The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Take Down Grizzles, WBC Play or Not Play?

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

Rockets Take Down Grizzles, WBC Play or Not Play? 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. To a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross, this is Sports Talk 790. Rockets win. Rockets came together. That's why this is the greatest rock band of all time. They gave you Beatlemanian in the early 60s, and they just jammed when you needed to. This is such a jam. Pop band of all time, sure, why not?

You agree with me? is a different. Okay, pop, whatever you want to call it. That's fine. I mean, turn it up. One is three. Let's go. Oh, man, what great songwriting. Come together, Ross. You need to all come together. Toe jam football. Let's just get on acid and write down whatever comes out of our brains. It works.

Alsa, Ask Elton John, too. I mean, I'm interested in the greatest songs ever written in the history of the world where on a tripping. I would probably say every single one. Yeah, except for, I don't know if Beethoven was getting down. but who's to say all right Jonathan one of my favorite things is when I say something off the wall

and Jonathan just shakes his head at me he's like I don't know all right Jonathan that's first time you heard that song yes no he knows that song but I think this time it better fits the scenario he bagged production he got walrus gum boot

he got oh no sideboard he won spinal cracker that's the lyrics that's lyrics he got feet down below his knee hold you in his armchair can feel his disease. Come together. Oh, man.

It's great. Seriously. They were all high as a kite. He got Monkey Finger. He shoot Coca-Cola. I heard a fact about this, though. What's that? That they would do that, and then they would just do two takes and then be done with the song.

The Beatles were always known as a group of musicians that would not spend a lot of time in a recording studio. They would just knock it out. Matter of fact, Twist and Shout, which is one of their most famous songs of all time, John Lennon had a horrifically bad sore throat and he's like, let's just try this, see how it goes. And I think if they did it in the first or second take, if I'm not mistaken. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, it was a cover of something.

Made really famous by The Beatles, though. Yeah, it's a nice song. They ripped from someone else. Selah Rockets last night. You know what? I'm sorry. I'm the worst. That's okay. You just were born a conturion. That's fine. That's good. Great song. I liked it a lot better when the Issa brothers did it.

That's fine. It is Ross. I'm Matt. Good morning. Jonathan with us as well. We are with you today until 2 o'clock. By the way, yesterday's drive took me 38 minutes. Today it was an hour and seven.

Ooh. So people are back on the road. We should get the Matt Thomas Road report. Oh, you don't want that. I'm MF and people, swearing people, honking at them. Every morning? Most mornings. Today I wasn't because I was prepared.

for it. Matt, you got to relax. It's just going to happen. It's too far of a drive. 37 miles. Too far. I understand. But the traffic's going to be there. Oh, it is. And it's my fault. I know one said, Matt, you must live in. You know what? I'm getting you on a darkness retreat with Aaron Rogers. I need you relaxed when you come into work today.

Okay. At 10 o'clock. You know, if I said, if I work from home every day, I wouldn't be nearly his cranky. I'm just saying. But I want to spend quality time with you. Thank you. I appreciate you commuting like all of the rest of America. I know.

And all of the rest of Houston, really. Oh yeah. A lot of suburbanites. Yeah, it is funny that I was talking about Eric Houselton, who's the voice of the Grizzlies, and he says... What's his name? Eric Hastleton? Okay. And he's like, how long is you commute?

And he goes, I said, well, how far is in Toyota Center to my house? I said about 45 minutes. He goes, oh, my God. I'm like, six million people do it. Well, I don't say six, right? It's very common in Houston. Yeah. I mean, my guess is New York metropolitan people live in Connecticut,

and they live in New Jersey. I mean, we ain't exclusive to the long commutes. I'm not going to say you're on the short end, but you're not on the, longest end. No, there are people live in Cyprus. There are people who live...

Sealy, Brookshire, way out there. I mean, if you want to, way out in Montgomery County, I kind of think so. All right. So Rockets last night,

frankly, slept block for the first half. It was, yeah. It was a little off-putting. A lot of offensive rebounding by the Grizz. Yeah.

A lot of G. G.G. Jackson, if you will. Gigi Jackson was balling, actually. He took 16 shots last night. I only made six of them. He was 0-4-6 from 3-point range. He was throwing down dunks,

though. Boy, the Grizes were 7 of 37 from 3. They missed 10 in a row at one point in the fourth quarter or around third to fourth quarter. I recall Mr. Ackerman, the Falcons special teams coordinator, saying they missed 10 in a row at one point. Yeah. We didn't have that stat. Oh.

Tell us Stinky Pete to get on it. Don't worry. It'll be addressed. We're going inside. We are so inside baseball on this. But the Rockets did come through, played a much. better second half. They outscored the Grizzlies 57 to 45 in the second half, including a 32, 22, 4th quarter. Rockets 108 in the Grizzlies 99. The most efficient game, maybe not percentage-wise, but volume-wise, for one. Alperin James Shingoon, 15 of 17 from the floor, 33 points, nine rebounds, six assists. And they did have five turnovers, but four them came in the first half. So he was much better of handling the basketball in the second half. Yes, and they are still getting the spatula to get Santi Eldama off the grill.

He was getting cooked. It was bad. Well, putting Santhi Aldama at the 5 is kind of a mess. Santi Aldama, I mean, you want to say, Olai defense. I started to feel bad for him. Reed Sheper's like, I see no problem with this. Who's the grizzlies coach now? I felt like, get him out of there.

Get him out. You know, like when a hockey goalie is giving up like six goals and they're like, yeah, you've got to get this guy out of here. That's what I felt like. It shows you there's a category culpillar. plus minus on a score sheet. Every time you score and you're on the floor, you get two points or one point of banging what it is or three, and then if you give up a basket,

not you individually, but if you're on the floor, you lose. He wasn't even the lowest plus minus, minus five. You had Cedric Coward was a minus 14. Jaron Jackson was a minus 10. Jalen Wells, who was terrible last night, was a minus nine. Memphis is bad. Rockets took too long to beat up on him, but they did. And now the Rockets, I believe, if I heard Wexler correctly last on the postgame show,

a season high, 12 games above 500 are your local basketball team. Oh, lovely. After all that? Yeah. After all this, him and it's 8 in January. Where's everybody that was coming at me saying they're at 8 seed? Who was saying that? Let's go.

You know what? I honestly wrestle with this, Matt. When somebody gets in this, it gets all mad at me on Twitter and tells me they're going to be an 8 seed, and I say, hey, don't worry, the rockets are going to be top four, like stop panicking, and they call me an idiot. Should I go back and find them, or is that too petty? like should I spend my time on this on the energy finding some random person on the internet who's calling me out or should I just move on I guess I should move on I know you know what you're always telling me to move on I know you know what you're right and I'm I can't move on you know what you're right I'm not going to go after that guy who said I was an idiot and the rockets were going to be an eight seat they're not going to be an eight seat they're not going to be an eight seat there's no chance uh big game with San Antonio coming up tomorrow night a little bit late start, if you will. That's going to be, that's a good,

good, take a nap night before the game, because that's going to be about 8.45 start. Yes. San Antonio went for the second time in a week. What is it? Cleveland and Lakers before? I don't know who's before, but I think it's, I think it's Lakers and the Cavs. Oh, that means

we're going late. That's what I'm saying. Could be a close one. A lot of extra timeouts, a lot of challenges. LeBron James wants a challenge. Luca Donches is getting flagrant. It is Lakers calves. Oh, we're screwed. Yeah, a bit of time nine. 9-03. Not that you feel sorry for me, but it's going to be...

I'm working post! But it's going to suck because we go to... They need to fly to Atlanta right after the game. Well, you'll be fine. Oh, I know it'll be fine, but... Back to back. I'm working post game. And come back to work 10 o'clock the next morning with you and a variety of cast of characters. Oh, that's right.

I got a text cordy. He's actually here. I mean, he's putting in a full four hours today, so... He's doing great. Yeah. All right. So the Rockets get to win. Alpy was awesome. Kevin Durant,

volume 9 for him He was 3 Let's see where was he 11 of 24 Had a real tough start But finished out strong You just heard the highlights Of the last six points

And a pair of three pointers 33 33 17 And then nobody else had more than 8 It's okay Sometimes it's a three-headed monster NBA and Tar He came to play Hit a bunch of threes early on I thought when the Rockets got up 8 nothing

It was going to be a piece of keg all the way through And unfortunately those Pesky Grizzlies did not go away I've been kind of pushing for this on pre and post game shows and I don't think I've brought it up with you. Do the Rockets have a big three? Yes.

And it's a man Thompson, not Tar Heason. No, I think Tar He, hold on. But Tarrie, attendance is a huge part of the great, and he's missed a lot of games. I think he's missed 19 total altogether. We think they have a big three here in Houston. Does America think they have a big three? Unfortunately, I couldn't tell you that 90% of America could name five rockets outside of Kevin Durant.

if we went to a sports bar and let's go Paducah Kentucky would be bad because Reed Shepherd have you mentioned. Let's go to Reed Shepherd's part of it. Yeah, it's Reed Shepherd. Let's go to a University of West Virginia bar in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Okay. And said, name Rockets. Kevin Durant. Yes. Then we're struggling. Then we're struggling. Honestly. Okay.

Honestly, I think Stephen Adams could get some mentions. he's kind of famous. He's not a great player. Oh, I think he's for what he needs to do. He's excellent. No, no. This team does not have name recognition. Okay. It's got one of the marquees in the league.

I mean, Kevin Durant automatically put you on. I mean, I look at these NBA commercials all the time, and Kevin's on there. He's picking up a moisturizer now. He's going to get those ashy legs taken care of. So you're saying all it takes is to get a moisturizer or to have ashy legs? Yeah. Let's take care of it. Yeah.

We're talking about like Vaseline and we're talking about or what? Well, I do. No free plugs. You want to mention who he's sponsoring with? Go ahead. Why not? I think it's, how do you say it? Sarajevo.

I don't know. I never heard of it. Oh. I don't have any ash. Yeah. Okay. You don't think I do? See, for White's guys, it's Sorayaeat.

Okay. Saravi. I think I've heard of that before. Yeah, they're quite popular. I don't use them, but I moisturize. I do too for different reasons. What? Oh, that's what you're doing

in the shower for 45 minutes. You don't know that. By the way, I was in a shower. I was in a shower for like 30 minutes today and Kim's like, you got to get out. You got to stop. The water bill's going up. Water bill's up.

But man, I go in there. You're steaming up the whole bathroom. She's probably like trying to put her morning makeup on or something. She can't see anything because you steamed up everything. That's right. That's right. Yeah.

I sing. I think about the show. I think about what song we're going to play. We can get you some help. What are you talking about? Who does this thing in the shower? For 30 minutes? Especially on the road when I'm not paying the water bill.

I mean, literally, like if I come from a camping trip and I've been in the woods and I'm really dirty and stinky and I need some hot water, maybe, maybe I can get to 20 minutes, maybe. But you're shower bearing. Yeah, I can shower beer. Yeah. First of all, you drink about half of it when you get in. Can you do it? Is a coffee in the shower okay to? I want to get your rulings.

You can do whatever you wanted there. Really? Yeah. Sounds like you're having a picnic and tea time and crumpets. And I mean, you're conducting meetings in there? Yeah. The reality is this. I am singing in there.

Are you on Zoom? Are you on teams in the shower, Matt? I'm thinking about the show. I'm also pretending I'm a game show host. You know what? I think probably for you as like a father of three, the bathroom is always somewhere to escape, right? No. I don't, my kids don't chase after me.

Not me when they were younger. Not even really that much. No. Uh-uh. I'm just specula. I'm trying to help. I just love taking showers. Not a bath guy.

Don't you get all pruney and raisinie in there? But it takes a few minutes. Everything shapes back into proper form. What a Tuesday. What are you talking about? What a Tuesday. Rockets with the wind last night. And we are with you today until 2 o'clock.

I love this show. I'm just going to say it. Well, I got me a raw rucks on the way in this morning, so that's why I have a little more amped up. Okay. All right, 1130.30. we have gut feelings coming up today. We have got feelings on a Super Bowl.

You want to do that? Yeah, absolutely. And by the way, we need to celebrate something today that has not happened for C.J. Stroud. There's no memes out there about him today. Probably somewhere. I usually in the 4-U-T-Tams shows me. Because I know you like them and click them and send them there.

No, I do not. No, when you sit, when you quote tweet something, that's a great way for it to end up in your algorithm. All right, all right. 713-1-2-5-790. And by the way, a lot of folks also very cranky about my happiness over Jose L. Tuve now playing in the world baseball classic. We'll get to that. And two Fox NFL analysts, I should say, having a little bit of a minor beef over the kick or not kick when the Broncos were up 7-0 on Sunday. We'll discuss that too.

7-1-3-212-5-790. It is a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. 1022 Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Hi, everybody. You're in a good mood. Traffic suck, but that's fine.

Here to spend four quality hours with you. And open and honest. How much preview do we want for Patriot Seahawks? It's going to be massive, Maddie. We'll talk to Softie next week in Seattle. Okay. You can be bouncing off the walls. We could basically just call him, and he can just take the segment.

I don't think the convention center at Media Row could hold him. Yeah. I wonder how many radio shows are going. Because it's, now I used to be called Radio Row now. It's called Media because everybody's podcasting. A lot of podcasts. Yeah. By the way, I talked to Fred Van Blitz at the hotel. Where were we? Where were we? Uh-huh. About his podcast? Yeah, I said, man, why are you trying to take my job? He goes, oh, don't worry about it. As soon as I get playing, I'm dumping that thing. Okay. Which is the typical case for both athletes.

Okay. Yeah. He's like, man, it's a lot harder. And I said, yeah, it's a great job. It's easy because I've always had a gift or gap. I've never been able to compete at a high level. like the way of the talk to the game. But yeah, it's some of these athletes that think, oh, I just go run right into doing it. And then, of course, you can get jobs in ESPN and make asses of your stuff. Did you see that Stephen A trying to get

Ryan Clark a job interview with the Pittsburgh Steelers? What is that about? What now, okay, I guess the counterargument is. I understand saying things to help your friend out, but Jesus, what the hell is that all about? Now, far be it for me to question his coaching credentials because Philip Rivers had none.

Well, that was Catholic high school. That was more of a bit, too. What was that about? I don't know. Why? But let me ask you this. If you really wanted to get a, and maybe the Rooney family did not want to get a different feel,

I don't think going, oh, gee, what was the right answer? I don't know. Mike McCarthy obviously won a Super Bowl in Green Bay, had some but not enough success in Dallas. And a grand of Jerry Jones, your general manager, that's probably going to put you behind the eight ball to begin with. But it also feels like that, man, If I'm an owner of an NFL team, I'm going for 40-year-old, hot, fresh, burn the midnight oil.

Not like dude-looking, so I'm talking about going in there. I didn't say anything. But you gave me a smirk. Well, you said hot and fresh, and I just, you're talking about, I'm not talking about Little's Pizza here. Hold on. First of all, don't think it's my fault, because I know you. Okay, I was reacting to you and your normal disposition, man. I know, I know.

Okay. But I mean, you brought up Jerry Jones. Sorry, go ahead. Point being is that, yeah. I think that probably that room needed a breath of fresh air. And maybe Mike McCarthy can't. And look, old school can still win games in the NFL. It wins at the college level.

I just wouldn't have thought that Mike McCarthy would have been on the list in terms of the guy would have gone to. Especially with all the bright, fresh minds that are running around being coordinators around the NFL. But maybe they didn't want that. Maybe, you know, honestly, well, Tomlin was an established coordinator when he left. so is a cower I don't know what Chuck Null's back I mean they don't

the Steelers to their credit have not had to worry about a bunch of coaching decisions so if there's any franchise in sports that would be like

man shut up let us handle this yeah but I mean probably some of that is dumb luck well a lot of it's because sometimes

you don't pull the trigger I mean had there been times in the last four or five years that people would say Mike Tomlin's past his fans

oh yeah Steelers fans have been clamber for him to get fired for years yeah but you know part of me does appreciate that

because there are too many coaches that don't have enough of a leash. I kind of have to laugh, though. We want Mike Tomlin out. We want that fresh young coordinator. And it's, yeah. Here comes Mike McCarthy. Careful what you wish for, Steelers fans.

They still don't have a quarterback at this point because you don't know Bering Rogers coming back. Oh, gosh. Now, I wonder what McCarthy said about that because obviously the two have worked together in Green Bay. Mack Jones, second round pick. Davis Mills is available. CJ Stroud could be available.

No, he's not available. I mean, I know some of you would want him to be available, but I don't think he's going to be available. Yeah, I, um, again, you and I are not close to the scene on that side of thing, but I would have to say if we did a quick Google search about how fans were acting to Mike McCarthy being the new Pittsburgh coach, it would not be considered a very warm reception. Probably not.

You get all excited. Mike Tomlin's, the ding-dong the witch is dead, and here comes Mike McCarthy. Some people think that Tomlin's going to enjoy television so much that the money that is being spent on these broadcasters to work at the national level so good that he'll be like, you know what, I'm done. I don't envision it.

I think Mike Tomlin's got one more coaching job left in him. I think so. He's only 53. Yeah. Plus he'll be able to handpick where he wants to go. Yeah, I would say probably Because think about work Depending on if ownership wants a young If you need basically a Buffalo Bill situation

Where the team is ready made And they just need somebody who can be a great leader I'll say Rands is ready Oh Really? Just on it out there All right Little Kansas City Andy Regal He just wants to eat cheese tots and hang out

He's done playing football I'm coaching football I mean Pat Mahom is still very much the prime of his career Yes. Pat Mahomes, by the way, been kind of for two years. And by the way, did you see who they rehired as their offensive coordinator? Yeah.

Eric B. Enemy. Eric, yes. I heard he was like unhirable. Then he goes on leaves and they bring him back. Well, I guess people have said as a head coach, perhaps unhirable. Yeah. Well, so you're saying, wait a minute, let's go backtrack. You think, are you saying off-putting the last couple of years or there is a start of a decline already?

I'm not saying a decline. But what are you saying? I'm saying situations matter. Because Pat Mahom is throwing 45 touchdowns and all that stuff before. This year, 22 touchdowns, 11 picks. Last year, 26 touchdowns 11 picks. You know what year before, 27 and 14? I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

If you'd only seen those three years from him, would you be thinking we would, remember he was supposed to, like the era of parents. People were putting him already ahead of Tom Brady. Can I give you an overly simplistic view? Yes. If the Travis Kelsey didn't fall off the map

like he has fallen off. Tyree Kil traded away. I'm saying two of his main go-to guys were gone. So situations matter for quarterbacks is what we're saying. I'm saying yes. So when the situation next year

presents itself better for C.J. Straughty as an RB1 and a true wide receiver too. Sam Donald with the crappy jets. Worst quarterback ever. you get him a great defense, Jackson Smith and Jigba and a good offensive line and run game, they're going to the Super Bowl. So maybe we should stop bashing quarterbacks in general.

It's very low-hanging fruit and it's very easy. Well, it's easy because the numbers usually match the results. Quarterback doesn't go 31 of 34 with four touchdowns and 275 and lose. Every conversation is different. Yeah. I mean, think about Gino Smith. Where the Seahawks, they were in the playoffs last year, right? 10 and 7.

What happens when he goes to the Raiders? and they have the worst offensive line in football, they got the number one pick. They went from 10 and 7 to the number one pick. Did all of a sudden, Geno Smith forgot how to play football? Disappointing first round pick? I would say situation matters in many aspects, and that would be with the offensive line,

with the pass catchers, and with the run game, and with the coaching staff. And all four of those question marks here in Houston around the quarterback. So, did, CJ's rookie, did he have Joe Mixon as his running back? Yes. It was Damien Pierce.

It was Joe Mixon. Okay. So he's had his, of the three NFL seasons, he's had two RB ones he could trust. The other one, this past year he had nobody to go to. Nobody. I mean, let's let's dumb this down. A great running back and a great offensive line is going to make CJ life significantly more easier. For a much better.

Yeah. It just is. I think, I think a Jared golf is as another name. Oh, with Montgomery and Gibbs? Oh my God, with those guys in the back field? Because everybody, Jared Gough was like, he was a castaway in L.A. Right. And like, Sean Mavey's like, I got to get this guy out of here.

I can't win with Jared Gough. Well, the lines, they haven't won with them. They haven't won a championship with him. But Jared Goss has been good. He's been excellent. Can C.J. Stroud be at least Jared Gough? Oh, my God. That would be, I, you're underselling how, what a great distance that is between the two.

I know. If you put, well, let's talk about. about this then. If you put Sam Darnold on this offense right now with no run game inconsistent past or you're asking him to throw for $3.50 and bad offensive line. Is Sam

Darnold doing what he did here? Of course not. So no. There's a defense to that for C.J. Yeah. Like I said, it's quite frankly a conversation above our heads. We need like personnel people and NFL gurus and film gurus and stuff like that.

There is one thing that even a great offensive line and a great receiving court can't fix for CJ that he's got to fix himself. And I'll tell you about that after we talk about our friends at Cinergenic. Matt and Ross, Sports Talk 790 here on a Tuesday. We need to correct one thing. I'll let Ross handle the responsibility. I was wrong.

You guys are right. I don't know why I thought Joe Mixon was rookie year, but obviously it was Devin Singletary. I don't know why I was thinking that, of course, as I got reminded by multiple of you. I like fact checkers. That's okay. Yeah, no, it's good. I got said it wrong.

So, yeah, correct me. I'm not happy about being wrong, as you know, Matt. If Lovin You is wrong, I don't want to be right. You know, I don't like being wrong, but I got to take my medicine because I was wrong. Devin Singletary was the rookie year running back for C.J. Stroud. And Pierce was part of that too, right? Pierce had like 400 yards. Remember when Damien Pierce was, oh, we got our RB1 now?

You had like a thousand yards in like 13 games. Yeah, that's crazy. All right, so back to my point. You can have a great offensive line. You can have a great receiving core. You can have a pass-catching tie-in. You can have an RB1. To these untrained eyes, and I promise you, I speak of the truth on this.

He still looks skittish. And I think there should be no reason for such skittishness this long into his NBA career, which brings up to two things. One, in his NFL career. To me, I think he's never. versus by getting hurt. I really do. And that might take deep hypnosis to that. You need to see some meditating.

I'm serious. I'm not kidding about that. Because if you go on that field, worrying about getting hurt, or getting sacked, or taking a spill, or hitting your head on the turf. Just think about this. Some of his closest friends, tank Dell, two season-ending injuries. Tough to watch. Watching his number one receiver, Nico Collins, have concussion issues. And look, life in the NFL is full of concussions.

sad part of it, but that's the risk you take. It's like a NASCAR. You're going to get in a crash. It's just, it's inevitable that you're going to be in a situation where you may find yourself battling concussions and concussions are scary. They're life altering. So with that being said, there's got to be something in his mind he's got to clear to not worry about that to say, you know what, I don't have to get rid of the ball so quickly or I can take off and get that five or six yard run. I think that's a part of his game that right now is void and that will always hold him back regardless. Because even if you have 5-0 pros Rossi on that offensive line,

you're going to have 5-4 defensive linemen who maybe are just as good on the defensive line. And maybe your offensive line misread something or Blitz comes, and you're going to feel the heat. And I feel like that CJ doesn't feel the heat as well as he did in his first year in the NFL. Yeah, there's no excusing the playoff performances. Throughout the season, he was solid. He had like, you know, three, four really good games. A couple of mid games, a couple of bad games.

It's just the playoffs leaves such a bad taste in the mouth to where it was horrible wildcard week. Then you say it can't get any worse and then it does. And now we have to sit here and wonder what the heck is going on because we can say all those things went wrong for C.J. Stroud. It wasn't the perfect situation for her. But as you said, and I talked about this too, like the fight or flight. Should I throw it? The split second fight or flight. Should I throw the ball away?

Should I extend this play? Should I take the sack and just eat, eat this? What do I do? It's like he's picking the wrong avenue far too often. And that is worrisome. And what makes a good athlete with a nice arm and athletic ability become a great athlete and a great quarterback is decision making? It's timing.

It's feeling the heat. It's feeling the pressure, staying in the pocket, knowing when to get out of it, no one to get rid of the football. knowing when to take a sack, Ross, there have been too many times, especially this past season, that he could have taken a four or five-yard sack and it wound up being an 11 or 12-yard

because he was trying to escape it. That's another thing. It seems like he's cognizant of sack numbers. Yeah, that's fair. And he's like at all caught, like tossing the ball up in the air, just take a sack. I know you don't want to?

Nobody wants to. Sack numbers are going to be high, your pressure rate and all that stuff. I think maybe he is kind of thinking about that stuff too much. Because I think when quarterbacks take sacks, they say, well, it's his fault. And sometimes it is. Sometimes you stare down receivers

and you don't look for your second and third routes. Sometimes you don't understand where the pressure is coming from. But by and large, Rossi, when you're giving up sacks, it's probably because your offensive line is not adequate enough for you. Especially on Blitzis.

I'm just trying to think of though, like who is overcoming a worse situation than C.J. Stroud? With what we talked about, with the bad run game, bad offensive line. I mean, Nicco Collins is good. I'm just looking at like offensive rank. Maybe the Saints because their WR1 is Olave and they don't have much after that.

Run game was bad and they have a bad offensive line. Well, Tyler Shuck. Tell me about Cincinnati. They've got two elite receivers. Yeah. So that's plus Chase Brown is a great running back. So that's out the window. Tua has a better running game. Better pass catchers overall. I think it's got to be the.

maybe the Cardinals. Yeah. I mean, look at your bottom third teams. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Who had a worse situation than C.J. Stroud as a quarterback? Just situation only.

And maybe it sounds like I'm giving him an excuse. There's no excuse for his playoff performances. There's not. We've got to try to figure this out and try to... We got a lot of time to unearth this and figure out if C.J. Strau's the guy and how much of this is him and how much of this is everyone else. Because there's blame for everyone. And I think, honestly,

Hannah and Cal need to add. asked Nick about whose fault this is. Why did my star quarterback have two of his worst performances in two of the most important games we played? Because if you're thinking about extending him and thinking

about making him your long term, you better make sure that everything is covered. That if the offensive line was significantly better, would C.J. make those mistakes. If there was a better assortment of receivers, would C.J. have not

stared down a particular route. If there was a running back, would the constant second and eights be second in fours instead? I mean, these are all intangible things that need to be discussed before you sit down and have that conversation, because I guarantee, and I tell you this before, David Mulligetta

is talking to the Texans this offseason. He absolutely is that, that's his responsibility as an agent for a third year NFL quarterback. And if you're going to go, if you're going to go into these conversations, Nick's a smart enough guy, he's going to have bad evidence to say, hey, we have some doubts, and here's why.

Yeah. Because Moligatah's going to spin it as... And also, don't tell CJ I said this. Yeah. It's like an arbitration hearing. It is, yeah. And Mullegh is going to say, well, wait a minute. Get you an RB1.

Get you a running back. Get you a wide receiver. That's a good point. Like, if you're Nick and I'm David, or fights for whatever, you need tangible evidence. We both have arguments. Absolutely. And that's why, if both of you have arguments and there's hesitation,

Mulligan has got it to say, okay, I understand. I don't like it, but I understand it. Yeah, but he's not, because he's an agent. Right. Yeah, if I'm David Mulligot, I'm like, look at these pressure rates. Look at your offensive line. Look at these Woody Marks. I mean, if you look at all the stats from Woody Marks.

How many second and third and 12s have you given my quarterback? Hit all the time. Yeah. Oh, and oh, by the way, who thinks of Nick Cayley as an elite play caller in the NFL? Yeah. About you giving my offensive coordinator, my quarterback, two different, O's season the last two years. My guess is part of it because CJ didn't like

Stroud or not Stroud Bobby Sloick. So, all right, more on that coming up throughout the course of the program. If you want to join us at 713-212-5-790, we'll... 10-52. It is Matt and Ross with you. All right, so we have to

eliminate the comment. If you tweet about Jose Altoube not being in the WBC or for that matter, any of your favorite players, I would like for all of us to admit, to delete the following comment, well, it could happen just as easy in a spring training game that it could happen on WBC.

And in theory, that is accurate, okay? Because when you get on Diamond, you are playing. But the reality, there are some differences. One, the intensity and the pressure is 500-fold over a spring training game. There couldn't be anything more, less stressful than a spring training game. Really, in an athletic event. Less stressful. Yeah, right.

Number two, your body, whether it be the arm or the pitcher, you swinging, is going to be different when you're playing in the middle of the season on April 15th, May 15th, June 15th, then it would be in late February, early March. And you can get yourself ready for off-season workouts and you can go to the drills. You can go to spring training early. You're just not going to be a body clock adjusted to playing at your very best or pitching at your very best. or pitching at your very best in a game in March. So you have pitchers who may not be as sharp as they need to be,

case in point when Jose got hit in the wrist. And you're saying, well, okay, well, that could certainly happen in spring training too. There's also a part, and I'm trying to think of the parallel on this or the analogy, which you know I'm terrible about. If something happens wrong with your employees, at least it happened on your watch as compared. Like an NFL player getting hurt in practice rather than at the Pro Bowl. Very easily.

But there are some things about if it was on my watch and my clock, while I'm not happy about it, it makes better sense than if I send off Jose Al-Tuva to go play with team Venezuela and we say, good luck seeing three weeks. I think the Astros, and I know Carlos Cray would like to play in WBC, but I think the Astros are hesitant. They don't want to have to come back, you know, because Carlos Cray is a huge part of this baseball team. He just is. And especially if the boys this morning we're talking about this, if Puerto Rico puts him in as a shortstop, that does him no good.

He needs to play third base. Being in the WBC and playing shorts, I don't know what the search stuff situation is for Puerto Rico. I don't have the roster in front of me here. Let me get the Puerto Rican roster. He needs to play third base. Playing shortstop does me no good to get my guy ready for the start of the season.

They still come back in the middle of spring training, don't they? They do, but they're going to need downtime. I'm not worried about. I get more of the injury thing than the third shortstop. But the human body goes from Yeah. Light workout, light workout, step it up, step it up. Big time to WBC. Then you get back to after playing WBC.

Light workout, light workout. They got Francisco Indoor. Okay. It'd be fine. Hey, put them at second. Apparently they got Nolan Aronado. Well, Puerto Rico got a squad. You know what?

Puerto Rico, you know what? Tell Carlos you didn't make the team. Thanks for playing. And Ross, you're never going to be able to shake me of this. I don't care if there's 40,000. people at Diken Park and everybody's chanting and playing their U.S. and their international flags out there. And I know the pomp and circumstance and pageantry is amazing.

I worry about big picture and I worry about the Houston Astros. And I just will, I just can't change my stance. And I know that may be a detriment to someone by just telling you. I'm not asking you to change your stance. No, I get it. Because as you said, the intensity is going to be higher. They're going to play more innings, probably get more at bats than the average. I don't know what's going to add up in a crew to in a spring training,

but as you said, where are you more likely to be pushing your body to the limit, like trying to go and run to the outfield and rip a handstring or something like that? Probably more than a WBC game than a spring training game. And it can happen anywhere? Absolutely. We're talking about not necessarily splitting hairs, but percentages of it's in a smaller increase and uptick in the WBC,

but it's also not nothing. and you don't watch I don't watch the WFC either I don't get into it but many of the players do so that's kind of why it's their prerogative like I don't care about Olympic triple jumping

that doesn't mean people don't care about but Ross there are sporting events where the athletes care about something and they don't think about the big picture I want to play in the all-star game I want to get my swings in I want to play 24 minutes

I want to score 19 points where if you're an older player like if Kevin Durant came and said you know what I don't want to be part of the All-Stragging is I need the downtime and playing 40 minutes a game I would be all for that Well did you see Wimby's comments about the All-Star game I did not he said he's going all out And he says he wants everybody to be going all out with it with him

How do Spurs fans feel hearing that? Let me tell you some Spur fan You are irate over that Because where you are today Not in a whole part by Wemby But when Wemby's on the floor he makes differences Now against the Rock it's not so much but by and large he has had a fantastic season

so yeah I'm sure Spurs fans didn't like hearing that Wimby says he wants to go all out and bring the intensity back to the All-Star game you know what honestly and this is a fault of mine I don't even know the format for the All-Star game because I'm USA versus the world this first year

and there's groups of five right yeah I can't know so you don't even know for sure not exactly it's so crazy as a kid and I hate to go to the items as a kid card. But as a kid, I loved the All-Star Games. Hell, I love the Pro Bowl, because that was cool playing in Hawaii. With hot cula girls on the side.

I knew exactly when the dunk contest was going to start. And now it's Matt McClung every year who never makes an NBA roster. Yeah. I remember watching Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, Brent Berry back in the day. I can see the dunk contest meaning more for me if we got recognizable players. Absolutely. But we don't get recognizable players anymore.

No. It's get a men and Thompson in there. Let's go. But generally speaking, for me, it's a cleansing to get away for basketball for a while. But the game itself, when they got the 200 points, last year or two years ago, that was so embarrassing. Do you feel like a men Thompson kind of glides a la Clyde Drexler? What do you feel about that comparison?

He kind of floats. Just floats up there sometimes. Reminds me a little bit of the Clyde the glide. Not bad. Okay. He's a Eurostep machine, though. That's true, too. He's king of the Eurostep.

pop and shoot because the defense is sacking off of them. They're like, you can take the 10 foot all day if you want to. All right. Rockets, when we'll get to that? Baseball chatter, of course. And we had a little bit of a disagreement with a couple of Fox analysts about the analytics of the 7-0 game. Uh-oh. Lead for Denver that ultimately was won by New England 10 to 7. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

1104 on 790. Good morning. Hello. Hello. We got people listening. We love the 10 o'clock. We'll say something wrong about the running back. Yeah, they come right at you. Let's go. Nobody was made. Everybody was nice. Nice to you. And I was wrong. Special shout out the 11 o'clockers. What's up 11 o'clockers? That's early lunch folks going out to get something to eat. Maybe big sitting wings would be on the menu for today. We'll take more with that a little bit. Okay. But right now. It is Tuesday. I got to get home today.

We're going out tomorrow for though. Well, us? Yeah. All right. So the Rockets win last night, and they are now a season high, 12 games above 500. Doesn't it feel like that?

I mean, they've been playing about 500 basketball for a month. I think they're, what, 8 and 6th of January? They've been on a winning run lately. Yeah. No embarrassing losses to the Pelicans and whatnot. Let's see. They've won five of their last six.

The last really tough loss, the one would, like, shaking your head, was Sacramento. No. Oh, as far as because of the opponent. Right. For sure. Philadelphia's playoff team. I mean, Thunder crushed him. I would like that a bit closer. Yeah, no. It was a terrible fourth quarter.

Rockets and Spurs, Tremont. I know it's going to be late, but I'm kind of looking forward to it. I'm ready. Look, no disrespect to Memphis, but I'm going to disrespect Memphis. It doesn't do anything for me. Yeah, everybody's hurt on the team. Yeah, it's the Spurs. It's the I-10 rivalry. It's national TV, ESPN, late-night start. Yep. 730 Rockets Launchpad here on Sports.

stock 790 with yours truly okay's coach uh tomorrow okay that pause because he just fist bumped for us there no i was i it's a little warm in here i was trying to do what loosen the extremities okay

uh let me ask you this two train uh train uh train that trades a thought no trains of thought train of thought train of thought two trains of thought out there one should the rockets go get an extra big man or yes Should they go kick the tires on Jose Alvarado,

who was being talked about among possible trades? Because, again, he doesn't make a lot of money. He fills up another back court spot, another ball handler. Ficey is all hell. I mean, he is an E.M.A. Doca kind of guy, for sure. Well, I never thought I'd say this, Matt, but what's the apron situation? Well, he only makes $4.8 million. Alvarado, really?

And he's got to pick up for next year at about the same amount of money. Okay, so that's doable. That feels very doable. Go get them. You could go. Throw in 15 first, second round. picks, I mean. Now, you could get guys that get released Big Men

expiring contracts, get them signing for minimum deals too. That could be a possibility to well. Does either if I gave you, let me give you the options, multiple choice. A, Albarado, B, a backup big man, C, both of them, D, none of them. What would you like to see the Rockets do?

Man, I guess at the moment Let's go, let's go eat through each of them first. Backup Big seems like a, I know, The easy answer is point guard, but they still have one of the best offenses of basketball. They don't have a point guard, but you can initiate some.

We've got a lot of ball handlers. Right, right, right, right. You have a lot of guys you can initiate sets with. And it is a need. But I think this team is big time missing Stephen Adams. That was going to be my answer. I do like Jose Avarado's moxie. I do.

but how many times are you going to put I mean are you going to shift a man Are you going to be closing with Jose Alvarado? Yeah I mean I don't know how much time If it's worthy of making a trade in how much What pocket of the game is he can be playing in lieu of whom I guess Tari Isson out of the starting line I mean would you are you even starting him?

No no no you're not starting him And your Dorian Finney Smith should be coming off his minutes restriction Tarie Eason should be ramping up as well I mean is he taking Okoge's minutes Reed Shepard. I like him as a complimentary piece. What you're doing strictly as adding a ball handler if you've got aggressive guards

who are attacking your bigs who have the ball in their hand. It didn't matter last night because the Grizzlies, I mean, they don't have any size as far to worry about. But I mean, that Sixers game and even in that Pistons game, it's like Clint Capella, I love you as a third center, but as when he has to kind of step up,

It can get ugly. Clint just can't give you, first of all, the sheer volume of minutes of Stephen Adams is giving you. And second, all, I just don't think he's nearly as a refined offensive rebounder. It's not because Clint can't play in the NBA. It's because Stephen Adams has been able to carve out a niche as one of the best offensive rebounds in the last decade of the NBA. Yeah, and it's not even that.

I mean, Clint Capel is not a bad player, always out of position. But Stephen Adams is such a good, smart defender, strong rebounder, as you said, and I would say an underrated passer. Yeah, you can put him at the top of the key and he can facilitate the offense. Clint's usually going to be one or two dribbles and then got him over the ball. Exactly. And I would say better score, better finisher. As far as a hook shot. Like, Clenkapell's a better dunker. Yeah, neither one would be considered a league score. Neither are good, no. You're not running

Stephen Adams on the low block every time down there. Same thing for Clint. So if you were going to make a minor move, which I believe anything the Rockets do at this point would be considered minor, I think you're going to get an extra big man because you really you only have two. Jeff Green doesn't play anymore and he would be an undersized five. Maybe you go to that well a little bit. You could go, you could move Jabbar to the five because he's in that pain a lot, but you're going to have bigger guys like, like when you take Alpi out of the game,

does Yokic just have a good time going against Capella? I'm thinking about some of the bigger. Oh, yeah. In Beed with cooking Capella. Hartenstein. But Embed he cooks everyone, so it's like, yeah. But I think Stephen Adams would have done better. though. Yeah. Yeah, if there was a wish list, I probably would say get me a nut.

But the problem is what's out there, again, names that come to mind, I can't think of, because you don't know who's being traded and who could be released, what kind of money situation. Remember, the rockets are kind of hamstrung by what their salary cap situation is. Yeah, it's going to be tough. It feels like a dance with who brought you a situation. Now, let me tell you this. If you're playing Wemby in a seven-game series, you're not worried about it. Really, the only centers in the NBA you are legitimately worried about those valuable minutes would be maybe a Denver team.

Hartnstein can beat you up a little bit in the low block. Who else? Lakers, Dan, Dayton doesn't do anything for me. No. Anybody else I'm thinking of? Not really, but I think you, well, by playoff time, is Stephen Adams going to be possibly back? I don't know. I can't give you an answer to that.

people were saying about playoff time he could be coming back but that's that's normal timeline we don't know his the extent of his injury right how bad it is the rock is no more than we do yeah so just something to throw out there that i would think if you really wanted to do a little i don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that you fine-tuned something like i'm looking to add depth especially it's i mean i'm going to presume that you can go get it back up five somewhere and it may not be a prototypical seven foot five but could be something like i'll give you a example now jjj jackson shot too many shots at the permanent other night, but G. G. G. Jackson's 6.9, but 240?

He can go in there and scrape if you needed to. Could you, would you live with a, maybe like a more power forward-esque type player that can go in there and bang a little bit? It depends on matchups. Yeah. I, you know, and look, not that's that Alpe is a huge get in there with the wolves and beat, throw elbows around, that kind of thing. No, he, he can hold his zone for the most.

Oh, Gober. Gober. You can push around. I mean, it's reality. I'm more worried about, yeah, Alpe's defense, like, in the paint, it's pretty solid. Just when he kind of gets drawn out of the paint is when we run into issues. Yeah. But that doesn't solve, Clinton doesn't solve it either.

No. I would think if you're thinking about going to get a center, you're looking for somebody that's going to go above the rim and do the tapouts and keep possessions alive because part of the Rockets offense, which makes them so fun to watch, is that they are not given, they are always given, not always, but more times and not given at least two champ opportunities.

needs to put the ball in the basket because there's so many offensive rebounds. Yeah, Clint's good. We can, you can upgrade. Yeah. All right. 1112 on Sports Talk 790. 713, 212-5-790. So I'd like to say, friend of the show, but I can't.

I have attempted multiple times to get Mark Schlarith on this radio show, and I have been unsuccessful. I would like a text back to say, hey, can't do it. Huh. B, go to hell. See you leave me alone. I just get left delivered. It's fine.

He's a busy man. He's not that busy. He's not too busy enough to go on another national show yesterday. Okay. Maybe I'm just local. Maybe I'm not big in time enough for him. Maybe you should lie about what show you're on. I should say I'm with Matt Thomas with Ross.

We're on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, we are. We are Fox Sports Affiliate. I would do that when I was a producer. I would say Fox Sports Radio, Houston. Oh, I like that idea. You get rid of Houston next time. Just say Fox Sports Radio.

Yeah, okay. All right. So Mark Schlerth, who is a Denver Broncos Hall of Famer, was on the all-60-year anniversary team of the Denver Broncos. Oh, wonderful. He's actually really good on game analysis. That's why I want to have mine. Okay.

He did the Texans a couple times this year, but again, didn't return my text. That's fine. That's okay. Was asked about the situation that he found himself in, being a Joe fan yesterday or Sunday at Mile High, staying whatever they call it these days, with his Broncos up 7-0, 4th and 1, and the decision by Sean Payton to go for it.

Here is what Mark Slareth had to say. Much in the game. Yeah, you know, we were all sitting, we were all sitting and stand around in Fait Manning's suite, and it was me, and it was Stokely, and it was Mike Shanahan, it was Peyton, and we all looked at and go, just like this, you got a backup quarterback,

you got a chance to go 10-0, and, you know, and your defense is balling out of control. Like, all of us were in agreement at that point. Just kick the field goal. Just kick the field goal. And then, you know, you come out with a little rollout pass and it was a debacle to begin with. And plus at that point, you hadn't run the ball for two inches. So it's not like you feel like, hey, man, they're really going to respect our run game, right?

They're really going to respect what we're doing here as an offense. So we're just going to run the QB sneak or we're just going to run some power down the middle, are ISO and really smash mouth these guys. They were kicking our ass up front. So I was like kick the field goal, take the points, man. 10-0 is a big score, especially with the weather report

that it was going to get nasty in the second half. That was the weather report that had been floated for the whole week. All right, that again, he would also go on to say with Mark Schlerth the following quote, I hate analytics, I hate all analytics people,

I don't like nerds. you're making that up. Did he really say that? No. I mean, it's probably later in the audio, but we don't have time to look that up. So Greg Olson, who is his Fox teammate, they don't work on the same games,

because Greg has worked better games than Mark. I mean, Mark's working commanders, Titans, and Greg Olson's working Green Bay, Chicago, but that's not a here nor there, says the irony here is the analytics, and he puts it in quotes, actually say kick, and he put kicking all caps. but that's not as fun, I guess.

So let me think about, let me tell you what I think and I'll give you a thought. A wise man once told me, just because you're given the analytics, doesn't mean you have to use them. Mm-hmm. Okay. It's up to the coach to choose the stats that he wants and the trends with a mixture of a gut feeling

and make its decision based off of gut feeling, conditions, time of game, ball game, the mood, the atmosphere, the momentum shift. And so the argument, again, you know how I feel about this. I've said this over and I wouldn't change my mind. But it's funny though, he says the analytics people, his analytics people say you should have kicked it as well. So I guess it's depending on what analytics group of people that you listen to to say what you should have done in that situation. Yeah, I think you're going to get different answers from different people. As I mentioned, Seth Walder of ESPN

analytics, he has a model that he uses and they said it was an easy go. There's another guy I follow. His name is Ben Baldwin. He had, he said it was a kick but it was close. So it depends on what the Broncos analytics department was

staying and how they felt and game feel and all that type of stuff. And Sean Payton said we can go out there and get one yard. Again, it's one yard. That's why I, you can disagree. with the decision, but I don't think it's some kind of boneheaded all-time error because the immediate after effect was the Patriots punted the ball in like six plays. They gave like 20 yards of field position back. So you got the ball back. This was in the second quarter. This did not cost them the game. Nope. But I think we're seeing a trend and we brought this up a lot yesterday

and we won't spend too much more time on this. We are seeing a trend where too many teams are giving up on checking getting points. Okay. Like I said, I think it's a situation where we forget when it gets them a touchdown. We, for whatever reason, because it goes against our years of Trent. Yeah, Mark Schlarith is a 60-year-old who played in the 90s. Yeah, he's not going to be okay with the new age. But his buddy, Pink Manning.

He named Rob Pink Manning. Okay, in his 50s and played in the 90s. Hey, hell, hey, hey. Yeah, okay. He still does the ESPN. So, yes, all these guys in the suite who are 60 years plus think that, oh, oh, I'm going to shake my fist at the cloud. Really, take the points.

They're not night. Take the points, Sean Payton. Wait a minute. Come on. Back in the 1990s, we would have taken the points. They're not. I don't know why we're in Ireland now. They don't live in assisted living.

What are you doing those people back there? Take your tapioca pudding and watch them go for it on fourth down. Okay? That's just how it's going to go. Guess what? Analytics Revolution and baseball, already done. Basketball, already done. Football, it's here as well.

It ain't going away. It's not going to be all of a sudden. Every single coach is going to be like, you know what? Maybe we could get with our win probability is going to go up, but let's just kick. It's not, it's how it's going to go, Matt. This is progress. It's going to keep going forward. We've already seen a massive difference from 10 years ago.

I'm going to give you a really bizarre gut feeling about this particular topic in about five minutes from now. Okay. Remember when Bill Belichick went for a fourth and two? This was like, man, against the Colts on the road back in the day, and he got crushed. Like, that was crazy out of control. That wouldn't be, it would still be talked about in this day and age, but it was thought of as the most insane idea ever.

And it was like a fourth and two where if they would have got the ball, they would have won the game. So this is my analogy on this when it comes to Blackjack. Oh, good. I love this. You ready? Go ahead. It's the 16.

Yes. And you're kicking a field goal versus fourth and one maybe you've got 16 and a dealer is showing eight. Yeah? Kicking the field goal is staying.

See, that's what I'm saying. Maybe I'm a little bit. I've made this analogy before. Maybe I'm a little, I have two different stances on two different things. Because you know me, fall on my sword for the rest of my adult life playing cards

that you always hit the 16th. And I know there are some people that will just say no Matt, I've been looking at the cards, I've been seeing what's going on on at the table, and I don't buy it. It's a failure aversion because you're going to, you're going to, the field goal in our minds is the soft and

cushy, we're all good, it's going to go in 100% of the time. And I will make the analogy again to bunting. I would say it's 90%. It's like bunt guy. Take the points guy. It's kind of like Bunge guy, man. I'm sorry. No, because I do get a tangible benefit.

I'm going to add to my eventual score. Bunting does not guarantee me that that runs going to score. Bunton doesn't always work. Field goal is doing always work, too. What is the field goal percentage of 35 yards in? I think it was about 90%. It was 94% I think. That's pretty much automatic.

Not guaranteed automatic, but that's pretty damn close. So as I said, this particular decision, like I said, I go to the numbers. I'm not saying I know, I don't have a model. I'm not running my algorithm. So I don't know what the correct decision was because Seth Walder says easy go. This other guy followed Ben Baldwin says it was an easy kick. So what did Sean Payton have?

I don't know. So I tell you at one yard, I don't know Sean Payton's background altogether except Spygate, New Orleans. But apparently Denver fan just like, there he goes again, making another wrong. Has he had mad as a history of making wrong decisions? I don't get the feel that way. I mean, that was the 2009. Super Bowl was a long time ago when he did the onside kick and you can't surprise onside kick.

Somebody asked Mike Vrable about that. You know, Sean Payton, you got to be ready for him. You know, surprise on kicks and onside kicks and Vrable's like, I think we're good with the surprise onside kick because you can't do that anymore. All right. Let's get a call on before we get to gut feelings. Larry, New Orleans at 1128.

Larry, good morning. Good morning, Matt. I don't know. Is Ross there? Anyway, so this has so many different layers. starting with the fact that people love beating up on Sean Payton. He's the smartest guy in the room most of the time. The layers to this are the suspension of Sean.

Anyway, we all said it in the moment. Don't you take the points? Well, this is why this is such a great show. Whenever I tune in, y'all are talking about something interesting. But you can't, what's the phrase? you can't presume and this is sliding doors I'm going on all over the place of course

this is sliding door you can't presume an ending from whether they kick the field goal or not or score a touchdown or not I might enrage the the Patriots to come back and go on this tear and the bottom line is it

maybe maybe Bowdo Knicks did have a chance against one of these two teams coming out of the NFC. Maybe they beat each other up. But anyway, thanks for the great show. And you have to look at it from a lot of people, especially our guy at night, Mr. Rob Parker, I don't know you may have brought it up earlier, but he loves to meet on

Sean Payton and his, by the way, the year that he was suspended, they could have won the Super Bowl that year. They could have won the Super Bowl in the games. they got screwed on the Rams game. So, you know, pick it on Sean Payton is fun because he, you know, he tends to present himself as a smartest guy in the room. And, you know, for one Super Bowl game, he was. Thanks for the phone call. Ross, care to comment anything he said?

Thanks for listening, Larry. Thank you, Larry. And this is a great interesting show where we have debates. Yes, we don't always agree. And in fact, rarely do. And it's not forced. By the way, that was 2009 when Bill Belichick went for a fourth and three

from his own 37-yard line. It was this huge talking point. And analytics said it was right. The right decision. Fourth and three from his own 37. Yes. Because if they get it, they would have won the game. And it was Peyton Manning Colts offense.

He was probably scared of Peyton Manning scoring a touch on him, which they would. Yeah. And they lost the game. All right. Ksel's going to talk about the Rock is trading for a backup center. If you have any gut feelings, we want to hear from you coming up in a minute.

Oh, yeah. How we do from last week, by the way? I don't recall. We're about to find out. Open up the gut feeling profile page. Right now, if you want to have a gut feeling in, 713-212-5-790, Listen up, girls and boys. That's that's been so appealing.

This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. All right, this is the half hour of the show we do on a weekly basis where you get to make your sports predictions. If you're right, you get to call back and brag. If you're wrong, you typically hide. We can't hide from ours because Ross writes him down most weeks when he doesn't forget. And we're going to find out how we did last Tuesday with our gut. Felix.

Yes, Matthew. You had the Rockets minus four and a half versus the Spurs. I believe that's a hit. Yes. You had Stidham under 175 yards passing. As a hit, he had like 1.33. I took the over. And then the blizzard hit. You had the Rams and the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

Oops. Which I did as well. And you said Nick Casario is gone if the Texans don't make the AFC championship. Anything less than that? Okay. He's out. Yep. Okay. I'm staying firm on that. Sure. Why not? And you said, David Mullugeta is going to create a nasty situation with C.J. Stroud and the Texans.

100%. Oh, come on. He's not a win. Not now. No, but that's a long-term forecast. I will say it's not going to be hunky-do. How about this? Put the term in there. Will not be a hunky-dory situation. You said nasty situation.

I'll go nasty. That's fine. And I guarantee you, Mulligado will be calling Ryan Clark, and Ryan Clark will be talking about how great CJ Stroud is. And Stephen A. That is pompous. No, it could happen. We'll see how it next year plays out.

Nasty. But right now, there's no chance. Not this off-season, I should say. Or close to no chance. Because, I mean, the public perception about CJ right now is probably an all-time low. Yeah, send him his win. Send David Mulligat all these windy memes that I'm getting sent. Hey, guys, CJ Stroud has signed a four-year contract with DoorDash. Okay.

CJ Stroud is responsible for the snow and ice throughout 40 states in this country. Send those to David Mulligeta. That's Nick Asario should be forwarding those to him, actually. Wouldn't that be funny? Like, hey, David, you catch this one? At C. McNair, at, uh, Nikki C. at Tears and Texans to come. What do you think about these? These are pretty funny.

Love Hannah. Yikes. You know like Hannah's creating those, do you? You think she's making, she's on the, she's on the meme generator? There's no way Cal can do it. No. Hannah's a meme generator. Hannah runs NFL memes? Yes. I didn't know that.

Yeah. Wow. Because she's trying to create the narrative. We're about paying the guy in the off season. All right, maybe not. Okay. I had stid him over 175 yards. We were looking good after the first drive. That was a great bomb past. after that.

Right. I said under 101.5 touchdowns, which is correct. I just had the Rams Patriot Super Bowl as well. Wrong. I said the Rams will win it all.

Wrong. And I said, oh, I forgot I did this. Go ahead. C.J. Strail will not ascend back to being thought of as an elite quarterback.

Ooh. That's a gut feeling I wish I didn't have. God, you need to be hit across the face with that one. Oh. That's so bad. By the way, anybody

it's a gut feeling. It's a gut feeling. Anybody that tweeted. out last week. CJ can't possibly play worse against the Steelers. Well, we'll save you

for tomorrow, 1130. Trust me, I'm going after you. I didn't write anything down for Jonathan Allen. He was sick last week. And I was talking to Tom about the problems we were having back here. So I didn't write anything down.

I didn't know if I missed something. No, no. Jonathan, what do you got this week? Yeah, you get to lead off. I let you try to do the Super Bowl, but I am how the Rockets are going right now. Next time we come back, it's a six-game win-street, baby.

Oh, what is it? Two right now? Two right now, yeah. So the next four would be tonight or tomorrow against San Antonio, Thursday, Atlanta, Saturday, Dallas, and I don't know who the fourth game would be. Pacers. Oh. Yeah. Easy, peasy.

That's right. At Indiana next Monday. Six-game win streak. Let's go, baby. By the way, I'll be going to the same restaurant that Mark Sanchez went to before he, uh, eventually lost his career and got arrested. Okay, you're not going to start anything with the truck driver, are you?

I would hope not, no. Do we even find out what happened with that? What's the latest on his stabbing, getting stabbed and whatnot? He got definitely stabbed because the guy was afraid for his life. I should take photos of where he was trying to do sprints in the back in the alleyway. Is Yolk it hurt, by the way? Random. He hasn't played yet, has he?

Okay, yeah, he's okay. All right. Sorry. Yeah, he's out. Anyways, I'm going to go with the Seahawks minus four and a half. Yep. Seahawks cover lock at a week. Seattle Seahawks, they're too good on both sides of the ball.

Great coaches. Which Kubiak is over there? Clint. Clint Kubiak is going to have the offense rolling Seahawks by 9 at 10. I'm on a recorded line. I got inside information. I got so much inside information that even the Seahawks don't even know they're inside information. Okay.

I got Seahawks on a cover. Dang it. I got another one for you here. You call my number 1,900, 900, 900, 900. And you're going to get some super inside information. Okay. Michael McDonald. Really?

Yes, the coach to the Seahawks. Not only is he an excellent football coach inside information here. He's a great singer too. He said the Super Bowl, this is it. No, that's Kenny Longins. Isn't Michael McDonald on that? He is in the background. Yeah.

But Michael McDonald's going, you know, keep forgiven. These will never be the same again. And forgetting, too. Oh, it's down to 45 and a half now? No, stay away. No, that's under. Stay away from the total. Under.

You heard you were in the total. I'm scared. I'm scared. 900, 900. Oh, I got a fun one. Or we can do this next week. Super Bowl MVP. Save it.

Write it down for next week, though, right? So we don't forget. Okay. All right. Jonathan, you want to make a Super Bowl pick? You can wait until next week, too. Oh, yeah, I can wait. Yeah, I'll wait.

I'll wait. Let it percolate a little bit. Yeah. All right, let's go to the phones and talk to some people. Let's talk to Koso on 790. Koso, what do you got today? Hey, guys. I was just calling because y'all were talking earlier about the rocket's trade deadline, and if they're not going to go after a point card, they're going to double down on a backup center.

So I got a couple names, and I just wanted to throw them out, kind of see what you guys thought from going from a minor upgrade to like a mediocre or medium upgrade. And I even got some of the salaries for you. So let me know or tell me to stop if you think this was too crazy. I'm looking at the rosters, and for a minor upgrade, I was thinking something like a precious Chautua or a Larry Nance Jr. Someone who aren't really playing well, but if you put them in the right system, tell them just to go out there, box out and get rebounds. Maybe they would have a serviceful tenure here for the rest of the season. If you wanted to go a little bit higher, nothing too crazy. I know we just had them last year, but I mean, Jock Landell, if you wanted to go more spacing, I know you're

He's making 8-mill this year, which is more than I thought he would. But, I mean, he's having, I guess, pretty much a breakout season for the Grizzlies. They don't really need them. They need to tank. So maybe something like that. And if you wanted to go a little bit higher, put some salaries together, I'm thinking something like, what's that guy, Gogo Batadez, the backup center for Orlando, Wendell Carter Jr. from the Bulls, he's making 8-mill. and if you really wanted to put some salaries together,

maybe like a Robert Williams, a third, who's making 13-mil, another Rockets, and E-May has probably talked about it before, but those are just some names, I think, would be good for the Rockets to take a look at, looking for a minor upgrade. I'll hang up and I'll listen, thanks guys. Yeah, we're not going through any of those names because we like those names. We will lose what remaining audience we have left. Thank you, Koso.

Thank you, Koso. I like that. Research, precious to chew, it makes sense. get go-go-a-bataze. I think Larry Nance is too long in the tooth, Rossi. Is he? Yeah, 33 years old for Nance. Larry Nance is that old now? You know your old one, Larry Nance

Oh, man, come on. Yeah, that's, I don't like to hear that out loud. I like it, Chua. He's 33 now? Yes. Where do the years go? I know. Holding back the years. He's simply red. I'm reeling in the years. That too. That would be throwing away the time. Okay, that's enough.

All right. Back on the first. phones we come back. Look, all the names that Casabar brought up, and I love that he loves the backup. Yeah, those all would be in the realm. Again, I don't expect anybody to come in here and be a walking double-double. Put it that way. Okay. But you want to get somebody

that's got at least I wouldn't say a little more, I'm looking for offense and rebounding. Size and girth? No, I don't look for size and girth in guys. Why not? Stephen Adams has a lot. How would you know that? You don't.

You haven't seen him out there? I mean, this is probably the strongest guy in the NBA. The girth? Yeah, he's girthy. Can y'all name a girthier NBA player? 713-212-5-790. You said it not me. I don't see what the issue is.

I don't see one either. Get your heads out of the gutter. Come on now. 7-13-212-5-7-90. More your gut feelings next. Ross is looking at the latest endorsement for Kevin Durant is obsessed with it. I mean, did you see those pictures of his ashy ankles?

No, I don't look. Look at a man's ashy ankles. It looked like scales. That's gross. Yeah. Jonathan, you got ash? Man, he's moisturized. You ask me that is just so disrespectful.

You know I'm moisturized back here. I don't know that you moisturized. You and I've never talked about your moisturization. I'm never asked about your moisturization. I'm never going to ask about your moisturization. Yeah. Yeah, this is pretty funny. It's like a mean tweets type of advertisement for Kevin Durant.

He's a good after. Did I tell you on Monday yesterday about, you know, I was courtside in Detroit. Okay. And so I get to hear a lot more things when I'm, as compared to calling it up in the upper levels of the lower level, right? No, the lower levels of the, no, the upper levels of the lower level. There you go. I said that right. Okay.

He can MF and a fan like nobody's business. He will tell them to suck his blank multiple times per game. Oh, wow. And I think they caught some of the video over the weekend of him M-Fing a fan that was yelling at him. And the guy who was yelling at him was wearing a Kevin Durant jersey. Really? Yes. It wasn't a Rockets Kevin Durant.

He had the over on the props or what? I don't know, but you cannot get, and I had Kevin on the post game show yesterday. It's cool. You cannot blunt talk Kevin Durant. He will come at you and hurt you. Because he's got a salty tongue like I do, and you do. and he's more asher than I am. Hey, he's moisturized now.

Gassaraviv. Or whatever it's called. Yeah. Point being, do not blank talk Kevin Durant. He will own you. And you'll want to being on a video and look like ass. People love that, though. That's what hecklers want.

They want the validation and the acknowledgement. Chafers are you may get ejected or have your move to a different area. Those are really expensive seats down there. All right. Let's go to James at 11th. It's gut feelings here on 790. James, what is your gut this week? Yeah, first of all, props to 790 for the coverage of the Astrophist.

That was extremely entertainment. You all did a really good job on that. Thank you. My gut feeling is that Seattle's going to kill New England in the playoffs, and Sam Donald will be the MVP. Oh, no. I got to rethink this now. Wait a minute.

James came up with a great analysis there. That's so terrible on you, part. that you're trying to be better in 2026. Shut up. I'm going to let you chew your jumbalaya. No. No, I'm done. I'm just, I want some crystal hot sauce of that?

I'm so hungry. I want my shit. Oh, my gosh. Stop. All right. Yeah, you got gut feelings all right. Yes. All right, anyways.

Man, is everybody on my side? Seattle's going to crush it? America's got Seattle in this. Oh, no. Why? His drink may has not been good in the playoffs. Yeah, 80 yards, guys. I mean...

The weather sucked. The weather was bad. Okay, it's holding it 45 and a half. Some places opened up five and immediately went down to four and a half. Some opened at three and a half and went to four and a half. See, I was thinking it was going to go higher than lower. Yeah. By the way, during the news and noon, we had the first Super Bowl 61 odds out for

2007. Honestly? Yes. You're going to fire a couple bucks. You're going to fire off? I'll put a five ski on the Texans. Well, it's got to be like 35 to 1ish or more. You'll find out during the news at noon.

How about that? Okay. Oh, see, we're going to play the guessing game. We also have a lot of NFL news to get to as well. There's been a lot of hirings going on. So it'll be a busy news at noon. Busy news at noon. All right, any other gut feelings?

I feel like I need to get in more gut feelings. All I said was the Seahawks and the Patriots. Can I wish a gut feeling on? Astros rotation. I got a gut feeling. Astros rotation, not a biggest question mark as we think. Gut feeling. Lance McCullors does not start in the rotation.

Unless everybody's arm falls off in West Palm, which hopefully doesn't happen. Because right now, what is it? It's 101, EMI 2, Burroughs 3, Carver, 4. I got another good feeling. Oh, yes. If no trade is made for the Astros.

All right. Opening day first basement. I knew this was coming. Go ahead. Just say it. Isok Paredes. You're going to sit Christian Walker in opening day. Who's the better stick?

Isak Paredes. Okay. Who's a better glove? Slightly. Slightly. He didn't win one last year. Yeah, but he's won three of the last four. Isok Paredes was great at the hot corner

where he's gonna be even better at the cold corner. Let's make a bet. I don't want to bet. I said gut feeling. I'm not betting on this. No, sir. No. Literally like a bag of chips.

How about it? Because I got the way underdog. It's a gut feeling. How about a chocolate shake? No, I'm not telling you, no chance, no way, no how. It's Esok Paredes and he's going to be a little gut feeling. All right? Let me have a little gut feeling by myself.

Okay? I'm not trying to bet you anything on this. other bats we got like 10 bets in the air just a little gut feeling all right I want to make a bet for a chocolate shake a chocolate then we have to go somewhere that serves them

or we go in the rack and the rocks right down the street they have Oreo shakes too no because I need odds it's a gut feeling all right I'll throw in curly fries now you're just trying to give me a heart attack it's working I'm out of here every day

all right the rockets came together You know what? You need another gut feeling too. I'm not letting you get away with just Seahawks. Here's a voice of the Rockets' gut feeling. Okay. Rockets jump the Spurs in the West. When? Eventually?

Eventually. Okay. Now, do they have to stay there? Yes. Okay. I don't know. It could be four beating, could be a four moving to a three. It could be a three moving to a two.

Rockets, better record in the West than the Spurs. I'm putting as a gut feeling. Okay. And I'm completely biased, and I can live with that. Only two games back of them. Could make it one. I could make it one with a win tomorrow night. Let's go.

I saw Miss the Ultimate Spurs fan of this in the kitchen just a minute ago. Where's all my friends ahead? The Rockets has an 8 seed. I'm sorry. I'll leave them alone. Moving on. They're not listening. All right.

The Rockets came together against the Grizzlies. We've got that plus the news at noon, 1158 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show. with Ross. 126, Sports Talk 790. The Rockets came together, beat the Grizzas last night. 12 games above 500. That's your rundown of that game last night.

Rocket Spurs tomorrow, but right now let's get to the rest of the news at noon. Yes, Matthew, and it's perfect timing for the news at noon because we have some breaking news on the news at noon. probably one. Carlos Correa. Now, will not participate in the world baseball classic. After he failed to receive insurance on his contract, he tells the athletic. This, of course, according to Chandler Rome.

Meaning if you get hurt and you're not on Astro's time, he would not be getting the Astros money. you get hurt on Astros time, you get the money. Is that true? Jose Al-Tube didn't get hurt when he didn't get money when he broke his hand on the W.C. Yeah, I don't know. I'm trying to figure that out. Hmm.

Read that again? Interesting. Correa will not participate in the World Baseball Classic after he failed to receive insurance on his contract. Tell me I'm reading that wrong. I don't know. Because he's supposed to make $31 million next season. Extensive history injury. I don't know.

I'd have to read this whole Chandler Rome story, which, Chandler, you got my click. And here, I'm scrolling up and down on it. trying to get you the views. Here, refresh five times, and I'll try to read it more as we go along here on the news at noon. So we'll figure out the ins and outs of that. But it's contracts up after this year or next year, right? So maybe it's like future insurance.

If you get some major injury, I don't know. I'll text him. Yeah, text Chandler Boehm. We can say his name. Okay, Chandler Rome. Joe Spada knows his name. That's great stuff from the interview. All right, elsewhere on the news at noon, Rockets, get the victory over the Memphis Grizzlies Day.

did come together and the grizzlies missed like 10 three-pointers at one point shooting seven of 37 from three. They were terrible. Santi Aldamo's barbecue chicken for Alperin Shingoon. He led the way with 33 points on 15 of 17 shooting. Also had

nine rebound, six assists. And five turnovers. Ah, I was right. Without bad coverage, Correa said he would risk forfeiting his regular season salary if he misses any games due to injury sustained in the WBC.

That must be in his contract or something like that. Yeah. Maybe he's got a different contract because he's had such an injury history. Correa has an extensive injury history that ostensibly made his contract more difficult to ensure. There we go. So we're adding all these little puzzle pieces together here. Gotcha. He does have a very big IH.

Ooh, he does. Everybody was upset about him wearing that back brace last year. It's like a heating pad. He was bad. Is he okay? What's the matter? Why are y'all asking about him? Because it's a back brace.

He played. He's not walking out there with a cane. 144 games last year. Mm-hmm. 86th the year before. So I'm going to keep an eye on. Well, he's not playing, couldn't get his insurance, so Carlos Cray not going to be in the WBC.

He mentioned the Rockets with a 108 to 99 win. Also, Kevin Durant with 33 points on 24 shots, very efficient from him. And also, Kevin Durant, now a sponsor of a certain moisturizer where there's a basically a mean tweet style advertisement where he reads a bunch of

mean tweets, bro, KD, please put some lotion on your legs, dog, all these other tweets that he's reading and responding to. And he's a good actor. He does a good job. You know, I'm going to retweet this right now. At SportsRV on Twitter. It's a decent follow. Nothing's spectacular. Yeah, followerships are up.

Views are up. We had actually close to a million views over a seven-day span during the NFL playoffs. So thanks to all of you for the followership and the love. And you know what? I would really appreciate a follow on my Instagram at SportsRV. All right, elsewhere on the news at noon, let's see. You have a couple of hires happening in the NFL. Joe Brady being upgraded from offensive coordinator to head coach in Buffalo, Matt.

your thoughts of going from Sean McDermott for nine years to Joe Brady the offensive coordinator now is the head man. Remember we talked about this last week and how intimate

Josh Allen should be in this conversation? I guess he did have a lot of say. He had a lot to say about this. This is my guy. Yeah. And if you want me happy and not me talking about how maybe I should finish my career elsewhere,

you hire my guy. Yes. So Joe Brady now with the Buffalo Bills. And now the Tennessee Titans, honestly, low key, as the kids would say, have a pretty good coaching staff. Brian Daibol set to be their offensive coordinator pending him being hired as the Las Vegas Raiders head coach. So he's going to be Raiders head coach.

And this is kind of new, right? This happened with Mike McDaniel. If he didn't get a head coach job, he was going to be Chargers OC. Correct. Now, Brian Daibol, if he's not the. the Raiders head coach, he's going to be the Titans O-C. Yes. Which he's probably not going to be.

These things are fluid transactions. Life is changing in the world of sports. I mean, good on the Titans and Chargers for saying, yeah, we want you as our guy, but we also understand you have to head coaching. Yeah. It's, you know why? Because the roles could be reversed down the road. So, by the way. I'm sorry.

Go ahead. Listen to me Texans fans want to tell you this. If the Titans make it to the AFC championship before the Texans do, stop. You need to end your friends. ship in an affiliation and just find another team. I want a Daibble. I mean, I would like Daibol. Brian Daible's a good offensive coordinator.

I don't disagree with that. Not a great head football coach, but a good offensive coordinator. I'm telling you, if they get to the AFC championship before the Texans do, you need to disassociate yourself with the team. If you're going to have a defensive head coach, this is what I wanted, an established former head coach as an offensive coordinator who's not going to immediately get hired away. Now, Daibo could in a couple of years, but it's going to take some time because he had his shot with the Giants and it didn't work out, so teams are going to be scared of that.

So that's what I wanted with D'emiko Ryan's, an established, highly thought of play caller. But they got new first-time play caller, so it is what it is. But honestly, Robert Sallow handling the defense, Brian Dable handling the offense. We'll see how Cam Ward does. He played better as the season went along.

But this is a good coaching staff. That's a good coaching stadium too, right? Are they playing there next year, I think? I don't know. I think the field is still grass. That's true. But Amy Crunk's start. drunk as to they're so screwed up somehow.

You, we cannot tolerate the Titans being good ever again. We just can't. They need to be like 2 and 15 for the rest of their lives. They have a great defensive head coach and a great offensive head coach. You're just full of just good news today, or you? I'm sorry. This is what happened. This is the news.

At noon, man. At noon. By the way, also, yes, we do have some Texans news. A couple of pro bowlers for the Houston Texans. Pro Bowls sucks. Don't watch it. You have Camarie Lasseter. Who shouldn't be going? He's worthy.

I mean, he didn't make it. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve it. Shouldn't be going. Yes, he shouldn't be going. And again, I think we need to make this distinction. When it's all said and done, we're talking about Hall of Famers and their careers and their resumes. A Pro Bowl selection versus Polo Bowl replacement.

There should be some kind of distinction made. Yeah, because Shador Sanders is a Pro Bowl replacement. Yeah, I mean, come on. So, Kailen Bullock and Camarer Lassar headed to the Pro Bowl for the Texas. Good for them. Hope they enjoy their. I believe they're in the beam bag competition. By the way, I had a gut feeling there would be three first team all pros on defense for the Texans.

It was only two. Anderson and. Daniel Hunter? No, So I thought Hunter might make it. I honestly thought Petrie had a shot at Bullock as well or even Lasseter, but none of them made it. So it was only two. I want Jaylen Petrie to wear that helmet cover for the rest of his NFL.

The Guardian helmet. It's tough. Looks great. As the kids would say. And that was your news at noon. Thank you, Ross. You're walking full information. Let's go back to this career situation when we come back here.

So our, we're just going to knock this out right now because it's awful. Our esteemed program director, Chris Cordy, comes in and says, Hey, guys, when is your, uh, shut your bummed ass segment? I said it's only been on 1130 and Wednesdays for about two years now. Thanks for listening. He's very busy. Oh, listen, I just don't know.

He's very busy. I don't know when things are. He's like, I got to complain about the bobblehead people. I want to hear him out. Because he was talking about it here. and quite frankly, I zoned out. So what's going on with this bobblehead issue? So last night.

Yeah. Got in line at the Toyota Center. That was a real bobblehead? I thought that was a joke. No, it's real bobblehead. It's Stephen Adams and Rene Shepherd. It's rodeo theme. It's lemon cowboy hats.

And it was one that I saw preseason. I said, you know what? That's one I'd like to get. So bought a ticket to the game. Real ticket? Could have used my press pass or my media badge and elbow my way around like I'm Matt Thomas and be like, I deserve things for free. I said, no, I'm going to buy a ticket.

I mean, that's accurate. I don't think that works. So they have a general admission line to get into this, to the arena, and it's very well organized. They did have to move it. We were wrapped around the building to the left. The lady said, I got to move this line. And they did a really good job of reorganizing and switching us over to the other side of Toyota Center. But there was a second line.

a bag line. You're supposed to have a bag. Now, I think... Like a bag check? Now, I think with Toyota Center policy, you're not even supposed to bring a bag in, right? I don't know. I don't know. But there's a bag line, and it's much shorter. There was about 50 people in that line. Well, people start getting in that line

because it's shorter. Well, security says, hey, this is a bag line to the people in line, and they don't get out of line. And they clearly don't have bags. But they let them in, and they get the bobblehead before Or the, you know, 2000th person in the line that's wrapped around Toyota Center.

I just think it's a little, you've got to enforce it. If you're going to say this is a bag line only, you've got to have a bag to be in the bag line. So you're saying, ain't nobody got time. Ain't nobody got time for bag ladies. For bobblehead whores. Not for 55-year-old man by himself going to the game to get a bobblehead and then go sell it on eBay. You know, we don't believe in stereotyping on this show, but Ross, I'm going to let you do it here. Okay.

Bobblehead Whore Stereotype Bobblehead Whore Uh Bobblehead Whore has Credit card debt Well we all have credit card debt Bubblehead

Hoare driving around with no insurance Deal Jalen Rose Ding I'll tell you they are Bobblehead whore probably behind on their child support payments Ding

They're full on operations though There's a little lady that I see at every bobblehead. She's got an organization going where she brings in kids that day to help her get bobbleheads. They will pick up kids. They will tell them to go to the game and then they will take the bobbleheads. Oh, by the way, 80% of bobblehead whore doesn't go to the game. Correct. 95%.

Okay. Bobblehead, what else is bobblehead whore do? Gordy, you're not a bobblehead whore. They go, when you get a free jumbo jack for like the Texans scoring two touchdowns, they go to like five different jack-in-a-boxes. No, I've done that before. Oh, yeah, you're, you have? No, no, no, I've gone to one.

One. The big problem is, they make you buy a large drink. That's like 44 ounces of drink for $3, which is fine, but this is a total lot of drink. I get some sugar-free. No, I'm saying if you got to go for a long drive, you don't stop. I'm going to, like, if I'm going to King, I don't want to pee in the way there. We'll get an unsweet tea. I do get an unsweet tea.

I do you got a pee. We got a 44-ounce drug to pee in. That's gross. I'm not peeing in the car. I'm not having, but. What I don't get is the resale market. How do they make a profit? I don't understand.

I'll look it up right now. You have to have a ticket to get the bobblehead. So a ticket to a game is like, 20, 30 bucks. Closest to the pin, I'll say 50 bucks? 50 to 60 bucks out of that. Yeah. I'm going to put Reed Shepherd. I'll say 75.

Reed Shepard. But even still, if you paid $30 for the ticket, you paid gas money to go down there to go get it. That's 40. And then you go home and put it on eBay and you've got to pay the shipping and handling this into somebody. $60 is netting you, what, $30 profit? There's some.

bid right now. There's $80. What'd you say? 75. 80. 80. There's one listed for 65. You don't snap that one up. You know why those are being a little bit higher? Because the Kentucky people want it because of a free shepherd.

$100. Now, you are married to a Kentucky grad. Yeah. Did you go for her purposes? No, she hates my bobbleheads. How many bobbleheads do you own? About 100? We're around that. Yeah. But what is wrong with you?

But I take them all. I just like them. Hey, hey, let it. have a hobby. Do you collect Hot Wheels too? There are ones who are like, don't take it out of the box. No, if I'm going to own it, I'm going to put it on display, and I have it. I literally have about 10 of them, and there's no rhyme or reason for them. People give them to me.

I have one in my office. I have one from Astros games. Yeah. But I don't search one out for them. If you ever get rid of any, let me know. You're more than welcome to have all of them. Our sales guy, Robberese, he gave me some recently. That was nice.

So, you know, and I don't pull the Adam clan. I don't text people at Toyota Center go, hey, can you slide one for me? in my spot, so I don't have to go get in line. That is a very Clinton move. Oh, my God. That reeks of Clinton. Clint is catching strays right now. He doesn't listen, so it's fine.

We can do it. I'm straight out of this one. I don't think Waxor listens. It's funny. That's okay. I don't listen to their show. Great partners at the Asteros and Rockets. Every time I reach out to somebody, and I do it very rarely.

And I'll go, hey, you think I might be able to get my hands on a pair tickets for this? Oh, Adam Clinton already called in that favor. You're going to hate this. and we're going to let you leave on this note. One of my best friends in the league, Eric Haslton, the boys of the Grizzlies, could be still listening because they're still stuck here in Memphis, Houston. He asked for a bobblehead, and I got him one and a half time.

Well, there you go. But that's helping out a friend. Yeah. So, man, I help you out. Can I go to you for bobbleheads? No, very busy. You got one for Jeff Hasselbeck or whatever. I see Eric four times a year.

I see you daily. Exactly. That's why you should prioritize me. Shout out to Rob Fisher, too. TV side of yours. Yeah, he is. He was there last night. All right.

Anything else on Locked in ACC Worth discussing? We got angry Davo. What did we want his opinion on? We were talking about college football or college something yesterday. Oh, 2014. Oh, would you think the maximum number will ever get? Ever is 16.

The maximum ever. Oh, no. We'll get to 24 eventually. I don't think it's going to happen soon. I'm calling Cole. The Big Ten is pushing for it. Do you want Cole backing you up? Oh, I forget what I said.

24 sounds fine. I said, I'd tweet this word from a listener said, for once, I actually agree with Cole this morning. That poor guy. Check him out at 6 to 10 a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. It's the morning kickoff with those boys. Thank you very much.

All right, we're going to go to Donald and Hobby. Everybody's catching strays today. It's fine. It's cold. If it's warm, we're not doing this. We're all cold and miserable. All right, Donald wants to have a late gut feeling for the Super Bowl. We'll get to his and we'll get to your thoughts.

It's 713, 212, 5, 790. Ross, what is today's edition of Believe or Not coming up at 150 this afternoon? Hell if I know. That's a hell if I know edition of Believe it or not. 713-212-5-7-9. 1233-7-90, Matt and Ross. We're just thinking about our summer vacation plans what we want to do for fun and this involves gambling in Vegas.

Well, I need to go at least two national parks this year. Two? Yeah. Well, Great Basin is by Vegas. I want to go to either there or Yosemite. I'm thinking about Mount Rainier, which is near Seattle. Those are the ones on my radar. Volcanoes eventually.

And turning your cell phone off, right? Oh, yeah. You don't get service. So it's not a bad thing. Oh, it's great. Depending on where. Well, these days, you do get service just about everywhere. Right.

You can use a satellite. That's what Craig does. Oh, he has a Starlink? Yeah. Or you can connect to satellites and send texts that way. So now all our cell phones, for example, when I went to California, We went to Buckhorn Campground and it was up in the mountains

and there was no service. Yeah, you can connect. You have to, and I did this in Big Bend as well. You connect to the satellite but you gotta kind of like point your phone towards the satellite. Because he went to Palm Springs

for a couple days a couple years back and we had some time off at L. I said, man, I don't mind you going by yourself. You just gotta have, we gotta build to get a hold of you just in case something happens. It's fine.

We're just being, we're just being family. What are you gonna do? Well, I mean, if he's lost. It's not like you're gonna fly to Palm Springs and go save him. I'm talking we were in L. I could have driven. He was going to starve to death by the time you get there.

Those big mountain lions that crush them. See, all these anxieties, Matt, you know, learning in our lives. We were so much anxious about things that are never going to happen or never come to pass. Okay. Now, you want to be prepared. Yes. In case of emergency. That's all we're saying.

But you don't want to be afraid. No. Or not do things because of the remote possibility of an emergency. Donald on 790. Thanks for holding. Good afternoon. Okay. I have a gut feeling.

All right. And I really believe that the Seahawks are going to thoroughly dominate the Patriots and the Super Bowl. Okay. People better enjoy the commercials because that's about that's really, that's all that's really going to be going on. I believe the final score will be 35 Seahawks, 10 Patriots. The reason why, I believe Seattle will totally dominate the time of possession. I believe Seattle will be able to run on them. Almost it will.

And I believe Drake May will throw at least two or three interceptions. I just believe it's going to be a total blowout. Well, Donald, we're all in agreement. We are all on the same page. I want to say, and I didn't say it with a final score, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a double-digit win. I hope it's not. 2717. Yeah.

That seemed about right. and by the way, do we have an advanced weather forecast for San Francisco? It should be fine. Oh, by the way, speaking to that. Yeah, it's 65 and cold. No, 65 and cold can't be in the same sentence. Now, windy, I guess it would chill out. Yeah, well, wind chill, Matt.

All right. Did you... What? I hate referring to stupid takes, but sometimes... I could tell you were going to bring something up that made you mad. You gave out the exasperated sigh. You gave out the... Did you...

So, what did I... What did I... What are you going to ask me if I saw? Mike Florio is pushing... Oh, God. And he is the biggest douche. I mean, we're all douchebags in some regards. He's anti-Go-for-it-on-Fort down, too.

He was pushing the pluses and minuses of putting championship weekends in neutral sites. For the weather issues. What? Well, honestly, that's not... Okay. I would say on its face, that sounds insane. Forecast for Super Bowl Sunday would be 70 for a high end. in San Clara low 49 so that should not be an issue

at all. That's actually good weather. I said 65 and you said I was crazy. But you said 65 and cold. Yeah, because it's cold because it's like that in the summers and it is cold. All right, back at it. He has been talking, he's been pushing that for years. If you get sponsors and a bunch of money behind it, I'm tired

of taking games out of stadiums that should be for home games. I know, I know you're tired of it. But who's always looking for that next big revenue stream? But that's not the point. The revenue stream is already there. When you put the game in a home facility, it's already there.

You tell that to the NFL owners who can sell these. They can make them like semifinal games like a college football playoff semifinals. It's the NFC championship game in the Superdome brought you by X. So you're telling me that the home field advantage playing for the number one seed is good for one game. BS. Sorry, ain't buying it. I'm not saying it's going to happen. Do you agree with it?

I want you, are you telling me you agree with this? I'm saying, I'm not saying I want it to happen. Good. I'm saying the NFL is pushing all the envelopes for revenue streams. So he's been doing that we, we've, how crazy if I had told you 10 years ago, there would be playoff games on streaming services? How crazy would you told me I am? Crazy. You just told me I'm insane.

They're looking to expand. They're maxing out all these TV contracts. They're putting all these games on streaming. streaming services. They have to continue to push the envelope because the owners want, they owners want more, more, more, more. Revenues are $12 billion this year? How do we get to $14 billion?

They're 14. How do we get them to 16? 18. Well, that's going to be one of the potential avenues would be getting these into neutral sites and getting sponsorships about it and calling them semifinal games. It's not crazy. I don't want it. You can't tell these athletes, play your hearts out for 18.

12. Yeah. And you get one game at home. Screw that. Yeah, I understand. And so he also said was, is that you would play the AFC championship game in an NFC neutral site dome stadium. So you would never be in a situation where you would ever, by accident, accident, have home field. Where you're controlling ticket sales, you make more ticket revenue.

It's getting shared by more teams rather than just the four teams or two teams, two home teams. All right, I got news for you. Rams played Seattle. Yes. Neutral site. This year it happened to be in Atlanta. You're giving those two teams one week to go to Atlanta GA for a championship game. You expect 75,000 people to be in Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz dome to watch the Seahawks and the Rams play?

I ain't buying it. We expect it for college football. We want the round of 12 games and then we want the semifinals and then we want the final. and then we want the finals. And then after conference championship games, playoff games at home, then playoff games on the road, and then the final on the road.

We're asking college football fans to go to four games. But have you seen the prices for those games that are dropping week to week to week during the playoffs? They're still bad. They're probably a, I mean, how are they relative to actual? What's the difference between the college football semi-final cost to get in

versus Seahawks or Denver? Probably similar? Well, we don't know because there's no such thing at this point. I'm not saying. I'm not saying I want it to happen. I could be, I could not disagree more than that. You've got to let these teams. And again, look, I was the other one yesterday saying the weather sucked and I hated

the weather played a factor. Honestly, how much does a weather play a factor in the last 10 championship games? My guess is once or twice. Now, you have 20 reasons why this should happen. Should not happen. Yes. I only have one why, not saying it's, should either why it would happen. I have one why it would happen and it's money.

And that's what the NFL owners love more than anything else. So let's say Minnesota is playing Detroit for the NFC championship game. You could have easily played that game in a dome stadium and watched those two places. More stadiums are becoming dorm. You're running into a spot where it's going to be, you're better than half to half, half 50 percent that at least one of the two twos. This year's championship game in the NFC. The Rams or the home or a dome team. It sounds crazy for sure. I just, I really, 10 years will it sound crazy.

And I'm not against making money. Trust me. We're all in it for making money. And some things make sense. And I, as much as I love the fact that it would be great to have a second round of, of CFP playoff games on home sites, I understand the values of the bowls. So I'm kind of used to that. I am used to championship Sunday in the NFC and the NFC, going to the team that has the highest seed lets left.

And you got to play for something. You just do. you'll never convince me and I'm not trying to you're not trying to but it's just it's terrible I was listening on the NBC radio network on my saddle I was like oh I was I wanted to strangle him I've seen there's some value in it you would go to destination cities New Orleans Miami L.A no you go anywhere at the dome or domes but most of those play I mean yeah well you can rotate you can what if those teams end up at home though Sure.

No, no, no, no, no. The NFC would be played in an AFC Dome Stadium and vice versa. You would never have that scenario. Unless it was the Chargers. Charged jets and giants. No, you're playing outdoors. They don't want to play with it. They're right now.

They wouldn't do that. The only place that would be a problem would be in Los Angeles. Yeah. That's fine. You know what? I hope not, but get the... Remember we were talking about years ago? Years ago, we were talking about never be a Super Bowl or anything in London or something.

But I've changed my mind off of that because you know the reason why for that, That is, because I'm not going to go. Money? People, only 72,000 people out of 200 million go to the Super Bowl. Yeah. But why would they do it? Money. Money.

Why would they do this? Money. Get your score sheet out. I'm done underestimating the greed of NFL owners and college football playoff president. I'm putting my name on it. Okay. Well, we can check.

I'm not saying you're going to be wrong. I'm saying I'm done underestimating the greed of these owners. Now, I did tell you we're going to have 18. games. I told you that it was going to happen. I also told you there were going to be one international game per year for every team. I knew that was coming. That was easy. That was a low-hanging fruit on that one. You cannot move championship weekend away from the home sites. You just can't. Because of the game. Let me tell you something. If the Buccaneers were playing for the championship, it would be 81 degrees. Nobody can be complaining about and not having a championship game in Tampa,

Florida. They just wouldn't. It's ridiculous. Oh, no, I'm just mad. Not that we have to worry about that here in Houston. No chance. All right. Do I write this down as just no chance. No way, no how. there will never be a championship game on a neutral site. Let me write this down. Intentionally. Let's see, what's today? 127.

Now, if there's weather issues like a stadium gets damaged or something, I get that. But intentionally choosing a site to say, hey, everybody, the Ford Field in the Detroit is your home for the AFC championship game. I think they have a difficult time with tickets.

I think they really would. Selling them. Well, you open up to two fan bases. But they have to get there. If you live in Las Vegas and the Raiders are going to the NFC championship game, you have to go to Detroit? Who's going to be running? I mean, are 25,000

Raider fans going to run the Detroit on short notice to go to Detroit to watch Chitton? Probably not. Ugh, this is a terrible idea. 1244. I'm just looking at these lists. Some of the stuff I have on here. Zion Williamson will not make it past age 30 in the NBA.

Tom Brady does not see out his Fox contract. You said that in 24? Yep. I still don't. You know the reason why? I think he's getting the super itch and it feels like he's getting more and more scratchy. He loves to be involved in the Raiders. This is the last one I wrote down.

Josh Hader will never record six outs again for the Astros. I feel great about that. And we have the Joe Mixon shot himself in the foot bet. This is so good. Jonathan stay with me on that. I'm still with you. I'm still with you. Nothing.

What did he say? Nothing irrational. nothing irresponsible was the word yes and nick is cereal certainly soft-plated it's funny as when he said it was he said of nothing like a skiboarding you didn't hear bang bang in the background it wasn't nobody's skateboarding with their peace matt come on man no you're not you're not strapped on the hill he was on a club come on dude he was on dance floor cutting a rug and he had a gun on his side of his oh really he's doing he's doing the stay-in-alive dance and he accidentally had his gun in his hand. He was doing

for the remix, remake of Sera Night Live and Joe Mixing with his polyester suit on, got to hit. All right. Saniye fever, that's right. Stop. Believe it or not, coming up in an hour from now, 713-212-5-790, 7-13-212-5-7-90. What do you all want to talk about?

Joe mixing in a polyester suit with a serenite fever remix. Shot himself on the foot and didn't play for the Texans. I need somebody to come out there and be in a private investigator for us. we got to really find out what happened. We could hold Nick Hossage. He would tell us.

713-212-5-790. Doesn't take long for Las Vegas to put out odds for the next year's Super Bowl, which will be 61. Do you remember the first of all you watched, the number? Do you remember by any chance? Mine first one start to finish was Super Bowl 16 between San Francisco and Cincinnati at the Silver Dome. in Pontiac, Michigan. That's when I first became a Joe Montana fan.

I think it was Redskins' Bills. 92. So I was, in January of 92, I was 7. Okay. I was Super Bowl 16, I think it was 83, January of 83, so that puts me at 11. All right. It's a little anecdotal there. Washington Redskins beat the Buffalo Bills, 37.

to 24. In the game, it wasn't even as close as the score would indicate. Is that true? I don't really recall all the details. The bills were getting their ass kicked on a regular. All right. The favorite. Poor bills.

To win the Super Bowl in 2007 Ross would be I don't know. Okay. Hold on. The favorite? The favorite. To win it. To win it all?

It's 9 to 1. It's not even like it's a... Chiefs, I guess. Bills? Buffalo Bills. Okay, bills. All right. Top five.

Tigers 14 to 1. Tigers. Wait, what? Actually, there's a multiple tie at 14 to 1. I was very confused. There's a one, two, three, four-way tie for the number five spot. Patriots, Chiefs, Packers, Lions are 14 to 1. So for every dollar, you get $14 back in theory.

Okay. Number four, the Philadelphia Eagles at 12 to 1. Number three, the Seattle Seahawks at 10 to 1. Number two, the Los Angeles Rams at 10 to 1. The Buffalo Bills 9 to 1 to finish as a Super Bowl champion. So you're saying, where are the Texans in the mix? Where are the Texans in the mix, Matt? Right in the middle like they've been in for just by all their existence.

Can I guess? Please. 25 to 1. 20. Really? Who else in the 21 category? The Bears? The Broncos, and that's it.

The Bengals are right behind him at 22 to 1. Who's in front of them? That would be a little bit of alarming note? The Jacksonville Jaguars, 18 to 1. So there's actually less odds for the Jaguars to make it than it would be for the Texans to win it. Dang. The two long shots, there are four teams that are tied for the biggest long shots.

They would be the Cardinals, the Raiders, the dolphins, and the Jets. I guess we could be Jets fans. Cowboys, by the way, 33 to 1. So the Texans are 20 to 1. The Cowboys are 33 to 1. That's long odds for the all Texas Super Bowl there. But both Seattle and New England had very long odds preseason last year. Yeah.

So do you want to do an uber gut feeling of next year's Super Bowl team? I just write this down just for blanking giggles here. Sure, why not? I will go with in the Super Bowl next year we pick the bills every year they never make it I've also picked the Cowboys

quite a bit over my time too you have actually I get burned regularly on that I'm going to go with Denver versus Chicago Ooh you're going on Yeah you're like you know what

might as well go off the board Yeah because I don't think a year ago at this point we would have said Oh New England Seattle I'll go Denver Chicago and next year's Super Bowl. You know what? I might want a bit still on that Denver.

Because I'm going Niners in FC. Oh, you are? Okay. AFC? Did I go my old standby? Oh. No, I'm not letting you pick Baltimore. I'm sorry.

I just can't let you do it. You've done it way too much. My old standby of the Cowboys, yours are the Baltimore Ravens. Hey, the Ravens were literal odds on favorites to start the season. So it's not like I was crazy. So now they're a long shot. I'm sticking with the ball. You're going to die on that vine, aren't you?

Yeah, who cares? Nobody's going to remember this at a year from now, right? Well, what we remember is, I guess, the question. I don't know. Write it down so we can put it down. And whoever our producer is at the time. Yeah, Jonathan, will you pass all information

to the next producer that's with us? What's the information? The Super Bowl teams we pick for next year. Okay. Let's actually write yours down, Jonathan. I got Denver, Chicago. 27th of Chicago? I went San Francisco, Baltimore.

Oh, wait. Someone said Chicago already, huh? Okay. You can say Chicago if you want to. I don't know. I'm going to go Chargers. Oh, Jesus. Oh, my God.

They got Mike McDangle now. Thank you, Ross. Go Chargers, go. And I'm going to go. 4-9ers. Okay. So we're both on the, we're both Niners, gang. Nogers is not bad at all.

That's all California Super Bowl. Yeah. Where is Super Bowl next year? Do we know? I don't recall. I'm going to say New Orleans. Yeah, I wouldn't in doubt. Las Vegas

All right Final hour The Matt Thomas show Ross Did you figure out What you're doing For believe it or not Today?

Oh, when is that? It's in 50 minutes from now No, I don't I don't I thought was something highly Googlingable You were going to do that

on that Oh, yes I was going to get your I was going to confer with you on that Okay, I'm here to confirm with you Confer

Or confer I can do it in Englewood So Fife Oh, so Fye And then Atlanta after that. Okay. Hey, we've got news on Carl's Cray. We need

to discuss when we return. 1258 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 404 on Sports Talk 790. Ross and I are partaking in Australian open tape-delayed coverage. No, it's live. How can be

live? It must be like 24-hour difference, right? What is the time difference here in Sydney? I'm assuming it's Sydney. I don't know. Is her name Cocoa Graf? Is that who this is? You don't know who Cocoa Golf is?

Golf. Really, Matt? It's 6 a.m. I don't bottle tennis. Maybe this isn't live. It's 6 a.m. Oh, then. Apologize.

Oh, Caroline Wozniakki, whatever? I like her. Rosenyaki? Ooh, I like her. All right. Stop making weird noises. Was she a Tiger Woods, girl? I don't.

Maybe. By the way, shout out to Lindsay Vaughn, making the winner Olympics team at the age of 41. Okay. Oh, yeah. The live stuff comes at 8 p.m. See, I knew I wasn't crazy. You are crazy, but you were right this time.

That doesn't mean you're not crazy. All right. So the word coming out within the last hour, our friend Chandler, Rom. We don't have to rhyme him because he's a friend of the show. Okay. Chandler announcing that he found out that the Astros wanted to get some insurance guidance, some clearances for Carlos Correa to get paid during the WBC if he was a sustain an injury. Carlos Gray could not get those injury assurances, and so thus he will not partake in the World

Baseball Classic for Puerto Rico. And some follow-up reporting from Chandler. He also says Jose Altuve's absence from the WEC is also due to insurance issues. Frankly, to me, Ross, every player, why should the teams, and again, I know this is being insensitive, but business is business. Why should a team pay their athlete off in money if they did not suffer the injury on company time. That seems pretty fundamental to me. Mm-hmm. I get it. Maybe if you wanted to build a good relationship

and take care of your players. For an event that happens once every three years, eh. Again, I understand why people like it, and look, people will get into the fear of it once it starts happening, but there's got to be a lot of it. a better time.

Maybe not. Maybe you know what? Maybe there's not a better time. You should get old timers in there. Like Clayton Kershaw just retired. Now he's pitching for USA. Do slow pitch softball. No.

WBC slow pitch. Probably makes some kind. He's got to be making some kind of money. Oh, nobody's doing anything for blanking giggles anymore. There's got to be a financial. Yeah. Again, this feels to me more internationally driven than U.S. driven? Like, how do you, how does the, how does the Japanese baseball league feel about its players

playing the WBC? Are they worried about it as much as much as we are? I don't know. There's a lot of MLB players from Japan. Yeah. I mean, there's just as many there. You say Kikuchi, Othani. I mean, is the Korean baseball league concerned about the number of players that could get heard of the WBC? I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to ask them. We're not going to ask them. We don't speak their language. We have no firm interpretation. I'm fluent. an anonghaeo that's hello and that's uh goapsamneya thank you that's all i know so basically you spent two weeks there and you learned two words i was with native speakers i was very blessed all right i didn't have to learn anything else oh i learned umukchup chup the cheer gambay that's another

cheer i learned drinking cheers so basically you're down to four phrases now all right that makes Mr. Correa is what I'm going to start calling you. So Correa is out. Altuvae is out and I'm very happy to say to the Astros are out. We don't know any Astros at this point. Do we at all? Not in any list that I'm seeing. Yeah. So, yeah.

Yeah, I'm just looking through a list of confirmed M.LB players and I'm not seeing any Astros that I see. Just go to West Palm Beach. As Joe Espada told us a couple of days ago at the fan fest, He wants his veteran to take it easy. He knows that there's no reason to play them four, five, six games. My guess is maybe Altubi gets 20 swings in a spring training. That's about it. It's all he needs.

Maybe even... Okay, I don't know. Everybody's getting longer in the tooth. It's going to be certainly something to keep an eye on. Altuva is almost 36. Corre is 31. Christian Walker is about to be 35. Is this true?

Jake Myers is almost 30? Yeah. Because I remember doing Astroviour. old minor league updates on the on deck show seven, eight years ago, and Jake Myers' name was in it. Yeah, I'm sure he was raking. Making five-star catches. Got a great flow.

He doesn't realize how much you love him. Yes, he does. I don't know. You're going to get a one-on-one with him? Because last year I had to convince you to come over and talk to him. Again, you misremember. I was being equipment, bitch, and I was having to set up our broadcast, and you said you were going to wait for me and you didn't.

And then by the time I got down there, you were mid-interview. The way you remember it is that I was scared, and I was literally upstairs setting up our equipment. I remember last year... That's pretty funny. I was at Chas McCormick's locker, and I said, Chas, can we grab you for three or four minutes?

And he's like, hey, I'm going to go work, I'll be right back. And I said, I'm not going anywhere, and I didn't go anywhere, and he didn't come back. Yeah, he'd big time to see. And the next day, same thing. Oh, I forgot, I've been right back. Didn't come back. Now I was gone.

Now I got released. Bye, bitch. Yeah, go have some banana pudding. Yeah. Go have some bank Go to Sacramento and hang out with Dusty for some pudding. He's got a model league deal somewhere.

You know, Jake Myers fan club doesn't want to stomp on anybody's graves, but where's all the people that told me that Chas McCormick was better than Jake Myers? We said that. Oh, it was a big debate. You don't remember this? No.

Yes, you do. When Chas McCormick had like 20 home runs and Dusty Baker would, Dusty Baker is not playing Chas McCormick and he's the best player ever. Stop giving him pudding. He's trying to make him fat. Why does every person that cries on this show

sound 85 years old. Well, I didn't make them sound dead old with you. See? I wasn't making that up. You make every sound old than they are. Why can't a 23... Give me my pills. You know what? Change it up. Give me 23-year-old sad girl about that.

Sad girl? Sad girl 23. Has McCormack needs to play every day. I don't know why Dusty won't play him. That's better. Okay. Is that what you want? Jonathan, one more. We've got a jukebox here. What's there time you want him to be.

Oh. I want you to do a southern Texan Latino girl. Oh, yeah. Good. Okay. I don't know why Chas is not out there. His OPS Plus is much better. All right.

Let's go to break. No chance. This is not stopping. No, I'm done. No, I'm done. Hold on. Hold on. I'm done. Baytown Astro fan who's mad that Lance McCullors

is not in the starting rotation that Lance McCuller Jr. Now he needs to be out there. Snap 24 curb balls in a row against the Yankees. I was there. I saw my own two eyes. He's got it. He's got fire. He's got desire. And he said, bury him in the H.

Why isn't he out there? I can do this for the rest of the show. Like mix mix up stereotypes and scenarios. One more. Oh my God. I thought you said this was the last one. No,

I lied. Okay. Let me think about this one. One more. Oh, until the segment's over. This is all you got. This is the very last one.

And I swear you'll never do this again until tomorrow. Until tomorrow. Until tomorrow. Until we have to ask you to do again. Okay. Let's go with diehard female astro fan who doesn't know the team. but is mad that Joe Espada isn't playing her favorite player. Why won't Joe?

Who are we looking for? I don't even know. To play out there. Who's not playing enough? Oh, Maricio DuBahn is so good. And he's so sweet. I follow him on Instagram and you see he pets all these cats. And Joe Espada won't play him every day.

I don't understand. Maricio is so sweet. and he's so nice and he needs to be in the lineup. Cole asked one for one too. Oh my God. Do a San Antonio Grandpa who only

who only remembers the Colt 45s. I would say Hispanic Grandfather. I don't know any of Hispanic Grandfather. I don't know any of Colfathers. No, I'm done. I'll give you a name. Bob Aspermante.

Bob Aspermante? Yeah, Bob Aspermante. You can't do a San Antonio Hispanic Grandpa who only remembers of Colt 45? No, I'm done. Cole, I tried. You won't do it.

Come on. You got in late. You got in late. No, I'm not your performance monkey, even though he was for the last five minutes. From Astro Hole, that's Astro Hole. My niece did a chess when he was playing for the hooks. He cheetah on her. Suck it, wash up.

Wow. Baseball player cheated on their girlfriend. In a minor league city? Stop, you've heard that one before. This is shocking. 713, 212, 5. Corpus Christi talent, like, Oh, it's nice and good.

I bet it's good. I bet it's, well, I don't want to say it because... Move along. I know where you're going. I'm going to fast. Forget what I was going to say. 114 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-790. So on my 4-U tab on Twitter, there is a live feed of the Pittsburgh Steelers Press conference right now, or Mike McCarthy is being introduced as the next coach. Needless to say, Steeler Fan ain't happy. Let me read you some of the comments. First of all,

Mike McCarthy's wearing too small of a suit. What? Yeah. He didn't get a proper fitting suit for the honors? His neck is rather large. Okay. And it's the collar, you know, the... Ooh.

He went with the 18-inch neck and it should have been... 18-5. 19 in that range. Oh my God. Look at him. He looks like Chris Farley and Tommy Boy. There's like white paint or dusting over him. Yeah, it's not good.

Oh, this is like when you try to stuff the sleeping bag in the sack and it spills out. So let me read you. This is not good. This is from the Hurricane Ben, sell the damn team. Followed up by fire that washed up fraud. Oh, no. That good. Next.

McCarthy looks like he's either going to blank his pants or have a heart attack. Art Rooney Hater says, doomed, I say doomed. Next. He looks like he will croak within the ear. This is the guy of the organization hired. I'm sorry. I don't like Brandon, shut up.

Art Runei Hater, F. Art Runey. Art Runei Hater, we are so effed. Rooney Hater. I said F.R. Rooney, you don't say. Let's see here. Oh, man. This is... Boo. Oh, my name is J.T. Mag. Mag. Boo with it by 40-Os. Oh, sell the damn team, Rooney. No one likes his hire. Oh, my God.

There is a giff of an old man with a walking, what do you call it a... What's it called a thing? Walking a Walker. Walker with him. That's not great. sell the team worst organization in the NFL mr. Rooney need to sell me the team for two dollars because how much they worth

the way you're treating this team oh my god hold them tears Mike sheesh I get it man but come on sell the team worst organization NFL in the stream nobody cares Omar Kana's a buffoon didn't even make a move of the trade deadline this year

so we can see how this goes garbage franchise good we are bleeped If he gets any fatter, they'll have to cart into the field. Oh, my God. S-Y-B-A-U. We know that one. Garbage introduces trash.

That's not nice. What an effing joke already? F-U, this is absolute BS. A-holes. Three terrorists. You bitches are lucky there is no dislike button on this app. F-U-R-T. Oh, God.

I didn't really Steeler fan was so nuts. Wow. A vitriol on Steelers' Twitter, I didn't know. Well, I mean, look, Steelers fan base,

that is as intense as it gets. I mean, you think Texans fan wants to talk Texans football 12 months a year. Oh, God. The Steeler fan wants to invent a 13th months to bring it up. That's,

they're not pleased. And I, you know, under the category, if I just don't get it, which I won't be with you on Thursday, for and Art Rune just said

this notion of us trying to find a young, bright mind, that was not, we were looking for the, he said, I just literally heard him say this two minutes ago, we're looking for, we were looking for the best candidate. We weren't worried about a particular type of person. You're telling me, Mike McCarthy was the absolute best candidate among all the coordinators and all the guys that are on the hot list. Wow. He must interview well.

I was surprised when he got the Cowboys job. Let me ask you this. I don't think he was terrible in Dallas. I think Jerry Jones ruins any coach that's there. I'm done with even trying to justify Jerry Jones as a general manager. First year, six and ten, then 12 and 5 for three straight years. Out in the wild card, out in division, out in the wild card, and then seven and ten and fired. I think he was an excellent coach. I've actually interviewed Mike McCarthy before at the Super Bowl many years ago when it was in Phoenix.

I will say, I think he's to the, we've talked kind of about get the players and have a coach that's good enough. You can win. You're going to win with you can win with Mike McCarthy. You're not going to win because of Mike McCarthy. Were they saying that when the Packers won it? Yeah, they had Aaron Rogers in a loaded roster. Although they had a bunch of

they caught fire in a lightning in a bottle, I should say. I think they had however many, they had like a dozen players in the IR and won the Super Bowl. I wonder what he said because I don't know enough about his philosophical approach to football. He must say, look, I know what it takes to start from scratch. and build up.

And prime Aaron Rogers, and they won one Super Bowl. Aaron Rogers, honestly, going to be shortchanged by history because of only having one Super Bowl, I think. Yeah, for multiple time MVP.

For a while, he was up there with the Peyton Mannings and the Brady's like 1A, 1B, 1C. And he's just not going to, he's going to fall short of that because he's going to fall short. What do you put him in the all-time list?

That's hard. See, here's a problem. I'm a Manning Homer for sure, We have 80 years of NFL quarterbacks to discuss. It's too hard to get to, I mean, I think it's too hard to get to a top 10 list. All right, I got Sid Luckman. Okay, stop. Y.A. Tittle?

Uh-huh. Wait, here's a running back. Do you have Norman Van Brockland on this list? He's up there. Where is he? Four. Okay. So that's what, yeah, to your point.

It's very hard to contextualize. He's top 10 all time, easy. Okay, let's do this. As you and I are grown-ass men. Okay. in our age group. Okay, we're both going to put Brady one. Brady, no doubt about it.

Montana, no doubt about it. Peyton Manning, no doubt about it. Okay, then we get, honestly, I'm ready to put Rogers on there now. Breeze or Rogers? Rogers. Woo, whoa. I hear Gordy rushing in here. Gordy's in a meeting.

Rogers are, Brett Farf. Rogers. Rogers or Dan Marino? Marino. I'm putting Marino in the, by the way, in the list. Okay, Rogers or John Elway? Rogers or John Elway?

Okay, by the way. That was the selling it. There's a dog in here. I know. With an upset stomach. I got one for you. There's quarterbacks before our time. How are we not putting Johnny Unitas on the all-time greatest studies? This needs to be up there. I got them in my top five, I think.

All right, you want to put, so we're going to put Rogers in there? Okay. So my can't miss list is Brady, Montana, Manning, Rogers, Marino, United Six. There's a name we miss, an active name. Which conference? AFC. Yeah, I didn't say Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes, we have not said.

Patrick Mahomes or Aaron Rogers. Longevity-wise Rogers. Could Mahomes supplant? surpass him, you absolutely could. Okay. Comfortably top 10, arguably top five.

Okay, so here in my list of six not debatables. Brady, Montana, Manning, Rogers, Marino, Unitas. Why can't we put John Elway in there? Elway's in there.

That's where he's in there. Steve Young? No. I say Aikman, no. No. I mean, we're going back to like Bob Greasy now. I think we're putting Brett Farve in the list

and Drew Brees. Oh, Farvin Brees. Farvin Breeze. Farvin Breeze. Damn, some good quarterback. So that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Brady, Montana, Manning, Rogers, Marino, Unitas, Elway, Farv.

Do you go, Dan Fouts? I don't know. I didn't watch one game. I didn't watch a single game of Dan Fouts. But that San Diego Offrens for about six years was putting up epic numbers, despite the fact it was never epically passing. I actually got a fun one for you, Fran Tarkington. We're looking at career top wins all time. If I'm going from there.

Greatest scrambling quarterback in the history of the NFL. He's 10th and wins all time. time and they had a shorter season. All right, we're stopping this list. I can't do it. It hurts my head. Rothesberger or Rogers? Rogers, not even close. I'm with you. Even though Rothesberger had two Super Bowl wins. Eli Manning, cracky you. Oh, stop.

Hell no. Get him out of here. Shouldn't even be a Hall of Famer. Yeah, I said it. How about Terry Bradshaw? Yeah. Okay. We got right. We got Rogers. How much of a list did you make this? I got nine. Okay. So he's top 10, arguably top five, I think. Okay. There you go. We just gave you a list radio.

We didn't mean to give you a list radio. We're just trying to figure these things out. Some prom, too. Yeah. A couple of bros talking some sports. Yeah, we're at the bar having a couple of pops. Yeah. On a recorded line.

What? No, we're not on a recorded line yet. All right. 1.29 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5. If we're missing anybody in our list of the 10. Brady, Montana, Manning, Rogers,

Marino, Unitas, Elway, Farr, Breeze. Tarkington, you said? A Tarkenden? Bradshaw, Fouts, Young. Unless you're trying to get in like Bart Star territory. Do you want to put Mahomes at number 10 and call it today? Oh, yeah, I think so.

Mottom's the top 10. We're done. Okay. Patrick McHolmes was still plenty left in the tank. Uh-huh. Is a top 10 quarterback of all time. I'm on the all-time QB wins list, by the way. Yes, sir.

Russell Wilson 12th, Matt Stafford 13th. Goodbye. Oh, Matt Staff. Matt Stafford Oh Matt Stafford or But who's he kicking If we're adding Matt Stafford

To the top ten who we're kicking out We're not kicking out any of those guys In that top ten List is hard It is 713-212-5-790 7-13-212-5-790 We also got some bad news

This is non-sports here By the way we're going to add one more name to list My buddy Wade Who's like the associate producer of this show If we're going for individual numbers, if everything about wins, where's Warren Moon in this list? Not top 10.

Sorry. You think he's part of it's because of the gimmicky offense? I mean, it was gimmicky, was running shoot, no tied-in, five receivers. He had some bad years in there, too, right? Well, his early years, 84, 85 would not great. But he got better. He was terrible then.

I'm not even talking about 86, 13 touchdowns, 26 picks, a couple good years. I'm really, I mean, if you, no, okay, now, I'm purely going off of like touchdown interception and stuff like that. And 91, 23 touchdowns, 21 picks. 18 and 12.

93, he was 21 and 21. 21 touchdowns, 21 picks. 94. 18 touchdowns, 19 picks. It was a different time, but it wasn't like he's in the 60s. Let me pull up 1994 in football, touchdown leaders and picks leaders. I mean, he was throwing more picks than just funny. There's Elway, there's Marino.

A young far, I want to say yes. I think so. Who else would be in the mix in terms of big touchdown numbers? 1994. Wouldn't be Rafflesberger. It's too early. Who else would be a big 90-Berney? Bernie Kosar, Vinnie Testiverty, those kind of people like that?

Oh, Troy Aikman, for sure. Yeah, Warren Moon was third in yards. So that's a lot. Yeah. Ninth in touchdowns. And it's giving us dropping. Steve Young, Brett Favre, Dan Marino. Drew Bledso had a bad ratio. I mean, it was about par for the course,

but he wasn't top five-ish for the ratio. Real quick before I go back on the phones, a sad day for those of us that like to fly dark breasts on occasion. Today is the first day of assigned seating. Terrible. Terrible. Private equity. Now you're flying dark breast and I got you a seat, Simon.

Oh, you did? Yeah, I did. Thank you, Matt. So I made a timer to check in on time. I don't have to do that? No, you don't do it now. It's already done. Nice.

They're doing the exact same thing as the rest of the airlines. Absolutely window. Okay, thank God. Yeah. Every of the airline, same thing. If you want to sit in a more room of your seat and close to the front, you got to pay for it. And they're all the bait and switching you on the fairs. Like, oh, this is the fair.

for basic economy. If you don't want to see it and you can only bring on a little knapsack, this is the fair. My poor son, his first travel trip. Well, he flew dark breast to Midland

and then he went to Nashville and I said, what did you guys pay? Because he paid for short notice. Oh, I think it's like 240. I'm like 240 in Nashville short notice. I'm like, son, you're in basic economy.

So he actually bought the better seat to get. And you get bait and switched. Yeah. All right, let's go to Vince in Midtown at 137 on 7. Vince, what's going on? Oh, hey, how are you guys doing? Good.

Thanks for taking my call as well. Hey, just feel quick on your quarterback ratings. I think as far as Rogers is concerned, I think he threw the best ball ever. So, and, you know, just aside from Williams' touchdowns at all, he threw the prettiest ball. Anyways, I called about an NBA rule, and I was hoping Matt you can kind of better by. Oh, Lord, you're going to test me. This could go very poorly. No, no, no, it won't.

So basically, when the guys shooting free throws and the guy, and you've got the guys waiting, you know, for the rebound on the lanes, I see guys with their foot inside the lane, inside the lines a lot of times. I see two or three guys going inside the lane before the ball is being released. And then, and then, that happens all the time, I think.

And then all of a sudden, the ref blows a whistle and says a lane violation. What exactly is happening with that? Honestly, it could be called a hundred times more often than it is today. That's my point. If you enter the lane at the exact same, before the ball is released, that is a lane violation. What I think officials will tell you is you will see multiple players doing it at one time. And I don't think they can say this out loud, but they're probably saying it canceled each other out.

and that's a reason why. But yeah, you'd have to basically slow it down to when the ball was released compared to when that leg crosses into the lane. It should be called more often. I'm stunned that it's not. I understand Vince where you're coming from on that. But I feel like if you called every literal lane violation that took place on free throws, these basketball games would last three hours.

And people do not go to NBA games to watch free throws. And an example, just the other day, I mean, Carri Ethan's whole foot was inside the lane before the free throw was shot, even before the guy was handed the ball. And they didn't call it. And it's like, well, I died. I was just crazy. Anyways, but I appreciate you answering that. Yeah, I see.

Hey, maybe you can talk to one of the officials one day and say, hey, can you clarify this? Sure, I'd be happy to. And some guys, some of the guys would actually want to talk to me about it. Some would not, but most, most of them would. Honestly, the easiest way for you to identify that is if you find a player that has a hitch in his free throw. St. Stephen Adams has a hitch and his free throws. Alperin Shingoon is gathering one. He's now leaning into those free throws. Now you see a notice that, Ross? That's why his percentage is dropping.

I just don't get it. It's something in their subconscious that makes them lean into the shot where you're at the free throw line. It is a literally a set shot. There's no one in your way. There's no hand in your face. There should be nothing but fluidity at the free throw line. But you've got guys with hitches. Janice, Dentecoupo has a terrible hitch in his free throw. It takes 20 seconds to get the free throw up. Yeah.

I mean, obviously these guys work on it. And, I mean, they're among the greatest athletes in the world, and this is their job. So far be it for me to judge, but it's crazy. It's difficult for me to wrap my head around. So you have basically, if you've got a player with a hitch in his free throw, it basically invites more lane violations. But they just don't call it. No.

Don't you agree with me? You can call five-berg game? Yeah, more than that, yeah. It's crazy how much you can call that. But yeah, I would say maybe once a week we get a lane violation. Maybe. It's really one of those things that's, again, maybe if they say simultaneously, because if you call it on both the same players, you're frankly rewarding the free throw shooters,

what you're doing. You just get another chance. Yeah. I don't know. I like when people catch the nuances of the sport. Yes. It means you're watching and paying attention. Yes, and they ask Peach Basket.

Mr. Basketball himself, Matt Thomas. You haven't commented that in a long time, and I've been very pleased. Why not? I don't want you to do it ever. Why not? Peach Basket. It's no. That means you're like Mr. Basketball.

No, it gives the inference that I was back in the 1920s. I didn't say you're out there with Mr. Dr. James' namesmith, getting shots up, set shots. Shooting in Granny style. Yeah, there you go. No, it just means you're a wealth of basketball knowledge. Peach basket. I like it. I don't.

Okay. I've called you worse. I know you have. Imagine the things you call me when I'm not around. I do like we did earlier today. That was one of the funnier things we've done in a while is me giving you a scenario in a certain voice. Yes. So one person has sent in one more.

It's a big diehard fan of the show, Sam, our buddy Sam, on Twitter. Oh, my gosh. We got a minute here. We can kill this. What is that happening here? I swearing out this be the last. one of the day. Oh gosh. Can Ross do an impersonation of a little league coach

phoning in for Joe Espite to be fired because common sense mismanaging, i.e. Bunt, big, bunt, defender guy. All right, so ladies and gentlemen, the final impersonation of the day is little league coach calling in on the 10th inning show. I'll be the host.

Okay. Hold up. Let's go to we're going to go to Montgomery County and Crockett. Crockett. You're on the 10th inning show. Hi, Crockett. Hey, Matt, I appreciate you taking my call. And now, far be it for me to criticize a major league manager, but I myself dabbled in a little baseball as well.

Me and the cut and shoot team have made the regionals twice in the little league in the last five years. So I got a little bit of sand in my pants when it comes to talking about baseball. I just had to ask, now, why can't we just move runners? Why do we just sit there and stand and let these batters flail and fling away and strike out when somebody's stranded on second base? Move the guy over. Now, I can go up there. I can teach him how to bunt. If they need some help with some bunting and they need someone who can do that, I got it.

All right, I got a broomstick technique. It does not fail. So I would like to bring up there, I would like to come up there and instruct the guys on a mud. Do you think you could set that up for me? Thank you, Kroger, for the phone call. Believe it or not, it's up next after Ross, back from his normal world here. He said to tell you about Centrogenic. All right, listen very close.

If you're going to play Believe it or not in just a couple of minutes, it's going to be very quick, very Googlerable, so we're not giving you much time. Either you know it or you don't, you got to give us a quick answer within three seconds or we're knocking you off the air. That seems fair, right, Ross, based on the category of the day? Yes. All right. Oh, Lord, these names. I hate you. They're names, and he likes to screw with me.

Tomorrow on the show, we'll visit with E. Meadoka. Really? Yep. Wow. Rocket Spurs. What else we got tomorrow? We got to shut your bow my ass up on the show tomorrow.

We have more intense Patriots Seahawks breakdown. Huge. Huge breakdown. You're going to go offensive linemen by offensive linemen, I believe. I'll start at the center and go to the guard to the tackle. We'll go from the inside out. Oh, I like that. And then we'll go to all the different times.

Hot ends, go to skill positions, special teams, intangibles, coaching. Position by position, breakdown. Yeah, we'll be like the Greg Cosell of your NFL recap. And then a full Champions League final match day breakdown. All right. I'll let you handle that. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

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