The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Fall to 3-1, Astros Won't Win Division & NFL Picks

Episode Date: September 11, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers. Is the Matt Thomas show. Yeah. So much larger. 12 o'clock at H-town. Good morning, strippers.

Yeah. They're not sleeping well. They've been up since 8.30. You know why? Listen. They zone block it to the right. Cutback left run. It goes to Edwards-Hilaire.

15, 10, 5, and zo's Edward Salair. And that is in high in the air, and deep to right. Reddick is back at the wall looking up. See you later. A go-ahead, two-run, home run for Matt Olson. And the A's taken two-to-one lead. The Holmes, sprinting to the right side. He fires Tyree Kill. He's got it. Touchdown! Kansas City, the third touchdown pass of the night for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs convert on third and goal from the two.

LeBron outside the ark looks to drive, backs in at the free-thel line, kicks it to Caruso, corner three. Good big basket for Caruso. Might just about do it, putting the Lakers up eight with 34.6 to go. To Westbrook, you got to go. You got to go in a hurry back to Gordon. Won't take the three, drives the paint, fumbles, it gets it back, had it stripped by Caruso, picked up by LeBron. Ahead to Rondo off the glass, back to LeBron who somehow slammed it home. Left center field gap, and racing over Lariano, and he makes the bent leg sliding catch, and that's how the ball game ends. The Oakland A's take four out of five in the series with the Astros.

as Oakland wins this one, three to one. The Kansas City Chiefs win the last game of the first century of the National Football League winning Super Bowl 54. They win the first game of the second century of the National Football League with this opening victory 34 to 20 over the Houston Texans. Anything else? Any of their highlights we failed to, I mean, had the arrows played, the dash to the dash lose yesterday?

The IRS has notified you of an audit. The Dynamo lose 6-0. Cougars drop a game to somebody. Rice doesn't even play. I mean, T.S.U. Is there any other Houston sports teams we've failed to mention here in this opening segment? You've gotten a cease and desist from the Price is Right for using the word Plinko in your podcast. That's Plinko and Powerbombs available on the IHR radio app.

The SportsMT Corporation in Norway has informed you that you need to change your at. Oh, remote for you. Oh, well, that's been folding for years. No, it's still publicly traded. Well, it's a penny stock. All right, you found that song from Game of Thrones. Yes. Now, you know, I tried Game of Thrones.

It just wasn't my jam. Cape of Thrones is amazing. Okay. It doesn't really matter at this point. It's over a year gone, so. Well, at least until the last two seasons. Well, at least you admit that. How do you remember that song?

That was when somebody died, correct? Well, there was the beginning of the, season six finale. Okay. Where, well, some major stuff was going on. I'll just leave it at that. Are you Game of Thrones guy, Brendan?

I am. And I actually had the exact same thought. How the hell did he recall that song? Ah. It's a good pull. Thank you. Because I would have gone with, I mean,

again, it would have been something between 75 and 85, and it would have sucked. I just think it was a very well-scored, um, very well-scored series. And I looked into some of it. The,

the, one from when the Knight King, you know. Don't give away secrets. Don't spoil it. The song for that one is a really good one, too, and a good sequence. Okay. So those are some good sequence. The last few seasons are kind of sketchy, but those are some very good sequences

with good scoring. So I know the Night King's dead now. Well, I didn't say that. Okay, good. Maybe he killed somebody. That's true. Leave it to there. Leave it right where it is.

All right. So do we want to put this in, what suck the least? What sucked the worst? So let's put this in a... I think we've got to start out negative and then we'll come in with the positives. Oh, really? Yeah. Or should we start with the positive and goes to negative?

Like when you meet with your boss, he says something really nice and then it just starts cutting you. Starts getting scathing. Here's a rule about bosses. If they start a meeting with you with a joke, you probably kept your job. If they go to the, this isn't easy for me to do and they get right to it, you know that you're done. Hmm. Right? Well, I will, this is, well, I'll just go to our boss.

He always puts a little nothing, nothing bad at the end. If, hey, can we, can you come into my office? Nothing bad. And sometimes he doesn't put nothing bad. I'm like, oh, oh, is it something bad? Oh, yeah. I'm also the king of, can you talk after your show? This is not about, this is with anybody.

That's about a Friday. No, no, no, no. If it's a Friday and can we talk after the show? Like, I got a text about two weeks ago about something. And this person texted me who doesn't work with us directly said can you talk after your show?

And I'm like, I can't handle that. Yeah, I remember that. You called them in the middle of a break. I did. I'm just that person. I know you are. And so when you get that text

of let's meet at a certain time, then I did the same thing. Am I fine? Is it say, let's meet because we're going to make changes or let's meet because there's something good or bad? And I got the,

and last time I got that let's meet, it was, oh, it's nothing bad. So I felt better. It's like when you get that from a significant other. Can we talk after work or can you call me when you're off work? Oh, that's just my human nature. I'll never change who I am on that. If you say you want to talk to me after something, I will call you within five minutes. Hmm. I'm going to start, I'm just start doing that to you. No, you're not. You're going to be on the middle of a segment

and on deck and I'm like, hey, can you call me after you're done? You know I'll flip out. Yeah, so I'm going to do it. Do you hear that audience? All the things that you, like, you like, Ross is so cool and chill. He just admits why he's a douche. No, I'm not a douche. You're the one that's being irrational. So you need to calm down. I'm trying to teach you.

So you take a weakness of mine and you're going to further tormenting. No, I'm going to smooth it out. I'm going to let you calm down. I'm helping you. I'm being your therapist. I tell you that there's not every time is a reason to panic. We have two hours and 53 minutes to talk about everything that sucked. So let's take the rest of this segment.

And we'll go on rotation here. What was good about anything related to any of the three sports teams yesterday. The rocket shot over 40% from three. I will go with the rockets played well in the fourth quarter. Brendan, your turn. David Johnson looked good.

I was going to go with that one, too. We're running low. Continue on your next. Jacob Martin got a sack. It was the only sack the Texas got all day, but Jacob Martin got a sack. Brian Anger looked good. Is it a punner? Is that a name Brian?

Sure. Yeah, I'll go with that. Anger's punting skills was good. Anger's punting was good. Oh, I got one. Brendan, you're next. I'll go ahead, Bren. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Stay in order. Will Fuller is still healthy. Ooh. And caught and dropped his first pass, but did great after that.

Jose Orkitti pitched very well yesterday. Yeah. Grasping. Grasping. I don't mean to have pregnant paws on the show. Thinking. Wheels attorney. The gears are in motion. Oh, Chris Collinsworth sounded good last night. He had a dynamite slide in. Yeah.

Go ahead. Brennan. The Astros narrowly avoided being shut out and no hit. Hmm. That's true. They had a hit. They got two of them. Yeah.

And then I will go and I will say, I guarantee the Astros will not lose today. Yeah. I will guarantee the Texans will work hard and study the game tape. And we'll be, and we'll try to fix things for next game against a much more. against a much more winnable opponent, the Baltimore Ravens. I think we're done. We've really given this a good try.

Rossi, it had been 40 years since all three teams played a real game, not counting preseason, I think is what Greg Rajan from the Chronicle found out. 40 years. Wow. Because apparently back in the NBA in the early 80s, they started early in October.

So you had Oilers playing, you had the Astros playing in the 80-81 playoffs, or maybe probably 81 playoffs and then you had and Mo Malone was hooping it up and Mo Malone was scoring 29 points

as the Rockets lost and 21 rebounds 163 to 158 to Buck Williams and New Jersey Nets that's a good poll right that was nice okay last night sucked

my rockets my beloved rockets Rossi I've been a rocket fan since 1981 that 40 and 42 team that went to the NBA finals to lose to a young Larry Byr in the Celtics. I have been a fan for that team for 40 years. I have been one of their voices for the last four.

Hopefully for the next 40. Granted, I'll be in my late 80s doing play by play, but if I can still, they still will me out, I'll do it. They, what happened? What happened to my hardworking, hard charge in Houston Rockets? They just didn't have any oomph, any boost, any energy, whatever you want to call it,

against a team that said, you know what, we'll go small with you, we'll bring in Marquief Morris, and we think we can be better small than you can. Now, granted, when you have LeBron, James, and Anthony Davis, that's not a small lineup, but it's smaller than putting out Javelle McGee or and or Dwight Howard. So the energy that my rocket showed in game one and in parts of game two and in parts of game three

was nowhere to be found. and they're staring at elimination tomorrow night. It's a must-win game tomorrow. It absolutely is. The Texans, look, gang, they're going to be 9 and 7. That was my prediction. 9 and 7 average football teams don't go to Kansas City and take on the most prolific offense in the NFL and win.

By the way, can I please, because you guys always writ me for a variety of reasons. I said on this show yesterday, 3421 would be the final score. I got it to 3420. I need some mad props. Yeah, but you switched it. You made like three predictions yesterday. No.

No. I threw in the last week. Okay, that's fine. But the prop, the prediction that was made was a winning prop bet. I gave you the over on a garbage touchdown late and I gave me the point spread.

Yeah, that was a nice. That was a very nice rally by the Texans there when the game was completely done. That's just so Texans of them. Because in reality, the game was 317. Didn't they do that? Remember the Denver game last year where they just got their faces caved in? Right. And then they scored a couple of touchdowns late.

And then Bill O'Brien was like, I don't know if you guys are paying attention out there, but the offense was moving the ball. We showed no quick. Okay, Bill. Yeah. Okay. All right. So we have Astros are under 500 for the first time in a while.

This late in the season, for sure, and forever. We have the Texans. there were a lot of MIAs. I'm not talking about Miami, Ross. A lot of MIAs on that field yesterday. Our good buddy Whitney Merciless, MIA. Brandon Cook. I'm not a brand, well, a little bit of Brandon Cook.

Randall Cobb was an MIA. He had zero targets like three quarters into the game. For a guy that's eight million bucks a year. Nine, you know, three years 27. Oh, sorry, didn't mean to be a hundred, it's made it by a million. So what pitched you off the most? Let's go.

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Matt Thomas. You are now tuned in at Sports Talk 790, man. Oh, your March, sit, ready to go. I just think that you got down again. And, you know, like I said, we had trouble stopping the run had trouble getting off the field and then we we sustained the first drive the second drive of the game for a touchdown you know but then we couldn't sustain a couple drives there and and you know our defense couldn't get off the field so we got down and then we got you know the first drive of the second half

was a big one because they took it down and scored and that you know we dug a hole there we did come back at the end but it was too little too late there's a lot to build on but it's not you know obviously not where you want to be but there's definitely things to build on and shut up there's nothing to build on Nothing. Nothing. Nothing to build on. Nothing. The defense's going to have the field. We definitely came back at the end there. It was, what, 34 to 7?

God, he used to be writing his material for him? I mean, my God, there's nothing to build on. You got your ass kicked. The game, my wrong on this, the game for all intents of purposes was 31 to 7. It was a gift field goal at the very end that the chief's got. the two touchdowns were, what, less than eight minutes? Yeah, 31 to 7. Yeah, 31.7. That's it.

I'm not saying the season's over. I'm not ready to fire Bill O'Brien, because again, as I've said, Bill O'Brien will never take the Texans to a Super Bowl. It is what it is. I'm not backing off that stance, but I'm not saying this is a terrible football team. It's just not the same class as Kansas City. And it won't be the same class. I don't think in Baltimore unless they do some massive changes. And I don't know, Ross, maybe put a price rush in. Maybe the linebackers can.

Does Baltimore use a carry a tight end? Is it not Toddie? That guys are gone forever. Mark Andrews. They've got good tight ends. They got another good tie. I can't remember who it was. Well, they traded away Hayden Hurst.

Yeah. To Atlanta. But I think they got a couple of titan options. Chief among the Mark Andrews, who's one of the most productive tight ends last year. So basically a lighter version of Travis Kelsey. Yeah. Okay. We'll go with that.

Let's see. And who else is early on the, the Vikings got a good young titan. Can't remember his name. the Pittsburgh Steelers have. Kyle Rudolph still with the Vikings, right? Yeah. And they have another good young guy. Earf Smith.

Yeah, Irf Smith. That's his name. Thank you. And then they have Eric Ebron and Vance McDonald with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Any team that has a tight end is going to, you know, Dr. Roto has those must plays. Yes. That's a Dr. M.T. M.T.'s lock of the week. God.

I think Travis was getting tired. He was tired of catching everything thrown his way. He's been crushing the Texans since he broke out. His first breakout season, week one, he was running free on the Houston Texans. Yeah. But Fuller was good. I mean, there are some serious positives. David Johnson, okay, you want to give me 77 yards on the ground every week and you want to give me 32?

Over 100 yards total offense every game. I'll accept that. His 19-yard run was as longest in years. That was good. And makes my third round draft pick in one of my drafts feel really good. That's what's really important. man. Well, this point it is. Deshawn wasn't horrible. Wasn't great. Wasn't great. But, and this isn't, again, this is, we're not taking in the new contract. He's not supposed to throw for 425 the first time he plays a game after a contract signing. Yeah. I mean, he scored more fantasy points than Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, he did. He was okay, but he was also playing from behind and throw. And, um, but the rat, I mean, how does. Oh, I know he didn't. But anyway. How does...

Kenny Stills gets two targets late in the game. Fells gets the two catches late. Brandon Cooks was a non-factor. Jordan Aikins was making nice moves. Randall Cobb, we didn't even see until late in the contest. They didn't throw in the flat. I mean, it was either Wolf or downfield or nothing at all. Oh, Anger's pun average is only 41 yards.

I couldn't... I gave him as a nice thing earlier. That's wrong. That's fine. 41 is okay. It's long of 42, so I guess... Consistence. All right.

Kimee Fairbair and missed a field goal. It's a 51-yard. The ball landed in Columbia, Missouri, that is. Who's a 51-yarder, Matt? Those are tough. Not anymore. Do you know the NFL does not accept 51-yard field goals being missed

as badly as they do? Fairbairn is one of the best kickers in the league if you look by annual average value on their contracts. What? Who does that? Nobody. I like to look for how long he kick. many kicks of 50 plus he makes.

Most people like to look at made field goals, field goal percentage, extra points made. But if you go by contract size, Kami Fairbren is one of the best kickers in the league. By the way, Rockets and Astros, you're not getting, you're not getting spared today. But I just, it's just, they weren't supposed to win the game. I mean, poor Indy Kalu, the ambassador. Love him like a brother. Sent me a terrible text. He needs to talk to me after the show, which I just called him during the break.

And he's like, gotcha. And I'm like, damn you. He was the only one on our staff that picked them. I don't know. Did Wexar pick him the Texans to win? No. No, he didn't. I'm pretty sure he did not.

They weren't supposed to win, and frankly, I had it at 34-21, no matter how you got there. It just wasn't, it was a 3-1-7 game for the most part. Yeah, if I'd have gotten one more garbage-time touchdown, I'd have been set. I had 33-27. All right. To the phones we go, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Jim, Northwest Side of the Matt Thomas show.

Jim, good afternoon. Good afternoon. I'd like to do a three-fer. I'll do it quickly. Let's start with the Astros. They weren't ready to play this season, even though it was shortened. They weren't prepared. They have underachieved, regardless of injuries.

And when Mr. Breggman says, everybody makes the playoffs, uh-uh. You and your Astros aren't going to make the playoffs, Breggman, because you're playing like crap. Let's move on to the Rockets. I haven't seen any of these games. I've been listening to them on the radio working. For that, we thank you.

But it seems like Westbrook plays like an eighth grader based on what I'm hearing in the games. I guess they're ready to leave the NBA bubble Saturday night. Let's move on to the Texans. Bill O'Brien says, we, we, we, no, it's time to say. me, me, me. They're never ready. They never do enough practice plays in practice. The plays aren't crisp.

It's time he get fired. He should have been fired when the game was over last night. Thank you. Thank you. He got a three-for-in. You're not firing Bill O'Brien. I mean, no, you're the general manager, the coach. You got Easterby here.

It's the they wanted to flattened surface, whatever the hell they called it. They got it. flight and structure. And Ross, they're going to be 9 and 7. Or you have 8 and 8. I mean, you were about the same spot. Around there.

Around there, give or take. They're going to start off horribly. They might even start. They're going to start off 1 in 3 or 0 and 4. They're going to rally it in the season. They're going to say, we got momentum. We're building. We're riding the ship.

Yeah. And they'll be the third wild card. And they will lose in that first game. And we'll just pick up where left off with no first second round picks. Now, Texans Karen and Texans Debbie and Texans. Mark or whatever. Anybody that puts the word Texans, Texans in front of them.

Texans Leonardo is really going to be. Any of those Texans people, any of those traveling Texans and went to Kansas City, they're okay with it. They're fine. It's just one game. Which really, it does make some sense. It's just one game. But the fact is the hardest quadrant, is it quadrant? Yeah, the hardest quad of games, first quarter of games,

is the first four. Everything else at the end of the year may be difficult, but it's not as difficult as this. It's not nearly as brutal as this. In theory, lot of people think Pittsburgh's going to have to get back to the playoffs. If Rafflesburgers stays healthy. Minnesota's going to probably walk away with the NFC North.

We already saw what Kansas City did. Baltimore's going to be right there too. What we saw yesterday was good ground beef. The Texans are good hamburger meat. You know, when you go to HEB, there's like these 79% lean, 21% fat? Yeah, you get up to like 937. You can't even taste that. Come on now.

You need a little fat. So the Texans are 79. 921. Delicious, a little bit of fat, but still can make a damn good burger and a little extra fat and makes it tasty. That would be 80-20. That's a chuck.

I love that Chuck is my favorite. It's a nice sweet spot. But they went against the filet mignon last night. And the filet mignon never going to lose. That's true, man. Never loses. Filet mignon always wins, and so does, you know what, in the bubble wins all the time.

Allegedly. When are we going to get to the bottom of that story? No pun intended. It's so creepy. creepy. So creepy. Do you think we'll get some fresh news before the end of the show today? Your guess is good as mine. I'm going to say, what I don't know is why. The time speaks it too, right? Yes, and we will run on that. I don't know why the NBA is taking four days for this.

You know why, Matt, because they want the Rockets out of the series because they can't be broadcast in China. So that's the thing. That's what Rockets conspiracy theory says. Is that Rocket Twitter or just General Rockets? I saw something that was really funny. Somebody said Hugh Anon, H-O-U, Houston. That made me laugh. Somebody called Rockets fans. So two things are defeated.

Prime Reb or Filet Mignon against Ground Chuck and that in the bubble. Actually, of all times, Mad. It doesn't have to be in the bubble, actually, anywhere you want it to be. Exactly. 1229 on the Matt Thomas show. You guys went to get in. What do we call on this one? What is this?

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Why did you guys seem so flat in three quarters? That's a good question. Donovan. But to follow up on that, how difficult is it to now have to not really know why it seems so disparated for so long? Is it frustrating to leave the game, knowing that that was such a big part of it? I mean, there was nothing we could do about it now. You just got to get ready for game five and bring that same energy. You had a carryover until game five.

Was he eating pork rinds? That could have been somebody else on the feed. You know, you don't know it was him. It sounds like somebody's he. James, in the game was so much at stake. Why did you guys seem so flat Do you three quarters? It's good question.

I guess somebody got a bag of animal crackers up there? What's going on? Let's play it again. Let's see what. Let's play it again. Let's figure that what it sounds like. Hold on one more time. James, in the game with so much the steak, why did you guys seem so flat with three quarters?

It's good question. I'm going to go old school on this. Okay. Jiffy pop on the stove. No, it's not. Nobody's making Jiffy pop at home on the zoo, Matt. Come on. I definitely think it's someone opening a bag.

Yeah. I can't tell you what, but that's not him. It sounds like one of the more aluminum ones rather than like a bag of Doritos. It sounds like something more serious. It's somebody on the Zoom that was trying to snack while getting his questions there. Maybe some tachis or something like that. You know, my daughter is a tachiaholic. Yeah.

We might buy her five bags a week. Good for her. Thanks God, she's thin as a rail. But, I mean, she's... Slow that down when she hits about 25. I don't disagree with that. Man, every time I go the grocery. Like you said, we need milk, eggs, bread,

talkies. Every time. Is it because somebody, I think it's because somebody on a show that she watches eats tachies. Oh, really? Have you ever had a tocki?

Yeah. It's just okay. Yeah, I like tachies. Would they be your preferred snack? No, they're down the list for me, personally. But they're people, it's one of those things

where if you get into it, you're really into it. People who like tachis. Nobody really likes tachis. You either love them or hate them. So I'll go to the convenience store and buy some lotteries or whatever and she's like,

don't forget my tachis. And then she sends the next text. Fiestasize, please. Oh, fiestasize. Damn. She's not messing around. She isn't messing around. Oh, Tom and Downtown says that's James opening up his can of quit.

That's not very nice. Tom and Downtown. I will not have this slander on this show. I'm just in a bad mood. You should be. Every single Houston sports team wet the bed yesterday. And this rocket stuff, it reminds me, remember how Portland beat the Lakers and one?

Yes. And then America dismissed them after getting the beat downs after that? I don't want America dismissing the rockets. Well, they have. They're down 3-1. Their backs are against the wall.

Oh, so sick to my stomach. Oh, it's just terrible. Astros are under 500. Are having to hold on for dear life for second place in America League West. I mean,

Seattle's got some double-headers coming up, I think, because of the bad, they lost some games. The Texans, to me, it was the least surprising in yesterday. I gave them zero chance to win in Kansas City. Now that I think it would be more competitive than 317 at one point, yes.

I was hoping. Especially it was 7-0. Yeah, instead of giving up 24-0 and giving up all those straight points, they only gave up 7-0 and then gave up 31 straight. And here's the thing. They didn't go after the Texan secondary. They just nickel and dined in the death. I mean, what, okay, so Sammy Watkins says.

Clyde Edwards, L.A. Seems like he was gaining 7-8 yards of run. Sammy Walkins was seven for 82. That's not stretch in the field under any circumstances. Correct. Travis Kelsey, it felt like he caught everything and then got 10 extra yards. He was only 6 for 50. Tyree Kill was 5 for 46.

Hell, Pat Mahomes only threw for 2.11. That's not normal Pat Mahomes. He usually has to throw for 375 and 5 scores. You know why? They handed the ball to a rookie running back and said, go two clock, go give me six yards every time. and Clyde Edwards Hilaire, who we will become a household name, apparently pretty soon here, is going to get his run.

130, what, 130 yards yesterday? Clyde Edwards Hillare. He had 138 on 25, that's 5.5 a carry. So you take out, he had like, it seemed like six one-yard carries at the goal line. So he's got to work on the goal line stuff. But outside of that, he was probably gaining. It seemed like 6, 7, 8 yards of carry. And they don't, by the way, they being Kansas City have zero issues with going down, going forward on 4th,

down, no matter where it is in the field. Texans' fourth and four at midfield, we'll give it to Brian Anger, who's going to punt 41 yards for us. You go ahead and punt it to the greatest offense in the world. It was actually, Bill O'Brien was actually asked about that yesterday if we want that. Let's play it real quick, and then we'll go to some phones.

I think one of them was fourth and ten, and the other one was, I'm correct, was more than fourth. I mean, it was the other one, I think they were both long yardage fourth down. No, fourth and four, no. If we got a little bit more, we were definitely going forward on fourth down, two or three times. tonight, but we just didn't get enough. And, you know, fourth and nine, fourth and ten,

you know, we, we just felt like that was the best decision. Who's we? Do you think Bill O'Brien went around and said, hey, what do you all think, coach, should we go for it? Do you think any of them, if they would have gone opposite of what Bill O'Brien wanted, would have been still employed today? By the way, I put this on Twitter yesterday. I don't blame Anthony Weaver for yesterday. Anthony Dreamweaver? I believe he doesn't have enough talent on the defensive side of the ball.

I agree. And Tim Kelly is going to live a short life if he doesn't pick up the tempo on his team's offense. If they, the Texans, Astros, the Texans start 0 and 4. Is Tim Kelly still calling plays after? Yes. You can't, he can't let that narrative out there. Now, he'll be at the play caller, but he'll have a headphone on that no one hears. We should cover his mouth with the wheel.

No, no, he'll just, he'll think he'll hit the speaker button and think that he's talking to somebody. It's going to no one. Oh, Tim Kelly? Yeah. Like what they did to Joe Paterno at the end of his career? Like Jack Pardee, unfortunately, was told by Bud Adams not to wear, not the plug in the headset. Just give the impression that he was actually had the headset on. Adam in Cyprus at 1241 on 7.90.

Hi, Brian. Hi, Adam. Hey, how you doing, Matt? Good. Hey, what's up, Ross? How's going? Good. Not good, actually. I was going to say good, you know, not good, actually. But, man, I just wanted to vent, you know, Matt.

I called you about the D'Andre Hopkins trade, and I was like, you know what, let me get it a chance and let me, you know, let me just sit back and let, you know, just maybe the butt chin can do something right, you know, maybe, you know, just something, you know, and I'm just, I'm tired, I'm fed, I'm fed up, this is it, Matt. all I've seen last night, I've seen scared, scared, scared, scared. That's what I've seen. I've seen Pat Mahomes and Andy Reid took them to the woodshed, took them to the woodshed, Matt. Here's the thing, Adam, and I want to be brutally honest with you, okay? Can you handle the truth? God. Can you handle the truth?

I'm asking you a serious question. You're not going to quit on them because you're a sports fan. That's the first truth. Of course. Okay. Secondly, they're not going to play the caliber of competition like the Chiefs every week. That's number two. They're going to finish anywhere between 8 and 8 and 6 and 10 and 10.

They're going to make the playoffs. They're going to lose to a first round opponent or a second round opponent that's comparable to what Kansas City is. There's the truth. Can you handle the truth? Why, Matt, tell me why did they look so, why were they, why are they running the ball when you're just going to give Pat Mahams the ball back? Well, you have to have diversity in your offense. I'm just saying. Yeah.

I know they want to solidify, you know, time of possession, all that, you know, good stuff. And, you know, that, you know, Bill O'Brien could go to the podium and say, hey, well, you know, we're trying to salvage time of possession. He's just going to make more excuses for herself. You know, so anyways. And then they tried to do what they wanted to do anyway was aired out with Deshaun Watson. And then after that, Kaiman Holmes was already on the sideline, you know, he's, you know, eating whatever. Whatever, cotton candy, I don't know. No, I don't think you can eat with that mask on his face or whatever that shield was.

Thanks for the phone call. You're not going to quit on the team. You shouldn't. If you were going to quit on the Texas, you should have quit on them when they traded DeAndre Hopkins. A lot of people did or said they did. They were probably watching last night. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure ratings were just fine.

Everybody that wants to tell me how they quit on sports. Like, I've had people tell me they're going to quit on sports because of the protest or the or what's on the people's jerseys. You love sports. You watch it. do. You may be pissed for a while. You may not agree with it. But if your team is when you come back, I swear to God, Rossi for years

when the Astros were losing 100 plus games, I'm never watching the Astros again. I certainly remember when the Astros changed in the National League, the American League, they were never going to watch again. There were a million people downtown for the parade. You watched. True. So if you do want to fight, if you want,

if you want to give up on the team, you would have done it with a beating, with a beat down in Kansas City and then the subsequent trade for downtown. Hopkins because then you could have easily said and justified, I don't like this coach, I don't like this general manager, we're through. But you can't, you can't do it up to yesterday. You were ground chuck against filet mignon. And that's what happened. 1244 on Sports Talk 790. Ride, half the workday is done. Celebrate with Matt. Hey, Matt, love your show.

What was I talking about? By the sound of it, some of you started the party at breakfast. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. 1249 sports talk 790 it is the Matt Thomas show for a Friday we got Brian T Smith who was in Kansas City yesterday I'm very curious what the crowd was like now it sounded pretty good right it was decent yeah it's not a decent and now Michael's made the point early on that they were not piping in crowd noise and I think the NFL has very very strict guidelines about that that they are watching decibel levels and that if teams try to circumvent the levels

and try to go higher and they're supposed to be they could potentially find or lose draft picks. Ooh. And the NBA is always watching it because sometimes when we have national TV games,

the timeout coordinator who normally sits to the left of me has one of those, how do you measure sound? Deceible meter? Sure, that sounds good. Decimal meter things and she clicks it

and she'll have to say game operations, turn your stuff down. Like, you know, here the chance of defense or let's go rockets or the bands or whatever, they can control that

from a central, board. So if it gets too loud, they tell them to turn it down. Interesting. So it can't happen. Okay. So, by the way, Texans, no fans for the Baltimore game, maybe fans for the Minnesota game.

Okay. I'll be going to neither. Yeah, I'm not interested. NFL football to me is best served at home. Isn't that right? Yes, just like revenge is best served cold. NFL football is best served at home. Or maybe at the book in Los Vegas that Westgate we go to.

That's a nice spot. Let me just say, y'all for Sunday football, if you ever go to Vegas, Westgate Resort used to be the Las Vegas Hilton. We go to this room, nothing to get in, correct? I think it's free. It's free. They have like cheese sticks, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza slices, four or five bucks, beers are three or four dollars, which is cheap for Vegas, honestly.

Shots of tequila, three bucks. Yeah, and all the seats are very comfortable, and every game is on a big screen. Now, some are bigger than others, but every game is on at least one big screen. Yes. And we sit there for, what, six or seven hours? Oh, it's beautiful. I miss that. Matt.

Oh. I cannot wait. Cameron turns 21 next June and we're going and you're going with us in October or whenever, whenever we got a chance to go. This October? No, no, next next year. So he turns 21 October 20. Hopefully Vegas is back by then. Yeah, Vegas ain't back yet.

And I don't want to go until it's back. And that's the thing. It's a little bit off strip. So you go to, well, the Immoral Lagosies is shutting down. But it's a little off strip so you can actually get seats in there because it's the whole theater. Yeah, it's actually not far. from Las Vegas Convention Center. Just in time very far off the trip.

Let's go to Willie in Cyprus on 790. Hi, Willie. Hey, you doing great, Matt. Thanks for the opportunity. Sure. Great show. Thank you. We'll say with the last call,

I'll kind of agree in a sense that I was interested to see, but the correct term is staying apathy has absolutely 100% said in on the Texans. I didn't want to see what they did. And obviously, we've just got to remind to the fact that they are the Detroit lines in terms of a French. in that watch in their careers, we'll go by the wayside. I mean, it's just a travesty to see the talent go to waste.

But moving on, Astros, I've been a fan, and I'm at this point have to consider the fact they may have cheated. I mean, it looks pretty bad out there, and I know that's harsh, but it's just the judgment I'm going to call. And as for the Rockets, look, Panepathy is. creeping that way. I've got to say there were no adjustments made. I love the Dan and Tony, love his wife, they do great work in the community. At the end of the day, you've been here four years and everything under the sun has been done. Trades have been made. Prodigays have

been traded away that Ologan could have worked with, and nothing has worked to the point that they literally have given up. And you're not going to get the trade value back in James. If that was a thought, you've got to ride with them and figure out a way to make this work, but I just can't see it working out with Dan Tony. And I'll hang up. and listen. Thanks again. Well, I hope you're wrong on that. But it's not within the realm of a change because of the fact that his contract is on at the end of the year. I think it was very much a wait-and-see approach, especially after the two, after Dan Tony's side and the rockets could not come in agreement. So we knew this could always would be a possibility.

Rossi, I got to be honest, I was ready to sit down and watch 90% rockets and 10% Texans while they were going at the exact same time. I didn't because I was getting more disenfranchised and more frustrated with every easy Laker basket in the second half in the first half of that game. The putbacks, the transition buckets that we got, if you look at the fast break points were like 19 to 2, the second chance points were like 17 to 3. I mean, those are things, you know, that's what the rocket says, the small ball. Oh, it's not about rebounding.

It's about second chance points. Well, you got killed in second chance points 17 to 3. That can't happen. That just cannot happen. There was a stat. Did you see this stat that was sent to me from a listener? Rockets were down 19 in the fourth quarter, becoming the first team with no fast break points,

no second chance points through three quarters of any playoff game in the play-by-play era since 1997. That is sobering. And that's a team, to me, is it running out of gas? Does being undersized against a team that's got the size advantage of, with you playing them every other day for about and I'm talking about Oklahoma City too playing every other day except for that that little hiatus they had for three consecutive

weeks catching up with them I think it's possible you played the the problem is they they should have choked out the thunder when they had the chance they could have they could have and and so you you get knocked down and drag out against the thunder in a game where they comes down to the final second it's exhausting and you can can kind of ride that wave a little bit into game number one. But then after that, I mean, after game three, you have, I mean, Mike Dantonie even said it himself. He says, like, they ran out of juice. They didn't have their legs, et cetera, et cetera. Then you've got to play in two more days. And yeah, the Lakers are playing every other day as well,

but the Rockets have those extra two games on their legs within one week. So, I mean, is that a factor? Possibly. How much of is it a factor that also it's affecting the rotation that Daniel House Jr. is out? I think those are factors as well. But even forgiving all of those things, You just got to play better. I didn't envision Alex Caruso and Rajan Rondo having the series I've had so far. Yeah. I mean, Caruso had that backbreaker, but I mean, and he scored 16. Rondo was really the backbreaker in game three.

Game four, I feel like the Rockets, they did this to themselves. I mean, Anthony Davis was a monster on the offensive boards. He had, well, three offensive rebounds. A couple of those were just easy putbacks. You had LeBron James with 15 rebounds. I mean, you just can't play this way if you're expecting to win. You cannot give those second chance points up over and over and over again, and you can't let them score so much in transition.

Those are the things that we've talked about this whole time. Lakers are fantastic in transition because LeBron James is one of the best fast break runners in the history of the sport. So you just can't have easy. You can't make it easy for them. And the Rockets made it easy for them last night. And Anthony Davis has not been stopped. I'm telling you, and I've said this before,

if Anthony Davis touched the ball 40 times in a game, the Rockets would be in an even worse trouble than they are right now in this series. He, to me, is the hardest player to stop. No disrespect to LeBron James, because he can beat you from the outside, he can beat you from the mid-range, and he can beat you on those baseline, emphatic, quick-step dunks that I feel like he's been doing a lot of.

And James Cardin can't go two of 11. He just can't. Yeah, he can't. Great comeback, though. Got it to within, what, six last night? Five, yeah. One, yeah. 101, five, 100, I think is where they got it.

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No, we didn't play that one. We just played the season six finale opening song. Oh, so nobody died during that season. Well, a lot of people died. That's what I thought. Like hundreds, but that's okay. I really, I don't remember doing a lot of this because there have been times where one team is out. The Texans losing, like the way they did yesterday, that could carry a whole show.

But we are rotating here. The Rockets just did not show up for the first. three quarters of the game last night. And they're saying that. I mean, this is not me making this. And the assures can't score runs. And there's, we had the caller who was talking about, you know, maybe he's starting to believe that the Astros cheated.

Well, yeah, they cheated. The question is how much did it help and how much did it affect them? Oh, yeah. There's an argument about cheating. They didn't score yesterday, but, I mean, they didn't score much yesterday. But you're talking about the, in these lineups every day, we're getting like Jack Mayfield, Elmes Diaz, Abraham Toros. I mean, Bregman's gone down.

Altuva. Yordon Alvarez out the whole year. Springer missing time. I mean, just about every major, I'm not going to take a whole lot from it just because everybody's been hurt so much. Oh, this is not the real Astros. The problem is, Rossi, we may never see the real Astros again because you've got three outfield spots that are going to be up for free agency. Kyle Tucker's development probably solves at least one of those. I mean, it solves one of them for sure. But I'm not ready to put Yordan Alvarez at the long time.

D.H. With this baseball team, are you kidding me? Once a knee. What the kids say? The kids don't say anything about knees, I don't think.

Shoulders, knees and toes? If the kids were to say once a knee, what would they then follow up? I don't know. Always a knee? Well, maybe not.

No, knees and back are the two ones that concern me more anything else. I understand. Once you get a creaky knee, you can look, it's baseball. All right.

If he was an offensive lineman, I think I'd be more with you. If this were, I don't even know. Some other, where he has to drive his legs all the time. Just swing the hips, baby. Let's go.

Well, he'll pop the ball up every time. It's about the legs, too. I understand. Don't doubt his legs. I think he'll be fine. He's young. He's not the first guy to have Patelerton in surgery. At 24.

Yeah. Well, he might be like 30. Well, we don't know that for sure. So, yeah, as currently constructed, this is not the real Astros. How close do they get? We don't know. Jose Altuby's locked in long term. Bregman's locked in long term.

term. You have Osuna who's going to be a free agent to the end of this year, probably not coming back. Bye. Or he's arbitration eligible, I thought. Oh, that's right. He's arbitration eligible. I would highly doubt if he's going to have Tommy John, if that's indeed the case, which would be a second one, they would offer him anything.

They're not going to pay him for a year to sit out. It's not. If Verlander has to have TJ or is gone for a long period of time and doesn't pitch next year, then he becomes a free agent at the end of the 2020 season. So does Zach Rankie. So maybe get one more year of really good Astros baseball before either you make some significant free agent signings, make some relevant trades, or you hope that whatever is left in your minor league pipeline comes to play and help. Oh, they can just draft college players in the first round and they'll be ready to play pretty soon. Like whom?

Oh, they don't have first round picks. Oh, you brought that up. Soar subject. But if Alvarez comes back, that's a huge. There's your DA. They said he's going to be ready for spring. training. What?

The Astros can tend to fib a little bit. Why would they lie about that? For what reason? Because it's easier to say they fully expect them to come back as compared to saying, we don't know when. All you have to do is say, we expect them to make a full recovery. You don't have to throw in there. We expect them to be ready for spring training.

That's an extra cherry on top. They don't have to throw in there. And they don't know it. They don't. They don't recovery time for Patel or tendon surgery. They also didn't find this until the wrong. run from first to third. Well, they did announce a surgery one day after saying the MRI.

Yeah. Now, I will say this. I don't know how JV's latest mountain session was, bullpen. He threw 50 to 55 pitches apparently. Yeah, but Dusty didn't know the results of it. Okay. So, but if that was the plan, that's more encouraging than I can't throw five feet because my forearm hurts.

You know what I'm saying? I mean, so there's a little bit of positivity on that. One more year of this. hopefully with healthy bodies, full season, fans and stands, and hopefully not Dodger fans waiting for the Astros to land at LAX. But after that, James Cook's going to earn his general manager, Moxie, one way or the other, right? Because this team is going to need serious pitching, because Zach Granky will be done as a free, it will be a free agent.

I know how much you want to pay for a guy that's 38 years old at that point. Forrest Whitley probably will be long gone by then because he'll never have thrown a major league pitch for the team. it feels like. Bullpen needs a massive overall. Now, I will say this, these young guys that we're seeing now, maybe Luis Garcia becomes a member of the starting rotation because he's looked good so far through his two appearances.

Maybe another year of him maturing a little bit, and he's better for it. Andre Scrub becomes a middle reliever that you can trust. Maybe Blake Taylor is that left-hand enclosure you've been looking for. You know what I'm saying? I mean, there is a little bit of benefit of what these guys are doing this year because they're getting first-hand experience. It's like young teams that aren't ready to win,

bringing up their young guys to get their feet wet to Major League Baseball. That's what's happening with the Astros. That's exactly what's happening with the Astros. 7-13-212-5-790. If you want to get in, 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. The Reverend KJ on 790, Rev, what do you got today? What's up, fellas? What's up, man?

I was good to hear y'all, boy. Nice to hear from you. What's up? Real quick, I want to hit on all three. The Astros, I'm in agree with, I don't know if it was the last caller, the caller for him. And they're all looking kind of suspect in regards to, you know, how much the trash can bang and helped them. But I give the Astros a pass right now for the most part because it's such a short season. And the injuries don't bother me.

I heard you mentioned Ross about them having to use Toro and Mayfield. I mean, they've used them significantly in the past. So that's really not an excuse to me. but I do give them as a whole a pass, simply because the season is so convinced right now. The Rockets, I mentioned it when I called you guys last week, and I stand strong.

I stand firmly on it. The Rockets don't have an alpha dog. You look at elite teams in the past, dynasties, a dynasty-type teams, the Lakers with Kobe, or with Magic, the shelters with Bird, the pistons with Isaiah. Those guys were alpha dogs

in the sense that, true enough, they were emotional and competitive, but they killed. their emotions and checked enough to do what needed to be done to win games. I say it then and I say now we're seeing the same thing with the Rockets that we saw the Tracy McGregated and Steve Francis era, putting up all-time great numbers and just not having that internal fortitude to do what it takes to get over the hump of the playoffs. And the fact that you depended too heavily on journey-type players. I mean, PJ Tucker, as much as I love PJ Tucker, PJ Tucker isn't to me that type

He's the type of player you need on a championship team, but he's not somebody that should be a linchpin to a championship team as much as we're dependent on them. And I'm not, this isn't me attacking Tucker. I'm talking about the Daniel Houses, the Ben McLemort. We're dependent too much on guys who, for the most part, on other teams, on actual legitimate teams, would be getting on average, maybe 10 minutes per game at best. And James Harden just doesn't have that in him.

Westbrook is too out of control. said it when we got him, and I told him all my dad but we traded for Westbrook. You just paired up the two two guys who have led the league in the past four seasons in turnos. That's a recipe for disaster and we're seeing that player's tough out over the course of straight down the stretch

in close games. Both of them were two turnover prone, and that's not going to win you a championship when you're in a dogfight of the trenches with championship caliber teams. Last but not least, the Houston, freaking Texas. Man, look, I heard you say earlier, Matt,

that nobody's giving up on the team. Dude, I gave him on a team last year in the week 12. Bill O'Brien is inept. Bill O'Brien is dumb. Bill O'Brien has nowhere thought to put his emotions aside and actually run a quality organization. We got four combined catches from the two guys yesterday who, in essence, are replacing the Andre Hawkins, and that's Randall Cobb and Brandon Cook. We may have got five. No more than five catches. We had an all-world game out of Will Fuller.

you can't make me believe that had DeAndre Hopkins been out there that the results officially wouldn't have been different. You got a good game from the car. I mean, there's just too many indications that Bill O'Brien is not a good coach. And again, I have at least $1,000 with a Texas Gehran Panfrania in my career.

I refuse to wear any of it, and I legitimately root against the Texas because I know the more they lose, the more obvious is going to have to be that we have to get rid of Bill O'Brien. Will it happen anytime soon? I don't know. But I refuse to support him in any way, shape, or form until Butchid gets off the sideline, period, point blank.

I want to hear what you guys got to say, and I'll catch our little next week. All right. Thank you, buddy. No, my point was, if you are still bought in on the Texans, what happened yesterday is not going to let you, is going to eliminate your love for the Texans or what you think they're going to be. if you think the Texans are AFC South champion worthy and can win anywhere between nine games and 11 games. I mean,

the, maybe the Kool-Aid drinkers think 10. Even the Kool-Aid 10-win people thought this was a loss yesterday. Nobody thought, I'm going to change my opinion on the Texans based on what they do yesterday. No one thought that.

They probably didn't change their opinion, but there were people who thought the Texans were going to win. Definitely. They were tweeting me. Because I said, when they went three and out, I said three and out means it's football time in Houston. And there's some guy who's like, well,

make sure you keep that same energy when they win. And I didn't, you know what? I held back, I didn't go after that guy. So let's do this. Logically thinking Texans fans. There are people who really think they're there.

Who love the Texans. Couldn't have thought realistically they were going to win that game yesterday. Well, I don't know. Logically thinking Texans fans might be a, A oxymour. Now, traveling Texan fan thought it was going to be Texans 30 and the Chiefs 14.

I don't count that group. You hate the traveling Texas. Yeah, because they make idiots of us. They run to other cities and put the Texans banner all over the city of whatever logo and go, this is our territory.

We're going to take them down. And then you got your ass kicked in Miami and Atlanta, and Denver, and in Kansas. I mean, I can go on and on and on. Go to the games. Wear a nice collared shirt, but don't put on 48 hats and bling like you're working at TGI Fridays. That's what traveling Texan is.

And I don't like those people. They like to travel the country watching their Texans lose, man. Let them live. They go to city halls of other cities and they rally with flags and voivazalas and drums and crap like that. and then their team in which they travel for blanks the bed. And yet they still go. It's not a trap. Most Texan fans I do enjoy because we are in a city of Houston

at Roots for the local team. That's okay. I'm okay with that. It's just that group that just annoys me to no end. Okay. So yeah, I don't like traveling Texan, but I like most Texan fans because they're realistic. And they think their team's going to win 9 to 10 games this year,

but it won going to be yesterday. So if you were anti- Bill O'Brien, You didn't hate him today and then loved him yesterday. If you were tired of him, you were tired of him last year. So that's why I said nothing happening yesterday was going to change how people felt about Bill O'Brien. 114. It is the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790.

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I have been to Waco. I've been through Waco. Yeah, when I go to Lovick to take Cameron to school, I go through Waco. Yeah, when you go up Boston to Dallas for the OU weekend. The what? For OU weekend. Where is the game played? The Cotton Bowl?

State Fair. Oh, okay. Oh, you take. Okay. So I was going to say, why don't you call it OU Texas weekend? You just call it OU weekend. Okay.

That's what the, when you're in Texas, you say, hey, are you even, actually you just call it OU this weekend? It is, and it is South Oklahoma,

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many years ago. I've not seen the new stadium. I want to go check out the new facility. I want to see if Baylor, you know, Baylor's going to in and out too, by the way. Probably closer to my house than the one is currently in Katie. I'm just kidding. I was kidding.

Okay. No, I'm just kidding. Sorry, man. You're going over my head here. It's fine. And they dance now and Baylor, apparently, and drink. Oh, that's good. Got good whiskey and wake go now.

I'm going to take your word for it. You'll find out more next week. All right, 713, 212-790. We've got two lines open. You guys have been, really, the calls have been really good today, have they not? I don't agree with everybody, but they're good conversation pieces for sure. So don't be afraid to come on in. We are the world's most interactive radio show.

The world's most interactive radio show. I mean, not this is the national. We are the world's most interactive radio show. We're going to make our NFL picks come out for the 2 o'clock hour. Brian T. Smith will join us in 38 minutes. He was in Kansas City yesterday. We'll also get you some handicapping help as well. And what is today's edition of, oh, hell, yeah or not.

Can you do eight questions on? Clyde Edwards, E-Lair? Yeah, you don't pronounce the H, by the way. Did you notice that? I know. Somebody, buddy of mine... I saw an E-Lair as well rather than A-Lair. Yeah, I think it's A-Lair, for sure.

There's no H. Well, I thought it was E-Lair, though. I've seen that as well. I'll accept either one. Buddy of mine texting me, says he thought that Al Michaels really slipped last night in calling game. Did you find that to be accurate? I thought, well, he was lethargic in the second half,

but that's just every Texans game that's on Sunday night football when they're getting blown out. You seem a little dissent. But I mean, that's every play-by-play man, right? When someone's up 31 to 7, you're not going to be rising up to the occasion for these crappy Texans to mean-nothing touchdowns. He is in his 70s. Yeah. I still think he's got his fastball.

I wouldn't say that. I would say he's mostly good. I do love his. I got to look at myself on camera all the time. And I also love his not-so-slai gambling references. Yes. He might be the oldest broadcaster in a prime spot. Because a lot of guys are of his age, too, but they're not calling them nearly as big a game.

Yeah, maybe he is 75. Marv. How is Marv? Marv is somewhere around there. I'm going to say he's like 73, 74. Okay, maybe I stink. Well, I would say Al Michael is 79. But didn't go to the bubble.

That's true. Well, he's high risk. He does TNT's number one team. I would probably think I would put Al Michaels above Marv in terms of more prestigious job. Okay. Yeah. Career-wise, Al-Michols. Al Michaels too.

Probably. Because Marbs, Marb's done a lot of NBA finals, but that's also been 20 years ago. And Al Michaels never bit a transvestite in the back. Man, you don't let that lie, do you? I'm just making a statement of fact. Yeah, but I mean, people make mistakes.

I made mistakes when I was 25. Okay. People don't bring them up that know about it. Oh, actually, it was a woman. I thought I was a transvestite. Never mind. Well, does it really matter? DNA testing linked Albert to genetic material taken from the bite marks.

Okay, we're done. I don't know why I ask. One more thing I want to ask about, can we please get a Daniel House update of some sort? Some sort. At 2 o'clock? From Dan Tony? Mike Dan Tony is going to talk at two. We'll hear from him after we visit with Brian T.

So, so far, Mike's not saying anything. Mike's basically like, we're waiting for the NBA to investigate. We've been told nothing, so I can't report that. He's got to be so frustrated. Oh, for sure. That's a bigger loss in some people are talking about. I thought part of you last night was the deflation of not having him again. Well, I mean, I think it's just wearing on the rotation.

You don't have that guy. He's one of your best perimeter defenders, if not your best perimeter defender. He's got size and length. He can get to the basket a little bit, and he can make threes. I mean, what else? That's Rockets role player to a T. So, yeah, it's a material loss, absolutely, for the Rockets. Let's go to Keith on the West Side on 790 at,

125. Hello, Keith. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Happy Friday. Same to you. Okay, I have a couple of questions, and you just, y'all were just touching on it. Is how suspended by the league or is this Mike D'Antony's decision? No, it is not Mike Dantone's decision. It was personal reasons, and then,

I don't know how they, Rossi, how they class fought last night. It was under investigation by the NBA, right? Yeah. Yeah, I don't believe the two. term personal reasons was meant for this. So this was more of, we're holding you out until we figure out what's going on. Well, how do you just, you can't just kick somebody out of the league without being convicted of something? Nobody's kicking out of league, but they, if he violated protocol, he can be out between seven and ten days. That's the issue. I don't know why it's gone on,

hold on, I don't know why it's gone this long. It shouldn't take four days to figure this out. There's not like a bunch of cases in front of him. So he didn't test positive or nothing like that, right? No, but there are rules about who is in your room, who is allowed to be in your room, where you're supposed to go. There's a variety of things. I can tell you that unless you were cleared by the NBA, you cannot have a guest in there unless they clear the NBA protocol.

And it sounds like to me this woman did not clear NBA protocol. Okay, I got a big question. How big? One to ten. this is a 9.9.5. It's a big one. I'm ready. So if the Rockets lose, and you already know that I'm pretty sure

that Dan Tony's going to be kicked to the curve, do you think that's the end of small ball or can we get somebody like Billy Donaldson that can actually make this thing work? Do you think it's Mike Dan Tony's fault it's not working? No, I don't. I mean, hold on. Let me finish.

before you go, because I'm going to give you the chance. If anything that Mike Dantonie has been criticized for, it has been not putting enough, not pressure, but time, heart, soul, into his team's defensive work. If I'm going to give anybody in the NBA today a coach and say, hey, here are my players, give me something offensively to work with,

Mike D'Antony, not by my opinion, by the opinion of every NBA coach would be one, the top three in the list. You give me a bunch of guys that stand between, say, 6-4 and 6-7, make it work. Mike Dantonian is going to be the guy that people are going to go to. And that's why I say if you're looking for a coach that can mesh this group together, it's not going to be anybody, I think, any better than Mike Dantonie at this point, at least from an offensive side.

Okay, but would you know, and I know that if they lose, like if they lose tomorrow, they're going to fire Dan Tony. but I don't want it to be the end of small ball. So I'm trying to figure out who can they get. Because I think we only like one shooter away from making this going to the world champion, being a world champion. We like one shooter away. Or somebody like house an upgraded house. Well, you know what you need, though?

You know what you need, honestly? You need that. I think you're talking about this right now. You need a pure ass jump shooter. You need a younger JJ Redick. You need a younger Danny Green. Am I right on this, Ross, in terms of just spot up, give me the ball. If you leave me open, I'm going to make you pay every single time.

I agree. I agree. And House, I'm saying we just need an upgraded player a little bit better than House because House can drive to the basket. He can shoot. He can play defense. We need somebody that's upgraded from House. I'm sure they're going to kick House out of the Rock. after whatever this debacle comes clear.

He's done. I'm sure he's done with the rocket. I think the Antonio's going to be done with the rockets if we lose tomorrow. But I don't want it to be the end of small ball. Well, I mean, yeah, you're kind of forced to keep with it. Thank you for the phone call. Good stuff. The question is, did the rockets give up too quickly on Clint Capella at the 5?

Rossi, I've got to be honest with you. I've been happy with Robert Covington. you know, it's not like the Rockets were a great rebounding team even when Clint was here. Now, 610 is 610. I get that. But Robert Covington should, in theory, open things up for a little more diverse in the offense, especially from a jump-tuning perspective, that all Clint was good for was two feet and inside. And I'll give you another factor of why he was traded away.

He was going to be out for the season with his foot problem. So the Rockets are going all in. If Clint Capell is out for the season, he provides them nothing. You give them away to a young team and the Atlanta Hawks that can stash them and get a lottery pick. And then you get something of value, which Robert Covington was. So that all factored into the Rockets going all in on this small ball. And you can win with it. Now, I think maybe there is something to them doing this for 40 minutes, a game with, I mean, PJ Tucker playing so many minutes and all that.

Maybe it is a little bit too taxing and they need some help. But this is what they, this is the life they've chosen. they can't go away from it. This is the way they're going to play. They're all of a sudden. They're not going to just start playing, starting Tyson Chandler. And the small ball, by the way, is working because Markief Morris started that game instead of Javele McGee. Everyone before this series, you got to play big with Dwight Howard and Javail McGee.

They're not playing in this series. Because the Rocket Small Ball works, they just need to play better. 131 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. Brian T. in half an hour. He was in Kansas City. He saw it first hand. We'll get to that.

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She's a real Texan. Real Texans talk here. Sports Talk 790. Wow. We just got to continue to just do our job, finally. rhythm, you guys on the same page, and that's pretty much it. You know, make sure that, you know, clue to myself, you know, we just got to continue. They just can keep improving it and try to learn from this game and go on it and get ready for

next week. Ross, I'm not an NFL expert, nor do I pretend to play it like I'm won, but that wasn't a defense that was scary last night, was it? I mean, the chiefs are going to be probably middle of the pack when it's all said and done. I think there were somewhere, yeah, middle of the pack as well last year, like 13th. It wasn't really the offense's fault. It was the fact the defense couldn't get off the field because so many players, I mean, the only thing I noticed about JJ yesterday, honestly, was him moving around all throughout the defensive line,

running over the nose. I mean, he was on both edges. I mean, I like that. Three tackles, two quarterback hits. They only had three quarterback hits the whole game. That's the problem. For comparison, the Kansas City had eight. That's because the offensive line was not good.

Correct. Zach Fulton did not look good. The first round pick, Titus Howard, did not look good. Had a nice false start early in the game. Yeah, it's funny. It was so crazy. So Titus Howard gets called for the false start, and they announced 78. Yeah, because they're just used to it.

Because as now Michael said, well, you know, if you leave the league in fall starts, Tonsal's like, damn, no, no, no, no, no, that's not me. I had enough of those last year. Yes, he did. Because he was being, um, he was being, um, he was being, not isolated. What was he saying? Provoked, not provoked. He was being, um, what do you call when someone's got an eye on you?

Watched. Yeah, I bet that works. No, well, he, he used a phrase. Yeah, he did. He used. I can't remember what it was. That wasn't, Titus. Targeted?

Targeted. That's the word. They were watching him. So any sort of movement would have gotten him. Yeah, here you go. He says there was a target on his back. Mm. It worked out okay. A target on your back for false starts?

Nope. Again, what you would say in the heat of the battle. That's like saying there's a target on my back for robbing convenience stores. I'm committing the crime. Or there's a target on your back for you being in a car getting tickets all the time. Yeah. I'm going 98 miles an hour. It must be because of this...

Target on my back. This big sports car I'm driving. All right, back at it. 713-212-5-790. David's in Aldine on the Matt Thomas show. David, what's a good word this afternoon? Hey, I just wanted to ask about the Texans. I think you hit on it pretty good.

The biggest thing I saw, or I think it's wrong, it's going to be the defense all year long. But also, kind of tongue-in-cheek, did you think that some of the Texans maybe boycotted a game and just didn't let anybody know? when you're down 31-7, that wouldn't be the worst thing you've ever been said. Thank you for the phone call. Did you think...

It was an accidental boycott, three-quarters in. Interesting before the game. So the chiefs come out and do their thing and the Texans stay in. Yes. And I will say this. As you know, I would like for teams to stand for the National Anthem. But I respect their decision not to. My preference would be for them to do it.

But it is interesting because this is one of the things that I think was going to be brought up. is that they would have come out for the, what's the name of that song, uplifting one, whatever is? Lift every voice and sing. What is that? Is that the African American National Anthem? It's been called the Black National Anthem.

I don't know what it is. But if they would have stood for that and then knelt for the other one, then that would have been much more of a blank show than them coming out before the game with neither one. So I understand why they did that. It was interesting. You could hear booze.

now that was that was because they didn't they weren't out there for the anthem or they were just anti- Texans fans anti-Texans and then there were some people that thought they put in

some positive crowd cheering when the Texans came out to kind of balance it out whether the chiefs would be vulnerable to that again the best thing we had

was when the game kicked off we didn't have any of that stuff because that's what we went for we went for sports yesterday let me go to Mark in Seabrook at 142. Mark, what do you got today? Just change gears to college football.

We're on the eve of really getting more down to the nitty-gritty and getting to play and more. Big Sooner fan here. The other day, they were talking about picking the best four on your show. You know, normal suspects of Bama, Clemson, Georgia, Oklahoma, or LSU stuff. This had been the year that I'd like to see the NCAA go. just on the fly with something they don't do they take decades to do

anything on the fly is to say we're going to have we're going to have 18 playoff and eight teams are playing they'll play in different locations and then we'll bring four together wherever the championship

is being the I don't know where it is this year New Orleans or Orange Bowl or Jerry World and you play that they'll play both teams that play on Saturday. And then a week later, since you're going to have small crowds, small contingencies

coming from different schools, keep them a week later and then have the championship get. And maybe this is a way to break the ice and get into at least an 18 playoff. I can't disagree. I think 18 would be perfect. I think it would be fair. It would give all power five conferences one championship. You take the highest ranked group of six, and then you have two wild cards after that.

I don't know Ross, and I think Joe Clyde disagrees with that. I think he likes it at four. I think he says when you got it at four, that makes every regular season game mean that much more. I like the fact because every year there is a Power 5 conference team, usually the Pac-12, the bitches and moans, they don't have their representation in there. Well, on the eight-team bracket, you would have that. I would like the eight, just the best eight, no matter what.

Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, if there's a, like, a Pac-12 conference's champion is like 15th, and they're just not, and they have three losses or something. Get them out of here. No, top eight. I just think while in theory you're right, I think you're going to have to get an automatic bid to get by it. All right. All right. 144. We got phone lines available. If you want to come on in, 713-212-5-790, 7-13-213-2-790 on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsMT and at Brendan Riley underscore. 2 o'clock, Brian T, NFL picks at 220.

And we'll get an update from Mike Dan Tony with a press availability in the next hour as well. It's Sports Talk 790, 713-212-5-790. The morning sports show for those who partied in Midtown way too hard last night. The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. First half, we had trouble stopping a run, and the time of possession was not good, which involves the offense, too. But I play the run better, obviously. Then we came out in the second half, and they scored on that.

first drive and that was tough because we needed to stop there to do it but to get the ball back to the offense I thought the guys fought you know they at the end we were able to score a couple touchdowns there at the end but it was too little too late so there's there's some things to build on but we got a long way to go here obviously why are you playing this cut again oh is not the same one oh my god sounds like a broken record does anybody let me ask you something build on if you are Texans Karen, Texans Debbie, Texans Joe. Texans Rodriguez. Texan Rodriguez.

Are you buying into what he just said that the guys didn't quit and that it looked a lot better in the fourth quarter? Yeah, Matt, they had momentum to build up on. Yesterday was a momentum free game. The momentum I remember is 31 to 7 and watching a Kami Fairbairn hit kick a field goal that landed in Columbia, Oindore, Wichita, Kansas instead of to the uprights in Kansas City, Missouri.

And by the way, again, not that he's going to make every 51-yard kick. But today's kickers are supposed to make 50s way more than they used to. That's correct. And there was 53 degrees, but there was no real wind or rain to speak of at that point. He needed to become close.

Well, close doesn't count, but it just, it was kind of a doink. Isn't it crazy that it's been hot as hell around here and then somewhere in the world, it's 53 degrees and it's really not that far away? How about in Lubbock a couple of days? It was 40 degrees. Is that right?

Yeah. That sounds lovely. I said, Cameron, take advantage of that. Girls need a jacket to wear if they're cold outside or whatever. Yeah, they get all bundled up. And me as a male, I look, when I put a hoodie on, I look at least 10 pounds thinner because it's all hidden. Gotcha. So, no, I took nothing from that.

Again, I'm not saying that I have any different opinion about Bill. I don't think he's a worst coach today than he was yesterday. He's right where I thought it would be. that's what we get to do Ross we see history repeat itself we know that Andy Ree was going to outcoach Bill O'Brien we know that the Texans offense was not going to outperform can city's offense and we had a sneaking suspicion the Texans defense wasn't going to put up much of a fight against this ferocious offense nothing really surprised us except we were waiting for the final score and perhaps a late cover or a late over or and the late over happened that late

cover did not but you know what I'm saying there wasn't anything surprising no I wasn't surprised So I'm not going to go, you've got to fire the coat. No, this is, that would be insane. This is the best we can do. This is Texans football. This is get used to it. Tackles. Zach Cunningham, 8, McKinney 7, Murray, 7, Roeby 6, Reed 5, Justin Reed, John Reed 5,

Hargraves 4, These are combined tackle, excuse me. Yeah, Hall 4, Merciless 3, Watt, 2, Martin 2, Scarlett. I mean, it was 6 and 7 yards of play. Yeah, it was. Now, I didn't think of the Kansas City offense being nearly as time-consuming as it was, but when you hand the ball off to the running, but the rookie running back every time he's punching for 5 and 6 every yards,

and then you're dinking and doyunking to Travis Kelsey, right? And Sammy Watkins, there wasn't a need for the big 7th, step drop and for Pat Mahomes to throw the ball 60 yards down the field to try to catch a corner or napping. Well, they did have one of those. That was the early touchdown that was called back to DeMarcus Robinson. And I actually think that Justin Reed did a pretty good job

putting up his hands just in the right spot so he couldn't correctly grasp the football and finish the catch. So I'll give him credit on that one. Good job, Texans. But how about the fact that Cobb doesn't play until late in the contest? Well, he played.

Randall, yeah. And he just wasn't, people didn't know that he played because he got zero targets like the first three quarters of the game. Was he on the field in the first quarter half? I believe he was. Oh, I didn't think he made that. I thought he was. That's what I read. He was getting snaps.

Okay. Well, then that's fine. But he was just, he was like the, unfortunately he was like the Austin Rivers. It was just a guy out there, right? Yes. By the way, we need Austin Rivers to have a big game for the bench. Because it sounds like to me that we're not getting Daniel House back. Why?

Somebody off that bench has got to be a hero. I don't need to I don't need somebody to switch sports in between a conversation No, that's okay No, again I don't I think unless you were just the biggest

diehard you have you see nothing wrong with your team under any circumstance that was that was a football team that was supposed to go up there take a loss come back hopefully correct things

and look a lot better against Baltimore that wasn't a team that was going to go up there and surprise him It just wasn't. It didn't work. I mean, it was, Matt, you nailed the score just about.

Yeah. It's not surprising. And again, that's why I think today, if you call and say Bill O'Brien's got to go, well, then you're just, you just don't have a pulse of the team. Because if you were anti Bill O'Brien, you were anti Bill O'Brien the day that he got the general manager's tag. You were anti Bill O'Brien the day that the Texans got their ass kicked in Kansas City earlier. You were anti Bill O'Brien and said, I'm done with Bill O'Brien the day that he traded DeAndre Hopkins. And by the way, let's talk about that tweet a little bit. We forgot to mention that so far today.

Oh, from DeAndre? Yeah, now, he is claiming that that was off of an appearance on the Jimmy Fallon show. Oh, okay. Which I didn't see because did you watch Channel 2 News last night right after? No. How many murders and grizzly deaths that get two before you turn off? Oh, really? It was a half an hour of fan reaction.

So they... Yeah, after the game, I was hosting the, uh, the post game show around then, I think. Okay. So they did a story by our friend Vanessa at Channel 2. She was at NRG where they had like a mini tailgate party. They did? Yeah.

And they interviewed fans there that were upset. Who the hell goes to a Texan's tailgate party for the chief slaughter? Everything's different in 2020. I ain't going to judge that. I'm judging. Okay, I'm judge free on that. They're going to get their ass wapped. Where did they watch the game?

They have sprung out there? Yeah. And apparently they brought their PA announcer out to David Brady, who I follow on Twitter. He was doing the PA of that game with those fans in the parking lot.

You just pull like a Homer Simpson backing into the bushes when it gets 31-7? That's a good gift. Okay. It's like, hey, guys, oh, you know what? I just remember it.

I got to get my dog. There was a story about that. I walked my dog. Then there was a story of fans at the game in Kansas City at the stadium. Oh, the traveling Texans. Your faves.

They're not my faves. I don't like them at all. do not like them. Did they have their faces painted? Oh, duh. Cowboy hats, bling. It was like they came up their shift at Fridays and went right inside the stadium. Oh, they had their pieces of flare?

Yeah, they had flare. Not being flare. And then they had, then they sent a Houston life. You know that show they do in the afternoons called Houston Life? I have no idea what that is. It's like a local version of the view. I know, not the view, but, Regis and I don't know. Really? Who's on it? Joel Osteen?

No, I don't know who these people are. But they had the dude in a bar in Kansas City doing a story about a Texan fan at a bar in Kansas City. Cool. So basically it was, no, we're not going to show you who got caught in a gunfire attack or who got, or how many COVID cases are. That's usually where they go. It was a half an hour of fan reaction. They could have just called me. Hello, Channel 2. Who's this? This is Matt Thomas. What are the fans? The fans hated it.

Except traveling Texan. They just loved their trip. That's what their coverage was. So apparently Jimmy Fallon. So was DeAndre on Jimmy Fallon? I didn't see it. I didn't see it either. Oh, okay.

If that's what he's talking about. But he was grateful, apparently, of what he said. By the way, Randall Cobb got 46 of the 59 snaps. Boy, you talk about outside of mind. And how many targets did he have? Three. In 46 snaps. Yes.

Okay. Fair enough. Ten targets for Will Fuller. Caught eight of them. He looked good after the first drop. Drops are going to happen. Seeing the Fuller finish a game, I'm okay with that. Yeah.

It wasn't complete disaster. David Johnson was good. Brian T. was in Kansas City. We'll talk to him next. A minute before 2 on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show. 202 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show.

We take you to 3 o'clock. We'll be giving you an update on what Mike Dantone has to say in about 12 or 13 minutes from now. We'll also give you our NFL picks of the week. We'll do all that at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We are attempting to get a hold of Brian T. Smith. I don't know if his flight was later

or whatever the case may be. Poor Aaron Reese Ross was with the, you know, he's our buddy with the athletic he's on with us Tuesdays. His flight was supposed to get to like Kansas City at like 1115. I don't think he got there to like three in the afternoon. Four hours of airport sitting with the mask on it's got to be a little bit short of super sucks.

Yeah, can you still, do you take your mask off when you eat the antians or how does that work? You can do that. Okay. How many antians could you eat in one sitting? Three? I go higher. What are you going with? I mean, if somebody was paying me to or if I wanted to.

No, I'm saying if you were like, hey, let's not have a meal with protein or vegetables. We're going all, we're carboloading. We're just going to have a carbolo full loaded lunch. I could probably do four pretzels comfortably. Okay. I wouldn't want more than three. You'd be sick of it after the third one, wouldn't you? They're thin.

You're a big Annie Ann's guy. I'm a huge Annie Ann's guy. Are they only in airports? In malls? I was going to say, in a mall. Have you seen them outside of a mall or an airport? Are there brick and mortar Annie Ann's locations? No.

No. Where would you do that? Who would, by the way, if you got in your car and was driving down the long, I'm hungry, what do you want to get for a snack? Let's go get an antian. No, there's no way to do that. Like, look up on maps on your maps on your phone where the nearest Annie Anz is. Let's see, the Galleria. There's two of them in the Galleria.

Yeah. Memorial City Mall. Two of them in Memorial City Mall. Oh, there's one in H-EB grocery in Pearland. Really? That's a game changer. Oh, there's one at the pilot gas station in Pasadena. Dina.

Yeah, these are in the airport. So I'd have to go to the hits. If I want any end's that bad, I'd go buy a plane ticket. Or go to the mall. Or go to the mall. Yeah, this is it. They're all at the,

they're at the outlet malls, Baybrook Mall. Not knowing things, what works and what doesn't work, I would assume that opening up a pretzel-only shop would not be successful. Agree or disagree. The one of the Greens Point Mall sells ammo.

Now, what if you did? pretzels and lemonade. That could be a game changer too. You're speaking of carbol loading. And sure. That's what I was saying. How many carbs are you going to have after that? Too many.

They won't tell the doctor. All right. Headlines the day. Mike Dan Tony is going to speak here any moment now. We'll get a couple of comments from him. Mostly about this, maybe about the series. And maybe I bought an update on Daniel House. My guess is that it's not, here's the thing, Ross.

It's honestly not going to be up to Mike Dantony to give the announcement. shams or woge will break something and say, we have found out this. This is making me sad. I'm watching the jump right now on ESPN. It has been on for six minutes and everything is about are the Rockets done? I hope not.

I hope we have a game six. Three in a row. Daniel House comes roaring back, scores 15 in the next game, locks down LeBron James. And the Rockets win three straight. I don't want to do this, but have you guys seen the numbers

in LeBron's career? up 3-1. Are they bad? Are they really good? He normally doesn't get up 3-1. He's done it more times than you think. Okay.

That's okay. That has no bearing on tomorrow's game. He's never been up 3-1 in 2020 against the Rockets. I hate those stats numbers. As a Laker, this is only his first playoff here as a Laker. Think about that too. Yeah. Things can change.

It doesn't matter. It's a different situation. He's in a different team. I don't like stats like that. By the way, Jones says that you can find him in the frozen section of grocery stores. Oh, there you go. That's not the same, though.

We bought an ant-a-a-hast. Oh, we actually bought super pretzel. What do you put a good yellow muster on there? You go with the stone ground? Both, but super pretzels the one we usually buy. We don't buy any end. Super pretzel? Yeah, that's their competitor.

Are you just a pretzel eating family? We do enjoy a pretzel. Matt Thomas family, the Thomas family loves a soft pretzel. Like, I promise my daughter, I'm taking her and her girlfriends to them all tomorrow. I will partake in an annes tomorrow. You don't let them go shop and then you're going to hit the a nianns. Correct. Wonderful.

Get that and a big glass of iced tea. be done for the rest of the day. They're going to hit the journeys and the aeropostile and then you're going to go to the Aeney. Do they go to Spencer's? Kids hit in the hot topic

these days? I don't know. I've been doing them all once in the last three years. Only news we get about malls and I won't mention the mall's name is that there's yet

another robbery there or somebody got held at gunpoint while getting in their car. Deerbrook? I said I wasn't going to name them all. Am I wrong? 713-212-5.

790, 713, 212, 5, 790. Brian, we're doing an APB for Brian T. Smith, who's been with us every Tuesday at 5 at 2 o'clock for how long, years and years and years? Let's go to Mark in New York City. Mark in New York, New York City. Mark, how are you? I'm very well. Thank you. What's up? So the Texas look really bad on defense. They're running and their past defense with bad. I want to get asked you a question.

Do you think that the preseason games were needed? Because the Texans looked asleep at the wheel. Do you, okay, I'm going to throw it back at you. I don't mean to do this to you, but I'm going to anyway. Do you really think four preseason games would have been able to stop what was the Kansas City offense yesterday? Unlikely, no. Okay. Well, I'm going to completely 100% agree with you.

Okay. Yeah, it was a massacre. I got news for you, Mark. Eight preseason and games would have made a difference. Twelve preseason games would have made a difference. I mean, honestly, and we always do this with Ross all the time. And Roy, you can jump in. If the Texans and Chiefs play 10 times, 12 times, four neutral,

four Houston, four Kansas City. How many times are the Texans beating the Chiefs? At least once or twice. Three. Three, so they got a 33% chance. No, the money line was worse than that, so maybe two. Okay, so, ooh, not great. Two or three.

Yeah, unfortunately, you could have. had co-ed, you could have had practices, you could have had scrimmages. Pat Mahomes and the Chiefs are, and again, this is something we didn't know before the game. They're just way better. I agree. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. Right? They're just way better. Yeah, the text. They didn't do anything except slow. The only surprise yesterday for the Chiefs was they just didn't do it as quickly. They had long time-consuming drives. They wanted a running game. They now have it. Yeah, and they still scored 34 points. The slowed down Chief scored 34 points on the, on the Texans, and it could have been a lot more.

They could have got a punch in a touchdown there at the end. Yeah. That's, and look, Rossi, they're going to go, are they going to beat the Ravens next week? Unless the Ravens have terrible hotel accommodations, unless their flight was super turbulent coming here. Even then. There's no fans. So it's not like the, you know, the bullpen's going to be worth three or four points.

You need about a third of the team to get the vid-19. You know what, I might even let that happen. I'm not going to put that on this show. I don't want anybody getting... Well, there's actually like two people I want to get the COVID. But nobody else. The line is up for some books. Some books, they're six-point favorites at Houston.

What is your first blush to say? What they're going to do? Bet Baltimore. Embedded heavy. Because, let's be honest, if the Texans play better, which I can't believe they would play worse, the Ravens have a prolific offense

two with a quarterback that's perhaps, well, I'd say perhaps, is a better runner than Pat Mahomes is. Now, Pat's a better passer. Well, the Texans couldn't stop the run in week one. The Ravens have one of the best run offenses in the entire league in the last several years, and they might even be better with what they have, they still have Mark Ingram coming back. They've got J.K. Dobbins right now.

And oh, by the way, Lamar Jackson is one of the most dynamic running quarterbacks we've ever seen. So you're betting heavy Texans, you're betting heavy Baltimore minus the, you're betting heavy Baltimore minus the six. That will probably be, if we beat the Schmo's next week, I will be picking the Baltimore race. That line's going to go up too, right? We would see.

Why would you, you're going to give the Texans still two and a half points for being at home despite with no fans? No home field advantage, yeah. Unless they just don't think Baltimore is as good as Kansas City, that would be clearly what I would think. They would think being in a different stadium is got to be worth something.

Because how much different are Kansas City and Baltimore right this second? Is there a considerable distance between the two of them? And they're one, too, and I think it's clear cut. But Baltimore, but Kansas City at home, now, did have fans. They were nine and a half favorites. Okay, so maybe there, I bet you that line gets to seven next week. Okay.

And feel, seem about fair? I'll still take both. All right, we're going to try to chase down BTS. And we'll come back with that. If not, we'll do some picks. And we got a lot of things going on, believe it or not today, at two, actually, it's hellier or not, at 250. 2.12.

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Are we doing this right now? Yeah, because we're moving things around. We're trying to get a hold of Brian T. Where is he at, do? I don't know. We're going to try to listen to a little bit of Mike Dan Tony's press conference coming up in a little bit as well. And we do have hellier or not coming up.

Oh, we don't because we have no prizes. Final out of the program has fallen apart. Not what we kind of expected. But we're live. We didn't tape this bad boy. All right, here's how it works. Ross and I and Brendan are just going to be strictly for bragging rights only. Wonderful.

We're going to pick four games. And we're going to keep track so you know who to go with when you're making your wages. When you go to legal Vegas. How about we all three go to dinner? And then at the end, whoever's last place has to pay. You in for that? Now, well, since Brendan's very poor, we can just make it McDonald's for him. I'm in for that as long as we don't go anywhere super fancy.

How about it is? Why don't we just go get pizza? Yeah, it's perfect. I can do that. Okay, would they have to buy pizza for everybody. Yeah, either here or we go eat it. Like a large with some pepperoni rolls. Yeah, and a nice green salad.

Okay. Tossed. And sauced. Dice, sliced covered in, we're talking about, let's go to Waffle House. Waffle House. Waffle house would be a better call. You can run up the bill at a waffle house. That's fine, too.

All right, we're going to Waffle House on this. Are you, is there Waffle House is up in the Midwest? There are, but I don't believe I've ever been to one. Yeah. It's not like Georgia or Florida or something. Oh, my God. Waffle House is the goat. It really is. Is there even one near here?

Yeah, there was one. They had some gunshots last week, though. Oh, that's fine. Just pack your heat. Brennan, you're packing heat, right? All right, I'm going to go first. Again, we're going to bet four games. What am has to be the Texans, but they already played so we can't use that one.

Wonderful. Minimum bet is $1,000. max bet is 5,000 so you can make as much as 10,000 points in a week. Either you win the points, you lose them, right? Yes. Here we go. I will take the...

See, I'm reading this on an email a long ways. Here we go. Is Seattle a 10-point favorite or a 10-point dog? No, that's over-under. Okay, I'm reading the wrong line. Seattle is two-and-a-half-point favorite. Seattle is a two-and-a-half-favored Atlanta. I like the road team in this game. I'm taking Seattle minus a two-and-a-half

for 2,000. M.T. Bucks. Ching. We're working on this. Next, I'm going to take the Las Vegas Rades. You just wanted to say Rades. I think they need to make a good opening statement

wearing the new gear, or at least the new city gear. Okay. It's minus three on that one. I'll take Las Vegas minus the three for 1,000 MT. bucks. Next, I will take the Indianapolis Colts

minus the 8. I love this matchup. I think Big Philly style is going to try to have a big first game. Oh, I like that. I'll take Big Philly style in Indianapolis minus 8 over Jacksonville for 5,000 M.T. bucks. And my last game, I'm going to go with the Sanford, Arizona Cardinals, not to win the game, but I'm going to give get them plus the seven over San Francisco for 2,000 MT bucks.

So my recap is I like Seattle minus a two and a half for two. Las Vegas minus a three for a thousand. Indianapolis minus eight for five thousand and Arizona plus seven for two thousand MT bucks. Wonderful. I'll go next, Matt. And I talked about this a couple of segments ago about how big I am on Baltimore this year. And I did pick them to win in the Super Bowl. So I'm going to be big on Baltimore, probably a lot in the beat the Schmo.

certainly this week at home hosting the Cleveland Browns. Minus the seven and a half. Gotta go with Baltimore for 4,000 M.T. Bucks. Ding, ching, ching, ching. Well, Brendan, no, I got to tell them. Next way. It's on me. It's on me.

It's on me. I didn't explain the segment today. So next, I actually, this is going to surprise some people. I like Miami this week. Plus the six and a half. Ryan Fitzpatrick as the quarterback against one of his 17 former teams.

I think they're going to be, and New England might fall a little bit flat. They probably still win the game, but six and a half is a decent cushion. I will take Miami for 3,000 M.T. bucks. That's a big wager on that game. Thank you, Matt.

All right. I like to spread the case around. Next, I'm going with the Philadelphia Eagles. Carson Wince is back. I like what they've got. A lot of uncertainty in Washington, although they still have some weapons, and they're going to be good.

But five and a half, I think they win that one by about a touchdown. so I will go Philadelphia for 2,000 M.T. bucks. What's the Philadelphia line? Five and a half. Five and a half. Okay. And last but not least, I will be going with,

where's the one that I wanted? I'm going to be going with the, I'm actually fading MT, Carolina, at home, getting the three, Teddy Bridgewater, Christian McCaffrey is going to run wild all over the Las Vegas Raiders, plus the three.

I'm taking Carolina for 1,000 MT box. All right, you're up next, Brendan. Okay, so I'm going to start with the Rams plus three home versus the Cowboys. I just expect early Cowboys letdowns. It feels right, and I think the Rams are going to bounce back some. That's going to be $3,000. I'm going to keep everything low here. Big, big, first wager.

I've got to get to $10,000 somehow. Tusha. New Orleans, minus three and a half, home versus the Buccaneers. I just think this is the best team in the end. NFC. That's going to be 2000. M.T. Bucks. All right. Are there still M.T. bucks even when I'm the one

betting them? Oh, yeah. Okay. Next week, you're going to be playing sound effect you don't even know about yet. This is the Matt Thomas show. Oh. Lest you forget. We look for vague ways to slide in references in the show. It's all about Matt Thomas.

Okay. I can't argue. Next, I'm going to take Seattle minus two and a half at Atlanta. 3,000 on that one. That by my U of H math means you have 6,8, 2,000 left. Yeah, I'm just going to accept that this early on in the season, we don't know these teams yet,

and try and keep everything nice and close. And then finally, I've said I don't buy Buffalo. I think last year was just a happy surprise for them. I'm going to take the Jets plus six and a half. I don't see Buffalo beaten many teams by significant margins this year. $2,000 bucks on that one. There you go. Bill's Jets, another, that's a week one afterthought right there.

It is. I don't even think people in New York State want that game. I'm looking for the value. Yeah, but I mean, No, yeah, that's fine. I'm just talking about it in general. We all get free DirecTV. Hey, and there's one way to make yourself care about that game?

Like, we all get, on DirecTV, we get free league pass this week. Oh, nice. Or you mean Sunday ticket. Yeah. I'm not watching a second of that Jets Buffalo. I'm red zone guy. I'm going to be all on the red zone. Like the Chargers?

Oh, yes, a blessing, too. Chargers Cincinnati wouldn't be intriguing at all except that Joe Burroughs going to make his debut for them It's always a blessing when the Texans aren't on during the whole red zone Oh You don't have to focus on them Oh, so good Oh, I'm gonna get six hours of red zone on Sunday

What a beautiful weekend And invite people to the house Nah, I'm good Serve for some fajitas Do whatever you can I'm trying to social distance right now Fair enough All right, uh 226

Let's do this let's go to time out And let's come back and hear what Mike Dantonia to say Is that fair to do? Okay You all right with that? Let's do it All right, if you all want to get in and just bitch him on about any of the three local teams. We've actually not talked to a whole lot of Astros.

You know the problem is? I think the Astros are fading into oblivion, but fading into, we know what adventure is going to happen. Their lead is only two games. Inevitability, Mr. Anderson. Oh, we're going to make you some money, too. How long is that Mike Dan, Antonio, we figured out? Just about nine minutes. We don't have time for all that.

Let's just do this. We got Paul Nolan's going to make some money for us. and we have, we'll give you Mike Dan Tony's comments on Daniel House. That's straight ahead. 26 on Sports Talk 790. Heaves and hits. Incredible stuff. Austin Rivers here.

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Sports Talk 790. Real Texans. Talk here. So we just listened to Mike Dan turning during the break and he says he's got no updates. That's it. So that's the update. He doesn't have one. The update is there is no update.

Rossi, this is, this is a terrible, non-informative, non-informative, highly speculative investigation going on. I don't get it. I don't understand it either I don't get it while it's taking four days Me either Again if you have lots of cases Like you know when the commissioner In the NFL suspend somebody

They have a lot of people they have to suspend And then they file appeal And they fly to New York and they do this And they take several weeks Baseball has that too There hasn't been anything else going on in the playoffs For that little branch of the NBA operations office There hasn't been

22 of the teams are home 22 of the teams are home There's been no fights. There's been no COVID breakout. There's been nothing that tells me that they would take anything less than a day, a day and a half. Are they waiting for a video that hasn't come in? Are they waiting to interview every single Houston rocket? What's going on?

No one will tell me. And my guess is they've been told, do not, under any circumstance, say anything. It's bizarre And it's just It just seems like something Like this happens all the time To Houston teams Houston teams

There's always somebody gone Or something missing Or somebody gets hurt Or some kind of weird Unexplanable thing happens Do you I know we feel sorry for ourselves As a community

Sportswise Do you think we do it Just about the During all the appropriate times Or do we do it just when any team loses Because guess what most teams in life lose.

That's true. One team and a 32 team NFL hoist a trophy every year. One team in a 30 team NBA and a 30 team major league baseball hoist trophies. Do we feel sorry for ourselves appropriately and at the right time or do we do it anytime a team loses? But we've had some crazy stuff. We've had a, are the only World Series championship ever to be in our city has now been completely tarnished by the cheating scandal.

We have an NFL team who is the only team in the division in the last decade that hasn't gone to the AMC championship game, that has a coach that has been given a longer leash than any other coach in the NFL and has been given more power. And we have a Rockets team that Chris Paul pulls a hammy, hurts himself, and is out on a 65-win team and oh, by the way, they have to go against a dynasty. And oh, by the way, they're now in the bubble,

and we don't know what's going on because Daniel, because no one is saying anything? And is Daniel House anything alone? Is Daniel House a fall guy? Is Daniel House? What is he innocent? And the NBA is trying to find something on him? I don't really care at this point of he's innocent or not.

The penalty has already been there. Ross, he's missed two games. So even if he's not guilty of what the reports are out there, it's already cost the team. I'm not saying that yesterday would have been a huge difference. Yeah. But I would have liked him seeing it. In many ways, it's worse.

It's worse that if he's not guilty. If he's guilty, he missed these games, you know what? Is what it is. If he's not guilty and he missed, the Rockets are 1-1, and he misses the next two games. Like a case of mistaken identity or something? That's huge. And we just don't know anything about it.

We're not hearing anything about it. So that's just what makes it worse to me. It almost feels like this will be a woe, or a sham story in another two to three weeks. Probably. Let's go. And hopefully the Rockets are still around to enjoy it. Or at least say, no, no, no, no. Game 5 tomorrow night.

That'll be over on 740, I believe. Check the sports schedule. I know that I will be on the launch pad on some station. Well, we should probably tell them. If it's not 740, it's 790. Yeah.

That's been the rule. That's been the rule the whole time. Astros Dodgers, by the way, tomorrow. The Astros today have a rare day off. on a Friday. I don't remember the last time I made a Friday off intentionally. Yeah, I'm going to say it's been, I mean, you never do that. Because you always have a weekend baseball series. And my wife asked me about why that is. I said it's just a byproduct

of this crazy-ass 60 game schedule. Hey, time for us to make you some money here on 7-90. Wow, that was loud. Oh, my God. Astros Dodgers will be on KTRH. So it'll be Rockets, Lakers. Game number five tomorrow, starting at 6 o'clock with launch pad. If the, if the Rockets

do lose. I will take calls until I stop getting them. All night long, let's go. I don't want you to work that long. I'm either. I'd rather be Saturday than Monday, right? I don't want I want you to take calls like we do in the rocket when the Astros won the World Series.

We went all night long. Like Lionel Richie? Well, I mean, that's a nice 80s reference. I don't think half the audience got it, I bet it's something here and there. All right, let's make you some money right now. We'll do that with our buddy Paul Nolan. Paul, there are three things in life that are guaranteed. Death, taxes, and the Sports Investors Weekly Show on Saturdays

and Sundays here on 790. How are you, sir? I love how you put us with taxes and death. That's great. Well, I mean, we can avoid both of those if you give us some good picks, right? Well, you know, they are. Perfectly done. Well, done with that segue. How have you guys been? How's your off-season been? Or you're picking the audience there with no sports for a while. Well, let's just put this in recap mode. The Astros lost yesterday. The Texans looked horrible against the Chiefs, and the Rockets lost a game to fall 3-1 in the series.

I didn't think of our night was last night. Well, what about the stars? We forget in the hockey, the greatest sport out there? That's a Dallas team. We don't even announce it. Oh, that's right. I forgot. You guys were the real city in Houston in Texas. Excuse me. Hey, so, yeah, I'm a big hockey guy, so I'm hoping my island has survived tonight.

If they win tonight, I feel like we're in it. If not, the series is over. and the dream ends. Does anybody bet hockey at all? Is that it taboo? Yeah, well, you know what? Honestly, the numbers were pretty darn good. You know, when people were starved coming back, you know, people enjoy it.

And the hockey and the bubble has been outstanding. The intensity level's been outstanding. I think the same thing with basketball. The intensity level has been outstanding. I've really enjoyed both sports throughout it. But the hockey betting has been a bubble what it was three years ago. Very good. All right, now let's get to what you're all about.

You'll be on tomorrow with all your buddies at 10 o'clock here on Sports Talks. And Mering. We'll also do a Sunday show as well. So we get college and pro football weekend mornings here on Sports Talks. And we'll start with Arizona and San Francisco. I have the Cardinals being a sneaky wild card play in 2020. Now, I don't necessarily if you agree with that or not, but I'm going to ask you for the strike of betting purposes.

the Niners are a seven-point dog at home. How do you see this week's matchup? Well, I mean, I really like Arizona in this game, plus seven. If you could buy it to seven and a half, I love seven and a half on this game. To me, Kyle Murray really showed what he was about down the stretch. And we used him quite a few times at the end of the year. They were a fun team to watch. Couldn't stop anybody, but the hoppents was just, you know, they were off to the races.

And now they had D-Hop. I think you guys know what kind of energy he could bring, you know, and stretching the field here. I really like what they've done in the offseason. On the other side of the ball, you know, Debel Samuel is hurt. The rookie brand that I hurt. Emmanuel Sanders is gone. And the Kittle is still uncoverable.

I really like Arizona on the spot because, for one, they're a team that, you know, gets to, you know, have a great week of practice. Well, Sam Fran is can't say the same. The wildfires up there has been, you know, really, tough on that team's practice schedule and the injuries they have, you know, just in the preseason, I just feel like they're going to come out of the gate a little bit slower. And I do think there's a bit of an issue with, as much as we love Garabolo, you know, there was a lack of confidence in Shanahan with him towards the end of the idea. It kind of took the ball out of his hands.

I think they kind of reform that relationship a little bit. I think they got to play it a little safe early on. But I like Arizona. I think there's a really good value plus seven and a half. and I think that's a good solid pick for your audience. All right. Let's get to Tennessee and Denver. The Titans on the Road are two and a half point dogs with the over under a 41.

Well, I mean, right out of the gate, I do like the over and this, especially in the second half, no matter what happens in the first half. But if you were a client, it would be one of those things. If I would have you on my tech service, you know, to me, I just, I like what this team Denver looked like in the second half last year. Obviously, I don't, you know, Locke is not going to be a tier one quarterback, but he's definitely the kind of guy who's got that charisma and moxie. He's got a confidence in it and a humility to him, and the guys really got in line to follow him. There's got to be a regression to Ryan Tanna Hill's numbers from last year. He averaged 9.6 yards per pass play with Tennessee after averaging six yards per pass play throughout his whole career.

And, you know, then you see Derek Henry, who had over 300 attempts last year. Our data shows us that running backs had over 300 attempts, average 21% less yards per rushing play the following year after a 300-yard attempt season. And that both guys were awarded great contracts. If someone told you that Tannehill and Henry would cover 18% of the team's salary, you'd be thinking of yourself that's trouble because teams that have over 18% of their salary dedicated to any two players, you know, usually finished below 500.

These are not, you can't call Ryan Tanhill, the kind of guy is an absolute star in this league. The Broncos also are 41 and 6 straight up at home in the first two weeks of the year at home. So these teams that have no training camp, they had no chance to really work out in any kind of game speed in preseason. Now I have the disservice of going into the high altitude with teams just simply struggle. The Broncos are 30, 14, and 3 against the spread in home games the first two weeks. They're nine and two straight up and 10 and one against the spread when they consider the inferior team. If they're an underdog or favored by less than three, a pick or an underdog, we have, our math model has the Broncos is a three-point favorite in this. And here they are getting two and a half or three.

I love this game in a teaser bet plus up to eight and a half or nine. I think it's a great value spot to this team. And I see an easy outright win on this game. All right. That's Paul Nolan, Sports Investors Weekly. Paul, tomorrow will be your first full, I guess this week is full college, where there was a little bit last week. So what can the folks listen to and enjoy tomorrow at 10 o'clock?

Well, I know that it's not, look, the matchups aren't sexy like that we usually see. We have the Duke Notre Dame game. You know, that's an absolute free game. We want guys to call into that. No catch, no cost, nothing recorded message. But you will Lopi at Iowa State. We love an Appalachian State. Charlotte, absolutely love.

And then on Sunday, we have a couple really, really strong games. Eagle Skins is just a huge play for us. We have the Chargers and Bengals, which is an absolute ugly game, but that line is off by a mile. And Cowboys and Rams, we feel like that line is way off as well. So the guys can get a free weekend pass. And then Monday night as well. They can also get Monday Night.

So they get a free weekend pass, just get all the picks free. Just they can get a feel for what we're doing. And, you know, we didn't take a day off in the offseason. You know, we redid the math models. Well, everything was really quiet. We kept the whole staff working. And it was a great opportunity for us to re-engineer a lot of our mathematical tables, models, and use some new technology that really, we really feel we have a great advantage the first four or five weeks.

All right. Saturday and Sundays at 10 o'clock for college and pro football from sports investors weekly. It's a must listen. And when I'm doing my errand chasing over the weekend, so we're looking forward to that. Great to have you guys back and we'll listen and look forward to tomorrow show at 10 o'clock here on 790. Thanks, Paul, for the time as always. Can we give him the phone number? Why, are you kidding me?

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Listen to you guys and we'll talk next Friday. Thanks, Maddie. Have a great day. We'll see you. Paul Nolan. Sports investors weekly. All right. No hell you are not today because the prize vault is empty.

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Matt Thomas, we'd like to thank his parents for only giving him two first names. Because who would listen to Billy Ray Thomas, talk about Houston Sports. The Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Ratings are in for the Texans game real quick before we get to this college football story. Wonderful. The Kansas City, they were always to see here. Chiefs, Texans average 19 million viewers on NBC 20 if you include the digital. That's down from 22 for total audience last year. Out of home viewer numbers to be determined. and to be announced,

Kansas City had a 47.4 rating. 71%... Listen to this. This is the one that makes sense. 71% of all television sets that were on in Kansas City that were turned on

according to this. Now again, one TV equals several thousand people, so it's not literally, this is probably a little bit of half truth. 71% of all television sets in Kansas City were turned on to the game.

Wow. I mean, that's, I think you know that. I haven't never been there before. I think that's a huge football team. Huge Chiefs Town, yeah. Texans, their share was 39%. Hmm. What I can tell you is the Rockets didn't make up 32% of that audience.

No. No. We're middle of, we are middle of the pack of everything. We got middle of the pack teams, Matt. Middle of the pack teams. well, we don't usually, but the Texans have been middle of the pack. They've been middle of a pack in terms of average. I think there's Rockets apathy because there's no confidence that they're going to be able to get to the next level,

and they're showing that right now. But why does Kansas City, why did 71% of the homes compared to 39 in Houston? Okay, so let's say the Rockets took an 11 share. That's 50%. That still leaves 50% of the audience that wasn't why. watching that. And if you were a sports fan, this is because it shows you how different Houston has come to other cities. More people in Houston don't care for sports than do care for it. And it probably ain't even close. Because the Texans, we're not going to get a 39 share for a

normal game. They won't get a 39 share for the Baltimore Houston game this Sunday coming away from Sunday. There's no chance. They're usually in the 20s. Why are we more? It's not like we've got, we're not a beach town. transplant town. Not a lot of deep rich history as far as winning in championships. The chiefs are just coming off at Super Bowl championship, obviously. Those numbers there are going to be inflated. Yeah.

So we just keep an eye on that. See how the rest of the season goes. If the Texans were coming off a Super Bowl championship, that number would be way higher. Yeah. Oh, you're right. You're right. So maybe this is part of, I don't know if Kansas City was ever doing 71s. Probably not.

But probably they were in the mid-40s, meaning percentage of homes watching the game. 10 television sets that were rated by Nielsen. If you have a 71 share, 71 of 100 television sets. That's an incredible number. What was on last night? NCIS, Oklahoma City or something. Gotta be some version of Big Brother was on. Maybe a Hell's Kitchen.

All right, real quick, for a lot of things you go. Next Thursday and Friday, I am supposed to take off. Yes. To go with the Cougars to Memphis to see them play the Tigers to open up the college football season, at least for the University of Houston. Go Cougs. Go Cougs. This is our Cougar Update, brought to you by our friends at the Joint Chiropractic,

the official chiropractor of Houston Cougar Sports. Memphis and the Cougars are now potentially in jeopardy because of a COVID-19 outbreak in the Tiger Football Program. The Tigers have had at least 20 people within the program who have tested positive for COVID and are currently in a 10-day isolation period. The source says that Memphis has, quote, at least a. another 20 people in quarantine due to contract tracing. Most of the players who either tested positive for COVID or are in quarantine are on the defensive side of the ball. I don't hate that.

The dramatic uptick and positive tests, according to a source, this is for the Memphis commercial appeal, by the way, the local paper there. Rossi has been attributed to a party bus that members the team were on after last Saturday's opening win against Arkansas State. What in the hell are you doing on a party bus? And I guarantee you didn't have mask on. Being college kids. This is what I've been saying this whole time. There were going to be outbreaks. Now, I mean, here it is.

You have one at Louisiana Tech, town in Memphis. But you see the outbreak wasn't on the football field. It wasn't in the stadium. Correct. It was on a damn bus. Correct. That's what I said. These kids are college kids.

College kids like to party and try to go get laid, quite frankly. That's what was happening with the Memphis football team. Wouldn't you just celebrate an Arkansas state victory with like, I don't know, hot dogs, chips, maybe a brownie, cold glass of lemonade? No. You go get hammered on some Kentucky deluxe and then try to, you know, pin down anything that moves. On a party bus. Yes. If this trip gets canceled because I don't get to go to Tunica, I'm going to be pissed.

You're going to be pissed because you won't be able to go to a casino. know. Duh. You've had some good times in Tunica. I've, greatest, I got time for the Tunica story? Yeah, who cares?

I don't even know who's on after us. I can do this real quick. So I go with people, I won't say who it is, I've got to protect them. We go, I win $300 right away. We go eat dinner

and we go finish the gambling after dinner. I'm there at the craps table for about three hours more. I want another $1,800. I'm up to $2,100. These people I'm with are like, Matt, we're leaving. I said, I'll catch an Uber home.

I want another $200. An hour later, I finally left. Tunica, Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee is about 40 miles, maybe even a little bit longer than that, 50. There are no Ubers in Tunica, Mississippi at 1 o'clock in the morning. I didn't take a town car from the hotel. It cost me $110 in Ross. I paid it with cash because I destroyed Tunica, Mississippi.

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