The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Lose To Knicks, Texans Hire New OC, Astros Confirm Altuve In Left Field

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap the Houston Rockets losing 124-118 to the New York Knicks. The Knicks put up 46 points in the fourth quarter to erase an 11-point deficit and earn the victory. Matt and Ross also:discuss the Texans hiring Nick Caley as their new offensive coordinatorreact to a report that quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson is expected to stay with the Texansreview the UH Cougars' football scheduletalk about the Astros retiring Billy Wagner's No. 13break down the latest comments from Astros general manager Dana Brown and manager Joe Espada regarding Alex Bregman's free agency and Jose Altuve in left fieldpreview the Super Bowl matchup with Eagles starting punter Braden Mannrecap the latest pro football news in "Ross' NFL Rewind"give their latest "Gut Feelings" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 103 in H-Town. What's happening, lunchtomers? Good morning to everybody. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show from New York with Ross. This is Sport Talk 790. There's a pass and is stolen by Cam Whitmore at midcourt.

He's going to fly with a right-hand jam. Anticipated that pass. A turnover into Houston points. 46.35. Right back, Giller-Rourke's and got numbers in front to Adams. Back to Brooks, left-hand lay up. No tap up Adams. Yes.

Stephen Adams did not give up on that. And the Rockets have regained the lead in 73-72. Watson is a working bat. Carlton is a common in town. Carl goes like on defensive switch. It's Brooks. Layup in Tet on the way. Baseline, he got it with a Brooks foul.

Edward tied at 101. Not me. He's a triple double, but it won't mean much if the Rockets come up short in this game. Brunson, three-pointer right side up in. What a fourth quarter for Jalen Brunson. Timeout coming to the Rockets. Launch a three-pointer, 27 feet, back-heel miss. Rebound to Josh Hart.

He'll do it here tonight from Madison Square Garden. The Knicks will improve to 18 and 9 in this building. The Rockets fall to 17 and 8 on the road. And for the first time in a long time, the Rockets have themselves a mini losing streak. It has now reached three. As New York wins this game, 124 to 118. This is a top five jam on the show opens. We can never go wrong with little James Brown at it.

This absolutely hits. so does Jalen Brunson, unfortunately. Down and out in New York City. That's what the Rockets are. We're staying in the city, baby. We're here again today. Hopefully we don't have to play this one tomorrow. Hated Brooklyn

the opponent tonight after beating the Rockets on Saturday. Good morning, everybody. It is the Matt Thomas show at Ross. We are very happy to have you with us today. I'm here in New York, and Ross is back in Houston. We have a action-pack radio show. all we want to do, Ross, is deliver information, analysis, some hilarity, top shelf guest. And there will be, and I've been working on all morning, and hopefully it's going to happen, sometime between 1030 and 1130.

A starter for one of the two Super Bowl teams on Sunday will be on this show. Mavis Melsie? No. Malin Mertz? You got Channel View connections? No. Oh. That's okay.

All right, that's great. Are you kidding me? They're all the Gibranes running around. Hey, there's cuss and discuss everything around here in New Orleans. That's so good. You know what? This show, MFers, we're bringing you the guest, baby. That's what we're doing.

That's right, Ross. I would like to be New Orleans, though. It would be cool. I love New Orleans, as you know. I don't get it. All right, Ross, I need you. I have to pivot here really quickly. I'm getting a phone call from this person.

So would you take it for about the two minutes here, and I'll come back to. I'll be able to handle it. All right. So Matt is on apparently with the people of a guest of an actual player, an actual starter in the Super Bowl, which we should be able to bring you this hour. Stay tuned for that. We opened up the show talking about or with highlights of the New York Knickerbockers beating the Houston Rockets 124 to 118 last night. Been a tough run for the Rockets last few games. And I'm not necessarily concerned. They've lost three in a row now. And if you're not paying attention, not watching. the team and kind of casually, which I know a lot of you are. More and more of you did start buying in when there are the wins over the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Boston Celtics, as you rightly should have. But it's been three losses in a row, but last night they didn't have Fred Van Fleet. They didn't have Alperin Shingoon.

They didn't have Jack Landale. I mean, come on. How are you not going to win without Jack Landau? Of course you're out with you Barrett Smith Jr. as well. That's three of your starters that you started the season with out last night on the road against a tough New York Knicks team that was missing some pieces of their own. I think O.G. Annanooby, others

not able to play for the New York Knicks. But man, they really could. Jalen Brunson dropped 42. I mean, they got great pieces. Carl Anthony Towns had an off night. He still had 22 points. McKell Bridges did a really good job offensively and defensively.

I think he was, his length and strength was giving Jalen Green some fits. And it just, it just was a bit of an off night for the Rockets. They allowed too many points there in that fourth quarter, 46 points scored by the New York Knicks, and they just weren't able to win the game. And that was that. And the thing to me is that you're missing three guys,

at least you call them rotational players, because to me, Javarriesman Jr. is not a starter anymore. When he comes back, he, well, either he or Dylan Brooks is going to be out of the starting lineup. But still, it was, to me, kind of a testament to how good this team is, that you're missing those pieces, and you're leading that team in the fourth period. Okay, I thought I heard a tick, so I thought Matt was back, but Matt isn't back.

Okay, still talking with the guest, is Matt Thomas? That's okay. So, yeah, Amin Thompson was spectacular after having a really off night, the game before where he went like 4-16 from the field and was like just not, it just didn't seem like he had his legs about him. 25 points for him, 11 assists, 11 rebounds, another triple double. Dude just continues to blossom into a superstar. Also had a block and a couple of steals. It seems like every night. he's just doing so much

and he was having one of those nights last night in Madison Square Garden in New York Tarry Easton inserted the starting line up playing very well for the Rockets I mean you started Tarry Easton Jashon and Jashon Tate that's that's not normal stuff for the Rockets and still one of the best teams in the NBA you were competing and leading that team What did you think of that lineup by the way?

I thought it was just small and you don't know wanted to go switchable Yeah I felt a little nervous early because Carl Anthony Towns was attacking the basket in the first minute or so, and then he kind of stayed away from me. He did not have a high shooting night. I mean, he had high volume of shots, but not a lot of accuracy. And a perfect call from Yudoka, because

J. Sean Tate can muscle him out of the paint and other guys can muscle him out of the paint. I like Carl Anthony Towns. I think he's a real good player, but he doesn't want to live on the low block. He's just not about that life. No, he's a 40% three-point shooter. I mean, I was on the floor at Madison Square Garden. I don't like to walk the floor very much.

And look, I bag on Madison Square Garden because the ushers are rude and abusive and overweight and really wear small suits that don't fit. But it's still a dynamic building. I mean, it's got so much history. You just walk in and you just, you get taken it back by it. I was watching Carltony Town shoot three-pointers. It was like he was flipping dimes, Ross. I mean, there was absolutely zero wasted motion in his shot.

They were like, it was just so easy for him. and the average person I mean you can haul up a three-point shot but you've seen contests before it arenas it's not pretty sometimes yes he's just flipping him boom boom boom boom boom

I mean and granted he's one of the 300 best players on earth and play basketball so I mean you expect them pretty good yeah it was just crazy how fluid he is from three but Jalen Brunson literally Ross in the fourth quarter unstoppable

yeah he was EMA is probably really pissed of the Rockets' fourth quarter defense in the last month or so. It has not been good. The quotes were pretty funny from last night. I think he said even some of our what was the, some

of our so-called defenders were getting torched or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to be... Even our supposed defenders got cooked tonight. He made doke. I just... There are very few coaches and get away with it. He's one of them. He's one of them.

Entertaining game. The Star Power last night, see, not spectacular in the arena. What do you mean? Well, one of the uncles from the Sopranos was there, but he's there every game, so it's no big deal. That's cool. The biggest celebrity probably was Kevin Bacon and his wife Kira Sedgwick were there. That's it. Well, what?

Do they put a bunch of stars? Maybe you just didn't recognize them, Matt. No, because they always put up on the screen. Uh-huh. Oh, they put some Giants players up, but then they were booed, so that didn't look out. That wasn't too hot. Oh, really? Is it a Jets area?

over there at ms no it's just bad football they don't like to root they root for bad football in the new york metropolitan area and they've got their choice all right so we are hoping to get a super bowl started to join this show coming up for the next few minutes we're trying to work on logistics because he's in a media opportunity and it's also noisy so we're trying to we were doing a little bit of testing as to hey can you hear me can you hear me now i'm here so we will try to visit with him coming up in just a few minutes also on the radio program that we have gut feelings at 1130 today. 12 o'clock we have the news at noon.

Ross, your NFL rewind at 1230. And we have three hours and 45 minutes of Texans OC talk. Let's go, baby. You ready? Nick Cayley, come on down. Nick Cayley, believe it or not today? I don't think so, unless you want about seven knots. Yeah, I don't think so.

I can do it. No, we've got to find something else out. You know where his first job was, though, right? I believe it, a dairy queen? John Carroll. Nick Casario. Oh, no. Nicky C.

Does Hannah know about this? I don't know. By the way, let's go over all the experience that Nick Caley has as an offensive play caller. Okay. You first. No, I thought you were starting. No, I'll let you go first. No, I'll let you go first.

Yeah. Madden? Um, ooh, what's, um, men's a good one. I believe he also played, uh, cyberball back in the 90s. Hmm. I believe he's a back to back to back turkey bowl champion at his Thanksgiving at home. Yes. He once competed in a YMCA flag football league with a headset on. He was the only person in the entire field with a headset on talking to nobody.

Wow. I'm sure. Look, he's highly regarded. But there are too many Dufus in this marketplace that are running their Twitter. account. I'm so excited. I can't wait for the possibilities. I've been on this guy for a long time. Shut you bum-ass. Why can you? Okay. You can still be happy about the office of coordinator or not? Let me, there's no one running around town, high-fiving each other about the offensive

coordinator spot. I think there are people doing that. Well, that's their dofuses then. Okay. Well, they should like football, Matt. Let me let me do. Do I ever go? Do I go around going, oh, the Astros got a new third base coach? Oh, it's going to be so much fun. I can't wait. You should. Screw up. don't have the windmill like Gary Pettis did.

That's quite different from being an offensive coordinator. I mean, the light year's different. Wow. Let me tell you. I got a prediction. This guy's going to do a great job next year. And the year after that, he's going to suck, and people are going to want him fired. I got a prediction for you right now.

Either A, he's going to get fired or B, he'll get hired away as a head coach. There's no in between. I would say, if you're Nick Kelly, I would not establish residency in the Houston area for very long. Yes. All right. 713-212-1-10-16 here on the program. Matt in New York, Ross in Houston, and Shell Federal Credit Union is here for you in the Houston area

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He is a fighting Texas Aggie, SciFair Kid, and is the starting punter for the Philadelphia Eagles. Braden Man is with us here on the Matt Tomas Show of Ross. Braden, it's Matt and Ross. Thank you so much for joining us. How crazy is New Orleans right now? Hey, guys, yeah, thanks for having me. It's already crazy, and we're still like six days, five days away from

game. So I can't imagine what's going to be like the rest of the week. All right. We're going to fanboy with you for a few minutes because you get to take us through parts of your world that we don't get to be a part of. First of all, what's the plane ride like you guys got into New Orleans a couple days ago? Is everybody kind of cerebral or is it as a party atmosphere already? No, it's definitely not a party atmosphere. Some guys are a little more quiet or like it really, I don't know, into the music on the way there. Some guys play cards. So it's just kind of a relaxed environment. Definitely saving the party environment for hopefully

the way back after the game on Sunday. Absolutely. Hey, let me ask you this. Is it okay if I call you the second greatest punter in A&M history? Is that all right with you? That's an honor. Yeah, I know who you're talking about in front of me, and that is an honor to even be behind him.

Did you, now you had a, I was talking to your dad yesterday. You have a soccer background, but you were just as much about football as you were anything else, correct? Yeah, definitely. Yeah, but I played linebacker like my whole life. So. And I was looking at some of your highlights at A&M, and then obviously a couple teams in the NFL. What was it like settling in Philadelphia?

And more importantly, tell me how awful it can be with that field when it's like 23 degrees. There's sleet. It's a frozen field. I mean, how much longer does it take you to get prepared for that as compared to, say, a normal, like a 70-degree day? Yeah, it's definitely a little different. I mean, growing up in Houston was, I didn't know how spoiled I was for the weather in hell I left and went to New York at first and then Philly. And ever since I settled down in Philly for the last couple years, it's been awesome.

I've loved it there. It's been great. The weather is still not kind to us. And we had that snow game in the playoffs this year against the Rams. So that was a bunch of fun. Hard to get used to, but it was really cool to be part of that games. So as a Philly resident, do the fan base, do they, you know, like, they love you when things are going well and they'll buy your meals and then they will make you, they'll charge you

double when you lose? I mean, is it as passionate as the city as we think it is? Oh, yeah, it is as passion as one can get in the fan base. I mean, I've been pretty used to that. Like, you know, the A&M fan base is passion just like it. So it's been really cool. And they're so into the games. What makes the environment there are so cool?

I mean, I played at Philly not playing for Philly before, and the environment was so cool just to be there. It's kind of like when you go play, you know, an SEC game somewhere else. It's just everyone's so into it and the culture there on the, But the fans and the team is really awesome. Braden Manworth is here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross as he's joining us from New Orleans. So you hear about the Eagles in the offseason and you hear that Sequin Barclay is now a teammate. What was that like here in the news of that and obviously getting the home a little bit and more importantly the way he has dominated your team's offense this year?

Yeah, he is truly incredible. He's been awesome since day one he's gotten here. I think he signed, or they agreed to terms the day after I agreed to terms to my deal, my new extension. So it was cool, a cool couple days. And I was like, I don't know how we got Sequan. I don't know how the Giants of them come to us, but, you know, we'll take it. And he's obviously just been an incredible weapon all year. And, you know, the offense kind of runs through him.

And it's been cool to watch him have the historic season he's had. Do you and Jaylen Hertz talk much Houston at all, or is it just all about Philly Life now that you're Eagles? No, yeah, we'll definitely talk about Houston a little bit. We grew up on kind of different side of the Houston, so a little bit different there, but we know quite a few of the same people and have played a few of the same teams. So he's probably two or three lockers down from me in the locker room in Philly. So, you know, every now and then we'll talk about some Houston stuff. Or, you know, if we go down in Texas for a game, we'll talk about places to eat and stuff like that.

How was the last couple days of media attention? Any strange questions thrown at you, anything like that? Oh, strange questions. Yeah, there was a bunch of just like fun questions, I think. I didn't get any of like the really weird ones. No one's trying to get a funny clip of the punter usually. So I didn't get any of the crazy questions. But yeah, just a bunch of fun stuff.

I mean, you know, just some random ones like what's the best Gatorade color and, you know, all kinds of just weird, funky stuff. So what is the best Gitterade color? I'm assuming it's got to be green, right? I don't think of that. I actually was told the green one was really good. I think it's the purple riptide rush. But they said red. now. I'm like, I've never had reg. I'm allergic to it.

So I just didn't even know that was, that red is even good at all. Wow, that's crazy. Braden Mann with us here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. He's the punter for the Eagles and will be on the field. When you found out you're going to the Super Bowl, that's cool, but they have to do it indoors. How much is easier as your life, and that could be for any specialty member, but just tell me about the differences in your preparation when you have to worry about a 15 to 20 mile per hour swirling wind. Yeah, I mean, it's the preempts. prep doesn't change about the week really besides you know just knowing that i won't have to deal with the elements um it is it probably gives me a few hours but i extra sleep the night before for sure

um i die i love playing indoors it's awesome i played at the uh um at the saint's place this year for the time and it's a really cool saying being so i'm pumped for it uh ross with you here in houston as well brayden in and it's funny oh can you just kind of give us a window into life as a punter to where if your name isn't a headline tomorrow that means you've done something very bad. Like you can do your job perfectly a hundred times in a row, but that one time there's something goes wrong, that's kind of when your name pops up. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of a funny job to have because if I'm on the field, something went wrong. And that's a pretty funny way of looking at it. You know, if I'm coming on the field, the opposing fans are either cheering for me

or, you know, our fans aren't too happy with the team. So, yeah, it's an interesting spot to be in for sure. but, you know, it's once going out there, it's not really about trying to not mess it up. It's just like, what can I do to, you know, hopefully make a big play and kind of swing the momentum a little bit? If we're on fourth down and we can have a big play on punt team, that is kind of a swing of momentum. So it's fun to have that challenge for sure. And to keep like punts consistently, is there, what do you, what is the way that you do that? Is there like a song you sing to yourself or like a one, two, three, this? Like, what is there something that you do to try to kind of trick your mind into being consistent?

I just I honestly just punt all the time and try to keep it a relaxed environment. I punt probably more than I would recommend to anybody else. I just can't like stop, you know, trying to, like you said, be consistent with it. But I try to keep it a relaxed environment when I'm practicing and just, you know, yeah, I'll listen to a bunch of music and just have fun with it. And hopefully that transfers to the game so that when it's in the game, I'm hopefully in my mind in the same relaxed environment that I am in practice. Braden got two last questions for you.

How often do you have the conversation with Nick Siriani about, dude, I can throw the football. Let's go. Give me a shot. You know, I don't bring it up too much. I think he saw it. I threw one when I was with the Jets. So last year they let me throw one against the Cowboys, which was fun at their place. That was all week, he was like, we want to run this.

And I was like, hey, you already know, if you give me the green light, I'll do it. So we had some fun with that one last year for sure. I don't know if I'm getting it in with the quarterbacks and really letting it loose, but I'll, you know, just throw some balls around for some fun. Seriously, if you could throw a pass on a fake punt in the Super Bowl, you would be a legendary status. You understand this, correct? That would be sweet, yeah.

I'm not going to count, hey, maybe. If you throw a pick six, you're doomed for the rest of your life. So I just want to make sure there's both ends of the spectrum on that. Right, yeah, no doubt. You know, you're going to be a hero. or a villain for sure. All right. So the last thing, how many tickets do you get? I know mom and dad are coming, which is cool.

Is there a fight for extra tickets? How does it work with you and your teammates that you guys are trying to get your family and friends and girls all in the stadium? Yes, I mean, some guys, I know one of the guys from the Chiefs I think he bought 30 tickets for his family and friends, so that's, that was why.

That's the most I've heard of people buying for it. I mean, I'm sure there's some guys that are just an extraordinary amount. But yeah, I got my My parents, my wife, Kylie's coming, and then my sister and brother-in-law, and then my wife's parents, too, are coming. So it'll be them seven there. It'll be a bunch of fun for them, and they're kind of coming up for a few days and hopefully enjoying the festivities. And when do you get to see them, and when do they, like, basically close down the operation? And I guess you guys will probably change hotels.

It'll be, like, kind of a super secret message the last 24 hours. Yeah, I'll get to see them a couple days before. events, you know, that families can come too with us. That'll be fun just to hang with them. And then, you know, like you said, 24 hours of four-ish is kind of when we all just go back to our normal rhythm of a game. Hey, Brain, we'll let you run. Thank you so much for joining us. First of all, congratulations. We've got to Houston Kin the Super Bowl. You and, you know, I don't want Jaylen getting all the Houston love. It's got to be you too.

So you're going to get some this week from us, for sure. We wish you the very best. I appreciate it. Thank you. And, again, I've gotten to know your folks a lot. Your dad since next to me at Rockets games. is a great friend on the stats crew, and so it's a great opportunity to see him how proud he is of you and your family. And your mom's been a volleyball coach for a long time, and I know her through my daughter's volleyball career. So it's kind of a little six degrees between us. And so we wish you and your entire family a great time in New Orleans. Awesome.

Thanks so much for having me on. I appreciate it. You got it. All right. So Braden Mann joining us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Thank you very much for Braden joining us, the starting punter for the Philadelphia Eagles. seriously. And, Ross, you've prayed up a great point.

If we don't bring up his name, it's all good. Right. Unless he kicks like 260-yard field goals. Now, if he shanks one or two, oh. He's got to step in, injury replacement? And what if he's like the four-string quarterback? That'd be cool. Or maybe he's the backup fulgo kick.

I didn't ask him about that. All right, so thanks again to Braden for joining us from New Orleans. Our time is 1033. We've got gut feelings coming up. in an hour from now. We have Rockets chatter on the conversation. We got a Bregman update, and if we don't, we'll just make one up. And we've got to get

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And an exclamation point. You got the home of the Rockies. Sports Talk 790. Thank you, Jalen. Thanks again to a Braden man for joining us. By the way, he is the backup kicker for the Eagles, so I don't know if you're a Jake Elliott fan or not, but if you want him hurt, Brains your guy as a backup. I don't want Jake Elliott hurt.

I don't think Brayette wants Jake Elliott hurt, right? I mean, yeah. No, probably not. All right. I'll get fired up for the game on Sunday. Good. I mean, I didn't think I was not going to. I was just not going to be ready to buy into two weeks of, you know, fluff.

How much fluff have you seen? There hasn't been a lot of fluff. No, it's actually, well, you know what it is? You only consume the fluff you want to consume, right? What? Yeah. You only take in the fluff you see? Correct.

If you're a fluffer, you're a fluffer. And you love fluffing. No. You're one of the best fluffers I've ever seen, Matt. No, I've never fluff before. You're an all-time fluffer. I don't think so. Not at all.

But, you know who's in New Orleans this week? Our buddy Brian Smith, Brian T. Where is he? He's covering it. He's covering for talk sport, the European of the British Sports Network. Oh, great. So he's going to join us in a few days from down in the other ones.

Awesome. I was going to say Cheerio. Does he have an accent now? Well, here's the thing. I was thinking about this. Because if you move somewhere, you typically just little small doses get some of that accent in you there.

Now, I've been lucky because I was born in Detroit and lived most of my life, 45 years of my life, life, actually more than 42 years of my life in Texas, but I don't have a southern twang. I wonder if he's got any British in his system right now, like any catchphrases or if he feels says a word. I mean, well, I didn't want to ask him because I wanted to be organic when he joins us. He's going to join us here Thursday or Friday, but yeah. So Brian T.

A former Chronicle columnist. You know the Chronicle's not replaced him as a columnist? Really? Yeah. Oh. What they have to say about your app? implication. Denied?

It was quick. It's painless. Doesn't know what nomenclature is. We're not making them a call on this. Wait a minute. We've heard your radio show. You can't take that radio show to the newspaper. We don't want to hear from you like that.

Which I thought was rude, Matt. It's a great show. I thought it was too. I thought it was too. Thank you very much. All right. 1042 sports talk 70. We went a little bit late with Braden.

We appreciate him spending a couple minutes with us here. So when you found out the Texans and a new offensive coordinator, First of all, to hate and the hate the hire is ridiculous. I don't think anybody's doing that. But I think to oversell the hire is a little bit of it's a little bit of false bravado.

He could be awesome. He came from the St. Louis, I mean, there were St. Louis. The Los Angeles Rams. And obviously, that's a team that puts up a lot of points. That's a team that has been one of the most explosive teams in the NFL

for the last handful of years with Sean McVeigh. So the pedigree is there. but Ross as we learned, Pettitree doesn't always mean everything. Go ask the Bill Belichick tree, how that's working out. You know, I was actually looking up the, because we were talking about the greatest coach of all time,

and can Andy Reed get closer with another Super Bowl? And one of my points of contention was going to be that his coaching tree was great. Do you actually look at it? It's like, Brad Childress, Steve Spagnolo, we used to think like Doug Peterson,

I don't know, would you still call that a win, I guess? and he got a Super Bowl, but he's been fighting twice since. Right, right, right. Matt Nagy. David Cooley's technically in his coaching tree. Oh, God. Does he even, the, Andy Reid doesn't want that. He says, cut that branch in half.

Sean McDermott, Bill's, Todd Bowles, Buccaneers. Okay. It's a good coaching tree, but it's... It's better than Belichicks. Yeah, it's true. It just is. So, yeah, you know, I think largely the coaching tree is overrated because Andy Reed has

he can only be a great leader to those guys but sometimes you've got to step away from the boss and run your own business right? I mean what if you stepped on your own? You'd be on the Matt Thomas radio tree and I don't think he'd be... I'm not in your tree

I was here before you got here. Yeah, but you were behind the scenes. Your ability to get on the air and explain yourself and be entertaining is really under my watch. My first show when I was really on air was with Jason Braddock. I'm on the Jason Braddock tree of anything, I guess. Okay, I'm going to let

you go ahead and claim that and hack that out. If you said that, not me. And then I had my solo show on the Saturdays. I just learned what not to do with you. Yeah. That's true. Which I appreciate. I am the king of what Matt does do the opposite of. That's fair. That's fair.

1045, Sports Talks. The Cougars Big 12 schedule has been released, Rossi. Ooh, it's a juggernaut. Oh, for football? Yes, sir. Oh, okay. Cool. You don't seem excited.

No, that's fine. I'm sure, yeah, the 19,000 fans a week are ready to get raucous at the TDECU stadium. Is it losing that name or is it still the name? They're losing the name. It's going to change a different credit. What is it? They don't spend money with us so they don't get the mention. Oh, okay.

But, yeah, the first two games on the schedule, for the overall non-conference? Mm-hmm. A doozy. Go ahead. We'll tell you when we come back. Oh, look at this guy. Professional Radio T's 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. Rockets fall last night here in New York. Offenser coordinator will give you this the resume of the new man that will be in charge of the Texans offense. Just to let you know, he has never been a play caller before. It doesn't mean anything. Or should it. I think Gerard Johnson is feeling right now.

out about that honestly. I thought it was his job. I know. I thought he would have been the betting favor going in, to be honest with you. But you know what? The question will be, will he want to stay now that he didn't get an opportunity to be the head coach? 713-212, or the offensive coordinator, 7-19. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Matt and Ross returned. Returned on Sports Talk 790. 1052 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Sports RV is back in our Houston studios. I'm here in New York. and the Brooklyn Nets tonight will be on the air at 5.30 with a launch pad

hosted by one of the Adams. I'm going to presume it's Adam Clanton this go around. At 6 o'clock, the network pregame, and then at 6.30, we'll have the tip time from the Barclays Center. And any of you've gone to New York and Aras, you have been there? I don't know. Have you been to both buildings, MS. I've only been to Barclays. Okay. It's right off the train.

There's a stop right there. Is that right? Okay. I need to be taking a, I'll be taking a, escort a bus, that's fine. Well, the train will get you there faster, I'm sure. I don't doubt that. It's a little bit of a hole. The Brooklyn Bridge is cool, but it's still,

Travick is just a hot mess. Travick's always bad here. But yeah, a different vibe for anybody that comes to New York. And it's like a different vibe going to Clippers and Lakers games. It just is. By the way, am I right? Is Lucas speaking in a few minutes in Los Angeles? I believe he's supposed to.

Hmm. Yeah. As long as they said, as long as he's not, they told him not to chew cheeseburgers as he's talking. Apparently, In-N-Out is now a huge sponsor of Laker Basketball. That tweet made me laugh yesterday. Somebody said his first triple-double, and it was a, it was a triple-double in-and-out burger.

Although it was actually a three-by-three, so just saying it. There's a part of me that's very sad. When you and I first started working together, I always felt like I could have a double-double animal style and eat two of them comfortably. Oh. So now I have a tough time eating one. my stomach smaller. The first time I ate was a

I had a three by three. And? Oh, so good. It was glorious. The first one I ever had was in Vegas. In and out. Yeah. And it was a religious experience.

It was so good. Yeah, I will disagree with those people that say that a Vegas in and out is different than a California in and out than a Texas in and out. It all tastes at the same thing. I do think the Texas ones. Now, Vegas and California, to me, now obviously, I don't know. Who knows? We didn't do a side-by-side comparison.

And who knows if a place has had an office. off day or what. But it does feel to me like the Texas ones aren't as good, even though they're still pretty good. Yeah, one time Ross and I were going to go to an in-and-out and we went to the distribution factory by accident. That was my baby. That was awesome. I just put in and out in that we were in-dallas, right? I put in-and-out in-out GPS and it took us to the in-and-out distribution center. Yeah. Well, we saw lots of frozen meat. Yeah. I was like, well, we can get out of griddle and fire our own up. Yeah, don't clip that, please. Frozen meat? It doesn't work. Okay, thank you. We're going to get you being a fluffer, though.

No, no, no, no, no. And by way, don't look up what a fluffer is. The greatest fluffer of all time, people say Matt Thomas. No, they don't. No, they don't associate me with fluffing at all. Not at all. All right. Ross already had me look it up.

The greatest fluffer of all time? No, just what it meant. You didn't know? Because I wasn't aware. Okay, good. See, you know what you're doing, Ross? You're warping the young mind of a Conradine. That's right. It's been happening. That's my bad.

All right. Let's run through. Can we get some Cougar fight song music here? I want to sell this hard. Cougar growls too. And some growls too. Let's go. We'll start firing off. Roars, I suppose. The Big 12 made a big presentation. Put it on the FS1 today. Did you see what else FS1 had? No.

We'll talk about it later. I tweeted it. Is it happened today? Yeah. You know what happened yesterday? I think Colin Coward ralphed on the air. Huh. Yeah.

That's hilarious. Okay, well, we'll talk about the FS1 thing when we come back. Yeah, yeah, but right, real quick. Here's the schedule. We're going to start it off on a Thursday night, Ross. You know how big those Thursday night games are? Uh-huh. Yeah, on ESPNU?

August 28th. Before the start of the NFL season. Okay. Cougars are home at whatever they're calling it. To host. the lumberjacks of Stephen F. Alston. Wow. One and O.

That's fine. I mean, you got to start off with a gimmie, you would hope. Then the following Saturday will travel six miles from stadium to stadium. The venerable Rice Stadium to see the Cougars take on. We'll be going, rice owls as the Cougars improved a two and O in the young season. I mean, it's a, well, we'll see. rivalry game. Aren't they the current holders of the cup?

The Cougars are. Oh, they are? Yes. I know you want to be the other way around, but it's not going to happen. Didn't they win recently, though? Two years ago when Dana lost that game and we eventually... Oh, that's right. You won't you lost his job. Now come the conference games. Saturday,

September 13th. Coach Prime is coming to Houston. Colorado opens up the Big 12 schedule here at the University of Houston. Wow. L. Then a victory that makes it 3-0, a well-deserved week off. Saturday, September 27th, they go to play the beavers of Oregon State. Oh, wow.

September 27th. Is Oregon State the Big 12th now or something? No, sir. They're not. Okay, that's a good non-con schedule, kind of. Thank you. You're welcome. It's like a mid-level.

That's 4-0 now. Okay, so that's 2L, so I got you guys 2 and 2. Saturday, October 4th, home for Texas Tech. Revenge game after they beat us in basketball. basketball on Saturday. 35% tech fans in the building. Another L, two and three. Then Saturday, October the 11th.

T-Boon-picking Stadium. Oh, God. Stillwater, Oklahoma. I hate that stadium. There's like no room between the bench and a brick wall. Yeah, it's the sideline and then like six inches of grass, and then it's the wall. It's ridiculous. Yeah, or next brains are very much a possibility.

Cougars at Oklahoma State, Saturday, October the 11th. Let's go. 2 and 4. Then Saturday, October 18th, home for the Arizona Walcats. Hashtag revenge game. Oh, we'll go win. Then the following week, Saturday, October 25th, to Tempe, Arizona to take on Arizona State in the Valley of the Sun.

Cam Scadaboo's gone, but that quarterback's still going to be there, right? Yeah. I miss Scataboo. That's what I call my girl. My girl at home. I say, what's up, Scatibu? That's, hmm. Saturday, November 1st.

West Virginia back at the home of the University of Houston Cougars. Last time the West Virginia was in town, it was a Hail Mary pass to end the game, and the Cougars won it on the very last block. Yeah, we'll give them a win there. Thank you. Then Saturday, November 8th, going to Orlando, Florida to take on those UCF nights. Loss. Then Saturday, November 22nd, home for T.C.

Don't call us Texas Christian University. They enter the game as three and a half point dogs, but the Cougars pull the upset. Dumbed what I'm talking about. And the Cougars will finish off their 12-0 season and will make their wear to the Big 12 championship game after disposing of the Baylor Bears in Waco on Saturday, November 29th. The last time the Cougars wore in Waco, they won the game, baby. The Cougar team wins. They dance on the field and get arrested for dancing in Waco.

And yeah, in spiking people's Dr. Pepper. And that, my friends, is your Cougar football. football schedule brought to you by the joint chiropractor, the official chiropractor of University of Houston Athletics. I see 12 and O Ross, what do you see? That's a bowl season minimum. There you go. What's what I'm talking about? They will face you guys in the Alamo Bowl.

Who's you guys? Texas. You think Texas is going to be in the Alamo Bowl? I mean, it's a possibility. Have you seen the early early early preseason rankings? That's very ominous. I don't want to look. Ominous.

Yeah, what do you have the? I'd say most athletes have the Longhorns either one or two. Oh, God. It makes you get to make you even more insufferable than you already are. What did I even do? You're just going to be braggadocious all year on? When did I brag this year?

I don't know. Never. You're always very, very happy by your squad. This is just a false narrative. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm happy they made the playoffs back-to-back ears. Hey, you made the bridle cord the last couple of years. No, no, they worry about that.

Yeah. They've been kicking the door down, Matt. Now they're going to go. They've been knocking on the door, now they're going to kick it down. Hey, you and Bum Phillips, both. All right, let's get the second hour started. You have something that happened on FS1 today.

Is it worthy of 11 o'clock lead into this? Not really, but we can talk about it. It's just annoying. That's what we call a way to hang on of the Matt Thomas show for hour number two with Ross. Oh, I'm going to be so upset. There you go. Sell it hard for like 10 seconds.

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We've got gut fillings coming up in about 23 minutes from now. Ross, you were watching FS1, which I ask you when it's on a guy. Game on. Why you're doing that? What made you so angry today? I know. I hadn't changed a channel in time. And, okay, so I tweeted this out at SportsRV. All right. I just look up after we hit break. And on the screen on FS1, this show the facility, which I don't even know what that is.

Isn't this a football player show? I've never heard of it. On the bottom third, as they call it, Matt. Okay. Does Luca's edition hurt LeBron's legacy? You got to be kidding. The 40-year-old arguable greatest player

of all-time, all-time leading score. Leachy said arguable. What's that? Leachy said arguable. Who's going to, I mean, he's going to be top five and assists if he's not already. Four championships, four or five MVPs.

He could retire yesterday. And the Lakers decide to add one of the greatest young players on the planet how in any world would you say this affects LeBron James's legacy? That's just, my mind was, it shouldn't, this is one of those things where you're like, I shouldn't be surprised, but I still was surprised. And how stupid of a question that is. What does trading for a great player have to do anything for LeBron's legacy?

You know what we did? We both did something stupid this weekend. I put the TV on to flip the channels and I saw the damn Pro Bowl. You didn't get to the channel changer in time to get rid of FF. Just one. He is 40 years old. LeBron James, averaging 24 points, 9 assists, and 7.6 rebounds. Yeah.

Either the first or second greatest player, depending on the day of the week. Hmm. I mean, I don't know. I think, we've talked about this for about five years now. I think the only thing that probably LeBron could do is maybe win two or three more championships, which was just, it's not happening. It would be his team. It would.

It's not going to be his team. No, it wouldn't. And by the way, I got to make a philosophical change on something that I talked about yesterday. Okay. And I have no information on this. But I've just been watching, I spent a lot of time on the 4U tab, which is my mistake. I'm just getting into different opinions on things. I'm now of the belief, and you could obviously flip the other direction too.

I'm now the belief that maybe LeBron didn't know about this. Yeah, our guy Mark Medina said he didn't think he did. Because if LeBron would have known about this, even if it was for Luca, would he have said, A.D. is my guy. We can do this. That's possible. Yeah. I'm just, and I'm not 100% sold, but I'm just, I'm in a massive leaning of a change on that opinion. That LeBron can't be, you can't run everything through LeBron. LeBron at 30, you better run everything through him.

LeBron at 35? Yeah, still so. LeBron at 40? No. This was a deal that was made for the Lakers to start winning post-Lebron, whenever that's going to be. So, yeah, I am of the belief now that maybe LeBron was not in the loop on this, because maybe he would have put a kibosh on this, and then he would have told Rich Paul over at his agency at Clutch Sports, and then Clutch Sports would lobbed a phone call to a couple of NBA media types

and got this rumor spread. and it could have kabashed it. So maybe that Rob Polink is like, we got to keep this super on the download because I don't want anybody to influence our decisions. If we're going full throttle for Luca

and you're going to give it to us, Nico Harrison, the general manager of the Mavericks, it better just be between the two of us. In fact, did you see yesterday, Ross, that the Jazz didn't even know what was going on? They were the third team in this trade and they didn't realize the parts in the trade were involving the two guys we just talked about.

I'll say this. and this has been repeated as well a couple of times. The NBA doesn't have some things that the NFL does. I mean, sure, fan base. It doesn't have the family orientation that maybe a baseball does where generations of fans. But the one thing the NBA has that the other two leagues don't have is their off-seasons and their trade-end lines are sexier than anybody else's.

They just are. Yeah, they are, but they have the worst recognition. season of any of the teams. They do. That's what I'm saying is how do you, how can we comprehend that in sports? Now, we do have that in college basketball too. The college basketball regular season is atrocious.

It's foul-ridden game, poor officiating, miss free throws, blown layups, and then you get to the tournament and you just fall in love with college basketball. Yeah, but those games in the tournament, we even say, we kind of just forget about it, but we're like, oh, this game was ugly. Yeah.

It's like, it's 42 to 36 when there's three minutes left. But you're holding that damn bragging your left hand and you're going crazy over it. I think college football has narrowed the gap a little bit. Every week in college football is a regular season fan. You are on the edge of your seat. Oh, Alabama's playing A&M. Texas is playing LSU. You can't get enough of that.

And then you had this deep descent into, well, my team's not playing for the national championship or the final four. Then who cares if they go play in the, Gator Bowl or who cares that they play in the Music City Bowl. Now with this tournament at 12 teams, you're now giving those thoroughbreds that have been giving you so much excitement during the course of the week a chance to watch them play for a national championship. So college football is getting it better. They are.

But the NBA, free agency is unbelievably exciting in the summertime. And this trade deadline is going to be bonkers. Did you see the names that are being brought up? Kevin Durant has been talking. to by multiple teams, not by to him, but by other teams. Zion Williamson has been brought up in conversation.

Paul George in Philadelphia has been brought up. Now, it's going to be all this rampant speculation here. But there's enough people that I do feel are somewhat credible in the world of basketball reporting that I do believe these names are brought up in conversation. Philadelphia should be kicking the tires on moving Paul George. They're not going to, they're not going to get a playoff run if they even make the playoffs to begin with. Yeah.

And what's going on with Joel M. Bid? Does he play? I don't even know. I don't know either. All right. By the way, can we talk about Kevin Durant and how crazy good he's been since tearing his Achilles? He's averaging 28 points per game in like six-seasons. He's a $6 million man is what he is. He's actually worth more than that.

Much more. You know what he did? Two things, Ross. He stopped going on his burners. Yeah, he just calls people out on his regular Twitter. And he rehab like a person when it's Gary Perton. Yeah. He's special. You know what, though, Ross?

35, 36 years old does not mean it's the end of your NBA career. If you keep yourself in shape and you're one of the old-time grades, you're playing. Look at LeBron. I mean, LeBron is slowed, but he's still freaking LeBron James. He's 40. Steph Curry is, what, 35? He'll triple-double your ass until you're blowing the face. I mean, it's unbelievable.

Steph Curry's 36 as well. I mean, there are still a lot of stars in this league that are playing. I mean, look, James Harden. and in what the player was four or five years ago, but he wakes up with a triple double. Yeah, sports science has certainly improved. Yeah. I think because some people, you know,

the LeBron Jordan argument, people bring up, oh, look what Jordan at 39 was averaging this, and this is what LeBron's averaging at 39. It's like, yes, true, but also the sports science has really advanced even since those days. Yeah. All right, 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-2-1-7-90.

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Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk 790. Right now, Lucas having his press conference in Los Angeles saying all the right things. People in Los Angeles are nice. I'm going to miss Dallas. It was good to me, great place. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

If you're Luca, you live for not only beating the Mavericks personally, but to get the Lakers farther this year than the Mavericks in the playoffs. right i mean that's it's your the mavericks cost you a hundred million dollars period in the story that's all i'm saying one hundred million dollars no longer a super max eligible seven one three two one two five seven on me matt here in new york rossback in houston seven

one three two one two five seven on the texans coaching situation and i have not heard it we know that it's gerard johnson going to stay have we heard anything for officially one way the other on him I believe Ross stepped out for a second, but I haven't heard any news about Rod Johnson. I was going to say, I don't know what's going on with him. Whether he's interviewed anywhere else besides. I know he had the interview with the Jets. Yeah. Nick Cayley, by the way, the new offensive coordinator has never called plays before.

So whether that's of a, again, all you've read, if you've read anything about him is he is innovative. He works really well with tight ends. A lot of coaches that have eventually become offensive coordinators and runners of offense. wind up being working with tight-ins first or position group. So I know that Sean McVeigh, the Rams head coach, has spoken very highly of him, but you are bringing a first-time play caller in. And I wonder how much of that is the connection between Casario and Cayley, or if that is a combination of that D'Amico Ryan's doesn't necessarily need an old grizzled play caller

to run his offense, or how much of this is of all the different folks that C.J. Stragg got to meet that Nick Kelly was the guy that meshed with C.J. the best. Maybe it's C.J.'s boy. Or maybe the John Carroll. He did. Was it John Carroll and with the New England Patriots? Just saying. Well, I'm just going to say this. It would be easy to rip the decision because of the two connections you just talked about.

But honestly, Ross, this happens all the time. time and work. Yeah, you always got to know somebody. You got to know somebody. And if you're in charge and you like a young guy and like, hey, when it becomes my shop, I'm bringing you along with me. It's not

that out of the ordinary for Casero to go to a bloodline of people that he knows or has been around before. The resume is good. The resume is there. Except for the play calling responsibilities. Yeah, but how often are really good play callers just going to be up and available

for an offensive coordinator spot. Yeah, just think about this. If you're hiring a guy that's a play called before, that means probably... He's probably been fired. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.

I don't think it's a... I don't think it's a big deal, honestly. Because, again, when you see coaches that move up the ladder in the NFL or college, if you're a bright offensive mind, the first place you go to coach in the NFL, you're probably not calling plays, unless you're doing it in a junior high school level. So as far as I'm concerned, that to me isn't the sticking point.

The sticking point is going to be, you know, did D'Amico want somebody that had a relationship with CJ? Did Casario say, look, I've known about this guy for quite some period of time. Look, your last offensive coordinator was a guy you wanted to bring in because of San Francisco ties. Now it's my turn to bring somebody in that I know. who knows what the background story is. And at the end of the day, we don't particularly care. Just score more points and figure out a way to create an offensive line that's going to protect the franchise quarterback.

Yeah, and Aaron Wilson has said that Gerard Johnson is expected to stay. Okay. My guess is I don't know Gerard at all. But, I mean, I think he's well regarded in NFL circles. Maybe he's just not ready. How old, Gerard's got to be what? 33 somewhere in that range. because when I was

when I first came back in 2010 he was a starting quarterback him and Tannahill he was 36 Is he that old? He's been on this station before Girard Johnson has Before he was getting into coaching

He was thinking about getting into media I don't remember how we had the connection I got his phone number You want to call him? No let's see what he does first You've had Gerard Johnson number all this time You never been on on the show? What kind of guest booker are you?

What do you mean? You always complain about no guess is good enough, so I didn't think you'd want the quarterbacks coach. You didn't ask me about this one. Okay. Look, how many texts that we had on the show in the last five or six years? Zero. Okay, so if you'd have got me one, it'd have been better than what we...

It's a quarterback's coach. Yeah. But we've got to get in the early stages, so when he becomes a head coach, you're like, oh, man, those are my guys. Okay. I see you. See, you are teaching me things, Matt. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Only took me 15 years to teach you a few things. That's funny. 713-212-5-7-9-0. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-19. Yeah, look, I think offensive coordinators are like any other positional coach. You know, remember the Astros when they were hitting all the home runs? Who is the hitting coach? We've got to give them some more money.

and the Astros don't get a runner over from second with less than two outs. Fire the guy! And then they misname who he is and don't represent him and start taking other coaches and replacing him with other coaches who are pitching coaches. It's about as low-hanging of a fruit for a fan as it is possible. But I think the microscope beyond this, because here's the thing, Ross, if Koli doesn't work out, I don't think Domingo wants two OCs under his belt.

in three seasons as a head coach. No, probably not. You don't want to build that reputation. And that's why I kind of thought all long that Sloak was going to get one more year because, again, you're now, whoever to inherit the job, now it's obviously colding, is going to face tremendous amount of pressure because of the fact that you, if things don't work out, we're not assuming they're going to not work out.

But if they don't, just the possibility, it's going to be either the coach, coaching infrastructure, or the quarterback can't deal with you, and another voice giving him advice about how to run his offense. I got a little conspiracy theory for you, too. Ooh, I love conspiracy theories. How about Seloic was D'emiko's guy, and this is Casario's guy? Yeah, I will buy that 100%. Not that D'emico says, oh, no, Nick Cayley sucks.

He's the worst. Right, right, right, right. But it was maybe Casario pushing for this, going away from the, I mean, it's still kind of West Coast Shanahan schemes. But the Rams weren't big outside zone running team like Bobby Sloak was. How about this one? Casario wanted his guy. East Coast Roots, Patriots, Gerard Johnson, was the coat was the pick for.

D'Amico? Maybe. And I go to Hannah and Hannah both the time. All right. Could be. But not likely. We need to get like a Texans insider on this. do we know any

uh not really well Aaron Wilson Aaron Wilson's an insider Dale Brinson Dale do you think Dale wouldn't know I don't know I don't know if he's out of touch or where he is his is his place even still open that's a great question

yeah how is Dale Brinson's place going I don't know we'll find out we got we have a gut feelings coming up Ross explain the audience what a gut feeling is it's something that you feel in your gut that, you know, it's not as we have levels to everything for whatever reason on this show.

Put your name on it means this is my prediction and I'm personally guaranteeing this is going to happen. Got feelings like, you know what? I kind of got a crazy feeling that this is going to happen. Yeah, these are crazy feelings. Yeah. So if you get it right, you can brag. If you get it wrong, it's long as long as it's not absurd.

We won't make fun of you. It's like a free pass almost. Yeah. It's just kind of just throw it out there to see if it sticks against them. Although I still bring them up when Matt misses Emory. I know you do. All right, gut feelings are up next.

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7.13-212-5-7-90. If you've got something in your gut, you want to make a sports prediction. Let's go. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Ross, how did we do last week? Well, Matthew, it was a mixed bag. last week's gut feelings. We'll start with you as you had the Cougars beating Tech and West Virginia. Well, we'll see. West Virginia's tonight, you said?

No, that's football. They already beat West Virginia and lost tech. Oh, okay. Well, that's a shame. All right, let's see. You also had it as the top five watched a Super Bowl ever. Yep. which would be interesting to see how that turns out. You also have Bregman, not an Astro. Yep. Which is TBD.

But I feel like we're still pretty good. Oh, you put, excuse me? Yeah, you heard me. You put your name on it? Put my name on it. I think you're probably right. It's a good one. Okay, thank you.

Let's see, I had the Eagles winning the Super Bowl. Just a gut feeling. Okay. We'll see if I stick with that. Okay. I had the Rockets not having an All-Star selected. Now, I guess that counts. I mean, I'm sorry, that's definitely an L, because Alper and Shingoon.

Right. Selected as a reserve all-star. Congratulations to Am. Yes, that's correct. And I also have Bregman not signing with the Astros. Memory serves, I said that, and then you piggybacked. That's fine. I'm a piggybacker.

Yeah, one of the greatest of all time. Connor McGovern had the Rockets winning their next three, but losing to the Knicks. I think they won one of those, and then they have now lost three in a row. Yeah, thanks, Connor. And, oh, this is a good one. He had Gerard Johnson as the next Texans OC. Hmm. Which felt like a solid bet.

But they did not do that. No for two there. And that's what I have in the archives. I said we Rockets again, an All-Star. Okay. I must not have wrote that down. All right, I'm going to go first. I'm not the best archivist. I'm going to say

Hope Springs Eternal Rockets beat the Nets tonight I can't put my name on it because we're not at 100% here but I'm not anywhere close Hashtag revenge Hey the Rockets covered the spread last night Anybody cares about that

Seven and a half You know what I will put my name on it What's up? Rockets win tonight That's what I'm talking about Kind of what you got for tonight's Rockets Nets game I'll say Rockets win Okay thank you very much

Now we've got Braden Man on the show I'm really rooting hard for Good puns? Really? I still think Kansas City's better though Although tell me, is Kansas City's run defense? Can they stop Sequin Barclay? Can anybody stop Sequin Barclay?

The answer is no. I think it's moot. Kansas City holding as the one and a half point favorite. Boy, that's like a coin flip, right, Ross? line opened at 49 and a half down to 48 and a half I will take the over in the Super Bowl as a good feeling okay okay I think indoors

I think these teams are tired of playing in the lousy weather they're going to enjoy playing where it's nice artificial turf no wind or breeze to speak of just the bad breath of people from New Orleans area eating in that stadium what yeah come on man in that stadium. You know there is. Stank in that stadium. Yeah. Says Matt Thomas.

Yeah. So you think the people of New Orleans smell is what you're saying. I'm not saying all of them do. I mean, are there going to be, how many native New Orleans are going to be in the building? That's a great question. How many New Orleans tickets do they get? Not many, right? I'm going with an under hashtag fade MT, and I'm also going with the E. I'm sticking with the Eagles win. Are you really? Okay. I can't, I can't make this decision. It's a gut feeling. It's fine. All right. Um, what else?

Anybody else? Anything else? Connor, are we going to get a little Missouri basketball gut feeling in? Um, they beat Georgia. Ooh. Oh. And then for my Super Bowl, spicy.

I will say the Chiefs win their third straight Super Bowl. Chiefs. By the way, do you see what Patronix said? Back to back. Oh, what is three peak trademarks? That the Chiefs can use it. And doesn't he have to charge them, though? I don't know.

I should have charged the Astros when I said Crush City, but I didn't know. you need to charge. Who? Manler Moe. You seen the name of his podcast? What? It is Crush City Pot, isn't it? It is. Oh yeah, I'm suing him.

Rome, if you're listening, you've been warned. You'll be hearing from my attorneys. Crush City Podcast. Crush City Territory is what it's called. Okay, same thing. I'm suing him. Multi-million dollar deal here. All right. Oh, guess

Ross, is that who I think it's on line one? It is who you think it is. He might be just around the corner from him. You never know. James on 7. Honey James. What in your gut this week, my friend? Okay.

I got the big game right here because that's where everybody's targets. Everybody's target is going on. Listen, I got the over as well. I have the Chiefs winning 27, 24. It looks like that's how it's going to be. And I also have one of those prospects. I have that guy that everybody loves the one that's, you know, that very vocal guy, he's going to have five reception, 75 yards.

And also, one more thing, Governor Thomas, I want to make mention about this, the feeling I got about Breggman. He's not going to get signed and well into spring training because he's got that eagle going on and he's going to mess him up in the end because I believe he has to go to the Red Sox because the Astros are not going to take him back. They've already moved on. And because of them holding that up, the GM from Boston, Peter Lanzo can't go to either Boston or he can't go to the Chicago Cubs.

So that's my gut feelings for the week. And don't worry, the Rockets will beat the Brooklyn Ness because the Brooklyn Nets are like, man, polluted water. Thank you for taking my call, Governor Thomas and everybody else. Thank you, James. We haven't done our 66 impersonation today. I feel like I've let the audience down, Ross. Have we? We haven't, have we? We have not.

All right, Matt, you want to make any gut feelings about New York? I got the New York Knicks in the Eastern Finals. I had a terrible stromboli off the 9th Avenue this morning. Oh, what happened? Not enough sauce. My guy, Tony didn't take care you? Tony Duteroveduccio there in the Dubuchio. Oh, come my man.

Terrible. Unbelievable. The world's going to hell. Yeah. And he wants me to call his. recorded line for his carcordid resurgence.

Oh, geez. Send his mother Marie, my regards. Let's talk some Islander hockey next. Absolutely.

I got to ask a New York reporter if they ever talk Islander hockey. It's a franchise in town, right? Now it's

Grands Long Island. Hey, what do you think about Aaron Glenn being the New York Jets coach? Should Aaron

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went to fighting Texas A&M, and we'll play some of that conversation coming up in the 1 o'clock hour. Real quick, our friend Joan says, Gerard Johnson gone on his own accord, even a lateral move. It's not beneficial, but Aaron Wilson says he's going to stay, so that may be a gut-filling you lose. Breggman will find the right crisis manager and publicist to accept the money isn't there, and will be an astro, and then kick Scott Boris to the curb.

Could Scott Boris be fired again in back-to-back-back-year sports RV for his family of free agency? Maybe. What do you think those conversations are like? What are we waiting for? Are they waiting for some kind of injury? I think it's a dangerous thing to do. Because if you get an injury of a player, are you in the background saying,

I've got $29 million or $28 million to pay for a guy to play for me to replace an injured player that suffered an injury during spring training? I don't think that kind of monies are sitting around. Yeah. I mean, it helped Josh Hater, Kendall Graveman, going down. Yeah. Again, I think by next Monday, we will have a home.

for Alex Brighman. He just can't be thinking about... What was that a good feeling? Yeah, why not? Go over that. And Joan also says there will be another controversial call favoring Kansas City at the Super Bowl. Isn't it like that in taxes, basically? Miss calls happen in every NFL game, Matt.

I know, but America seems to be super cranky when they always benefit Kansas City. Just throwing it out there. By the way, our 790... team. They're over in Astroville today. They're at Dyken Park. And they're eating free meal, which usually happens for non-members of the media

who somehow get credentials. Okay. What do you mean? Usually happens. Well, I mean, like faux media. That's not real media. They'd like to go over there and say, hey, we'll take pictures of all your great food, and you give us a credential for the Astro season, and they usually get it.

Hmm. I mean, it is what it is. I mean, everybody's got a game to play. Okay. To the point? Yeah, I was trying to, but you were, what do you mean? Yeah, I don't know what you meant. Sorry.

All right. So the Astros have the new list of game of, what do you call it, themes for the season. Okay. Did they have their hashtag unveiled? No, I don't believe that is the case. Oh. But I looked at them, I'm looking to see if Wex is big on doing stuff like this here. There was a theme night for this.

He's taking all the pictures of all of the food. Oh, I saw, you know what, I goofed up. I can't find it. There's, there's, all the themes with the 2025 season are out, and I don't have the listing in front of me. So can you stall for three seconds? Yes. Follow SportsMT on Twitter.

He's trying to, we're going to have a 40,000 Twitter follower party on the moon. It's never going to happen. On the moon, let's go. On the moon, that's we're going to have the NASCAR event, too, right? Yes, that's true. Oh, man, that's an all-timer right there. That was all the time. I can't believe that he said that on the radio.

Yeah, we had a producer named Trey, as sweet as could be. Sweet, I mean, just the best kid. Love Trey. So much. But he also said there was going to be a NASCAR event on the moon. Was his gut feeling. Not good. It's just not.

Oh, God, Ross, I'm so aggravated when I can't find something. Oh, that's a shame. Because it's just ruining this all. Otherwise, Amy or Warwick's show. What a great segment this is great. It's doing great. What kind of themes are we talking about? I don't even...

Like, there's a Hello Kitty night coming up again this year. Okay, I saw those two. There's Star Wars nights. Didn't McTaggart put those out? Oh, here it is. I found it. You ready? Yes. I'm going to run through a few of them. You tell me what you think. Okay.

Orbit's birthday bash. Oh, cool. Can't wait. Okay. Here's one. April 29th against the Tigers, Peanuts Night. Oh, they did that Peanuts Night last year. Like, who's your favorite peanuts character? I'm assuming you dress like it.

I'm going with Snoopy. Snoopy. Pepperman Patty. She calls Charlie Brown Chuck. Mm-hmm. Um, not Mushmouth. He was one of the fat hour kids. That's different, yeah, completely different.

Linus is a cool dude. And Linus is dirty. Luzes a bitch. Whoa, that seems strong. Am I, am I lying or not? Oh, my God. All right. Next, here's one.

July 8th against the Guardians. Friends night. Oh, okay, like the show. TV series, yeah. As in the TV series, yeah. Oh, man, I saw 7-1-3-day, and I thought it might have said 790 day for a second. No, we wouldn't. Yeah, that's fine.

Expect that. A couple of the nights. Girls, no. Ooh, they did two Hello Kitty nights again. They are so smart. Okay, April 19. People go nuts for Hello Kitty. All you single bros, listen to me very, very.

carefully. April 19th is Girls Night Out. If you know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying. What is that? No, what are you saying? I'm saying there could be a little friendly. It could be a chance for you to meet that special somebody or at least get the 24-hour hookup. Go get the margs in the left field. Get jacked up. Have a good time. Seriously, if you're a single guy, you don't go to August, April 19th game against

the Padre. You're doing it wrong. Okay. All right. Star Wars weekend is May 23rd to the 25th against the Mariners. Okay. Princess Day is June 1st against the raise. Oh, the kids love the Princess Day. That also may be a sneaky good day for those of you looking for divorcee moms. Explain.

I mean, mom and daughter are going to the game. Mom's upset that the daughter is getting all the fame and the mom's looking for love. And she's got out with a broke up of her husband. It's divorced. She's by herself, single mom raising the kid. Do you introduce yourself. Interesting. Okay.

7-13 day is 7-13 against the Rangers. Wonderful. And what do we get on that day? Probably a Bunby concert. Okay. Harry Potter Night, July 29th against the Nationals. Oh, wonderful. Are you a Hufflepuff guy, Matt?

I have never watched one minute of a Harry Potter movie. Well, they're books. Oh, whatever. August 26th against the Rockies of the second Hello Kitty night. Dude, they're doubling up on Hello Kitty because they know these people go nuts for this stuff. All right. April 22nd. I'm doing this in a wrong order if you've noticed.

Yeah, I don't know why you're jumping around, but this is... April 22nd is Barbie Game Day? Oh, cool. You're gonna, oh, you know what? Connor and his girlfriend goes Barbie and Ken. That sounds somewhat appealing. Barbie Day? Just throwing it out there as a possibility.

Yeah. Here's one is interesting. June 29th against the Cubs. yoga day? Oh, that's cool. I believe anybody in attendance, any women must go in the game in yoga pants. Yeah, they give out a yoga mat

and then after the game you can do a yoga class on the field or something like that. You ever done any hot yoga, Ross? I've not done any hot yoga now. What's different between hot yoga and regular yoga? It's one's hotter than the other? No, there's got to be a reason to it. No, it's like steamy.

It's like supposed to be, it's kind of like going in a sauna and doing some yoga. It's supposed to be good for the, you know, pores. Are you more intense? dance yoga maybe yeah so hot yoga is when you're doing in a sauna it's kind of sauna like yes okay christmas in july july 24th against the a's august 12th against red sox superman night superman night okay and then the always and then connor and his girl can go superman and lois lane i'm just thinking of day i'm trying to go as jimmy olson who's that that's the news report of the

Daily Planet. Oh, okay. And then lastly is August 31st against the Angels Dog Day. Oh, okay. There's some other days in the mix, but those ones we were just on. You skip Pride Night, six on June 10th. Yeah. That's good because the Rangers don't do one.

Yeah, there's Hispanic Heritage Night. Wonderful. Fan appreciation Day. There is, let's see, what else is there. Faith and Family Night is out there. Oh, wonderful. Autism Awareness Night is good. That's good.

I was just talking about some of the funnier Okay. Margarita Day? Margarita Ville at the ballpark. Street Fest. Favorite Jimmy Buffett's song is? I'm going to keep it simple. Go ahead.

Margaritaville. I'm going come Monday. That song sucks. You just always want to go against what's the best. Hot yoga apparently is a hotter room with specific poses. Regular yoga is a regular room and movement through poses.

Hmm. Yeah. You know what? This show gives you more yoga conversation in any other show in the marketplace. You can get you doing some yoga, Matt. Get your flexibility up. I'm very flexible. I've heard you're very stiff.

That too. All right. 1158 here on the Matt Thomas show. We start with Ross. Our number three begins in a matter of moments with the news at noon. That's right. The news at noon is coming up here. All the top headlines.

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But right now we present to you as we do each and every day around this time. The News at noon. And with that, here's a more. All right, Matt. Appreciate that. We've got a lot going on here in the world of news. We'll go ahead and start with the Houston Texans, naming Nick Cayley, their offensive coordinator. here's a friend of the show, Tom Palisera,

on some background on him. He's 42 years old, has been in the mix for other offensive coordinator jobs here in recent years. Important to know, Bobby Slovak, of course, came with Domingo Ryans from San Francisco, learned under the Kyle Shanahan mode of offense. Kaley, that's another branch of the same tree learning under Sean McVeigh here.

So probably not a huge departure in terms of what they're doing, firing Bobby Sloick moving on with something they felt like they had to do and they think they've got the right man. fill that void, Nick Cayley. Nick Cayley, 42 years old, was a, is a graduate of John Carroll, the same university as Nick Casario, but does have a good resume.

Offensive assistant with the Patriots, also was with the L.A. Rams as tight-in coach in 23, tight-ins coach and past game coordinator in 2024, now bumped up to offensive coordinator for the Houston Texans, also of note a two-time Super Bowl champion. Yeah, sounds good, good pedigree, been around great coaches, is a bright mind. Everybody, University thinks it's a good decision. He was a guy that was being brought up in many different jobs.

Sounds good. I mean, I don't want to overthink it. I don't want to cuss, disgust, cuss, discuss over and over again. That's boring as you know what. But you know what? Sounds good. Can we seem to do with things? And just remember in the first four weeks of the Texans offense stalls, he'll get all the blame.

And if they're awesome the next four weeks, then he'll be a head coach before you know it. Bobby Sloak, of course, Matt, of the Shanahan. Now, they're both kind of off the Shanahan tree, but Bobby Sloick, more of the outside zone running scheme, more of the duo gap scheme run by Sean McVeigh and the L.A. Rams. Your thoughts on how that impacts the Houston Texans going forward, Matt? I'm not prepared at this point. I've not had a deep analytical thought.

Oh, okay. You're working on it. I get you. You've been busy. You've been traveling. That's okay. Let's move on. Let's go to the other big news that happened, of course, over the weekend with Luca Donchich becoming and L.A. L.A. Laker, he had his press conference today, and he said even when he found out, he did not believe it. Everybody was surprised.

So you can imagine how surprised I was. I was almost asleep, so when I got a call, I had to check it was April 1st. I didn't really believe it at first. And it was a bit shock. It was hard moments for me. It was home. So it was really hard moments for me,

especially the first day. But as I said, you know, I get to play. playing the greatest club in the world. And I'm excited for this new journey. He thought it was April Fool's when he found out he was getting traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. So did everybody. That's when the move is so crazy that it's going to, I don't think Ross will ever forget about this.

Like I think there are Dallas Cowboy fans that have not forgotten how good they got it with the tree with Hershal Walker in Minnesota helping get all those first round. picks and ultimately turning him into Super Bowl champions. On a much more smaller local scale, we'll never forget the day that DeAndre Hopkins got traded. I will never forget that. But this to me

is the earth stopped on its axis. Didn't rotate for a few seconds when we found out that not only Shams put that out there, but we were to make sure that Shams was not having his account manipulated by somebody. Yeah, I was in disbelief. Even when he quoted himself saying he wasn't

hacked and it was real. I was like, no, this is not real. Even Shams himself said he thought that his phone was hacked when he was getting the details of the trade. Right. That's exactly right. Crazy. Nico Harrison, all-timer pulled by the Dallas Mavericks as actually they have made another move, Matt,

a minor trade, but the 76ers trading Caleb Martin to the Dallas Mavericks. Good for them. Sixers should start dumping players. Yeah, they might. So it could be Paul George on the move at some point for the 76ers. You know that Darrell Mori, he's got that itch.

He likes this move and shake around this time, Matt. Oh, yeah. It's funny because Rafael Stone, it doesn't have that itch. And Darrell was basically the, you know, taught a lot of how Rafael had to run an operation. So being like one of his top lieutenants. So it's interesting how they... Go ahead. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry for cutting you on. Yeah, speaking of the Houston Rockets and Ruffel Stone, that brings us to our next news item, Matt, on the news at noon. Houston Rockets with the 1-24 to 118 loss last night. 46 points given up in the fourth quarter. Three straight games lost. Coach Yudoka, not pulling punches in the postgame media availability. I don't think it was room protection.

I think it was one-on-one defense. I have 46 point quarter. You know, we scored 29. We scored 118. We scored enough points to win. But very soft and uncompetitive defensively. just going out of us one-on-one and we're complaining about offensive fouls, not boxing out, not doing our assignment, getting back cut, off-ball actions, and that adds up to 46.

And so, scored enough to win. Coach, you know, not mixing words. Yeah. You know, I broadcast in an 800 level of Madison's Guard, which is the second, the highest level at the arena. Okay. And with I'm calling the game by myself, I'm literally just watching the ball. Do you travel with binoculars? No, but I probably should.

Because some NBA guys, because I think Craig uses binoculars, right? Sometimes. There's about three or four places that we should use binoculars. The problem is if you use binoculars, you kind of, you take them off, then you kind of lose the sense of where you are on the court. So I don't use them there, but I probably should. This and Orlando are the two highest spots we're going to call it. When's your birthday coming up?

I'm going to get some binos. No, no, I've got a good set, but thank you, though. Just give me cash. June 5th. But here's my point. I don't see a lot of that hands in the air. I can't believe I was not fouled. If I wasn't called,

do you notice that when you watch the Rockets? There's a lot of it, usually on the other side. I put one of the tweets I made last night was like the Rockets' physicality frustrates their opponents every night. And that is, I think it ends up going both ways because the Rockets are so physical as a nature. They get away with hand checks, they get away with pushes, shoves, shoves,

and all that stuff all night long because of how physical they are, the referees are like, we're not going to call a foul on every single play. So I think there is a baseline level of physicality that the level ups in a Rockets game. And then it kind of does come back on the Rockets too. And I think they do get frustrated,

but I saw more frustration from Nick's players than Rockets players. But there was some complaining to the referees. They were letting them play last night. They really were. Yeah, again, to me, it has to be so blatantly obvious that I would stop a game called to say what happened was going on there.

I will tell you this. I don't know if you guys picked up on this last night, for those of you that watched the game. I saw the worst challenge ever in the history of the NBA last night, Tom Thibodeau of the Knicks. There was a scramble at mid-court. It was Brunson and a men Thompson. And a man went to go poke the ball away.

Yes. On Jalen Brunson. It trickled to the sideline. It was called a jump ball. If you look at the instant replay, the ball was last touch by Brunson's left hand. So maybe Tom Thibito, the coach of the Knicks, was looking to see if there was a foul going to, there should have been called on. A men got called ball, though.

So the Knicks challenge it. Not only Ross did they lose the challenge and lose the possession of the ball. Yes. They would have had it, at worst case, a jump ball. Instead, no jump ball, lost a possession, and no foul call to the Men Thompson, and they lost their challenge. Wow. I think we're going to open up a new business for the NBA. It's going to call challenge for you.biz.

Hmm. And what you're going to do is you're going to have a chance to reach out to me via text. And I will very quickly tell you whether or not you should challenge a call, because I feel like every NBA team is getting some bad advice from their sideline. And I thought Tippett a last time got some terrible advice. Yeah, that was That was pretty bad I heard you calling that man Challenge for you.

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Yeah, we don't. I mean, if there was such a thing as a six, it'd be pretty damn close. That is a loyal Matt Thomas listener to tweet that, so I appreciate. You know, I should actually go find him as his name and give him a shout out. Yeah, found out who it is. Well, and I'll retweet him. I'll find it to two. All right.

Because that was hilarious. Um, here it is. The 2025 theme for Houston Astros baseball is. Here, here we go. Hashtag built for this. Hmm. That's fine. Hmm.

Hashtag built for this. You know, I've never, and look, I work for a team that has, you know, all these sports teams in town. Everybody, everybody creates these little clever phrases. I've just never been one for them because they don't really do much for you if you don't win, right? Yes. I mean, it was J-Mart 454, by the way.

James appreciate you with that six tweet. That's what I'm talking about right there. Yeah, I'm not a big hashtagger. Now, I'll add a group of people that I want to make sure they see what I'm saying about them. Normally it's good, but I'm not a hashtager. Built for this, but we sold off a piece in right field for this as well. Yeah, but we built the new.

corners in the infield beautifully. I think for now. Okay. Tell me that, tell me you wouldn't be excited about a Bregman and Walker third to first combo over and over and over again. That'd be nice. I just don't think it's going to happen, but it could. Tell me you wouldn't be excited for a little Isaac Predez to Christian Walker third to

first combination, although we have not seen Paredes play defensively much, right? No. We a little scared? No, I don't think so. Okay. We can pull up the advanced stats for you, Matt, if you'd like. You can if you want to. By the way, an NBA rumor is out involving the rockets.

I just saw this. Okay, from whom? For your tab is not terrible, by the way. It's not great. You got to be careful. It's all I got to do. You just have to carefully curate it. I've muted thousands of accounts, and I just keep doing it.

Yeah. All right, here we go. Sam Amick, a friend of the show, writes for the athletic, Mm-hmm. Says the league sources said the Lakers have had talks about acquiring big man Stephen Adams from the Rockets. Oh, really? He's an expiring deal worth $12.5 million. And while the two sides have been significantly apart with no signs that a deal will actually get done.

I was going to say. Those talks offered some clarity as to what Polinka has been thinking. All of my L.A. friends, Rossi, are saying the Lakers ain't done. I think they're not. I agree. They need a big man. They do. they absolutely 100% need a legit rim protector

somebody that's going to go up and grab some rebounds blocks some few shots and at least put a hand up in the air yeah but guess what the rockets need stephen adams rockets need stephen adams rockets because here's the thing um and alpi might be back you know you know maybe even tonight maybe hopefully um

Adams doesn't play for you every single day so i mean he's really good but i don't know of necessarily you can rely him at every single night. Yeah, he's good in the paint in the restricted area, but I mean, he can't get out there on the perimeter. Like, he doesn't even bother. He's doing it a little bit more lately, but start of the season especially,

he didn't bother getting on the perimeter at all. He'd been giving up a lot of wide open three-point looks. He just can't move. No, he's not. He, that's thing is, you're going to, the only time it comes out is to set screens, and that's on the offensive side. Yeah, he's just not very mobile.

So I don't think he's the answer to the Lakers problem either. It is showing you that the Lakers are looking, at least trying to kick tires on centers. He's a good backup. like you said he set bone-crushing screens and he can get rebounds and putbacks and he's got value a little push-shot hook shot in the middle of the lane when you need him to he scares me on the bus yeah he's an enforcer he's got value but i don't i wouldn't guess that the lakers need to start him if they do that you are going to be limited defensively

with him yeah he's he's not a 30-minute guy and at this point his NBA career he just not but you know i would hate to see him leave but i mean yeah i think the rockets are looking for some interior help too. I don't know if they're necessarily, and again, no one's telling me this, I'm just telling you based off of the vibe I get from the score sheets, is that they'd like to have something a little more

more fluid than the Adams slash Landau combination. Yeah, what's going on with Jack Landau, by the way? He was ill the last couple days. Or as a kid say, Illen. You can't put Ellen on the injury report. Because the injury report I saw was not With team.

I have seen him. Okay. I mean, I don't think, I mean, when they say not with team, not like literally not with the team, but like not in the building. So he messed up and we feeling very good. Okay. Well, there was something going around. There's the illnesses, right?

Yeah. Would you, let me ask you this, and I'll stay out of this one. Would you trade Cam Whitmore? Maybe a low risk, not a low stock that might seem to increase in value in putting the right situation? I think, yeah. I like Cam Whitmore But a tradable piece But a tradable piece

If you got a better Backup 4 slash 5 For Cam Whitmore Would you move him? No I think you need the bench scoring That Cam Whitmore provides Yeah

Is Tari a three or a four in your mind? It doesn't matter He's more of a wing So I guess I would say more of a three He's not a big man Okay Yeah but he can guard fours.

He's just like a hybrid type guy. When he's knocking down threes and getting buckets, he's good. Hell, if you got a men Thompson at 6'7 playing the four and was successful, you ain't worried about what's behind him. Yeah, but a man Thompson's also an absolute freak of nature. He can get muscled up and still block shots. I'm telling you, everybody, he had that one dunk last night. I don't have you saw the highlight of it?

I did. I saw it was watching the game. The entire arena was like, who is this freak of nature? He had a freaking 25 point triple double. Yeah. He is the face of this franchise. Ooh. Say that again, Maddie? He is the face of this franchise.

Wow. It may not be at this exact moment, but he's going to be there. Okay. I mean, I got feeling months ago that he was going to have the best career of anybody in any of the young core. Yeah. Yeah. All right. NFL Rewind is coming up next.

This is where Ross goes deep into the, His NFL context, his sauces. No, I'm not doing that. Are you just going to rip and read a couple of headlines? It's fine. All right. 713. 213, 212-790.

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NFL rewind. That's true Matt, but we actually do have a little bit of breaking news. It's not huge. Is it a sounder? It's a one. Yeah, I think of one sounder. Fire that bad boy out. You know what? Give me two actually. What? The Houston Astros will be retiring a number. Number 13 for Billy Wagner. Hmm. Hmm. Matt, you're your gut, reaction. Good for him? Um, how many years was he a Houston

Astro? Seven or eight? I'll look it up right now as you run through the NFL rewind. Okay. Well, I'm, yeah, it's just I'll tell you in ten, ten seconds. Nine years, I got it.

You're fast. Thank you. I try to be. Nine years. Yeah, nine years being a closer? Yeah. That's good. Lance Bergman was a Houston Astro for 12 years.

Ooh, Lance does not have his retired yet? He does not. Ladies gentlemen, unavailable tonight due to a previous commitment. One of Billy Wagner's teammates, Lance Bergman. All right, so obviously a lot of the NFL rewind having to do with the Super Bowl going on this weekend, Matt. So, well, let's start with this one, actually, because it's interesting. Apparently, Tom Brady will take part in the production meetings, as we have talked about on this show. As a partial owner of a team, he's not supposed to be allowed to interview coaches and players,

not supposed to be allowed to be with teams as far as practices as well, but he is supposed to have, for the Super Bowl, access that any other broadcaster will have. I mean, if you're going to let him continue to do it, you might as well do it the right way. And talking to coaches and talking to players personally about the game he's about to call is the right way to do it. I feel like these rules should be enforced in the regular season, but especially when the Raiders aren't in the playoffs, which they usually aren't, then it should be fair game. Yeah, I don't think this is, again, I'm not going to fall off my notion that ultimately Tom's going to own a bigger part of

the team. It's going to force him to ultimately Fox. He doesn't finish out this deal. But for now, where he's currently at owning a very small sliver, let him talk to the players and coaches. He'll openly recruiting him, because I guarantee if somebody in the room heard Tom Brady openly

recruiting these players to go play for the writers, the NFL would send the alarms off in a millisecond. I would agree with that. All right, let's keep moving, but we're going to stick with the Super Bowl. A friend of the show, Maybe he's not a friend of the show.

Travis Kelsey, in his media availability, was asked one question that he would flip the other way. What question would you ask the media, Travis Kelsey? If I could ask the media one question, why are you guys leaning into this whole ref thing? You know what I mean? Like, why are you guys leaning into it? That's all I got, though. Matt, he asked you a media member. Why are you leaning into the ref thing?

Your answer? I'm not leaning into it. I'm actually fatigued about it. Hmm. I think when the microscope is on the most recognizable team right now in the NFL, everybody thinks that they're getting a bunch of calls their way. They may have gotten a few breaks here and there, but Buffalo had multiple chances Ross to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in that AMC championship game,

and their defense was unable to do it. I would agree with that. Perian in his story. I also think it's ridiculous to think they would, the entire all 32 teams would rig the league for Kansas City. Yes. To be the driving force in the face of this storied league. Yes.

I also think that the bottom line is they've done studies on this for years. One of the benefits of home field advantage is you get more calls. And guess what? Who's been the one seed basically every year the last few years? It's been Kansas City. There's been a lot of games in Arrowhead. It was the state of Missouri for the playoffs. Kansas City has been the one seed basically almost every year.

And when you're the home team, you tend to get more calls. And guess what they did? Didn't go to Kansas City go to beat Buffalo this year or did Buffalo win that game? No, Kansas City did. No, Buffalo won in Buffalo. They only had one loss. Is that right? That was two Buffalo in Buffalo.

Okay. I was going to say, I believe. Wait, am I wrong on that? No, their only regular season loss I thought was to the bills in the regular season. Oh, yeah, and they lost the Denver in the last week. I'm sorry, yeah, the Denver in the last week. I'm sorry. So the only real loss is what I mean.

I was going to say, well, they- Yeah, November 17th, they lost in Buffalo. I mean, they were 15 and two during the regular season. 15. There were 15 other teams or in some cases, 11 other teams that are in the same division. Yeah. A chance to upend the Chiefs and put them down the spot in the playoff ladder

to allow a team like Buffalo or a team like Cincinnati or a team like Baltimore to have number one seen the home. Texans. Texans didn't have to go 10 and 7-0-0. said they owed the Texans of 10 and 7 mark, they should have won 13 games. By the way, it was also with tough results for a rest versus

Rust guy who thinks they were going to be rusty. They were off for three whole weeks and now they're in Super Bowl. Oh my gosh, yeah. That's too bad. Eh, it's a shame. Yeah, I think it's sports topics sometimes become fatiguing to me like they are for anybody.

And I think the officials trying to help the Chiefs. You know who doesn't carry up the Chiefs from the Super Bowl? The other 30 won NFL teams. No, you think Jerry Jones is like, yeah, let's rig it for the chase. Is that how Jerry Jones sounds? Yeah. Hey, Matt. I don't have time to jack with you today. He sounds

older and slower. You sound like somebody else. I can't remember. I can't put my finger on it. By the way, as we can go along on the NFL rewind, Matt, Andy Reed has confirmed he will continue to coach the Chiefs. He is 67 or will be in March. Second oldest coach the NFL behind? Pete Carroll.

Pete Carroll, now the Raiders, yeah. That is correct, who is 73. So he says, though, he will be back for the 2025 season. Coaching in his sixth Super Bowl, Andy Reid, one of the all-time greats. Let me talk about Andy Reid's schedule. He doesn't put in 40 hours in a week. I disagree. He works a little bit on Monday.

He doesn't even check the facility on Tuesday. Wednesday, full day, Thursday, full day. Friday he leaves it You know what he works? He works He works bankers hours Ain't no way That's why he's so good Ross

No I don't believe that His offense is so good I think he's studying a ton of tape I know He's a studier All right Well let's keep it moving Matt On to the Super Bowl ticket prices

So last week The initial get-in price $6,375 Those prices According to a reseller that does not spend money with us, so I won't mention them in the tradition of the Matt Thomas Show way, with Ross, by the way.

Now down to $1,600 to get in. Prices for the top tickets also down by nearly $30,000. So as we have seen in the years past in the Super Bowl, tickets plunging. 6,300 get in price a week ago, now down to 1,600. You know why that is, in my opinion? Why is that? They were just priced too high to begin with.

Yeah. There was just a bad guess on the ticket brokers to think what the perceived value would have been. Yeah. By the way, two-star hotels. Sorry, I misread that, by the way. Down by 1600, so under 4,000 get in from 6,300. Yeah, that feels about right. My bad.

Two-star hotels in New Orleans, that would be like your Rompart Rins, your Jolintas, are going forward. for 525 a night. That's two-star. New Orleans has some of the most hotel rooms in the country, right? Correct. It's Vegas 1 and then it's like, they're, I don't think top 5-ish?

New Orleans, Orlando, Vegas, New York, L.A. Okay. Yeah, a quick Google search says L.A. Las Vegas is number one. Yeah. 525 a night for Rorinta. Which is Spanish for next to Rhinis.

What about the Airbnb? B. I don't even know. You're more an expert. I've never rented an Airbnb. What's the Herra's looking like? You mean the Caesars now? Oh, I'm sorry, yes, Cesar's. Oh, the Bleasers? The Bleasers.

That's probably, no, I wonder how much the hotel is where we stay for the Rockets, how much this cost him. That's a lot. That's probably going to be about three grand in that. Love New Orleans. Wish we were there. Gordy's there, though. He's out in the office today? No, he's there today.

I believe. Or maybe he's on the way. I think he's leaving today, maybe? Yeah. Who knows? He's very busy tomorrow. Man about town. A top shelf.

And a few organic sponsor plugs. Sure. Get you good people on. Get you good people on, right? Absolutely. All right. And that's, is that for the report? Yeah, that's your NFL rewind, man.

Nice. Nicely done, Ross. Appreciate that. I shouldn't do it. I didn't ask Braden Mann if he had some tickets and give us. That would have been really right. Oh, come on. I couldn't have gone anyway.

I have a Rockets game at 1 o'clock. I guess I could have really gotten there quickly. One game ends at 4.320 down the 4.30. I guess, no, I'd have been too close. Maybe next year. Maybe next year. Maybe sometime when the Texans get there. Okay.

About a red one's that's going to happen. Nick Cayley Taking the Texans to the Promise land In Cayley we trust Yes Should the Texans Put Nick Cayley into the Texans

Ring of Honor Without even coaching the game yet I think he should be I mean he has been talked about Is the greatest offensive mind Walking this God's Green Earth of ours I think he is Can't wait to see what he does

All right 1243 is the time We're with you at 2 o'clock. Ross, what is today's edition of Believe or Not coming? Actually, you're going to be surprised. New York City. I checked the archives, which go back to 2016. Oh, really?

We have not done New York City, at least in 16, probably early in the years of the show. Okay. Which those are lost to time. We haven't even played any WFAN liners. We play New York-specific songs today. Oh, yeah. I'm only going to be here for another hour and 15 minutes. Gosh.

Let's New York this show up. Very busy young man. What's he doing back there? I've been making him cut my audio because my computer's messed up. Oh. So you're saying that because of malfunctions in our studio, which we've never had before, it's putting more work on our producers who are underpaid and work too hard. And overworked, yeah.

Sorry. 1244, Sports Talk, 790. We're with you to 2 o'clock today. 713-212-5-790. Right. Half the workday is done. Celebrate with Matt. Hey, Matt.

What was they talking about? By the sound of it, some of you started the party at breakfast. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. Rossi, this is the definitive song, correct? The number one New York song. Yes. Number two. You're going to disagree with me.

Go ahead. Empire State of Mind. By what's your name? Jay Z and Alicia Key. See, I like that song. When the Knicks win a game at Madison Square, and you know what song they play? This?

No. Oh, the Knicks? Nick. Oh, it's the Yankees play this. Yeah. Is Billy Joel? Yep, New York City of mine. Yeah, that's a great one.

I put that third. Yeah, it's good. Of course, we put sneaky on the list, Matt, is that James Brown down and out in New York City. We're going to play that again. We'll quit play that at the one o'clock open? Absolutely. Some of my dulc tones are calling the game.

Oh, geez. I mean, I mean, I can't, I can't waste the discussion. descriptions on just the evening audience. The mid-time, midday show's got to hear it as well. That's true, Matt. We should get your calls on a loop and put it on a podcast. You know, we ought to do it. We can just randomly call you all and text you calls in my game.

You're down and out. It's a tough day at work. Oh, we can do no sleep till Brooklyn. Beastie Boys for tomorrow, no matter what happens. We got to play that. Can you name the TV show in the 70s that was based out of Brooklyn? uh, BJ and the Bear. Nope.

You want you like some more hints? Uh, good times. No, I mean, yeah, good times. Weren't they in New York? They were Chicago. Oh. I don't know. Featured an ensemble cast that one of the members of the cast became a mega TV movie star.

Silver spoons. No. No. Although that's not bad. I mean, that's good good. That's a nice rando pick. I don't know. Welcome back, Connor.

Oh, okay. Yeah. That was in New York? That was in Brooklyn. Wow. This, I put up a list of best New York songs. This Time Out magazine has them at New York City of Mine 18th. It's not a, it's not a jam.

It's kind of, it's a slow build, if you will. It's all, it's not, I wouldn't say it's a lullaby. Would you even call it that, would you? Uh, I don't know. Cruder? It's crooney. Yeah, I got it. All right.

Let's see what else we got going on. AD today said he's over the trade. He's ready to play for the Mavericks. He's got no other choice. Yeah. You got me from L.A. to Dallas. Yeah, I mean, it's not nearly as Cosmo. By the way, both Anthony Davis and Luca Donchich

recently purchased and or built new homes in their old cities. Yes. I think Lucas was $15 million in Dallas, and I want to say... What does $15 million in Dallas get you? I think 80s was $34 million in California. My God, did he buy a city? Well, I mean... He's the owner of Grand Prairie, Texas now.

Luca Donchich. I bet you could build $15 million in University of Park. Yeah, that's true. I mean, there's big money over there in Dallas, obviously. They had their brooks. It's called University Park. Same thing. Is that where he bought it?

My God. I don't know where it is. But, I mean, my God. my guess is probably got to be 10, 11,000 square feet, give or take, right? Wow. 15 million in Texas? Now, 15 million, and that's like a three-bedroom in L.A., right? That's right.

So, let me, I'm going to give you an analogy. Remember when I stayed in Minnesota? I thought I was going to, and I bought that really nice snowblower. Mm-hmm. And I had to sell it pennies in the dollar because of the fact that I was moving back to Texas. Is my snowblower? lucidantius's $15 million house

it's exactly the same Matt what a great analogy thank you it's only taking me but years and years of giving you analogies and I'm not being sarcastic at all

no he bought the the crem della crem of what he thought it was going to be his home I can't imagine it's the exact same as you buying a little

little snowblower stay with me on this please I was wondering how you were going to tie this into yourself I don't know maybe I'm just road away

Yeah, you're right. I mean, nine games in nine, no, no, nine games in eight cities, right? Because two of them in New York. Well, yeah, because you count Houston as I say. It was just a road trip for us. Absolutely. It was a one-game homestand. That's not a home stand.

I went home visit. That's a home visit. Call the game going back on the road. We don't need to know about what you did at home. All right. Well, I mean, I fed the dogs, kissed the babies, and it's a hide on my kids, my wife. You said wham-bam. Well, that's true.

I did that do that, too. yeah i just i i i don't know what i'm ready to come home i i and you may want to mark this down on the all-time list here i'm actually i kind of miss you oh man i'm gonna i'm gonna give you a great big old hug when you get here hopefully i'll be over my cough by then the longest cough in human history i'm not come back to studio until you fill 100% i don't need you give me these germs i'm i'm looking at dodge most of the illnesses so far this year i'm feeling stronger every day matt okay you sound better than you had in the last couple days.

Thank you. I mean, your information still is subpar as you know. That's okay. All right. It's 1256 on the radio program. We will unfortunately have to honor the Nix and their win over the Rockets last night to open up the one o'clock hour. Also coming up at around 120, we're going to play the conversation that we had this morning

with the Braden Man, who is the starting punter for the Philadelphia Eagles. Ross, can you name all the radio shows in Houston? What do you mean? I don't mean, you could name. Like every show on every station. And it seems that we have lost Matt Thomas. Well, just in time for a top of the hour break here on Sports Talk 790. We're going to come back and honor the New York Knicks, unfortunately, as they beat the Rockets.

And hour number four of the Matt Thomas show is coming up next. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. And there by Jay Scott. One Ripple 2 is right. It was a pass and is stolen by Cam Whitmore at midcourt. He's going to fly over the right. hand jam.

Anticipated that pass beautifully, a turnover into Houston points. 4635. Bridges gives up the three. Ball lost. That's knocked away by Tauri Easton. Leakout Pass. Thompson down the lane for green and he'll jam it down with the right hand. Rockets under fast break basket there.

Six and seven club to go. And Thompson next on the four against a two one. Down the lane he goes! And he jumps and dives and scores and has failed. Oh my goodness! goodness he Euro stepped his way by a Chua and with the Hanner oh my gosh everybody going ooh and oh oh oh Tomson has a triple double but it won't mean much if the Rock has come up short in this game Brunson three-pointer right side up and

what a fourth quarter for Jalen Brunson timeout coming to the Rocket Addles the big court, one man Thompson. A launch a three-pointer, 27 feet, back-heel miss, rebound to Josh Hart. We'll do it here tonight from Madison Square Guard. The Knicks will improve to 18 and 9 in this building. The Rockets fall to 17 and 8 on the road.

And for the first time in a long time, the Rockets have themselves a mini-losing streak. It has now reached three. As New York wins this game, 24 to 118. Back with you. The New York Gremlin's got to my phone equipment here, but I'm back in crystal clear sound.

And Ross... You were down and out in New York City for a few seconds there, Matt. I was. I was about to brag that we had Braden Man on. Braden Man! From the Eagles. No other radio station town's got a current starter in the Super Bowl on their show.

Do they? No. I don't think so. It's a humble brag on our part. Love it. All right. I need Connor. You need to check your email because, Rossi, we have, as promised, something that has been a segment on this show for, I don't know,

since the last day that Alex Bregman wore an Astro uniform and the Astros lost the Tigers in a wild card. Okay. You've been looking for an Alex Bregman update? I have. And when you hear the sounder, you know it's coming in just a matter of seconds. The bits never going away, much to the chagrin of some. All right.

So today, the Astros had a media luncheon where they bring the media in, some legit, some not legit. Unfortunately, there's too many non-legent media in our Houston area, but that's a different issue for a different time. And what they did is they said, hey, here's some of the good vittles we're going to serve at Middeme Park, or Diken Park this year. I'll say that about 100 times. We need to get a buzzer if we messed that up. and we're going to talk about our theme. We're going to talk about Billy's? Was that Yiddish?

Yeah, bills, you know. Vettles. Yeah. Just trying to add some normalclature to the show. I like this. I figured you'd appreciate that. Oh, you entertain me so, Matthew. Thank you.

So they're talking about the theme and talking about Billy Wagner's jersey and the different things. And it's kind of an informal get together with the media. And on the stage during this, Dana Brown, goes on stage, and I'm taking this off of Twitter here, so I think I've got this right. He's talking about, well, you know, we lost Kyle Tucker and we lost Alex Bregman. So the antennas of everybody went up when he said that. Excuse me? I said what?

Say what? So Dana Brown, when this media formal on the podium, said what he said, he comes off on the podium, and the media can go get a microphone in front of him and ask some more questions. And here is how Dana is explaining that we lost Tucker and Bregman statement. The podium, do you consider that a finished product?

He's not going to be part of the team here? Well, I mean, ultimately, we're still having conversation about Breggman internally, and I'll probably leave it at that. Okay. what's the frustration level on that progress or lack of which preference on the break the situation decision from their side and i guess from the

outside as well yeah i mean breakman's a free agent you know they can decide to do what they want to do and so and as long as he's a free agent we'll just continue to have our internal conversations about him still being developed Ross, part of the thing that makes me the successful host of name is I'm able to interpret quotes. Better than maybe anybody else in a market plan. Wow. Just the greatest of all time. Thank you.

Dana Brown does not want Alex to bring him back. And he's like, yeah. How many times has you used the word internal discussions? If Jim wants to sign him, we'll sign him, but I don't think is happening. Do you think those internal discussions involve him talking to him, in front of a mirror in his own office? Yeah, as he's saying to himself, what had a great offseason you had, Dana.

You're doing amazing. I mean, I don't blame Dana. I can't. Dana had a job to do, and that's put together a 26-man roster. And he needed to improve first base. He had to figure out what he's going to do in right field, which I don't think has ultimately been determined just yet,

because I don't think Chas McCormick is the long-term solution. Chazzy Fizzle, let's go. And, you know, they had to figure out what to do at third base, if plan A wasn't in play, which was, plan A was, take our six years, $156 million, and retires an astro. Breakfast is like, no, I'll check things out elsewhere. All right, well, then guess what Dana did? He checked other things elsewhere.

Had to move Tucker because there was no chance, no way to know how he's ever going to come back. They got Paredes' back of the trade with Chicago. Dana's like, my work's just about done. Now, I try to go get Polanco away from Seattle. I'm still kicking the tires. I'm looking for an outfielder. Maybe to add some depth. I still got to figure out if I'm going to put Jose Al-Tubei at second base

or on the left field this year a combination of both. But you know what? I'm ready to go to camp. Matter of fact, you know what? Dana's car, his van has already packed, Ross. You know how there was some mom and dad's out there that pack things like three or four days for your trip supposed to go? Yes.

His Scooby machine, his Magic Mystery Machine, is already filled up. He's locked and loaded to go to West Palm Beach. The mystery mobile? Is that what they called it? The magic mission machine. Yeah. That bad boy's locked. It's got everything you need. It's got its goodies. It's got it's got plenty of clothes. He's got his hat, suns

lanterns. He's all set. These internal discussions are not long ones. I mean, he's not lying. Somebody comes walks in Dana's office as Dana. You're interested in Alex Breggman? Yeah, again. my boss is interested I'm interested

that's as far as internal conversations go yeah I think it's it's basically he has moved on and this say he didn't expect do you he had no idea he would still be talking about Alex Bregman on February 4th no that's the bottom line of it let's play the cut let's play the sound again just because I think it's worthy of replete just to let people hear it

again on the podium earlier in the lunch Dana said with the losses of Tucker and the loss of Bregman and I don't want to I want to make sure I get this right so I don't paraphrase erroneously here on this

let's see here yeah he said the loss of Bregman and okay he did okay Ad Huxers all over this okay he's our beat reporter he's our answer

we love it here's Dan again following up on his referencing and referring to quote missing out on Alex Breggman At the podium, do you consider that a finished product? He's not going to be part of the team here? Well, I mean, ultimately, we're still having conversations about Breggman internally.

And I'll probably leave it at that. Okay. What's the frustration level on that progress or lack of? Which progress? On the pregnant situation, decision from their side and I guess from all side as well. Yeah, I mean, breakfast is a free agent. They can decide to do what they want to do. And as long as he's a free agent,

we'll just continue to have our internal conversations about him still being available. I think it was Randy McAvoy asking about the frustrations, Ross? Yes. Dana's like, what frustrations? I've got zero frustrations. I've done my job. I had to make the Cal Tucker trade.

I did it. I had to get a first basement. I did it. I had to get a third basement. I did it. I've convinced the greatest player in Astor's history that he's going to have to put a left fielder's glove on. I did that. My job's done.

Yeah. I think he's ready to move on for this. He's probably, poor Dana's had to ask a lot of questions that he probably doesn't. Yeah. The whole bone bruise last year and all that stuff. Oh, my God. Dealing with the fracture and the bone bruise forever.

Now, that could have also been created by Dana and just not want to be more forthcoming. I don't know that to be the case. So you know what? these internal discussions could be really. This is Jim Crane holding out hope that Breggman comes back. So, Dana doesn't have to control this.

Dana can't call and whisper sweet nothing's Alex Breggman. The only person that can change is, quote-unquote, internal discussions into realistic conversations is by doing what Alex Breggman wants, and that's the pony up more money. So you can internalize

all you want. Unless the deal's going up, there is no internal to conversations. Yeah, but obviously other teams aren't just snapping up Alex Breggman. He's still in the market. Yeah. Like, for instance, let's roll play here. I'll be Jim.

Okay. No, I'll be Dana. You be Jim. Okay. You be Jim. Knock on the door. I say, what's going on with Breggman? Ask me that. What's going on with Breggman, Dana? Dana. Jim, first of all, good morning to you. Hope things are well. He's still a free agent. And by the way, if you want him, just

at a seventh year and add about $30 million of the contract. Yeah, we're good. Tell them $6.156. Send Boris my regards. And that, my friends, is your internal conversation. The only person that changes the conversation, at least from a Houston tone, is the owner of the baseball team. Pair it into story. Now, if they want to hold out hope that 6156 is going to get it done, yeah, but it sounds like the general manager's not. It's like, man, I moved on.

Excuse me. Bless you, Matt. Yeah, thank you. It's just, I mean, I think we're okay. As you comes back, it's awesome. I love Brighman. I want to, but I think your general manager has said, I'm good. It's dragging on and on and on and on and on.

And on and on, on, all right. Let's get to a little NFL chatter. The Super Bowl is this Sunday in New Orleans, and the starting punter is a Houston kid's Syfair High School and the Texas A&M University. We'll hear from Brayden, Braden, uh, uh, Mun coming up next here. 114 on Sports Talk 790.

Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. All right, a promise of an interview with a member of the Philadelphia Eagles coming up in just a couple of seconds. But right now, let's talk to James and Alvin at 119 on 790. Good afternoon to you, James. Thank you, Matt, for accepting my call. Listen, I'm going to elaborate a little bit on Dana Brown. Danne Brown is no more than just a yes man.

He's loyal to the organization that he worked for. The same scenario confronted Dana Brown in Atlanta. They had just won the World Series. Matter of fact, they beat the Astros without Ronald Carunia because he was out for the year, Freddie Freeman, who contract was up, and the management, the front office of Atlanta, did not want to give Freddie Freeman the contract that he wanted.

So Dana Brown became a scapegoat. The same thing. In matter of fact, Freda Freeman was 30, same age, is Alex Breckman when his contract expired. Now, Dana Brown became a scapegoat because Atlanta wanted to go in the youth movement and didn't want to give up a lot of money to Freddie Freeman. and the Brown became a scare. He is no more than just a yes, man.

He's going to do whatever Astro's front office. Alex Breckman have been such a positive influence on the Astro's organization. Why wouldn't you not dangle a carrot out for Alex Brickman to get what he feel like he deserved? And he do deserve a $200 million contract. Well, he's not going to get it. He is certain. He's not getting it. Matt, he will be wearing a garron T.

He will be wearing a MLB uniform somewhere, and he may not get a fly. James, that's not going on on a limb. I mean, come on. That's not telling me anything. You're telling me he's going to be wearing an MLB uniform this year? You're kidding me. I have not heard that from anybody else except you. Well, well, we need to quit worrying about Alice Brackman.

I paid money to see Alice Brickman play, and not only I, other fans across America who love baseball, you want to see the best of the best. So Alice Bratlin will, the league cannot afford not to sign it. The league, the MLB cannot afford not to sign it. And so with Dana Brown, he's no more than just a yes, man. I give him as kudos. He is no Jeff Lunar as for evaluating talent, but I guarantee you this here.

We don't have to worry about Alex Brickman or where he's going to play. He will be playing in 2025 and he will be compensated accordingly. Thank you very much, James. Ladies and gentlemen, James Incline, or is it Alvin? Let me look. It's Alvin. Rossi, James and Alvin has just declared on this radio show at 122 that, yes, Alex Bregman will be wearing a Major League Baseball uniform in 2025 and compensated appropriately. Are you willing to go out and say the exact same thing? No, he will be hurting goats in Scotland, actually, as were my prediction.

I'm going to jump on this a little bit here. I believe. Let's see, what do I believe? Okay. You know what, Matt? I'm going to, I got one for you. Please. I got LeBron James. You know, I think after all, it's all said and done, he's going to make the Basketball Hall of Fame. I got one for you, James. When Justin Verlander ultimately retires, you need not worry about what hat he's going to wear.

He's going to be in baseball's Hall of Fame. Wow. I like that. I got another one for you. Okay. This may be a little bit. This may be cart before the horse. Okay. I think Pat Mahomes' career is headed for a straight shot of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Think so?

Yeah, I'm going to say it. Wow. I'm going to go and say it. Wow. That's why we call you Nostra Thomas. Thank you. And I got news for you, too. Barring any sort of terrible collapse of the stadium or arena or a bus accident,

okay. Rockets are going to play the nest tonight, baby. I got one for you that actually feels good. Rockets are going to make the playoffs. Oh. You know what? I got another one for you, James. Millions and millions of people are going to watch the Super Bowl.

I don't know how many millions. I don't know how many millions. I don't say several million. Yes. I like that. Another one for you. Another one? One more. And another one.

This Hollywood Square's reboot? Is this getting worse? Oh, is it? Matt, you keep hate watching that show. You've talked about how terrible it is and you just keep watching it. Yeah, I do a lot of hate things. I hate listening. watch.

We got to get you fixed up. It's part of your term, though. Seriously. You are not lying. You are not lying. Roger on 790. Roger, good afternoon. Good afternoon, Matt.

I believe that Alex Breber will be wearing MLB regulation cleats in 2025. I like that. For sure. Okay. Back to you, Matt. Back to you, Matt. Nathan says on Twitter

Does James not realize Dana was in the scouting department When Freeman signed with the Dodgers How would he get blamed for losing Freeman Bless his old man heart No blank he'll be playing in the majors this year LOLOLO L.O L.S.? Best callers from 10 to 2 Thank you James

I got news for you What news? I think the Dodgers are going to be pretty good this year What is their win total by the way? You were mentioning the Astros? I believe it's 136 I'm going to go over I believe Ross

and I'm going to go to a casino sometime in the next month and lose some money. All right. Well, that's a fact, Jack. That's what I'm saying. I know my, I know my hesitations and my deficiencies. Dodgers at 103 and a half. Can we go to L.C.?

Matt, are you near a casino? No, I'm actually. You had the Atlantic City anytime soon? No, I'm actually, you're closer to Link Charles and I am to Atlantic City. I'm dead serious. When's the next time you're going to be at a casino? I'll be in New Orleans in March. Okay.

You want win total, don't you? I'm giving you a huntsky on that over. That's like lock of the century. And by the way, to address it, there's a certain part of every general manager's DNA that is the yes man for the owner. It just is. If the general manager wants to do something so ridiculously bad,

he still has to get ownership approval. As bad as the Luca Donchage trade was between Dallas and Los Angeles, the Dallas GM, Nico Harrison, had to go to the boss and say, I'm going to trade. I'm going to trade Luca Donchich. And she's like, what? Does this help me get a casino in Dallas? I do whatever you want. I don't care.

I'm more concerned about my winnings of my casino than I'm running. I bet you Rob Polinkett didn't have to go to Jeannie Bus and say, guess we're getting? She called and he called and said, we're getting Luca. She said, what? I'm going to celebrate by going back and play. boy. Hmm. Jeannie Buss back in the day?

All right. Nice gal. Braden Mann. Punter, Eagles. Are we predicting a Super Bowl win for the Eagles? That was my gut feeling. Let's talk to him next. 127. Sports Talk

790. Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas show with Ross continues. We've got, believe it or not, all things about New York City coming up today. And that'll be in about 20 minutes from now. I want to thank Braden Mann for joining us on the show earlier today.

We had him in about 1015. If you are unavailable to hear it, some of the conversation is right now. Brandon joined us from New Orleans, part of the Media Day festivities, talking about what it was like traveling with the Eagles. He's a starting punter, by the way. He'll be on the field for Sunday's game, provided you have punts, but not. normally happens. He's also the backup field goal kicker we found out about that. But Braden would talk to us about what it was like flying from Philadelphia to New Orleans, getting down there just a couple days ago

and getting ready for Sunday's big tilt with the Chiefs. No, it's definitely not a party atmosphere. Some guys are a little more quiet or like it really, I don't know, into the music on the way there, some guys play cards. So it's just kind of a relaxed environment. Definitely saving the party environment for hopefully the way back after the game on Sunday.

Absolutely. Hey, let me ask you this. Is it okay if I call you the second greatest punter in A&M history? Is that all right with you? That's an honor. Yeah, I know who you're talking about in front of me, and that is an honor to even be behind him. Did you, now you had a, I was talking to your dad yesterday. You have a soccer background,

but you were just as much about football as you were anything else, correct? Yeah, definitely. I played linebacker like my whole life, so. And I was looking at some of your highlights at A&M, and then obviously a couple teams in the NFL. what was it like settling in Philadelphia? And more importantly, tell me how awful it can be with that field when it's like 23 degrees. There's sleet.

It's a frozen field. I mean, how much longer does it take you to get prepared for that as compared to, say, a normal, like a 70-degree day? Yeah, it's definitely a little different. I mean, growing up in Houston was, I didn't know how spoiled I was for the weather until I left and went to New York at first and then Philly. And ever since I settled down in Philly for the last couple years, it's been awesome. I've loved it there. great. The weather is still not kind to us, and we had that snow game in the playoffs this year

against the Rams, so that was a bunch of fun. Hard to get used to, but it was really cool to be part of that games. So as a Philly resident, does the fan base, do they, you know, like, they love you when things are going well, and they'll buy your meals, and then they will make you, they'll charge you double

when you lose. I mean, is it as as as a city as we think it is? Oh, yeah, it is as passion as one can get in the fan base. I mean, I've been pretty used to that. You know, the A&M fan base is a passion just like it. So it's been really cool. And they're so into the games.

What makes the environment there so cool. I mean, I played at Philly not playing for Philly before, and the environment was so cool just to be there. It's kind of like when you go play, you know, an SEC game somewhere else. It's just everyone's so into it. And the culture there with the fans and the team is really awesome. Braden Manwitt is here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross as he joining us from New Orleans. So you hear about the Eagles and the Eagles.

offseason and you hear that Saquan Barkley is now a teammate. What was that like here in the news of that and obviously getting the home a little bit and more importantly, the way he has dominated your team's offense this year? Yeah, he is truly incredible. He's been

awesome since day one he's gotten here. I think he signed, or they agreed to terms the day after I agreed to terms to my deal, my new extension. So it was cool, a couple days and I was like, I don't know how we got Seekwon down know how the Giants let them come to us, but, you know, we'll take it.

And he's obviously just been an incredible weapon all year. And, you know, the offense kind of runs through him. And it's been cool to watch him have the historic season he's had. Do you and Jaylen Hertz talk much Houston at all, or is it just all about Philly Life now that you're Eagles? No, yeah, we'll definitely talk about Houston a little bit. We grew up on kind of different side of the Houston. So a little bit different there, but we know, you know, quite a few of the same people and have played, you know, a few of the same team.

So he's probably two or three lockers down for me in the locker room in Philly. So, you know, every now and then we'll talk about some Houston stuff. Or, you know, if we go down in Texas for a game, we'll talk about places to eat and stuff like that. How was the last couple days of media attention? Any strange questions thrown at you? Anything like that? Oh, strange questions. Yeah, there was a bunch of just, like, fun questions, I think.

I didn't get any of like the really weird ones. No one's trying to get a funny clip of the punter usually. So I didn't get any of the crazy questions. but yeah just a bunch of fun stuff i mean you know just some random ones like what's the best gatorade color and you know all all kinds of just weird funky stuff so what is the best gitterate color i'm assuming it's got to be green right i don't think of that i actually was told the green one is really good i think it's the purple riptide rush but they said red now i'm like i've never had regs i'm allergic to it so i just didn't even know that was that red is even good at all wow that's

crazy braiden man with us here on the matt thomas show of ross he's the punter for the Eagles and will be on the field. When you found out you're going to the Super Bowl, that's cool, but they have to do it indoors. How much is easier is your life, and that could be for any special team to remember, but just tell me about the differences in your preparation when you have to worry about a 15 to 20 mile per hour swirling wind. Yeah, I mean, the prep doesn't change about the week, really, besides, you know, just knowing that I won't have to deal with the elements.

It is, it probably gives me a few hours, but I extra sleep the night before, for sure. I love playing indoors. It's awesome. I played at the Saints Place this year for the first time, and it's a really cool state and being so I'm pumped for it. Ross, with you here in Houston as well, Brayden. And it's funny, can you just kind of give us a window into life as a punter to where if your name isn't a headline

tomorrow, that means you've done something very bad. Like, you can do your job perfectly 100 times in a row, but that one time there's something goes wrong, that's kind of when your name pops. up. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of a funny job to have because if I'm on the field, something went wrong. And that's a pretty funny way of looking at it. You know, if I'm coming on the field, the opposing fans are either cheering for me or, you know, our fans aren't too happy with the team. So, yeah, it's an interesting spot to be in for sure. But, you know, it's, once going

out there, it's not really about trying to not mess it up. It's just like, what can I do to, you know, hopefully make a big play and kind of swing the momentum a little bit. If we're on fourth down and we can have a big play on punt team, that is kind of a swing of a lot. momentum so it's fun to have that challenge for sure and to keep like punts consistently is there what do you what is the way that you do that is there like is there like a song you sing to yourself or like a one two three this like what is is there something that you do to try to kind trick your mind into being consistent um i just i honestly just punt all the time um and try to keep it a relaxed environment i punt probably more than i would recommend anybody else i just

can't like stop you know trying to like you said be consistent with it so but i try to keep it a relaxed environment when i'm practicing and just uh you know yeah i'll listen to a bunch of music and just have fun with it and hopefully that transfers to the game so that wins in the game i'm hopefully in my mind in the same relaxed environment that i am in practice uh brayne got two last questions for you how often do you have the conversation with nick seriani about dude i can throw the football let's go give me one give me a shot you know i don't bring it up too much. I think he saw it. I threw one when I was with the Jets. So in last

year they let me throw one against the Cowboys which was fun at their place. That was all week he was like, we want to run this and I was like, hey, you already know, if you give me the green light, I'll do it. So we had some fun with that one last year for sure. I don't know if I'm getting it in with the quarterbacks and

really letting it lose, but I'll, you know, just throw some balls around for some fun. Seriously, if you could throw a pass and a fake punt in the Super Bowl, you would be a legendary status. You understand this. correct? That would be sweet, yeah. I'm not going to, uh, I'm not going to count on it. Hey, maybe. If you throw a pick six, you're doomed for the rest of your life. So I just want to make sure there's both ends of the spectrum on that. Right. Yeah, no doubt. You know, you're going to be

a hero or a villain for sure. All right. So last thing, uh, how many tickets do you get? I know mom and dad are coming, which is cool. Um, is there a fight for extra tickets? How does it work with you and your teammates that you guys are trying to get your family and friends and girls all on the stadium. Yes. I mean, some guys, I know one of the guys from the Chiefs, I think he bought 30 tickets for his family and friends, so that's

that was why. That's the most I've heard of people buying for it. I mean, I'm sure there's some guys that just an extraordinary amount. But yeah, I got my parents, my wife, Kylie's coming, and then my sister and brother-in-law, and then my wife's

parents, too, are coming. So it'll be them seven there. It'll be a bunch of fun for them, and they're kind of coming up for a few days, and hopefully enjoying the festivities. And when do you get to see them and when do they like basically close down the operation? And I guess you guys will probably change hotels. It'll be like a kind of a super secret message the last 24 hours. Yeah, I'll get seen a couple days before. We have some events, you know, that families can come too with us. That'll be fun just to hang with them. And then, you know, like you said, 24 hours or four-ish is kind of when we all just go back to our normal

rhythm of a game. All right. That again, Braden Mann, starting punter for the Eagles, Houston kids, Syfair High School and Texas A&M joining us earlier today. We appreciate him spending time with us. I know it's super busy with all those guys getting the media request plus practices, get family in for the big game on Sunday. Ross, believe it or not, is up next.

Coming up in a couple minutes. Right now, I do want to tell you that we have some audio coming in on the Astros and Jose Al-Tube in left field. And I'm going to try to send something to Connor here just to

When we come back? We already do it right now? You want to do that? We'll come back with it. Yeah. Dana Brown on left field with Altuva, maybe even some Joe Espada as well. That plus, believe it or not, all things about New York City.

Believe it or not, all things in New York City next, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Sports Talk plus Yacht Rock, Houston's smoothest sports guy. More Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. All right, all we do is deliver. Connor McGovern quick on the audio capture.

Ross, we hear from Espada and Dana on Jose Altoube may be playing some left field. Well, we have been working in left field for the last couple of weeks, but he continues to take ground balls. You know, I'm not going to commit to a number of games, but that's something that we are looking at to create. some flexibility, put players in a position to succeed other players that we could, you know, take care of, we could take care of the baseball, keep guys healthy, you know, have a more balanced lineup, you know, offensively. Those are the things that we are looking at. And that's

what we are considering putting, hosie, you know, getting some time in left field. Mm. Doesn't want to commit to a number of games. Also says he looked pretty good in left field, Joe Espada. Look pretty good. I'm going slow here because he's, you know, he's such a good athlete that it's, I'm not surprised by how good he's looked, but also once you put someone on the field and now you got to, you know, worry about, you know, the sun and the wind and the walls and all that kind of stuff, but right now, you know, he's athletic enough to do it. in the last couple of weeks

we haven't seen why he should not be good over there in left field well do you think he's saying that Ross because he already knows what he's getting out of second base this year maybe what's you think I guess he's going to get some looks out there

who is not going to commit to how many games and it seems like this thing is real does that mean Dubon at second some more uh Shay Whitcomb maybe Shea Whitcomb Shewick. What about Zach DeZenzo?

I thought he was getting working left as well. Maybe not. Interesting. It ultimately does show you there's just no depth in the outfit for the Astros coming in the next season. They need to sign somebody. Are they waiting for... I mean, who's sitting on the streets that's looking for work right now? I don't know.

And is that person ready to come help this team immediately after just kind of... of sitting out. If you look, Rossi, I don't know if you have a subsidiary to the Jake Myers fan club is the Chazy Fizz Club. You may want to open that up. Chazzy Fizz Club and the Jake Myers fan club had B for years. But I think they've got to get along now, don't they? I think so.

Just throwing it out there. Oh, man. Jason Hayward's available. Yeah, he is. Randall Gritchick, Ramon Luriano. Gritchick's a Houston kid, right? I think so. Yeah.

I wonder if they were after Santander, a lot of. little bit harder than maybe that was out there. Maybe they just thought, you know what, that's too much money to spend. Does Verdugo still a free agent? Can you, you want to make a gut feeling on, is this the Astros? If we'll put left field question mark, center field Myers, right field McCormick, if I gave you the over under on those, that three, that combination, meaning Alvarez and left, Altuvand left, somebody out in DuPont, whatever, we'll make the

left the wild card. If I said center and right are patrol by those two gentlemen and that's done 70 times this year, you're taking me over or under on that? I'd go over. Verdugo is available. He was bad last year. He is a left-handed bat,

and they've talked about getting a lefty. Isn't it kind of too? It's February 4th, Ross? Yes. I mean, don't you? Ooh. I think they're, I think honestly, and I'm just just a feeling, I think

they're going to close their eyes and just pray for Chaz to be the guy he was two years ago. Or he gave you the inner pot for a while. And in Myers, you know who you're getting. You're getting a guy that's going to cover a lot of center field who's going to cover up the mistakes of Altuve and Alvarez and left field. And if you get anything out of his bat, he's a ninth place hitter, it's gravy. That's probably the plan.

Yeah. All right. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play. America's fastest growing sports radio game show we simply call it B. Believe it or not, and here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790.

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in New York City believe it or not not believe it is illegal Ross explained I hear Randy Hongs will admit it in this town it's illegal unless there's an emergency that's the law So this people get away with it, basically.

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Now, he does know the rule. He has to speak in complete New Orleans dialect the entire time he's on with you. And where are you going to be? Flying to Minneapolis. Oh, okay. Trust me, I'd rather work the show with you. I was just asking. No, I'm, it's a source of.

You always, you know, make fun of people for not working, so I was just asking. Well, if we were living tonight, head in Minneapolis, I'd do the show with you tomorrow, but we're not. I can't control that. Okay. And if I flew commercial, I couldn't get to Minneapolis in time to do the show anyway. I'm damned if you do and damned if you don't. That's a shame.

Now, Friday, I will be in Dallas to wake up the strippers. We're flying at night, flying in middle of the night. I'll be up at probably at the hotel 233 o'clock, but I will grind my way through the radio show because it's important for the people of Houston. That's why we call you Grindr Thomas. To hear my in-depth analysis of the full 11-on-11 breakdown everything Philadelphia versus Kansas City.

Wonderful. Are you talking to Adam in there? You must be talking to somebody. No. There's not another Adam in that room right now. No, no, there's not even, there's zero Adams in here. I don't believe that for a second. I think you're lying.

Yep, you're definitely lying. Remember, the average person lies four times a day. Ross is in the five to six category. All right, Rockets basketball tonight will begin at 5.30 with a launch pad. 6 o'clock will be the network join and at 630 out the call. Who is on the launch pad

and who is on the Rockets wrap after the game? It'll be one of the Adams on the launch pad and I will be on the post game. All right, so y'all don't need to listen tonight. Ross enjoys the monologue much more than talking to you people. Up next, Clinton, Wexler. The 18.

I'm with you for Rockets tonight at 6.30 here. I'm 7-0.