The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets vs Spurs Tonight!! Any Sympathy for BelichIck?

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

Rockets vs Spurs Tonight!! Any Sympathy for BelichIck?

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. A Wednesday edition. Matt Thomas show with Ross. And we are here to entertain the hell out of you. Maybe create a few arguments. Take subtle jabs at each other for the next four hours. Maybe not so subtle. Yeah.

Okay. Should be fun. Got a busy day today. I mean... We do? I got to get like a mega nap in. Oh, after the show. 8.40.

Well, it's a late start. 842 tip. It could be 847. No, that's as late as they said. As they call on the business, that boy, boy sliding. So, yeah. What's the latest? The NBA sends us a timing sheet on national television games.

Okay. And we are tipping off if everything works, according to plan, at 842. It won't. There is a potential for a five-minute slide. They cannot slide any more than that. Okay, only five minutes. So it's 847. Now they've gone, they've done 850 before.

That was in playoff time. They're not going to bump it for this late. Okay. That's good for Cavs leakers on a Thursday. And the reason why the game is being bumped is not because the games give a lot of fouls or a lot of challenges. They extend all the breaks. They do, and they just don't plan enough. Like you go to the guide and it says the game's going to take two hours or whatever.

It never takes two hours. No, well, the game is usually a 7-10 start, which is a normal. First of all, they should do it like basketball. Yeah, let's go. When it says 7-10 first pitch, the pitch is at 7-10. I know. Basketball, they should say 7-10. we're usually out of there at the earliest 930 the latest about 949 45 would you say give or take

yep then wex goes about 36 minutes and then i'm on about 1006 now when clinton does it it's how long actually honestly clinton tries to act like he goes short he doesn't go as short as he thinks he does oh really just saying that's a little inside baseball from the eight team i'm just being impatient because i'm like let's get this rockets wrap started the game ended 30 minutes ago and I want to talk to callers. Yeah. Yeah. I'm selfish.

I do believe post game shows in general. Let's go. And I give Robert and Steve a lot of credit on the Astros. Yes, I do. Now, the only thing I would tell Robert, and I've told us to his face before, because I'm saying, I said in lovingly fashion,

when the Astros lose 11 and nothing, he runs through the 11 runs there giving up. I don't think you want to do that. In the fourth, this happened. Yeah. And the sixth, Aaron Judge, he had his first home run. In the eighth, he had his second home run.

In the ninth, he had his third. Yeah. Yeah, I'm good. Actually, in that case, though, I'm okay sitting through those because I want people to cool off, so I don't have to take 15 calls about how they should bunt more to win the 11-0-n-nothing game. So, yeah, and the other less to say, the NBA doesn't do itself any favors. College basketball is running themselves in a problem. They used to schedule two hours, like you'd have a 10, 12.

But now these games are going like 2, 15, 220. So what they're doing is they're sending people to these. Like, if you're going to watch your, let's say University of Houston was not, F.S1 and the game sort of started two, well, they'll push it to 210. They slide at five minutes and the game stills and they wind up putting it on FS2 or on their FS app. I don't think these networks are doing themselves any favors. They should either do one or two breaks, which they're never going to do. No. Or two, just gap two and a half hours in between so you don't piss off your audience. I don't know why they continue to pretend because, yeah, in 1978, the game took two hours. We're in and out of there. It doesn't happen any. more in this day and age. That's exactly right. You have challenges and you, I mean, as you mentioned, the breaks are longer, the games are different, and then you have challenges in every sport.

Yeah, it's, when I, when I, having forbid, an NBA game gets flagrant review after, heaven forbid the rockets and the pistons are playing. You get five flaget reviews. That was a good game. It was a great game. It's like, come on guys. I mean, when you go to a game and you get to see people throw hands on multiple occasions. Yeah, but all that's a lot of times.

So the timeouts tonight, I want to say like 315, 320, something crazy like that. I remember during the college football season, sometimes when the Cougars would play, they would have the fancy little timeout indicators. With a little, you know, they would carry this little thing around and showed how they would have 3.50 breaks. Three minutes and 50 seconds. Let's go. You got to jam as many insurance companies that are ripping you off into one break as you can. Frankly, what you're doing is the long.

Look, we have to worry about this on our radio side, too. We try not to take super, super long breaks, but we do have people that want to advertise them to show them for that. We love them. And the advertising makes the girl or go around. Oh, we love advertising. But if you had these mega breaks, you have a chance of somebody flipping the channel,

unless you're a diehard team of a particular, you know. They probably have some kind of science to back up. Oh, I'm sure they. We do too. Yes, we do. So, you know, everything is measured, and there are analytics to it. Those analytics are very important because that doesn't directly impact business.

We appreciate you. Keeping it right here on Sports Talk 7. We don't want, there's, I mean, let me tell you, let's be brutally honest. The rest of the competition out there sucks. Oh, God. It's Uber boring, uninteresting. Yes. Droning on and on.

At least you're going to get a little bit of everything with us. Let's see. We're more knowledgeable, funnier, and more entertaining. That's what four hours should be in the middle of the day. Let's go. We ain't breaking down, you know, second tier defensive linemen. No. Or investigating what free agent can say on a one-year deal.

Into the minutiae. Yeah. All right. So Rockets and Spurs tonight. It'll be matchup number three of four. Huge. The Rockets Spurs just played what a week in a change ago.

Uh-huh. Are the Spurs fans caravading down here again? They had a pretty decent section, did they not? They had a bunch at the... I mean, what do you call it? Behind the basket? Not in-zone. Yeah, in-zone seats.

Yeah, that's what I call them, yeah. Okay. I was asking the X-Bet. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what they call them. It feels like a lot. Those would be baseline seats. Upper baseline.

A lot of people in the In-Zone, Spurs fans. And they're cheering, Ola, O'Leo, during free throws. Like, they were loud. Let me tell you, that's, that's nothing compared to San Antonio. And then they were home to say. They ole, ole, ole,

o'le the whole time? They olea, oh, lay, thousands of people, oleo, oh, really? Yes. Okay. I'll say it because you can. It's a bunch of Mexicans.

That's my people. They like basketball. San Antonio Spurs basketball. Yes, they do. 1001. I was in that building. All right. Have you been to,

Have you been to AT&T? A lot of brown guys with wispy mustachees in that building. I was there. Frostbanks Center. Have you been there for a game? I have not. Well, it's the same building? Same building.

It's like four different names. At least AT&T. Way, like Yao Ming was playing. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And this was when the Rocket, the Spurs only had, I don't know, two or three championships. So I was talking a lot of, I was a young, a little more rabble-rouser. I also went into the building with a,

a Coke bottle with whiskey in it. And the Rockets pulled out the wind. And you felt really good. I was starting a Houston Rockets chant with my fellow Rockets fans. My favorite of all time is we had a listener trip to San Antonio in 1995 for the Western Conference Finals. We took five buses of listeners. Five buses. So that's about 200 people, give or take.

Like school buses? No, like charter buses. Prison buses? No, not prison. Charter, like regular air conditioning charter buses. All right. I'll let you see you all the time, Ross. I got you.

Okay. So we had like 200 people go, and we got into the upper deck at the Alamo Dome for the night that David Robinson got his MVP award. And then Elijah won school him for two and a half hours. Torched them. It was so much fun. We had such a good time. That sounds amazing. Yeah.

You can really do that if you want. If you want to do a day trip to San Antonio, because here's a thing. The arena, the Frost Bank Center where the Spurs play is actually on the east. east end of San Antonio, so you're not going all the way into the city. You're actually going a little bit shy of it. Yeah, I've bused to San Antonio. It's not bad. No, you should, you could guess why. It rhymes with

Oralamo roll. Well, that's, don't they have like a special colored seat with just your name on it? Right, that's rude. Like, there's like 57,000 seats in the Alamo dome and they're all blue and there's one green one. Yes, I've been to Alamo. A lot of Alamo Royale. Okay, yes, I've been a lot of Alamo bowls. This place reserved for

for Ross. He's here every year. They haven't been in years, mostly because of the conference tax. I'm going to say, you're not in that affiliation anymore. So it is a late night. Three of us are going to get a little chow after the show today. And I'll still have a chance to go back into my car and take a massive, massive nap. Oh, you're going to need a nap after. Oh, my God.

You got that right. All right. How do you reach the show today? I know a lot of you are asking. Hey, we got something I got to tell Matt and wrong. Yes. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90.

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On my Instagram. Every time I land in a city, oh wow. I'm going to put the lights of that city and I'll put a song that I think matches either the tenor or the city or the state or the mood I'm in. Okay. But you're going to skip Sacramento.

Well, I'm not going to Sacramento anymore this year. Now, tonight I'll be landing in Atlanta. So if you are on your Instagram Oh, that's easy. At like 3 o'clock in a morning, I will be sending you a video at about 3 a.m. with the city of Atlanta.

Okay. I would go with Wheels of Steel by Outcast. You could go Georgia Ray Charles. Welcome to Atlanta. Ludacris? I don't know that song. Okay. I know, welcome to my house.

What? Welcome to my house. Okay. Oh, I don't you should do because you like Rick Flair. Rick Flair drip by the Migos. Really? Yeah.

You don't think Ray Charles would have been classier and have been a better way to... No, I think it doesn't get any classier than Rick Flair drip. Yeah. Jonathan knows them time, I don't think. I might be... Actually, I was going to say, is that unc stuff?

Because you're young. No, no, no, no. Okay, good. It is, though, kind of, right. That's fine. As is, by the way, fresh dew. At SportsMT. What are the kids call it?

What do the kids call it? You call it? There's a cut. It's a cut. You're telling me today's kids You're not reinvent a verb for using a going to get a haircut. There's got to be something else. I don't know.

It looks like you got a LinkedIn photo shoot today or something, man. Looking nice. I was thinking about Matt this morning. I went outside. I went outside out there, I had this haircut. And there was so much breeze on my head. I don't know how he does it. No scar for nothing.

I was like, man. Wow. He's catching a stray with no scar for nothing. I'm being so serious too. I was like, dude. We got to get you a scarf when you go to these northern. I see why you get cold, man. It's looking fresh.

By the way, I looked in the mirror this morning. I don't do a lot of this because, I mean, why? Oh, nobody is buying that. I'm getting more gray in my beer than I ever had before. It makes me sad. It's okay. I'm grayer than you are. I know you are.

But that's maybe because of your family situation, right? I mean, what have you done? Wait, put my business out there, man. How much stress you had in your life to be this gray at your young age? All right. Things I never thought I would say Are we as a country Sports fans

sympathetic towards Bill Belichick? We'll discuss that next 1012 on Sports Talk 790. 1018 on Matt Thomas show at Ross. I don't hear Rick Flurriette. Where's the drip? He's in the music video. How old is his song?

I don't know, maybe eight years or something? I've interviewed I don't think I've ever interviewed Rick on the radio I've met Rick before I have a picture with him before Oh my God, I'm getting old This is from 2017 Oh you're not getting old

That was only nine years ago Oh yeah 20 to 9 Yeah it feels like it was two or three I thought I was overestimating when I said seven Or eight I wish you loved wrestling like I loved wrestling When I was a kid Because every Saturday 9 on TBS

It was World Championship wrestling With the NWA W wrestlers I watched it a little. My God, it was so good. The, what they call promos, meaning they go in front of the microphone, and they just yell and scream at each other. It was just, I, the promos actually I was good with.

Like, because when I was, and when I was like a teenager, it was Prime, Steele and Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, which I was a fan of too, but I was getting a little older, so I didn't have a chance to watch it. Like when I was watching Rick Flair and the Four Horseman back in the 80s, I was religiously watching every Saturday. I couldn't do that as a younger adult. And I used to play the wrestling video game with my cousin Rico on the N64,

but I didn't really get into it. I watched it and I'm like, it's, I'm sorry. Go ahead. You've said it for years. It's just so forced and the acting is so bad. Well, I mean, when I was 13, it didn't matter to me. Well, it mattered to me, Matt. And now as an adult, I listen to the podcast because these guys are not.

now in their 60s and 70s, and they talk about the stuff they did when they were back when they were competing. And it's very fascinating to me. It's mostly steroids and cocaine. Well, I mean, you're not completely wrong. A lot of steroids, cocaine, and baby oil. And partying. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Seeing who can drink

the most beers? That Rick Flair 30 for 30 was incredible. It was incredible. Like, I respect the guys in what they put their bodies through. I just didn't find entertaining. Yeah. I just did. I just, I found it fascinating. I believed it. Not until I got an until I was a later adult and realizing it was fake.

But as a kid, I didn't, I knew, I didn't think it was fake. And nobody ever talked to me about it being fake. So, all right. Yeah, my group, maybe it was the internet age. That's all we did talk about. Correct. That's right. That's right.

It's different time. It was, it was. All right. So yesterday, they have a committee where you can vote people into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. and I guess it takes what 41 or 40 to get in? I don't know. There's so many different committees and subcommittees.

40 out of 50 votes, I believe. 40 out of 50. And Bill Belichick was up for enshriment into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And he did not get in, not getting the prerequisite 50 votes. Now, there is somebody by the name of Bill polling,

a former Patriot, I mean a former Indianapolis cult executive, a former Buffalo Bill's executive, the way, a long-time rival of the New England Patriots, that apparently Bill Pullian has been accused of leading the brigade through the back channels of saying, hey, Bill Belichick is a Hall of Fame coach, but we need to punish him for SpyGate. And the easiest way to punish him to make it an everlasting ending to the Bill Belichick pro football coaching career is to make him sit a wait a year before he gets in the pro football.

of Fame. Then you have on top of that, you've got some crusty media who don't like the way that Bill Belichick treated him for all those years as a member of the meeting. They're like, you know what? We're going to get you back too. So, I'd like to say, Rossi, I'm completely

surprised that he didn't get in on the first time. But I'm not totally surprised. When I first heard about it, I was shocked. But then the context you just provided, I read and I said, oh, it makes sense.

And honestly, I'm going to have an unpopular opinion. I don't have a big problem with it. Damn it. Oh, no. Write it down. Ross and Matt agree. Here's the reality. No if,

ands or buts. Bill Belichick should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Six Super Bowls, okay? Agreed. So, eight, when does it count coordinators as a coordinator? So his resume is not. going to change. Nope. We do this every time with baseball hall of hammers. Either you're good enough

to get in or you don't get in. Yeah. And this could very well be impactful to the Astros down the road. I mean, Jose Altova, guilty by association, could find himself in this exact same situation. Well, mastermind Carl's Beltran is in, so hopefully we're fine. I'm just

not shocked. Now, what I do it? No. But I know who the types of people are that have these votes. they're crusty, they're old, they're holier than thou, they're holding grudges, holding grudges, and I don't think under any circumstance that Bill Belichick did this for a prolonged period of time.

But there was one season in which he didn't try to steal the defensive signals for the New York Jets. that was a concerted effort to try to anticipate what the other team was calling. So he's going to get in next year. But you add the spy gate, you add the fact that he was as cantankerous and as unapproachable and frankly rude to people that have the votes in their hand. Again, I'm going to, maybe I'm caught, I have a cop out on this, but I'm not. totally surprised by this at all. I'm not totally surprised and I'm fine with it.

If these people within the NFL fraternity, because Spygate was a major scandal that we kind of just sweep against under the rug because they continued to win afterwards. There was a long period after those Patriots didn't win it all, the 2017 undefeated Patriots where it took them

several years to get back into the Super Bowl and win one. People forget, like narratives around that time where Bill Belich and Tom Brady ever win again, or was this only because of spy gate. Right. They needed deflate gate shortly after that. The flake gate happened as well. Yeah.

I mean, how long was he cheating and doing these things before getting caught with spy gate? We never know the length of time of this. We don't know. There was no report. There was no investigation. I mean, except for the fact that they did catch him. Yeah. And they gave Belichick a fine.

So if you want to keep him out for a year because of a major scandal, I'm okay with it. But here's where, here's why I'm I'm in a conundrum on this, gang. And maybe y'all can help us out here on the show with calling it if you'd like. Everybody on social media is losing their minds over this. Yes.

And so I'm trying to think maybe I'm in the wrong on this. Well, see, because I was, I wasn't outraged, but I was shocked when I first read it because I couldn't wrap my, that was going to be like, and I just don't get it. Yeah. But then, like you said, I read, oh, it's like a light bulb went on. Oh, SpyGate. That makes sense. Because here's the thing. As a diehard of an Astro fan as I am,

I'm still in horror over what the Astros did in 2017. But I'm also, and I guess I'm trying not to say, well, it's what your team, you've got different rules. I want to be that. I'm saying the Astros cheated. But I'm also saying that a lot of other teams got cheated too. And that the Astros had somebody inside the, in the room. They had a mole.

They had somebody that was squirman. So other teams were doing it. It doesn't make it right, but other teams were doing it. The Astros just happened to be the first ones to get caught. And then secondly, it was only a handful of people, and it wasn't the manager trying to create this. It was two or three guys or four. We don't know the exact number.

But there were not everybody that was a participant in the 2017 Astros was partaking in this. Jose LTV would be number one. And he's been, obviously, the guy that's been feeling it more. But when you have a coach who orchestrates a plan to try to steal the signals of another team. If you are a team and you know what's coming, that's going to be 80% of the battle in the NFL. You set your defense that way.

You set your offense that way. You know where the pass is being thrown. You know where the play call is. That is strictly. That's stealing. That's intelligence stealing, is what that is. That is integral to the plays of an NFL game. What is the defense call?

What is the play call on offense? that's pretty damn serious. So again, maybe somebody needs to walk me through this because again, he is a Hall of Fame coach. He will get in next year. But I'm trying to go, man, what's wrong with me?

Because I'm thinking, you know what? You did do something very serious. You're not going to not get in. You are not considered the great, you are still considered the greatest coach of all time, but you've got a blumish on there. And sometimes you've got to pay a year.

I mean, if this was a situation where he wasn't getting in at all, than I would have a much bigger problem with this. But he's going to get in next year because he has become a sympathetic figure in 2026. And I don't know how in the world that Bill Belichick could ever be sympathetic to anybody. But he is. You got everybody in their mother tweeting about this. You know LeBron James tweeting about this. Really?

Yes. That's funny. Well, he's not going to get in. He's going to pay his penance. And he's going to get in in in 10 years we're not even going to talk about this. That's another thing, too. Like, this is just a one year. Yeah.

It's honestly, it's a slap on the wrist. But, I mean, the outrage, oh, Bill, now Bill Polling doesn't do himself any favors because he said yesterday or the last 24 hours, he doesn't remember not voting for Bill Belichick. Yeah, that's BS. Which is, that's a lie too. It, I was just like, you know what? I don't remember who I voted for. For the Hall of Fame. If you're allowing media to determine this.

this is not right, but it's just the way things have gone in all sports. If you're an a hole in the media and they get to hold a Trump card in front of you, like President Trump, a Trump card in general, they may use it sometimes. And I think you add SpyGate and you add media, frankly, rudeness. Comboa says you probably sit down here. And so he will. Also, I believe it's a situation where there was, you could only vote for, there was like five guys who were up for it and you can only vote for three.

Kind of like in Major League Baseball. Which is ridiculous too. I mean, you know, if a guy's eligible, you shouldn't have a minimum or maximum a lot in there. But that's a different issue. So I'll just say, again, I don't know how much this resonates for Houston sports fans listening to our show right now, especially you 10 o'clockers. But tell me, I mean, if I'm wrong, please explain it to me. Because it's, he's going to get in next year. He's going to get in next year.

but you're telling me that 10 A-holes out there that have votes are going to use this as a grudge? I'm not surprised. 713-212-5-790 if you want to reach our show today. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-79. We've got the rockets coming in tonight to take on the San Antonio Spurs. We'll have E-Man Doca join us sitting at 1.30 this afternoon. So look forward to having him on the show today.

We have shut your bum-ass up in one hour from now, Rossi. and we have some economic turmoil with a Big Ten school. Have you seen the numbers coming out of Rutgers University? Not necessarily a... No, I didn't audit Rutgers this year. Well, somebody did, and it ain't pretty. We'll tell you more about that as a morning progressive. 713-212-5-790.

We have two bits of breaking news, one on the local level and one on the national level. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. 7-13-212-5-790. Sounder, please. That's one. That's what we'll stay with. Okay. The Texans,

actually D'Miko Ryan's, has fired a coach. D'Miko Ryans has fired a coach. D'Miko Ryans has fired a coach. Offensive line coach, Cole Popovich. No, he is here. Okay.

I don't know. According to Jonathan, Alexander the Houston Chronicle. The Texans have fired tight-ins coach Jake Morland. It would be, yeah, it'd have been two or three if you'd have said if it was Nick Cayley, so I knew it wasn't him. If you would have said, Matt,

the Texans fired Jake Morland. My first response would have been, who was Jake Morland? Okay. I would have thought of maybe a trainer, water boy. Let's curse and discuss who wants to get down on this. Jake Morland, let's go. How did the Texas fire Jake Morland? 713-212-5-790.

Coffee kicked in, sorry. Are you okay? I'm fine. You don't want to cuss and discuss this? Why are they fired Jake Morland? What are you doing wrong? Dallas, what's on Dallas? What's his name?

Tight end. Dalton? Dalton Shultz. I was going to Dallas Shultz. Dalton Shultz been great. Incredible. And maybe they're unhappy with the development of Cade Stover. Brevin Jordan.

Well, they got hurt. That's not, Jake Morland's fault. Is that the guy's name, Jake Morland? Yeah, sure, why not? We should call him. You want to call him? You want to get some dirt? You know what we had to do?

We had to try to get him on Facebook. He's not going to burn any bridge. You're going to talk to him on Facebook? Yeah, why not? About politics? No. That's what you talk about on Facebook. I don't talk politics on Facebook.

Some people do. We don't know each other, but sorry, man, about losing your job. You were robbed. We're going to call him the show and give us some more dirt. Okay. Well, you are the Texans insider. You don't already have contact info? All right, maybe I do.

Oh, here we go. So, look, we're not involved in the Internet. working to the Texans organization, but that was that was not on my bingo car, the Jake Morland firing. Again, I didn't have Jake Morlin on my bingo car when I woke up this morning. No, I didn't know he exists. I mean, I guess. I knew there was a tight end coach. I didn't know what his name was. His titant could have been Stanley Jablowski and would have been fine, you know. Yeah. I'm wishing he and Stanley the best. Well, Stanley's, future endeavors. Maybe he's a assistant tie. Maybe my guess is there's a philosophical difference, clearly. Who knows? With what?

Tide in, block and run your routes. Hey, by the way, your position group has the number two receiver on the team. Go. Dalton Schultz has been good. Second half of the season. Maybe Dalton Shultz didn't like him. Oh, really? Dalton's calling the shots?

He said, get his ass out of here. You don't think Josh Allen had an intimate role in deciding that Joe Brady was going to coach the Buffalo Bills? Stop. Well, he shouldn't have had a big say, number one. He had a huge saying. Number two, Dalton Schultz had had very little to any say on any firing or hiring of coaches. Oh, no, no. Dalton, I got, the insider knows.

Okay. Dalton Schultz goes in the room, slammed the door, and says, I want, he pounds the desk. I want Jake Morland out as my position's coach. I want Jake Morland out of here. Yeah.

Just like when JJ Watt, went and said get Bill O'Brien to hell out of Houston. There was a player revolt there. Insider had it. Wait for everybody else. Okay, Matt. All right. Now that that's not going to carry the show.

Would you like the national bit of news headlines? Yes. The Milwaukee Bucks are now officially entertaining offers to trade Janice Adentigupo out of Milwaukee. Hmm. Hmm. Where is he going to end up? I've said this over and over again. Yes.

I think he goes east. Okay. If he goes west. it could be San Antonio or Golden State but I really believe it in the day he's going east Golden State for the

for the reboot makes sense San Antonio because you got a lot of trade chips a lot of assets can we can we just keep him out of the West there needs to be some kind of embargo set up

how's that going to work I want you to explain whenby ended up in the West LeBron got traded to the west. Luca Donchich got traded from west to west. No. No. Why don't he go to like to Charlotte? Why can't anybody go to the east? You know why?

You know what? Why can't he go to the Orlando Magic? Because think about this. If you're a team in the east, you make this move, you skyrocket. And if you're a contender, you go from contender to dominant leader in the clubhouse. Your point right there just made me think that he's going to stay in the east. Somebody's going to overpay in the east. That's my gut feeling right now that I just

formulated. Okay, I accept that. Because, as you said, the east, it's not wide open. I mean, the pistons are looking really good. But the number two team is the Celtics with Jason Tatum out with a torn Achilles. Don't forget about the Knicks. They've always been rumored to have him associated with Janus. I mean, they're good. Yeah, with Janus, they would be

incredible. The number two-seeded Celtics would be the number five seed in the West. No, you know what? We do this every year. I know. the West is so tough. Keep him out of the West. You think Darryl Maury could make a move? Yes. Yeah, it would be a really great asset for us as a defensive player and scoring 30 points per game.

I think Darrell could do it. Would you trade VJ. Edgecom for him? Ooh. Probably a top three rookie of the year candidate. The year candidate. Yeah. You know, Daryl likes star hunting. We've seen that firsthand many years in Houston.

And Philadelphia is in the playoffs, but they'd be a low 6, 7, 8, somewhere in that range. That bumps them up high. The question is that if he goes anywhere, does that team need some sort of assurance in a couple of years when Yonis becomes a free agent that he's going to stay in that city? Or does it really even matter, depending on what you have to give up in return to get him? It's going to cost a haul. I mean, how many first round picks was Desmond Bain? I believe that Orlando doesn't have a first round pick until I have grandchildren.

Well, that could happen any time. That's true. I'll rephrase, 2001. Oh, Grandpa Thomas. I like that. Oh, God, no. Let's relax in a little bit. You brought it up. I know I did. Yeah, for Desmond Bain to the magic,

four first round picks and Contavius Collwell of Pope and Cole Anthony KCP's just a throwing though Four first round picks for Desmond Bain What's the maximum amount of first round picks Is there, this got to be a max? Well, I believe you cannot do them over consecutive years

There's got to be a little bit gap in between, I think, something like that Um I, how do you want to play this? This is Janus. This is a, in this term is used way too much, but he's a generational player. He is.

I mean, he's two-time MVP. How many, there's probably like 10 two-time MVP's in NBA history or so. I can go look it up. Seven years, you cannot trade a first round pick more than seven years into the future. But they can do it consecutively if you want to. They can circumvent this via swaps and protections or by acquiring extra picks. Okay. Just for my own mental health, Rossi,

let's keep him in the Eastern Conference. That's all I would have to say. Please. I mean, the West is ridiculous as it is. Gosh. Yeah. But again, San Antonio could do it. San Antonio has picks and they have players.

Actually, the Rockets have picks, but they also have high, I just don't, there's too many protectables. 15 players ever in the history of the NBA have won multiple MVP's. Yannis is one of them. But it doesn't bother that Yannis can't shoot free throws. I guess it didn't bother when Shaq was playing. I get it. I mean, it bothers me, but it doesn't bother me enough to say,

I can't get that guy who's top three in the defensive player of the year every year, dropping 30 and 10 and 10. What's he shooting from three-point range this year? Probably like 23% or something. But he's also taking a lot fewer. I was surprised how few three-point shots. I mean, he's giving that up as part of his game. Yeah.

He's also hurt right now, right? I don't know. I think he's hurt. I think John Moran's hurt. We knew this was coming when he booted his own fans, right? Didn't we predict this? Yeah. When you do a big boo and two thumbs down to your own fans?

Might be here on your way out. Hey, Milwaukee, you suck. What did you say, Janice? You heard me. He is shooting 39.5% from 3% this year, but he's only taking 1.3. I was going to say, that's a good percentage, but it's just not. Career 28.6. What's his free throw percentage so far?

65.8 this year. Career 69. He is a wonderful, he's the best. downhill player I've seen in the NBA in the last 15 years. But boy, you get him the free thalline and you got a puncher's chance. You just do. He's been all NBA first team seven years in a row. How old is he? Seven years in a row. He's 31 or 30? 31. He just turned 31. So he's got at least probably three or four years of prime Yonnas left in him.

Probably. Now he hadn't played over, he's only played 70 games, more than 70 games once in the last seven years. But you know what? You're not worried about that. You're worried about him playing 60 regular season games and playing 20 playoff games if you're going to get him. You're going, you know, we'll rest him. Make sure he gets, he's prepared for a long April, May, and June stretch. His MVP finishes the last seven years.

11343343. He's the big city wings of the NBA. Oh. An MVP. I see where you're going with this. Thank you very much. More breaking news on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is it.

Cleveland Browns hiring Todd Monkin as their head coach. You're like, who the hell's Todd Monkin? You know Todd Monkin? He was the Ravens offensive coordinator. Oh, your favorite team. Losing its key offensive coach. He was already gone. He was supposed to be on John Harbaugh's staff with the Giants.

Yeah. And now John Harbaugh's got to be. looking for an OC. And if I'm Todd Monkin, I probably would just rent in Cleveland. He's going to be 60 years old. Or no, I guess he's 59 now. Never been a head coach anywhere? I can recall. So it was like the David Collier Cleveland. It seemed like everybody, I don't know what the Cleveland Browns are doing there, but it seemed like they were scaring everyone off. Yeah, they have a GM who is very into analytics. And as you know, Matt, sometimes analytics nerds aren't really good on the personal side. Oh, you think? So apparently, I mean, the reports had been like that Mike McDaniel withdrew. There were some other guys that withdrew because they were making them fill out some kind of

questionnaire. Like, I've never done this before. What are you asking me for? Yeah, like, hey, I've been coaching for 30 years. I don't need to fill out your little questionnaire. Andrew Barry. Oh, I do believe that just like anything, you can, if you, if you, if you one of those I'm seeing eye guys, you're going to be behind the curve. But I think if you are super analytical, you're also going to not have a feel for a franchise.

I think part of that's why Darrell Morey's not had the run is because he has been so analytically driven with everything. And I don't think he, not necessarily reading the room, but analytics cannot give you chemistry. Cannot give you the vibe of what a locker room or

a culture is like. And I think the best coaches in the world can mix them both. I am no longer the belief that the seeing-eye guy knows it all. And I've never been a belief of, well, analytics guys never tell the truth. So you got to find a good mix. Of course, and anything. But I think also in football, just because of the nature of the sport, how violence, I mean, violent and testosterone fueled.

And I mean, if I say, if I say which major American sport has the most meatheads on the team, we're going football. Yeah. So you got to get, you got to motivate the guys properly. You have to lay things out. You're not going to have a, I mean, not a lot of Rhodes Scholars. So let me tell you. I don't know how analytics is used in football as much as I think I know what it is in baseball and basketball. For instance, in basketball, I can give you how a player is reacting after he's played a certain number of minutes.

I can watch his steps. I can take a look at where he's taking his shot selection. I can tell at certain points of the game where he's more efficient than he is at other parts of the game. In baseball, analytics is so crucial to telling you where the ball is going to be hit next or the percentages of placing your infielders, placing your outfielders, situational for individual players.

Football to me, I'm sure, has it because every team does have an analytical department. But I would think of the three major sports that, to me, analytics would be not nearly as important in football as it is either two. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm just throwing them. I think it's definitely, of course, decision-making as far as fort-down decision-making and go and kick and that type of stuff. As you said, player performance, tracking players, they're seeing when guys are getting tired and all that stuff and seeing, you know, who needs to come out for a couple of snaps or whatever.

As far as workloads. But after that, yeah, I don't know. I don't know how much is Nick Cayley using or even any play caller. Andy Reid, when he's drawing up plays, what is he using? I mean, we have basic analytics that if you run on, you know, if you run on first down, if you'd play action, success rate, and that type of stuff. So I guess that does kind of factor in. Yeah, I'm sure this all roll for it.

But I just yards per play, average yards per tent, all that other stuff, like adjusted yards per attempt. There's a lot of analytics in football. I think if you're a coach, if you don't use it and it's not provided to you, you're doing yourself a disservice. But I think sometimes the analytical nerds, and I'm sorry, that's a term that's put together in the same. You're calling people nerds and you're being rude. It's fine. Why can't they should be analytics experts?

No, they're analytic nerds. Why don't have to be nerds? Because they generally are. They're not the middleers at a party. They're what? They're nerds. But that's what they're analytic nerds are needed. Analytic nerds are running every major organization.

Yeah. And same baseball. Well, I mean, Cleveland Browns have a bunch of analytical nerds. They won six games in the league. last three years. Well, they've got a lot of injuries, Matt. Oh, is that what it is? Okay. How about this? Analysis, this city

sucks. They swung for the show the weather sucks. That was a bad idea. The analytics probably said sign him and trade for three first round draft picks. I don't know. I'm not as anti-analytics. I may sound like I'm just saying that you are. No, no, no, that's not fair to call them nerds. Okay. And dorks. Remember, pro football focus. There's experts.

Poonhounds. Yeah, exactly. They're full of analytics over there. Absolutely. Yeah. What's your problem? There's exceptions to every role, Ross. They just is. Yeah, they call the office the chicken ranch. They do not call it that. They're not having toga parties when the teams on the road. Like, I know the Rockets Analytic Department,

they're not having a, they're not busting kegs while we're out of town tonight. They're not playing, they're not bringing a bunch of hot girls over the practice facility and playing pick up basketball at 3 o'clock in the morning when we're flying to Atlanta. Why not? I mean, I guess they could. Yeah.

That'd be actually pretty crazy, wouldn't it? Hey, the team's out of town. Let's bring the girls over. And analytic guys like, what is it? What is it, girl? All right. Second hour of the show coming up in about matter moments. Hey, we've got some news that probably isn't great if you're a fan of Rutgers University.

And I don't know what to do with it except just... I'm not a big fan. So you're saying Tony Soprano wouldn't be very happy. Is he the most famous person attached to a school? Most innocent fictional character, yes. Just like Rocky was in Philadelphia. Sure, why not? All right.

Shut your bum ass up. It's coming up at a half an hour. E. May Adoka at 130 plus Ross, believe it or not today at 150. What is today's topic? I don't know. Todd Munkin. Sure, why not?

That doesn't sound particularly entertaining. It's Munkin time. You understand people that call and play the game want to be entertained by the questions? You think when he enters a room, he says it's Munkin time? I don't believe he does. No. I think he's 59 years old going, who are these anal-nicked nerds in this room with me? I guess I'll have to listen to it.

He's getting along with him. He's signed that contract. Let's talk to folks about it's energetic. the years old. How's his energy? This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I got a poll question up on the official Twitter account of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. That's like my account. It's not Ross.

It's not at Sports MT. That's fine. The question is, are you mad Belichick is getting snubbed this year? Three options are yes. He deserves to wait one year or I don't really care. And the votes are at 54%. I don't really care. Wow. Because again, if we were in Boston, it would be topic number one for days and days and days.

Yeah. Frankly, our audience is probably curious and more about the 25-year-old Husseys. Let's go to Doug in Dorchester. Dorchester, Mass. Doug, what do you think about this Belichick thing? Now, I could be spending quite a bit of time up there in the next four years. Am I going to come back with an accent? I don't think so.

That'd be funny. I don't know how I remember when you first started here, Matt. That's ridiculous, you know. That is not even true. That is not... Oh, I love the Houston Oilers. That's really pretty good. I don't think people are catching on what you're talking about,

but I'm going to give you credit for that. Sometimes I just try to entertain myself or you. Or Jonathan. Jonathan, you out there today? Yeah, he's chilling. No, he keeps taking selfies with this new do, man. I've been taking selfies all show. Are you working on your Snapchat over there?

What do you got going on over there? See, those that don't know, we can't directly see Jonathan. We only see him through a television, through a camera. Oh, now it froze. My bad. I'm here, y'all. Oh, there he is. So I'm going to make sure.

Are you still vested with us? You still don't think about leaving us? Are you anytime soon? You still good for lunch at 2 o'clock? I'm good. Let's get it. I'm going to get it right now. All right.

So I'm going to make sure. Because we usually sense this with propusers with us about 9-10 months. Somebody starts cleaning themselves up, get the photo shoot. He asked me to edit his resume. Yeah. Come on now. That's what chat, GPT. Can I do something, man?

You got to do something here? Yeah. We appreciate you. We're trying. We're trying to get some more money. Put Matt down as a reference. Yeah. 713, 2125.790.

So the main headlines today, we've got Janus, potentially being traded from Milwaukee, that Milwaukee is listed in the offers. We have that Bill Belichick is not getting in to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And we have the Houston Rockets against the San Antonio Spurs. Tonight. 842 or thereabouts.

I can feel my eyes wince as you. said that. Post-game show, we'll get on about midnight. So, in the NBA circles, and I'm not speaking out of school on this, there are a handful of games when you look at the calendar and go, that's probably going to be a loss. And think about

this. So the game tonight gets started 842. Rockets, let's say they win the game. It's an emotionally charged game. It's San Antonio. It's a rival. It's spurs. Why not? The game ends about 1115. Okay. The guys will get in the shower. They'll do the interviews and whatever. We'll probably leave the Toyota Center at about 12, 1215 maybe, give or take.

It's about 40 minutes of Intercontinental, so that's 1255. Got to put the bags on, got to put everything on, the equipment, whatnot. So you're looking at about, at earliest, about a 145 departure time out of Intercontinental. Okay. Two-hour flight to Atlanta is 345. It's a quick flight. Then you've got to unload everything, get to the hotel. So we're looking at about a fourth.

30. Am I right by this? 4.30 Houston time arrival into the Atlanta hotel? And then you can get 12 hours of sleep and go to the game. Actually, that's true for NBA players. They can sleep very well. Yeah. It's a big part of it. But sometimes you think you're going to lose one games. Like the Rockets, we play to Detroit the next time after losing the tough game to Philadelphia in overtime, right? And we beat the Pistons. See? That's what I'm saying.

So we got to stop talking about walking into losses. We? I'm just talking about the behind-the-scenes kind of stuff. Okay. I think some teams do say, okay, this looks like the chance of us winning. Yeah, I mean, you're at a disadvantage. It's not going to prevent you from winning, but certainly you can be in a disadvantage, and maybe it's going to be difficult to give your best. And I don't think Dorian Finney Smith and Tar Easton are playing back to back.

So the question would be, do you sit one or both of them out tonight and play the other one against Atlanta? Atari tonight, I would be shocked if he doesn't play against winning. Oh, you're telling me national television. He wants that part of that. Well, I don't care about that. I'm just talking about the Udoca's decision. Yeah. And we'll talk to EMA coming up about that and see what he has for a lineup.

at 1.30 this afternoon when he joins us. Also speaking of the NBA, oh, there was a little bit of trade rumors out there about the rockets being involved potentially in a guard. Kobe White, does that name him ring a bell to you? Yeah, I mean, I know who he is. North Carolina, Chicago Bowl? Yeah.

And apparently, these are, and these to me are largely aggregators, meaning people that don't organically come up with stuff, they're just... Oh, no, you're not reading the sporting news again, are you? No, I had to block somebody yesterday. day because they put out a report saying that Anthony Davis was traded, so that was not the case.

I've started blocking those people, just make sure it doesn't catch in that area. But they're saying that according to this report, and again, not that Raffel's calling me saying, hey, man, that's true or that's not true. From whom? I don't know, Legion hoops, something like that. Legion hoops.

They're aggregator. Come on that. Tarisan is untouchable in a potential trade. Tarisan and who? No, just Tarheeson at this point. He's untouchable? That would be that you cannot call the rockets about Tar Heason. Interesting.

Here's the thing about Tar. He's shooting as good as well as he ever has before from three-point range. Top five in the NBA and three-point shooting. He gets a lot of wide-open looks. Well, okay, you've still got to knock him down, right? Yeah. Steals the ball, incredibly athletic, has become a better finisher than he was, say, early in his career. Not an elite finisher, but a better finisher.

And defensively, he is, I didn't mean to make y'all squeamish over there. I'm sorry. I just, it made me, every time he's on a fast break. I, compare the first year, dude, I used to have hair, Jonathan, when Tarry Isen was on a fast break. And then I pulled it all out. That was in the 1990s. It's better now.

Say, ask yourself, it's like a, what's, try to predict what's going to happen every time Tari Isan's on a fast break. I mean, look, I love Tari Isan. Why isn't untouchable? I don't understand that. He's not, well, I, I will say probably maybe E-Modoka's like,

yeah, he's untouchable. He's probably putting that out there. Well, here's the crazy part is that it's funny that a player would be untouchable. I'm just talking about it in the, not necessarily target, but in the context, he's a free agent at the end of this year.

It's hard to say. It's restricted, though. It's restricted, which means the rockets can match any offer that somebody else gives him. But it is weird that a guy who would be a pending free agent would be considered untouchable by a team.

Yeah, I don't know. First of all, he's not untouchable. I mean, he would come over a potential Yonah Steeler or whatever. Nobody's untouchable. Probably except Kevin Durant

on this team. Like 100% untouchable. Depending on like we're talking about superstar, superstar. Luca Donchich wasn't untouchable. Although that was a big huge folly by Nico Harrison. He wasn't untouchable.

Yeah. But yeah, Tar Heason is getting better finishing at the rim. Still can be an adventure when he's on the fast break. But at least he's giving the ball much more than he did last year. He checks every box you want

as a role player. He can shoot. He can dribble a little bit. He can, I mean, he's a great defender. His minutes are going up. Again, I still think they're fairly hesitant about back-to-backs, although that could certainly change as he continues to get back from a variety of things. Energetic, offensive rebounder.

He's got great, you don't normally say this about the NBA player, but he's got great hands, like poking the ball away and deflecting and causing havoc. He interprets passes. He is a pass deflector. He anticipates things. There's a high basketball cue with him. Like he'd be a great table tennis player or something. Like his hand-eye coordination is very good.

Yeah. Normally you're like stop reaching. You don't like reach-ins. Yeah. When I see somebody reach in, you're like, oh, come on. Like Alperin-Shing-goons reaching in on everybody. You're like, hey, stop that. You're racking up fouls.

Right. Tari Easton's really good at that. Men Thompson as well. Yeah. All right. So we got that to get to. We got some college football stuff I want to get to. Big picture stuff.

It's about one university, but it will not be just about one university. Ultimately, when more reports come out. I'll tell you more about that. as one school in the Big Ten is in some serious financial peril because of the athletic department. 1113, shut your bum ass up coming up in about 15 minutes. 713-212-5-790. All right, 1118 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

7-1-3-2-5-790. So, look, we're not in the mediest part of the sports year, so sometimes we take some more macro looks at things in sports. is very interesting to me that an audit of Rutgers Athletics got out according to NJ.com, which is New Jersey... Is that a public school? Yeah, state school.

It's the state school of Pennsylvania, of New Jersey. Okay. Since joining the Big Ten, Rutgers has lost 500 million dollars. Okay, that's statement number one that I find very hard to believe. Not that I'm saying that people are lying, but you can certainly gut the numbers up a little bit, right? I mean, tell me. Because anything that loses $500 million, and that was 12 years ago, they've lost on average of about $40 million a year. You would stop that, correct? I mean, there are sunken

cost into things? I don't think I would guess but but I mean you have you have budgets you have a public budget does loss mean just not profitable but does that mean like they owe that money I don't know so the past calendar year 2024 25 the fiscal year Rutgers announced or that nj.com found out that they lost 78 million dollars now I'm trying to do the dollars and sense on this? Look, it costs money to fund scholarships for a variety of sports. Facilities

you have to turn the lights on. You have to, I mean, you, I mean, I think everybody in the sound of my voice knows what it would take to run an athletic department from facilities to employees, to travel, to compliance,

to academics, to sports medicine to facility. I mean, I can say, it's running a small little, a good-sized company when you're trying to run an athletic department of a school. But you're telling me in one year that Rutgers lost $78 million, even with all that crazy Big Ten money that's coming in? And my guess is they're full-fledged members of Big Ten. They're not having to take a partial share of because they're a relatively new school. They've been the league for 12 years. I don't know. How much of that Greg Shiano contracts? I don't know. But Is this the start of things?

Are we going to start hearing more about other schools in this same situation? Because look, I know Rutgers is not a primo Big Ten school. Didn't they have two lottery picks in basketball last year? We're going to see one of them tonight. As a matter of fact, Dylan Harper. I mean, to a point a couple years back, Clemson had to almost cut their men's track team because the institution and the programs were just losing too much money just to fund, you know, just these other sports as well.

But you got to have a certain number of, don't you have a certain number of programs to match up to be an athletic department? Title IX. Power 4, yeah. Or no, not as a 7th or Power 4, it's to Title IX, I think. Oh, he's talking about, do you have to have a number of sports to be a power for? I guess. Maybe you do have to be a certain number. I mean, it's both, both or the same. Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're correct. If I'm the state of New Jersey and I'm in charge of Rutgers, we got to do something about this. You can't lose 40.

When you're in the Big Ten and you lose $78 million dollars with all the television money, Now, would think, here's my point on this, if you filled up Rutgers Stadium, that wouldn't make, that wouldn't cut into it. Because look, you know, East Coast football is, for the most part, non-existent. Yeah, Rutgers has been rarely, if ever, relevant in football. And anything for that matter. Yeah. I mean, to be brutally honest, they have never been relevant in much. Yeah, maybe.

And look, we don't have time for a deep dive on the basketball stuff and not that are expected to, but. if you have a powerful school in a major metropolitan city, I mean, the biggest of them all, I mean, Piscataway, New Jersey, just a suburb, frankly, of New York City. And they're dropping 78 million. I mean, imagine with other schools that are, you know, how is Illinois doing it? Well, I mean, don't we have books on this? Because they're all public schools. Yeah, Freedom of Information.

That's what I'm saying. This New Jersey website, the newspaper got a hold of the numbers. Is it salaries? I don't know how you lose $78 million in one year. That makes no sense to me. To me, it comes down to your scholarship members. You're not making enough money in the scholarships. Let's say how much does it cost to go to student school at Rutgers?

If you're talking of, it is it $75,000 a year? I have no idea. You times that times 70 players. That's $4 million just in scholarships. I don't know if it's worthy of a deep dive or not. I just saw the note yesterday and I was like, God, how does this happen? Haven't we had issues where A&M and Texas have had to be a little leaner when it comes to stuff over the years? I don't know.

Not that I've heard of. No. They're pretty cash flush. I don't know. I don't know. What did Treve Alberts do as soon as he got the job at A&M? He fired a bunch of people. That was to pay off the Jimbo contract.

Yeah, you've got to pay Jimbo. Maybe that's part of it, too, if he isn't. If you have bad contracts, that you'll never get the dollar value back on that. It was just, now again, I don't even know if New York Sports Radio and WFEs talk about Rutgers football in athletics. And again, I apologize for doing a horrific accent.

But I just like $78 million in one year. I understand bowling green being a financial difficulty. I understand even a Tulane or a Memphis or a. Sounds like gross mismanagement. South Florida. I mean, I don't want to say the mafia's funneling funds out of Rutgers. But it just doesn't seem like it adds up. I'm going to go to Google AI right now.

Okay. Promote something while I do this. Why is Rutgers? Why should go ahead to follow me? You know what? I'm going to follow you back up until noon. If you follow me on Instagram at Sports RV. I would appreciate it.

We just posted a video of us talking. I'm promising we're going to lunch. After the show, I will post some pictures of that. I normally just post a barbecue, some sports talk. Let's see, what else? I need two more likes for 100 on my Ashro's Fan Fest pick, so I'd appreciate that too. At Sports RV on Instagram, I'll follow you back. Okay.

Follow me on sports Instagram and at SportsM. Give us the news. The news is the reason. Google AI says massive spending on coach salaries, paying off debt and facility upgrades designed to compete in the Big Ten. Ah, facility upgrades. Those can't be cheap. I could see that being an issue.

But, I mean, if you're Rutgers, you don't turn down the Big Ten, right? You can't. No, why would you? Well, I have a reason why. Well, maybe they're running a deficit now, and the profits will come, Matt. Was that right? Okay. I don't know. If you build it, they will come. Fill up the Rutgers Stadium.

Out of 14,000 to see Rutgers play Maryland. They were getting a lot of recruits. Somebody out there is dropping cash on NIL for Rutgers. Well, how do you have two? who fought top five guys in the NBA draft from one basketball team? And they didn't make the tournament, right? No. How do you have two top five guys?

You don't make the tournament? That sounds like something Texas basketball would do. It's unbelievable. 713-213-5-7-90. 7-1-2-12-9-0. Let's go to my phone system is having a little trouble here. Let's go to Line 2 Rossi and say how to Scott and River Oak. Scott wants to talk about Bill Belichick.

Hi, Scott. What's going on, guys? Hi. All right. So the Bill Belichick situation, let me just start here. So there are two types of sports fans, in my opinion. So there are fans who are fans of their city, right? So they may become an Astros fan during playoff times.

They love what it represents or a Rockets fan when they're doing well, Texans, so on and so forth. And then there are other fans of their teams in the sports. And yes, I'm a huge Astros, Rockets, and Texans fan. But I'm a fan of the game as well. So over the years, and I'm 30, years old. Although all my favorite players are, you know, who I grew up rooting for are from the city of Houston, I gain an appreciation for the players that we, the players and teams that we

competed against. If you were to ask me who my favorite players are outside of the city of Houston, I would give you names such as the first one that comes to mind is Albert Poulos, Peyton Manning, Kobe Bryant, because I remember battles with them and them meeting something to me when, you know, I was growing up learning to love sports. I don't remember a time where something happened, a travesty like this happening to another city irritated me this much. Not only is this a sham, I mean, there's so, when people, when I was watching clips on this last night, and people were even explaining Belichick's resume to articulate how much of a travesty this is, that's almost insulting. He is just the goat among goats where it's something that shouldn't have to be even talked about.

I'll submit this. This is where I stand with it. Two facts that have happened, give or take, within the last year, and which one is more egregious? The Mavericks trading Luca Donchitz for Anthony Davis or Bill Belichick not being a first ballot hall of famer. I would submit that Bill Belichick not being a first ballot hall of famer is a more egregious act. I know they're not really comparable than what the Mavericks did to Laker. That is how ridiculous it is.

And it ruins the credibility of future Hall of Fame inductions if something like that is to happen. I don't know. It really tick me off. Scott, don't. Yeah, we have. Don't hang up because I actually called for people like yourself. So I'm going to repeat what I said about an hour ago. He is a Hall of Fame coach.

He is going to get in. You have old stodgy media. That's just part of, that's just who votes, okay? It is what it is. And sometimes media guys have agendas, and that's not the right answer, but I'm just speaking to you in real life, real talk. But the point is, should there have been a punishment for a guy who was found guilty of trying to steal signs from another sports from one of his opponents? He got fined $500,000 and was found complicit. We don't know how severe it was.

We don't know how long it was. But there was impropriety involving the New England Patriots trying to sign steal from the New York Chats. My response to you on that would be if we take into consideration that that was the only reason in time period that he found a level of success, then potentially. The man was considered to be the greatest coach during his time, the NFL over a span of two decades. One, eight, and here I am explaining his credentials again. One, six Super Bowls as a head coach, and I was listening to someone talk about last night. There's two Super Bowls as a defensive coordinator of the Giants. He gets massive credit.

Apparently that Bill's offense was unstoppable that year and the job they did to them in the Super Bowl, and he received all the credit for that. It's the same answer I would give, as us as Astros fans, when people ask, is that the reason we won? Us's fans know in our heart of hearts that 2017 through 2020, that was one of the more talented rosters put together left right and center. It didn't matter if we were at home. It didn't matter if we were on the road.

We had high caliber players at every position, and we can say with a relatively high confidence that with or without cameras, we were going to win a lot of baseball games during that era. We feel confident in saying that. Absolutely. But if George Springer is going to the Hall of Fame, he's going to have to wait.

If Carlos Beltron, he did get in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, he did. Was Anna's first ballot on that? No, I don't think so. I hope Jose Altovae is not going to have to wait because I don't think Jose was involved. That's just me. Maybe I'm being biased. You might have to. But, okay.

So should Tom Brady have to wait a year? Sure, why not? You were in the room. You would not vote Tom Brady as off the first. I would. I would have voted Bill Belichick. That's not what you asked. I mean, he broke the rules.

It was a major scandal. This is not some great travesty. And we're also not saying that he's not going to ever. going to get in. But there may be some people. And again, this is, I'm just trying to think through the other person's perspective. If you have someone who has this incredible resume, Scott, which obviously Bill Belichick does, but there is a blemish, asterisk, scar, whatever you want to call it next to it, there may be 10 people in a room of 50 that say, you know what, we appreciate everything he's done. He's one of the greatest coaches of all time, if not the greatest all of all time.

but there is something that that has marred his career and SpyGate was a pretty significant part of a huge five-year run through in the NFL. It wasn't just a it wasn't just a one-off in terms of all, well, you know,

something minor. It was a very major offense when it happened. Yeah. It was a talked about for a long period of time. And then there were allegations throughout his career. It was a major scandal. I mean, they got a draft pick taken away. He was fined $500,000. I know it was 20 years ago at this point, but it was a major, major scandal.

So this is the last thing I would say on it. So if the point is that his career has a blemish on it because of that, which I guess in some degrees is fair, why I think it makes me so upset is that they are saying that the last 20 years of football have a blemish to it because they were the most dominating force over that 20-year period. Yeah, that's what they're saying. credibility away of the last 20 years of football. And I'm not willing to accept that. And most people are not, but you found 10 people that were.

Yeah. I appreciate you talking to you. Thanks, and again, I wish I could come to you and this is the greatest Travis you've ever heard in my life. And again, I think maybe you and I are maybe on the wrong side of this. Because I'm looking at all the different TV shows. Bill Belchick, how can this possibly happen? It happened because he cheated.

He cheated. He happened because he cheated. And this is the thing. He's not been banned for life. He's not kicked out of the NFL for good. He's going to have to wait one year. He thinks it's a spender even a game. I think this is a gross overreaction by people.

He'll be in next year and it'll all be hunky dory. Some owners or whoever are pushing for him not to make it. And the owners in that fraternity maybe are feeling a certain type of way. Also, my understanding is there were five candidates and everybody could only vote for three. And it's Robert Kraft. I can't remember everybody else. But whoever else is going to make it and he'll be in next year. I guess the argument is if he's going to get in, why are y'all being petty?

And the question is, is it petty? That's a very easy reason. He cheated. And yeah, I'm sorry. I don't want Jose Al-Toovita have to wait a year. He might. I don't know. He might.

He might. I don't know. We'll see. He's got my vote. Bill Belichick would have my vote. Because I don't hate Bill Belichie. check? I respect a hell out of him. If I'm sitting there with a vote, I'm voting him in.

I'm voting him in as well. But I could see the other side of it. We are super late for break. We've got to tell some people to shut their bum asses up. Maybe some people want to tell us, shut up. Shut our bum asses up. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 1134. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you want to tell somebody to shut their bum-ass up,

or ain't anybody got time for that. Call us now. 7-13-212-5-7-90. that. Ain't nobody got time for that. All right, here we go. 1138, Sports Talk 790. Time for you to tell someone

to shut their bum ass up, man. Shut your bum ass up, man. And if you got somebody in your life that is just giving you this long story about how their hash brown casserole just didn't come out right this past weekend. Really? How ain't anybody got time for that?

Hey nobody got time for that? I thought it was delicious, Matt. Thank you very much. The keto good hash brown casseroles putting corn flakes at the very top. Is that true? Yeah, it is. It gives a little crunch factor to it.

Okay. Just saying. All right, Jonathan. Any problems in the barbershop? You want to tell somebody to shut their bum ass up? You're pretty happy with your cut there. You know, no, I was surprised. I cut myself last night.

Oh, you did it yourself? This is all me. Oh, wow. You charge you to give yourself a good tip? Man. But, you know, actually, speak on that. Back, I felt like when I was a kid, YouTube, you can go and get a top.

It'll be a little two-minute tutorial, and you do what you're doing. It's very fast, very educational. Now you have these 10-minute intros of who to this and you've got sponsors and all that stuff. Man, I'm just trying to figure how to cut my hair, man. Ain't nobody got time for this. I know. I know. I just make it quick, man.

That's pretty funny. People on Twitter, we just said two minutes ago, Jose Altubei, I believe was not involved in this. Uh-oh. Are you getting attacked? No, I just said, G.G.J. If you all are okay with keeping Bella check out, would you feel the same about Jose Altovae when it becomes eligible. We just said it's going to happen.

I just said it did nothing wrong. Come on, people. Wake up! Wake up! Listen to the show! Hi, Ross. I'm scared. Are you scared about nothing?

I just want passion. I just gave you some passion. That's all I gave you. Thank you, Matt. He did nothing wrong. Has Joseo Tube been implicated in any of this? No. He was not involved in Spygate.

What do we call on ours? Trashgate? Sign stealing scandal. There you go. Yeah, he might be held out for a year. And this is, again, again, I don't know. But that I've had a problem with. You know why?

Because he was not, every one of the investigations, Jose Al-Tube was not complicit of this. He was not the, yeah. If we're talking about Alex Cora, the apples to apples would not be Jose Al-Tuve. You're talking about a player versus a coach who was the mastermind of the scandal,

not a player that didn't participate in the scandal. It's two different things. And another thing, look, I understand. Like for everybody, look, it's literally like J.J. Watt and Pat McAfee, did he get a new, uh... Is J.J. Watt weigh less than 200 pounds now? Did Pat McAfee get a new facelift? Is J.J. Watt weighing less than 200 pounds? Look how thin he looks now. I think McAfee got a new facelift. All right. Anyway, that's fine. I mean, you looks great.

Can we stop acting like Bill Belichick is never going to make the Hall of Fame ever? They held them out for a year because it was, as I get, there was a draft pick taken from the Patriots. Bill Belichick was fined $500,000. How many games was Jose Al-Tube suspended? How many? How much fine? How much did he have to go in front of people and say, I did this? None.

He did none of that stuff. The Patriots were fined $250,000. Bill Belichick was the mastermind of it. Plus there was deflategate. Plus there was Josh McDaniels accusing them of taping them in like 2010. Like, this isn't just a one-off thing. It was a major targeted scandal that they possibly could have been doing for years. And so if you think it is the greatest travesty in the history of football

that he's got to wait one year to get into a Hall of Fame, shut your bum ass up. Yeah, shut your bum ass up, man. You don't listen to know our show. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. Everybody got time for you just to create your own storylines. Hey, nobody got time for that. Thanks for listening, by the way.

We appreciate you. Yeah, we love you. I mean, it happens. It's radio. It's live radio. Sometimes people miscon true things we say. I think we're very, I think I'm the king of prefaceing. I preface too much. You know, they do call you King Cephas. Did I not say that George Springer,

if he was going to go to the hall of him, which I don't believe he was going to have to wait. He was going to have to wait. Did I not say that? Yeah, he's a borderline case. I think Carlos Gray is going to have to wait. I don't think he gets in either. Borderline case. Ose L2 of 8, not a borderline case. Not a borderline case.

Doesn't have to wait. Didn't do anything. He might have to wait. Now, he might have to wait because he's guilty by association. Yeah. I get that. He'll get in. He's going to get in.

I think. but not guilty, but Bill Belichick's not guilty by association. He's guilty by being guilty. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Gio, what's the matter with you? All right, man, I have to back door Ross. Everybody crying about Belichick not getting in, man.

Such a bum-ass up. He's going to get in. Just be patient, all right? They had to slap him on the wrist one time. It's all good. Yeah. Shit your bum-ass up, man. So, as you guys know, I might have mentioned a couple times.

I drive trucks. I drive throughout the city all day, every day, make a delivery and pickups and whatnot and the 18-word. So today I'm on the Hardy Toll Road. And as you know, Hardy is 65 miles an hour. That's the speed limit. I'm in the middle lane. And there's this woman in a Cadillac.

And I guess for whatever reason, she forgets that her exit is coming up. So Ms. Brightey's here, stops dead on, calls almost called a power up on the hearty-toe road just so she can go over another lane and then another lane to get in her exit. Man, woman, look, ain't nobody got time for you not paying attention, all right? Do not cause a big old wreck, just

pass up the exit, add an extra two to three, five minutes on your commute, and just take the next exit. All right? Ain't nobody got time for these dumb drivers? Ain't nobody got time for that? I got one. So, Craig Ackerman and I, took on our trip to Portland, which was a few weeks back, took an Uber from our hotel to the arena. Okay? How long was it?

10-minute ride at most. Okay. Well, this one of being 20. We get in the car and we start heading towards the arena, and we're going kind of the backwards route. There's usually a direct route and there's the back, you know, the back trails. Oh, that's right. This is the guy you yelled at and got one star.

So he's got us heading on I-5 north towards Seattle, and Craig is like, sir, sir, sir, you're going the wrong way. The arena isn't the right. So he stops at a dime, which is not granted the freeway, goes all the way over. And he's taking us to the very back of the arena when there was pretty easy the directions say, like the name of the street where we want to get off is called Drexler Drive, name after Clyde Drexel. Oh, really?

Yeah. So a normal 10-minute drive at tops took 22, 23 minutes. I gave him as five stars, but I did not give him a two. tip because I was not pleased with the fact that he was about the sentence to Seattle. Seattle's lovely, but I wasn't going there for a basketball game. I was going to call a game in Portland. My Uber dropped from 4.90 to 4.89 because of him not giving me a five stars. So to you who got lost in Portland and got pissed off on and give you a tip, shut your bum ass up, mate.

Shut your bum ass up, man. Maybe you were rude, Matt. I don't know. I was there. I maybe was rude For a reason. Oh, wait. You don't get five stars? You're being rude, Maddie. Wait a minute. You want a tip after going the wrong direction? I didn't say that.

You're implying it. Hey, nobody got time for that. Thank you, Jonathan. Oh, Matt. I wouldn't even get him to five stars, man. You better to me. I gave him five stars no tip. Suck it, B.

Dropping me from 4.90 to 4.89. That's a shame. I need Craig's side of this story. Oh, he would back me up. He was actually more terse than I was. say you'd probably be more angry. Oh, he was like, sir. See, do you feel like that's bad etiquette?

If it's not your Uber, don't get the attitude. No, because I'm trying to keep my star rating up high. That's what I'm saying. No, that's what I'm saying. It's not your kids. I'm all right. I was okay with it. No, Matt, if you're acting up in my Uber, I'm going to be mad at you though. That's what I'm saying. You never go in the wrong direction? If my stars are on the line,

you got to keep your cool. No. You know what, shut your bum ass up. No way. So you'd rather drive to Seattle and keep your star rating up. All right. Shit so bum ass up, man. I'm saying if it's your Uber, the onus is on you to say it, because your stars are on the line. I think I was so stunned.

I remember I start acting crazy and then socking the driver in the mouth when it's not your stars on the line. Would you like to tell me if I'll have a hilarious story to tell you about? Fighting an Uber driver? No, how we got one of our coworkers, the Rockets Uber rating, dropped the whole point. Oh yeah, you told me about it. I think you did talk about this on air. Did I? You're very rude.

I wasn't rude. It was the story of all stories. I was going to say, I got some Uber stories for you. I know you do. I drove for a little while. I was saying, if we could get you another, I would actually pay you just to drive Uber

because you give us some great Uber stories. Don't worry. What do you mean? Don't worry. That'd be too long. Stop. You're not going anywhere. You're with me for life.

713, 212,7.90s. I'm going to tell you how funny our business is a little bit here. So we mentioned earlier today, we're going to the phones as a second. By the way, if you want to tell somebody to shut their bummed up, by the way, I'm watching the, the TV version of the Pat McAfee show. He's got like 15 people on his show.

No wonder he's got all these top life guests. I'm sorry, let me change this. I'm trying to find some soccer, but... You know what it is? Let me tell you about our show and why we love our show. It's me, it's Ross, it's Jonathan. And Gordy helps us out. That's it.

And Kevin Harlan. We get good guests, but we book our own guest. That's true. We don't have like 19 producers. Like Dan Patrick. What's a girl's parking command? Well, yeah, because you're 18 guests. him to death.

National Radio, shut your bum ass up. You didn't tell all that. Shut your bum ass up, man. All right, back to my point. You sleep all right last night? No. An unrelated question. No.

Let me just say, I'm just charged. I'm charged in life. Okay. I mean, I come here and go, let's talk about the Texans time search. Who's going to be the new tighting coach? Who is it going to be? I don't care. Matt, do you have any candidates for the Texans title?

Yeah, his one name is, hey, what is his first name? Okay, what's his last name? I can't tell you that. No. Oh. Okay, so we get this service, this dude named Jimmy Shapiro, I've known for a long time. He sends us out these odds and he wants us to publicize the website that's promoting these odds. I feel like you can mention the website if we're taking the odds.

We're not taking them. We're not taking them. I mean, we're using them for content. So I feel like as a courtesy, you could mention the website. No, I'm not courteous. Here we go. He has the odds on the Janus D'Anast and the Kupo. joining his next team.

The favorite, according to this website, is the Houston Rockets at 2 to 1. Really? Stop. Stop. 1139, that email came out. Okay. Tim McMahon, ESPN, 10 minutes ago, says the Houston Rockets will not be pursuing Yonotza dintagoon.

Yeah, that makes sense. They're going to stay with their core of Kevin Durant, amend Thompson, and Alper in Shingun. My guess is the Bucks would want Shingoon and Thompson's part of the trade. Yeah, they're going to want. Yeah. My guess is if not both.

If you're Milwaukee, you're not trading just for draft picks. You are looking to get stockpile current players. Alperin Shingoon, Milwaukee Buck. 15 of 17 from the Florida internet, right? Was he 1416? He only missed two. You get 33 points. Santiago Alma. I cooked.

I think you and I could score against Santiago. I don't think I could. You want to try? No. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-9. I said, Ross, find him some sports on.

He found a replay of the Fordham Rams versus Virginia Commonwealth University. No, they said this is live. Oh, it's live women's basketball. I don't know why Fordham VCU is playing right now. Oh, no, it is. No, it is live right there. Oh, it is live. Yeah.

That's true. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. I'm sorry, you want to watch Pat McAfee? No, I don't want any part of Matt McAfee. Okay. Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero back. Pat McAfee.

Let's go to, uh, um, um, James on 790. James, what's the matter with you? Yeah, there's someone in this town that has the audacity to say, if this isn't my team, I don't have a team in the NFL. You have a team in the NFL by default. You have a major sports radio station. You don't have that choice. No, no, no, no, no, no.

That's not true at all. That's not true at all. No, no, no, no. I have a team that I have to talk about and enjoy talking about. Absolutely, I have a team to talk. And thank God I do, because Rossi, I did about five. years we didn't have a team. It's pretty damn miserable. I think he's saying a fan.

Let the Oilers go, Matt. No, I have let them go. I have no team. I don't want to be a fan of any team. I want to be an observer. And frankly, for y'all, I need to be your insider. I'm there. I've been Battle Red Ross for three years now. It's been... Are you enjoying it? I'm not going to stop.

But are you enjoying it? I would say mostly yes. I like having more skin in the game. It's more fun to watch the game and be more invested. Because I was like you and I was like, I don't care. I used to honestly, quite frankly, root against them. See, y'all put words on my mouth. I didn't say I didn't care.

I just don't have a rooting interest. Yeah, you're rooting. I absolutely care about the team. Yeah, your Texans' hater Matt. No, I'm not. I'm Texas real-less Matt. Okay. Y'all need me. I don't need you.

Yeah, the city Houston needs me. Because you got enough people blowing the team over there. I mean, it's ridiculous. Whoa. I mean, seriously. Hey. And nobody got to have to have to be a fan of a team and still talk about them. You can do it.

Others cannot. You can out. You're right. So you need us observing, talking about relevant guest on, not getting into backup tight-end or tight-end coach talk. We can discuss the team responsibly. Am I a fan of the Astros? Yes. Am I a fan of the Cougars? Yes.

Am I a fan of the Rockets? Yes. My fandom can only go so deep. And I'm very comfortable in that. Okay. but we have great, great, passionate listeners that are fans of that team. And it's my responsibility to talk about your team when the time is appropriate. And that's why we were doing okay.

But I don't need to be talking. No. I don't, you don't want me to come on the radio and go, there's no possible way that C.J. Stroud could be worse in the divisional playoff. That's never going to have happened. That's my guy. let the people that are fired YouTube employees do that, okay? Not me.

What? Nothing? Hey nobody got time for that? Jonathan, can you respect this or you want to tell me to shut my bum ass up? No, I can see your side, though. Thank you. I got enough. Let me tell you about it.

I got a heartbreak. I got 40 years of University of Houston heartbreak. Oh, they got all those great final four runs, Matt. Exactly. I ain't got a ring. I got, well, I mean, I've been. a rocket fan since then the 80s. I had numerous playoff losses.

I've had Damien Lillard shoved down my throat when it comes to those last second shots. Excuse me? I had Larry Bird in the 86 Celtics. I had Seattle Supersonics in 1993 beat my squad in seven. We'll always have the magic sweep. We get the magic sweep. We get the

magic sweep. We got the two championships, but I want more. And I'm thirsting for more championships. I got the Astros. We are, we in clinical depression mode when they were tied for the last wild card spot he couldn't get in.

The Texans will get there. Okay. If they do, someday. I will root. I will be with you. Someday, our Super Bowl will come. What year? 2036. Okay, so you're saying that if you're a Texan fan,

all you're doing is wait 10 more years. Yeah, what's 10 more? That's 20. You've already been through 20. 25, almost. All right, we get the news at noon next. It is 12 o'clock on sports. Talk 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1207 on Sports Talk 7. I'm hitting breaks on time. That's my fault. I'll take the loss on that one. We thank all of you for listening. Yeah, we're somewhat charged on the show today, but that's okay. Rossi is busy in the newsroom, giving us what we'd like to call every day at 1207, the news at 1207.

And with that, we go to the... Don't hurt yourself. I can't even think of the name of the anchors on the world news tonight anymore. Like David Muir, maybe? Sure, why not? I don't watch the news. All right, go ahead. You know what you are?

You're the, you're the, um, uh, who's the latest murder happening. You're the Wolf Blitzer of Houston Sports News. I'm to bury my head in the sand because ignorance is bliss when it comes to the news. That's fair. Hi, Ross. Hey, Matt. Bill Belichick, not a first ballot hall of famer.

According to reports, he fell. short of the 40 out of 50 votes needed for induction into the pro football Hall of Fame during his first year of eligibility. Four sources have told ESPN. He received a call from a representative on

Friday with the news he would not be inducted in Canton, Ohio, this summer. Billed Pellichick, according to sources, asking an associate six Super Bowls isn't enough. Of course, won two more as a defense coordinator of the New York Giants. Another associate saying,

what does a guy have to do? A source familiar with Billetich's thinking said politics kept them out. He doesn't believe this is a reflection of his accomplishments. Well, no doubt. The guy with eight Super Bowls isn't first ballot hall of fame. Of course, sounds like there could have been some freezing out. And Bill Pollian mentioned as a member of a guy, as somebody who was the leader of the freezeout committee. Leader of the freezeout committee encouraging people to not vote him in because of SpyGate.

Of course, less we forget, deflategate. allegations by the Buffalo Bills in 2010, allegations by the Cincinnati Bengals in 2019, there was a pattern of activity. Now, if he would have not gotten in because he's a jerk, that would have been different. Agree. Because there's a lot of jerks that get in.

Write it down. I agree. Jeff Kent. But no, this was to me was more about, there's some blemishes, not sores, but blemishes on the resume because of the things you just discussed. And I am, do you think part of it is people are afraid to say what you and I are saying that we get it for a year? That maybe that they...

I don't know. Because I can't find, and it's universal. And the passion for people on this is incredible. I mean, LeBron James, Pat Mahomes, all sorts of people. Look, I do want to tell you that Bill Belichick is the greatest coach of all time. Yes. The six Super Bowl is back that up. Absolutely he is.

but and I guess the question then becomes is everybody's resume supposed to be perfect to be a first ballad guy I think if you lose if he was to have several 10 lost seasons that wouldn't preclude me from saying he's the best coach ever I do believe if you're involved in Spygate that does kind of make it a little bit of a difficult oh my God he's perfect it's a blight on the resume it's a blemish it's a blemish it's a big blemish Honestly, as I said, people forget, because I know it's been 20 years. That was a major scandal. And then for years, they didn't make a Super Bowl. And people thought that that was the reason why.

There are reports that up to 40 games possibly they were doing the SpyGate stuff. And I'm not ready to say that because there's no evidence of that. But there has certainly been implications. And look, we know the NFL likes to hide stuff. They don't want their charmed NFL franchise with this charmed coach being involved in this. So they're going to put some things under the rug. All I'm saying is He's getting in

He's fantastic I wouldn't have done it But I could see 10 people in room of 50 saying Yeah, not great I'm gonna make a way to hear And it has nothing new with Jose Altuva Because in my mind And maybe I'm wrong

Because I wasn't in the clubhouse shut And I know what was going on With the doors was shut But from everything that has been chronicled Over the last handful of years About this entire thing There has been one name that has not been associated with the spy,

except for the stupid buzzer thing, but that was more about... God, that's idiotic. John boy. It was Jose Al-Tube. So, Jose Al-Tube should not have to wear this. Like Bill Belichick, clearly, should wear this one. Comparing a head coach and a player who didn't participate in a scandal is two different things.

And also, Jose L-Tufe might have to wait a year or who knows how long. We'll see when it comes in. And I'll be mad. But I don't want you guys call them and say you guys are hypocrites, because there's a difference. There's absolutely a difference. And also, the threshold is higher.

here. Bill Belichick's needs 80%. Jose Al-Tuve needs 75. So different votes. I mean, a lot more voters, et cetera. Yeah, what else you got? Elsewhere in the news, Matt, the Browns have hired Todd Munkin spry young age

of 50. Wait, what? Yeah, he'll turn 60 in a week. He is the new head coach of the Cleveland Browns. He was the former Baltimore Ravens head offensive coordinator. He was supposed to be the offensive coordinator under John Harbaugh, who is with the New York Giants.

However, he has been hired away by the Cleveland Browns. We've been looking for a coach for a while. A number of marquee names bowing out of the running, and now they go with Todd Monkin? Interesting. Todd Monkin, good offensive coach. They couldn't find anybody. Seems like it. I mean, where are the Raiders looking?

I mean, this is the thing, though. if you're firing seven coaches a year, there's not seven head coaches who are going to be the next big thing. It's just not possible. And you're turning it over and over and over. So you're talking about every two years, you're looking for like 10 to 12 new head coaches.

How many of those guys are going to be the next great thing and be highly successful and win Super Bowls? No, this badge is just keeping churning in. There's probably going to be four or five. It'll be fire within two or three years. You're just going to keep churning and churning and churning and churning and looking for that next big thing. Yep.

And the Cleveland Browns have been a part of that. They fired a two-time AP head coach of the year. Kevin Stefanski. Who got immediately hired by the Atlanta Falcons. And hates Baker Mayfield. Actually, he didn't want to call out Baker Mayfield. He said, uh, wish Baker the best. That's what he said publicly.

Anyways, all right. Probably he was. He's M. Fidim and him. And one more thing, according to Sham Shiraniya, Matthew. Mm-hmm. Yannas Atentocompo is ready to exit the Milwaukee Bucks. He is ready for a new home.

This is according to Shams in the article. Several teams have made aggressive offers to the Milwaukee Bucks who are starting to listen. League sources have told Shams Sharania and ESPN. Multiple teams have received a sense that the bucks are more open than ever to offers for Janus Atendacumpo seven seasons in a row mat, at first team all NBA. 31 years old. Tim McMahon, ESPN says Rockets not interested in making such an

acquisition. Golden State might be involving Jimmy Butler, Jonathan Cominga, and a I'm sure a plethora of draft picks. Bobby Marks has put out an article with ESPN and said outlining every team in what

they could possibly offer for Janus. This is interesting and we'll have that when we come back. 1215, Matt and Ross with you, Eme Addoke at 130. This is Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here at 1220. Ross found us another game to watch.

Miami of Ohio women's basketball leading Northern Illinois, 4327. Yeah, I would make a dollar bet, but it's looking like Ohio's going to take this one, the Red Hawks. It's a little arena. I mean, it's not full. There's like 75 people there, but it's nice. A lot of bleacher seats there at Northern Illinois.

U of H, by the way, taking on the hated TCU Hornfrogs tonight. Over on 950KPRC. Oh, really? Cougars. How's Horde Frogs basketball? It's fine. The Cougars dropped the number 10.

How's Ken Palm treating us, by the way? How did they drop to 10? Oh, because they lost to Tech. Yes. How? I mean, look, tech's good. It was in Lubbock. We should have.

All right, Mr. Kinpom Haider a week ago. Here we go. What do we got? They got him seven and. Yeah, they're seven. Okay. I'll take seven. That's two seeing the tournament.

I'm okay with that. Yeah, that's good. Reservation still. I got to find a hotel room. Texas is up to 36, baby? They're in the 50s of. earlier in the year. You got to get to 25 or higher. No, they don't.

Well, the problem is, the good thing is SEC is going to give you a bunch, every game you play is going to be a great quality win. Dogs at Auburn today. Tonight? That game, uh, not here on 790, obviously, because we have the rocket. Is it on KTRH or something? Because you said the Cougars are playing?

Cougars are 950. Oh, wow. What are if we're going on KTRH for the Rockets tonight? I don't know. We got Craig Way on Sunny, I think. I believe Craig is up with doing the game with Rod Ryan on 94.5 of us. That's awesome. All right. So, Chile, I believe, is there as well. Chile's doing the summer point.

Yeah. We crack ourselves up. All right, anyways. We're not very funny. We understand it. We understand that if you want to criticize a show saying, these guys think they're funny. I know.

You're right. Speak for yourself. You're right. Texas 37, Auburn 29. All right. So, uh,

you had a member of the ESPN. team tell us what every team would have to give up to get Janus. Yes, Bobby Marks wrote an article and outlined all 29 teams, what can they offer? And he also rated the difficulty of getting a deal done between 1 and 10. For example, Pistons put, he put the Pistons out of 2 out of 10. They have a bunch of contract, picks, et cetera, et cetera. So for difficulty for the Houston Rockets, he said it is a 7 out of 10. as in it would be pretty difficult for the two teams to make a deal.

Rockets have a valuable 2027 swap with Brooklyn, unprotected first-round pick from Phoenix. While the draft picks are enticing, bucks would almost certainly circle. Amen. Thompson as a player they can build around in the wake of losing Atentocombo. So he mentions the first round picks. and just kind of outlines the contracts and says,

Amin Thompson and probably picks would have to be part of the deal. Seven out of ten difficulty of the deal getting done with the Houston Rockets. Let me tell you this. Look, you've been around the team. You know when the trade winds are blowing. I feel like we do that with the Astros. You have to sometimes read the context clues that Dana Brown would give you. now Dana speaks a lot more than Raffeld.

Raveld has very few interviews. Not that he wouldn't do him. You don't go to a general manager for basketball as much as you go to a general manager in baseball because that 26-man roster is constantly changing with up-dack call-ups and injuries and injured list. Football general manager, some guys are really forthcoming and talk a lot. Some guys don't talk at all.

Our general manager for the baseball team does a weekly segment. So, I mean, it's just, so when I hear Dana speak, I kind of get the vibe of, well, he doesn't sound like he wants to do anything or, man, he's really looking to do something. It's hard to read the room on Rafael because he doesn't do a lot of those interviews. And I, generally speaking, when you hear Raphael speak about the team, he likes what he has. He does, and they also don't have a whole lot of wiggle room. Yeah. As there, I think it's under a, actually it says it here.

Let me go back. they're 1.25 million from the apron so I mean the wiggle room is 1.25 million below the first apron hard capped that's what it says for apron status for the for the rockets and if you'd like to know what an apron status means listen to the 18 with wex and clan you don't want to be near the apron let's just you just put it that way

it's a heavy tax it's a big mess so it doesn't seem like it's likely and then you mentioned Tim McMahon, who has been pretty good reporting Rockets stuff. Tim's good. Yeah. I would trust him. Yeah. Said that they're not interested in getting involved

because they know that either Alperin or men would be a part of it. Now, there's another trade out there that says the Rockets would be kicking the tires on Kobe White and apparently Tar Heeson's on their radar and the Rockets have said no to that. You know, sometimes you just like your guys. And the question is,

do you have enough in the regular season, Oklahoma City, going to be the number one seat on pace for that as again but there are some people in the basketball world whether you trust them or not and it's not me saying it it's other people that are saying it are saying that hey if there's any team that's built for a long series because playoff series are more physical and more half court and not run up and down macfort up and down it might be the rockets of a better chance of being a team like oklahoma city or denver than maybe anybody else in the west and that could be just because you're a rocket fanboy and

looking at rocket-based websites, or it could be the case of, hey, just because you make a trade, doesn't necessarily get you over the top, especially for giving up stuff. Because if you go get Janus, you're giving up something that has helped you get to 12 games above 500. A one-for-one swap this year, because picks in the future and all that other stuff, don't matter. I know we love them in Thompson, but your team is way, way better. You have no point card, though, if you trade them in. Janus is a point card. Janus is more of a point guard than I'm in Thompson is.

I would disagree with that. Who's got more? Let's check their assist numbers. I don't need the assist numbers. If I want dribbling up the ball up the floor, Janus or a man, I'm going to take a man. Really? Yeah. Now, does Janus have more of an offensive game? Is he moving the ball around?

Yes. Is he scoring? Is he downhill? Yes. You're not bringing the, you're not bringing Yonis. What are their turnover numbers? Hmm? Janus is at 3.3

turnovers. Okay, 5.7 6 assists. I thought he'd be higher than that. No, I can't know. There would be, no. It would be, this team is already, people are clamoring for Fred Van Vlee

because the Rock is don't have enough. I mean, you'd have to, if you did that, you'd have to move Reed, Shepherd to Sarin lineup. Amin is at 2.5 turnovers, so fewer turnovers and slightly fewer assists, 5.4 assists. And who's bringing the ball up more in a game?

Janus, or Amin? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I logically think. He can bring it up. Yeah, Janice can bring the ball up fine. Shear number of times, though, the more chances, the more susceptible you are to turnovers, and he's got a lower turnover count.

I mean, look, I love Janus, but Janus is not going to bring up the ball up and down the floor 50 times a game for a team. He's been the de facto point. He was the de facto point guard on their championship team. Because Amin is not a true point guard either. Both of them are not a true point guards. And one of them scoring 30 points per game and one scoring 18. Again, I'm not trying to compare. I'm not putting in the same category.

of offense, but in terms of ball handling, not that Yannis is bad, I'm just not putting that pressure on him. You're telling me I got to put the ball in his hand to bring up and down the court over and over again and score 32 points for me a game? That's what he's doing. Shake out of Alexander does that. That's about it.

Who is the great point guard on the current Milwaukee Bugs team? Well, it was Drew Holiday during their championship run, right? Yeah. But I mean, who is it now? I don't know. I don't know. I don't even know. Not Kyle Kuzma. No, no. This is good conversation.

I'm not arguing his value. You can initiate offense with Giannis just as much as with Amin Thompson. I don't have a problem with that. I don't see that. Because you got Alpern-Shingoon and Kevin Durant bringing up the ball too. It's not like he's going to be

Florida Jenner. You're not asking to be Fred Van Fleet. You're asking to be a piece of the puzzle. Who's going to guard really talented point guards? I don't know. I guess you could go with Tari. Yeah, this, you know, frankly I think Rossi this is

moot mood I just but they're saying that I'm interested and a man is this and I know you and I've argued about this before I think a man's the close to as untouchable as Rocket franchise has I would agree with you if he could shoot three pointers that's all he needs because it's you know

his turnover count's dropping it is let's take a timeout come back and take some phone calls we'll go to uh caseo and Frank 1230 here on sports talk 790 1233 Matt and Ross with you we got

May Idoca coming up at 1.30. Rossi and I will be down in spring training in about three weeks, give or take. A little West Palm action. Astros 2026. I still think they've got to get rid of the infielder spot, but, man, those trade wins are certainly very quiet right now for the extra infielder. I hope that that's what they want to do. Everything that's been told is if they're going to move Isok Paredes, which will be the easier of the two components to move, as compared to Christian Walker,

they want a ready-made player to win this year as compared to going to get prospects. You're not treating ESOC Pred is for a couple of high-end Reds double-A players. It's a very difficult line to toe. Yeah. For Dana Brown. Win now.

Oh, by the way, build up the farm system. Oh, by the way, stay as much as you can who's a luxury tax. A difficult job. I think, honestly, he probably has a little bit of... I think he's got way more pressure than Joe. us.

Dana? Yeah. Really? Yeah. I think they're both on the hot. I mean, they're both. A warm seat. They're not on hot seats, I would say.

Let's put this way. I'll put it. I'll say both are warm because clearly in the last year of a contract, I think Dana's is warmer. I have them equally warm. Because I think, I think because of what I just outlined, I think Jim knows what Dana's being asked to do is very difficult because Jim has stepped in and said, hey, make this Verlander trade.

As far as we know, right? We don't know for a 100% fact, but Jim has basically stepped in and said, hey, do this. Hey, go ahead and trade away these prospects for Jason, Justin Verlander. Go ahead and do whatever you can to get a starter and you say Kukuchi. Go whatever, do whatever you can to make all these other deals at the trade deadline. But you're also saying, he's saying I'm protecting you. And he's not, and Jim's not going to protect. I'm not saying he's protecting.

But if Jim makes the call, he needs to be giving some sort of semblance of protection. Let me take. If he says, you've heard of a boss make a decision at the office saying, man, if this is a workout, I get it, I got you. No, that changes all the time. That happens. Not very often. We're making this decision. putting you in this spot, we think it's the best.

And if it doesn't work, I'll put you back. No, I think guys lose jobs. I want Verlander back at all costs. And if it costs us a little bit, I'll take care of you. Because it hasn't been a disaster. He hasn't taken care of him yet. It doesn't get him extension.

That's true. I know. Yeah. I don't think Jim works that way. I just think it's a, and then it's a tough ass. Then you know what? You're asking Dana do an impossible job. It is a tough ass.

If you're saying, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, I'm going to force you to trade away all these prospects. and then I'm going to hold your feet to the fire when the farm system isn't up to snuff? I think that's ridiculous. It's a tough ask. But the reality is how many teams fire both their general manager and their manager

in their same year? That's rare. It doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. It's rare, but I don't have an example. I think it would be if Dana was to lose his job, bring a new general manager, and let him evaluate how his relationship with Joe and then make the decision after that. Frankly, I like them both.

I don't want... Look, Joe and I, we all get a long grade get a great visit with him on Saturday. And whether we have great visits or not, doesn't matter if it's a performance. But I think both are guys, I think Dana tries to be as forthcoming as he can. That doesn't mean that's the job requirement.

I think, I think Dana outlast Joe. Will, gut feeling. I will flip it. Okay. Flip, fire, turn. That's, I feel like I'm mallow there for a second. Let's go to the phone.

We don't have to bet on this, right? I don't want a bet on this guys. We love them both. We got so many bets. I want them both. for decades. And selfishly, I want them both to be here. Yes. And it's uncomfortable for us to talk

about a person's future on the air. But it is a question people will talk about. In general managers are going to get more time than managers. And to back your point a little bit, you did ask him to go improve the system. And then every time you went to try to improve the system, you had to go back to the

system. Yannick has to eventually be the catcher of this team pretty damn soon. Rice Matthews needs to be a major leaguer. All your top prospects are recent Dana Brown draft picks, but also it's not like your stuff. I think baseball America had zero in the top 100 for the Astros. That's terrible. Koso, good afternoon, friend.

What's going on? Good afternoon, guys. I just wanted to quickly brush up on what you guys were talking about. Between me and my friends, everyone knows I am a noted Janus hater. I am spending back to the hardened days. and even goes into the Milwaukee. I'm a Milwaukee Hater. Nothing cool about Milwaukee or Wisconsin would never want to go there. And if you take a look at their roster, who would it think

it would be a good idea to have, I mean, I'm not going to deny Yonah's star capability, but why would anyone think having KPJ, Kyle Kuzma, sending Damien Lillard home, eating that contract, and then also hiring Doc Rivers would be a recipe for success. They're a joke. It's a joke franchise. John Horse is a terrible GM. Everything that they're getting, I'm super stoked that's happening to them. And that brings me to my point with the Rockets. They don't need this bum. They need someone that can space the floor and shoot and not turn the ball over, Ross. I know Yonis is a great player. Yes. We need someone that can handle the rock. They can space the floor like I'm in Thompson and spaces the floor like Alperin-Good's great. three-point shooting. That's what I'm saying. Why do we need to add more people like that? We need to add

people that can actually dribble and shoot the ball. I hope they don't do it. I don't think they'll do it. They're not going to do it. Ultimately, ultimately, they need a spacer. And God bless John's wherever he goes. I know he's going to do great in his new city. I'll holler at you guys. Thanks. All right. Thank you. Yeah, probably I would, I would figure they would, first of all, it's probably not going to happen. I mean, you already had Tim McMahon saying it's not going to happen. he's very reliable, but it would probably be in lieu of either of Alpern Shingoon or Amin Thompson, and both of those guys are not three-point threats. So it would be a zero-sum game in terms of worrying about clogging up the paint.

You're not adding them with Amin-Thompson and Alprin Shingun on the floor. It's not josh-a-kogee for Amin-Thompson. That's not happening. I mean, Jay-Shon Tate has value, but you're not training Yanist to Milwaukee from Milwaukee for Jay-J-J-J-J. There's probably one of those. And I bet you, Milwaukee's asking for both. But that's not happening. This is why this is not going to have.

happen. But the, so the spacing issue to me is a one for one. You're getting away. Watch how everybody backs off of Amin Thompson. Watch how everybody backs off of Alper and Shingoon. But they feel still find a way to score. And Janus is finding a way to score 28 points per game. And he's hyper efficient, more than both of those guys. He's shooting 64.5% from the field. All that talk about not shooting and not all that stuff and he can't, he can't make a three. First of all, he's shooting 39% from three this year. Second of all, he's shooting 64% from the field. That's higher than Alperin or a man ever in their careers.

The most attractive thing about him, and I've said this from multiple times, is he gets the ball at the top of the key. He's going to score to the numbers there 64% of the time. That's insane. Because most of his shots are inside the arc. You have no jump shot and you're scoring 64% of the time? How? That's crazy. All right, 713, 212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Frank is with us on 7-90. Hello, Frank. Hey, what's going on, fellas? You tell us. Hey, Matt, why are you arguing with somebody that's LSU supporter? You don't know nothing about Houston. What are you talking about? But anyway, we need a point.

Who are you talking about, Frank? You're your co-host And he's a LSU guy Are you an LSU guy, Ross? Hi Frank, my name is Ross And I am Last time You remember what happened last time

Yeah You got mad I called you dumb And then well now I'm not gonna call you dumb Because I don't want to make you mad Frank But I have Never supported LSU

I am from Houston, Texas And I'm a Texas Longhorn supporter, yes Okay Hey but look here Matt We need a point point guard. So why don't we, uh, in the area got some two or three guards up that we could use. And mainly the one we want is, is the kid that played a U of eight.

He didn't get a lot of playing time up there because of the new heart. So we couldn't have to give up much to get him, you know, you go think. Now, if I was going to trade anybody to get somebody like, uh, the other guy, I would go get Fox. Deeran Fox? Is San Antonio right now? Who's very happy, who by the way is fighting with the rockets for top two or three

C in the West? What? Yeah, but. You mean, yeah, bud? There's no yeah, but. There's nothing to it. Yeah, but. No, no, no, yeah, no, yeah, no, yeah, but. The Spurs are not trading you, Deeran Fox.

That's the same thing they see it about, uh, Katie? No. And we got it? I didn't say that. All right. Thank you, Frank. Right? No. No.

When Katie was being talked about, they did mention the Rockets. I'm trying to be nice. Frank, I think I called him dumb, and then he threatened me physically. No, we don't need that. I don't want to get my ass kicked. We love you, Frank. Yeah. I mean, if we've got to throw our hands, we've got to throw hands.

But I don't want to get a... I'm a lover, not a fighter. The only guard, the two guards have been mentioned in trade conversation. And again, that's just whispering. That's what trades do. This is what agents do to float players out. This is what teams do. Kobe White from the Bulls and Jose Alvarado from New Orleans.

Trades come out of nowhere all the time that we didn't have our radar. Especially with a team like the Rockets who keep things pretty close to the vest. Really close. Which, you know, I've always talked about this with you for all these years of work together. I like secrets. I don't. Yeah, we know. I like to be surprised by things.

And when, you know, Shams puts out a tweet or something about the Rockets and it surprised us, it gives us some excitement. So if they do nothing, I'll be okay. They make a move. I'll be pleasantly surprised. I will be shocked if there's an earth-shattering move. A little Kobe White, a little Jose Alvarado. Okay.

Kobe can score, though. He's about 17 points of game. So he would be a much additional scoring punch for the Rockets. All right. Eme Adoka, in 45 minutes, you can join us before then at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. If you want to join us via Instagram, you may do that at SportsMT

at SportsRV. Yeah, we're getting some comments on our Janus or is it the honest? No, it was the Bill Belich. No, it was it not? No, it was a Yonis video. Okay. By the way, if you want to follow me on Instagram,

I am only one person away from 31.30. Wow. Who would like to be? 31.30. You're making that a threshold. This is sad. The next person that becomes, you'll get a shout out on the show

if you're the next person to follow me on Instagram. How about that? You know, shoutouts are very valuable sports. Are they just aren't? Yeah. I would love for a shout-outs now. Yeah. That's funny. That's good. You know what? Follow SportsM-T.

SportsM-T and you'll get a shout-out. For the love of God. All right. So I'm doing some prep on tonight's Rocket Spurs game. And I'm not accused of fan-boying too much, but I have fanboy over a handful of people that have been on this show. I have fan-boy over people I've been around in my life. Earl Campbell,

Nolan Ryan, Akeem Elijah on, all my, the kids, the legends that I grew up watching and admire. Logan Van Wye. Logan Van Wye was not on there.

Who else would not be on that list? Casey Candell, never fanboy. Rodgers? No. Brendan McCarty. Brendan McCurry? I don't think we had him on.

I don't think we had him on. But I have fanboy for Kevin Durant. And it wasn't like I was anti Kevin Durant, but I just, I appreciate him from a distance. I didn't say he sucked or he was horrible or bad human being. He was definitely out of bounds in the one rocket playoff game, and I called it out and losing my mind because the officials let him stay in bounds when he had both feet will be on the sideline, but that's a different issue for a different time.

But he is about, he's 37 years of age. He has 30 straight points, 30 or more points in three straight games. He's averaging 34 points a game. He is playing Rossi 37 minutes. night in the NBA. A 37 year old playing 37 minutes. They want to lower that load.

They're going to have to lower that load. And yeah, I mean, EMA Doke is a competitor, because, you know, he'll be, and he'll comes on these airways. Like, hey, we've got to get it down. But, you know, when the, for lack of a better turn, bullets are flying, that's not really on here. But when you're under fire, you know what I'm saying. When you're in the heat of not battle, when you're in the heat of a basketball game,

you just can't find the right turn. Help me out here. No, I'm good. You're doing fine. You're going to leave me on this island, huh? Probably. When he's in the middle of a basketball game and you really want to win the game, so he plays him extra minutes.

I totally under, I totally get it. And as he said that tonight, I get paid sick money. I need to do this. Yes. And you want to win the games. Every game matters in the Western Conference. So, yeah. You have Dorian Finney Smith still on minutes restrictions.

Tari Easton can't play back to backs. I mean, Stephen Adams is out. Not like that. It's a one for one. but just the rotation as a whole gets a little bit bogged down and it's not where you would like it to be. So it's a tough spot. He's fantastic. He's amazing.

And he's thoughtful. I've had him on the post game show three times most recently on Sunday. It's great. What is today? I'm going to say something and you tell me if I'm how biased on being. Hold on. Hold on. What is today?

What is today is Wednesday when we play last Monday? I lose. Go ahead. I've argued this kind of, but I felt like it was an argument. Now to me it's more true than I've ever thought, just seeing him every game. second greatest shooter ever behind Steph Curry No disrespect to Ray Allen Clay Thompson Larry Bird

Reggie Miller I'm going to push back on it because Second greatest ever Sorry What I think of shooter How much damage have you done for me Beyond the Ark? Now his 4% is great

40 but volume wise Reggie Miller Ray Allen I bet you I bet you's had a better three point percentage than Reggie Miller all time Without looking But yeah

I could go with that. And who's taking more contested ones? Reggie Miller would come around like 50 curls and be wide open. How can you be contested? You're 6-11. How can you be contested either? Okay, I'm sorry, people in his space. All right, I was going to say.

That's true. It's difficult to be with how tall he is. I bet you Ray Allen might have a better three-point percentage career. Can I give you a different accolade? Go ahead. The greatest stretch four in the history of the NBA. Okay. You don't like that?

I'm going second-greatest shooter. what's up he's at 39.1% Ray Allen's at 40 and especially end of his career Ray Allen's just popping in the corner from LeBron and D. Wade. Like, Durant's creating most of his threes. And that's why Steph Curry to me, I don't even know who's the highest percentage. The highest percentage might be like Mark Price or Steve Kerr or somebody. Steph Curry is number one because of those contested threes and how deeply he can shoot them from like 35 feet.

There are so many outstanding players. I mean, I can't go. go, Mike Ross. What's how you talking about? I told you you could push back on me. I'm just... I told you you could fight me. To me, I think perimeter, I think how much damage you're doing for me outside the three point line. And outside the ark,

and he's great at that too. He's 40% from three. I don't know if I can do that. Second greatest shooter of all time, Kevin Durant. I'm standing on it. You're not stuttering, are you? I'm not stuttering. Forty-three percent last year, 41% the year before, 40.7%. He's getting older and he's

shooting better. And these are not, he's not standing in the corner just popping up threes. I'm sticking with it. Okay. I'll let you do it. Because I respect your basketball acumen. Thank you, Matt. All right.

We got one hour left. He is the easy money sniper. See, the thing is, I've called him Kevin on the air, KD. Easy Money, Sniper, go with it. Can I call him easy money to his face? Throw sniper in there. I don't know. I don't want to call another human being a sniper.

What's like if I called you SportsMT? It's his handle. Easy Money Sniper. Or Mr. Texas. Okay. You've not said much today, but when you've come in with just the perfect amount of commentary, thank you very much. Now he's getting in on, he's trying to troll me too.

No, he's not. You're trying to incite my anger. He's just speaking the gospel. I'm not going to let it happen. He is the worst. Mr. Texas candidate of all time, I'm moving on. How about Mr. Houston? I guess that's better?

I like the whole state. Your list of qualifications. are that you went to Lubbock a couple times. Like, it's very flimsy. I've been in Brenham. Lufkin, necadoshes. No cowboy boots. No cowboy hat.

You don't stay outdoors ever. Texas is all about the outdoors. Never been deer hunting. You don't even, you like beans and your chili. No, hold on. You don't like tommas. Hold on.

I love chili in general. I don't have to have beans. I'm just because I'm Mr. Texas. I'm willing to accept all different types and varieties. Okay. You don't like tamales. You don't like tamales enchiladas or guacamole? I don't like Aldine.

Why don't you like Aldine? It's a little scary over there. It's fine. You sure? I didn't get shot once. That you know of. Again, Matt. Straight bullet in the back.

It's like going anywhere. Just follow the don't. Start none. Won't be none doctrine. You can be all right. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show at Ross, including a visit with E. Okay, in 30 minutes here on 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show. with Ross. Somebody on Instagram says Aldine is fine even though I did get shot once but other than that it's pretty cool. By the way, shout out to all the brand new

Instagram followers of the show. I need to give you all some shoutouts. Here we go. In no particular order. Brandon, shout out to you. Saving Truth. The Queens of Kings started following me. Lafayette Watts Sr.

That sounds like a good old-fashioned Harlem Globetrotter's name. Who's your favorite all-time Globetrotter? Lafayette Watt Sr. I'm going to go with a curly Neil. Caleb Halata. Shout out to you. Kevin Fensky.

Ryan Hiney. What the heck? Larry James. Kelly Cupsid. Blake Signs. Nathan Shostack. Chris Hill. Chance Milford.

Gus Powell. Chris Chavez. I love all of you. E. Mad Doaker. This is BS. Why is this BS? They love Mr. Texas. Because you never once mentioned your Instagram until I started doing it.

That's not true. You're such a fraudulent. human being. No! I'm not fraudulent. That's fine. Follow the show. As long as you're following somebody. All right. Who else has been outraged in the last hour about the fact that Bill Belichick did that make the Pro Football Hall of Fame?

No. Everybody's upset. Again, not human tragedy. I would have voted him in. It's not up to me. He'll get in next year. Don't be involved in like five different scandals. I'm sorry, four. Bill's accused him of stealing

signals. Bingle's accused them in 2019, Spygate in 2017, deflakeet in 2012, draft picks taken $500,000 fine. So you wait one year in the Hall fame. Doesn't seem that unfair. It does not, but I have never seen, you would think, it's funny, I really do believe, and not that we're sitting here going, oh, good for him.

It makes me, frankly, no difference whether they got in or not. but I'm wondering if like Florio's not saying anything and Adam Schaefter's not saying anything like this is an out room you get all these celebrities coming in you know what a part of it is I think

is that I think that and this is maybe a good sign for the world that we understand that we're all not perfect and that you are allowed to have a blemish whether it be a big one or little one that life that you can't live a perfect life

and people make mistakes and if you're a lot of one-time mistake and this is not a repeated performance. We don't know. So far, only got caught once when he was coaching there, that people allowed to make mistakes and get past it, which is a good sign for anybody that's involved with that 2017 aster. I think it's more of it's just 20 years ago.

I mean, if this happened five years ago, it would be more on people's minds and they would be like, you know what, yeah, get them out, keep them out. I think you would see a lot more division between people arguing about whether or not he should have to sit out. Not sit out a year because that's not, just not getting voted in as a first ballot. if this happened like five years ago, it happened to almost 20 years ago.

And time heals wounds. Just like I think a lot of the guys in the steroid era are going to eventually find their way closer to acceptance. A Hall of Fame. Some of them are done. Is Barry Bond's done? Clemens is done, right? Clemens is done. I think Sammy Sosa's done.

So, yeah. Not the same year was the first ballot hall of him to begin with. Yeah. We're going to have this conversation, you know, five years after Jose Al-Tuvius done. and we're going to be debating about it. Because there are going to be people that even though that Jose's name has been not brought up as a guilty party of the 2017 season,

they're going to say guilt by association. And there's nothing that. And here's the thing, as much as you and I believe that, we don't know without absolute certainty that Jose O'Toova is not involved. I don't know. I mean, we don't know who's, how many of these old writers are going to be dyed off by then. I will say this. If we ever found out that Jose was not involved,

it would crush me to multiple levels. Do you mean that he was involved? That he was involved. It would crush me to multiple levels because, one, I think he's the greatest astro of him all. Number two, he has been widely regarded as one of the most popular astros of all time. Nobody if does a bad thing about Jose Lubei ever. He's just sweet human being.

But, I mean, there's just, now, he's just a decent human being. And hasn't really changed from who he is from the time he was. is just barely on a major league roster to now where he is. But number three, I will have spent a lot of my life as a sportscaster defending a man's honor. Hmm. And that'll hurt because I don't know if it's ever happened to me as a sports talk host before, but I'm thinking, is there something I've defended for... You felt betrayed.

Not betrayed, but by defending someone for so long. But a misjudging of character. Ah, that's true. You were always carrying the torch for Deshaun Watson. How great of a community man he was. Well, I'll say this. I'm kidding. When Deshawn Watson all that stuff first came out,

it was because he thought Jack Eastbury was a crook and Cal was an idiot and I defended that. I didn't blame, I can remember vividly, you and I talking about, I don't blame Deshawn wanting to get out of here. It's a toxic organization. I remember that. I'm a bad coach. Jack Yisbury trying to cut people off all the time. Cal playing video games.

I mean, you know, Cal still playing video games, but at least he's got better people around. I mean, obviously, Hannah is much more involved. And then he got slapped with 25 lawsuits. And then, so that's not necessarily a, I'm mad that I died on the vine for that. I just understood why Deshaun was upset because the contract he signed in an organization he thought he was playing for was being run by different people and being run in a very poor way. Now, it'd be different if I came on the radio show and said, there's no way Deshaun didn't get a rub and tug. And there's no way that all these masseuses and all the, all the. All 25 of them are lying.

You know what I mean? That would be different. I never said that. Yeah. It was more O.J. You were defending O.J. I was not defending O.J. People have selective hearing.

They're going to be thinking, Matt, what did you believe? Hi, my name is Ross, and I'm just kidding. Correct. I'm trying. I got to think about this. There's somebody in sports that I've talked about. And you defended them and they let you down. Whether it be as a personality, whether it be about drug use, whether it be about cheating.

I've been defending CJ Stroud. He let me down in the division around. I'll tell you that A lot of people do that We should go bookmark People's tweets from like Two weeks ago Three weeks ago

I was defending Arch Manning And he let me down Beginning of the season He rallied Some people thought he would transfer out And not even stay at Texas Who would do that? I don't know

That is a bad gut feeling I didn't put my name on it I didn't mention any of the names I don't think I put my name right I don't even know what you're talking about Good What's believe it or not today I'm only worried

You have even started yet We got an email coming up And you're going to want to get your voice in the email conversation because you're going to be replaying it during the Rockets launch band. You mean replaying. You know. There's a little snippets here and there of great information from our coach who gives us wonderful straight answers. He's glib. I'll give him that credit.

Transparent. Yeah. I mean, he's not a cliche machine. As much as others. So here's how it worked. Mike Dantone didn't like doing it, but he did it. I don't even know if EMA is a big fan of it. but Mike was way more cliche filled than he made.

I was talking about this with our producer, Josh C. I was like, Mike could give you five second answers. How do you think I felt? I know. Look at the clock going, I've got to ask him eight more questions to get to two minutes. Yeah, I don't know, Matt. And then we had Stephen Silas on. And I loved him, but the team sucked.

Yeah, but he was Mr. Soliloquy. I like Stephen Silas soundbites just personally as a launch pad enjoyer. It's always about you, isn't it? It is. I think you I don't even know where Stevens I think Steven's I think Silas by the end Honestly and I said this again to reference

I think he was filibustering I think he knows like man if they ask The longer I talked the fewer questions I have to answer about Christian Woods defense so let me go ahead and give a three minute Answer about everything and eventually we got to get out of here

I love scoot but man he's a time bomb that was Scoot doing Okay, he's back up in Milwaukee. That's good. I guess. I don't know.

Let me tell you something. He, remember he left and there was beating the girlfriend, all that kind of stuff? Yeah. All that. I mean, it could have really gone south for him. He had to go overseas, right? Or am I thinking of somebody else? I think you're thinking of somebody else.

Okay, never mind. All right. It is 113 of the Matt Thomas show. Coming up in the bottom of the hour, we have, EMA Duk is going to join us. Ross, what's the next segment of the show going to be? What do you think? Kevin Porter Jr.

Talk. I don't think we're going to do Kevin Porter, junior talk. Okay. Yeah, yeah, he played in he played in Greece. Then he came back to the NBA, got his second,

I guess third chance because he was a cavalier for a while. Yikes. Now he's with the Bucks. All right. Speaking of the Bucks, Yannis, if he goes west,

are we going to be really freaking out? I'm going to be sad. We'll talk about that coming back. If you want to get anything else, we've talked about today, we've talked about Bill Belichick. We've talked about our Houston Cougars

knock it off TCU tonight, Rockets and Spurs, Janice being traded. And by the way, congratulations to the world of social media, Ross. It's now day three without any C.J. Stroud memes out there. Maybe forgiveness is coming into play. Thank goodness. 713-213-2-5-790.

118 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. E. Mae Doca coming up at the bottom of the hour. Tom Brady chiming in saying it's completely ridiculous that Bill Belichick's not getting the hall fame. Of course. You think secretly deep, deep down, he's like, well, let me ask you this. I don't equate spy gate to deflate gate,

although it is again trying to get a competitive advantage because you like the size of the football to be as... Be careful on that. You like the size of the balls. Is that what you're saying? Or trying to avoid saying? You said it, not me, so clip that for Friday. Uh-huh.

Is he worried that he might be in a similar situation? Maybe. I don't think he is. First of all, it could be disputable that Belichick's the greatest coach of all time. I don't think it is, but some could dispute it. Some could say, well, Vince Lombardi or Don Shula. You know, I mean, you could put them in that really super-rarified here. In terms of a number of victories, it's not even close in terms of Super Bowl victories.

But people could go by and say, well, what do you? What did Belichick do what Tom Brady was in his quarterback? Tom Brady's the greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL, and as much as I love so many other quarterbacks of his ilk, he's the greatest quarterback of all time. He just is. I don't think the Flakegate gets him dinged a year. And maybe I'm being hypocritical on this.

He did get suspended four games. It was a cheating situation. It was. The biggest knock on that whole situation, for me for Tom Brady is that he destroyed his own phone. You were trying to investigate him and figure out if he was doing something wrong and he destroyed his phone. I don't know if he did that because he didn't want Jaselle seeing his text or what?

I don't have the reason of why he destroyed his phone. But if you're completely 100% innocent and nothing to hide, you're not destroying your phone. But Jocel was busy with her yoga instructor, right? I know. Taekwondo. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Sorry, I got that big time. They were grappling exercises.

They were grappling all right. he kept saying Oh, forget it So I don't think that dings him Because again, let me If you think the Belichick hate us People will find out Who didn't vote for Tom Brady in the first go-round

And they will be Tart and feathered basically Don't care I get it At first I didn't get it But once we factored in the spy gate And all the other stuff So is that a bit of hypocrisy on my end

That I'm like Tom deflated the ballade the baller balls or had the balls deflated and he got suspended why am I not holding him to the same sort of sanctimony when it comes to Bill Belichick and the deflate gate?

I think videotaping and opposing team illegally for allegedly up to maybe multiple seasons is a more egregious offense than taking a little air out of the ball so you can get a better grip on it. I would agree with that. Like I think steroid injection.

is worse than doctoring or baseball. There's different lows like misdemeanors versus felonies. Yeah. Or slap on the wrist, I get a little fine, or you need to be in jail for 10 years. And that's the one thing about degrees. And that's the one thing that people don't do in sports when you break these things down is people tend to believe that all crimes are created equal. Yeah.

There's the degrees of many things, if not everything. because I would honestly, and maybe again, I think the concerned effort to steal signals for another team is every bit as egregious as what the Astros did in 2017. I put on the same level I do. That's another thing too, is that the Astros... They're both trying to gain a competitive advantage through communications and through anticipating what is coming

when that's not the essence of what a sport is. I think it's funny because if we asked 100 baseball fans name a team that cheated, Astros would come up first. It's like, okay, the Yankees were punished for it too. The Red Sox had multiple scandals. It was the J.T. Watkins Alex Cora thing, and then it was also the Apple Watch thing. And yet they just became the face of it. And it was very widespread.

And that's another. Do we know that was every team filming every other teams walkthroughs to steal signals? I don't know. I don't think so. We hadn't heard anything about that. let's see yeah there there's a little nuance of discussion for sure it's not apples to apples but the astros did break the rules if Alex Spregman well he's a borderline case if at best right now anyways and here comes the astro fan of me for a second okay I've always said this and you know

I've not changed my tune on this I've said if after Mike fires if Mike fires would have got a brand new contract and would have been welcome to the Astros team and didn't get shelled by them when he was at the raise yeah he was would have been more than happy to keep his mouth shut. There wasn't this, this wasn't this sweet, innocent for the essence of the game and to keep the integrity going. He was doing it. He was a bitter, A-hole, and was mad at the Astros.

And honestly, if this was going on with a lot of other teams, which I truly believe it was, if Mike fires who were in Toronto Blue Jee gear and that happened to him there, he would have probably exposed the Toronto Blue Jays. wrong person to piss off for a guy who didn't deserve to be back on the team and the wrong team. Mike fires a Cincinnati Red. He could have done it there.

It's just as easy as the asteros. I will fall on the greatest baseball sort of all time saying that if you took, if you went in the locker rooms of 30 different clubhouses, 30 different major league baseball teams, I would safely tell you that 25 of them we're doing about the same exact thing as the Astros are doing. Wasn't it Josh Reddick or somebody that said Mike Fires is one of the ones banging on the trash can?

Like he was one of the ones helping out. Yeah. So don't give me this thought of, well, it was just the Astros. I will never believe that. Because we have Boston. We have the Yankees. And we have the last decade, Rossi, we have people saying over and over again, players, oh, it was happening. in our clubhouse too, the Astros just

having to get caught first. And it's scared everybody. And sometimes it takes one team to be the fall guy in order for everybody to be scared about it. Yeah, just look over here, Rob Banford says. Astros, Astros, Astros! And honestly, I'm telling you this, and we'll hopefully not bring this up a whole lot more than the rest of

our life here, but in my mind, the Astros are lucky they didn't get the World Series trophy taken from it. I'm... They would have gotten... I think Jim Crane would have filed a lawsuit. They would have had... Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm saying there could have been a whole different level of courtroom conversation. I think they would have gotten slapped with the lawsuit. Red Sox 18 title could be, I think it was got a whole can of worms that Rob Manfred didn't want to open up. All right. Let's talk. Yeah, let's talk to E. May Adoka next. 126 here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713, 212-5-790. Do you do Bill Belichick, believe it or not today?

You know, go in the archives. I know we got to, we got to find one. Could be the worst thing, Rossi. up next. Eme Adoka here on 790. Let's spend 10 calling minutes right now with the head basketball coach of your Houston Rockets. Emmaidoka Rockets taking on the Spurs tonight 830, which could be either 842 or 847, depending on TV. Then tomorrow night will be in Atlanta to take on the Hawks. Coaches with us here. Do you get the guys prepared ever so differently because of the late start, or is it just the Napsko a little bit longer in the afternoon?

No, we try to keep the schedule pretty much the same. saying we don't push back, shoot around or anything. I think guys are in their routines, and more than anything, to your point, to give the guys an extra hour or so to relax and get ready. Talk about routines. What is the one thing that does bother a team? You've coached on now long enough. You were a player.

You were an assistant coach. What makes routines, I guess for anybody important, but why NBA players are so fixated on an hour-by-hour basis? I think once you've been doing it for a certain amount of time, you just get in that mode of, you know, when to wake up, when to take your nap, when to eat, and kind of everything's set, especially on game days, for very specific times. And, you know, that's the game day routine that a lot of guys stick by. And when you get throwing off, whether it's nap time or something happens in the afternoon,

a lot of guys, rhythm and timing and clock gets kind of thrown off. So you try to keep it as much as similar as possible. And that's why we didn't move anything around, even though we're starting a little bit later tonight. My assumption is that Alpi didn't go to you directly before the game and say Santiago Dami is going to guard me, so let me have the ball as much as I can because that was as efficient as he's been as a Houston rocket. Yeah, I mean, they did the same thing last game. You know, a lot of teams want to put bigger bodies on men.

And so Jaron Jackson, Jr. guarding him. Alp. was guarded by Aldama last game. We saw some things that worked well in Memphis. But, you know, they're going to try to plug the lane with Jaron Jackson being the weak side help. you know, Alpern made great passes, but also got the ball in really deep scoring position before the double team could get there. You mentioned a man career high in assists. He had 14.

Scoring numbers have dropped a little bit. Coincidental or has it become a little bit of, hey, he's becoming an even better facilitator than he was, maybe even before the start of the season? No, he's definitely grown in that area. I think he missed some shots he would usually make. You know, he went three for 10 there. But, you know, honestly, could have 20 assists if we, if we, knocked down some open shots earlier in the game

before we finally started to make some later. But I think him getting downhill, he's starting to see the court better. He had some really nice passes, one to Kevin on the back door, a drop off or two to Alpi, and then, you know, some kickouts off of penetration. So you see him the floor better.

You know, that's the balance that he has to strike all years, when to be aggressive, get downhill, get to a basket, or when he has to read and make plays. And like I said, Jared Jackson, Jr. sitting back, clogging the lane off of him. He ate up a lot of that space. The help still came, and then he made the right play. Rocket Tech coach, Imo Adoka, was here on Sports Talk 790.

Tari Isan, just tell us how well. Obviously, he's been shooting well from three, and the things you like that you're seeing from him, keeping him in the starting lineup. That's, you know, a big part of it was him coming off the injury, amid the restrictions with the ankle. And so we wanted to ramp him back up. He's got those games under.

belt now and you know it doesn't take a lot to see how effective he was and we were when he was starting before he went out with the ankle and so like to have two really good lengthy defenders out there him and a manor dad Josh is that when he's out and then Dorian getting his way back in now so I think they're formidable as far as that you know they did a really good job on Spencer and coward you know two young guys who were really playing well for Memphis and so you see their numbers across the board and we'll look for them to do the same thing tonight with the spurs guys what is it like playing the it's not like you just played them, but not too many games ago. Is there a little bit of cat and mouse game with game planning tonight,

or is it kind of stick to the same? Well, there is back and forth. We saw some things we really did well against Web & Yama specifically, you know, to hold them to 5 for 21. It's a great job. We took away space. We were very physical, denied a lot of his catches, got him off the spot. And so that was a full team effort,

and everybody has to kind of be on board with that. And then our man did a really good job on Fox. Jabari was exceptional on Castle. You know, only one free throw for a guy that is a really good foulbader and forced him into eight three-pointers, which is not necessarily his game. And so I think across the board we did well, the thing we're going to have to obviously do his account for Champagne much better. You know, he got up 10-3s in the first half, made six of them. And then Bessel being back now. They're very similar as far as that.

So you have another shooter on a mix. Eamie, I love the term foulbator. It's just so good. It's just the truth. I mean, compared to when you. were playing. How often do you say that phrase when you're like, oh, I've got to go against this guy. This guy's searching for foul shots.

I mean, there was one or two guys, maybe in the league, maybe three. It seems like there's one or two guys on every team now. Her team. Yeah. There's now 60 of them. It's really different. I mean, the physicality of defense back then, if the rules were the same,

you would have fouled out every game for sure. And so, I got it really stands out to me, is Kevin Martin. A great, you know, great first step and great a job. drawing that foul if he drew a little contact and so playing against him a bunch and then played with them briefly in Sacramento saw how good he was that but back then it was

one or two guys and now it's a little bit of everybody so it's something you have to prepare for and keeping guys off the line is a major key to their success and our team's success. Any final decision about who's going to sit tonight or maybe tomorrow or is that still going to play things out how things go against the spurs before you figure

who's going to sit and stay? Well I mean the only guys we really talk about are the guys that can't play it back to back yet and we're holding Tari out and Dori and tomorrow. They'll both play tonight. Okay, very good. A lot of back-to-backs. I don't know you're not much of a calendar looker

because every time I ask you about who's playing, you're like, we're only like two opponents ahead, but is it kind of a race to the All-Star break to give guys as much going as you can? And then, you know, look, you can get that rest and not worry about the calendar once that mid-season break starts. Yeah, I think, you know, for us,

it's back-to-back each week. of the way. And so, you know, we didn't have a lot early, but, you know, had the, have the Philly Detroit. Now we have these two, and then next week it'll be the same thing, and then we finish with the clippers back to back at home. And so for us, it's finding that balance, you know, a bunch of games, three and four nights with back to

backs, but, you know, getting guys back healthy, getting guys off minute restrictions definitely helps, and they're relying on your depth. You know, obviously Kevin and I'm in our shouldering the load with the minutes, but want to shave those down as much as possible. Anytime you get a chance to wrestle those guys, get a comfortable win, it would definitely be

beneficial. I love the Detroit game because it was a back-to-back. It was a win, tough flight, whatever the case, but getting in the middle of the night there. How many times are you going to see a team like Detroit over the course of the season? And I don't know if it's necessarily East versus West because there's some physical teams, obviously, but that was kind of a little bit more of an old-school approach to playing a basketball game where it was not necessarily a 15-round boxing fight, but it was certainly even on the perimeter, a very physical contest. Yeah, I mean, we've established ourselves as the most physical. not, you know, one of them in the last few years. And so we want to maintain that identity while growing and improving in other areas and understanding the success that's brought us over the last few years. And then Detroit has somewhat done the same thing. Their personnel is definitely that. And I think Bickerstaff is kind of getting those guys on the same page as far as that. But you look at Duran, you look at Stewart, you look at some of their guys,

their natural physical guys and defenders. And so they bought into that, and it's been successful for them as well out on the east. And so you knew that game was going to be somewhat that. I think both teams enjoy that, enjoy playing that way. And we got the better of them this time. They got the better of us early at home this year. One week and change away from the trade deadline. Of course, we know Stephen Adams out for a length of time.

Are you in constant contact with Ruffel as far as regards to trades or more focused on what's happening on the court? No, we definitely talk and meet every few days a week, especially around this time. And so more so than anything, you know, people are checking in and very interested in a lot of our pieces. And so it's more of that than anything. I think he's just touching base with people. And obviously, people are reaching out with a lot more interest in us than we do in other people.

Do you ever respond back? New phone, who dis? No, I don't get the calls anyway. Call, Rafael. I ain't got time for you. Hey, Ema, thank you for the time. Good luck tonight. And we will see at the arena for the game against Spurs.

Looking forward to it. All right. You may have doker with us here on the show. Maybe it's a better question for Rafael, no new phone who it is. Yeah. I like that. That's very interesting insight.

Teams more interested in the Rockets pieces than maybe they are in theirs. And I'm going to be honest with you, it's kind of felt that from the jump. Yeah. I've never got, even with the Fred Van Vlead injury, did I ever get the sense of, man,

what are we going to do? How are we going to replace? Because remember, Fred was playing, Rossi, about 37 minutes a game. I mean, you were missing. production is a true point guard as a perimeter threat. He was also playing a lot of minutes. My first thought was when this happened,

they loved Reed Shepherd for a reason two years ago as a number three pick. They're like, Reed, this is your time. We're going to give you more minutes, and now we're going to definitely give you more minutes because we need you to step up and fill up some of that role. Did I read this correctly? Was he 0 for 7 from 3 in the last game? Yes, he was.

He is unfortunately one for his last 14. But that's going to change tonight. Yeah, okay. On the bright lights. Let's go. You put your name on it? The game is so big we're putting it on KTRH tonight. We're going 50,000 watts.

Listen to us in Mexico City. Let me tell you something. We got people all over the southeast listening to us. I know. Alexandria, Louisiana. I know, Matt. Don't get nervous for your big call. Ooh, you know what?

Reminds me. Plug your Instagram. Oh, thank you, man. I appreciate it. I will follow you back between now and 2 o'clock. If you follow me at Sports RV on Instagram, I will follow you back. And then before the end of the show,

I'll give you a shout out too. All right. I got to see if I'm on the... Add Sports RV. Let's see if I'm the National Radio call tonight on Sirius XM. Oh, okay. That gives me a little more nervous too. Oh, does it? Nah, you don't matter. When the game's in the middle of the game,

you're not thinking about it. Oh, I'm on the main channel. National Radio, let's go, baby. Big time, Mr. Worldwide. Normally you can get every game on Series, but there's some channels that are more easily defined than others. Spurs Rockets got to be featured. Yeah, the first game is Lakers, Cleveland.

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Billy Russ? Bill, Bill Russ. Not related to Billy. Bill Russell. Okay. That guy's got a lot. By the way, George Gervyn in Marty Supreme. There's a lot of cameos in that movie.

I met George Gervin in... I wasn't asking about that. When I was in San Antonio. No, I didn't care. Nobody asked. Wow. I just said that for a lot of. He could not have been nicer.

That was for glad. Yeah. By the way, Clinton hates Wemby, and he's not working the game with me tonight. Oh, you don't get to hear him complain or when he goes five to 20? Oh, he's got two to six tonight, so don't worry. That's good. Tar Heason's going to get physical with him. Everybody's going up in his kitchen.

Hey, Alpy, hey, Adam, Whimby doesn't... Alpid doesn't mind going against Wemby? No, he destroys him. Have you seen Wimby's... Have you seen Vicky's record against the Rockets? Vicky? I have not. Why can't I shorten his first name when everybody else shortens his last name?

That's all I'm doing. I figure it'd be Vic. I don't think, I don't know of a man named Victor. Put a Y on the end of Wimbanyama. It's Wimby. Why don't you go to the game tonight? I'll start calling you Addy. No, we're not doing that.

I could go home, eat dinner comfortably, and then get to the game with plenty of time as stupidly late as it is. I hate the NBA for doing that. ESPN National cachet, baby, let's go. What cachet? By the way, have you guys discussed at length Victor Wimbenyama's stance on political issues

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How's the fraternity and sorority scene? He was like a beta-feta, something or other. Yeah, it was probably the limited. It would have been the appropriate answer. Tim on 790. Tim, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Counting colleges and NFL teams. Todd Monkin has had 12 different stops

as a coach. Believe it or not, 12. Believe it. That's right. Statement number two for the win. Todd Monkin was the offensive the coordinator of Georgia when they won back-to-back national championships in 2021 and 2022. Believe it or not? Believe it. There you go. Congratulations.

Michael in Spring, Michael, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. All of it, Matt. Thank you. Todd Monkin was the head coach Southern Miss for three years where he posted a record of 13 wins and 25 losses. Believe it or not. Believe it. Yes.

Statement number two for the win. Todd Monkin got his first coach. job as a graduate assistant at his alma mater of course knox college believe it or not not that's right congratulations you try to be tricky on that one lost good for you let's go to uh kevin on 790 kevin you're ready to play believe it or not believe it Todd Monkin's brother jeff is the head coach for the army black nights believe it or not not that's a believe it believe it Did I write brother? Yeah.

His brother, Tom Monkin's brother, Jeff. Oh, it's his cousin, but I mean, he is at Army. I miswrote that then. Judge says you're, oh, man, that's tough. Clinton says you lose anyway. Sorry. Oh, sorry. Mike on 790, Mike, your fair part of today's 10 to 2 radio show.

I hate fires. On season 18 of HBO's hard knocks, it was revealed that Tom Monkin is a heavy user of chewing tobacco. he dips over 10 times per day. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, he never does it. He's anti-dipping. Roger on 790, Roger.

Ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, heard. Tom Mankin's son, Travis, is on the offensive coaching staff at Purdue. Believe it or not? Believe it? Yes. Congratulations. Poor Roger.

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That's up with Clinton and Wexler as part of, oh, by the way, a deep dive into potential tight-end coaches. Team next on 790.