the least. We have seen a fair amount of the cult so far this year, and obviously a lot of folks saw the game against the Chiefs on Sunday.

Daniel has been excellent. I wouldn't give him a 10, but I'd give him an 8 out of 10, and I think going in, people thought Daniel Jones was just trying to hold on to his NFL career by signing a deal with the Colts. Yeah, I think Aidan, I'm sorry about my dog, let me tell us somewhere else. No, that's all right, we like the dog. A lot of Amazon deliveries here to the season, right? I think there had been a lot of, you know, when you look at Jones,

and playing in New York, there was a lot of a special, you know, the section of his game. And you wondered how much was the player and how much was actually the organization. And I think it turns out that probably a lot of it was just the fact that the Giants are one of the worst run organizations in American pro sports. But, yeah, Jones being a solid B has been better than what the cults have had because, frankly, you know, Anthony Richardson has been a D or an S. And, you know, to upgrade a couple of letter grades the way that he has, again, it's about stability.

It's not even really about raising the ceiling, which is all that we talked about in this time of Richardson. Oh, just wait. He's going to hit. And, man, his athleticism and watch out for his ceiling. Well, the problem is, is that the floor. was so far down that you know you couldn't even see it uh and with jones at the very least you knew that the floor was solid your footing was going to be solid and um and he's been even more than that

i mean at times he's looked like a um you know a pro bowl level i guess player um now that hasn't happened the last three weeks but when you just look at his numbers and the efficiency and the way that he's commanded the pocket um he's been all the things that he was not in new york Even in 2022, he never played to this level through the first 10 games here that he has in Indianapolis. Derek Schultz locked on Colts with us here on the Matt Thomas Show at 1106. All right. So you mentioned the last three weeks. Come from behind win against the Falcons of Berlin, the road loss at the Steelers, and then a road loss at Kansas City.

Are there chinks in the armor? Is it the moment is too big? It's not Daniel Jones' fault exclusively. And the one thing that I noticed, and granted again, I watched the game on Sunday on the red zones. I was only catching the parts of the game. It felt like that Jonathan Taylor could have been used a lot more in the second half against Kansas City to keep the chiefs off the field. Are you suggesting that Jonathan Taylor should have carried the ball more than once in the fourth quarter? Matt, is that what you're saying?

I mean, I'm not a football god, but I'm going to kind of go with that if it's okay with you. I mean, come on, yeah, you're 150% right. And that's been the main takeaway from this game, you know, as we've been kind of looking back on Sunday, on Monday, Tuesday, and sports talk radio circles and podcasts and all that has been the fact that they just, they ignored the best player that they have. And that's what Taylor is. Look, you know, Steve Feigolo decided, and he's a Hall of Fame coordinator,

he's done an unbelievable job. He decided that he was going to die before he would let Jonathan Taylor beat them. And that's fine. We've seen teams do that and stack the box and all that. But even running into a brick wall, when you've got an 11-point lead in the fourth quarter, the utility of running the ball means that you're also eating clock. So even if you're not necessarily gaining yards in big chunks, you can at least take some time off the clock and not give Patrick Mahomes more chances,

more bites at the apple, if you will. So it's, you know, I think Shane Seichen is a gifted offensive mind. He's done a wonderful job scheming up this team. And there's a reason why they were the most efficient offense in the 21st century through the first eight games. A lot of that had to do with Stuyken and his smarts. But I do think that just like all NFL coaches, he out thinks himself sometimes.

And I think he outfought himself a lot on Sunday. The ball absolutely should have been to Jonathan Taylor's hands more. And the Colts went three out, four straight drives. And that allowed the Chiefs to sneak back into the game and eventually, you know, kind of saved their season by winning that game in overtime. I'm presuming that the Colts are preparing for C.J. Strauss that we certainly are. And again, he's got a clear concussion protocol. We think he would have done so.

if the Texans' Bills game was on Sundays compared to Thursday. With that being said, describe to the audience back here your general thoughts about the pass rush that the Colts have provided their team so far this year? Can I give you a phrase for the Colts pass rush? Because I have a phrase that pops

into my mind and it's eh. It's fine. You know, it's not bad. It's certainly not good. I'll give you is some optimism. Well, I guess not optimism if you're in Houston, but optimism for folks there in Indianapolis is that Laiu Latu has five sacks in his last six games, which I know doesn't

sound like much, but that's a big step forward for a guy that they used the first round pick on two years ago and who they really wanted to pop this year. He's really starting to show some signs, and he's not only pressuring the quarterback where he's getting home. Quiddique is just a guy. He's a first round guy that they took out of Michigan a couple years ago, who's a perfectly adequate NFL player, but not a guy who's going to keep anybody up at night. And they have filled out their depth, injury-wise, they're going to get Samson-Ebbocount back. You know, Taekwon Lewis might come back as well. So they have some veteran depth as well.

But I think overall, I mean, if you're grading all of the past rushes in the NFL, the Colts would probably be somewhere squarely in the middle. That said, which are various ward and now Soss Gardner, they're much more apt to be successful in the defensive secondary. and I think with better coverage, there's a chance that that pass rush numbers-wise does a little bit better than it has through the first half, through the halfway point in the season. All right, for I let you run. So how does things play out? I wouldn't say it's a pivotal game, more so for the Texans that it would be for the Colts.

Indianapolis still holds on a one-game lead. I'm not sold on Jacksonville. I don't know how you feel about him, Derek, but if I'm a Colts fan, I'm not worried about it. For that matter, the Texans shouldn't be worried. But how do you see this thing playing out? I like to get to the crystal ball for you. I agree with you on Jacksonville. I like these conversations because we're in the trust tree,

so we can just both talk about the Jaguars behind their back whenever we get together like this. Look, I think it's, I understand from a standing standpoint, you're right. It's not a critical game for the Colts, but in a way it is. You know, they've lost two of three. They have a murderous finishing stretch here

where they have Houston twice, Jacksonville twice, a good San Francisco team, and then they have to go at Seattle. So all their layouts are done. There's no Raiders, there's no dolphins, there's no Titans game that's coming to save, the Colts, they're done with all of that. So they really have to protect their home fields and win a division home game

if they're going to want to hold on here. So I do think it's a big game for the Colts. And this is what I always do with this matchup. I lead towards the home team. Colts are unbeat at home. Their offense has been much, much better at home than on the road, albeit against some of those same teams I just talked about, Raiders, Dolphins, Titans, things like that.

But I do think the Colts find a way to get it done at home. But I'd be lying to you if I said that people in Indy, Matt, weren't, slutting around. right now. They are sweating big time, and they're sweating in Houston much more than they're sweating Jacksonville. That is for sure. Happy holidays, you, the family, and the dog, and we will talk again probably closer

to the final week of the season. I hope for both sides it means something, honestly, because those week 18 games that you bring in subs, you're like, nobody cares about this game, so hopefully it'll mean it'll mean something. Thank you for the time, friend, as always. Thanks, Matt. Take care. All right. Derek Schultz,

locked on Colt with us here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Take a short time out. We'll go back to the phones. We have gut feelings coming up with the bottom of the hour, and the gut feelings are this. You want to make a sports prediction, like Gary did earlier. Did you catch it? He called the show last week and predicted 23 to 19 Texans beat the bills. He literally got the score correct.

If you want to brag about your gut feelings, you know where to find us. Bottom of the hour, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Rossi may have held the curtain back? Does it matter what I say? I don't know. I almost took some nighttime medicine. Well, that would have been terrible.

Oh, yeah. Let's get you hopped up on caffeine and on night while. That sounds great. What is wrong with me? Jeez, happy Thanksgiving. How much time you got? It's only a four-hour show. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Thanks again to Derek Shultz. We used to have him on W. Andy. But now he's locked on Colts. how we feeling um i'm making no prediction by the way i've decided are you serious yeah because i always get him wrong why why would you want to hear from me anyway because i want to know your opinion and then especially when you get it wrong i want to crush you on monday well then okay that that's um that's part of your repertoire and i respect that so i will

all right i'll make a prediction tomorrow okay good what's today you have a prediction oh we're off to Oh, this is a short week. Tomorrow's our last day. Oh, what a beautiful time to be alive, and then it's Thanksgiving, and then I'm going to Austin, watch the Longhorn beat down the Aggies. By the way, I'm trying to get a UT guy on the show. I try to reach out to Fossey Whitaker, no response. Really?

Yeah. He's busy. Doing what? Your name is Fossey. You can't be that busy. Whoa, Foshwitt, Whitaker. Yeah, but he's an adult calling himself Fuzzy. So what's wrong with that?

I think it's awesome. It's a human being calling yourself. Pookie. That's okay, too. Name an adult Pookie. Pookie Wilson. Oh, really? What do they do? He was an NBA player. I'm sorry.

Pookey Wilson? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Not Major League baseball player. Pookie Wilson. That's Mookie. Not Pookie. Mookie Wilson. Come on, Ross. Pookie bets. Plays for the Dodgers. Pookie Blaylock. You done?

I think I'm out of mookies. Come on. Come on, that isn't an ordinary amount of nukees. You did well, I mean, you put that together. Yeah, so I sent a very nice message to Fazi on Sunday. Now, again, I did it through Twitter, so I don't know, you know. I'm trying to think of you, I'm looking to see in the last time you checked this Twitter account. You know, one day, I sent it to them once, you know, I'm not happy with this.

He's probably, you get flooded with, I got like a thousand people in my DMs from China telling me that I look beautiful and I need to respond to them. it's hard to check DMs on this stupid godforsaken site I miss stuff from people all the time then I sent out an email to Anwar Richardson Is that name ring a bell to you? Of course he was uh orange bloods right Yeah so I'm trying to get something I was gonna try to get a Aggie person

But I figured you'd be rude to that person No that's I wouldn't be rude Are you sure? Why? Because you're a Longhorn fan You're not supposed to be polite Of course you can be cordial I'd like to get somebody on tomorrow that wouldn't have a dog in the fight.

Who would be a college football person? Chris Gordy. We had Sam Kahn on before. No, Gordy doesn't care. He's locked on SEC. He's the perfect guest. He hates the Aggies and the Longhorns. That is true.

He's equally hating both of them. That's actually fair. So my attempt to get a preview of the game have gone unsuccessful. I'm kind of disappointed to myself, but I'm trying. Hook him horns You can get Vince Young on the show He'll be three hours late Don't I know that

He might have been late To the J-Barr and barbecue watch party Was there one this weekend? It was a couple weekends ago But he was late Zero surprise He was very nice He hung out

He took pictures with my brother And my mother as well Oh they went Yeah, I was there. Oh, you went? Mm-hmm. I've supported our sponsors, J-Barr and Barbecue. Shout out to them.

So you went and said, I'll have a two meat plate, and I want a picture with Vince. We crushed like a giant tray of barbecue. Hmm. It was good. I can't even remember what game where that was for. Was that the Mississippi State? No, it was the Kentucky game.

Oh, that was a nail biter, too. It was overtime nail biter. We like. All right. Let's, oh, we got, now, Gary took a shot at Ray. Now, Ray wants to respond. We have four on caller violence here. Oh, this is actually a great bit.

I love this. Ray, thank you for holding it. Good morning to you. What up? First of all, Gary, you're interrupting me. I'm trying to get off this dock and do jet skis in Biscayne Bay. I'm going to send you a tweet. I'm going to tweet you tonight, Madam.

or me on a jet skiing and biscuit. Okay. We can't have in-house fighting as Texans fans, Gary. You sound like you're 230 years old. Now, I know you're like an old vampire. We can't have in-house fighting. When you start buying my merchandise, when you start paying for any Texas gear I get,

then you will be able to tell me how to talk about the Texans. And I've been listening to Matt Thomas since 2011. It's a caller-driven show, and I really love it. You can't call in as a bully and try to bully me into saying good things about the team if I'm upset about them. You're an old man, Gary. You should understand what I'm saying.

And there's no need to try to call in because you can only call in once a day. So I'll hear you tomorrow. And I know you're listening. Let's end this right now. I don't like AM Radio Beef and all that. We're fellow Texans fans. We should just hold hands

and hope they make the playoffs and stop called stop sitting on hole calling in about me that's a waste of time Gary call in to have a hot take about a sports team not me

I'm about to hop on the jet skis see you later see you later you know what Ray you know what Ray you know what Ray you know what Ray what Ray

what that was some that was some ball of stuff I'm not going to lie I hope he sends you that picture. I want to see the picture of him. Not only is he calling out Gary. It's like, I'm about to go on my jet ski.

What are you going to be? What are you going to be doing? Gary. Call her on caller. Well, your band's that. That's what he told him. And he called him 250 years old, too, which would be the all-time record for most old, the oldest person in the world. I think so, yeah.

Can you get to 110? Is that a possibility? I'm assuming you can. Somebody's probably alive right now. there's a hundred to ten people yeah they're like a couple of them oldest person living right now is ethel catterham she's 116 and that's just the recorded ones zero surprise her name is ethel by the way hello i'm ethel catherine who was the last person born in america named ethel

i want to a girl well this woman is in the ukule I had an affair with Winston Churchill. I had a girl in high school named Ethel. See, there you go. Ethelian? Did you really? Yeah. I had Ethel. Also, it was another one.

It was really old. Is that short for Ethylene? Isn't that an additive you put in your car, Ethelene? Look at this guy. Are you sure you went to school with a girl named Ethel? I'm almost positive. Yeah. What do you mean you almost positive?

You did or you didn't? I'm pretty sure I did. I had her one class. but you're not 100% sure. I know it was old. It's either Ethel or it was like... Charlotte. Here's the question.

Is there a woman alive today at the age of 25 years old named Ethel? Yes. Is she embarrassed by it? She shouldn't be. It's not... Who cares? If you had a terrible name, you'd be upset about it. Why are you all fixated on people's names?

They didn't name themselves. Ethel's not bad. What's wrong with Ethel? You wouldn't be pleased with that. Ethel's fine. It's not a name. No, it's a sucky name. It's a sucky name.

Yeah, it's a sucky name. It's probably a family name. It's probably an honor of some wonderful loving grandmother of hers. Eh, move on. Grandma died 80 years ago. She's fine. You would not want to be called a variety of names. Like, uh, what did I say before?

Uh, would you want to be a Bertrand? No. Bertrand? Yeah. That sounds pretty sweet. It does not. Yeah. Yeah, what's up?

No. Call me buy some stately Bertrand, yes, I'll have the foie grow on the caviar. Would you want to be an Oliver? No. What's wrong with Oliver? Hey, my cousin's name's Oliver. Yeah, what's wrong with Oliver?

It's a bad name. This is coming from the guy called Matt. That's it. Yeah, Matt's great. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. I was in the Bible. That's very basic. You know what? Basic works.

I think it's some other names that you wouldn't want to be named. It doesn't matter. you're so weird Austin Austin Austin I wouldn't want to be

Bray Lynn Bray Lynn yeah it's pretty bad all right there you go that's our name conversation for the day if your

if your name is Ethel and you're under 60 call us and let us know who you are it's time for some gut feelings this is we make

our sports predictions did we write the ones down from last week Rossie of course we've only been doing it every week yeah but I feel like I forget something

you know we forgot to do last Thursday what The Rotten 5. Oh, man, that's a shame. What? You forgot, Matt? That is my fault.

Oh, man. Well, we won't get it in this week. Well, I have it on the schedule for tomorrow. Because you didn't do it last week. And Lord knows if I'm not there, you're not going to remember to do it. Hmm. We should do the Rotten 5 tomorrow. It's such a good set.

No, next week. I'm in vacation mode tomorrow. Same. It's already vacation mode of here. How is the office today? How is the sales? It's ghost town. I believe there was an incentive

a given in order to put in a lot of work in order to work from home and then incentive was met. So that's what I was told. Okay. Is Gordy in the office today? Ghost town. I haven't seen Gordy.

Brian Erickson there. You know the answer to all these questions. Wow. You're not here. All that matters is that way. We're putting in the work. If the Rockets were home, I'd be at the office with you today. That's true.

Thank you, Matt. I appreciate you working. Thank you. You're still in Phoenix? Yeah, we're leaving for San Francisco today in a couple of hours. Are you going to San Francisco? We're playing this long tomorrow, don't you know? We have to.

We play real good San Francisco songs. Actually, that one's kind of a jam. I'll give it to you. As far as the 60-year-old jams, you force us to play on this song that's not one of the worst one on this show that's one of the worst played is all um what is the george straight song about arizona ocean front property in arizona yeah oh i love that song oh yeah ocean front oh yeah i didn't ask you to sing it hey it's down we're gonna play it coming up in the next

i'd rather here sitting on the dock of the bay or i left my heart in san franciscoe we're gonna play them all tomorrow tomorrow is nothing but san francisco's song in the show oh yeah i like that and no rotten five which makes me sad but that's fine. That's good. You're one. All right. Let's, uh, gut, gut feelings.

You any gut feelings? Let us know. 713, 212, 5, 790. 7.13, 212.790. Listen up, girls and boys. They've been so appealing. Cause Russ and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a gut feeling.

This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. Here we go. Time for you to tell us what's going to happen in the world of sports. And if you get the predictions, right, like Gary gave you 2319. last week for the Texans over the bill. You can call back and brag on them. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90.

Before we make our predictions for this week, Ross is going to tell us how we did from one week ago. Yes, Matthew, one week ago, you had Lane Kiffin staying at Ole Miss. How are we feeling? Mid? It could happen. I think, you know, he's posting a lot of these, like,

these self-help inspirational quotes about like finding yourself and not wanting too much and more and meeting up where you're happy. If he's truly happy in Oxford and he's truly buying into whatever he's posting, maybe he will stay there or he could just be trolling like he often is. Now let me ask you this. I have been to Oxford, Mississippi one time. I've been to Baton Rouge 10 times. Does living in a city make that big of a difference to anybody in college football? yes because if it does Oxford's charming Baton Rouge

what's wrong with Baton Rouge it's fine it's like the Burger King of Louisiana wait you mean you'll go there but you won't you're like no one's going I can't out wait to get in a Baton Rouge I had a good time there

I do love the college atmosphere I do love college towns and boy that city does shut down when LSU plays it's got casinos too Does Oxford have casinos? I don't think so. It's been so long. I guess what it is...

Not that Link Kiff is worried about that, but... No, no. But, you know, it's in Mississippi, and Tunica can't be too far away from there, so... I would rather live in Baton Rouge. Okay. Food's got to be better. Yep.

The rap music's better. The rap music is better. You think you think Link Kippets go, man, all things create equal, where can I get the better... I think so. Bat Rouge Duh I mean Chimes

Chimes is a wonderful restaurant I am Team Chim's good Chim's really good You probably get unlimited Basing Rains Yeah But that place is overrated Chimes good

I'll even say Raising Cains Overrated What What's up That's blasphemy All right Then you also had the Texans

Losing by at least 7 points to the Buffalo Bills That's why I'm not making a prediction tomorrow. That's fine. I lose every time. All right. Whatever. And that's all I wrote down for you.

I had the Texans covering the five and a half. Good for you. And then of course, by Thursday I had them pulling the upset, which they did. And I had Kyle Tucker over seven and a half years. I think I just put that down. I don't know why. I was being rude. Just because you wanted to pour salt on my wounds.

You're right. It was a twist of the knife. That's unfortunate. Yeah. Jonathan Allen had the Rockets on a seven-game winning streak while they lost to the Denver Nuggets. He also had the Kansas City Chiefs losing to the Indianapolis cult. He was so close. You're a Chiefs hitter.

When I got to overtime, I turned it off. I said, okay. So close. Such a hater for the Chiefs. And that's the gut feelings from last week. All right. Okay, so gut feelings going around. I'm going to say by this time next week

Jake Myers is no longer an astro I hate to say that because that's your guy this time next week yep okay that's fine that makes sense it makes too much sense especially if they really believe in

Zach Cole and Jacob Melton which I don't know that they do I don't know and boy Cam Smith still getting that lot of that I mean if you need a glove can't hit much. Jacob Melton's a good option. So, I mean, he can replace Jake Myers there. And he's a lefty bat,

which is going to provide more value. Yeah. All right. I'm still going with Jake Myers. Not that I want him gone, because I like Jake. And by the way, you hate Jake. No, I love Jake. I am a, I am not a president of the fan club, but I am a, I'm a follower of it.

I've contributed to the GoFundMe account. Whatever. All right. I'm going with a double upset week, baby. The Houston Texans will go up to Indianapolis and win and beat the Colts. Wow. And your Texas Longhorns in their second biggest rivalry game will take on the undefeated Texas A&M Aggies

and despite their struggles against the run game and running quarterbacks that does have me a lot worried. Yes. They'll find a way and they'll pull off the upset at home in front of a hundred thousand plus. You know, some stadiums can't even

get 30. It's going to be 100,000 plus raucous Longhorn fans at DKR and they're going to pull the upset as well. Texas and Texans win. What's up? Aggies, you want to respond to that right now?

Your team has a chance to go for a perfect season. Go to the SEC championship game. By the way, do we know who's playing in the SEC championship game yet? No. Well, the Aggies right now. And then there's three one-lost teams? Is it Georgia? I can't keep track.

Georgia Ole Miss and somebody else. Yeah. And this is another question for Chris Gordy. Okay, here we go. Here are my guts. I'm going to keep my laying kiff in an Ole Miss. I think I'm going to lose that one, but I'm going to stay with it. Alabama.

Alabama with one loss, Ole Miss with one loss. Georgia Bulldogs have one loss. And after this week, Aggies with one loss. Alabama has two losses, no? Two conference losses. Oh, okay, okay. Cougars beat Baylor by at least 10 this week. Hashtag rebound game.

Hashtag undefeated on the road. Let's go. You know what? I'll make a text and prediction right. You're such a fraud. I love it. Go ahead. I don't even know if we're on the air at this point. 7.13-212-5-790.

Can you hear us? 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you're alive, you can call the show. Just give us an eye blink or like a bad phone could disconnect. Just let us know that we're on and you hear us. 713-212-1-2-5-7-90 I don't know All right

I'm gonna go I'm not ready I can't do this yet I'm not I'll have it by the end of the segment I promise Jonathan what do you got for your gut this week Wow

What a pump-fake I think Arch Manning's throwing two interceptions this weekend It's my first one. And then wins that game. Oh, my gosh. And then I want to settle. Come on, you can't let the cult win.

Hullabaloo connect. What does that even mean? I don't even know. It's like gibberish. And then I want to settle. This is my last time, my final time. Chiefs lose to the Cowboys on Thanksgiving. And I'm sticking off.

Beed the Cowboys. Right that down. I can't look. I'm bullshit. You know what? I'm not a Cowboys fan. Never been my life? Cowboys.

Please, it's your year. Oh, come on. You're such a Kansas City hater. What did Travis Kelsey ever do to you? It's a Chiefs by three is the line for those playing at home. What's what's what Brown ever do to you? You see how they play with the Colts? Do you see all this?

They're the most floppy, whiny team I've ever seen in my 23 years living. And I've watched a lot of a ball. Colts 26, Texans 24. now remember when i give you texas predictions they're typically wrong even when i predict them to win they're wrong okay i will uh i will give you a final score on the texans oh you know what i'm going to flip yours kind of 26 22 Texans okay you had a pregnant pause there though i know 22 is a weird number No, it's good, though, because we had 19 last week.

I didn't know. We had that anticipated. Jet. D'Amico Ryan's like to kick so many field goals. That's why I always pick weird numbers for the Texans, too. Yeah, that's true. But I about this one? Let's see here.

Something about the, oh, Jonathan Taylor does not rush for 100 yards. Ooh, that is a bold one. I kind of like that, though. But you still have the Colts winning and scoring. 26. Yes. Hmm. Yes. Okay. I think I think that

the passing game is going to be much more effective this week. Danny Jones. Yeah. I think Danny Jones has this leg is something to watch out for. All right. Yeah. Jonathan Taylor less than 100. I think the tight ends for the Colts one of them will reach the end zone

this week. Did I lock in Justin Verlander as an astro? I don't think I did in the last couple of weeks. Let me write that now. I have a gut. I'll keep it as a gut feeling for sure. Okay. You have, uh, did you say that before? He's an Astro. Yes. Yeah, he's already at the, uh, cool thing. I got Myers traded by next week. Um, Rockets, Warriors, I'm going to stay away from that because I just hate the Warriors more than life itself. And there's no Kevin Durant.

Mm-hmm. And I'm not going to predict the Cougars because last year, the Cougars did not do very well in this player's era tournament. Didn't mean anything, but they didn't, you know, They didn't do one yesterday, beating Syracuse, so I got that. Playing Rick Barnes and Tennessee volunteers tonight. I got a prediction for the Warriors game. Yes, sir. Dremont Green Flagrant Review at some point in the game. Is he going to play?

I thought he was hurt. Oh, is he hurt? Dang it. Well, man, still could happen. He could get away. He could be flaggated review during the game. You know, he's getting in a beef with Kenyon. and Martin on Twitter?

He's going to be with everybody. By the way, here are the SEC title game scenarios. Oh, Jesus. Here we go. AM wins, they're in, or Alabama and Ole Miss loss. Alabama is in with a win. Georgia gets in with an Alabama loss or an A&M loss. Ole Miss gets in with a win plus an A&M loss plus an Alabama.

Well, let's just see what happened. Let's just do this afterwards. Jesus. Well, you know, we are. official home of SEC football. Look at Gordy. I mean, Gordy is so into us. I love Gordy. He just sends this stuff like, we were talking about there's nobody at the office

today, and he had to come back and say, I was there yesterday. I was here Monday. That's fine. Gordy can do it. If there anybody at the office, I'm not worried about it's Chris Gordy. Clinton, on the other hand, I'm concerned about. Not Gordy. He's the executive producer of this show. He is. And can he get us a good Texas versus A.

am guests, since I'm 0 for two of my guests looking for us. Let's just get Gordion. I like him. I'm a little bigger. Wow. You just had locked on Colts. You can't get locked on SEC? What a hater.

Shout out to Trey, listening all show every day, benefit of retirement. Trey, thank you very much. Trey, you don't look old. How old are you, Trey? He's got black hair. Now, he could be dying as here. You never know these things, but that's good. We do.

We do well. We always checking up on everybody's appearance. Well, because I want to make sure we're We keep in demo. They're so weird. I'm not weird. By the way, no one's called yet with the name Mildred or Agnes. It's under the age 25 or Ethel.

Names are long gone. All right. Gut feelings coming up. Are you? You've had a cold for like two weeks. What's going on? I can take this cough. I almost took nighttime medicine,

which would have been terrible for the show, especially since I've been pounding coffee. Don't do that. All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. If you've got any gut feelings, hell, if you're out there, 7-13-2-1-2-5-7-90, it is the Matt Thomas show. E-Mey-A-Docke is going to join us a little over an hour from now here on Sports Talk 790.

All right, last call for gut feelings you got one. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-9-9-7-1-2-1-2-2-1-2-2-2-1-2-1-2. 5-7-9-0. Rockets off today. We'll be playing the hated Golden State Warriors tomorrow night in San Francisco. College basketball tonight has the Houston Cougars in action against the Tennessee Volunteers. Your beloved Longhorns, are they in the, are they playing Shamanade today in the secondary round of this big Maui invitational? No, I think they're playing University of Hawaii Kona. that could be a tricky matchup you never know these things

I don't know that was a good pull by the University of Hawaii Kona I don't even know who you all are playing are we carrying the game that I am sure I don't know what's happening so bad we are playing Shamanat I knew it

so bad they don't even have a record it says Texas 4 and 2 versus Shamanah no record they're just they're just floating around in space. The matchup predictor at ESPN

says you have a 99% chance of winning. I hope they pull it off. Oh my God, that is hysterical. Oh, Lordy. Why can't? Yeah, there's no page for Shamanaut. No, there's no record. They don't even really exist. So bad.

They're pulling the SFA. The silver swords. Maybe the Longhorns can go play that school on 59 near Richmond Rosenberg. area that'd be good man non-con oh yeah that one that sFA played what were they called the proctor school or whatever something like that goodness it's like the made-up school that quarterback that's going to uv h is from hey was that called the spring school of the whatever well it's it's our own version of the i mg academy how about that you school of science and

technology or whatever what was it called no it was something totally made up yeah what's that guy's Keeshawn Henderson or something. Henderson, yeah, number one quarterback in the country. So I'm presuming we're paying him and we're going to pay... Legacy the School of Sports Sciences. I would try to get my kids to go there and they wouldn't go. Yeah, sure. Their fax machine was broken.

Legacy the sport... Legacy the school of sport sciences. Yes. It's a highly acclaimed a college preparatory school. Because you have to have it because you need to go. You're going to a tier one school like the University of Houston. You've got to be ready to go. So there you have.

When did the school open? Don't do any, don't do a search on this. I don't want the end results of this. I'd rather just presume it's awesome. Wikipage doesn't say when it opened. Well, it's, it's a newbie. It's a, it's a thriver. on the custom of greatness.

What district has said? It opened in 2018. It's in district 36.3A or 5A, something like that. I'm complaining. You know, you mean to tell me that every one of the University of Texas alumni players are coming from

thoroughbred high school? I didn't say that. We weren't talking about Texas. Maybe everybody's education leads are different, Ross. By the way, I was in Ohio. last week, and they passed a bill, I think, or they were thinking about passing a bill for NIL's student, for high school players.

I thought that was already done deal, or is that in other states? Six states don't have it at this point. Ohio was one of them. Oh, my gosh. Well. Because we've seen how NIL has made everything awesome and Cush in college. I'd like it's my little bringing to the high school level. Hey, man.

The kids can get a little money. Good for them. Mm-hmm. man do we have it in texas by the way do we i think we do have it in texas correct if you get nil if you wanted to i believe so i went to a i went to a high school game recently and they were they were endorsing they were all telling what their favorite order from what a burger was so i think so that that would be the epitome of that yeah for sure i would do it for i would do it for i would go to a different school for free uber rides i'd go with the number two with uh cheese and grilled

halipinos. No tomatoes. Love tomatoes. See, the problem is fast food. I like tomatoes, but sometimes the fast food tomatoes are very bad and they just bogged down the sandwich with bad flavor and soggyness. That is true. I used to cut, when I was working at McDonald's, we just cut tomatoes at 5 o'clock

in the morning before the rest of the years open. Yeah, exactly. As I'm saying. Yeah, well, we'd put them in their fridge. Wouldn't them sit down there in the heat? Those McDLTs that make themselves, Ross. It's a great F. Tomatoes. And when I make burgers, at home, I use, I, I slice my own

tomatoes, man. All right. Let's get to the news at noon. You want to? Sure, I not. Please. Let's do that. This half hour has been a complete utter disaster. I think it's been great. I don't know. I think people are.

Was it light, now you hardly had to go anywhere. Was traffic, has traffic been pretty easy the last couple days or has been pretty hectic? I'm not the one to ask. I've got a four-minute commute. Today was pretty hectic. I'm not a lot. Yesterday it was pretty chill. Okay.

There's a lot of construction going on right now. So much. Does Houston ever finish their construction? Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go get another cup of coffee. Oh, my gosh. Make it 48 ounces. This is bad.

We're going to play some highlights. Ross, you will do the news at noon, and when you're done with the news or in the middle of the news of noon, when I'm back, I will tell you I'm back. Okay. Sure, why not? All right. Ladies and gentlemen, the Astros came together.

The Astros, the Rockets came together last night. You'll hear about it next. So we approach high noon on Sports Talk 790. Rockets win. Tonight here in Phoenix, it's your Rockets 114 and the Suns 92. Ross, I'm properly caffeinated. We're down the home stretch, halfway done on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross, I ran into some assistant coaches with a team downstairs getting that cup of coffee.

They're like, Matt, are you okay? I said, Matt, I'm doing great. Nothing wrong with me at all. Just get me a second 24 hours. Why are you shaking so much? And then I said, they said, I just went downstairs and the coaches said, hey, Matt, you're doing okay? I said, yeah, I'm having my second 24 hours. I got nothing wrong with me.

Did I just repeat myself? I'm sorry. Jeez, are you all right? I'm doing great. Are we on, is there some kind of issue? No, no, I was just teasing. Okay. You know what's time for, don't you?

No. Another cup of coffee? And the news, the dude. What do you got at Sports RV? Yes, Matthew, all the do's a dude. You just heard the highlights there. Your Houston Rockets, no Kevin Durant, no problem. 114 to 92 over the Phoenix Suns.

Defense holding the Suns to under 100, and it would have been even less. If Dylan Brooks weren't going off, he had 29 points on 11 of 22 shooting. But the Rockets were led by Amin Thompson, 28 points. How about eight assists and seven rebounds as well? Showing off the athleticism on the National Peacock Broadcast. Alpi Shingoon with a quiet 18, 5, and 5. But he was 8 to 14 from the field, so he had a pretty solid game as well. In A.A. Ron Holiday, big off the bench, 6 of 10 from the 3 point line.

Add it all up, Rockets get the victory. 11 and 4 on the season Matt. Now, of course, I know you're a standings watcher, guys, so let's go ahead and do this. Can I do it, please? Go ahead. Rockets right now would open up the playoffs as the four seat against the San Antonio Spurs. But the playoffs don't start today.

No, they don't start for approximately five months. Sounds ridiculous, isn't it? You are ridiculous, yes. You know what? I'm glad you said that. Don't say I sound ridiculous. I am obsessed with standings. I will never change. I look at the AFC playoff picture for the Texans at least six times a day, thinking things are going to change and they really don't.

The only thing that doesn't change either is the fantasy football. Congratulations, the Houston Toros, the nice win yesterday. Yeah, as I'm back in care of Cal's Roughwriters. Basically finished me off. I'm done, man. Four and eight now, no chance to make the playoffs, unfortunately. Yeah, I think there's no chance.

Yeah, here's a quick press conference from Cal's Rough Riders and team governor, Ross. Yeah, you know, it started with some bad decisions at the top of the draft. We took Saquan Barclay over Jemir Gibbs, and that was the death blow. He went off for 50 points at Guinness against a strangely poetic there. Obviously didn't help that Malik neighbors went down, had some other injuries as well throughout the season. Brock Purdy didn't play the entire year. not like he's been good when he has been playing so got to go back to the drawing board

we've had some issues at the top of the draft and we're looking forward to resetting for next year and getting better we are not going to win a championship for a four straight year but we're still proud of what we've accomplished in this league and if we don't get our NIL money up we're going to get losing our job really quickly

you know it's not realistic to think I was going to win four straight championships you know God if it was I was really going to retire but now I've got the juices flown again the total are back. We thought we'd let somebody else win this year. But whatever.

All right, anyways, let's keep with the NBA real quick, actually. Oklahoma City Thunder, best in basketball, in net rating, by the way. The Rockets number two. How about the Detroit Pistons 13 straight wins tying a franchise record? The other teams in their history of won 13 straight games have all won the NBA championship. That would be the 1990 and 2004. Detroit Pistons, Matt, they were horrible last year. They are now 15 and 2.

Are we putting the contender status on the Detroit Pistons, or is it still too early? No, we are. It's going to come down to, I think, three teams. Detroit, Milwaukee, and who else in the east? I'm trying to think. I'm looking at the standings.

The bucks have lost five in a row. They're eight and ten. The Raptors have been good. They've won eight in a row. the heat of won five in a row. They just got Tyler Hero back. Who? Donovan McNabb doesn't win big playoff series.

I'm not buying a movie. He got to the Super Bowl with Terrell Owens on a broken leg. What did I say? Donovan Mitchell. McNabb. Geez. I'm not buying it on Toronto. I'm not buying it on Miami.

New York, I think it's good. Atlanta's mid. Philadelphia's been a surprise. Sir, what are we doing here? We break it down Eastern Conference basketball. What is wrong with us, Rossi? I think the three. best teams in basketball to the thunder nuggets and rockets, but the Pistons are starting

to enter that conversation. Yep, that's good. All right, moving along here, and all the news at noon here on Sports Talk 790. How about some baseball news? The Red Sox acquiring former Sy Young finalist, Sunny Gray from the St. Louis Cardinals, according to Jeff Passon of ESPN. Sonny Gray, 36 years old. Also, the Cardinals sending $20 million to cover

Sunny Gray's salary, which will pay him $35 million this year. Remember when the Astros were looking to go for Sunny Gray? And the price tag was way too uncomfortable for the local nine. Yes, it was. But Red Sox is getting better in the arms race in the American League. Boston Red Sox Receives Sunny Gray and Cash Cardinals getting

prospects or getting Brandon Clark and Richard Fitz I don't think either of those I think at least Clark is a major week right? I don't know about Fitz And that was the news at noon By the way shout out to the Cougars Minos Auxan, Emmanuel Sharp

with 26 points apiece last night Cougars beat Syracuse in overtime 78 to 74 And oh actually one more quick note in the news of noon, Matt. Please. Rick Fox is running for a legislative seat in the Bahamas. Of all places you could run for office,

Bahamas has to be on the short list, right? I've never been, so I can't speak to it, but I don't think people go, God, that's horrible. Yes, but his candidacy is coming as the area is struggling with a high-profile corruption case and an influx of of people entering the country illegally

an ongoing recovery from Hurricane Dorian, the Category 5 storm that hit in September of 2019. I gotta be honest, Rick Fox is one of those guys that women stop in their tracks that look at him. It's disgusting, actually. What happened to his e-sports? He had Fox e-sports or something like that.

Did that fold? Most of those esports have gone away. Yeah, Echo Fox. No, they're still thriving. They're not thriving. Not to thrive. Just because you're not paying attention to something.

But you're not thriving. It's not thriving. Somebody once told me it was going to be as popular as NASCAR. I'm like, I don't think so. Well, they're wrong about that. It's too fractured.

There's too many games. But, I mean, there's a lot of popular e-sports entities that are doing well. Still has a chance to get that, but still getting millions of followers. No, it's not going to happen.

There's too many games. There's Rocket League, and there's Dota, and then there's League of Legends is the biggest one, right? Yes. And there's Apex Legends, call of duty.

It's just too many different. things. Too many different genres. I told you that one time I was in Vegas and there were about 3,000 people on the floor at MGM Casino and I'm like, what is going on? Is there somebody celebrity? No, there are a bunch of people watching people play video games. I'm like, you know what, you got to get a life. Yeah, there's still people doing that. It was also 10 years ago, too. It's people who are the best in the world at a game you can play, like the NBA. It's people who are the best in the world that again, you can go out in

the hoop and shoot a hoop. It's professional madden's well. It's okay. You can get some shots up, but nobody's going to watch you. You can play video games at home, but nobody's going to watch you if you're not even good. Yeah. Ryan Holland's a huge Madden 2K watcher. I'll see. There you go. We'll be at a nice five-star diamond restaurant eating steak and potatoes and having a nice glass of your favorite Vino,

and all of a sudden, boom, he's got a Madden game on his phone. I think LeBron's like top in the world in Madden. Is that true? Yeah, he's like, I don't know last season, he was like ranked 15 or something. What? Did you see who, speaking of a video game, did you see who a man Thompson was going to choose in the first pick of his NBA 2K draft? Wait, is this true?

LeBron James was a top 100 player in Madden, 25 on rank? That is actually insane. There are millions and millions of players. In Madden, 2004, I was super proud of myself. Like, I still brag about this to this day. I crack the top 10,000. And I was like, man, I'm a bad man. I cracked the top.

He's top 100. Is this true? That's insane. Matt, we need to get you on a game. We need to put a controller in your hand. Millions and millions of people play this game. If you are top 100, that's crazy. You know what?

I'm a top 100 player in pole position. There's no way. Impact, man. No way Oh, okay Yo, hell yeah, I am Miss Pac-Man especially I got to get to my mom

That was the reaction times I've probably eroded over the years You don't know Not what the coffee you got on right now Yeah, it's true You don't know at all I'm a great pole position driver A great Pac-Man player

This is actually mind-boggling I'm blown away right now A huge Frogger player But I could play if I needed to And I'm exceptional in the game called Pong Hashtag quick reaction time. How much does he play?

You're obsessed with this LeBron James. I didn't know you. No, this is actually, I know you don't care Matt, but Jonathan knows, is it crazy? Yeah, I thought you knew that. I was a big, I think it was last year. He hit that. So basically anything LeBron James does in terms of skill and or athleticism, he's really good at.

That's pretty crazy. Yeah, you got to be your own head coach when you play the game like that. Change defenses and all that stuff. wow you know what another radio show on the marketplace talking about lebrine james being a top hunter except this one god love us uh all right that's that's the elongated edition of the thank you no by way you answer my question who did a man thompson choose for his number one player on the NBA 2k uh to be or to play to play to on his team a Kevin Durant wimby that's smart

adam clinton did not like that lost the family he's hurt with a calf injury so yeah and you know attendance is part of the grade 1218 of the matthomas show at ross 713 212 5790 email doca is going to join us in 40 minutes we've got an mMA fighter coming up at 130 houston kid we'll get to that as well and nfl ross's NFL rewind at 120 today

what is the most intriguing thing that happened over the week NFL Slate will not the week W-E-E-E-K weak NFL Slate 7-13-212-5-7-9 if you want to chime in 7-1-3-212-5-7-9 a little bit of sad news not sad but like oh

are we really going to do this news the college football playoff committee has pushed their deadline back to December the first to determine whether or not they should expand to 16 teams they're still arguing, Ross, about how many automatic spots per conference and who gets them and how that's determined. Just keep it at 12. It's not going to happen.

Keep it at 12, Ross. Just keep it at 12. The disease of more. Like, I want to have a conversation about this right now. Is there something in sports that we have too much of now? that has hurt the sport. That's kind of an open-ended question. So I'm just rattle your head about this.

Over-exposure? Hmm. Now, not necessarily television. Because look, but I'm saying, is there something we have too much of that it was better back in the day? You could say a 17th regular season game, although that's more athletes.

I don't think fans particularly care. In fact, it gives you another week to gamble and play fantasy football. So that's not one of those things I would. news is there something we have seen more of in sports that frankly was better the way it used to be now you don't normally get a lot of that because let's use the NFL schedule as an example you know in the 70s they would play 14 regular season games in six exhibition games and that was a disaster they bumped to 16 dropped the depreciation to four in baseball there was

a generation of people that watched 154 that got to 162 in my entire life If the NBA has always played 82, so I don't know anything less than that. That's too many, though. The NCAA tournament used to be 48 teams. They added to 64, and they went to 68. There's going to be a talk of them eventually going to 96, you would think. That's too much. But that hasn't happened yet.

I mean, is there something currently right now? I'll give you a great example. This one I thought of right as little as I'm talking this out. There are too many bowl games. Too many bowl games. in our lifetime there's too many boxing

sanctioning bodies and belts yep I go with that and maybe too many weight classes yeah because really

what are the weight class separated by four to five pounds now it feels like depends yeah the lower you go the higher you go then it's

after middle weight's 160 then light heavy's but then they added a new weight class they called it Bridger weight Have you ever heard of Bridgerweight?

I don't even know what that is. It's between heavyweight and cruiser weight, I think. Yeah. Because so Cruise heavyweight, you know, back in the day, they didn't have so much access to food. So if you're over 200 pounds, you're a heavyweight. Right. These days, the Bridgerweight, they did 200 and 224.

Is there still super heavyweight? No, they're super heavyweight in the UFC. I don't know how much they fight that. I think it's over 265. There's a heavyweight limit in UFC. I think it's 265. Okay. And in boxing, there's no limit.

So you'd have any, if you're 201 pounds, you're a heavy weight, but also if you're 260 pounds, you're a heavy weight, which is just ridiculous. So they've created Bridger weight. So we have too many weight classes. We have too many bowl games. Like when I was a kid, and you need to hit me every time I say this. That's okay. I mean to do that.

Mac and my day. But there were like 12 bowls. and if your team got to a bowl, it was a big freaking deal. Now, every college team that plays Division I football, all they do is race to get to six wins because they know they're going to play in a bowl game. And 90% of the bowls, no one gives two craps about.

In fact, they lose money for their respective leagues and individual teams. And it's even worse for the playoff now. Because think about it, and I don't know what the minimum payoff is, but it used to be $750,000. Used to be each of the, and maybe I'm guessing it's probably bumped up in recent years. But you'd go, let's say you're Eastern Michigan, and you're going to play in the New Orleans Bowl against, I don't know, Louisiana Tech. If you're Eastern Michigan and you go to this bowl game, you get $750,000. You have to buy a certain number of tickets that's required, and if you don't sell your

tickets, you owe the bowl back. Then you have to pay for your expenses, and then you've got to split it up with the rest of the teams in your conference that part of that 750. Now, if you're in a mega SEC conference or Big 12 or Big 10 or ACC, you're not sweating this, but if you're a Mac team

and you've got three teams going to a bowl game that are only making $750,000, $800,000, and you've got to spend money, and you know that Eastern Michigan's not going to travel 7,000 people to New Orleans on a Tuesday or a mid-week bowl, game in Mobile, Alabama, those are losses.

Now, again, you can also sell it as, hey, we went to a ball game, we put an extra game, and the kids enjoy the experience, and whatnot, but it just, it dilutes it. And it's almost like every year when the bowl schedule comes out, there's always that list of five bowl games you have to absolutely watch, and then there's a list of 20 bowl games you could, you can stay far away from. Too many bowl games. But again, how do you go tell a kid that, Toledo that went 7 and 5 this year.

You can't go to a bowl game. A lot of them, they're opting out and hitting the portal anyways. That's right. Like, I'm going to assume that when the Cougars play, whatever bowl game there, and there could be probably a half dozen players

that don't play because they want to make sure they protect their draft status. I'm looking at current bowl payout. Is this true? Bahamas bowl's only get 225 Gs? That's, I thought the minimum payout was $750. I thought it would be more, yeah. When you said that, that sounded right. Hmm.

You know, our Birmingham Bowl, 1.3 mil. That's not terrible. You look at that. What's it? Where's the old Texas Bowl? 6.4 million for Texas Bowl. Hey, let's go, you have a man. Let's go, big 12.

What's the Alamo Bowl payout? Just asking for a friend. 8.2 mil. Ooh. Valero is pointing up the cash. Our gas prices are going to go up, but you know what? You got a bowl game. Oh, it used to be the Builders Square Alamo Bowl.

Ross, you have to go with me to San Antonio for the Cougars play there. That is your bowl game. I show you, yeah, show you the ropes. If there's anybody that knows that stadium as well as you, it knows that bowl, it's you in that stadium. You've been there more recently than I have. Don't bring that up. I forget what game it was for. I do, too.

1232 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ime Adoka in one half hour. You may join us at 713-212-5-790. If you missed the Creighton-Baylor call from yesterday, the radio call of a very controversial play is worthy of a listen again. You'll hear it next. 1233 on Sports Talk 790.

Ross, I have to protect the innocent. Two different e-mailers of the show. The category was, We were bringing up as what is too much compared to what there was yesterday year. Two different people said there were too many WMBA games. If you're paying attention to zero,

does it matter how many there are? Too many streaming services. But you're asking about sports. Yeah. Oversaturated sports. It's too many NBA regular season. games but I mean that's just the way it's always been I guess I highly object to that I'm going to just be brutally honest with you yeah but that's because you're being selfish

you mean I'd be selfish about something like that oh sorry did I say that out loud I think we heard you belly laugh and cackle at the same time I'm supposed to be internal monologue now if you love betting on sports the bowl games are right up your battle you usually got something every single night yeah that's true but i mean come on if you're betting on like the toledo rockets versus north texas or something don't sleep on north texas they could sneak into the uh cfp by the way that's stupid whatever any team not in the top 12 should not make the not toe and i'm not saying that because texas is close i've been saying this for years i've been consistent

have you talk with your your longhorn friends if you beat a and m can you get in or is it too much? There are longhorn people who are arguing they should be in. I am not one of those people. I say let the chips fall where they may. If you lose to automatic bids, that's tough, but it is what it is. Don't lose

to Florida. And at least, I think if they had showed better against Georgia, their ranking would be better. It was 35 to 10. I mean, you got your ass whooped. I think the Florida loss was bad. I think that Georgia ass kicking may have been worse.

yeah i don't know it's all subjective but every time i look at somebody on these projections things i always see first four out and i see university texas and every single one of them that's okay i'm just curious if there is a scenario that if a bunch of teams in front lose could you really sneak in as maybe that number 10 they might you know that that texas brand i'm not saying it should matt carries a little sway though with the pollsters oh you think weeks ago? He's like, oh, yeah, I'm watching to you text to get their ass kick. By the way, they beat A&M, maybe they got a shot. You never know.

You never know. And also, I mean, if it's, it could depend on how the game goes, too. I don't think, I don't think Texas is like a blow it out A&M or anything. I think it's to be a close game. I did call for the upset, but it's like a two and a half point spread. All right. If we don't get anybody better, we're going to have Gordy on tomorrow.

We're looking for an upgrade, but we'll take Gordy. That's so rude. That I said out loud? That was internal. What's wrong with better? He knows both teams. He's good on air. Yeah.

I wonder if he's going to the game. He probably put in for a credential. I wonder if he got accepted. I think he's been having issues with the Texas PR folks over the years. Because they're Bush League. Yeah, they can be snooty. I'm with you. John Bianco, you're snooty.

I called you by direct name. Hope you enjoyed that. Dang. Get them, Maddie. Get them. I'm sorry. First of all, Every PR team is a little holier than now,

but certain, some more than others in Texas. Oh, you and Texas are the two worst. Really? And A&M, you're not much better, saying you can't talk to Mike Elkoe, ask him a question about whether or not you've got a contract extension. You can't tell people what you can't ask. By the way, speaking of that, I need a quick ruling on this.

And we'll go to, is it Dolce? Is that who that is on line two there? I can't remember. I know that. Doiss? What is that? I don't know. That's a question for Jonathan.

So yesterday, I don't, this is how it was going on. Oh, he's already saved? Yeah. Okay. Quick ruling, Ross, we're at the availability yesterday, and Kevin Durant is out with personal reasons for tonight's, yesterday's game and Wednesday's game. E. Madoka was asked by this crotchety old Phoenix reporter.

Can you explain why Kevin Durant is not playing? And he said, personal reasons. The guy said, well, that's going to lead to a lot of speculation. and took point one off the clock for him in to say well people can speculate all they want to and it's none of your business it was a very awkward frankly inappropriate moment it's not like he's going to be gone for a month the rockets have already said it's going to be last night and tomorrow he's expected to be back with the team sunding in utah against the jazz if personal reasons or personal reasons it is what it is

I mean, we don't have to tell the whole world everything. There isn't enough people around this world that are dying to know what Kevin Durant's personal issues are, if there's anything. Could be good, it could be bad. I don't even know what they are. I don't really particularly care. Yeah, I mean, I would be curious, but if it doesn't want to be disclosed, and that's, I think the first question from the reporter is fine. Hey, do you want to shed any more light on what's happening with Kevin Durant? And then you say no, and you move on with your life.

I'm saying it's, oh, you're leaving it open for people to speculate. Speculate what? So what? Who cares? That's right. I was, I... You think he's ducking the Phoenix Suns? I would imagine he wants nothing more than any other game on the 82 games schedule to play against the Phoenix Suns.

And Golden State? Yes, seriously. Yeah, I mean, I get if it's Charlotte and Washington. He is a competitor of the highest order. I just thought it was... Now, if he misses 10 games or something in a row, then that's fair. But the Rockets got out in front of whatever the... situation is and said it's two games we'll see him sunday in salt lake city and we're moving on

you just say i hope everything's okay with kevin durent and his family and let's move on with our lives i mean what was he supposed to say you know he got a really great fare to turks and kekos want to get there early maybe i just thought it was i was like 75 years old he had one of those old school hats it looked like he hadn't shaved he looked like he had to wash his hair in a month probably an all-NBA voter it was kind of just kind of a douchy move I thought and again I wish all of us in life didn't have personal stuff I wish we could do our jobs every single day

and not have anything that would interfere with any of those things and whatever he's going with or whatever he's going through or whatever it is they were out in front they could have just said oh he's not feeling well but there's something going on and let him be 1243 it's a matt thomas show with ross 713-212-5-790. Emei-Doka to join us in about 15 minutes.

We'll go to Vince and the Dolce next on 790. Eme-Doka coming up at the top of the hour. A little MMA conversation at 130. In between that, Ross's NFL Rewind at 120. To the phones we go, Vince is with us on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Vince, thank you for holding him. Good afternoon to you. Hey, good afternoon, guys.

First of all, Ross, I saw your... Chili on the Instagram, man, that looks good, dude. Thank you, Vince. Anyway, it was good. I can turn on the, on the too many bowl games, and it brought me to something I saw recently where I don't know what it was, but basically some one of these football teams had won a bowl game, no-name bowl game, and it said,

such and such bowl game champions, you know, champions. I said, how can you be a champion, a six-and-six team, against another six and six team and claim yourself to be a champion of anything. So, just something I thought about. I don't get. That is not abnormal. Unfortunately, Vince, when you win a game,

they just say, they don't say you're the winner of. They call you the champion, so. It is, it's just a way to put it on. It's not a championship, but they call them champions. Yeah. I see it all the time. I'm with Vince, though. It feels a little participation trophy-ish. Exactly.

That's what 80% of the bowls are. are, wouldn't you agree? Yeah, I mean, we're the Popeyes Bahama Bowl champions. I mean, okay. Gotcha. Well, thanks for taking my call, guys. Thank you. Appreciate it. Let's go next to, uh, is it Dulce? Are we get it right, Dulce? No, it's Doise. Joyce. It's okay. Chew it up, spit it out, stomp on it all you want, but just don't forget to call me when the chili's done.

is doyce your last name or your first name first name doce but hey dois it's hippieish clearly it's okay the reason I call it is because you guys were talking about changes in sports and what's ruined sports a little bit is there's two things that's been on my mind for years now all the changes in NASCAR ruin NASCAR

NASCAR was the fastest-growing sport there for a while. But the other thing that's really, really run sports is I think this portal thing is going to run something because it takes away from the commitment of playing for a team for four years. Well, you know what? I'm going to tell you this, Deuce. I was of the belief of that 100 times over until the last handful of years when coaches would leave on a dime to go somewhere else.

I wish I could fall in line with what you're saying But I got coaches bumping from team to team to team As soon as they get one great offer So if the coaches are doing it Why can't the players do it? I can see that other side of the sword too Yeah It's not great

I'm not excited about it I'm not excited about defending that side of it I do believe I kind of like the rule where you had to skip a year But man It's not constitutional They keep losing lawsuits If I can transfer from a University of Texas and then I can go to University of Houston because I want to be closer to home, I don't need to sit out of school for a year. I mean, you're supposed to be a student athlete and going to the school.

I'm going to have to sit down for you just because you play athletics. Yeah, small example, doise. I've got some friends of mine. I went to North Texas my freshman year in this kid. Coach there is Eric Morris. And he is a really successful coach in North Texas. They love him. They're trying to figure out ways to keep him.

Eric Morris is going to have a new job in the next year. He's just not going to be at North Texas That's not the plan for him He's going to have a chance to make five times what he's making right now He's going to leave So if he gets to leave, why can't the kids? And that's my philosophy on that I understand that side disorder

But at the same time, I don't like this bouncing around From one team to another And it's what are we going to do For a Texas fan, what happens when we lose our quarterback To the portal now? yeah he's not portaling he's got the right to go he does he's got the right to go uh doyce all i know is there's only one place he'd like to go and that's the university of houston we don't need it why do you do this why do you set yourself up for these delusions

thank you doyce how why does that even come out of your mouth like what i i just i just don't get it we don't need it i told you we got dachan henderson coming we got connor wickman's already there It's an absurd statement for a team that just lost to TCU. Bad calls. How many points were scored by the star quarterback there? Not enough. 14? Did they score 14 points that whole game?

Like, I'm just curious why that comes out of your mouth. So weird. I'm a delusional Cougar fan. I don't live with it. That's fine. Delusional Cougar fan. Just play Kate to me. Just let me have my time.

I don't even know how to handle this. Like, do I just let this? fly by? Correct. That's what you do. Well, every time I'm on location or meet up people, they say keep giving Matt Guff, so I don't know. Uh-uh.

Well, Cooter fans don't stop giving me so much guff. Well, I don't care about those idiots. And that cesspool of a website, you sad sack human beings. Yeah. No. Joyce, I'm sorry. If you fall on your sword for every sports take,

you're not going to win. You have to adapt with a change with the time. and the reality is you've got a bunch of coaches I could say what I mean I don't even know who the Vanderbilt coaches but I'm presuming that he's going to be offered a new deal somewhere you know Eric Morris is the kid I'm a coach talking about it north Texas but anybody's decent I mean what is it old Dominion's got a good program this year whoever that dude is he's not going to stay there long term yeah and a player who wants to find the best opportunity for them they should be afforded that as well so I'm glad that they can do that

But, you know, I will say this, though, and to wrap this up, is that we need to stop thinking about this as a place where these kids are going to go to school. I mean, they're just, they're just, it's a minor league system. And it is a little embarrassing that you would have a college football player or athlete of any sport that's at three schools and three years. I don't think that's the, that wasn't the spirit of the rule, but, you know, it's happening with coaches. H-town Lilo says, the portal is trash.

It's the coach's occupation. if he wants to leave the school, allow us him to leave and let him. The athletes are students, they're not employees. Well, they are now with getting cash. Can I say something about me? Yeah, get them! I was going to, I teed that up for whoever wanted to take it.

And I'm not going to, I'm not going to be so critical, but people with the outside perspective of saying the coaches and athletic directors can leave what they want, but students are essentially locked into school as almost like, indentured servants or slaves when we're the one curating the product and getting the money it doesn't make sense why you can't

go look for a better job if you're not getting treated right it's it's the same it's the same thing if you if coaches want to stay there and give me a good and give me a good time and you know respect me and then he leaves maybe I want to go with him too

that was the coach that brought me in that's one I've already had this yeah I've had this conversation with my daughter my daughter is going to the University of Rhode Island next year to play college volleyball because she loves the coaches. If those coaches get fired or leave, that's going to impact her decision. Now, she may want to stay at Rhode Island, and that's great. But if she wants to move, I can't begrudge her that. You go for the players, you go for the coaches, you go for the facility, you go for, I wish I could

say it's the education. But to the education point, and I really want to hone on to this, there's been so many athletes that I met that were at a group of five or even a very, very small. D1 that ran the times that did perform and it got to a better institution with a better education for that degree so they can move on when they get out of college. It's just another way to upgrade yourself because maybe you didn't get the grades in college. Maybe you didn't you get in high school. Maybe you didn't get everything you wanted to do.

You were late Bloomer in high school. You have a chance with the transfer portal to spread your wings out. You know what I mean? Yep. Yeah. And by the way, they're not in, they're getting paid now. I mean, the schools that are agreeing to this allowing of the athlete compensation, the schools can directly pay the kids now.

Let's not hide that. So they are going to, I don't know, I don't know if it's tax-free or not. I don't know. I think it's not. I think it's income, yeah. So they're employees now. Everything that we grew up thinking about the amateur status and what a student athlete is, is no longer in play.

It's just not. and it may not be what you grew up watching, you may not like the trend of it is, but I'm going to tell you right now there are going to be 20 football games this weekend that are going to mean a whole lot to a lot of football teams around this country, and they're going to have 85, 90,000 seats stadiums full

every single time around. Michael and Roger Hank tight will get to you. We got E.May Addoker to join the final hour, the Matt Thomas show with Ross. It's 1258 here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show. With Ross. 102 Sports Talk 7-9.

Let's spend 10 minutes with the head basketball coach of your Houston Rockets knocking off the suns here in Phoenix last night. He made doka with us on the show. Coach, thanks for the time. Let's do this. Let's evaluate Dylan Brooks smack to you during the game. You chuckled one time. Can you tell us what was said or is it for non-radio show purposes?

No, that was all me. It was me messing with Dylan. just talking a little bit nothing real and I was going to laugh it basically what I said he might have thought I was serious but we got a lot of love and respect for each other and just giving them a little bit

for the Stephen flopped you know what he said y'all were flopping yesterday I don't believe it for a second y'all pull and tug it's what the NBA lifestyle is all about I'm all for congratulations on the win last night you had to go with a different lineup

a thought or two about Aaron Holiday man every time you call his number for extended minutes, he's come through for you. No, I've said it non-stop, that he's a constant pro, a guy that always stays ready, and it works extremely hard, and no matter when it's been in these last years, whenever called upon, to your point, he's always ready, plays multiple roles, multiple positions, and does a little bit of everything as far as defending, scoring, initiating offense, and so he's been great for us.

Last night, you didn't start the jumble on it, but you went to it a little bit, during the second half. As you watch this and the season progresses, do you find yourself kind of curious to throw the jumble line up in there to see what it does when you don't normally think you put it into play during the course of the game? And how much of it is feeling?

How much of it is, hey, let's try something different? I think it's something that works really well for us consistently. And so we're going to go to that pretty much every game. There's some non-conventional luncheon that you think we would not use it against, but, you know, we can go to our zone there and then teams are going to either kind of upsize to match our physicality or downsize to create mismatches.

But if we do what we do on the offensive end, take care of the ball and then play a good zone with communication and activity, we can kind of combat any line of that's out there. You have had to go a little bit deeper into the rotation with the injuries popping up. What did you see from J.D. Davison with his 18 minutes, things you liked

and things that you would like to see improve. Yeah, I mean, it fit in very well. He's another guy that we're very confident in. And obviously, numbers crunch and minutes at crunch at certain positions. So with Aaron not being able to get minutes every night, and we're fully healthy, it's obviously J.D.'s behind him as far as that. So a guy that's had a really good preseason dominant in the G League, and we see that carrying over into the games.

And so he kind of hit the ground running, you know, handles the playing guard very well, can guard up or guard down. I think he's just fit in well with the other guys and so having him out there with Reed or Aaron was great and no guy that can handle and like I said he got to bigger guys and so I had a very impressive night.

Rocket's head coach, Ema Adoka was here on Sports Talk 790. A bit of a quiet night for Reed Shepard offensively but just from my untrained I looked defensively like he was holding his own teams look for him. What are your conversations with him as far as the defensive side of the ball

where you know that there are teams that are going to try to exploit his defense. He's going to have to be ready for that. I know you've run some zone with him as well. And what have you seen from him on that end of the floor? Well, first of all, you know, we want him to take the challenge. And I think he's done that and improved his physicality

during the ball this year. And so in general, I think, you know, it doesn't matter with him or Aaron or somebody else that's more season than even stronger. There's going to be some size advantages and disadvantages regardless. And we can scheme up things to, you know, getting heads and certain things that we did against Booker last night. but, you know, he's taking on a challenge this year,

and it's a night and day from last year, more confident, more physical, more aggressive, and then understanding assignments, and so he's great there. But even with that offensively, you know, he just missed shots and that he normally makes him. So, you know, we don't equate a bad night just to missing shots. He still ran the pick and roll very well, made a ton of great passes and got us into what we needed to.

EMA, is that a men-Thompson Eurostep mid-range, becoming one of the most difficult shots for opponents to stop right now in the NBA? Yeah, I mean, teams want to give up to him because of his pace and athleticism. And, you know, he has a change of pace there and can stop on the dime and make that awkward shot. So it's, you know, you keep giving up ground and he keeps eating up the space and elevates him. He's so high over the ram or whatever. And so, yeah, he's very unique player in the things he does, things you can't teach. But he's more confident in the jumper, knocking down the mid-lanes.

They're going to step up a little bit and you can get to that much easier now. I know the three-point shot is something he's still trying to work on. And it feels like he's been a little more selective, especially since earlier this season. Was that something that is just knowing where he is on the floor? Is it something you've talked to him about? I don't think you need him necessarily to shoot five or six a game. But if that becomes something where he can knock down one or two for you every single night, it will certainly open up your spacing on the offensive side.

Yeah, we want him to be aggressive, but also understand that take the shot that you want, not the shot that the opponent wants you to take. And so just because they're, you know, shifting off and trying to beat you into certain shots, you can still flash back door like he does very well, still attack the close-out. Like I said, eating up that space and be confident when the shot presents itself. And so he's been much better in the corners, and we encourage him to take those above the break. We wanted to move and get to his spots a little bit to the corner or the dunker spot a little bit more to, you know, move the defense around, but when it's

presented, take the shot confidently, but also don't fail teams out by taking it when you want it and attack when they close out short. Last year, obviously, it was a knockdown, drag-out seven-game series with Golden State. They're going through some injury concerns just like you are right now. What have you seen on tape and early thought about playing the

Warriors tomorrow and I? Yeah, I mean, they've had some ups and downs due to those injuries. Guys in the lineup like a lot of league right now, but But still, you know, decent record with the injuries and the set-by-fit they've had. And so always a challenge. You know, they've got a guy over there that makes that possible with Curry and playing the way he is. And, you know, I obviously add Butler to the mix as well.

So we'll prepare for them if they're going to be whole. And regardless, we hold ourselves to the same standard regardless of them for us as you saw last night. And so no different on our end. So I'm going there for a hard-fought game and, you know, going to this Thanksgiving break with the win. you talked about wanting the guys to obviously with the ball movement being very important and and playing for each other and i think probably the best passing team or one of the best passing teams i can remember would be that 2014 spurs team that you were an assistant on do you ever talk about those teams or or show tape of those teams and bring it to your team about just when it comes to everybody passing and being unselfish yeah i mean we always and i may not have to specifically about that team, but we're always harping on making the right play, making the simple play and, you know, good to great for the next

guy. And so the more we can do that, especially with the double teams that Kevin and Alpy draw, I think it's difficult to guard and the randomness as far as that. And so there are a sense we want to get into, but there's also going to be those situations where you just, and drive and kick mode. And when we get to that, I think we've been really good because we've got multiple guys

that can do it. EMA, thank you for the visit, as always. Don't leave without me in a few minutes, and we'll look forward tomorrow night's game against the Warriors and go up in San Francisco. Thanks for the time, as always. I appreciate you guys. I will see.

You may adoka with us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Rockets in Warriors tomorrow night from San Francisco. NFL Rewan coming up in a little bit, but I do want to get a couple of calls in before we do that. Michael with us at 110 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Michael, thank you for holding it. Good afternoon to you. Hey, man.

What's going on, man? How are you? Amazing. Thank you for asking. Hey, man. Good luck with the rockets tonight, man. Safe travels. say a couple things man i got a gut feeling for the texans man texans win the division this year

just in my gut something tells me that a couple teams ahead of us are going to fall a little bit short man second off i just wanted to be the first one to say congratulations to the newest u sce flyweight champ josh van he's going to beat alex pentosia on december 6 at u sce 323 he's a bad man if you don't follow uc you should also wanted to tell you matt we've got a lot of great fighters in h town man so to make it a segment on the show let's get these guys on the show man it's it's great to have some uh usc rep representation on the show so i wonder if you're going to be listening at one at one 30 today michael i'm just curious just uh just curious if absolutely all right we'll see you later thank you michael how about that by we need names for

ourselves rosser do we not i mean joshal revan is the fearless one okay i'm i'm totally in fear that's what i can call myself Totally in fear. Totally in fear, Thomas. That's a little wordy. What's wrong with Peach Basket? I feel like the surprise. Hey!

You love it. Yeah. We got a bunch of nickname for you. Most of them we can't say off air. I mean, on air. I'm not a great. Yeah, I'm going to say off of you're using quite frequently. I think five diamond mat, fancy mat,

high horse mat. 48 ounces of coffee mat. Mac and cheese mat. Oh, 48 ounces. Call that Matt. You know, just 48 ounces. That's it. full throat

Thomas okay what see Ross see Jonathan what you opened up the can of you just opened up

you mr analogy oh mr analogy is a good one I self glossed myself that one Texans insider Mr. Texas Manny McRib

Manny McRib I kind of like that way you know what it is America sandwich It is Not It is

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What's that fish They always serve As specials Everywhere you go Um Not tilapia Trapia yes The dirt fish

Of the fast food world Mm-mm Mm-mm I'm not thinking Tilapia Something Amahi Mahi

That's what it is That's what I was thinking of. It's the special that they're trying to get rid of that's rotting in the back. Yes, actually that works. Because if you offered it 12 months a year, no more would eat anything but it. So you have to make it a special. Oh, okay. Yeah, these restaurants don't want to make money.

If they offered it all year long, they would sell too many. It's ridiculous. You know what? I will accept Maddie McGrib. Okay, good. NFL Rewind is next. Oh, great. You don't even have it ready to you.

That's not true, actually. I actually, normally nine times out of ten, you'd be correct, but I actually did prepare. I got here, I don't know what had got into me. I got here a little early. I prepared my segments today. It's crazy. Joshua, the fearless van with us in about 15 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. Content more or the song more.

But it's a time now for a sports RV institution. Was this the NFL win? Fifth of Beethoven? I would believe it. I would guess yes. It was, I think it was. So I've had 43 ounces of coffee. I'm standing up in my room right now. Number one.

Yep. In 1976. Why don't we get our audience to go to a disco tech And we can play this song I love disco music You've got generally great singers Great songwriting Gloria Gainer

You get you get the full band Plus you get strings I mean it's it's very danceable Fun Yep light Oh yeah I used to when I was like in my 20s And you know I thought I was cooler than everybody

It's like man Disco sucks man it's so dumb But then you grow old and you're like, you know what? Disco's awesome. It's just feel good. And you get the, it's a room full of music. It's a full band plus strings.

It's amazing. And as a white person, I can dance to it. And I'm very happy about that. Yeah, just, just point to your northwest. Point to your belt, button, buckle, and then point to your northwest. You're good. You can shimmy, you can shammie. Yes.

That's as far as you can go. Yes. You can hustle. I love it. All right. How about the NFL rewind? I can top 35 minutes of disco. I had zero problem with that.

Disco needs to come back. All right. Well, actually, let's talk about a quick news item of what we mentioned yesterday. Justin Tucker trying out for the Saints on Tuesday after Blake Groupie? Or group, whatever. Missed a couple of field goals against the Falcon. unfortunately he was well for him i guess maybe fortunate to others he was not signed by the new Orleans saints who are going with cade york signed to their practice squad following the tryouts

on tuesday so if you're in the justin tucker fan club which i know you are matt just kidding he did not get signed by the new orleans saints so he's still looking for work yes and still looking apparently for that just that right spot for a massage because he's been trying a bunch of different places in the Baltimore area. Didn't find anything to his satisfaction. Or maybe he found too many players for he said. He got satisfied and got out of town. Is that what you're saying? He got satisfied too much. That's the

issues. He started missing kicks. Do you ever go to get a massage, Ross, and it just doesn't feel great? I don't know. I've never had that issue. I've had, I've only done one massage and it was great. And actually, I'm going to start doing it again. See, this is you're the worst. I'm just getting in my 40s now

and I wake up and oh my hamstring hurts and I wake up oh my back hurts my lower back oh my upper back like I need to start stretching and getting massages regularly it's just it's this is getting out of control I'm getting too old I'm down with I'm on team massage

same me too too old over here shut up shut up actually you probably have more miles on your legs than I do so the leg part yeah some people have more miles on

He ran track. He's got more miles than me. I've walked a lot of my life. I ran from the kitchen of the couch. I walked to the drive-thru to the restaurants. Exactly. I walked to the garage to get to my car. So I'm sure you've probably literally got more miles on your legs than I do.

But anyways. All right, Matt. How about some Hall of Fame semifinalist named five newcomers among the 20th? modern era candidates. All right, you're going to give me the list, and I'm going to tell you at least one that shouldn't be in there. Okay. Go.

Let's, well, I don't have the, yeah, I can pull the full list. Let me bring you the new guys first. New to the game would be Drew Brees? Yep. Yeah, just say in or out, I guess. I don't know that'd be easy. Drew Brees, in. Philip Rivers.

In. Ooh, Frank Gore. in he's like third all time in rushing i know in i know he blew off the show larry fitzgerald he if andre johnson's in larry fitzgerald it's not even close to me in jason jason whitten wow he doesn't come to mind to me but my guess if you look at receiving arts

and without looking i think he's like top five all time receiving yards he's he's I believe he's number one in tight ends right or up there maybe two I my my guess is if I took one minute to look at his

numbers I would say but I mean he's kind of an accumulator you know like Curtis Martin's one of the top Russian all time leading rushers but you nobody was ever like oh my God Curtis Martin's the greatest in the game nobody was created a dream team how many years would how many players

is what it take for us to get to Jason Witten as our tight end. Okay, you know what? He's not as high as I thought. He's 21st. He's ahead of Travis Kelsey. Mike Evans. You know what? I thought Jason Witten was higher. Let me just give you... I thought he was like... It's just me

talk on top of the top of my head here. Kellynne Winslow. Yeah. Dicka. Antonio Gates. Tony Gonzalez. Tony Gonzalez. Shannon Sharp you put in there? Oh, Shannon Sharp.

Travis Kelsey I mean there's six Right there that I would think of Gronk 11 time a pro bowler Now remember they're don't limit So it's not you're kicking people out Yeah I would say maybe not first ballot then

I thought his resume was a little bit better than I thought Well 11 time pro bowl is nothing to sneeze at Two time first team all pro And 13,000 receiving yards He's around Steve Largent Travis Kelsey Mike Evans Irving Friar, Art Monk, Devante Adams. He's getting in, it just won't be right away.

Yeah. You know what? I'm going to put him on the shelf for a year. All right. Adam Vinatari is back on the list. What do you think about him? I think you should be in, right? In.

Okay, the wide receiver crop is interesting. Torrey Holt? Out. Steve Smith, Sr. Out. Hines Ward? Out. Easy, out for me.

Reggie Wayne. Oh, Lord. Against the Texans, in. Hey, Earl Thomas is on this list? Who is? Hook them horns, baby. Earl Thomas. Rodney Harrison, Darren Woodson, the three debes.

Yeah, Earl Thomas, legendary Longhorn and Seahog DB. In? Who the other two? I don't know about her. Earl Thomas is fringe for me. And then Rodney Harrison and Darren Woodson. Out in. Hmm

Okay I'm going to read you a couple others How about Vince Wilford? Out Luke Kieckley's got to be in Are you sure Terrell Suggs got to be in Luke Keeckley retired young

But his His resume is pretty insane Nonetheless, I think Look, it's Five times Time all pro The hardest one to get into into his football, for sure. Luke Keeckley played.

Although baseball requires 75%. Luke Keeckley retired at 29. Yeah, out. Eight years. Out. However, out. However, out. Defensive rookie of the year.

Okay. Defensive player of the year. And five-time first team all pro. Give me the 31 one to talk. Five-time first team all pro. Woo! All right. Gail Sayers.

he's in. Terrell Davis thinks he's in. Earl Campbell thinks he's in. Yeah, right, you're right. And that was the NFL rewind. Let's talk some MMA next. 128 of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790.

All right, hey, did you get to the Creight Radio Network call of the game against Baylor last night? Here was the big highlight from it. Into the pain. Missed the dunk. And I'm fucking foul. What are you talking about? That was two seconds after the play ended.

Car driving. He's outside the circle. He's outside the circle and he's set. He was outside the circle and he was set. Frank Smith blew it. He was outside the restricted area. He was straight up and down. He was set like the statue sitting out in front of New York, New York, and they called that.

that's an absolutely horse crap call in a game that's been played out like this unbelievable bailout call by an incompetent referee and ball don't lie Ross heart to heart if I did that what would you say to me hey Matt I heard your call last night

you lost your damn mind on a foul call If you drop the ball, don't lie. And the horse crap. And that's like, that's from the heart too. He was fed up. That's so good. As you know, man, what makes play-by-play guys who do play by, if they're really into the game and really not faking and forcing it in big moments

and screaming when they shouldn't and stuff like that. That was as genuine. as it gets. He had it. That wasn't forced. I'll get the guy credit. That was he had it. He was pissed off. He was. So good. Did you ever find me and Craig called me, Duran? You know what? I need to ask Gordy. I look for the, we used to play it as late night filler. I mean, you're better than that late mad. But you know, classic, we had a series of classic moments in Rockets Radio history. They would play, you know, Gene Peterson losing his mind. The clock wouldn't start in Utah. and stuff like that. And I can't find them.

So that's a gorty question. We used to play that moment. Hmm. All right. By the way, we're waiting for our MMA guy. If he calls the next few minutes, it's going to be your interview, which you like MMA enough.

Sure, why not? I got a fact sheet. Yeah, we're good to go. Let's go to Roger on line 2 at 135. Roger, terrible news for you. can't be a prize for it today and believe it or not

we're not playing so I hope you're okay with that that's fine it's all good no no no no I'm too busy for price for them today

got to get these jobs done for the holidays and they talk to you so yeah Rossi I just you can't be

softening you of age too much longer my friend we're a perennial powerhouse and basketball that's you know that's more than what any

the Texas team can say about whatever sport they're supposed to be good at the only thing UT is good for is a classic underachieving.

Y'all get a championship, then Pekaboo, we're out, and then we're out, and then we're out. So, yeah, it's going to be to where, you know, we're going to not not be so much so laughable in a little while. And maybe you can draw more than 30,000 at your football games. That'd be cool. We're working on. And it's a work in progress.

We're working on the last, I don't know, 80 years. We'll see what we can do. Anyway, on the Rocketsville, I did not mind. Dylan Brooks having a nice game like that. You know, if it wasn't for him and Fred coming in and being part of that culture change, man, they really did a lot for us as far as getting that program, getting our program back on track as far as being taken seriously, at least.

And, yeah, I just thought that Dylan was a big part of that. And, yeah, I didn't mind seeing it, annex and all that stuff. It was cool to see, you know, I knew they were going to win because now the kids are growing up now, and the other grown men now, right? You see Alpi and Javari and Alman, and those guys are like, they're like laughing at them. Like, you know, it's just like, it's not as serious that it used to be in. Man, man, Reed Shepherd. Remember when I called in, before the season started, I said that this thing is only good as Reed Shepard's progress.

And I was already panicking and saying, hey, man, I think we might be the Band-Aid until Banffleet comes back and yada-da-a-y-y-y-y-and- now. guys just progressing, and he didn't even really have a good game last time, but still it's good enough to where, you know, he had some turnovers with, man, he can get the ball, he can get into your face, and he can be a pet, and then he can make a pass, and then it's just like his scrappiness, I guess. He's like a better version of Scotty Brooks, a little taller. So, yeah, man, I like where this is going, and I just, you know, stay healthy and keep the course.

And on the Astros, it looks like a pitcher's already left to Boston. it looks like one of the pictures are already gone that we're trying to get so I don't need to make a move and we already got you down to utility players are trying to get Brandon Donovan and I just don't think that's going to happen. I just don't think.

Thanks, Roger, for the phone call. Ross, I just, and we talked to Brian McTagger about this last week, I don't know if the Astros are going to make any sort of major splashy hires in the off season. I just don't. The splashy hire would be to get Hunter Brown and or Jeremy signing extension

yeah that's to me would be the sexy thing to do in this option and I get both of them done I don't yeah I don't think Dylan cease is coming Justin Verlander's going to be

kind of a mid move I don't know I mean I've been surprised by Jim Crane before the Josh going for the Josh hater deal and going into the tax

was a surprise and there was something more recently right that was a surprise as well Was there a trade at the deadline that got him over for a little bit? Was it Eurias and or Sanchez going on? Maybe. I can't remember. All right. We're going to start a conversation here with our next guest.

He is a Houston guy. He is the number one UFC flyweight in the world. He trains right here in Houston, Texas. And he is going to be an action coming up on December the 6th for UFC 323 on the match. Thomas Show at Ross. It's Joshua, the Fearless Van. Joshua, it's Matt and Ross. Thank you for coming on the show. How are you this morning or this afternoon? I'm doing great, sir. How are you doing? Good. Hey, take us through your life. You are 8-1 in the UFC. You got a five-fight win streak. What did it got you into it, and how did the city of Houston get you help you in your training to be

where you are right now? Well, I start my fighting career because, you know, I was fighting a lot in the street and things like that. So, you know, my auntie basically was like, hey, why don't you fight for your country and, you know, your family and things like that. So that's when I started to go to the gyms and, you know, trying to fight on the state and things like that. But as far as my training, man, you know, For Ons Fight Club has been helping me all my life. So they'll be doing a great job of, you know, helping me prepare for every fight. And Joshua, you moved to Houston when you were a young man, what, 12 or 13, correct? 12, yes, sir.

And what was that like when mom and dad said, hey, we're moving out of Southeast Asia to come to the United States? And why did they choose Houston, Texas? Is there any, is their family here before that? Yeah. Yeah, we already have my uncle here, you know what I mean? I was in Malaysia in a refugee camp and things like that. So, you know, the only family we have was my uncle when he was here. So, you know what I mean?

When it was time to come here, you know, they asked for like the address of our family members and things like that. So this was the address that we gave them. So they sent us here and that was the best thing that ever happened in my life. well you're going to be in a big event UFC 323 in Las Vegas on December the 6th you're going to be taking on uh help me out with his last name alexandra pantoya is that how you pronounce it yes sir pentosia pentosia okay he is a very successful distinguished career size up his strengths and what you think could be a weakness or two when you fight him on December the 6th uh I don't see a lot of weaknesses

as in right now but you know what I mean sometimes what you see on TV and when you finally get in the case with them is like completely different so you know

come fight day December 6 on that night I'll figure him out and you know what I'm trying to adjust to his styles and things like that so yeah I'm going to have to wait

and see that night you know of what he or what he brings to the tables and things like that yeah Joshua I had the nickname I'm in total fear how do you get the nickname the fearless well when I started fighting they call me the savage and I was like the name savage you know what I mean I was trying to look for any nicknames and things like that so when when I was watching the show called the

last kingdom and I see this guy named the fearless and I was like yeah I really like the feelings and i was looking at my fighting styles and things like that so you know i give myself that me all right i think it probably works for you pretty well if you want to see uh the event it's going to be on the espm pay-per-view on december the 6th ufc 323 how long does it take you before we wrap things up how long does it take you to prepare how much downtime do you get after a fight and then when do you have to ramp it back up knowing that december 6 was on your calendar what was the question sir? Sorry.

Just basically how much how much time in between fights do you have to prepare? How much downtime do you have? And when do you start to ramp things up when you know a new fights on your schedule? Yeah, well it depends. Like if you look at all my

UFC career, like most of them are like the short notice. You know, it gave me three weeks, two weeks, and sometime in a week. So I'm just ready whenever they call me, man. and uh but uh for this fight they gave me uh they gave me like four months in advance of getting ready for this fight so uh that was plenty of time so you know that was uh we used that wisely and you know me this is the best can i ever had how is the four ounce fight club is there a lot

of future stars when you when you work out here in town yes sir there's a lot of guys that i come up with and you know there's another u s fee fighter that i come up with in the same logo scene. His name is Michael Aswell. And then there's another guy's name Alden Korea. And, you know, we got three other guys that are going to be the USC

fighters pretty soon. So, you know what I mean? We're just bringing up the young and can't wait. Joshua, thank you. What's going to happen with the dream. I hope so. Hey, have a great trip to Vegas. Good luck. Represent the City of Houston. Thank you for the time. And best of luck on December

the 6th. We appreciate you coming on the show today. thank you all right thank you buddy that's joshua joining us here on the radio program again he will be joshua the fearless van he will be in action on december the six ufc 323 and it's kind of cool to have a houston guy in that event ross it's you the rest of the way my friend i'll talk with you tomorrow from san francisco california for the rockets and the warriors mattie mcrib signing out 1244 on sports talk 790 not exactly Matt Thomas

stealing off early traveling with the Houston Rockets as they are now leaving Phoenix they will be taking on the Golden State Warriors on Sunday thanks to Joshua Van the UFC fighter

for joining us in the last segment you know what he could really kick my ass and like put me into a pretzel so I'm just going to say nice things about Joshua Van we appreciate you thank you for making the time and I hope he wins his fight representing Houston I went to look it up he is a plus 185 underdog in the fight Jonathan which I don't think you bring that up to the fighter like what's the what's the betting line I think I don't think he really care he probably doesn't care hey the only way to make an upset is being underdog that's what I'm talking about

that's how I'm calling it with the Houston tech how do you feel about me my gut feeling earlier today Houston, Texans pull the upstead, and the Texas Longhorns pull the upset. An upset weekend coming up on Thanksgiving weekend in football here in the great state of Texas. I think you're one in one, I think. Who am I going to be right? Oh, you already had the Aggies winning. Yes, I think Texas and Colts, I think Texas got it, man. After that defense showed out and how they rallied, even with the offensive line.

They got the extra time off. You're getting C.J. Stroud back. Now, I don't want to do you, are we saying C.J. Stroud is fresh and ready to go, or he needs to clear the cobwebs out? What do we even say? I don't know. I don't know. Well, he's not clear, Jay. Four and a half point.

He's going to be fine. He's going to be cleared. He's going to play. Aaron Wilson reported yesterday that the expectation is he's going to be able to play. So I'm not necessarily worried about him being able to play. He's going to be all right. And I think the Texans are going to pull off the upset. I just, I don't know.

The Colts did lose last week to the chiefs. They barely pulled it off against the Falcons. And the week before that, they lost to the Steelers. They had a hot start to the season, but I'm just not convinced that they're going to be able to keep it up. And maybe I'm just riding too high off that bills win. And maybe I'm huffing the fumes of recency bias with that nice victory over the bills on Thursday night at home with eight sacks. I mean, if they sacked Jonathan Allen, that's you, Josh Allen. And I called you Josh Allen last week, too.

I'm getting my Jonathan and my Josh Allen's mixed up. John, Josh Allen, if they sacked him eight times, I'm feeling pretty good about what they might be able to do against Daniel Jones, but that is going to be on the road in Indianapolis this week at noon. So we'll see what happens there. As I mentioned, Matt off on not on holiday, just leaving a little bit early with the Rockets. They got the win last night against the Phoenix Suns.

They're on a four-game road trip right now, taking on Phoenix, and then now they're taking on the Golden State Warriors tomorrow, and then a couple of games in Utah. then they get off Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, three days off. I actually should have asked Matt this. They don't want to go straight to Salt Lake City, right? NBA players, I think that's like 30 out of 30, Salt Lake City as far as the cities they would want to hang. Are they going to come all the way back home?

A lot of times when they get three days off, they might come home and then go back to Utah. Really? You can do that when you're flying private. If you come back Wednesday night, you can have Thanksgiving with your family, then Friday, then leave Saturday to Utah and then go to the back-to-back. on Sunday and Monday. That's probably what they would do if I would have had to guess. But a nice win by the Rockets yesterday, 114 to 92 over the Phoenix Suns.

I'm calling it a big three. I just am. Kevin Durant, Alprin Shungoon, Amen Thompson. What's up? Already? What's not a big three? Kevin Durant's one of the greatest players of all time. Alpern Shingoon was an all star last year and he's been better this year. Didn't even really, one of the questions I wanted to get to Eme Adoka, we thanked to him for interviewing with us earlier on the show.

You can catch it at sports talk 790.com. The podcast page is about Alprin Shungoon. Now, he's not taking a ton of threes, but he is shooting like 44% from three this year. He is a career 23% or excuse me, 29% three-point shooter. He shot 23% last year. That's not going to keep up. But he's also, he's shooting three a game and shooting 44%.

If that can continue, he's just going to be flattowed unstoppable. Because he does have issues sometimes dealing with the bigger, bulkier centers we saw against Jonas Valenciunis and Nicolioch on Friday. He struggled. He only shot 6 of 14 from the field. So he is going to run into some roadblocks there. But if he can continue

to shoot three is the way that he is and have defenses respect that, he's, and he's already been, he was an all-star last year. You're an all-star, you're part of a big three. And then a men Thompson first-team all-defense. And he's averaging like 18, 19 points a game this year.

So I'm going with it. Big three, Houston Rockets. What's up? You're going to try to fight me on that? I just, I mean, it's too early. I feel like for a man to little too early with all the turnovers. And I was there at the Orlando game. He had a horrific game.

And I just don't feel like if you're going to call it a big three, they have to be all three efficient. Like 18 points, six rebounds, five assists, first team all defense, Alpern-Shingon and All-Star. Kevin Durant, one of the greatest players to ever walk the planet. Rockets have a big three. What's up? And we lost to OKC.

Yes. San Antonio. Detroit and Denver. Arguably the top four teams right now in the league. Not an embarrassing loss among the bunch for the Rockets. All right. Next game on Wednesday here on Sports Talk 790 as they take on the Golden State Warriors. And that'll do it for the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Without Matt Thomas for the last segment here on Sports. Sports Talk 790. Ross v. Real saying, thank you so much for listening to the program. I do appreciate you making time. Thanks to Joshua Van for joining. E. Mae Adoker for joining. Derek Schultz for joining and Matt Thomas for joining for, I don't know, two and a half hours and change of the show as well. Thanks to Jonathan Allen for producing doing a great job as he always does. I'll talk to you folks next tomorrow at 10 a.m. As part of the Matt Thomas show with Ross, don't go anywhere. It's two atoms. They call themselves the A team. And they're coming up next here on Sports Talk 790. Thank you.