The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Still Texans Hungover, Chance of Giannis To Rockets, Should Astros Kick The Tires On Framber?

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" continue to lament the Houston Texans dropping a halftime lead to the Detroit Lions to lose 26-23 on Sunday Night Football. However, there is a silver lining, as the game had some of the highest ratings of recent SNF matchups. Matt and Ross also:recap the Rockets defeating the Wizardsdiscuss the possibility of Giannis Antetokounmpo getting traded to the Rocketsdebate whether the Astros should attempt to shop Framber Valdezgive their latest "Gut Feelings"recap Week 10 in the NFL during "Ross' NFL Rewind" and more.

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1002 in H-Town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Hope you guys had a peaceful easy Monday. I didn't mean to go Eagles on you, but that's fine.

I do have a peaceful, easy feeling. Yeah. Rockets had a nice peaceful, easy feeling against something called the Washington Wizards. Yes. That's a challenge I'm peeling the curtain back For a team that is as Non-Descript as they are

That's not an easy game to call First of all the uniform numbers are terrible Second of all they have no stars Yeah And third they have Cal Coosma He's a star, just ask him Jordan pulls a star, just ask them Oof

Yeah but that's the two After that it was not Cory Kispert is a guy I knew a little bit Excuse me, bless you Cory Kispert Yeah bless you Justoon tight But not a very recognizable team

Corey Kispert, who saw his life flashed before his eyes when Stephen Adams ran at him? Yeah. It's funny. He was like, Corey Kisper was ready to throw hands. Adams comes his way and then he chuckles a smile and goes back to the other direction. He just had that deer in the headlights look like, oh. Yeah. That was great.

It was funny. Stephen Adams tag team wrestling partner, Jonas Valentunus was on the floor yesterday for the Wizards. Well, if that's whatever you're into, mate. Yeah. As he was saying. That was an awkward 30 seconds of a Stephen Adams conversation that I'll never get past. But that's a different issue for a different time. All right.

Hey, I hope you guys are in a good mood, ladies, as well. We are with you till 2 o'clock today. We haven't done this in a while, but it's, you know, something called a Texan's hangover. Do we still have that? I'm hanging over. I'm not feeling great. But you're going to go five and two the rest of the way.

Class half old. If you can guarantee me that, I can't guarantee you four. I can absolutely without a shadow of a doubt guarantee you four. That's bad for you. No, unless C.J. Stroud gets hurt. Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, anybody lose a franchise quarterback. I can't guarantee you four wins at the Kansas Chiefs lose.

Pat Mahomes would wrestle. And I would also say if Joe Mixon's out. That's true. Even though he got 46 yards. It wasn't his fault. It's not your fault, Joe. So what do you think it was? How does the offensive line give him so much protection one week

in two weeks and three weeks? And then all of a sudden he gets cabashed on Sunday. I don't know, man. I'm going to have to break down the all-22. Well, that's what I'm looking forward to. And really get to the ends and the outs. And maybe there were some problems with the run blocking. Because obviously, even with Kenyon Green and all the issues he had with the pass blocking,

we know that the run game was still pretty good. Yeah. You know, the Texans aren't as good without Nico Collins on the field. Of course they aren't. Yeah. We said that. Yeah. Everyone knows that.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know. Even Gary, who called the previous show to Narc on us for not, you know, just loving every second of his take, you know, Mr. Staccato, not Scato voice. Socratic? Socratic voice. It was aocratic method. He's asking questions to prove his point. Let me tell you something.

Other people call this, other listeners call the show to rip on another host. I ain't taken that. I've done that for a long time period of time. So you can't call another show and rip on me. Oh, you know what? I like it, though. I like when people call this show and rip on Adam Clanton or Waxler or somebody. No, I don't.

I don't like it. So Gary, shut you bum ass up. you know, I called the show that was after years. I think it started at 10 o'clock. And, you know, I was like going through some points and they weren't having, of course we were having it. Yeah, we had a discussion. We just didn't appreciate your tune. It came across as douchy and we called you out on it.

I just think it's an oversimplification to say that Nico Collins here, Texans win all these games. Yeah. I think it's competition. I think it's, of course, Nico Collins is missed. And look, the production is not good. I mean, Xavier Hutchinson Downfield doesn't present. present the same sort of threat or scare that other teams do. But you also win against the best safeties in the NFL.

You also win against a defense that still put plenty of pressure on its quarterback. And, you know, a couple of times during the course of the game, especially second half, CJ Stroud threw some passes that I guarantee you would like to have back. Yes. It's going to happen against elite teams. If that was Jacksonville Sunday night at 720, first of all the game wouldn't be out at 7.20. It might be at 8.30 in the morning. That's true.

But you have to, you know, you have to rise the competition. And I think that's the main thing we'd spent yesterday talking about was you just, you want to get one of those victories against super elite teams that make you say, you know what, come January, look out, here we come. You want a statement win. You want to be able to say the Texans can hang with the best. And I would say the Buffalo Bills win at home at no question. Is probably the biggest feather in their cap.

But since then now, Amari Cooper hadn't even playing. bills are playing a lot better football. And I would say if you go on a neutral field right now, the bills would be the favorite in that game. Neutral field against the Steelers. How do you feel? If you don't want to answer that question, you're okay. You don't have to.

I told you. Them Steelers are coming, Maddie. The defense is playing well. Russell Wilson will have a nice factoid for you about quarterback play in Pittsburgh coming up on the NFL rewind. We're going to make the people wait a whole hour and a half for that. Yeah, it's not worth waiting for an hour and a half, but if you happen to be around in an hour and a half,

it didn't. All right. Latest standings, if the Texans playoffs, if the AFC playoffs are to start today, Kansas City would have the buy. It would be a legit buy because buys are not off weeks. This is a legitimate buy. You would then have...

Thanks, Charles. You'd have Buffalo taking on the last walled card, which would be the Denver Broncos. Houston and Pittsburgh would play. Oof. You know, that's not right. No, that's not. They're a division leader, aren't they?

Yeah. This whole thing is wacky when it comes to the ESPN thing. Okay. Let me see what the playoff. Let's see if this helps out. Okay, now we got it. Can City has the buy week. It would be Buffalo versus Denver, Pittsburgh versus the L.A. Chargers.

Baltimore would be coming to Houston. Baltimore is here a Christmas day. Yes. So it would be a little bit of an AFC wildcard weekend preview. And why are you shaking your eyes? I'm sorry, I was just picturing Lamar Jackson against his defense, this Texas defense. The Texan defense is very good, but it's just

Lamar Jackson is, I'm going to say, the most dangerous weapon in football right now. And I'm not asking you to look this up right now, but just off the top, Lamar Jackson, again, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Just an average playoff quarterback? Or am I simplifying it too much? He's been about that.

Okay. He's had some bad playoffs. off games. And we've talked about the AFC championship game this past year. I feel like he was pressing. I feel like he was, there were throws. Everything was in their category. They were home for Kansas. Yeah, yeah. Short to intermediate. Now, first

of all, the Chiefs have a great defense. But I feel like the short to intermediate throws were there and he was trying to drive the ball deep and unfortunately he wasn't accurate in the, unfortunately for him he wasn't accurate in those throws and they lost. It was a close game. I think it was a one score game. So I'm thinking all the top of my head.

it. Because Lamar is probably going to win, if not another MVP award, but he'll be probably top three, right? Yes. Because typically the award goes to quarterbacks, at least it has, in the last 10 or 15 years. Is there somebody that you've followed that we have talked about? That is Mr. Everything in the regular season, but you may, you just can't count on. And then there's been baseball. Of course, there's been a couple here in town. Clayton Curshaw? I'm talking about football. Okay. People would say that about... I wonder if Damarino's, if, if you're If we went back and looked at Dan Marino's playoff numbers, you know, only one Super Bowl appearance in his life. Lots of playoff appearances, but only one Super Bowl. People would say that about Peyton Manning.

He's got two titles, though. Yes, but his record, and this is... In Elway, probably towards the beginning of his NFL career was one of those guys, too. People said that about Joe Montana? No, they didn't say... No, they never said about Joe Montana, no, no. I'm going to say, off of the top of my head. I just remember Peyton Manning having a bad playoff rep.

Yeah. Who else? Lamar Jackson does have it right now. Yeah. I looked it up. He threw for 272 yards, had a touchdown. I mean, would you say that Josh Allen has been a playoff disappointment? No Super Bowl's for the Buffalo Bills?

Yeah, exactly. That's the thing. It's like people are talking about single football games. You can be out in the NFL. It's just so overrated these discussions, the playoffs in general. We've brought it up, too, on this show, talking about, you know, Kyle Tucker and everybody's like, He just freezes in the playoffs. Well, yeah, he's...

You know what it is to me? It's not even my freezes. First of all, it's a very small sample size. Second of all, you're not going against chop liver. You're not facing the Oakland A's pitching staff. Yes. You're going against a team that is as good as you are, and in some cases, better. And maybe, although if you're, if you are a Ravens fan, which I don't expect there be too many here in the marketplace,

but if you're a Ravens guy, you're a Lamar Jackson guy, you've got to be thinking, man, we've lost our best. opportunity because we had when you have a home field game in the in an aFC championship you're basically already making your reservations with the super bowl you kind of are well not when pat mohomes at the kansas city chiefs are at the other side see that's what you did we just said oh by the way lamar jackson's awesome oh by the way there's the other side of the ball that's just as good if not better than you are i mean they were great and it's also one game if they'd have played 10 games maybe the ravens win five and the chiefs win five it's just that's how it happens that's the nature of football and it is what it is.

And I feel like, honestly, if we go through the years, Tom Brady probably got lucky a lot. He did get lucky a lot. Yeah. And you've gotten more failure than success. Maybe with the exception to Tom Brady's case. Because we know, Bernie, we know, for long. He lost three Super Bowls.

What a loser. I know, I know. All right. Rockets get a win last night against the Wizards. If you were on to talk about that, if you would like to get in a conversation about if you're suffering with a Texans hangover on this Tuesday, 713, 212-790.

The number again, reach our show. We'll be with you all the way until 2 o'clock. So really, not a lot of hard-hitting headlines in the world of sports today. We have another week until we have a chance to chew on the Texans Cowboys game because the game would have been last night a week ago. So we'll get into a lot of other things. We will also get into Alex Breggman taking a photo with his gold glove and thinking, are we just going to have to sit by our phones and wait for the tweet from a Rosenthal

or from a Jeff Passing to determine what's going on? And by the way, there are new betting odds out on where Alex Spragman goes if he doesn't stay with the Astros. And you're not going to like one of the teams he's thinking about going to, at least what the Vegas folks are thinking. 713-212-5-7-90. We also have gut feelings today at 1 o'clock where you call in and make your sports predictions. It's a very easy segment you call in. You make a sports prediction. If you hit it, you call us back a couple weeks later and brag about yourself.

If you don't hit it, you don't worry about it. We don't judge you typically. We've got the NFL rewind. We've got, believe it or not, today at 150, where someone is going to win. The very first person and wins the game is going to win a pair of it. tickets to see Justin Timberlake in concert. It's a nice-sized Tuesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show. We want you here with us at 713-213-5-7-90.

Lunch-timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. Ratings for the Texans game against the Lions was really good. Highest ranked week 10 game in five years now. That would require us to go back and looking at previous week tens. Look. Friend of the show, Greg Rajan, I guess, did dug that up. Top 10 markets for watching the Lions Texans, Pittsburgh.

Let me taste some. You could put on Carolina every week and Pittsburgh would watch it. Pittsburgh just loves its football. Seriously. Wait, you're saying they were one? No, number 10. I'm going to 10. I was like, what?

I was really shocked. Pittsburgh 10, Las Vegas 9. Interesting. Gambling. Yeah, I guess you're right. Sacramento. Sacramento? Huge football market.

What? Yeah. The Sacramento mountain lines are huge over there. I don't know. I mean, of the U.F. If you really wanted to go to expand the NFL, which I don't think they're going to do, I would be, I'd put Sacramento on the short list. Hmm.

Is C.J. Straught from Sacramento or something? I don't know. That's crazy. Seven, Austin. Uh, hmm. Six, Cincinnati. Huge football. Five Milwaukee, huge.

That's Green Bay, but Miss Wisconsin. Four Minneapolis. Huge football. three Houston. Three? Yeah. Oh, come on! You're three in your own Sunday night game?

Houston! Let me give you put into perspective. A rating is attached to a number of listeners. A share is number of television sets. Okay. Share's percentage. So if everybody was at a sports bar, it could hurt them? You know, that's a good question.

I don't know how that works out. Share's percentage. So here's the thing that's crazy. Pittsburgh, 25% of all television. television, Mark, televisions in Pittsburgh, according to the Nielsen's, were on the game. 25%. They do love football. I love that.

Vegas 33, Sacramento 32, Austin 37, since 9031%, Milwaukee 31%, Minneapolis, 35%. Houston was the third highest rated game. 41% of all households in Houston were had the Texans game on. What are the other 59% of you doing? Great question. Let's watch some Texans and some Lions football waiting all day for Sunday night. The second highest. rated above the city

of Houston. Kansas City. Hmm. Love their football. Just absolutely love their football. And they got mediocre ribs, so they're just upset. You know what? I'm not going to let you do that. I'm just kidding. I haven't eaten. The food in Kansas City

is really, really, really... You know what you're talking about? I always went talking about bands. Underrated city generally. Gambling. This is the thing, though. Good sports fans, good food. The thing is, I can't trust your palate, though, so I'm going to have to find out for myself. Well, come on. Let's go. All right.

I don't know what we're going to go. Maybe go, you know, I do want to go to a game at Royal Stadium. Let's go to the ASC championship game in Arrowhead. Who are they playing? The Texans. You're okay. 38% of all television sets in Kansas City watching that. Okay, so more percentage of sets in Houston.

41%. So that means in Kansas City, they stayed with it longer? No, it means that... Then how is it rated higher there? Explain this to me like I'm five. Okay. For every point you get that, equals, say, 11,000 sets.

Okay. So they had more people... But we're a bigger market. You're right. And if we have more sets, then we should have more rating share? So that means people are... No, no, no. You can have a higher rating, but a lower share because we have more television sets here.

Our one point may mean worth 20,000. Yeah? Or their one point in Kansas City may be worth 15,000. Does that make sense to you? I guess. Not really. Let's just move on. Okay. But here comes. the coup de grace. So Houston had a 14.1 rating.

Okay. Let's say each rating point meant 3,000 left viewers or 15,000 viewers. Detroit rating 29.5. Wow. So here's an over and double. Yeah. 64% of anybody watching television in Detroit was watching the Texans and the Lions. 64%. Basically, you went to 10 households, better than six of them would have the game on. Wow. That's crazy. And in Houston, only four. Yes. Case and point.

My house on Sunday, when I got home from Detroit with the Rockets and Pistons, we had two television sets on. One was watching, I believe, Yellowstone, and one was watching the Texans. Yellowstone. One was watching the Texans game. Okay. So it kind of canceled each other out, frankly, you think about it. I guess so.

Yeah. So ratings-wise, Texans, the city of Houston, we just, we watch our local teams. we don't have much interest in anybody else. Like, I'm going to assume that last night's Miami Charger game wasn't seen by a whole lot of people in here in Houston. Rams, whatever. Doesn't matter. So my point is that we're not a huge fan of neutral teams.

Yeah, like Pittsburgh is. Now, we'll draw for Cowboy games. That's true. A lot of Cowboys fans. Frankly, every city in American draws for Cowboys. And a lot of people hate watching Cowboys. Yeah, I hate watching all the time. I hate listening to all the time.

We know. 63%. Wow. That's crazy. Well, congratulations to Detroit. I mean, what else are you going to do there? It was cold and rainy. Go ahead.

Order some middle measers. Oh, the media spread there. My God, it's so good. Best media food in the league, not even close. Well, not the best team in the league. No. Kate Cunningham's good. He's okay.

He's like a triple double machine. He's pretty good. Three of his last four games, triple double. Yeah. That'll conclude our Kate Cunningham talk for the show today. I thought we're going to do a deep dive. They don't even talk about Kate Cunningham in the Troy. I thought we were going to get into his

analytics. More people are upset that the Red Wings lost 419 to the Rangers the night before. Did they? Yeah, yeah. I'll take your word for it. I wouldn't make that up. You're locked on Red Wings. I like that. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790 is how you reach a show with you till 2 o'clock today.

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I've got a hair down today. I don't want you making eyes at me. No, trust me. All that gray in there, no chance. If you died it, maybe you have a puncher's chance, but not really. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Okay, so the Rockets last night get a victory against the Washington Wizards. And no Fred Van Vlite.

A man Thompson steps in. Tari Eason's doing his thing. it's kind of a nice little run here the Rockets have put together. What does on-paced guys say when you win seven under your first 11? Okay, go ahead. Are you asking me? Well, I'm going to do the quick math. Okay, so there's 82, there's 82 games.

I'll have it for you in one second. 52 wins. That's an over. That's a significant one. I had 40, I predicted 48. Okay. Well, then I ask you, Matt, does this feel like a 50 win team to you? No, because I can't ever tell anything after 11 games.

That's not fair to say that to anybody, right? I don't know. We're judging the Texans after 10 games. By the way, you know the Milwaukee Bucks are like, what are their record? They're 2 and 8. Yeah, we can judge them. They suck. How do you feel about Bill Simmons?

Bill Simmons, I think he used to be the gold standard for fun sports writing. I read his book, book of the basketball back in the day, but I believe he's becoming increasingly out of touch and passe. Okay. I believe he's the one that I was catching a tweet, listening to it before the game yesterday. That intrigued me very much. Okay. And we'll play it for you coming back here in a minute.

713-212-7-90. If you want to reach the program today, we'd love to have you as part of our show. We're with you until 2 o'clock this afternoon. And again, coming up at 11 o'clock, which is in about 35 minutes from now, we're going to ask you to make some sports predictions. they're called gut feelings. Okay. And when you hit, you brag.

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And remember, we take more calls than anybody else in the marketplace. It could be to our detriment. But we... Often. We believe that it's y'all's... show, it's not us just rambling for four hours, because frankly, Ross doesn't have that kind of material to cover four hours. So, um, challenge accepted. Nah, that's good. By way, Ross is going to work extra hard this week because he's taking the next

two weeks off after that. I'm good. I'm not working extra hard. I'm in vacation mode, Matthew. I'm checked out. Are you? That's great. We are checked out, my friend. No, you should be. You should not be at all. I'm in, what should I pack mode? You're going for two weeks. Yes. How much of the bags for each, uh, for the trip? Uh, how many, what do you mean? Oh, how much do they cost? Oh, for me, the first two are free. Hmm. But you're not a fickle flyer.

No, I'm not, but I'm traveling with someone who is, and they put me on their reservation. So we're good. To kind of circumvent the system. I don't think I wouldn't say that. I'm going to say it. Trust me, I'm paying enough. Those flights to Korea, folks? Hit the savings account.

Can I say or do you don't want to say? I mean, I can. Yeah, I don't think it's embarrassing. It was $1,500 to fly over there. That's, honestly, that's not terrible. I disagree. I thought it was horrible. I mean, think about it.

To go to L.A. and New York, it's going to cost you six. I wanted to spend a good $199. By the way, you cannot fly Mirate to do it. Trust me, I tried. No, I didn't. By the way, as soon as I got to the arena yesterday, we were having dinner in the media dining room and there was a headline,

apparently there was a shooting on a merit plane. Really? Yeah. How do they get a, how did they get out? I didn't. I was busy working and getting ready for the Rockets games. I don't know. There's no way.

Google it while we talk to some people. Let's talk to. That sounds like an urban legend. Ryan and Friendswood at 1033 on 790. Ryan, thank you for waiting. Good morning. Oh, good morning. And it's Brian.

Hi, Brian. Well, sorry. I heard you talk about the ratings. And I was wondering, does it take into account people who may be streaming the game to their computer or phone or tablet? It usually does not. Now, we have some streaming things we can do on our radio station we can do. I don't know if television do the same thing. But, yeah, I think it's literally the last time I checked,

and I don't know with complete certainty, Brian, that it is television sets. Okay, well, because both me and my son, who are both huge Texas fans, we were both streaming the game. Yeah, I'd have to probably ask a television executive that. I don't know that for sure. As I said, Brian, I know what radio is.

I don't know if television has made that adjustment to it. And my guess is, and thank you, Brian, for the phone call. If they were smart Ross, they would do that. Now, downloads are easy to calculate because Amazon Prime, when they put their Thursday night game on, they tell you the next day how many different people streamed the game. They have a much more of a certain way of doing it where everybody that carries a television box that represents Nielsen represents like if you had a box on and you were watching the game, you represented 5,000 Houstonians. So, yeah, I don't know. But I'm also, I imagine people in Detroit were streaming too. So, I mean,

No, no, I think, again, I don't know anybody in the TV world. And if you are a TV person, know this answer. I think, generally speaking, it's a number of television sets that are on. Okay. And again, it's a guest estimation. Of course, absolutely. It's a complete game. The rating systems are extremely flawed.

Like, I'll peel the curtain back here in Houston. The reason why we don't talk about ratings ever is because the system is largely flawed. There's about, give or take, 1,700 people in Houston. that carry a meter. Can you talk about this? I'm scared. I think you can. It's like a pager.

Okay. And those 1,700 people determine the listing habits for a metro population of 6 million people. Yes. Now, the dorks that are the analytic people say, that's all you need to properly measure. That seems to be completely whacking to me, but you know what? I'm not a calculus major, so. Yes. They think the sample size is good, which is true.

You can have a pretty small sample size, and, you can have a pretty small sample size, And it'd be statistically significant. But if I, and here's the argument that I get with people all about time with radio. If those 1,700 people don't listen to sports, like let's say that you had 600 of them that were African American that listened to Magic or the Beat or something. And you had another 500 that were Hispanic, you listen to Spanish. I mean, you just, it's hard to me to feel like you can get a proper sample size of

Rando, 1,700 people. They don't randomly pick them. They pick some people of certain age and of certain demographics. So, I mean, do they do that to fit the ages and demographics of the market? That I don't know. I guess. Let's ask our radio people. This is above all of our heads.

I know. Ono is that we thank you for listening to matter what the number say. And congratulations to the Matt Thomas show with Ross for being a number one in the marketplace in our time slot in quarter three. Yes. And one of us got to benefit from it. 713, 212. All of us.

No, I believe that Connor and I are shut out on that. No, Connor's not. Oh, Conner's not. Oh, then maybe two of the three of us got to benefit from that. You're fine. 713, 212, 5, 7.90. Larry and Oak Forest to the bad tabby show of Ross. Larry, good morning.

Yes, sir. I wanted to ask about a favorite player of mine. I've been watching from North Shore High School, since he was a freshman, one of the best running backs I've ever seen. Zachary Evans. I don't understand why he's not playing. I really don't. He's been described as a heat-seeking missile.

That's his running style. Very explosive, good size. I don't understand why Zach is not playing, why the Rams would release him. I don't get it. And then why someone else hasn't picked him up? Yeah, I don't know. Maybe he's not that good.

I mean, just one thing, I'll tell you this, Larry. The best, I covered high school football for many, many years, best high school running back I ever saw. Do you remember Trey Williams? I do. From DeKaney High School? He single-handedly took Decaney to the state championship.

Absolutely. And you know what? It didn't work out for him. He went to Texas A&M and he bounced around the NFL and for whatever reason, maybe it's past protection, maybe it's attitude, maybe I don't know. For whatever reason, he never panned out. And like you're saying, Zach Evans was

a legend at North Shore. And yeah, he'd kind of bounced around even in college, and then, as you mentioned, he was recently released from the practice squad of the Rams, and he's a free agent. The reality is that he got cut in the preseason. He signed to the practice squad, and then the Rams released him from the practice squad,

making him a true free agent, and no one has picked him up. I see a report that he worked out with the Colts about a month ago, but he wasn't signed. My goodness. You know, he may be lacking on past protection, but I think his running ability makes up for that, in my opinion.

I hope to speak back again. He's one of my all-time favorite players. Well, you know what? He's got a friend like you. He's going to be in a good shape of the rest of his life because you have love for him, Larry, and sometimes I wish people have love for me like you have love for Zach Evans.

I do. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. How about that? Larry, I don't know they're related. It didn't sound like they related. Larry sounds like a guy that just went to high school games. Who is his cat?

He loves high school football. That's great. I got a friend of mine named Bill, longtime sports administrator has been retired for about 10 or 15 years that when he was towards the end of his professional career before a Saturday football game, especially on the road,

I'm speaking of Bill Cousins, my friend who used to work at Rice, he and our statistician for the Rice broadcast would get in a car in a road city like Tulsa or would they go to Reno or anywhere where the Cougar, the Rice Ows were playing. They'd run a car and they would just drive to try to find some Randall High School football game on a Friday night.

Yeah, it's a good time. I wouldn't say I miss covering it, but it's got its, I don't know, certain something. Geneseecois. Here's what I'm not a huge high school fan, but here's what we could do sometime. Friday night when I don't have a cougar game or something involved with the rockets, we get in a car. Okay. And we get an I-45. And we follow the lights until we find some.

Well, let's keep like north of the Beltway. No, I'm talking about like out of the city limits. Yeah, that's a good idea. Now I'm not going on some Aldi Nimitz game. Are you kidding me? No chance. Why not? I'm going to Aldine Auxiliary? No, no. It's a good stadium. I want to go like to like

Centerville. Centerville, okay. I think Corsicana's got a good squad. Does Buffalo, Texas have a high school team? I'm sure they do. I'm sure they do. We ought to do. Yeah, but I don't want to go if they're crappy. They're going to go get beat 77 to 7. I don't want to watch that. We don't say very long.

We drive. We eat something at the game. Okay. Critique their food. Okay. Watch maybe a little bit of the game. Maybe watch their halftime and then go off and check the next game. Yeah, we get to do. a chopped beef sandwich and a bag of fritos and then we go to the next. Precisely.

You don't know life as good as it is until you've had a chopped beef at a high school football game. Yeah, okay. I'm in. And we got like two or three games in that one night. All right. We go try to find a six man? Oh, like seven on seven. No, six man.

Okay. I don't think it's seven man. I don't think it's six man. They play six man somewhere, right? I don't know. Do you do that back in the day? I only know about seven on seven. No, I think it's called six.

six-man football. Hmm. Okay. So that would be what? Is that the little game with the magnets? No, that's really small, super, super tiny towns. Okay. But going to find single-A football where both guys had to play both ways and they play in the band at halftime? Oh, ain't that America?

For you and me? Yeah. You're on the punt team, the kick-return team, the offense, defense. And you're on the homecoming court. Yeah. God bless America. Texas football, baby. land that I love.

713. 212-5-790. 7-13. Oh, we get some information on the airplane shooting here. Oh, thank God. All right, Javier, pass a good down, Dina. Thanks for calling without then on Mirate.

What's going on, Javier? It wasn't a shooting inside of the plane, but apparently the plane was going to land in Haiti, and somebody, like, on the ground, somebody else shot at the plane. Actually hit the plane a few times. Wait a minute. What is a Mirate plane doing in Haiti?

I have no idea And I know everybody likes making Mirit jokes and whatnot But I mean Imagine being on that plane getting shot at it Oh hell no Don't you imagine Oh hell no I don't care what airline

You're doing? I mean I'm surprised really Haiti's not the nicest place But yeah And that's what happened It wasn't a gun on the plane Okay thank goodness It actually got shot at

Yeah I didn't think Yeah wow I didn't know that realize That Mirit flew to Haiti It was like maybe a charter flight or was a commercial service? Flight 951. I think it's commercial.

I'm not sure. Flight 951 to Port Al Prince. Porto Prince. I had one more thing. Yeah. What the hell's going on to Texans? Jesus Christ, that was bad, dude. And now we have a, hold on.

Javier, I want you to say what you just said, because I want to record that for us. Hold on. What you just said that one sentence don't say anything more than what you just said. Go ahead. What the hell is going on with the Texans? That was garbage. Don't forget to J.C. Jesus Christ.

Thanks for the phone call. Oh, go ahead. We'll go to Monday, and both Texas teams are going to, both Texas teams are have a suckoff? Like, who sucks worse? Like, ah, dude, what a mess. Thank you. Anyways, guys, I have a good day. Thank you, Javier.

We'll see you later. That's Monday show, a suck off. You won't be here for that. Me and Dan Matthews will be. I don't want to be here for that. It's a Texans Cowboys suckoff on Monday. You and Dan enjoy your suckoff. Y'all are welcome to join us on our suckoff Monday at 10 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790.

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Got feelings are coming up at 11 o'clock. You simply make predictions. It's very simple how the segment works. By the way, enough with you sending me tweets and emails about the suck off. It's not going to happen. And if we call it that, we're not. There's no way we're calling... We're not calling Monday show the Texans'

Cowboys suck off. It's not happening. That's just going to Enough. Going to bring a whole different crowd. Yeah. Or maybe some of the same crowd actually. You know what?

If you want that, I was going to say dudes on dudes, but let's forget that. Jeez, please, you don't have to do that. All right. I have to tell you, I love

not conspiracy, but wacky sports predictions from people. Okay. And I would say of the wacky sports predictions you hear, 95% of them don't ever come to pass.

But once in a while... Yeah, that's the Matt Thomas show. In a nutshell, that's right. But I love when other people do it. Okay. And Bill Simmons was recently on a podcast of some sort, because everybody in their mother does a podcast. Was it his podcast?

Who knows? But I saw this on a tweet, and he was asked and discussed that if things continue to go south in Milwaukee, would the bucks and would Yon request a move out of Milwaukee because I think they've got issues

and he'll explain the issues coming up here I think in this sound bite of the one I'm thinking it's right but it's interesting where Bill Simmons thinks that Janus might end up here it is to me it's either Brooklyn or Houston because Houston's the other team that could

they have picks and young players it's just like if I'm Janus would I rather go to Brooklyn or Houston I don't know Houston's minus 128 Houston has Houston made that trade They have Brooklyn's 2006 first

They can swap Brooklyn in 27 They have a Phoenix first 27 They own all their own picks They have a Phoenix or Dallas first 209 And like they have enough To put a Yonest thing together

With some contracts Give them a young player The problem is they gave Extensions to Green and Shangoon So I don't think those guys Can be in the trade But they could patch stuff together But I think those are the two

teams. I don't think Miami has enough. Lack of tradable draft picks, an aging roster, and a lot of money behind a guy that I don't know if one sustained Milwaukee the rest of his life. Uh-oh. You've got an initial, you've got a gut feeling to this

gut, I said gut commentary to what you just heard. You're wincing. This is just... Is this him to talk out of his ass? Yeah, to me now, first of all, I'm on board. Now, I like to Now, talking out of my ass and one of my specialties.

I mean, that is what it is. So I like when I hear some of this crazy stuff, too. This is just podcast spitballing. There's just, it doesn't make any sense. I mean, he listed why it's not going to happen in his own points. Like, they just re-signed Jalen Green and Alpern Shingoon. Unless the Milwaukee Bucks are in love with one or both of those players, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. They're locked in for a long time.

Well, Jalen Green can opt out after two years. You'd have to match his salary, which would be about $49 million. Yeah. So you'd have to send probably one of those. Or are we talking about, I mean, some conglomeration of Jabari Smith Jr. and Dylan Brooks and whatever else? No, no, no, no. How is that attracted to the Milwaukee Bucks? You'd have to give them Tari and the men.

Yeah. And even if you know what Tari is, it then. of the day, I think a men's ceiling is significantly higher. Tari's playing out of his mind right now, and I'm so happy for him because he's so aggressive on both ends of the floor, and he's having a really great season, and a men's doing all the little things. Amens got potential, not super, but major star power where he, you're not building around him, but he is certainly a core piece to I think would be a team that is looking to say, you know what, I want to be better. I think Amend, Tom, and does so many things,

except the number one thing about we shoot, but everything else. Defense, rebounds, can play four different positions, great defender, spectacular high IQ for basketball for a guy as young as he is. You just can't send Jay Sean Tate. I mean, those are, I like Jay Sean a lot, personally. But you'd have to send some,

you'd have to send a tray that would hurt. Yeah, and I just, I don't think it's going to happen. And I, what I don't get is I don't know how, again, I'm not a basketball coach. So how do you space Alperin Shangoon and Yannis on the same floor together? Oof. Well, if the men's gone, I guess that takes away some of the non-shooting. But yeah, you would have to be, you'd have to have the Milwaukee Bucks in love with Alpern Shingun

and wanting to pay him the money he's making the next four years. Now, I guess, now, how long do they have to wait before they can trade? I was talking about not trading Alperin. Is there a world where Alperin and Yannis would be on the same basketball team? You're saying no. I guess they'd have to take Jalen Green. Yeah. There's got to be, there's a certain length of hold on players you sign.

Yeah. This feels like to me more of something you would discuss at the end of the season, not in the middle of it. Look, I'm sorry. Yeah, this is just, all right, well, I just want to throw it out there. I'm balling from Bill Simmons. But I will say this, the NBA has something on the NFL. And there's very few things that the NBA has on the NFL. Their offseason is way sexier.

Their trade deadline is way sexier. it's almost the most exciting part of the calendar year unfortunately that's what the problem the NBA has you give me July over the first months of the year I'll take July right because it's you just can't wait to guess on where a player is going to go what do you mean Matt you're not excited to see who wins the NBA Cup by the way Friday night you need to be in that arena the floor oh lord it looks cool it's interesting I like it it's going to be a lot of red yeah and very little Pete not what That would be peach color. Bage is what I think I said on the floor last night. Okay. Yeah. So the clippers are... Perhaps a tope?

Or a bone? I don't think I would use the word bone in that particular case. Okay. You save that for Monday Night Cowboys, Texas. No. I don't know when you use it. You haven't used the word bone in years. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-2. You're really proud of yourself after that man is smiling to himself so hot. Not. Not at all. It's time for us to get your gut feelings. I need you to make some sports predictions. Can you do that for us? We'd appreciate that.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Hour number two, the Matt Thomas show. Ross continues. Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Listen up, girls and boy, Matt Thomas. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show.

time for you to make your sports predictions at 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 you make the predictions you get them right you brag if you get them wrong unless they're just totally preposterous we will give you absolutely no crap for making those wrong predictions first and foremost before we go to the phones and get our predictions in for this week we ask all of you to listen to how we did one week ago that's where ross comes in and tells us Yeah. Let's see. I have you, Matt, we're talking about the election. Why does the election seem like it was a month ago? Election not decided by tonight. I don't know. When was it officially called? Was it the next morning or was it that evening? No, no, I was wrong. That's a wrong hit because it was it was done by Tuesday night by the time I went to bed. So I thought it was going to be a couple days. I did not. No. Also, you had the Texans losing by double digits. to the Detroit lines. That's also a wrong one. See, it happens, folks.

We can't, I'll be perfect. Oh, I know. I'm here to help you. Thanks. I'm here to remind you. That's all I wrote for you. Did you do anything else? That's it.

Okay. I wrote, your candidate deserved to win, and I stick by that. Your candidate deserved to win the election. Congratulations, or my condolences. I also had Texans covering the three and a half. You're such a dog. Texans covering the three and a half,

they did. That's a good beat for you. Or it's a bad win. What's a good win? What do you mean? Yeah, you know what you cash ticket? It's most important. They were up 23 to 7. They should have won that game. And I also had... Your team let you down. I also had the under 49 and a half. That's a chiching and a ching. I need to start giving out the lack of the week. On a recorded line? Yeah. And that's all I wrote down for me. Our good friend, Connor McGovern, had Alpi with 20 plus points on Wednesday. I don't know what he did that game last Wednesday.

I'd have to go back and look. He said 27 in back-to-back games. I know that for a fact. I think he had, I think it was a dud in that game. Was that Oklahoma City? 16 points, yeah. Yeah. No, against San Antonio.

Where the Rockets won by 27. Shingoon only had 16, so that's an L. That's like three wire-to-wire, four wire-to-wire wins for the Rockets this year. He said Will Anderson will play. He did not. He also said Nico will not play. That was correct. he also had a Dalton Schultz touchdown.

That didn't happen. But John Metchie got a touchdown. I don't think anybody had John Metchie on the bingo card. I did. By the way, are we going to predict more success for Dalton Schultz back after this year? Maybe a concerted effort by the Texans to get him more involved in the offense. I don't think so. I mean, he's been involved.

Look at Titans around the NFL. If you're not one of the top ones, I mean, he had three kinds of three. catches for 66 yards. That's what San Leporta had. CJ threw to the tight ends eight times on Sunday. Eight of us, 33 passes. I'm going to go, Dalton Schultz's targets have been up, especially since Nico went down and then digs as well. All right. I'm going to start with a gut feeling.

I'm going to segue from what I just said. Dalton Shultz finds the end zone this Monday night. You're stealing Connor's thunder, man. He's been predicting this every week. I'm going with it. Dalton Shultz to the end zone. You know what? I'd like to personally apologize to you, Connor. Connor, if you want to jump in on that, go ahead. No, I'm going to go against it. He doesn't find that.

Oh, you're off the Dalton Schultz bandwagon. You know what that's called a classic fade mt on the show. Okay. Dalton Schultz TD this weekend. Yep. Okay. Rockets go two and one. Well, that'd be Monday, I'm sorry.

Yeah, rockets go two and one the rest of the week. They will, uh, they've got two LA Clipper games and a game against Chicago Bulls. Two and one the next three games. Two and one? That seems right. Yeah. I'm going to be, I'm going to jump on that band. Man weighing with you. Rockets. Put him at 9 and 5, right?

They're 7 and 4 right now, correct? Yes. I'm tasting that playoff trip already. Look at me putting the cart well before the horse. I'd be a shame to myself. Are you on the road, Morris? Sounds great. You're going to be in the road for two weeks. I ain't bitching about it. Yeah, but I'm not going to be on. Yeah, you know what? Yeah, why don't I connect from Korea?

I mean, Ethernet works, right? You don't know. Like midnight or something. I would love that. By the way, a listener of ours was able to find a potential three-way trade between the rockets and the bucks and the pistons that can see how it's going to the rockets. I'll run through it a little bit of that. From the trade machine? I don't know, but thank you, J.F.

I appreciate you sending that to me. Okay. It's sent to you too. Oh my God. It's like a two pages long. Yeah, it's two pages long. It's like a bet at the golden nugget. All right. Okay, well, I got Dalton Schultz in the end zone. Rockets going two and one. And

what else do I have? Oh, Texans went by double digit. I'm getting sneaky scared by that game. Why? I'm just sneaky scared. Is it because they're on the road? They're on the road. Protection has been horrible on the road.

Cuba Rush is starting a quarterback game as well. Michael Parsons is back. And cranky. Did you hear what he said over the way yesterday? Yeah, he's upset. And then he goes to his podcast. Hey, athletes, stop going to your podcast. Nobody listens to your podcast.

Why not? Because these podcasts lasts about three weeks. Michael Parsons had a podcast for a couple years. Yeah, but nobody listens to it. I mean somebody is Well maybe a cowboy fan is What's your problem Matt? I hate podcast

Okay well why don't you let Michael Parsons have his podcast? Because he You go to your podcast It'll apologize for crazy stuff you say on the record Shut your bum ass up Michael Parsons That's good for him That's a good business Matt Shady business

It's like you making Terrible takes on your Twitter And then come in here and apologizing I don't make terrible takes on my Twitter That's true They're informative They're concise It's 75% like volleyball

ball dad stuff and the other 25% is just bad jokes. At least it's honest and sincere. It's who I am. You know what? You're on the provisional mute list. Whatever. 713-212. 5-7-9. What else you got for some predictions? I'm with you. The Rockets are going to win two out of three.

I also am going to predict a Tank Dell touchdown. Tank Dell bounce back week. Tank Dell comeback season on Monday. He will score a touchdown against the Cowboys. By the way, listeners are sending me emails about who should be on the suck off on Monday.

Oh, right. I'm not repeating any of those names. Oh, my God. I'm not going to be here for any of this. Yeah. Let's see. How long am I? I'm going to predict that you're going to have a good Thanksgiving. Conner, you are going to have to record these gut feelings from here on out because I'll never be able find them. Okay, send me the sheet.

All right. What are your predictions, by the way? What do you got this week? I'll say, Nico Collins and Joe Mixon touchdown. Oh. Oh, a lot of touchdown. in this game being scored on Monday night. The Texans win by less than 10. Oh, okay. I'm with that too.

A wins a win. I'm with that as well. Texans win by under 10. And then I'll say, Rockets lose on Wednesday, it's the Clippers, but they'll bounce back to win their first game towards the NBA Cup.

So they'll lose Wednesday, win Friday. Because honestly, if you're, if you're, I don't think anybody particularly cares, but the game on Friday means just a little bit more than one on Wednesday. It just means more, Maddie. It's a tournament cup game.

You can make the NBA. The NBA Cup. And by the way, if the Rockets make the tournament and go to the NBA finals in season tournament in Vegas, you all are welcome to come join me. Okay. I'll get a bigger room. We can all stay in one room. I'll make another prediction. Go ahead.

Free agency is open in baseball, correct? It is wide open. All right. Alex Breggman, not signed by the time I get back on December 3rd. Do you guys want to make a date as to when he'll be signing? Closest without going over wins? Now, Boris, Boris, you hear that? Scott Boris? You hear that?

I'm proud of you. You've been practicing in the mirror, haven't you? Well, yeah, I do a lot of things in front of the mirror. That's bizarre. Boris's deals were last year super, super late. And I don't think Scott wants to do that anymore. I think Scott got a little bit of a bad reputation. George Montgomery didn't care for it.

No, no, no. Can I say before the California? calendar year changes? Sure, why not? All right, I'll go December 15th that we will know by December 15th where Alex Bergman is playing his baseball. Okay.

What you guys say? This is random gas. Sure. I just said not by the time I get back in December 3rd. Okay. December, how long are you going to be gone for? Not two weeks.

I mean, people actually might miss you. I don't think so. You'll be fine. You're right. You'll be in good hands with Dan Matthews and Chris Gordy. Chris Gordy's going to step in a little bit. Yeah.

She's going to earn a little bit of a salary. Wow. Really? Yeah. So you guys are going to be... As long as he doesn't step away from his radio appearances in Jackson and Shreveport. You better study up on your LSU Tigers football. I know. I'm seriously. I can't get ready for that. That's right.

Hey man, I got a great guest idea. Let's get on Tiger Droppings, offensive line recruiter and coordinator, Mark Tibido. He'll be going to give us a rundown of everything happening. Okay, whatever, Gordy. That's fine. You can do it. It sounds like a good guest. I think you have Mike Detelier on weekly. Why don't we have...

You know, there's a great report in the Birmingham News. he talks a lot of SEC. He's really informative. Okay, Gordy. We'll have SEC guy on. That's fine. Anything else from you, Connor, are we done? Let's go. All right, we're going to talk to the people next. Yeah, I think we're good. 713-213-5-790. Move on, guys.

7-1-3. He's like, come on, let's go. 7-1-3-2-790. Jerry, Gabriel, you'll be first step, but you guys want to follow up those two fine gentlemen with your gut feelings. It's 1112 with a Matt Thomas show as you listen to Sports Talk 790. Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Ross and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a good feeling.

Lunch timers, gut feelings continue now on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. You got something in your gut? We want to hear from you. I do. I got some more for you. Please. I'm going to be gone for three Texans games.

Cowboys, Titans, Jags. Texans go 3-0 and by the time I come back we're talking about how they have stabilized the season and all this hymn and ha'n about losing to the Detroit Lions

will not be completely washed away but we're going to feel a lot better Texans go 3 and 0 in their next 3rd Oh really? I wonder where you got that from good Lord what do you mean? I said they're going to go 5 and 2 the rest of the way I don't listen to you

You should. Weekdays 10 to 2. Very rarely. And I got one more. I don't know if it's going to happen by the time I come back. But, however, the biggest free agent in baseball history since Joe Hottani last year, Juan Soto is signing with the New York Mets. Mets. I think he's, if gut feeling, gut feeling.

Juan Soto is a New York Mett. That just, it feels like Steve Cohen wants to tease. He has a reason to spend all the money. You want to twist the knife on the Yankees. He's going to go the extra mile. He's going to overspend. They went to the playoffs last year. They went to the playoffs.

They went to the playoffs. They're going to build on that. You're robbing blind from your chief competitor in your own market. It just feels like Cohen could go all in. I'm going with Juan Soto, New York, Matt. I despise the fact that I have to agree with you, but I'm going to go with you on that. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead.

Make that happen. Let's talk to some folks now. We'll start with Jerry on 790. Jerry, what's in your gut this week? So two things. Can I say them or only one? Go ahead. Say as many as you want.

All right, great. So the first one is I see Ryan Presley getting traded for a middle of the pack infielder and a low-end profit. That's number one. All right. And number two, Tari Ethan gets in the starting lineup at some point because, you know, Jarvisman is underplaying. It's not playing really good.

Okay. Yeah. Those are good. You know what? Jerry, very reasonable gut feelings there. Yeah, we had a caller on the Rockets Wrap last night. I did. I didn't.

Tari starting for Jabari Smith Jr. Yeah. I think your team instantly gets better. The question is, do you miss the instant boost that you get from him right off the bench? Could Jabari provide that? No, but I'm not exactly concerned about that. I think what they do want to do is they want to use Jabari Smith Jr. to guard the other team's best big because Alper and Shingun, quite frankly, can't do that defensively.

Yeah, I think it would have to take, I don't want to say continue, because Jabari's underperforming offensively, but the intangibles I think the Rockett still like. And I think, again, it's awfully hard to take a top five draft pick of it just a couple of years ago and say, we're going to move you to the bench. I do think they like the energy of a men and Tari being the first two guys off the bench. And they're so awesome. It really, it inspires you because they, first of all, are scoring beautifully. Secondly, they're defending. Third, they're an instant steel machine. They're both getting like one or two steals per night on the regular. I think it's going to take something dramatic for that to happen. Combined seven steals and six blocks, I think last night?

Yeah, I think they're 10 blocks and six deals. I can't remember. One of the Rockets about nine blocks last night, something crazy like that. All right. I'm in Thompson's all over the place. It's so fun. And did a nice job running point. And Aaron Holiday got some playing time yesterday. And Reed Shepherd Got some playing time as well. Reed Shepard. A fine enterprising young man. He was letting go those pull-up minis. He was trying them. I like that.

Gabriel on 790 and 1120. Gabe, what's in your gut? Hey, guys. I think Scott Boris and the Astros will not be able to come to an agreement on Bregman's contract. He played his last game as a throw.

I also think they're going to let Framberg go. They will sign Kakushi to a short-term deal and they will sign Tucker to a longer-term deal. Is this Alex Breggman? Masking his voice?

You sound like Breggman. You sound like Breggman talking low. I've got Breggman's number. Let me see if it's matches your context. Well, I've never heard that before. Well, you know, it's a... Yeah, go back and listen to the podcast. You sound like Breggman disguising his voice.

Yeah, it's not a bad thing. Yeah. you know what though your area code is not the same as his so it's not really you okay thank you gabriel for it uh let me chew on what he just said first and foremost bregman gone bregman's gone number two kakia back kail tucker gone i agree with that but i but i think if you're going to break your your rule of nothing over five years you do it for someone young like kyle tuck yeah but i think the dollars are going to are going to become the problem more so than the length of the contract.

Cacucci? He's gone. I think he's gone. Because you don't have to give up a draft pick to sign him. And Scott Boris mentioned that. And of course that Scott Boris drumming up market, but he's right. More teams are going to be interested because they don't have to give up the draft pick. Yep.

And the fourth thing, I wouldn't be surprised. And frankly, this may be an unpiped or take. Don't get mad at me Astor fans. I would kick to Tharons on trading from Brubaldes right this season. You needed him down the stretch. He was your ace down the stretch. After that three home run game and May I see Angels? You can, I don't, you.

This is the thing. Okay. You're Jim Crane. But I can go get one. I can go get a pitcher. You can't get an ace. From where? It's already under contract and he's going to be $14, $15 million in arbitration?

I mean, it's, here. I don't want a him and hog. I know. That's not what we're supposed to do. It's a gut feeling. But I, I'm just not. all in. And I know he had a really good season.

And I know that when he starts dealing on the curb ball starts to snap like it does, he's a ground ball machine. But man, when he implodes, it is uncomfortable to watch and he just can't get out of his own way. He's been bad in the playoffs for two straight years.

But he was also spectacular in 22. Well, okay, I think spectacular is probably overselling it if we look at the numbers. But very good in 22 when you won the World Series. This is the question, though. If you trade him away, I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm saying then there's no reason to sign Bregman, and you're basically hitting a reset button.

How long is that going to go? I don't know. I don't think you're hitting it. I think the world of baseball is hitting it for you. Because if you let Bregman and Tucker go in subsequent years, that is your two of your three of your, two of the three most valuable parts of your offensive lineup. No disrespect to Jose Al-Tube,

but it's Yor Don, it's Bregman, and it's Kyle Tucker. You let two of the three go. are kind of resetting yourself. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. How long does that last? Because unfortunately in baseball, generally, it's multiple years. And here's the problem with your original statement. While I agree with you, still the ace of the team. He's going to want to ace money. I can't imagine. Oh, no. I don't want to pay him. I, so you're saying keep him one more year and then get that off from a tender qualifying offer and then let him go. Absolutely. Okay. So if you want some delay. So what I'm doing is is I'm going to trade for players that I know I want. You're

training, you're going to be looking to get one more year of him and then draft somebody in his spot. I'm saying it depends on your mindset. I'm just putting you in Jim Crane's chair. Do you want to win a World Series next year? I think he wants to win every year. Do you want to do everything

possible to win a World Series next year? I'm thinking the answer is going to be no. So if the answer is no because you're not signing Alex Bregman, then absolutely trades or should be on the table for Kyle Tucker and Farmer Valdez. I think one should lead to the other. I think if and when you don't tell me Alex Breggman.

You're telling me that Alex Breggman, not on this team, means there is no chance the Astros make the World Series. Or limited. Alex Breggman, not on this team. Astros or Yankees. Oh, I'm not arguing with any of this. Astros or Orioles. You keep going. Ashtros are guardians.

Keep going. Astros, I mean, Astros are, I don't even know. Astros or Angels. Hey, hey, hey, we'll take the Astros. That's what I'm saying. If you're not signing him back, then you're probably the fifth, sixth-six best team in the American League.

then yeah, trade away Frumber. So what you're saying is making sense, as long as you're ready to admit. The reason why I'm trading Framber is I know I'm not going to sign him long term and that if I trade him now, I can get the players that I want that I have recon on

as compared to offering him a qualifying offer and getting a draft pick who may not be able to help me out for several years after that. If I'm trading for Fromber and I'm getting two to three end, high-end prospects, those prospects are ready for me either sometime this season or in 2026. Where if I go to the draft to get that pickup of the pick that I get because I'm giving

away Frommberg after qualifying offer, that guy's fine on helping me to 2030. Maybe you trade he and Tucker now. Man, he and Tucker now and try to get four or five prospects, a couple of them hit. You're still got the, you still got Yordon's prime in front of you. Yon-Diaz is still, it has some. productive years in front of them. But who else? Who are your centerpieces?

If you got no Tucker, no Valdez, no Breggman, Altuve. In Jordan, and not much else. By the numbers, not my, not my opinion. By the numbers, Altuve, the worst second baseman in baseball the last two years. And has, as far as defensively. I was going to say defensively. Defensively.

And has shown material slippage offensively last year. And he's 34 or 30, 30. No, you're not building around Jose ever again. He is a great supplement. piece and I'm glad he's here and I'm glad I'm going to see him play every last minute of his professional career as an astro. I'm not if you think I'm disparaging Jose Al Tuba, that ain't no I'm not but I'm talking about I'm talking about how is this team contending? I'm not making fun of Jose Altuvae I'm talking about as a practical matter you have to separate yourself

from everything that he's brought and we're talking about how is this team going to contend? You're going to have to go get crafty with some money that you're going to spend was Josh Hater on the table one year ago at this point no. Okay that's so you have Josh Hater who is this team building? If Frumber is gone and Tucker's gone after one year and Bregman is not signed and Altuve's aging, what is the core of this team? The core for 2025 would definitely take a hit.

Jacob Melvin and Bryce Matthews. But I'm not ready to make that, I'm not ready to make the prediction for 26. And to answer your question, yeah, 26, the two guys you just mentioned certainly would be key part of that. Okay, we need them to be stars. Stars. Of course you do.

Yeah, they're high-end draft picks. You want your high-end draft picks to be stars. They're not just guys. They're not Jake Myers. I'm just respect to your fan club. Hey, I'm sorry, gold glove finalist. What was his batting average after May 31st? We don't have to talk about.

Okay. All right, that's gut feelings for this week. 713-212-5-790. Time for us to go on the NFL Re-Won. We'll do that with Ross next. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, Astro fans, I know you're all bumping around even in the fall here. Would you kick the tires on Fromber, or do you say, you know what?

You just don't get rid of an ace. You just don't. 713, 212.790. Every Tuesday at this, well, it wasn't exactly at this time. Yeah, I'm sorry. Since the start of the season, we decided to. Ross sent him me, said, hey, Maddie, why don't we do some issues about the NFL, not necessarily giving you a score recap, but just kind of finding things around the NFL.

I'm like, are you sure you want to do this? You goes, Matt, I won't forget about this. I didn't say that. I never promised I wouldn't forget. So that any further ado. Matt, you stole for one. more second. All right. 713 212.790. Come on

and say hello to us. 713 212 570 as Ross is clearly not prepared for the NFL rewind. And again, he sees a pre-show tweet. I know. I sent a calendar on every week with our segments. I told you I'm checked. I told you I'm in vacation mode. I'm sorry.

And you wanted your name on your, you wanted your name on this show too. Matt, am I going to have to do this when Ross isn't here? Yeah, absolutely. And Rod and 5 too. And Rotten 5. I'll handle believe it or not. You'll do a much better job.

Absolutely. No doubt in my mind. You'll do great, Connor. Connor, this is really your chance to take over the segments and it can become the Matt Thomas show with Connor and we can bump Ross.

You know, we can do the Matt Thomas show with Connor and sometimes featuring Ross. I like that. Matt Thomas show with Ross starring Connor. Oh! You're going for the sneaky top billing.

I like that. Have we killed enough time? Yeah, that's good enough. Ladies gentlemen, I present to you Sports RV with his NFL Rewind. All right, Matt, well, first of all, as we kind of normally has been our custom, we're going to start with the NFL Rewind. On Monday night football, last night, the Miami Dolphins with a rousing 23 to 15 victory over the L.A. Rams, but a lot of the talk after the game, Tua Tuna Voloa,

after throwing a pick, making a tackle with his head, Tua. What are you doing? I feel good. I went up to that dude that intercepted me and asked him, like, bro, you couldn't just, like, ran out of bounds or, like, cut back. It's like, you've seen me and I seen you. Like, you wanted to just run me over. He told me after the game, there was, like, there's no room.

Like, there was nowhere else to go. So he got to do what he got to do to help his team win games. And I wasn't planning on using my head to go ahead. Matt, I had to my gut feelings. This isn't going to end well. Tua doesn't survive. What are you going to say? He's out for the year before the end of the season, or what are we going to go with?

I'm going to say that probably his life after 40 will be full of vegetables and a blender. So like most NFL players. Correct. You know what? I'm going to make a gut feeling, Matt. Tua survives the year. Okay. Like he's not put on IR at some point because of concussion.

All right. I choose to believe he's going to be okay. Okay. I'll go with that. All right, Matt, let's keep it going. on the NFL rewind. Did you wake up for the early morning game in Munich, Germany, Matt?

I did not. Oh, why not? Because I was having breakfast and getting ready for a highly anticipated matchup between the Rockets and the Pistons in Detroit. Did you see Sean Hockely call a penalty in German? That was fun. But also what happened?

Well, Daniel Jones was terrible. Jones takes the snap. Here's the pressure. Here's the throw. He's off. Flat. And Josie Jules. Intercepts it. The Panthers

taken away. What a play. He's reached it and it stolen. Brian Daible asked this week if Brian, excuse me, if Daniel Jones will remain the quarterback in New York, he was non-committal. All he said

was, quote, we are evaluating everything. The Giants suck. Everything should be evaluated. Maybe their existence as a franchise. You don't think Sacramento would appreciate the Sacramento Giants? Yeah, I guess not. All right, we can move on from that.

Let's go to another quarterback situation where there was a change and things have been going well. Matt, I've been telling you, don't sleep on them Pittsburgh Steelers. Wilson settles back, raises the foot, gets the snap, back to pass, looking, going to float it up left for Williams, and Williams makes the grab in the end zone. What a throw, what a catch. Mike Williams in his first game and a Steeler's uniform

has hauled in a 32-yard touchdown strike from Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson threw three touchdowns in that game. It has not happened for a Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback since Ben Rafflesburg.

What is that about four quarterbacks ago? Yes, it was 2021, so it was fairly recent. But yes, Mitchell, Trubisky, Mason Rudolph, Kenny Pickett,

Justin Fields, all those quarterbacks they've been through. None of them have thrown three touchdowns in a single game since Since Ben Rothesberger.

I thought you were going to say Terry Bradshaw. I was like, that had been a long time. It's not that bad. Ben Rothesberger was pretty good in his day. But, I mean, how about that, Matt? And are we done sleeping on the Pittsburgh Steelers? Are they going from pretender status to contender status? This radio show is not sleeping on the Pittsburgh Steelers.

This radio show is not sleeping on the L.A. Chargers or the Denver Broncos because one of those three teams will be inside NRG Stadium for Saturday Walcar, weekend at 3.30. I'm Peacock. Yeah, it sounds about right. That sounds about right. All right. Let's, you know what? Let's go to the AFC and this one kind of does have a Texans slant. How about

Kyler Murray and the Arizona car? They go with two receivers, one right, one left, play clock at one, snap to Murray, and he's going to keep it running right to the outside 10, stays in bounds at the 5 and into the end zone for his second touchdown, but he takes the football and hoist it into the casino.

Two things. Cardinals have won four in a row. Bad division. I mean, the division has the Niners and the Rams and the Seahawks. They're all 500. They're all 500, but that, I mean, they've won four in a row. So you're saying pretender status, Arizona Cardinals? There will not be found anywhere close to NFC Championship weekend.

Okay. So the fact of the matter also is, though, the team that they beat 31 to 6, the New York Jets who beat the Texas. Ooh. That was not making. me feel good watching that on Sunday before the night game, feeling a little queasy. So I guess the

Jets firing their head coach, things not necessarily working out there in the Meadowlands. No. That makes the Texans worst lost ten times worse, right? I think so. But she got beat by Aaron Rogers and Devontan Adams. It went like, yeah, well,

they were also playing last week, right? Eesh. Jets is bad. How about being a New York fan on 60s, WFAN. You get Jets Talk and Giants Talk. That's like cyanide or rat poison. Which one do you want? Hmm. I'm gonna go with the rat poison. That'd be like listen to one bad YouTube broadcast on Texans versus another bad YouTube broadcast than Texans. Pick your poison. All right. Let's go elsewhere to. I'll go to Dallas. You want to Dallas? If you want to. I'm trying to help you out. Okay. I mean, I've got one. I've got one more highlight and then we can go to Dallas. Fair enough.

All right, let's go to this one. Lots waiting for the snap. Placement is down. Let's his kick. It's blinded. The Kansas City Chiefs blocked a 35-yard field goal in 10. Kansas City wins this game on a block field goal. The Kansas City Chiefs are 9-0.

Oh, the play by play guys, all right? He was breathing heavy there. What is this voodoo magic that Pat Mahomes and Andy Reid are pulling off? How are they still 9-and-0? not going 17 or no, as thought about yesterday during the, during it to tell the truth. Well, as quickly dismissed by Connor McGovern. Yeah, it was. And me, Ross.

Um, what do you think, though? I mean, is it just close games almost every week that I think they're so good that they close out? I mean, are you ready for a stupid assessment? I love it. They go 17 and 0. They won't not win the AFC. I think you have to taste a little despair in the regular season. Is that crazy or not?

Uh, I don't think that's extremely crazy. I've heard crazier things that you've said. Thank you. Usually on a, mostly on a weekly basis. I understand. All right, you wanted to go to Dallas, man? We can go to Dallas. How about them Philadelphia Eagles?

Hertz stamps his foot. Hertz keeps it. Runs. Cutsback. Inside. Touchdown number 10. Hertz on the keeper. 34 to 6.

How about Micah Parsons, throwing the old coach under the bus? What exactly did Mike a Parsons say? I believe Connor we have the audio, do we? I believe we do. All right. We'll have him get it. That's about my pay grade about if Mike is coaching again next year. But, you know, all coaching aside,

coaching, you know, Mike can leave and go wherever he wants. But guys, you know, I kind of feel bad for this guy who's like, Zach Martin and guys who might be on their last year on their way out. You know, because that's what I wanted to hold the trophy for. You want to win games and do great things with those type of legends who put in more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did. Those are the kind of guys that I have so much sympathy and hurt for him. There's the bus. Driven by Micah Parsons and he rolls it right over the Mike McCarthy grave.

And then, of course, he goes in his podcast and next to clarify. Stop clarifying. Own what you said. You know we are, Ross. We're just a world of clarifications. Somebody ask a question. You say something that's going to ruffle a few feathers, and immediately you're like, uh-oh, I goofed.

Say what you mean. Say it with your chest. Put your name on it. Now, there may be some things that you may say in life that are insensitive that may hurt a group people. And then you have to back check and apologize for those things. That's not a case here. He was asked about Mike McCarthy's future, and he's like,

I love the above my pay grant, but I'm still going to tell you how I feel. He soft-pedaled it and then he went full throttle. He's like, I'm not getting on the bus. And then he got the express training run over him. God, oh, my. Incredible. Well, Mike McCarthy was a puzzling hire to me in the first place. They lose by double digits.

Could be it. I'm not saying it's definite. You could be right. And you will not be texting me or tweeting me from wherever you are. Do you have WhatsApp? I do. Do you have cacao talk? Nope.

Okay. That sounds like a little sinister backdoor texting deals you got going there. Cacao talk? No, I don't know. It's like the WhatsApp of Asia. How was I supposed to know? It's not a sinister. What's it called again?

Cacao talk. Caca talk. Do you have that, Connor, and yours? Do you have, you talking to Asian women from 3,000 miles away? No. Okay. Okay, well, it's not sinister, Matt. It's fine.

Mm-hmm. It feels a little dastly to me. It feels a little dastily. Now, what's at you from 3,000 miles? These four and confusing. me. Yeah. I'll WhatsApp you.

Okay, yeah. If you reach on a WhatsApp, I'll reach out back. If not, I'm good. Okay. And that, my friends, was the NFL Rewind. Send me a tweet. You're going to check Twitter while you're gone, right? You have to.

I'll probably, not a lot. Why should you a podcast them over there? Well, I'd have to, I'm probably not going to pay. It's like $12 a day to pay for that over there. Yeah, but you're already paying $1,500 to go over there to fly. What's another $12 a day among friends? But I don't really, I'm not, you don't go away from. for two weeks to stay connected to home?

Go away for two weeks to disconnect. I'm trying to get a stay disconnect for two days and I can't. All right, 713, 212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. That was the rewind. We got the news at noon coming up today, and we'll have the top headlines, including a Rockets win.

Last night's game between Miami and the L.A. Rams. If you're still enjoying or not enjoying or fearful of a continued Texans hangover, we'll get to that. 713-212-5-790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Ross v. Real. Matt Thomas with you coming up in just a few short minutes. We have the news at noon on the new format of the show. 10 to 2 p.m. to 2 p.m. marks the halfway point. Little refresher. Get some of the news of the day for you. So we have that coming up. up looking forward to that and if you want to get in and have some conversations with us you can do so phone lines are open and available at 713 212 5790 719 710 is your phone number did some gut feelings earlier and i'm feeling good about the future of the texans cowboys suck texas of course you should the schedule gets significantly easier you should feel great about yourself yeah bell ready should be feeling just fine that dolphins game's looking kind of tough again dolphins Rams aren't great

The Rams aren't great But the dolphins Controlled that game They've got to a tongue of a lower back Tyriek Hill finally caught a touchdown Oh he's got a bad wrist for a while Yeah And I think he had a toe injury before that

So he's banged up But still I mean that running back Those running backs that they have Devon Achan and Rahim Mostert And who's the other one? Jalen Wright They're all really good

They took the bills to the wire And they pretty much It was an 8 Point game, but they pretty much stomp the Rams. That Dolphins game's looking tough again, I think. He's scared. Okay. Five and two, four, and three.

Puts them at 10, minimum 10 wins. Your division champions, you're going to probably win the AFC South by three to four games. You're going to be in your normal spot. And you're going to, you know, you'd be probably favored in any wild card game against opponents I mentioned earlier. Either the Chargers, the Broncos or the, uh, who my third team, I think up in Pittsburgh. And I think you're going to run into a bus saw against Baltimore or Kansas City. I think Buffalo is pretty scary. Buffalo is 8 and 2 now.

Their losses are a close one where they, I mean, they didn't gift wrap that game to the Texans. But it was a massive comeback by Buffalo. It came up a little bit short. I give you that. And it was Josh Allen's worst game member ever as a quarterback. And they got absolutely stumped by the Ravens in back-to-back weeks. Since then they won five straight.

and they're looking pretty good to me. A little scared. A little scared of the bills. I would put the bills in a class of slightly above, if we're doing power rankings, which we don't do, unless it's right, that's right. I would put the bills, even though they lost head-to-head, I just think they're playing better football with five straight wins.

So it's Kansas City 1, Baltimore 2, Buffalo 3, Houston 4 in terms of your top 4. Yeah, so, I mean, you're up there. You're in a good spot. And you're going to feel better about yourself because you're going to, you've got some very vulnerable games coming up, you still have two Tennessees, you got one Jacksonville, Dallas is in full implosion. The question is, don't let your guard down against Miami

and maybe try to split the Baltimore-Kansas City games. Yes. That sounds good. That's a plan. That's a plan for success, man. I like that. But that's still not, I can get you anything better than maybe the, that may, if you can go six and one the rest of the way,

maybe get you the two-seat. Which then you would take on the worst wild card left. I think five and two is as good as it gets. Four and three, you're making me sound like it's more realistic. The good news is you do have the head-to-head against the bills. So those Steelers and Ravens games could have AFC, big AFC. Oh, no, they don't play the Steelers. I'm just thinking of the Ravens game,

because the Ravens do have three losses. So that's a team that if you beat them head-to-head, you could stay ahead of in the pecking order. If they lose this game of the Cowboys on Monday Hey What's Tuesday like to run these parts I don't want to know

Dushy Cowboy fan calls in Who had not heard from This entire season Five time world champion Dallas Cowboys Matt We suck this year And we still beat you guys Ah ha ha ha ha

We are America's team We've always been Texas's team Yeah I would think For Houston if you're a Texans fan, your mental health, you need this to be not only a victory, but a resounding victory. To make you feel better about yourself, to shut the cowboy fans

up once and for all, at least until next year. And third, to get your mojo back. They should not hang around with the Dallas Cowboys on Monday. Because guess what, Philadelphia went there, didn't hang around with them. Even Sucky New Orleans went there and didn't hang around with them. Detroit went there and kicked the crap out.

I mean, the Cowboys aren't just losing Rossi in Dallas. They are getting a annihilated. That's true. Hopefully there's a lot of traveling Texans up there on Monday as well. Oh, Darling cannot wait. Oh, my gosh. She's like, oh, we'll stop at Paxe and we'll take some photos there. And then we're going to stop at this place. And then we're going to put our Houston Texans flag over the city of Dallas flag. And then we're going to go to JFK's a place where you got shot. They're going to do that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You're going to go to the book depository in the grassy knoll. Yeah, Darley and her little friends go, you know. And then we're going to try to find out where Monday football is doing their show and we're on TV a bunch. And then they're going to ask me who three Texans are. And I can't do. that. So what do you mean? She knows J.J. Watt and the boys? Again, this is a figure of my imagination.

So I, do I think that's also a figment or that too. She's a figment of my imagination. So I'm going to go with this. She knows JJ. She has to know J.J. Wat. Of course. She can name at least the skill players. She knows who Nico College. Does you know where Henry Toa Toto is? Maybe. She's heard the name. That's familiar. She could get him out of, if it was a multiple choice test, she would pick that he would play for the Texas. Okay. Does she know who Stephen Sims is?

Well, he did muff a punt. Speaking of that, and I'm falling on deaf ears. We have the news at noon here. Okay. This kickoff rule just continues to suck. It's not interesting. I don't mind it. It's a giant waste of time.

You've had multiple taken back for a touchdown this year. I haven't watched a game with one. Well, I don't know. You're not watching enough games. It's happened multiple times. You know what? I'm putting a poll question up for it. Okay.

Can I just go like it or love it? No, I mean. Hate it or a... The previous system was everybody, it was just a touchback every time. I feel like you got some returns. Now you're getting almost no return. How many kickoff returns we had this year? Okay, I don't know.

I'll go look. Three. Three? Wow. Three? Wow, I know you're saying you got mad at me for missing one of those three? Oh, hell no. You said none. Kickoffs return. Kickoffs suck.

How many were in 20203? All right, so let me make sure to get this right because you're always the decider of what my poll question should look like. Okay, all of last year there were four, and there's been three so far this year. Okay, what about average return? That maybe is a better indicator. Hmm, okay. All right, so my NFL kickoff rule, my poll question. Love it. Is that okay? Okay.

Like it. Indifferent? Or hate it? Is that fair? Is that okay? Why not? I don't care what they say. People always want to complain about change no matter what. Oh, the extra base man is the extra man on base. This is the worst thing ever.

Oh, I can't do this. Oh, the pitch clock. Oh, no. I can't do this. This pitch clock is terrible. Oh, no. There's a bunch of whiners. You got to move into the 21st century folks.

I'm going to get rid of love it. Players are getting hurt. They're looking for the best happy medium where guys aren't crashing into it, where the biggest, strongest athletes on the planet aren't crashing you on each other, running in full speed. That's every single playing football. They have dead. No, no, that is not every single playing football.

Sure it is. They have data. There's more injuries on kickoffs than there were on other plays. They're not just making this up. They're not changing it just and change. Then get rid of it completely. Let's just get right to the 25-yard line. Oh, then everybody's going to complain about that.

How can you get rid of the kickoffs? This has been a hundred years of tradition. We're just going to whine and cry about every single change it is made in a sport. There are rules that have been changed in sports that I do like. This one I don't like. And I think I'm entitled to say I think it sucks. I know. Yeah, you are.

I didn't say you're not entitled. And I'm not asking you to agree or disagree. I'm just telling you I've tried and tried and tried to get into it and I just can't do it. Like it, indifferent and hate it. Okay. One full day. The news at noon. is next.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 124 in H-Town. What's happening, luncht timers? Welcome to the third of four hours of the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. We are very happy,

and I mean that sincerely, that you guys are spending your middays with us here on the radio program. We look forward to talking with you until 2 o'clock. We have, believe it or not, today at 150, category to be determined, but you're going to want to play.

Do you think I can need a quick ruling before I get to the news at noon? Connor, you have a huge part in this decision. When I ask people what their favorite part of the radio show is and they said they just tuned in, should we drop them? You really? Because these are timber like tickets. This is not just some, you know. How about we come up with a, this is what we should do.

We should come up with a password. We can't do it today, I guess. Every hour we're going to give somebody a password. What's the password to play? Yeah. Like rock your body or the name of a Justin Timberlake song. And if they answer the password, then we let them play. You want to try it today and see how it goes?

Sure. But I mean... Now, here's what we'll do. In fairness. Unfortunately, people are listening in the first two hours of the show are missing out. Okay. We'll go back. Let's do it tomorrow then.

Okay. And we'll repeat the same password. Yeah. Because we want to get... Because we know we'd love for people to listen for four hours, but it's impossible. You have to work and do things. Yeah, yeah. But we'll give the password out several times.

I like this. Connor, make sure we remember. And write it down because there's no chance that Ross and I will remember it. Let's get you the news at noon. Well, Matt, a lot going on in the sports world. Of course,

the Rockets with the victory will get to that in a moment. Oh, the play by the play should be stellar as always. I mean, my God was it so good. We, of course, are still talking about the Texans. You asking, Matt, are we having a Texans hangover? Well, here was Joe Mixon after the loss and he said something that a lot of people are thinking about the Texans playing

not to lose. Obviously, it's a tough one. You know, those, those games like that, that one's hurt. But, you know, at the end of the day, if that's the NFL's best team, I think we'll be all right. You know, but I definitely feel like, you know, come back to work, own your work, lock in. to the details and you know just get ready for the next week we're at that pivotal point and we just got to look ourselves in the mirror keep our hands up high

no matter what nobody talking about and we got to be better that sounds like a player that lost three of their last four games well at least he didn't go full Micah Parsons and blamed Domeco or something man if Casario would just get us an offensive lineman or two oh it's too late it's the deadlines

past but a get right spot this week for the Texans traveling to the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington on Monday night, Matt. Just a gut feeling percentage of Texans fans in the building. What does it see to about 105, give or take? Can we get 20,000 Texans fans up there? That's the number that popped in my head as well, and that scares me that we were on the same page. Here's the problem.

It's a Monday night, which means you have to take Monday off work and part of Tuesday, if not all Tuesday. Yeah, but a lot of traveling Texans are unemployed. That's true. And that's their chance to have sex together. I'm just kidding. See, why do you go to this car to get? Because they are having sex. Because that's what they...

It's a hookup group? Yeah, it's basically an orgy. Yeah. What's the inside the warped mind of Matt Thomas? Okay. If you're a secret traveling Texan, tell me I'm not telling the truth. Tell me. If you've been to a traveling Texan's orgy, call 713-212-5-790.

Is that what you're saying? I'm saying that you participated in it, but you've heard. There is no way that that group of largely not very bright people aren't hooking up. A lot of battle red and deep steel blue. Yes. Going on there. All right. So if you're part of traveling Texans, have you ever hooked up with somebody in traveling Texas?

713-212-5-790. All right. Let's move along. You know what? But we're going to keep it with the Texans, Matt. The NFL has released the top 10 jersey sales of the year so far. Okay. there is a Houston Texan in the top 10.

CJ Stroud. Have you seen this? Vaguely. Oh, okay. It's like for one second. Well, number one in the NFL is C.J. Stroud. So I say to you, Matt, the number one sold jersey so far this season in the NFL across the NFL is C.J. Straub. I would say I'm completely and 100% stunned.

I'm with you. Number two, Caleb Williams. Number three, Patrick Mahomes. Number four, Aden Hutchinson. Number five, Jaden Daniels. So four quarterbacks in the top five, three of them in their first or second year. Beyond stunned.

I love it. And I don't mean to do this, but the people that are on that list are so young and have yet to reach superstardom. But I almost... But I also want to... There's a part of it. think that the polling results are wrong.

Well, these are the, these are like the sales counts. It's not a poll. Is it NFL.com? Is that what it is? I imagine. Oh, yeah, they're not tracking the fake ones from China. Is that what you're saying? Well, I'm saying that does buying jerseys at Rick's Roaring Roads or to Manatomy? Well, generally, though, also, it's not going to be stars, players who have been stars for 10 years.

You're not going to, generally you're going to have their jersey. already, unless they're coming with a bunch of different colorways. Like on this Patrick Mahomes is kind of the stalwart of this list. Now, how much of this, let me ask you this, how much of this has to do with the fact that the Texans have changed their uniforms this year? That could be it

as well. That Pat Mahomes and the Cheaps, they ain't changing uniforms. But if you bought a CJ Stroud rookie jersey, did you go out and buy a C.J. Stroud, Battle Red, New Year jersey? I guess some people do. Yeah, I would think so. This is a question for Jersey, bro. So we need to get Chris Gordy. No, Adam Clinton. Adam Clinton bought every jersey. We need Adam Clinton and Chris Gordy on the line

stat. Jersey bro, please come chime in. Jersey bros, you know where you are. 7-13-212-5-7. you know the hotline as well. Do you have to, like, does it make it more likely to buy when they change the jersey or less likely? I think for Jersey bro, it may be more likely.

Correct. Okay. All right, what else? Let's move on. Let's go to the NBA. How about those Houston Rockets with a 15-point win last night? Pool at the ball strip. There's a steel tap by Thompson into the hands of Easton. On the trail, it's a man. he'll jam it down to seal this Rockets game.

So the Rockets get the victory last night. Alpern Shingoon played very well. He had 27 points and I believe 17 rebounds. And it was another victory for the Rockets. As Matt, have you looked at the standings in the NBA recently? It's a 4-5 matchup again for the Rockets. This time they would be the team of out-home court advantage or they would take on the Denver Nuggets.

Nuggets in five or four? No. Shock the world, baby? Well, do you know what seed the Rockets would be if they were in the Eastern Conference, which is Dogwater right now? Number two seed. They would be the number three seed.

There's only two teams with winning record in the East. The Cavaliers are a perfect 12 and 0. Celtics are nine and two. Pacers are the third seed at five and five of the East. Can we petition to move the Rockets to the East? So we had to bump somebody from the east and move him west. I would say, let's send Chicago, Milwaukee, West and move Houston East. Love it.

You're right of that? Yeah, absolutely. All right. Well, and also, just a quick Rockets note, Zach Lowe recently laid off by ESPN, but a great NBA writer. You just come on the show until he got big time to say. That is true. When he was on Sports Illustrated, he did when he went to ESPN.

He said, I'm too busy for you guys. I'm very busy. Now maybe he's available again. So maybe we get him back. He says, he is on notice about the Rockets and their two impact bench. players, although I'm in starting last night. Tari Isson and Amin Thompson are doing extremely rude things to opponents on defense. Most entertaining bench tag team in the league, both making strong cases to start if

Ime Adoka ever feels the need to shake things up. Which one of the two would you rather see start if you were to, if, if EMA came to you and said start one? I'm going to go with Tari as a better fit because his three-point shooting has been very good this year. He's at like 41%. So basically you'd be going for strictly shooting over everything else. Because everything else probably a men is grades higher.

A men's a better ball distributor, I would say. Better starter or engine of the offense. They're both really smart players. But I would give him the advantage there and then Tar East and the advantage shooting. So if Fred Van Vleet is starting, I would go with Tar East. All right. We have Corey in Pearland. He is a member of the Traveling Texans.

Okay. And by that way, Corey is our official, most valuable traveling Texan. He will tell us the deep. Okay. And he will not lie. Okay. He will not embellish. Uh-huh.

We like doing both those things in this show, but we will ask Corey to tell the truth and not about life as a traveling Texan. And that is up next. That, by the way, was the news at noon. No offbeat story today? We didn't have time. We've got to get a break. That's fine.

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Justin Timberlake tickets in 90 minutes. One pair. Now, if nobody wins today, then we'll make it two pair tomorrow. Okay. Because we've had some days where you've been on your mark and people can't figure out what you're telling the truth of now. Yeah, but normally I mail it in. I think we had only a one winner yesterday. Yeah, we did.

So one pair of tickets for Justin Timberlake and I believe Monster Jam tickets the rest the way. Is that right, Connor? Monster Jam. We got a couple of Monster Jam tickets left over and then we got off course 7-9 t-shirts. You have to see. Okay, don't hurt yourself. Please, come on, man. It's not Westwood One.

But you have to say it that way. Monster Jam. Is Rod Ryan going to be out there? Probably. He usually has a vehicle. I'm sure. That's fair's fee is hefty. I'm sure.

Why don't we have our own monster jam car truck? What would it be? Me? Big picture on my face. Big picture of my face. I'm like on the vehicle. It's supposed to be scary and intimidating, Matt. That would work.

That would work. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, now we don't know if this is true or not. I don't think our listeners lie. I mean, we lie. But I mean, our listeners do. Corey in Pearland with us. on The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk with Ross at 713, 212, 5790.

Corey, good afternoon. How are things? Hi, Matt. How are you? Corey, all right. Now, how long have you been a traveling Texan? Oh, five or six years. All right.

And how big is the group these days? Oh, I don't know. 200 people. That's not terrible. Now, how many games have you gone to this year? This year, just three games. That's not bad. Three is better than zero.

Three road games? or three total games? Three total games, two road games, one home game. What road games do you go to? Hello. Hello. What road games did you go to? I went to Indianapolis and the other one's escaping me.

Sorry, they all rolled together after a wild met. Okay. Now, do you guys get really crazy and wild, or is it a pretty tame group? No, it's a wild group, and here's the reason why I call it, because your mind. mom's in the group too and would believe me we all hook up. Talk about a monster jam. Dude, you're a dumbass.

Seriously. Let's get his number out. 8.3, 2. You all ready for this? I knew that was a setup. I became a when he couldn't name the other road game. Oh, they all run together.

I'm going, guess what, Corey? We're calling you out for the show today and we're going to harass you for 20 minutes. You best get ready, Biatch. you think you were having fun on my show. Guess what? I'm going to in a day. You better lock your phone number up because, hey, you better turn your cell phone off.

Connor got that number down? Perfect. I got it. Oh, hell yeah. Get ready, Corey. I'm calling you out for the show. I've had me a second cup of coffee. I'm locked and loaded.

It's a beautiful thing about caller ID. We'll find you, Biatchez. We're going to get you back. You best get ready. Man, that is rude. He said your mother was in a monster jam. I mean, there wasn't a terrible line. I thought it was kind of funny.

But, I'm not saying, it wasn't a terrible line. But it just, yeah, it couldn't make any sense. Hang on. I would take it to you don't remember. You don't remember. Okay. He did lie to us, though. It's the mantra of the show.

So, how about them Texans this week against the Cowboys? They're winning by 10 points. I told you that before. I ain't scared of that. Actually, you know what? I don't like that. Why? You've said they were going to lose by 10 points to the,

bills and they beat them. Right. And you said they're going to lose by 10 points to the lions and they nearly beat them. Okay. So how do you feel now? Now I feel like you're just mixed. Yeah. You're just mixed.

I don't know what to believe. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212. It just shows you, again, traveling Texans probably of limited intellect. Probably. Hey, leave these people alone. Probably claiming unemployment multiple times per year. Credit card debt.

A lot of credit card debt. What else? What various stereotypes can we go through? You know, that's not even a real traveling Texans person. So we can't even do that. I'm sure most of them are lovely people that don't attention seek on television and don't care about naming five players.

Well, they haven't tweeted since 2020. Maybe the group is dormant. Seems like it. You think they'd come back now. The team is good again. You know, people are dropping Twitter left and right. That's true. They're going to threads.

Are the people on threads? Follow me on threads if you're on threads People have been responding to me on threads I've threaded Is that what the phrase would be threaded twice? I'm down to get off of Twitter It's too many bots and stuff Yeah I mean

It's just so many people are there It's just gonna be It's just 25 times more popular than But I heard Blue Sky is big right Can I get a faction of you ready to go on the threads Or is Blue Sky open to the public though You have told you need?

needed a test link or whatever. All right. Hey, real quick, I got a update on baseball people predicting the future of Alex Breggman. I want to give you that one come back, but I do want to give me one small baseball. Apparently, according to the Tampa Bay Times, Tropicana Field's roof can be fixed and ready for 2026. 2026, but when's the new stadium open?

Later than that, clearly. It can be fixed for $55 million. Who is the, who are they going to make pay for it? St. Petersburg. That's where the city, it's where the team plays. Must decide if it will be pay for the repair or continue planning to open a new ballpark in 2028. I wonder if it delays

the new stadium opening by a year if they spend that money to repair the roof. The Rays will most likely play at the Phillies or the Yankee Spring Training Park in 2025. Do you know what the attendance of a spring training park is

in those two areas? I think maybe where the Yankees plays 11,000, maybe. It's probably about what they get a normal Tampa Bay games. The Phillies is about $8,000. $8,000. Okay, so the attendance is going to go up is what you're telling me. I'm saying it's a full house.

Yeah. They even said the word twin. They even said full house and raised in a very long period of time. I went for the Astros Rangers or Astros race playoff series and it won to full house. They still tarped off the upper deck. Yeah. It's embarrassing. I don't know how, why are they building a new stadium and keeping the team there?

Move them to Nashville. But it's going to be like 30,000 seats. It's ridiculous. All right, by the way, Kyle wants to apologize on behalf of Pearland. First of all, Kyle, it's not your fault. Secondly, Pearland's a wonderful part of our community. How are you, sir? Man, I'm very disappointed because I don't feel that way about you.

You're a hell of a nice guy. I am a hell of a nice guy. I bet your mom is a super lady who raised a fine young man. Well, she tried her best. She's not perfect, and thus on the end result. She had her failings, as you see, Kyle. I mean, my mother is going, let's see how my mother was born in 48, so she is 76 years old. Wow. So a man called my radio show and talked about my mom getting

a monster jammed at 76. I hope y'all are proud of yourselves. But let me tell you something, Kyle, Kyle, thank you very much. Don't worry. During the break, go ahead. Matt, give me his number and I'll have him eliminated. That's what I like it. That seems a little strong. Just know that Kyle, I'm calling, or you have his number, right, Connor? We're calling him during the break. Hello, FBI agent that is listening to this. Matt Thomas did not order this man to be eliminated. In fact, I'm leaving right now because Ross is going to tell you about one of our fine sponsors. And I'm going to call that dude right now.

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S-Y-N-E-R-G-X-Health.com. CentergenicsHealth.com for Centrogenics, testosterone, and weight loss. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. Hey, Corey, it's your buddy, Matt. Smart move on your part to go to voicemail. Because guess what? I'm going to leave you a voicemail message every single day until you pick up the phone.

Yeah, our boy, Corey, did not answer the phone. Went straight to voice mail. That's a shame. Revenge is best served warm, intended to on Sports Talk 790. I thought it was Revenge as a dish best served cold. No, in my case, it's warm. It's a much warmer when I do it.

You silly, silly fools. I live for the chance to get your caller ID and call you back. I live for that. Okay. Well, that's your life, Matt. It is my life. And it's now or never. I don't want to live forever.

I have no rockets tonight. I must have just called people back. That's true. What are you going to do tonight, Matt? I'm going to go pick up my dry cleaning. Okay. And I'm going to work on the... Ooh, I need to do that.

I'm going to work on the U of H pregame show, which will have Friday night from Tucson. I will not be there, but I'll be working on it tonight. That's wonderful. U.H. Arizona. We'll have a coach. Fritz with us on the show tomorrow. Really? Yeah. Okay. And he made Doak on the radio

should have one. What? Maybe two coaches. All the coaches want to hang out here. Why don't you get just give yourself a fist pump? I think it's great content. What do you mean? It feels like I'm guessing there's probably a million, it's a minus one million that you're going to be hosting the Rockets Launchpad. Rocket's Launchpad tomorrow. It's 6 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. Getting

you ready for the Rockets and the Clippers. Versa two. Yeah. By the way. It's a two game set. I always say a two-game set. Paul question is out on the NFL kickoff rule. 150 votes are in just a very small sample size, 157. Like it 10%, indifferent 51%, hate it 39%. That seems about right.

I just, to me, just a waste of time. What do you want to do? No kickoffs at all? Yeah. You get the ball to 25? Yeah, let's do it that way. So you'd rather have zero touchdown returns than three that they have now? It's logistically a waste.

It's a sequence in play that makes. I mean, it's like the intentional walk. If you're going to walk, I'm just do it. No, it's not like that at all. If you don't want to kick off and have a return, just give it the 25-year-old. There's no chance of a run scoring on an intentional walk.

There's a chance of a touchdown being scored. The bases are loaded there. Yeah. Am I right? All right, Matt. Prime Barry Bonds is it coming up to the plate. How many bases loaded intentional walks have there been ever? I'm just telling you, it's an,

unnecessary sequence in the play. You know what it does? It gives us, if you're going to, if that's what you're going to do, and I'm not, I want the old kickoff rules back. But if you're going to not do that, then put the ball 25, so we can get some more plays in. The old kickoff rules were a 73% touchback rate. So far this year, it is a 65% touchback rate. But my point is, I would,

And again, this is so not popular. But I'd bring the ball back to the 20-yard line to inspire more kicks. Kick-offs should be. be an active part of the game. Again, they're going away from this because of the amount of injuries that were happening on those plays. But my argument is, and again, you're going to have the science of the numbers that you can get hard on every single play of every football game. Absolutely. But more so when people are running at each other full speed, 40 yards down. I don't know. A defensive lineman chasing after C.J. Stroud is going full speed.

Yeah, and he's played every game this year. Until he eventually won't. Well, we'll see. All right. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, you go ahead. No. I don't know. Now you made me forget the point I was going to make. It was just about the kickoff thing. But it's fine. If you think about it, we've got time to come back.

We're still until 2 o'clock. We've got plenty of time. 7-1-3. That's true. 7-1-3-2-12. I try to remember what the heck I was going to say about the kick-off. So ESPN has five baseball writers.

I've only heard of in this group one. Jeff Passing. No, it's Bob. No, no, no, no, no. I stay incorrect. It's not ESPN. These are all non-E-SPN people. Oh, Michael Schwab put this out. I don't know where he got it from.

But these are five baseball writers. I mean, he's an aggregator. I mean, I think Michael will be the first admit that he aggregates everything, or most everything. I don't know where he got this from, so I don't know. But five baseball writers predicted where Alex Breggman was going to go. And let me give you the people. And maybe you can help me with who these friends people are. Gabe Lachez, Lach, L-A-C-U-E-S, obviously a Frenchie?

I don't know who that guy is. Steve Gardner? Steve Gardner. Isn't he a former GM or something like that? Scott Boke, B-O-E-C-K, Jesse Yamtov? These is buddies of Michael Schwabs or what? I don't know what's going on. This looks like it's from USA Today.

And then Bob Nightingale. Okay. These are USA Today right now. Okay, so USA baseball writers. Jesse Nyomtov says that Alex Spragman's going to the New York Mets. and the conversation may be him going there and playing second base. He says the man, he says, the thought of Bregman playing second base brings the Mets into the conversation

since the NL runners up have Mark Vientos now firmly entrenched at third. The 30-year-old Bregman is coming off the worst season of his career and his 20-25 employer may be largely determined by the trickle-down effect of Soto's ownership. Courtship, excuse me. Scott Boke, B-O-E-C-B-B-E-C, back, whatever. Scott says the Alex Bremen's going to sign with the Astros. It's hard to see Bregman the face of the franchise depart after nine years. But then again, Houston let All-Star Shorts.

Carl's Cray Walk. So that's a very lukewarm endorsement on that one. Something called Steve Gardner says, Houston Astros. Is there any way the Astros actually let Bregman walk? Teammates and fans want him back. Plus, he'd be crazy to leave Houston where his medium power is tailor-made for depositing home runs into the Crawford boxes in the left field. That's a point.

I mean, Bregman's made for right for the left field fences, right? Yeah. He's made for the boxes. Gabe Laquequeque. La Croix. La Croix. Says Washington Nationals. Jim Greene gets pushed beyond the comfort level and lets another dynasty building asset walk from Houston.

Bramon becomes the veteran glue for a promising core that needs a North Star. And last, but not least, and probably the most recognizable of the five U.S. Today writers. By the way, USA Today is employing five baseball riders? That feels like a lot. Don't you think? I mean, when's the last time you had pulled a copy of the USA Today and read it? At a hotel?

Yeah, no, they don't even deliver for that many hotels anymore. But here's a bottom nightingale says. Bregman has always loved the spotlight, dreaming of playing on the big stage. And what's bigger then? New York. The New York Yankees. He'll have both New York teams bidding for him, but the, Yankees will be the ultimate winner.

Okay, well, he's the one I put the most stock into, because Bob Nightingale, while he's gotten some stuff wrong, he's pretty plugged in. He probably his, first of all, he's plugged in more than the other four guys combined. Second of all, his winning percentage is about $750. Probably has an open line to Scott Boris, but not that Boris would leak that to him,

but Scott Boris probably has leaked things to Nightingale before. But I don't think it's happening here necessarily. There's probably still a bidding and all that. No, but who would Scott, he's going to link it to somebody. But I think he's absolutely right. Well, oh, no, maybe it was the Yomtov.

Which one said that it'll be after Soto? Trickle down from Soto, I think is correct. So I think the team that signed Soto will come off the board, be it the Nationals, Yankees, or Mets, all listed on this list of possible suitors for Alex Bregman's services. And then they will pivot. And I think Alex Bregman will be one of the kind of bridesmaids or whatever you want to call it. So if you're Alex, you are waiting to find out or not. Does the market make you wait?

I think the market waits. I think teams are going to try this. They're going to swing at Soto first, and then they'll pivot. So does that mean the teams that are currently in on Soto, or at least think they have a chance? Are the same ones going after Bregman? Yeah, if you're willing to spend $500 million in Soto, you wouldn't say, you know what? Consolation Prize, $180 million on Alex Bregman? I think, I think that.

You know what, though? Do you know what that does? Being in the same free agent class for Bregman, it really helps him. because there are going to be too many teams that Juan Soto is too rich for their blood and maybe we'll get better value at a lower dollar amount for Alex. That's genius, actually. And you know what?

Yeah, I'll gut feeling that now. Bregman signs after Soto. Is that? It's probably pretty chalky. If you want to give yourself credit for that one. That's a chalk. You're only getting 40 cents on the dollar and return on that. But I think that's the way to play out.

Yeah, I think so too. Because if you're Breggman, why would you? Because you're not, you are not going to be going, wow. If Soto signs, there's no more money left for me. Is Breggman the second most highly sought after free agent in this offseason? Corbyn Burns, I think, is one. And I think Breggman is three. I'd have to go look at other people's recent rankings.

Okay. I think we'd have to have our heart to heart with our audience. And just, no, let's rip the Band-Aid. He'd go. No, no. is there somewhere that Bregman goes that you just can't forgive him? Oh, people have Blake Snell ahead of him. And as far as position players, so it's Soto and that's it.

But also Roki Sasaki, the Japanese pitcher. It's supposed to be a 23-year-old phenom. Also going to be highly sought after. But that's also a pitcher, you said, right? Yeah. Okay. So here's the question. Will we turn our stomachs if he goes to the Yankees?

I want you all to think about that for a second, and then if you want to, because you're an Astros fan, and you'd like to listen to this show. I want you to close your eyes, as long as you're not driving. Ross, close your eyes. Close. And I want you to envision Alex Pregman in Yankee Pinstripes. Yeah, you know what we are?

We're therapists. How are you feeling right now? Imagine, opening day, Yankees versus Rays at New Yankee Stadium on 66 WFAN. and having people in the outfield scream Alex Bregman Alex Bregman After booing him for years and years and years and years

And called him a Cheetah Stole a championship from us Cheetah MF and Cheetah Speaking of Cheetah, where's Jeter? Open your eyes and call right now 713-212-5-7-9

Just let me know what's in your raw emotions if I've said that Alex Brickman is wearing Yankee gear. 713-212-5-790. The morning sports show for those who partied in Midtown way too hard last night. The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. All right, so a lot of you on Twitter have been sending me releases responses to imagining Alex Bruegman as a Yankee. The overriding factor is

If you've loved Alex Breggman for even one minute, you have to applaud him. Now, I'm not saying every single time. There's no way in the world that Alex Breggman is going to ever say a disparaging word about the city of Houston. One of our friends of the show, Tiffany, sent a tweet and said, the best part of it's going to be is watching Yankee fan have to root for the guy if he goes there. No, they won't care. They won't think twice about it.

It'll be the biggest hypocrisy, maybe in recent sports history that they will, if he goes in, I'm not saying he's a favorite. Because look, honestly, any free agent worth anything, the Yankees are always going to be favorites because they have the most money they can spend. And I'm never worried about competitive spending under any circumstance. But could you imagine, you know how the outfield when they scream the players' names? Yeah. They've screamed Alex Spragman's name a lot in the last seven or eight years, but it wasn't for,

it was usually the word F in front of it. They'll flip. They won't forget about it. They won't think about it. It's Twins fans yelling cheater at Jose Al Tuve and then cheering

Carlos Correa. Yeah. It's George Springer on the Blue Js. Right. It's, I mean, anything else you can think of. They'll be over it in five seconds.

He hits a home run. He makes a great play at third. Done. And that's just, it's of course, highlights the hypocrisy of all of it, but. But it's not,

you know what it is? It's not even really Yankee fans. As much as I want to say that Yankee fans are a special breed, it's everybody. Everybody hates when you don't wear your gear, but you let bygones be bygones when they're wearing the team gear of your team.

It's just the reality of it. We've had a lot of that in here. Scottie Pippin and Charles Barkley is a rocket. You all cheered his ass. Well, they probably didn't cheer Scotty that much. No, he hardly played it. Give me some more examples. Chris Paul coming here was a big one for me.

I hated Chris Paul. He screamed at the reference. Russell Westbrook was tough? Yes. On the football side. Ed Reed, nobody, you don't... Everybody loved Ed Reed. Everybody loved Ed Reed, but everybody knew

the moment he signed him was way past his prime. People love Ed Reed. Have you ever heard Bill Belichick talk about Ed Reed? He talks about him like he's his firstborn son. He loves that, man. Yeah. I'm trying to think of a baseball. Roberto Osuna...

There was backlash. There was backlash. 100% backlash. Maybe that wouldn't be a good example of that. But I'm trying to think of an astro player that came here. that was not well regarded until he got here. Randy Johnson was loved. Oh, Dylan Brooks, great example.

Dylan the villain. Boot everywhere he goes around the NBA. Still to this day. People like him here. I like him. Pat Beverly? Pat became a badass here and then left. Yes.

So he built his reputation base of his activity. I'll give you one. But weren't Pat Beverly and Russell Westbrook teammates with the Lakers, I want to say? Yeah. And that's where Pat, when he was a rocket and Russbrook was a thunder they met at midcourt and Beverly heard him during, as he was calling timeout. Patrick Beverly, yeah, he was going for a steal.

Yeah. And kind of undercut Russell Westbrook. Those two players let bygones be bygones. Yeah, we don't know it privately. I don't know if there was like a Jordan Poole, Dremont Green incident, but I wonder if they really got along privately. They probably had to just say, well, let's just grin and bear it and go. Yeah, I mean, there's been, I mean, there's probably on every team. there's people that don't like each other.

It happens and they still play together. I'm trying to think of teams that I've covered in my life that I didn't think liked each other. James, Chris, James, Dwight, James, Russ. Wait, I thought James and Dwight got along at first. Oh, they all get along at first. They all like, let's work together, and then they realize that it's all in water.

Mm-hmm. In three different occasions. Well, you dispelled the reports that James and Chris hated each other because they would still play cards. They would still play cards. Now, again, does that mean they were breaking bread and having dinner and exchanging Christmas presents? No.

But when you hate someone, you don't play cards with them. Yeah, when you're not on speaking terms with somebody. You're on different sides of the plane. You're in different buses. You are whispering to the media people that want to hear your whispers how much you hate a particular person. Do I think they got along towards the end? No. Do I think they were completely different philosophically about where the rocket's direction was for a team yes.

But if you're playing boo-ray, you're playing boo-ray. It's an international bonding game, Ross. Yeah, why don't you get into that game? Because they play for too much money. Well, yeah, nobody's on, your opportunity was when they were all on rookie deals. Now you're way priced out. Yeah, I know they play cards in the back of the planet. I just don't go back to and ask.

You don't hop in? They haven't said, hey, Matt, what was you doing back up there? Come on back with us. I've never gotten that invite just yet. And your wife's like, what's this huge cash withdrawal from the bank account? Why are you Venmoing Jay Green? Thousands of dollars. $600 to at Jay Sean Tate on Venmo.

What's up with that? That's puzzling. I don't even know if those guys play. I'm just saying, I think there's card playing back there. Yeah. I don't think we've ever played cards on a plane, have we? You and I? You've been on a bunch of trips together over the years.

No. Well, you were a commercial. We can still throw. You can still throw some days. Well, you're usually in the exit row, and I'm back there with the plebeians. Yeah, because you buy basic economy. It pains me that you sit in basic economy.

I know you don't buy it. It's just the seats are tight. You have no leg room. You have like one personal item, and that's it. They give you crap if you bring a second one on there. As long as you travel with me, Rossi, you're never flying basic economy again. It's not that bad.

I'll upgrade you to just good old-fashioned economy. Okay, thank you. All right. Well, I'm cold. Can we record this, please? I mean, you're Jonesing in on people's elite status anywhere with other airlines. So what do you, you know? Yeah, a little main cabin plus.

Nice. Oh, I've got to pick my meals. Do you get drinks? I hope so. I mean, I guess you could pay for them if you needed to. I saw if I want to upgrade to first class, it's only going to cost me $4,200. Let me ask you this. Do you want to drink on a flight?

Like, how long is your longest flight? You're going to Houston to where? I'm literally going to DFW, so that's 45 minutes or whatever. That's easy, yeah. And going from D. FW to Incheon, which is the main airport for Seoul, South Korea. It's like 15 hours.

Do you drink on that bad boy? I don't think I'm going to. I'm going to watch Longhorns in Arkansas are at 11 a.m. Do you have Wi-Fi TV on those long-ass flights? I'm paying for whatever it is. I've got to pay for, I'm paying for it. Okay. Because I have a lot of questions about international travel.

You're going to have to answer for me when we get back. We will do the day you get back and ask Ross. Everything about the trip. Because I'm not going to know anything about sports. You're going to have to fill me in. I'm missing three Texans games, probably like seven, eight Rockets games. Oh, that's what's apps for. I'm going to give you everything you want to know about WhatsApp.

I'm going to be the least, well, actually, I still won't be the least educated sports hosts in the city, but that's okay. Who would that be? I don't know. Hey, y'all let Ross know who the most least educated sports host in the city is. Yeah, hit me up on threads, add sports RV. Are you on threads? I mean, I've been on there.

Nobody's there. I said hello. Say hi to me on threads. I'm going to figure out what's going with the blue sky stuff. But I'm fine on Twitter now because I just mute everything. And I've muted a bunch of words. But I've been blocking people and they still get to read the stuff. Yeah, see, that's not fair.

Oh, here's one from Paul. Jeff Kent hated him. Did we hate him as a giant? I don't. I, you know, honestly, I hated him when he got here because he was a bad guy. You were going to say a different word. I was. You are going to say a different word.

I had to filter myself there. All right, we have one hour left to go on today's edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you'd like to join us, 713-212-5-790, Rockets with the win last night. We had the NFL Monday night football. We have the Texans back on the practice field today because it's a strange week because they're going to take tomorrow off because they play Monday in Dallas against the Cowboys. 7-13-212-5-7-90 final hour. Matt Thomas Show with Ross, believe it or not, for a pair of Justin Timberlake tickets here on 790. Launch timers.

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All right. Rockets last night, Rossi got a nice victory against the Washington Wizards. They're now firmly above 500. Huge. I mean, massive win. Pacing towards 52 wins this year. How worried are we about the long-term? health of Fred Van Vleet. He was out with the hamstring injury or was that just back-to-back

injury maintenance? I'll put it this way. I wouldn't be stunned if he missed another game. It didn't feel like, I mean, I know that he, what was told yesterday by E. Mae Addoke is he played through it and just felt it tightening up. And then he definitely wanted to take the day off yesterday. That is kind of a question of literally a day-by-day basis, how he feels waking up, how he feels moving around. But I wouldn't be totally surprised if he missed, but I also know that he wants to play badly because he knows these games are coming up that are important

because they want to obviously be better than anyone's got up a shooting slump. And I think that Friday game, especially because it's an in-season tournament game, means just a tinge more. He gets jacked up for the NBA Cup. What's it, a million of the person? What do they get? I don't know what it is. But it's an opportunity to, you know, play some really good teams,

improved get, obviously get wins and then, you know, I have a chance maybe, look at what Indiana did last year. Oh, it's 500K. I thought they were going to up it. What do the broadcasters get? Broadcasters get a out of boy. Don't you get, if they go to 84,

it's an 84 game season if they win it, right? Or 83. 83. Sorry. And that 803 game does not count towards the standings. You can't have a better percentage. Does Maddie T get an extra game check or what? No.

Oh. But if I could go to Vegas, that's like getting a game check. That's true. Well, actually, it's like losing two game checks, depending on how things go. I have a few days off before the end of the year,

and then I have two days I'm holding on to for playing, because I think we're going to know what we're going to play in relatively short notice. So, yeah, but I'm hoping those two days will be me hanging around in Vegas, going to shows, eating great food, and playing cards late hours. I was up to 2 o'clock in the morning the night before the Rockets game.

You were? Yeah. On an afternoon game? You look at it. you. You're like prime Dennis Rodman. I went to two. I slept till 10.30. So I took out of eight plus hours. You were at the rhino until four. So a buddy of mine, our producer, our director who travels with us, thought he got me.

Okay. These two women came up to me at the casino and at the MGM where I was. Uh-huh. And I said, hey, Matt, what's going on? I'm like, because we listen to you all the time. I'm like, what? I was stunned because Well describe these women please

They had breast They Okay I was thinking Age Oh Oh oh oh oh Okay I

It's I Um I would say they're probably in their 40s Um I would say Michigan looking women What is a Michigan looking at woman?

I mean, you know what a California woman looks like? No, I would. And an Arizona woman looks like. With flowers in her hair? And a Florida woman looks like. Not really, I guess. Okay. And I said, how did you know I was here?

And they go, we knew you'd be here. Because we know we talked about gambling a lot of the show. And I was so shell-shocked that I didn't know how to say, hey. Yeah. How do you guys listen? I didn't do the... You were flummoxed. I didn't do the recon on this.

Okay. But it just something didn't seem right. So I found out the next morning that my buddy, the director for the Rockets broadcast, Adam, if you're listening, set those women up. He had met those women and said, hey, go tell Matt that your listeners of the show. Okay. That's funny. It would have been a lot better.

I would have been fooled a lot more if they would have said, man, I listened to shut you bum ass up, or I listen to non-Florida stories or something really, you know, how's raw, something like. like that. The devils and the details. Yeah. So if you're going to try to fool somebody, do some more work to really make them fool. Well, you were kind of fooled. I was kind of fool, but not full on. Okay. Interesting. So that's what happened. I don't know how we got into this story, but I don't know either. But yeah, I'll get back to it, back to life. Rockets off tonight. Oh, we're talking about the NBA. Rockets and Clippers tomorrow and then Friday. Somebody did, sent me an email said

is the stripper business going to be doing a lot better in the marketplace now that James is going to be in for a few days. Oh yeah. They're getting up. They put an okay city last night. They probably flew here right after. You know how you gather up supplies

when a hurricane's coming in town? I think you gather up supplies when James Hardin's coming in town. It's true. It is funny. People still to this day talk to me about James and they bring up the fact

that his jersey's retired in a strip club. Yes. It's pretty incredible, actually. They got a nice chicken joint in the back of that place, too. Speaking of that, I have not, we don't go to Atlanta for a while. Oh, okay. I thought you were going to get the Magic City wings. I might have already.

I said I might. Did you want the bone in or the bone out? Let me taste you, I've been a bone in guy since day one. No, I flipped you to team boneless for a while. Do you remember that? And then I became a grown-up. You were like, you know what? This is logical.

This is delicious, all-white meat chicken. Saust and tossed the way I like it. I like sauce and tossed. Real bone, like real men. eat it. Real men eat the bone. 713-212-5-7-90. Let's talk to Tim and Katie. Our time is 110 at Sports Talk 7-90.

Tim, thanks for holding good afternoon. Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my call. I wanted to talk a little rockets. And when do you guys think Cam Whitmore is going to get back up with the main club? I know there was a lot of Twitter stuff going on about Reed Shepard

when he hit a shot and I'm okay, excited about him. But man, getting abused on the defensive end. And I'd like to see Cam back with the big club and getting a few more minutes. Thanks. Thank you, Tim. Well, I think part of the reason why Cam went down was because A, a shot wasn't falling in B.

I don't think he's defensive intensive was particularly good. My guess is Rossi. Cam's back with the team this weekend in Chicago, Milwaukee. Landau, I think,'s going to be out for a little bit, whatever that shoulder helmet is. Not that he plays the same position, but you're looking to, if you're going to fill a roster spot. Well, they have to do something. Are they going to play smaller lineups, I guess, with them in Thompson and Tari-Eason? Because Stephen Adams can't play every game.

Nope. He's questionable. He's questionable every single game. Do you know that we've basically been told, I'm not talking on a turn here, that it's going to literally a game day decision about everyone. It's like when Stephen wakes up. Now, I know back-to-backs, he won't be playing. Right. So my guess is, if you were to say over-under on Stephen Adams games this year, my guess would be in the 40 range.

Feels about right. But if you have Landel, you're splitting those two guys up. Now, if Jock is out for a while, does that mean Jabari goes to five? They like Jabari in five lineups. That's what they can switch and he can defend. And they could, they, I feels like I'mo Doka's preferences to do switch everything defense, but they can't do that with Alper and Shingoon on the floor. And back to Cam of the original question from Tim.

I think he just went down to go get his mojo back. Hmm. I don't think, I think Cam went more as. going to be able to shoot the basketball at the NBA level and score. Now, do you want it at a higher success rate? Do you want it to not be at the cost of 17 or 18 shots? Do you want his defense and intensity good? Do you want him not to drop his head after he misses a shot?

There's all the little things that I think that Cam went down there and, you know, I think he played one game, scored like 25, 26 points, something crazy like that. I mean, he's too good for the G League. He knows that and maybe you just need a little refresher. I mean, it's like guys go to AAA for a week, two weeks. Correct, hitching the swing, except Jose Abraeo, obviously. That's a bad example. You went to the direction that I was going to go.

Are we calling him a quadruplea player then using that same analogy? No, or not. Okay. Because if, put it this way, if Cam comes back and shoots one for his next 16 from three, then I would think there would be cause for concern. I don't think he's going to. I mean, I think the shots will fall, but I think there are some concerns about what you said, the defensive intensity consistently. And honestly, Ross, it is a mess that,

small forward swing position. A man, Thompson, Tarisen, you're not taking those minutes away from those guys. No. You just not. You want to get Reed Shepherd on the floor a little bit to play. Where's the minutes? I don't know.

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E.M. Adoka. We'll hear from Willie Fritz. We'll have shut you a bum ass up. We've got a lot of things going on tomorrow, 10 o'clock until 2, right here on Sports Talk 790. The Chicago Bears Rossi have fired their offensive coordinator. gentleman by the name of Shane Waldron, 10 months on the job. Shane Waldron.

Okay. Well, first and foremost. The Bears offense has been terrible. Yeah, but does that go to having a rookie quarterback? Does that go to that the general manager to not supply

the proper pieces around this rookie quarterback? It's... Conservative play calling or overly abundant amounts of liberal play calling. Look, I haven't been bringing down Bears tape, Matt. Nor have. You know, I do watch. Caleb Williams hasn't been making throws.

Caleb Williams, just from, like I'm saying, I'm seeing Twitter clips, and I do follow people who do break down film and just some stuff from them. And it just seems like Caleb Williams is not turning it loose. He's not seeing open guys. They also had both,

they had both of their tackles hurt in the last game that they played. So this feels a little bit like scapegoating. Absolutely. And Iberflue is doing something to try to keep his job? I mean, I didn't have met. Eberflu's got to be gone. Now, you and I were talking, yeah, Iber Flues, I think it's going to be probably, I would think he probably has a higher list of getting let go before even Mike McCarthy.

I don't know. No, it's going to be McCarthy. It's going to be Eber Flues. It's going to be, who's a Giants coach? Brian Dabal? They got the dreaded vote of confidence over there, New York. That usually means your gonzo. That's three. Who else is in trouble? Tampa, no, Miami, no. Mike McDaniel looks looking safe after this week in Miami.

Carolina just hired a guy. New Orleans needs a coach. Antonio Pierce has only done one year with the Raiders, but that's been a disaster. How about this? If you're Dion, do you go kick the tires on a job? I think you, yeah. Absolutely.

Travis Hunter's going to be gone. Is Shredor Sanders going to be gone after this year, too? Yeah, he's got one son and we are still there. Okay. And here's the reality. If Dion continues to do what he's doing, and that is, I mean, surprising the world. They were predicted to finish, I think, 11th in the Big 12 this year. Something's crazy like that?

Yeah, they're 7 and 2 right now. And they've got a pretty decent path towards a Big 12 championship game. And as much as I'm not a fan of his, I think he's bad for athletics, he's coaching. He's winning games. So you have to give it up to him. What about Doug Peterson and Jacksonville? Oh, another one. Hot seat.

But it feels like, well, would this be the year to make that happen? But I think of myself, every year, Ross, there's six or seven jabs always open. Nick Siriani and Philly? No, I think he's safe. They don't, they hate him in Philly. That's true. It's Philly. It's Philadelphia.

They hate everybody. Do you know the one guy? He's like back-to-back coach of the year. Yeah. Brown's been terrible. Yeah. Who's the guy that was the, uh, who's an. Arizona that was supposed to be a candidate here in town

that interviewed so poorly. What's Arizona coach's name? Jonathan something. I know. Gannon. Gannon, yeah. That's the first place team. Nobody thought that was going to be fixed that quickly. That's true. So he's pretty safe.

Point being is this. If you're coming off of a complete turnaround season, I think what the buffs went 4-9 last year, something crazy like that, or 4-8, and you're going for a Big 12 championship game possibility if you get there, you don't have to worry about NIL or the transfer portal and you can just coach and you can surround yourself, you're a CEO and you can just surround yourself around high price coordinators and assistant coaches.

If you're Dion, seriously, what's the end game for Dion? Does Deion stick work for 18 to 21 year olds or 31 year old grown-ass adults like Dion, enough? well, I would imagine he would still have the respect to player. He's one of the all-time greats. I just don't know exactly what his approach with the players is, so I can't necessarily answer that question if his act would wear thin with grown men. And also, it's going to take two to tango. I guess you could get one owner to say, we're going to take a shot.

But do you think, of the 32 owners, of course, you're only going to have a handful of openings. Like, for instance. And how many of them we're going to say, you know what, Dion Sanders is the guy that he's the head coach to lead us into this, our next great era. Yeah. I guess the question is, what college coaches are out there and have been successful that just say at the end of the day, my schick, my philosophy, my way of coaching, my way of leading a program is just better suited for the collegiate level than it is a pro level. Nick Saban would agree with me on that. Urban Meyer would agree with me that the college game is better. As much as Jim Harbaugh had won a national championship in Michigan, he's got the

Chargers are going to the playoffs right now. So kudos to him. He can coach at both levels, clearly. He can. But I think he is somebody who is a candidate for the act to wear thin in a couple of years. That happened in San Francisco. Yeah. Oh, he's definitely going to be jumping from job to job. Man, I don't, you know, again, we're not living in Denver. We don't follow the Buffaloes.

Broncos? I'm talking about Colorado Buffaloes. I don't know what he's doing there if the way he's, runs that college operation would be the same way he would run an NFL team i don't know let's hear some of the media they seem to love him oh god he has zero relationship which would be perfect is bill bellichick never had a relationship with the media and he would just fine but i do think and let's think about this you it is easier to control 18 to 22 year olds than it would be grown-ass men making millions of dollars a year yeah but now the the portal in the nil makes it a

difficult. It was already a more difficult job because we always talked about recruiting just with recruiting and dealing with boosters in itself. Now it's recruiting, dealing with boosters and the NIL collectives and the NIL and the players and the transfer portal. But if you want to do something, like I want to

have practice every day at 2 o'clock, or I want to travel to this, I mean, you do have a more leverage to do what you want to do. Once you get in the NFL ranks, it's regimented. You have a general manager who constructs your team.

You would help him, but the GM is ultimate responsible. Colleges don't have a general manager in most occasions. So you construct the way your team is. You construct how you practice, when you practice, where you practice, where you eat, where you guys work out. Everything on a college-level program is designed by you. I think D'Amico and every one of the other 31 coaches in the NFL have input, but there's still a regimented scale

on how the NFL works because of the NFL Players Association, how the schedule dictates things, who you play, you can't control that. You can't control what your general manager spends on a player, the pressure to play that player based up of what you're paying them.

I guess it just depends on how you're built as a leader. And also winning. You can be like a hard-nosed type of coach, and if you're winning, that's fine. If you're losing, then all the players are going to hit the portal. Or if they hit a little rough patch. Or if you have a five-star wide receiver, like John T. Cooke just said, you know what, I'm going to the portal. Literally this

week. It doesn't even open for a month for the Texas Longhorns, wide receiver. Why would you go jump to the portal here at UT? He's like, he has his snaps and his catches and his targets have gone down. Oh, so instead of actually working harder to get those reps back, he said I'm out of here. He said I'm out of here. He'll be at Troy next year. Well, he's, I don't know. I saw a five list of five landing spots. It was like Oregon, Alabama. Oh, my goodness. So it was really good spots.

Yeah, but I mean, if you're... But he's one of about 20 to get to do that. The rest of them wind up going to either going back to school they were originally at or to a lesser program. Yeah, it depends. They're obviously, they're people who've hit the portal and things have gone worse for them. Yeah, it's funny. As much as I rip on the portal and how I think college is screwed up,

the school that should be taking advantage of the portal is the University of Houston. Well, let's go. Get Jont-Cote. I need Houston guys. From DeSoto. From DeSoto. Desoto. It's not home. Not sent home.

The Soto's on Houston. Well, let's go. Cut the check, Maddie. You know how you got to hit, you know how you win the portal. No, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, uh, I, I, uh, I, I, uh, I, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, useful ones. Uh, I think they're very useful. I may someday gain the U of H athletic honor, whatever, someday.

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Most whales don't watch sports. They're Dallas fans. And when I think of whining, I think of Dallas. Oh, and speaking of whales, back to former whale, Matt Thomas. I'd be back to my girlish weight of 286. On Sports Talk 790. I made a mistake, Rossi, I wanted to check on Facebook during the break. And a lot of my friends, I'm going to say a lot, but I would say probably 5% of my male friends

are just going to Facebook and saying, please, Jerry, put a comparison. competitive team out there. Please, Jerry, get a new general manager. Please, Jerry, fix this. Please, Jerry, I'm sick of watching your team lose at home by multiple touchdowns. I want to tell my 5% of my friends that are male, I don't think Jerry Jones is on Facebook. They might be. Aren't most 80-year-olds?

No, I would not say most 80-year-olds are not on Facebook. I'm sorry, most 70-year-olds. We've got to put pictures of grandkids up somewhere, Maddie? That's true. It might be the most biggest waste of time for a Dallas Cowboy sports fan, the Dallas Cowboy fan, to spend any time bitching about Jerry Jones. They've been bitching about him for 25 years. He doesn't care.

He doesn't care. Because you know why? You buy his tickets. You drink his beer. You buy his merch. You park in his parking lot. And they're the most successful franchise financially in the history of sports. The ratings are great

and yeah the highest valued franchise I believe in sports It's basically them and the Yankees about every year right Give or take Well you get the like there's a big European soccer club like Real Madrid

Right okay about I'm talking about domestic So He doesn't That's why he got so cranky With the Dallas Sports Radio host Because My guess is Ross

He surrounds himself With yes man Because of Stephen, his son Really, really, really knew what was best for the Dallas Cowboys. He would say, Dad, give me the keys to your car, you're too old to drive.

And I'm not taking no for an answer. Well, he ripped a Johnny Mansell card out of his hand. Okay, so that's the one thing that we continue to hear about for the last 20 years. Am I right, though? I mean, seriously. Well, I don't know. What other major missteps have they made? I just think, I think,

Well, I think the biggest criticism of this year, and we'll talk more about that. We'll get a Dallas guy on the show on Monday. You'll be gone. That's fine. The money that was spent on CD-LAM, the money that was spent on DAC, and the fact they did not pursue other parts of the team. And we'll get a better perspective of this with Dallas folks later this week. But my point is, who cross-checks what Jerry does? And I guess the question is, how many people cross-checked Jeff?

general managers, period. Do you think Mike, how much you think the Domeko cross-checks Nick Casario? I mean, and I mean not like knock down, drag out, what the hell are you doing? I'm saying, I see we're going with this, but I want to do this instead. Or I see what you're doing with this and that's a good idea. Or, hey, I hadn't thought about that. Good job by you, Nick. Yeah, I mean, we talked about it this year. Like, trading a fourth round pick for Jonathan Mee.

How does that make any sense? And then all of a sudden your quarterback, wasn't Dak Prescott hurt when he made that trade? Now, we didn't know that he was going to necessarily need surgery. At that point, we knew he had not played, but we didn't know it was going to be a season-ender. Yeah, I don't know. Like paying CD land, big money in Dak Prescott, I feel like that's kind of, that's part. You could find a bunch of other franchises that would have done that.

But they brought Zeke Elliott back and that, that's a horrible one. That was a bad decision. That's what I was just about to bring up. Like, what is his love affair with Zee Kelly? Somebody said on Twitter, I can't remember who. Like, Zeke knows where some bodies are buried. That's the only explanation of having him back. And let's face it, the number of coaches that have been there since Jimmy has left has been a mixed bag of the very best.

So how many general managers in the NFL, and this is an answer that we don't have, how the good friends, I think have a healthy, good, honest relationship between the head coach. I think Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch have a really good relationship where they can be brutally honest towards each other. That's how it looks like to me from a distance. I think that who's the general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs? I don't remember his name. I can't think of his name off the top of my hand. But I think that he respects Andy Reid a lot. I think Andy Reid can go to him and say, hey, this doesn't work. I think every cowl, and I should say everyone, but I think a lot of the Cowboys coaches that have been hired the last 20 years are basically working to keep their job on a week-to-week basis,

and they just aren't going to get in a way of an 80-something-year-old senile guy that's made a billion dollars and then some of the Dallas Cowboys. Brett Veach named General Manager in 2017. Yeah. I wonder how much, yeah, I wonder how much he is, like he has basically been under Andy Reed's wing. I wonder how collaborative and how much Andy Reed has maybe more final say.

Because it felt like to me there wasn't a lot of cohesiveness between Rick Smith and Bill O'Brien. Well, we know that. Especially when Jack Easter came in and started to cuddle up with Bill O'Brien said, hey, we can do this ourselves. And then they had, I don't even remember his name. Who was the general manager they had for like one year?

Brian Gain. Brian Gain. then it was bill o'brien season and bill o'brien thought he could do both and we wound up figuring out he can't do either by way bill o'brien's a great example of he needs to stay in the college his boorish kind of leadership

can't survive at the NFL level door chest a mass yeah my way of the highway get the hell out of ye hey where did he go to from brooklyn I don't know why he went to Fordham or anything like I don't get that you get my drift though Does Steve, does son cross-check pops? No.

Because Mike McCarthy's just holding on for dear life. Why would they? As you mentioned, business is up, advertising dollars are huge, ratings are huge, and they're the most valuable franchise. And in Jerry Jones's world, he's not really doing anything wrong.

Now, he really wants to win a Super Bowl, and it does hurt him when they're a laughing stock, but at the end of the day, but I think every single move that Jerry Jones makes, he thinks he's going to win on. the most valuable franchise in sports is not in New York, L.A, or Chicago. It's in Arlington, freaking Texas.

He reminds me, see if this analogy works. A guy that won some money at the blackjack table a long time ago. Okay. And lost like the last 10 trips. But every time he goes, he thinks he's going to win. That's Jerry Jones. I won those Super Bowl championships many, many moons ago.

I've had a deep run of non-success. but I'm going back to the I'm going to go back and run this draft and I can run this football team and I'm going to prove the folks that I can win at the Dallas Cowboys for the Dallas Cowboys. It's not a great one. It's mid. It's almost like he won the lottery

and then he keeps playing the lottery after winning the lottery. I don't know. Maybe that's not good either. I would say both are average best. Let's talk to Tony and Sugarland at 141. Hi, Tony. Hey, gentlemen. I got a question to post.

to you guys. And I don't know if you got to talk about this or not. But I know that the national media is talking about this because I saw it on NBC earlier today. But D'emico Lines went for a fourth and four with about two

minutes up to play in the game. I think he was either on their 40-year line or I think I think what it was. But the kick itself, gentlemen, puts them in a bad situation. if they don't make it.

But you guys both agree? Yes, yes. So my question there is, is if you, if you go for a fourth and four, what's the difference that going for a fourth and four and kicking a field goal? Because even if you make it, you're still giving them a minute and 50-some seconds

to play in the game. To tie the game. Basically two times out, right? The tie of guy. I even take the lead, right? But I think that, I think that tells you what DiMiko Rines built about his office.

in my opinion. I'm not trying to so discord, but I just don't think that D'Amico Ryan thought to this offense was in the position to run the clock out and put him in a position and win the game.

I just wanted to put that out there. To describe this in a role-s-sacinct way, I think Domingo's play for the field goal way too much. I mean, and part of that is because it's a good insurance policy. You're going to get points because Kami Fairbairn has made a plethora of 50-plus yard field goals in crucial situations to happy win football games. It's become a little bit of a crutch. And it's simply not fair to

Kami. It's not fair to any kicker to be able to say 56-yard kicks can be made on the regular. He does often play for the field goal because, but in that particular situation, on that fourth and four, it was the right move to kick it. I mean, I don't want it without having numbers and all that stuff in front of me. What was the score at that point? It was 23 to 20. Was it time? 23 to 20 or 20? No, because you missed the field goal giving them a good opportunity.

Yeah, it's 23 to 23. Yeah. So he's saying go for on fourth down, keep Detroit off the field, get the first down, get closer to make the field goal. But if you miss, if you don't go for it. Yeah, that's interesting. I would have to, I mean. It's not a terrible thought. Like I'm sure they have numbers on it.

It was at the 40. fourth and four at the 40. 56 yards. So a 58 yard field goal. Okay. So the odds of Kimey Fairbairn opposed to the odds of getting a fourth and four. That's basically where you have to where if you do get the fourth and four,

that game is over. Okay, so let's do this again. That game is over. In your mind, forgetting about what a computer, in your mind, I like when you close your eyes. What's better? Fourth and four or Kami Fairbaren making 58 yard field goal, which he's done on a couple of.

occasions this year. Feels like a 50-50 for the field goal? Or is it more than that? Well, the good thing is, is D'emico Rines has these numbers. Or he should. Well, he may have him, Ross, but I guarantee you it's not on his play card. He's had to be thinking

about this. They have to have some sort of assistant that says hey, we think it's close or we think it's not even close or whatever. Kai, you got this? Kai says, I got this. I would say I didn't even really, this hadn't even crossed my mind, but I'm thinking, I'm thinking go for it.

Because if you get it, you're at the 35. That's a 53. 52-53-yarder. And then you can run out the clock, and worst-case scenario, you go to overtime. I say go for it. You know what? Thank you to the last caller. It took us a day and a half to figure this out.

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