The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Lineman Suspended, 3 Astros Gold Glove Finalists, Jerry Jones' Radio Rant, Star WRs On The Move

Episode Date: October 15, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to NFL star wide receivers on the move as the Jets traded for Davante Adams and the Bills traded for Amari Cooper. Matt and Ross also discuss:three Astros players being nominated as Gold Glove finalistsJerry Jones arguing with Dallas sports radio hosts about the Cowboys' strugglesthe Rockets hosting the Pelicans for their first preseason home gameTexans defensive tackle Mario Edwards receiving a four-game suspensionthe Longhorns hosting the Georgia Bulldogstheir latest Gut Feelings and more

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1202 at H-Town. What's happening in lunchtimes? Good afternoon to you and welcome. To a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross had to carry the heavy lifting yesterday because can I just spout off about something non-sports for a minute?

Really? I mean, what of 14 seconds into the show? Gordy's staying here. See if you, because I need a second set of ears on this one. So I had. My daughter had an official recruiting visit this weekend to a school in the East Coast. And we had a really good time. They treated her very well. She loved the school.

Blah, blah, blah, blah. So it was just really fun. And so they had a game on Sunday afternoon. At one, the flight was at five. I had to connect through Newark Airport. Oh, wow. Which is in itself as a disaster. Because, by the way, you can't get any more fast foods in hotel and airports anymore.

They're just these fancy burgers, fancy barrede. Sushi. $27 later. Yeah, there's no McDonald's. There's no more Burger King. Bendies. Bendies. All that. So I had a two hour and 45 minute layover in Newark. Okay.

Which is, first of all, way too long, but you know what? I'd be too long and too short. You poor baby. That feels like a clip. Oh, hi, Connor. So the flight was delayed, not because of whether where I was, or in Newark. It was, they said they're not enough

air traffic controllers. Is the union on strike? No, I think they just are looking for people. Don't they make a ton of money? But also it's like an extremely high-stressed job? Yes. And they make a lot of money, but it's so high-stress that why would you- I mean, you and I have stressful jobs, but in the big picture,

we're not on the top of the list. We have stress to succeed, but we don't have a stressful in terms of, we're not digging ditches, we're not in construction. It's not physically taxing to hang. Well, it's emotionally taxing to hang out with you. Emotionally is different, yes. I show up in sweatpants and talk about sports. So the issue is this.

There were not enough air traffic controllers, so they had what they called a ground stoppage slash slowdown. Hmm. And they kept delaying. You know, when on shmited, they give you delays of this plane's belayed, 20 minutes, 40. They give you in chunks. They give you in chunks. They string you along these days, which I hate.

It feels like it should be illegal. So I was strong. long so late that two hour and 40 minute delay or that change of planes was going to be minus 11 minutes. I was going to definitely miss the flight. But I thought to myself, well, if they're slowing the planes down going into Newark, they're probably going to be slowing the planes going out. So they said you could either stay in said town and rebook for tomorrow or you can try to fly to Newark and then catch your flight and come home. So I said, you know what? Either way, if I miss the flights, I got to spend the night in this city or Newark. I thought, well, I might as well get to Newark. It's a

little bit closer to home. So I flew to Newark, tried to go to the terminal where my flight was. Cancelled. They took off without me. I'm sorry, Matt. Do you get a refund on that? That's my question, boys. Oh, so it was a connecting. Turn it. Yeah, we got to have a

Yeah, it was a connecting flight. Yeah. And they left without you. They left without me. So, poor baby. Now, if it's mechanical issues, the airline gives you dinner, hotel, blah, blah, blah. blah, blah, blah.

This was the flighted. This was the air traffic control at Newark Airport. So Schmidon's like, bye, bitch. Yeah. We got some space on the floor right there if you'd like to take up a bed. That's right. So do you file a complaint with the New York airport? What are they going to do?

What is Schmite is going to do? Not our fault. We tried to get you there. I will say Newark has done some renovations in recent years, nicer airport than it used to be. Yeah, but again, I want my McDonald's. I want my Bendies. I don't want Fogo food as $81 for a cheeseburger.

You could take it a cab into the city, the little sightseeing called Broadway show. I could have made it in time to go watch the Giants Bengals game, but then I got to the hotel and the game was a dog because that wasn't a big deal. Point being is this, I don't have anybody to sue. So you paid out of pocket for a hotel? Yes. Wow. That sucks.

And the cab ride, because the Ubers were. Remember how bad it was in New York, I told you before, how bad an ubers are. So I took a cab from the Newark Airport to the airport hotel that I'm choosing. And I looked at it. It was two miles. I said, cabby, I need it. And he goes, okay, hold on.

Go to cab number six. By the way, it would be $35. Wow. I'd walk. I said, you are taking advantage of me. He goes, that's just what it is. I said, you are taking advantage of me. He goes, yes, we are.

That's why these crooks got busted up by Uber and lifted in the first place. That's why you look for a gypsy cab in New York. Those are the vans. They got little crowns hanging. They'll do like $20 wherever you want to go. So you could easily just tell, both of you can tell me, sorry, that's them's the brakes. Well, them are the brakes.

But why I made it to my flight. Yes. You did everything you could. I did everything I could. And I had to go pay an amount of money. No, I can certainly afford it. But it was still an aggravation. I didn't get back in time.

Missed a show with you yesterday, which we needed to break down the Texans like a mutter. We will do that again today. Okay, can't wait. Because nobody else in the market is doing that, apparently. No. Everybody's talking about other things, like soccer and college football and basketball. We're talking to Texans. Okay.

I think the moral of story here is your daughter does not need to go to school up there. This is going to happen again. Every time you want to go up there to see a game. You're probably right. Let's get her at LSU. It's four hours down the road. Well, you need to have LSU call my girl. That's all I'm asking.

That was the volleyball squad looking over there. I think they're middle of the pack in the SEC. Okay. UT is pretty strong. Back-to-back national championships? Is that strong? Can we get her on the? their radar? I don't know she's up to snuff. I'm sorry.

I mean, that's really rude. And if she's listening right now, she would curse you out, but since she's not, she's in school getting education, she will not be doing it. I hear Lubbock's nice this time of year. Oh, no, we don't we're not doing Lubbock. I love Texas Tech, but it ain't happened for volleyball. Okay. Just wink, wink.

So, I just, I was all my story. That's all I got. I'm just, I was just frustrated because I couldn't get back, be out of my pocket to go to a hotel. And see, being in a, I know if you guys have been to this before, but I was in Newark. No one knew me. No one liked me. You poor baby.

No one. I was just a, I was. Can we talk sports after this pity party? We can. I was a lost soul. At least if I was in, you know, if I was stuck in Houston, I can call you guys, hey, let's go out have dinner or something. Yeah.

I was just, I was. How were the colleges? Okay. Spectacular. Okay. We had a great time. Part of the country we were in was amazing and great, great, great visit. Just that was a sucky end.

Just come December, it might be a little rough. A lot of diversity up in Rhode Island. Munch the school. No, the state. Oh, well, I mean, still, I mean, they're not like 40 schools in Rhode Island. I mean, come on now. A little bit of surprise. The Biden country, right?

Or is he Delaware? No, it's the entire east. It's up there, that whole pocket of the country. But that's not here nor there. I will say this. I got to watch the Texans New England game. Oh yeah, it was on TV. Yeah, it was on TV.

It was not the number one game, but it was a regional game. I was in that region, so that was good. What a mess the Patriots are. The only thing good about it, thanks, Gordy, appreciate you. The only thing about that game was that the Patriots uniforms were amazing. Everything else sucked. And Drake May wasn't terrible, right? I don't think he was terrible.

He was fine. He was better than a couple percent for a rookie making his very first start. He was solid. I was listening to the Patriots Radio Network. You were listening to the Postgame? No, I was at the airport at that, but the Patriots were like, you know what? We know who Jacoby Percette is. We're good.

We don't know who Drake May is. Number three pick. Throw them out there. Yeah, you might as well do something. Yeah. So your Texans are 5 and 1. 5 in 1, baby. Battle Red Ross is happy.

We're looking good. Best win of the season. How's Texan stand? Has he been happy? Did you? I know you work with a thing. I think he's doing okay. I think he's a little worried about the linebacker injuries, and he should be.

There's actually quite a few injuries and suspensions. It's, it's kind of not every NFL team goes through this, clearly, but right now it's kind of manifesting itself. Mario Edwards, see you in four weeks. Or as a kids call him Rio. Rio Edwards, see in four weeks. It's funny, you know, Rico Atre's back. That's good.

Rio's people reached out to this radio station to do a weekly hint with him. They did? Yes. Why'd we say no? Well, we'd have to have them out for four weeks. Well, I'm saying, how do you say, hey, man, Rio, did you party too hot? Did you take a pill? I mean, he obviously did something.

No, you know, he hasn't released a statement yet. No, I can already predict basically what's going to happen. Well, see, I took an over-the-counter supplement that unfortunately I did not vet and happen to be on the banned substance list. This is a mistake. I'm going to go back and be better and in the future be more careful. See you in four weeks. But see, the problem is he's not announced that yet. What the best would have been was, say everybody, I partied way too hard.

and I was given something I should have taken because... What does that mean? You know, you... Bougar sugar? No, I'm not saying that. Columbia and Bam-Band? I'm just saying you may have taken something

to kind of increase the... In DNA? Enjoyed the environment even further. He was partying with Molly? Okay. I have no idea. I know someone that took a Molly within the last month.

And this person, who I will not name, but she's an attractive female, said, oh my God, it flips your blank. Okay. That's all I got. Thank you, Matt. I have the boots in the ground.

Okay. I can give you best. I've never, never, never taken Molly, but I can certainly give you the Molly update. This is getting weird. It's not weird. I'm just telling you, I know people. Okay.

All right. We have one o'clock today. We have gut feelings. Okay. Did you all do to tell the truth yesterday? No, we didn't. Oh, you didn't? No, we were busy.

How busy were you? I couldn't come up before, believable things. Oh, okay. I was like, I actually tried for like 30 seconds. And I was like, I'm good. Yeah, okay. 130, we have Ross's NFL rewind.

Oh, we do? Now, there's so many juicy things on the NFL that I don't think we can't wait to 130. Okay. Because I think that, now, Connor, if we got the Jerry Jones audio to an acceptable level, did you hear Jerry Jones today? Oh, I didn't hear it, but I saw the quotes. Well, guess what? He went off on his Dallas weekly radio show. Yeah.

And we'll hear it next. And he threatened to fire the hosts. It's happened before. We'll hear what Jerry had to say in a minute. 713212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. I also need a second ruling on airport airplane etiquette. So I need your thoughts on this as why.

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installing those Generact, standby generators. QualitytX.com's the website, QualitytX.com. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. So the big news in the NFL today is that Aaron Rogers has a new wide receiver to third two. It's his old buddy Devante Adams

from Green Bay. Green Bay this morning, excuse me, the Las Vegas Raiders this morning, trading him to the Jetapolitans for a conditional third or second round pick, depending on his all pro status. I can't imagine Devonte. I'm getting all pro between now and the in the year. He had like one big game

this season. That's about it so far. Now if he helps the Jets all of a sudden become a title contender in the NFC, then obviously he'll get some run. So Aaron's on his weekly appearance, paid appearance, on some show, and Devante Adams is with him right there. So obviously, this deal was done late last night. Vante's like, I'll catch a flight, get from LV to New York, boom.

Love it. Hopefully he's ready to go. Hopefully he didn't have air traffic control problems. That would be bad. Yeah. All right. So that's the big news. Devante Adams today, now a New York judge of Paul.

And we'll talk to Rodo about that Thursday and how that will potentially affect the Jets, other receivers, the running game, Aaron Rogers. I mean, I'm going to assume that Devante's got to be super pleased. He's hanging out with Aaron Rogers right now. Arrow up for Devante Adams, slightly down for Garrett Wilson. Yeah. And again, the Raiders. How they even thought about Garner Minch who was their guy to open up the year is comical. It's fine.

They swapped to Aiden O'Connell. They're good now. And they got their ass beat by Pittsburgh on Sunday. There is nothing more pleasing than to watching Raider fan fight anybody from any opposing. team. You know it actually is also kind of satisfying? Watching how Mark Davis moved the Raiders from Oakland

because he wanted all that money in Las Vegas. And every week they're the home team for the away team. They're the home crowd for the other team. First of all, the Steelers travel as good as anybody in the NFL. There was like 50,000 terrible towels in that building. Was there really that many?

I mean, maybe not that. But I get your drip. Yeah. Yeah, I would have to say, charger games and Raider games, you're probably going to run into just as many fans of their team. Maybe the Rams would have a little bit more of them, but it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be like 55-45. Or here, for a Texans game, it's probably 90 to 10. Or unless it's Pittsburgh, or the Cowboys. Or the Cap, well, you know, how about this? How many Texans fans will go to Dallas from Monday Night Football? Well, yeah. Maybe it'll be a lot. Fair number, but it's still primarily like Dallas Cowboy fans.

Bring your brass knuckles. But yeah, every time the Raiders have a home game, there's a writer fan fighting with somebody. The one I looked at this morning was a girl Steenner fan. Apparently got a beer thrown at her and then she got out of her seat and wanted to throw hands

and then there were other beers being thrown to this other guy and we got to see his gut during this whole thing. Were these always happening like in the 90s and we just, everybody didn't have a cell phone so we didn't see it as much? Absolutely. Are you kidding me in Oakland? I'm just saying, is the fight activity up, down are the same. The same. You think so? Yeah. Okay. That makes me feel better.

The only way it feels like things are getting worse. The only way it's ever going to get reduced for two things. One, you eliminate the sale of alcohol, which is never going to happen. It ain't happening. Or two, you would add about double the security that you would for an average sporting event in those cities. Like if you, Raiders games, let's say you hire a thousand security personnel for a Texan's game, you got to hire $3,5004 grand for Raiders. That's the only way is that you had these people consistently patrolling the areas over every dead ball to make sure everybody's behave themselves. I watched this fight on video this morning. It took maybe three or four.

Like three minutes for somebody to come down there from the Raiders, from the security team in the Legion Stadium. Sometimes you've got to let them fight, Matt. You do? Yeah. It's like when me and my brother were fighting when we were kids, Dad's just like, I'd just go outside. Many, many years ago, my wife and I went to Miami to go see the Colts take on the Dolvens on a Monday night football game. Uh-huh. And it wasn't vicious.

It was that. Colts fans, excuse me, dolphin fans, would see attractive female cults fans, and they would grade them. My wife's like, why are they screaming sevens, eights, nine, sevens? I said, figure it out. And so it took her about five minutes and then she figured it out. Okay.

So I said, don't get out of your chair. How did you feel their grading system was calibrated? I tended to, properly. I tended to agree with him. I just did. You didn't have like the dunk contract. You didn't have a flyer with a number on it, did you? The funniest part was a couple of times, the girls that were cult fans were so hot.

I didn't think there were a lot of cult fans, but they were, they were hot cult fans? They were down in Miami. The guys would, two rows in fronters would stand up and applaud them. Really? That's weird. It was weird. Jim Morrow was the coach at the time. So how many years ago was that?

Oh my God. Well, this was, I think, in the 1970s, I believe. That's not true. Stop. I was married at the time. Okay. You take your Chevrolete celebrity. of the game. Weird stadium, by the way. Now, it's obviously been refurbished, but it was back

of that day, it was called Joe Robbie Stadium. I remember one time covering an Oilers Dolphins game. This has got to be mid-90s. I think Marino was still playing at the time. Okay. One side of the stadium was raining and the other was not. I had never in my life you'd ever, because remember, obviously, when you see a rainstorm, there's got to be a start and a stop somewhere. It just, you wouldn't think it would be on an NFL stadium where the people on the left-hand side were putting their ponchos on and the right-stom. people were just standing there's going, what are they doing over there? We're like, oh my God, it's raining over there.

Wow. It was really peculiar. That's interesting. It was a little peculiar. But Miami love you. Great people watch. Love Miami. Love Miami.

A lot of good times in Miami. Super Bowl there was fun. Oh, you went? What was I? Yeah. I mean, you're always. Did it change planes in Portland? Oregon.

No, I think we did change planes in Fort Lauderdale. That's not terrible. Yeah. It's quick. Because you've unfortunately dealt the, been given the shorts stick to draw on changing flights. It's happened. Super Bowl, Indianapolis, had to go to

Orlando. So if anybody should empathize with my trials and tribulations yesterday, it should have been you. Brutal. Yeah. All right. We owe you that audio of Jerry, and I want to play it the next segment for sure. Jera. Okay, well, we need your breakdown in the Texans game as well. We haven't got it. You were out yesterday.

Really sloppy Patriots, turnovers. Will Anderson was amazing. I didn't think too, I didn't have any concern by Kami Fairbearer missing a 40-yard kick. Kicks are going to be missed. I'm not thinking, he's Mr. 50 plus. Joe Mixing back.

Joe Mixon was back. Even Damien Piersk got going. Now, I didn't get to hear a lot of Kevin Harlan's audio, but I'm going to assume that he was in full Kevin Harlan's throat. You know, he was, and I was listening to him a little bit last night because I was driving during Monday night football. Yeah. He is so good. He's great on the radio, too, because he'll tell you who's making the block. He'll tell you, like, all these little details.

He sprinkles in in the middle of the play of telling you the action. On radio, he's even better. I'm going to give you a little secret that he would never admit and that's okay. But when you go to that, sometimes if you can't identify a player right away because you can't see it or not familiar with that player, that if you add a little description to it, it gives you a chance to kind of catch up and figure out who it is. And that's what makes him so good. Yeah.

He's like a maestro. As compared to saying, first down in 10 for XYZ team, ex-quarterback throws is intercepted, the 25 to the 30 to 35. He will say, balls intercepted. What an amazing grab. High in the air. Came down with it. John Miller.

And then he goes on. He just sneaks in small delay tactics to make sure he identifies the player correctly. And it just comes off as fluid as, you know. Yeah. I'm not even talking about necessarily that, which he does great. but even like on a run play like you know who he knows who the running back is. He'll name the left guard who's making a good tackle in the middle of a good

block in the middle of it. But as he say what junior high school he went to a la Craig way. No, he doesn't, unfortunately. He was a we blow at the Cubs Scouts back when he was 11. FFA, national champion. Craig can do that too. Yeah, he can. It's a little different.

But it's good. Yeah, but Harlan's just absolutely amazing. And hopefully the Rockets will get a game with him this year because another Rockets have got two in T&T's year. Really? Yeah. That's up from last year. Up from one.

Yeah. Remember that one game we had? It was Oklahoma City. Game didn't tip off to like 940. I remember that. Then we flew to Phoenix from there where literally, I think we're going 100 miles an hour because there was so much tailwind. Uh-huh.

All right. Excuse me, headwind. On the private plane? Yeah, you're fine. But I still want to get home. We've been throwing a pity party for you for 30 minutes. Yeah. It feels like it's, I'm not getting much reception for people.

I don't hear anybody going, poor you. Falling on deaf ears. It is fault. I think the whole show is on death fears. I think whatever you did yesterday is not helping. That's not true. Well, that's fine. Gordy hung out for an hour.

Clanton came in, played a little Domingo. It's a good show. Did you do what you're talking about Domingo? No, we did not. You should actually do that with other... He was talking live. Oh, you played it live. Okay, I got you.

All right, as promise, Jerry Jones got cranky with his weekly radio hit. When's Kyle going to a weekly radio hit with us? Who? Cal. Oh, cow. Yeah. I never we can get them on a mobile

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Real pale Texans talk continues on the Matt Thomas show. What up? What up? Matt Thomas Show at Ross, Sports Talk 790, where we get to talk. to Astros manager Joe Espada. We will be talking to Rockets coach E. Me Adoka coming up starting probably next week, if not the week after. Regular season starts a week from tomorrow.

Against the... Wow. Scrappy Charlotte Hornets. Are they scrappy? I thought they were crappy. That too. You added an S. Scrappy and crappy.

And we get to talk to other busy newsmakers. We're a newsmaker show. We're like meat the press, yeah. Okay. Only thing we don't get on our Texans players and coaches because we're never... They don't like us. No, that's not a question.

They're just never going to come out. Mm-hmm. Like, I've had to tell, unfortunately, Stan, he's never getting C.J. Stratt to come out of the show. He thinks he's going to, but it's... Well, we'll see. Do you guys make a bet on that? I would be...

I would like to make a lobster bake with all the trimmings. Lopter bag? And probably a bottle of champagne bet on it. Bottle of champagne. Yeah, I feel very comfortable. And we're talking about it. about Andre or we're talking about some don't perignon? Oh, perino, that's fine. Oh, wow.

I mean, I'm looking for what I want. Okay. So, well, how are you feeling about your nine and a half under? I'm going to mind I'm paying. Five and one. Although, they'd have to go at four and seven the rest of the way. Yeah. The problem is the AMC South is super sucky. It's not looking good for you, Matt. I'm sorry.

That's fine. I mean, it's okay. I don't mind paying. It's okay. I love it when you pay. Yeah, no, you'll be buying something for me eventually. we go. So Jerry Jones goes on 105.3, the fan. Okay. In Dallas, where he does a weekly appearance. So they have a ticket and they have a fan. The two most cliche sports

radio station. Correct. And they're both insanely successful. Dang. Because Dallas is just... One of those is the number one station in that whole city, right? The ticket usually is always top five. Fans are probably 10, 11, 12. The last month ticket was number one in Dallas. I saw an email. That's absolutely crazy. I mean, Fandom in Dallas.

We're close. It's us and Sunny every month. Us, Sunny, and KSPJ. Yeah. One, two, three. Just mix him up. So he goes on as Jerry Jones, the general manager. He doesn't go on as Jerry Jones the owner, although he's real, they're all one of the same. Okay.

I don't think if he was the owner, he would do a weekly show. I think if it's just like the GM show. The GM show. It's like when we get Dana Brown on with Sean. Okay. So it's the GM portion of the deal. We get Ralph Lstone on every week. Because NBA doesn't have those moving parts.

Yeah, that's fine. They don't have moving parts like the NBA as much. Yeah. So it got kind of cranky to now. Now, Connor, did you put the question in from the host on that show so we at least know the context of this? There's part of it. Okay. So the audience will be able to figure out exactly what got Jera so upset.

Here is Jerry Jones this morning on 105.3, The Fan. Which there was a lot of criticism that you guys didn't add, didn't spend. and don't add and don't spend and are not aggressive enough with some of the problems that are still haunting the Cowboys today that we see play out on the field. That's the point of talking about the offseason. Oh, I remember those criticisms very well. Okay, so what? Are they playing out to be accurate?

What's your point? What's your point? My point is it seems like my point. Let me tell you what I'll do. Let me tell you what I'll do about it. I will let us sit down and look at the decisions

we've made over the last several years. Okay? I'll look at it. Now, if you think I'm interested on a damn phone call with you over a radio and sitting here and throwing all the good out with the dishwasher, you have got to be smoking something over there this morning.

I'm not. And I really don't, and I don't even want our listeners to listen to me, to talk about this is not your job. Your job isn't to let me go over all the reasons that I did something and I'm sorry that I did it. That's not your job. Well, my job is to ask what... Or I'll get another, I'll get somebody else to ask these questions, man.

Jerry, we're just, we're trying to figure out why the team is... I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding it. You're not going to figure out what the team is doing right or wrong. if you are or any five or ten like you you need to come to this meeting i'm going to today there are 32 teams here you're geniuses he's speaking of the owner's meetings oh jerry's not having it that's great that's good stuff so what he's basically saying is i don't want to do this interview if you're going to question my decisions and what i've done in the past

And if I have to continue to have this, I'll just have other people ask me these questions, meaning he will have team employees ask the questions and soft sell the questions significantly more than a couple of guys that just have to be radio host. So he wants the message controlled. Wow. And honestly, I'm trying to be objective about this. I don't think the frame of questioning was particularly rude. I don't think it was combative. I think it was... We don't have the full context, but it seems...

Seems like Jerry's very upset. I mean, they just lost 47 and 9. You're 3 in 3. You were supposed to be a Super Bowl contender. I thought they were pretty good last year. Yeah. I think collective of the NFL universe continues to wait for them to kind of play up to expectations.

And basically what they're saying is the Cowboys didn't do things to... And I don't know their depth chart well enough, but spending crazy money on CD Lamb, spending crazy, crazy, crazy money on Dack Prescott and not filling out other portions of the team in free agency and just basically just signing their own and calling it a day is not what I think fans have wanted to see.

Yeah, Michael Parsons and Dexter Lawrence and some other pieces on that defense have been hurt. So they have had some injuries. And I mean, 47 to 9, though, there's just no excuse for that. They lost a turnover battle 5 to 0 in that game. Now, I didn't see the game yet on Sunday, It was DAC just awful?

Or was it just a defense? A couple of them were really bad. Some of them were really good play. One of them in the corner to CD Lamb, I think it was like really good play by the defender. I don't know if it was Brian Burns. I can't remember who it was. But some of it was good play. Some of it was, yeah, just poor throws.

The windows are tight in the NFL. And Dak Prescott was making mistakes. And they lost a couple of fumbles. And honestly, before Aiden Hutchinson went down, I was ready to just go ahead and crown the lion's Super Bowl champs. Yeah, that hurts for them. badly. But this lion's offense is unstoppable. They have a top three offensive line. They have two plus plus running backs. And then they got pass catchers all over the place. They got maybe arguably the number one tied in in the NFL with Sam Leporta.

And then they have Amon Ross St. Brown and Jameson Williams is playing well. Like the lions are a machine. So why haven't we jumped on their bandwagon fast enough and said this is the NFC's best team? They're the NFC's best team right now. It's going to be questioned with Aidan Hutchinson and their best pass rush are out for the rest of the season with his leg snapping in half. how good is the defense going to hold up? Right. So basically it's them, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, and everybody else is just in fourth, right?

Am I forgetting somebody? I mean, Philadelphia is seeming. I mean, they won last week, but the brand of terrible. By the way, douchebag, move on the coach. Bringing the sun out there to deflect so people wouldn't get mad at him

for fighting with a fan. I mean, God bless him. It's probably the Vikings, I mean, they're 5 and O. Sam Darnold is their quarterback, but they have the best defense in football, though. Yeah. All right.

Jonathan and Katie with us. Can you pot up line one for me? Jeremy, Jonathan on Sports Talk 7.9. Jonathan, good afternoon. Dude, what's going on, Matt? What you got today? So, you know, I listened to you forever. Back when Ross was your noble steed, that was a wild guy. He's still a noble steed.

Oh, well, you don't call, you don't ever call him that. And, you know, my work took me away. But now I've been listening, I've been listening to you guys every day now at lunch. I sit in my truck, eat lunch, listen to you guys. And, you know, back in the day, you were all about the Texans. And listen, I, you know, I was a fan of the Astros, even when they were begging people to come. You could even bring your own food. But that's because they had a clear plan to move forward.

Now, with the Texans, like you, probably, I gave up on them. But since Cal put down the PlayStation remote and wiped down his hands of the barbecue sauce, He's kind of gotten serious about the team. But I've, you know, coming back listening to you, when did you become a Texan hater? I'm not a hater. That's the thing that you don't understand. I'm just, I'm not like 98% of the team meeting this market that will just gush over everything they do. My one football team in my life was the Houston owners.

And I've been very, very clear about that forever and ever. And when they died, so do my football fandom. So I am an observer. I am a realist. And frankly, this organization, up until the last. year or so has greatly disappointed the city of Houston. And you're absolutely right. Yeah, I agree.

You're absolutely right. Cal hasn't put the game station down. He's playing as much as he ever has before. He just lets Hannah do all the heavy lifting. And for that, the organization should be applauded. They hired the right coach. They hired the right general manager. They hired the right court.

They signed the right quarterback. They've done a lot of great moves. But they're just not my team. They're just okay to me. I watch them, I talk about them, I talk when things are good, but I'm not going to gush like a bunch of full media in this town who think they're going to get Super Bowl rings when the Texans when they're rings. I just don't have that affinity towards them like I had the Rockets and the Astros

because I grew up with those teams. And if the orders were still in Houston in 2024, maybe I'd be Uber Homer like the rest of the Houston media is. But I'm just not them on them. I just, this is not me. And I think you'd rather appreciate me being authentic than making up some fake, oh, I love everything that every team in this team does. When the Astros do great.

But it's, but if I wanted that, I'll go to, you know, I'll go to 610. I don't want to hear that. Yeah, I'm just, this is who I am. I mean, there's only three things in life sports-wise I love. It's the Rockets, it's the Astros and the University of Houston Cougars. I'm observers of everything else. It's just, that's just who I am. I love it.

And what I will say, you didn't, you might not have got to hear. Ross carried the show yesterday. Rossi, I listened to you. I thought you did a great job. I think maybe you secretly do carry the Matt Thomas show. Secretly. You are no longer the noble steed, my friend. Thank you, John.

Thank you, John. All right. I would say outwardly carrying, not secretly carrying. Thank you, Jonathan. Appreciate you. Well, the numbers say otherwise, but that's a different issue for a different time. 713-212. There are no numbers.

People just say that. Just say it. 7-1-3-212. Numbers are all right. Some can celebrate them. Some can't. 713-212-5-7-0. Connor, you should be celebrating the numbers.

Yeah. I won't be, but you can. We'll go eat good. I think I'm getting a value meal out of the deal or something. I don't know what I'm getting out of it. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We have gut feelings coming up at about 15 minutes.

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Coming up in about 10 minutes, we're going to do gut feelings. And if you're new to the show, first of all, where the hell have you been? Second of all, what have you been listening to? There's a lot of crap out there. We're the best thing going on in the middays, right, Rossi? Don't you feel like it? And it's not even close because we're real people. We pour our heart and soul out to you folks.

Genuine. That's right. We don't make crap up. But gut feelings are predictions and we'll make sports predictions. Now, I was not on last Tuesday. Did y'all do, y'all did gut while I was gone, correct? Yes, we did. Okay. So I got a fresh batch of things that get to. Okay. All right.

I don't follow any famous people on Instagram, Rossi. Hmm. Okay. And why are you on there all day? how do you hear that you know what that was rude i'm just kidding god the shade that you throw at me well it looks to your face well completely accurate you know what i'm trying to get my followership up

so i've only got like 400 followers at sports rv yeah i'm at uh i don't know what i'm at i'm at i'm trying to use it more uh let me tell you what i'm at sports mt on instagram if you want to follow me there let me see what i'm at i don't even know what I'm trying to put some more barbecue on there. Is that what you're doing? I think all my posts are either barbecue or me at an Astros playoff game. I have 21.1. I'm going to diversify.

I'm at 2138 on Instagram. Okay. I would think if you follow me on Twitter, you should follow me on Instagram because I put more pictures and stuff up there. Okay. But my point. So yesterday, I'm flying back from Newark, and it wasn't a rage. That's too strong of a term. But apparently, Bragman put an Instagram photo a couple days ago.

It says Astro fans, thank you for support all year long. We came up short this year, but proud of the guys for the effort and the fight. And it kind of created hysteria is too strong of a term. But it was, some comprehended that as it's another farewell goodbye message. I'm going to read it again. Interpreted, yes. Interpretation.

Astro fans, thank you for the support all year long. We came up short this year, but proud of the guys for the effort and the fight. Now, if he would have said see you next year, then that would have been a huge sort of wow moment. Excited to hashtag run it back. Yeah. Can't wait to see you in West Palm Beach this February. But that wasn't put in there. Uh-huh.

But it wasn't, this was a great ride, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's all it was. And he's got 2,516 comments. That's a lot. And I think somebody Like a chronic or some other aggregated it as In another potential farewell message Hmm

I don't read that Now did I read his tweet that way When he did that as soon as the season and so forth Yes I did Thank you Houston But I also didn't necessarily need social media to tell me That Alex Breggman's thinking about going to play somewhere else His demeanor

The round of applause that he got in the final regular season Home game when he left in the middle of the game oh by the way he didn't sign a contract before the start of the season there were many other context clues that gave me the indication that Alex probably isn't going to be a Houston Astro next year so I just

it was weird to me that when someone says Alex Brighman posted on Instagram I went back and looked I was like tell me where there's the drama in this it was he said exactly what I thought he would say even if he had a five year extension with the Astros but isn't it weird to post this like

I mean you've been out of it for what like 10 days at this point or how long have they been out A couple weeks? Yeah. So you're saying you're taking the delay as a... I'm not taking it as anything necessarily. It strikes me funny. Okay, well, what makes it so funny?

It makes me ponder. It's curious. Now, remember, the Astros have exclusive negotiating rights with him until five days after the conclusion of the world series. Yes. But in reality, they've had exclusive negotiating rights with him since the time he's put a uniform on. Exactly.

with five more days among friends. He's hitting the market. Yeah. He's hitting the market. He's going to get a big deal from someone. It could be Houston. I don't think it's going to be, but it could be. I'm sure, well, unless there's already been conversation with Scott Boris, like, we'll see you later.

There possibly could be a, well, write a refusal. Hey, if you guys can match us, we'll stay. Jim Crane will say, thanks, but no thanks. And then he'll be gone. And then we'll get the real thanks for all the memories. Love you, Houston. On to my next chapter. I mean, there would be nothing.

I'm not even saying this for gut feelings because we've been talking about this for but eight months now. There'd be nothing that would satisfy me more to be wrong. But I put the chances of Alex Berman coming back as an asteroid 0%. I'd love to be wrong as well. Yeah, I don't, I don't, there's nothing that gives me context clues to think that Alex is even seriously considering coming back. Because I think he, I mean, when you don't get an offer from the team the entire season, when we had been talking about this Rossi since spring training of last year. Yeah.

At Dana on. And he was like, yeah, you know, a few days. We're going to get an offer. We'll give me an offer in a few days. And a few days turned into six months. Yeah. No, he didn't leave camp with an offer. He didn't get one during the season.

He didn't get one during the All-Star break. He didn't get one around the trade deadline. And he certainly hasn't gotten one, I think, probably since the end of the season. So tell me where my opinion should change. It shouldn't. And I think most Astro fans that are listening understand the exact situation, too. They know they just don't want to believe it. and they're probably going to already be up after arbitration and they pay guys like Fromber's going to make a lot of money in arbitration, Kyle Tucker as well.

They're basically going to be up against the tax threshold again. The only value you get in return on this is you're probably going to let JV go. And if JV was to come back, it would be on a much smaller, much shorter term deal. If you go, so it's a 20% percent. tax on all overages the first year. If you do it another year, it's a 30% tax. If you do it for three straight years, it's a 50% tax. And here's the reality of it too, and we'll get to the top of the hour on this.

Astro attendance went down this year. Yeah, so it's your fault Astero's fans. No, no, no, I'm just saying that you can't guarantee three-milly and paint your payroll off of that. And also, by the way, don't forget about this too. The Astros do not get any more money from television. like they used to because AT&T, whatever that group was called, disintegrated. Yes.

But we're here at Sports Talk 790. We're trying to get their ratings up. Yes, we are. To take care of people like yourself. Yes. And others. Well, I don't know if that's helping us, but that's okay. The 18, 3 to 6.

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Got a gut feeling. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 before we get to this week's gut feelings Ross, you and Connor, how did you do last Tuesday? Connor, you may have been sick, were you sick? He was out.

So it was actually Trey Walker was in. Okay, well, all right, well, Trey is not here, but I'll give you his. He had the Rockets making the play in. I'm okay with that as a prediction. Yeah. And he also had the Saints, still winning the NFC South,

and then I think Derek Carr had died and Spencer Lattler start. We found out later that week The Derek Carr was going to be out in Spencer. Spencell Ratla was going to be starting for a couple of weeks. So not looking so good for that. I had the Texas Longhorns and the 14 and a half versus Oklahoma. I said the Sooners would cover.

And that was wrong. I'm very happy to be wrong. I think I had the Longhorns and the under. So it was a win-win from sports. Tom of Sports Enterprises. Genius, Matt. I also had the Texans winning the AFC South by at least two games. That was before last week's result.

I'm still feeling pretty good about that. You should lock that one in. And I said the best offensive season of his NBA career this year for Jalen Green. I'm all for that too. Doesn't part of making the playing at least require a league. Shungu and Green have to be better. And then they're going to make the play in. I mean, to make the playoff, so they're going to have to be like star level almost.

Yeah, I'm okay with that. I'm here for it. We'll see. because while others bonus in some ways others bonus in other ways so you know what it is what it is oh my god you're so weird I know at least you recognize it

all right and then I wrote nothing for you you want yours from like two weeks ago sure when up you had the astro it says Astros win tonight I think they did lose whatever game that was yes it was Detroit you have H covering the 13 and a half versus Iowa State they didn't score a point but how about the TCU game

this is Iowa State oh okay fair enough You said Yordon gets a live swing before the playoffs. No, he did not. And Jacksonville covers a six and a half versus the Texans. They did. Yeah. Texans won by four.

Okay. Are you ready to make some predictions on the Packers game? Oh, the Texans and the Packers? Man, I think that's going to be a really good game. What's the line? Three. Green Bay minus three. I think it's actually down to two and a half now.

I mean, part of me says every time you... Texans cover. Texans win. They beat Green Bay. Joe Mixing is back. They're going to be fine as past catchers. The defense is playing lights out. Sorry Mario Edwards, we're going to miss you.

But De Nico Autry's back. Texans win outright. Taking the money line is my lock at a week in Green Bay. I got some big information. Calling a recorded line. Big information. Not even the team doesn't know the information that we're giving them. It's time for a statement game. Let's go. I ain't scared.

They're one and one against the NFC North this year. NFC North, all the teams have at least four wins, I think. Yeah, they're filthy good. It would feel like this week would be a letdown week because of the injuries, the suspensions, and the caliber competition goes up tenfold from New England to Green Bay. What do you want me to say? I want you to make it to see. You don't have, you know, it's gut feelings.

You don't have to pick. Okay. What's your gut say? That's it. My, just, let's just learn my gut. Green Bay wins by six. Mm. Yeah.

But I had no apprehension about the Texans destroying the Patriots. I had no apprehension about, oh, you getting throttled by Texas. Oh, speaking of which, we can gut feeling Texas got another big game this week. Ooh, this is true. The game's at Austin, correct? But Georgia wins everywhere. So that's not a question. Texas wins by six.

Lines three and a half. Which can you are? is going to show up. The one we saw last Saturday or the one earlier in the year? Your guess is just as good as mine. Big game, Quinn is a thing, I think, for the most part. He plays up and level

to the competition. Now, Oklahoma's defense is good, but watching the game on Saturday, at least parts of it, he was just, it was everything. There was throws that normally Quinn Ewers would have been able to make. It wasn't because Oklahoma had this intensive pressure in the secondary. By the way, if you ever got feeling

about anything, 7-13, 2-1, 5790, 713, 212-5790. I'm going to say Longhorns by 6. What's up? Yeah, I'm with you. I like Texas. And I'll go the under on the line as well. I think it's like really high.

It's like 56 or something. I will take Texas giving the points and the under just like I had last week. I feel more confident in the under because if Texas is going to lose, it's because they can't score points because Quinn Ewer's not playing well and that means to me an under. 56 and a half is pretty high.

for the caliber of these defenses. Could you see a 31-26 game? You could. Absolutely. That's still leaning under. Well, yeah. Okay. So that's my gut feeling.

I saw Green Bay winning by six. I like Texas to win. I like the Cougars winning in Kansas this week. Okay. Kansas is terrible. They have no home field. I'm only going on the trip, frankly, to watch the Cougars win in person and just see Arrowhead for the first.

I've never been there before. I'm sorry. I'm sure it's going to be loud. You know, they call it one of the loud. stadiums in the country, man. I'm sure you'll just... For Kansas football? You'll get a full taste of that on Saturday, I'll be taking pictures of Arrowhead. You and 3,300 are your closest friends? Do you even know what they draw?

I have to go look. I go look. All right, Connor, what do you got this week? By the way, congratulations to your Missouri Tigers knocking off UMass. Hey, it wins a win. I'll say Missouri beats Auburn this week. Yeah, but everybody, but even Oklahoma beat Auburn. That's not a big ding.

Well, yeah, well, we got to beat Auburn, and then we could play Alabama for their homecoming game. Oh, yikes. Oh, man, they scheduled you guys for homecoming. Disrespect. Oh, we're going to upset them then. There we go. Tankdale and Joe Mixon touchdown in the Texas versus Packers.

Texans only win by one score. And then I'll say Longhorns beat Georgia by 10. Ooh. Okay. Love it. It's like at least $900 to get into that place, Matt. How about the hotels in Austin? weekend. Yeah. The Lakinta

and Round Rock is 300 a night. By the way, TCU, Kansas, Mm-hmm. That was an Arrowhead a few weeks ago, drew 47,928. I don't believe that. Do you believe that or not? That's a not. Not. 47G? That's not bad for 70,000. That's more than your whole little Rinky Dink Stadium home.

Hey! You mean the Taj Mahal on Holman? Stop. I'm sorry, your stadium. Rinky Dink was was unfair and rude. Yeah, but we're used to that from coming from you. 21,000 for the UNLV game. Did a bunch of TCU fans come up from Fort Worth? I mean, Fort Worth is pretty boring. Lindenwood.

What is Lindenwood, Kansas played? But they played somewhere else. Oh, Children's Mercy Park? What is that? I have no clue. That sounds made up. I don't disagree with you. All right.

Any other gut feelings we want to go to? Oh, Yankees, Dodgers in the World Series. I don't care what the message yesterday. Dodgers are a better team. Yankees, Dodgers, World Series. Yeah, okay, you're probably right, but I don't want you to say out wow. Well, I had to. By the way, being in New York on my layover, unexpected layover, everything, the whole newscast was sports stories.

You had the Giants playing that on against Cincinnati. You had the Jets playing last line against Buffalo. You have the Yankees in the America League Championship Series. You have the Mets and the National League Championship Series. The Liberty in the WNBA Finals. And Dante DiVincenzo got in a fight with Jalen Brunson's dad, I think, of the next Minnesota game tonight. Six things going on in New York City.

Wow. Nothing to do with any hockey, but that's neither here nor there. Isn't that crazy? That's how mad crazy New York is. They have six main headline events going on. We got a lot to get to 160. 66 WF&A. Dante Devenzo, get Eddie.

He is such a douchebag. We didn't like him when he was here to begin with. You can't old Jalen Brunson's Jack. Carl Anthony Towns. I don't call him, can I call him Carl Anthony? Aaron Rogers and Devante Adams. The new Chad Pennington and Keishon Johnson. Greatest collection since the Weeb Eubank was coaching the Jets with Broadway Joe.

Seriously, why do we do that? It's such a lowbrow, horrific, bad impersonation radio. It makes me laugh. Yeah, that's because we have very easy giggles in our life. 713-213-2-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you have anything in your gut, let it be narrow. Again, you know what?

I feel like a dirty whore. Yankees Dodgers in the World Series. Yeah, you are a dirty wharf. Fox is like, I got zero problem with that. Yeah, thanks, Fox. That's what they're rooting for. And by the way, people, you know what, maybe that's more of a shut Joe bum ass up tomorrow. But there are people like, they're rigging it for the Yankees and the Dodgers.

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Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk 790. All right, last chance for gut feelings. If you got something, let us know. Maybe the hot weather is cooling the people off on the phones. We're supposed to get a cold front end soon, right? I think it's supposed to get cooler like tomorrow. Yeah, I was going to say 96 today. Oh, what?

71 tomorrow. Let's go, baby, yes. Are you serious? Low of 54. That means we're all getting flu. I've got a flu shot, so I'm good. Good. I need to go get mine.

Yeah. From 96 to 71, oh, we're all getting sick. There's no question. The temperature change is like that? It's not the weather, Matt. The weather doesn't make you sick. Germs and bacteria do. Well, that's what you need to.

And viruses. Viri? Viruses? You're asking me? Viruses. Yes, yes. 713, 212, 579. If you want to get it, 7.13, we get to rewind.

I'm going to go in cold. I'm going to go in hour by hour. I'm getting excited. Like, is it going to be cold when to leave the arena tonight or is they're going to wait until the overnight? Hey, man. You want to take a jacket? I always bring a jacket. It's freaking 41 degrees.

in TOTUS in every night. Yeah, it looks like it blows in around 7.7 a.m. Oh, so I'll be fine until I get home. Yeah. All right. 713212-5-7-90. Oh, I'm excited. 5-7-9.

I was in a cold weather city this weekend. It's fun for about two minutes. Oh, okay. I got a gut feeling I'm going to be, I'll wear a scarf tomorrow. Just for you. Enjoy that. The goodness, take a picture of that scarf tomorrow. I will.

It's going on. All right. We have another NFL trade, which we will save for the NFL rewind. Thank God. God, you're stealing all of my thunder. It's the bottom of the hour. So we got that. It's another big one.

Yes. And it involves a skill position player. That's all we'll say. Okay. Ross, what is today's edition, I believe it or not? It's Devante Adams and this new player. Okay. I forgot we were doing it.

We've been doing it for like 15 years. I know. How do you forget? You didn't do the tell the truth yesterday because you mailed in the show. That's not true. We just didn't have time. We were just so busy. Really?

As busy as we are today? All right. Busier. Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. Okay, guys, that's fine. What else is happening?

Oh, three different Astros have been nominated for Gold Glove Awards. Yes, we didn't even talk about that. Including America's center fielder. One of the greatest Astros of, of all time. Yes. Retire number six already? Jake Myers. You know, you have tried to get the fan club up in numbers. The fan club, it fluctuates. It doesn't fluctuate. It reached a crescendo in May and it has seen numbers. You were like a penny stock that really thrive for a while. We were like doge coin. Yeah, it went all the way up and then it just went down. You're like a free fall

on the cliffhangers on the prices, right? The dude's already down the mountain. We flew too close to the son. Bad for a place a mixture, do they? You can upgrade. Because here's the thing. You were hoping for, I was hoping, the fan club was hoping for a little more

from the bat. We really just want them to be league average. Because if you're going to use Jordan primarily to DH, chas slash Maricio play left and center field Myers, you're just getting zero pop from the bottom 30 order. Hey, 13 home runs isn't zero pop,

Matt. What's the OPS? don't have looked it up. It's below 700, right? OPS plus of 85. And 100's average. Now, see, his first season, when we founded the club, OPS plus of 107, he was taking better A-Bs, he seemed more patient. Yeah.

I just, I don't know what's going on. He was just a disaster of the last half of the season. To be where he was, to end up with a worse OPS plus than he had last year when he was a disaster to sort of the heights that he did and then still fall below last year's averages. That tells you how bad he was the last couple of months. I mean, he was just abysmal. June 1st, you had, like, you were looking to get a convention center. Now you're looking for a meeting space at a balladay bin.

We can't even do it. We'll get a phone booth. I think we'll be okay. Yeah, that's, I don't know how he just fell so much offensively because the glove is always going to be there, no matter what. Arm got a little bit better as the season progressed. it's still below average arm. He's still not great, but he covers a ton of ground.

He's a gold glove finalist. And you know what? He'll be able to tell his grandchildren about that. I don't think he's going to win. Varsho and who is the, is it Duran? Well, they're both better at the center field. The tiebreaker is what you do with your bat. It shouldn't be any part of the reason why you win an award.

Well, those guys are better than him in center anyways. But Jake Myers, rightfully so, recognizes one of the best in the game at Center Field, and he should, as he should be. Carries more range, probably in baseball. in baseball. Let's go to Bill and Fulcher on the Matt Thomas show with Ross at 125. Bill, Bill, good afternoon. Well, good afternoon to you guys. How are you? Well, thank you. What's on your mind? Hey, I just, I'm one of those sports calls that doesn't really recall. It doesn't really

take much attention to anything until I get in the car and listen to you guys. Thank you. And love you both. I think it's great. We really appreciate that. We really appreciate that. Thank you very much. Yeah, my pleasure. And my call is concerned. concerning Dallas versus the Lions. I'm a Lions fan. But, and probably only ones in Houston. I don't know.

But I was wondering if you got noticed during that game that the Cowboys kind of look like they were going all out. Like it was a practice game or something? Like they were quitting. Yeah, kind of, but it started at the beginning of the game. I didn't think the Lions are just a bit. better football team. Yeah. Well, of course I do too.

I saw him run a couple routes and Dak was trying to find him, but it really looked like he didn't finish his route. They kept looking back to deck with his arms up in the air going, what are you doing? And they were like not on the same page. Yeah, that's possible. I mean, I had the game on. I'm not going to tell

you that I was like paying attention to every snap or breaking down the all-22 or anything like that. But I would say in general, these professionals don't put in those lacklesser efforts because if they do that's just going to end up, they're going to end up off the field. Contracts.

Yeah, exactly. Although CD-Lamination is doing okay. Well, that's kind of what got in my mind, too. You got a lot of money and now it just didn't look like you did last year or the year before to me. So not that I watch a lot. I don't watch a lot. Anyways, I'm one of those callers that you never get because I'm not too much into sports. I just really enjoy turning on the radio and getting you guys.

Thank you, Bill. And let you know there's other people listening that says the die-hard fans. All right. Well, you know what? We try to welcome everybody, whether you're a diehard or you're just a turn in for a little while during the course of season. We're here 12 months a year. Yeah. So, yeah.

Thank you, Bill. Yeah. And we also acknowledge that, I mean, frankly, 90% of the audience we've either never met or never heard from. Yes. We appreciate every one of you. I went to a little follow up with a doctor yesterday. and one of the guys into practice is like, I listen to you guys every day 12 to 1.

I drive during that hour, and I loved to listen to Joe Espato when he was on Tuesdays. And he said Tuesdays at 1230. I'm like, damn, you are a good listener. So, yeah, it's great that we get to meet people

that we never get to ever hear from. We love the callers too. Again, we are, maybe to our detriment, the most caller-friendly show in the marketplace because we'd like to talk to the people. Yes.

Again, I've heard Ross all my life. I don't need to, I don't need it. His acumen is plenty enough for me. He stepped out. I don't know they hear from other people. 713-212-5-790.

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This is the Matt Thomas show. There is not another radio show in America that gives you Ross's NFL rewind with the fifth of Beethoven. It's just the perfect song. So without any further ado, Ross, Villarreal, spent literally minutes putting this segment together. Hours, Matthew, hours, deep dives into game after game and the future schedule.

Breaking down PFF grades, EPA, DVOA, all of it. Okay. We don't believe you, but go on. Let's go ahead and start with a trade that was made, and I'm not talking about Devante Adams. Browns on the seven. Deshawn. Playfake.

Deshawn to throw. He beat Deontay Banks on the slant, and the Browns are in the end zone. You know who the voice that is, by the way? No, I don't. The voice of the Browns, yeah. That is Andrew Siciliano, who used to do the NFL Red Zone when it was on direct TV.

Good for him. Well, he was calling Amari Cooper touchdowns, and well, I did have to go back at the archives to actually find one. That was from a few weeks ago. But Mari Cooper no longer a Cleveland Brown traded to the Buffalo Bills. Number one ride receiver, Khalil Shakir, no more.

Keon Coleman, not good, despite what FSU fans will tell you. Buffalo Bills getting Amari Cooper and a 6th rounder, Cleveland getting a third rounder in next year's draft and a seventh rounder in the draft after that should be good news for Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. And Amari Cooper, how good is his life? He is out of Cleveland. That embarrassing franchise with a terrible quarterback, terrible coach's terrible team. He goes from easily the worst quarterback in the NFL to a top three, top four, certainly top five-ish guy. Yeah, depending on who you ask. Although Josh Allen, that extremely great on the field the last couple of weeks.

It was clunky last night. All right, let's keep it moving here. Some more changes happening, this one in Pittsburgh. Fields under center, Miller in motion. Play action pass. Now Fields wants to run. Has a couple blockers in front. He's into the end zone for a seven-yard touchdown run for Justin Fields.

So Justin Fields scores two rushing touchdown. You beat the Raiders by almost 20 in their building, although it was kind of like it was your building. You got the Steelers at 4 and 2, and your reward is Russell Wilson getting the first team reps with the Steelers this week. Matt, right decision by the Pittsburgh Steelers to go with Russ over Justin Fields. So they're flat out going with him or they're going to get first team? He's getting first team reps in practice. It sounds like that Russell Wilson is going to start. Well, beating the Raiders was no big accomplishment last week.

But the Sunday night game before that, it was looked like Pittsburgh was unborrowed time when it came to the quarterback situation. Some Steelers fans are not happy? Are Steelers ever happy? That's true. Mike Tomlin's like one of the great coaches in NFL history and they complain about him every week.

They're such a cranky bunch. I've got to be honest with you. Here's one on Twitter. Benching Justin Fields for Russell Wilson is the worst personnel decision since a 2 and 14 traded for a 31-year-old wide receiver earlier this morning. I would say this. I think the best days of Russell Wilson are long gone,

but anybody that would just fall on a sword for Justin Fields and his erratic NFL career is nuts. I mean, again, the Steelers are playing better, but I think that's fools goal a little bit. So I'm like I kind of feel fools go with Sam Donald and Minnesota. I just do. So I'm not totally shocked. Okay.

Well, he is no longer the QB. And of course, we know what happened this weekend in Dallas with the Detroit Lions. Okay. helps if I hit the right button. First and goal from the four. Golf out of the gun. Takes the snap.

Jared back, looking, lofting, right side. Alman Ross St. Brown, touchdown, Detroit Lions. What was that? Amman Ross, St. Brown turned around. That ball was on him. And he just said these two things that were working suction cups. What was that? That was the color man stepping on the pole.

I don't play that again. This is embarrassing. Shut up, color analyst. I love this. Play this again. First and goal from the four. Golf out of the gun. Takes the snap.

Jared back, looking, lofting, right side. I don't even know what he says. How horrible. If I was a play-by-play guy, I'd like, shit you bum-ass up, analyst. It feels like football guys do that a lot more. By the way, I was listening to Scott Zolak, who does the Patriots color analysis on the Patriots game.

He steps over his play-by-play guy to you had a friend of the show on. Bob Sosci. Bob Sosci. Hey, color. Guys, analyst, leave the play-by-play for the play-by-play. Back away.

I'm talking to you, Waxler, tonight, if you get over some of my calls. I'm just kidding. He doesn't step on. He doesn't think. No, he doesn't. Let's see. It's Dan Miller on play-by-play.

Lomas Brown, former Lions' offensive tackle on color commentary. Well, Lomas, you're a big man. Shut your bum ass out. Tell him that to his face. It doesn't ever going to happen. I'll never see it.

So anyways, I say, I play all that to play. To say this, NFC favorites, with or without Aidan Hutchison, the Lions, big game this week coming up against the Minnesota Vikings. The game is in Minneapolis, correct? I think so. I still like Detroit. They're going to have to outscore people. Yeah, I don't know unless Jared Goff has a horrific big interception game. He's got, Ross, has got way too many targets.

You mentioned two running backs, plethe receivers, great pass-catching tight end. Offensive line protects the quarterback. Yeah, they're really good. It tells you what Vegas thinks about the best offense in football, taking on the best defense in football. Total still really high at 49 and a half. Because Minnesota can score points too. And, yeah. Even though they're going up against, in my mind, the number one defense in football, Minnesota also favored in that game by two and a half.

That's simply being home field. I would think so. Anything else? Yeah, let's do, we had time for one more real quick. How about this guy? Here's a good snap. They feel looking, looking, looking flushed. Those of all 20.

His card, caught, caught. Was it a cut ball? It's Cade Arden. It's a touchdown, Tampa Bay. Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers putting up 51 points on the New Orleans Saints. Baker Mayfield did turn the ball over three times. Did Gordy bring this up on the show yesterday? I don't think he did.

But overall in the season, 15 touchdowns, five interceptions. But the Buccaneers continuing to perform well. After getting that big deal last year, so we're getting back-to-back years of good Baker Mayfield. Are we calling him a top 10 quarterback? If we're doing that where you've had to bump somebody out of the top 10, so who you bumping out? I don't know. We'd have to go to the list. Not C.J. Stroud.

Not Josh Allen. Nope. Not Joe Burrow. Not Pat Mahal. Not Lamar Jackson. You knocked that Prescott off the top 10 and then replace him with it. I think that's debatable. That's good.

Jaden Daniels top 10 already? You heard me don't have to tell the truth a week ago. I know. You love Jaden Daniels and you hate C.J. I don't hate C. Again, that's embellishment on your part. I'm a real estate on the year. You hate the Texans. You got them losing again.

Well, I also have them winning a bunch too. By the way, speaking of the Texans, real quick here. Rossi, do you know what the Las Vegas odds were of the Texans to go to the Super Bowl to win? I don't know which one of it is. Let me take a look here. Preseason to win the Super Bowl was like 12 or 15 to 1. Okay. So this is going to be to go to the Super Bowl.

what do you think the odds were in October the 8th for the Texans to go to the Super Bowl? 9 to 1. 11 to 1. Okay. As of today, what are the odds for the Texans that go to the Super Bowl? 5 to 1. 12 to 1. They lost a little bit.

They lost? They're going to go 5 and 1 and their odds get worse? I'll take 12 to 1 on that. The Chiefs were 475, were 4.5 to 1 to go. I'm going to the book this weekend. The Ravens went from 7.5 to 7. the bills went from 11 to 1 down to 10 to 1. The Texans go from 11 to 1 up to 12 to 1.

I didn't go to Lake Charles. Well, I think what they want is they want to see them play some really good competition. The bills aren't good? I'm not disagree with you. They beat the bills. Well, they played the Vikings. The Vikings are good. They played some good competition.

They played them. Well, here's the thing. You still got two of Tennessee. Those are presuming two victories. Yeah, probably. You're going to be home for Indianapolis. You should know. Yeah, because you open the year at Indianapolis.

and who am I forgetting? The Jaguars on the road, which is they still win there, so I'm not really... They probably win three out of four of those. So you're looking at 8 in 1 there, 8 and 2, and then you've got... And then the difficult part. You still have Green Bay. You've got the Jets who now is a lot more of sexier than it was, say, 24 hours ago. And that's on the road.

Baltimore, Kansas City. Okay. In Kansas City? I mean... You know what? I'm going to make a statement right now. Jeffs have to lose a game there. I'm going to make a statement.

They split Baltimore and Kansas City. They win one of those games. Really? What's up? Okay, I got you. Battle Red Ross, staying true to form. You are not getting a ring by the organization. I don't care.

You might get a cookie. Rood for the squad. You might get a six-pack. It's fun. Come over here, Matt. Come over to our side. I'm good. Routing for NFL football again is fun.

I actually enjoy it more than I don't. No, you don't. You think you do, but you don't. I really do. I'm very calm. I'm very calm. We'll take you with open arms. You know what?

They go to Super Bowl, then I'll do it. Okay. But I'll write that down. Yeah, that's it. I will be a deep steel mat. I thought you were Liberty White Matt is what they were calling you. They were called me Liberty White As Matt, which is not fair. I was trying to be nice.

I know you were. And that's Ross's NFL rewind for this Tuesday. We do it every Tuesday at 1.30 here on Sports Talk 7.08. Rockets preseason game number three tonight. Wow. We'll get a little bit of that coming up. We will. just a little taste.

Because you've watched both games now, have you not? I wasn't able to watch the second one. Let me not able to. What do you do? My DVR recorded the NBA TV broadcast, which was blacked out. So my DVD, I didn't get the game. Why would you, why don't you record the Space City version? I have it recorded to record every Rockets game, but it goes through the guide and

NBA TV pops up first. It's channel 603, and then Space City is 639. So it defaults when they're on NBA TV. which hasn't been a problem the last couple of years. They've got a bunch this year. Yeah, I know. I'm going to have to fix that.

You have to train them. I'm not to talk to my friends over at X-Finity. They spend money. They do? Okay, I was going to say, they'll spend money. Yeah, it's only live once. Well, that's during baseball season. Were they done now?

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Hey, everybody. This is Craig Ackerman from the Rockets broadcast team. Thankfully, and finally, I am socially distancing myself for Matt Thomas. wait bye to your cash cow because it's leaving the pasture. Now back to your show. Ross is working side deals in here. What? Let me tell you something about Ross. You, you, he is so easy to criticize me on deals that I get away with and benefits.

You are the absolute worst. Am I? I was here yesterday. I would have been here too, if not for the air traffic control at Boorwick International. I think you can name the city. Newark. So let me ask you this. For those of them miss it, I missed my connecting flight because of heavy.

It wasn't because of weather in the city I was in or in Newark. It was because of lack of air traffic controllers were slowing down traffic. They were slowing inbound traffic in, which made me three hours late for my flight. And I missed the flight from Houston to Houston. So I had to go yesterday and miss the show. And so again, can I write a complaint letter to United? I think they're going to care. I feel like you need to complain to.

Somebody. I mean, imagine a hotel in Newark on short notice wasn't cheap. I didn't say anywhere fancy. Okay. And it wasn't cheap. But the trip was so much fun that I did in particular care. My daughter had a great time and great recruiting miss, but that's another here nor there. That's great.

All right, so I'm going to send it out. And I'll give you an update. I'll complain to somebody. One more thing. One more thing. I sat in a middle seat yesterday. Okay. And I hate that.

Nobody ever goes, man. I would rather sit in the middle seat. Right. It's, I would rather sit in the middle than in the window because I get slightly claustrophobic. I feel like if there's an aisle person next minute, it's only one person I have to get around if you're going to the bathroom, not too. I don't know how, I mean, you have to tuck your knee in the whole time because it's not comfortable. Yeah. I mean, I'll say this.

And I'm talking about the aisle. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Let me ask you this. And I discussed this before really quickly. I like to see outside. Mm-hmm. I don't know why. Everybody does.

But you could be 80 years old. you're like, what's out the window? It's just, it's natural. But the person next to me had the window shade down the entire flight. And the rule is, we've discussed it before. If you sit in the window, you control the window, correct? Absolutely. Okay.

I'll open it during usually take off and landing, depending on the flight. Or what time of day it is. Daytime. Yeah, daytime. I don't want to open. Also, though, you can get a lot of heat off of it if it's hot. Well, the issue I wanted is I wanted to see if there was clouds, because usually if clouds give you a sign of turbulence are coming.

I don't mind. Terminal is not great, but at least if I know it's coming, I'm a little more prepared for it as compared to just sitting there and not knowing if there's a massive cloud we're about to go into. Okay. So I just, do we, we just lose the right to control the window when we don't send a window seat. And if you're just going to tell me that's the way it is, then I have to live with it. But I don't like it. I've been asked before by people to open the window. I've never asked.

You, like a child. Yeah, I've never asked. And I don't think I'm ever going to because I think we've already had this conversation before. Okay. I was just saying, you know, I'll give up the, I will, I'll live with the wind, I'll live with middle. But I'd rather have both. I'd rather have the opportunity to raise a window seat of window if I wanted to. Windows is the go.

Mm-mm. Two-cloth. Again, it makes me too claustrophobic. I fear I could get a little extra room over there. Chuck your elbow to the side, lean over there. And oh, by the way, I will say this. If I'm a middle seat and somebody brought this up on Twitter yesterday, I get both of the armrest. Sorry, that's just the rule.

Guy in the aisle? No, you split it. No, he wasn't splitting with me. You get the front of it or the back? He took up three, fourths of it. You got to claim that space. I'm going to have to from now on. I was trying to be pulling.

It's tough. It's tough. They just pack everybody in sardine. You get no room anywhere anymore and they make you pay extra for it. Yeah. And then they fly as many flights as possible. So you end up with delays in air traffic controller problems. I mean, again, if there's weather issues, I don't expect the airline to pay for it or anybody to pay for it because mother nature is mother nature.

But you put, you put the sky. Newark Airport new the schedule was coming in if you knew there was going to be this issue then cancel the damn flat day ago I mean don't don't hang me out to dry it at set airports it's rough sorry Brian and Laredo at 154 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross

Brian how the hell are you I'm doing pretty good how are you man good Hey I just want to holler Ross real quick Ross I heard you and you and Gordy talking about the outrageous hotel prices in Austin this weekend. Yes. I just want to offer something to see if maybe be interested. I live in Sagan, about 45 minutes from one long one flight.

And give me like a case of course. Why, I'll let you stay in my guesshouse. Case of course? I don't know if I'm going up to Austin, Brian. Where's your house? Sigeen, it's probably about 45 minutes from Austin. Oh, okay. I've been through Sigeen.

I've been through Sigeen. I went to Bert Bean. the barbecue is fantastic. Oh, yeah, I'm pushing great. Every weekend in the line, like, down the street. Yeah, I was in that line. Okay, Brian, I might, I don't know if I have, I should have a place to stay in Austin. Do you have a Twitter, do you follow me on Twitter or something?

Send me a DM. I don't have Twitter. I've got Facebook. I don't know. Facebook, yeah, I mean, you can find me there. I don't normally use it, but. What's your Twitter hand? I can probably use my line.

Sports RV. Okay. Your wife is going to send me DMs, that sounds awesome. Let me tell you something. Have your wife follow him and then mute him because it's just going to waste his time. Okay. Deal. All right, man.

I'll get back. Thank you, Brian. Look at that. I appreciate that. Yeah, if I had to stay in Sagan, I got to stay in Sagan. I mean, the Round Rock hotels are like $300. It's outrageous. I'm going to look at.

I'm going to see if I can use my Marriott points. Okay. I don't know that I'm going. But I mean, let's just use an example. Now, the average room in Austin and a weekend for a point stay would be probably 40,000 points a night. Okay. I'm just going to use it as a frame of reference. Okay.

Let's go. I'm going to put in Austin, Texas right now. Mm-hmm. And we're going to get there. When are we going to get there? We're going to get there Friday, right? Friday. And we're going to leave on Sunday.

Leave on Sunday. Two nights. Okay. Two nights. I'm going to put in use points. Let's take a look how many points it would take. If you want to stay at the element, Austin downtown, you can stay there for $7.93 a night or it can use $140,000. 793 a night.

Or 140,000 points. If you want to stay at the A-Lof Austin downtown, $916 for the night. $900 and what now? 916 a night. If you want to say to the JW Marriott Austin. The JW, let's not be ridiculous. $1,016 a night or $152.5.2. thousand points.

Wow. The W. Austin, if you want to spend the night, it's $1949 a night. Okay. If you want to stay at the Austin Marriott downtown, it's $9.45,000 a night or $152,000. And if you want to say it's something called the Austin Proper Hotel, a member of design hotels, $3,9776 a night. Oh, I think prices are going down. This is down to 500. Fairfield Inn.

You know what a Fairfield Inn is. Yeah. That's the lower end. It's 829 a night. AC Hotel Austin 1005. The Moxie in Austin is 100166. Now here's one that's not terrible. Residents in Austin University area, 78,000 points.

That's not terrible. I've seen worse. Austin area at South by the airport's 829. Courtyard by the airport, 725 a night. Yeah, you're going to spend a lot of money. It is what it is. Hmm. But you're not for sure you're going, are you?

No. Thinking about it. I really want to go. honestly, I told you this Saturday. I'd rather go to see Georgia, Texas, see OU, Texas. I really want to go. Because at least you want it to competitive.

You can be an edge of your seat. People were napping in the third quarter of that game. I would have been napping. I would have been screaming. I would have loved every second of 34. Thank God that game is over with, because every other minute on Twitter, it's 419.

And OU still stuck. Yeah, maybe. What a lame-ass University of Texas tweet. It's 1115. And you still sucks. I mean, seriously, get some better material. Just do it once a year, baby. It's good.

Thank God. Thank God it's only once a year. Well, I'm sorry, Matt. Big time football, we do things like that. Big time, lousy-ass tweets. Come up with better material, Rossi. What are you talking about? It's 1114.

You know what I put up and it's time for breakfast is what you should put. Oh, man, that's hilarious. It's as a real knee-flpper. No, you sucks. Oh, man. Well, we've seen your crappy tweets. Let me tell you something. I'm a Twitter phenomenon.

158. Final hour of the show, Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not? I don't know. Half Devante Adams, half of Mark Cooper. You're looking at tickets now. Let me tell you, you've already got, you've already here to spend a lot of money lately. I don't think you should be spending it. I don't know.

That's what I'm saying. How about free in your home? I'm going to be eating cheese sandwiches for a couple of months here. There is an NFL rumor out there that originally when I heard about it. I was outraged and now I'm not nearly as outraged. I'm not happy about it, but I'm not outraged. I'll explain what that is to start the final hour of the Matt Thomas Show Ross here on Sports Talk 790.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. All right, a couple big things on the NFL. Devante Adams is now a member of the New York chats. He got traded there from Las Vegas and New York. Amari Cooper is now a member of the

Don't tell me. I just drew a blank. He's going from Cleveland to We just go ahead and say it. Buffalo. Buffalo. That's right. Okay. And they're both very happy for different reasons. Devon tickets to hang out with Aaron Rogers, and Cleveland goes from the complete dumpster fire

that is a Browns football to the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, he's going from the worst quarterback in the NFL to one of the top five. By the way, real quick on the NFL, I picked Cincinnati to win the AFC this year just because I was just trying to be different. How's that going? It's not great.

They won games back to back. But they've won. Some games. And by the way, their schedule is super soft for the next handful of weeks. Well, not back to back, two of the last three, but also the teams they beat were the Panthers and the Giants. Okay. So does that count? And they're at Cleveland this week.

Oh, okay. Another win? So they're two and four now, right? Yes. They'll go to three and four. They have at their home for the Eagles. Toss up. Three and five.

Home for the Raiders, four and five. Yes. They'll be at the Ravens. They got in a big shootout with the Ravens. Almost won that game, but they fumbled at the end. Yeah. They're still making the playoffs. Don't hold me to it.

At the Chargers defense is looking pretty good. Justin Herbert actually finally had a good weekend. AFC's really, really super competitive. But I still think Kansas City and Baltimore are one in one A. I wouldn't say Texans are 1B, but they're a solid 2. I would say... That would be three if you're having one A and 1B. Chiefs and Ravens.

And then I can argue the Texans against anyone else. They're best team in the EFC. Right this second. They beat the bills head to head. They're better in the Steelers. Yep. Better than the Steelers. Yep. Better in the bills because you beat them.

The offense don't have a quarterback. Although two of them may be coming back this year, which is, I think, really stupid. He should retire and call it a day. Being able to remember his kids' names was very important. Well, he's consulting doctors and neurologists. Those neurologists are going to tell them Don't play anymore. Okay.

Could you imagine being a neurologist saying, oh, it's fine. Get out there one more time. Why not? I don't know, what's a fifth commission? I'm not a doctor. What's a fifth concussion among friends?

See, Ross, you don't have to be a concussion. You don't have to be a doctor. Everybody in their mother knows that he never should play again. Well, then why is he going to play again? Because he's stupid. Because his brain is scrambled? Duh. Okay.

It's like marshmallow here right now. Third best team in the NFC? I mean, AFC? Yep. Your Houston. It's really not even close. They went on the road, they went at home. They beat good teams.

The only super team they have faced this year, they got their brains beat in. But that's, you know, it's going to happen. Yes. Challenging? Yeah. They also turned the ball over a ton, which you could, I mean,

give some credit to the Vikings defense on that as well. But they also had like 11 penalties for over 100 yards in that game. Yeah. Yeah. So clean up the penalties. Look what happens. You win a double-digit game like you did against the Patriots. Only two straight weeks have not heard holding her fall starting to Laramie Townsendom.

I told you it was going to be every week. Still all about him. Not about the team. I will not change my viewpoint of that. Well, the team's doing well. That's most important. They need him. How's his ankle?

Doesn't practice on Wednesdays, but that shouldn't be an issue. Okay. You did find this past week. All right. One thing I brought up many, many moons ago. I didn't think the NFL would be so stupid enough to have a Super Bowl overseas. Is that really

being discussed? It is really being discussed. Now, now, stay with me on this for a second. If you have a Super Bowl overseas,

London would be probably the chalk favorite on that. Yeah, they're six hours ahead, so you could do that at noon their time,

and then it would be about the normal time you have it here. No, other direction. Right? It'd be 11 o'clock their time. You'd have to move

the game earlier in the day. Wait, am I stupid? Yes. You're going the wrong way. Oh, you're right. I am going the wrong time. Yeah.

So you'd have to, what? So if you were to play a Super Bowl. Oh, you're right. They're six hours later. Let's say they played the game. Super Bowl. You played at midnight there? No, they wouldn't do that.

Let's say they played it at 8 o'clock London time. Okay. You'd play it at 2 o'clock. Yeah. Which you could do. If you're going to go overseas, you're going to do it. That's, mm. I guess you could do 9 and then do 3.

That's about as far as you could go, probably. 9, 9.30 at the latest. So I'm not, first. First of all, I don't care what time the game is over. She's why would I care? As long as it's in a reasonable television window for us. Like, for instance, if you put the game on at noon in London, it would be at 6 o'clock in the morning.

Nobody's going to do that. We're going to Radio Row in Jolly Old London? No, we're not. Why not? What if the Texans are there? Because all the great guests would be on between 10 and noon, I wouldn't care. Is Carl Mecklenberg making it over to London? Ed Tuttaud Jones on the show at 1230.

I hope he's in first class. Meanwhile, Troy Eggman joins Stan Northfleet next. And Gordy, of course. And Gordy, of course. That's not even the show, Stan North Fleet Show, and Gordy, of course. So when I first heard of this, I was, you know what? How selfish is Goodell doing that? How selfish are the owners?

And then I think about it at the end of the day, Ross, we're not going to, we're not going to Super Bowls. No. We're not paying for a ticket. Why do we care where it is? As long as this is my only real concern would be the field conditions Because sometimes they've gone over the overseas Like that game that they in Rio What was it? Eagles and Packers yeah

Eagles and Packers in Rio They both teams were slipping the entire time Okay well let me ask you this basically Did you watch any of the Sunday game this week? The early game yeah I did I watched how was the field I think it was fine I don't remember a bunch of slipping

I'm gonna tell you right now If you if the NFL had the stones to put the game overseas, you're going to make sure it's the most pristine turf if it ever been seen. If they have to literally take every blade and lay it down. Well, I mean, you would hope that they could get some good turf in Rio. If you're spending all that money to get a game in Brazil, you wouldn't make sure that their turf is good and then it's terrible? But let me ask you this. What is the temperature like and the weather conditions in London?

In February? It can't be great. Yeah, you need something with a roof on it. Which they have roof stadiums, right? I don't think most of them are. I don't think most of them do that. Do that. I don't think most of them do not have roofs.

Is there a dome stadium? Google this. Is there a dome stadium in Europe? And probably somewhere in Europe. I know in Tokyo they do. The Tokyo Dome is also covered up, but they're not going to play Super Bowl in Tokyo. London Stadium, this says?

Oh, does Wembley? Oh, the new Wembley does have a roof? Maybe. Well, if that's the case, that's a, that's a, it's a, it's a non-starter then. But my point is, the only people, Wembley has a roof. Okay. So my point is the only people that would be really dis, would be, uh, inconvenience would be, honestly, the fan bases of the two teams that gets an allotment of tickets. Because you're paying high prices for the ticket. Yes. And you're also flying to London on short notice. So, yeah. Or if you went, if the Texas,

go to the Super Bowl this year. The game's in New Orleans. You get in the car and you drive, Bada boom, butto-boom, but a bann. If the game was in Phoenix or Atlanta or in California, it wouldn't be great airfare-wise. But my guess is Houston to Phoenix on 14 days

notice, probably going to be 500 bucks. Not great, but you could do it. If you were given two weeks in advance to fly to London, I guess that's going to be $3,000. But again, in this particular case, you're only worried about a small

section of people. Yeah, but those people matter, Matt. No, they don't. Because if you're thinking about playing a Super Bowl outside of this country, that little group of people you're talking about the two fan bases, they don't care. Roger Goodell is not calling the chairman of United and saying, shmided, and saying, hey man,

I need you to hold 75 seats at your normal low 21-day advance purchase. Oh, what's the benefit then, though? Global. Global what? taking the NFL sport and making a global event because the reality is they're tapped out here in the United States there's nothing more than the NFL can do to grow its brand in the contiguous 48 how are the Europeans doing with football I know a lot of them are very

resistant I never I haven't been I don't know as ever they've been overseas the last three weeks and they're drawing 75,000 people so obviously they like it that's the only market that hasn't been tapped financial because every other sector of this country in which we live in today eats and breathes and lives and spends NFL. Despite all of the flags. Last night's game was horrible. And by the way, Aaron Rogers got a ruffing the passer call on him,

not like on him, but literally on him for a lineman falling down on him. Yes. He said on his TV show or day that that was a terrible call, which I totally believe. Yeah, he's like, that wasn't roughed. Like, I'll take the 15 yards, but I wouldn't roughed. So Ross, even though it's. sucks. At this point, I don't really

even care where the game is. You mean, bore, borer for all we care. We're not going. It's going to suffer us. We're going to suffer here in Houston. Honestly, you know what would do? It would move the game up a few hours. And what? Are you happy about that? Well, I'm saying people get cranky because they want to take a date Monday after the Super Bowl off to watch. Why don't they put the Super Bowl on Saturdays?

Mm-hmm. You get a week off. Jay says, I just recently had to fly to Bilol Horizonte, Brazilian. here been to bea horosante? I've never been there, Matt. And I'm a return flight. Copa offered me to bid on a business club upgrade. Lowest offer I could get was $130.

That's not, they accepted. Huh, $130 for a pod made into a bed and a business class? Let's go to Bello Horizonte. I flew Copa Airlines when I went to Colombia. Good airline? It was nice. You feel safe? It's a Star Alliance member, I think.

Got Miles, that's good. That's all you're asking for. So, yeah, again, when I saw that, I was like, oh, I should be outraged. I'm thinking, why am I? I don't care. I'm not going. Now, if you're Battle Red Ross and the Texans play in Paris, then you're going to be kind of upset. I am going to be upset.

It's going to be like three times the cost. But you're making money these days. No, I am not. You're able to do it. I am not, unfortunately. 713-212-5-7-9. So you can't go to Paris or London to watch. But you can get you a nice big TV.

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The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. Tier 21 on Sports Talk 790. I love Gordy. He's like, oh, let me tell you who you got the last time you did a radio row. And he's running off all these names and I'm like, bro, you're not helping your cause here. Longhorn legender Michael Finley. I remember that one. That was a good one.

Yeah. I remember interviewing Ricky Sills Jones and came and kicked off a radio row after that. Oh, really? I wasn't there for that trip. I heard that was entertaining. Some people were very upset. When the police called, that was really the best part of it all. 713-213-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

7-1-3-1-1-1-1. 125-7-90. Let's go to Steve and Cyprus at 22. Steve, good afternoon. You're on the Matt Thomas show with Rawls. What's hanging? Hey, guys, how's it going? Good. Hey, didn't we really try a World Football League once that didn't really make it? Correct. So if the NFL was to go play over there and try to get all these other cities across the pond to join the NFL, wouldn't they have to change the NFL's name? No, we're talking about that Super Bowl.

And I don't talk about having a team over there. We're talking about the Super Bowl. No, I'm talking about them trying to get teams over in the, like, the Europe and Germany and all that stuff. I mean, there's a possibility of that happening. So I understand that could happen, but they would never change the name of it. No, no, nobody's sitting there going literally, it's national. I mean, if they put teams on the way, it's still with the NFL. They're not changing the name of their teams, their league.

Okay. I just thought. Thanks, Matt. You got to see you later. Yeah, that's it. Bye, Steve. NFL Europe. Remember that back in the day?

Oof. The Frankfurt Galaxy? Who is the Dragons? Was that Barcelona? I have made predictions before my life that it don't hit. But I'm very proud of the fact that I've always told you, ever since the show began, the world would never support a second football league,

legit league. Nobody cares about the XFL. What do you mean? Nobody cared about the U. Let's go rough next. Nobody cared about the USFL. Nobody cared about NFL Europe. The NFL has such a stranglehold because, first of all, the quality of players.

There is nothing like the quality of players in the NFL. Second of all, the branding, the marketing, the influence it has on social media, the influence it has on television, the nonstop coverage. There's just nothing that's – and again, even to the most average odds, you can watch a game between the Memphis showboats and the Pittsburgh mallors of the exit, whatever they're calling it now, NFL, and you can say there's a reason why these guys can't touch NFL uniforms. They're just not good enough. It's interesting because, I mean, Alabama or, you know, the number one team in the land,

the Texas Longhorns would get crushed by any football team. But we love college football, even though it's a more crude and, not as skilled league. So how come we can't latch on to normally most of these players? So we don't like second tier football. I would imagine the roughnecks could beat the longhorns, right? No. You don't think so?

No. I would say yes. I would say the university all those are all professional. The university is you got 22 professionals. But who defines what's professional? Professional to me is the NFL. The other stuff is minor league. I'm going to take the University of Texas

and I'm going to take the University of Georgia I'm going to beat your Houston Roughnecks. Absolutely. I wonder. You might be right. No. Now, you can't take Alabama, you can't take Connecticut basketball and meet the Charlotte Hornets. I'm not saying that.

But in this particular case, absolutely. I can take all Americans and Heisman trophy winners at the university. Yeah, if it's like a college football powerhouse, Texas. Well, if it's like an all-star team. Because here's what you got. You have players from the University of Texas, thoroughbreds, All Americans, highly recruited, playing against guys that played college football, William and Mary. But how many guys on the Texas Longhorns right now are going to be impact NFL players?

Well, there's 22. Seven? Okay. Is that enough to... Six or seven that you think are going to be in the NFL against number of XFL players are going to be in the NFL. Which is a zero. That's my argument. Yeah.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm talking about this. You're trying to come at me. Like, relax. I'm coming at you now. Seriously, I'm just talking, relax. I absolutely believe that Texas would beat the roughnecks. Okay.

Do I think that University of Memphis beats the roughnecks? No. Do I think even the 20th best football team in the country beats them? No, but I think you're five, your top five, you're top. Okay, well, even if you take off a few of the top blue blitz, then the random, I don't know, Missou whatever game. Because the Missouri Tigers beat the Chicago Blitz. I don't know if that's.

I don't know. But I'm saying, how is the product that much worse than college football as a whole? Because my guess is the XFL player. The quarterback can't throw the ball as far. The receivers can't run as fast. The linebackers aren't as big. The offensive linemen are a skilled. We watch Georgia win national championships with Stetson Bennett.

What's he doing? Back up in the NFL? I don't know. Just thinking out loud. Our show is about thinking out loud. All right. We have a debate about gambling. I'm intrigued.

I'm very intrigued. Now, is this a good tease written by one's Conardee McGovern, or is this just something that he'd just make it up? I don't know. We'll find out in a moment. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We'll take this program to 3 o'clock. We're doing half Amari Cooper and half Devante Adams?

So what are we doing, unbelie or not? Yeah, that's it. Okay, so four in each. I'll get your Wikipedia's out because Ross's hasn't worked on it yet. What are you talking about? You're on doing that? We'll see. All right.

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Matt Thomas and Ross Beaureale. Two guys extremely passionate about Houston sports. can tell them to go get a room. We've shared a hotel room. But they already have. And then I've put a bed. Truth be told. That's true.

Thanks for the visual. Pillow in between. There's no pillow between you and more lunchtime Houston Sports Talk on Sports 20. 232 on Sports Talk 790. Man, I can't. People we work with here. How many of the 22 starting guys at UT would be on an NFL roster and not on a roughneck

roster? Probably more. then half of the UT starting players will be on NFL roster in three years. That's my balance is my point. I don't know. Kurt Hynush has been activated the Texans active roster, those of you playing at home. And see, what else do we got here? Somebody else is sending me stuff on Twitter.

Oh, could the University of Houston basketball team beat the Rio Grande Valley Vipers? No. I would say no. No. Yeah, I would say no. Okay. From a strictly perimeter standpoint, the rockets would be in trouble. I mean, the Cougars would be in trouble.

Because the NBA three-point distance, while it's not dramatically different, it's different. Right? Am I right? Yeah. And the Cougars have never been known to being a great perimeter shooting team. Now, things could obviously change this year coming up, and hopefully they will. By the way, I'm excited. I'm going to be doing the TV game of the Cougars against the Texas A&M Aggies, in an exhibition game.

Remember when back in the day, Rossi, the college teams would play like Central Connecticut Valley Community College in an exhibition game? They get to play anybody they want now, so these schools are playing big-time programs. A&M versus Houston at Fortita Center coming up in a couple weeks.

Is it? Yeah. Okay, cool. Meanwhile, Texas. Didn't that happen last year? No. I thought didn't A&M scrimm scrimm? They can play,

But you couldn't do it as a public game. You couldn't do it with the audience and all the kind of do it like a gym by yourself and nobody can come watch. But now you can put the people in the building. Funny, we asked Texas do the same thing. No, we're afraid of you. We got beat by your team twice last year. We're good.

Yes, they're scared. Quaking in their boots. By the way, five big 12 schools in the top 25 in college basketball. Wow. AP top 25 came out yesterday. Cougars coming in at number four. Congratulations to them. Hoping they can have a great season.

You're such a vicious, ugly liar. What are you talking about? People could hear it in your tone. I just said congratulations to them and I hope they have a great season. What's the problem? Nobody believes you. That's the problem. What's the lie?

Where is the lie? You really are rooting for the Cougars to do well this year. Not rooting for them. I'm wishing them the best. Mike in Baytown at 235 on 790. Mike, what's your question, please? How are you? What's going on, fellas?

What you got? Man, I think it was last Friday, guys, when you guys were talking about a lot of the big college games coming up on the weekend. And y'all were talking betting. I don't know which one of you guys said that Parlays was like throwing money away. Ross said that. Ross. I could 100 totally 100% disagree with that. Okay.

I think that for you to say, say something like that would be like saying playing golf on the weekend would be like throwing money away for me because I don't know how to play golf or I don't play golf this weekend was a very successful weekend for me it's because I feel like go ahead go ahead I will okay so you hit a parley for some big money or something Mike several parleyes okay that's good um I'm just going to tell you it's not an opinion it's simple math. The mathematics are bad on parles and big parlays, but I will liken it to the lottery. The odds are bad on the lottery. But if you put $20 on a scratch-off and you win $1,000, you don't care that the odds were bad. So I'm not saying that you can't win, but long-term it is going to be a money loser, just like the lottery.

But if you play the lottery every weekend and you win big, that's fine, that's cool, that's good. but also it's just a simple fact, the mathematics of it are bad. I've heard that before, and the reason I have a problem with it is because it seems like every weekend, maybe not every weekend, but quite often, I'm winning. Okay, that's good. Well, I mean, you're clearly a betting savant, Mike, so keep it up. Yeah, that's just my only opinion, man. I enjoy listening to you guys, man.

You guys keep going on. Thank you very much. All right, brother. Thank you, you too. I mean, the reality is this, if you have three games, I'm just assuming three as a number, that you just absolutely think you've nailed it. Without a shadow of a doubt, you think you're right.

For instance, I would say this, if I was in Vegas last weekend, you and I were in Vegas, I felt super strong about Texas covering the game against Oklahoma, and I felt very strong about the under in that game. I would have Ross put a two-team parley together. I would have taken Texas and the under and won money. Mm-hmm. But if you're not completely 100% sure,

and even if you're 100% sure, you're never 100% sure. I'm sorry, you're not going to hit 100% of the time. You can't dictate how it goes. But if you feel super confident, then do it, and you get a nice reward. If you really think you know what you're talking about. But I will say in my entire life,

I've probably parleyed bets, let's say 1,000. Rosset probably cashed literally 10 of them. Yeah. So if you want to make a bunch of 10-20 team parlays and you're making money on it, that's good. You also generally from the books aren't handing out free money. It's enticing and Fendil and. It's enticing, I understand where the caller are coming from. They don't open up these books to hand out free money.

The parlays they actually make their most money on. Because, yeah, a hundred of you people do parlays and 99, lose and they pay out one, normally they're winning on that. And they are winning on that. And they're winning every week. They're winning every month. Just go look at the handles of these sports books. So if you happen to be the one that is hitting parlayes, that's great. I'm just going to

tell you, you're getting lucky. It's just like if I go, like, I will again say, if I go to a play the lotto or the scratch off and I win a thousand dollars and say, you guys are idiots. You don't know how to win at this. It's because I got lucky. And that can happen and that's fine. And that's good. And that's okay. I'm going to say

for most people, long term, playing a bunch of parley's is a bad idea. Playing parley's has never paid off for me, but once in a while, if you feel super strong about something, I ain't going to kill you if we're doing it. Because you do make more money. If you feel like, without a doubt in your mind, the Texans are going to get within three of the Green Bay Packers,

and you go to Vegas, you're going to Lake Charles, and you say, I'll take the Texans plus three. Give me another game, Randall. What's an other, Randall NFL game here? This weekend? Yeah, just find something. The Vikings and the Lions. Okay, so the Vikings are a three-point favorite.

Yes. If you think without a shadow of doubt, Detroit's going to win that game, then take Detroit on the money line, take the Texans plus three, and you're going to make a pretty good amount of money. But you have to be, you have to know that, first of all,

even if in your soul you know it's right, it may not turn out that way. But you just have to be super confident in your selections. And hope that you pick the right two games. the right three games. If it's a 50-50 call on the spets, which if you're better than 50%, then that's cool, that's good, but most people are around 50%.

A three-te-partly's, true odds are 8 to 1, they give you 6-1. And then you get even further up in the odds, and they job you on the odds even more. So I'm just saying, yeah, if they're working for you, that's cool. And to defend it a little bit further, if you hit one, you feel really good. If you hit one, you do not care what the odds were.

You do not care what the odds were. There are people right now, and yeah, if you want to play a bunch of long shots, There's a guy like, I think he bet $100 on some parlay, and he won like $100,000. I see him posted every week. You can win. Somebody does it. Somebody.

People do win with them. It's just, it's not me, sadly. Sorry, Matt. All right. Rockets tonight against the Pelicans. Brandon Ingram is going to play. Zion Williamson, I believe, is going to play as well. It is so funny.

We had a funny, funny bet last year about Zion Williamson. And he plays the playing game, which counted as a regular season game. 70 games. It's 70 with the extra playing game. You said he'd never play 70 in his career. And he'd be retired by 30. And all the reports are that he lost weight this offseason, Maddie. The reports are accurate because I have boots on the ground in the New Orleans. Okay.

Your sources. My sauces. My sauces. Your sources at the gumbo shop said he had been in there. I was over at Mothers and they were going, man, we hadn't seen him in long-ass time. Don't you know? They don't talk like that. Yeah, go with Yerbe. We need Gordy here for...

We aren't Rosian in a long time. We need Gordy here for the Pelican update. Yeah, Wardy, he ain't been up in here in a long time. Bowie, do not go to Mothers in New Orleans and ask for bacon. They will get very mad at you. They only do sausage. You can do mothers better than mothers anyways. Yeah, but it's...

Gordy will tell you, it's a tourist trap. Or is that place you and I went too many years ago. It was cut off the beaten track. It was so good. Oh, was that that chicken joint? Yeah. Oh, that was good. I don't remember.

It was late night. It was like the only place open. We did well. And you're not talking about Crystal Burger, which we also went to. Ross and I have done Crystal too. Crystal Burger at 2 a.m. on Bourbon Street. And that was fun. And that was before we went to the penthouse orgy place, which really isn't an orgy place. No, I did not go there.

That was Matt. You know me. If you know me at all, you know where I am when I'm in New Orleans. The bus arrives at a hotel at 4.56. Put non parley's. $5 a minute later and put it in five minutes later and But parley's down at Harris, or they call it Cedars now, I guess. Is there something I say, is it still Harris?

It's Cesar's Sportsbook. I think it's called Cesar's, now. I think it's, yeah. I think it's Cesar's New Orleans. Yeah, okay. Which, why would they do that? Harris was the New Orleans concept casino. And I guess the bigger question is, why isn't there a second downtown casino?

Is it just because the time you can afford it? They probably bullied them. Government will. Is it still called Harris or not? I don't know. I just know it's right across from my hotel, and I'm very happy. be about that. Y'all come stay with me if you want to.

Run out of money. Stay with me. Rockets, New Orleans, Pelicans. Ross has been a New Orleans Rockets game with me before. It's good times. Yeah, no, it's the Caesar's New Orleans. They took Harris off of it. They're consistently changing, adding new stuff to it.

But, I mean, wasn't Harris the one that was New Orleans themed? The one in Vegas, it's still Harris. That's weird. All right, believe we're not, all things, Devante Adams and all things, Amari Cooper and Ross is not even close to being done. So it's going to be magical. 713-212-5-790.

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as baseball tonight is concerned you've got the Guardians and the Yankees in game number two of their series. The Yankees are 1-0. Game 3 of the Mets and the Dodgers will take place on Wednesday. In New York we're going to get one game per night. We'll get a pair of games on Thursday.

But yeah, three of the four teams, well two are New York. one is LA and one's Cleveland. I just don't think Cleveland's got enough to stay with the Yankees. And TV executives will get the opposite with the guy a year ago, which was ratings hell between the Rangers and the Diamondbacks. They'll get a ratings bonus, I guess Yankees v. Dodgers and kind of a throwback to the 70s and 80s.

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Great song. John on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Devante Adams was a better basketball than football recruit coming out of high school. Rivals.com rated him as a two-star basketball player. Believe it or not. Believe it.

Statement number two for the way. Devante Adams is the Fresno State Bulldogs' all-time-litting receiver. Believe it or not? Believe it. Nope, Stefan. It's a K-Shon Johnson. Sorry. Not that K-E-E-E-Hon Johnson.

Devante was third. Bill, your favorite, you love Judas Priest, don't you? I'm going to church. Devante Adams is a big video game enthusiast and enjoys playing Call of Duty. Believe it or not? Oh, here, brother. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Devante Adams is one of the stars

in the Netflix documentary receivers, excuse me, documentary series called receiver. Believe it or not? You stuttered, but not not. Believe it, sight, bye. Kevin on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Amari Cooper played high school football with former NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater.

Believe it or not. Believe it. That is right. Statement number two for the win. At the NFL Combine, Amari Cooper's 4.424-d dash time, edged Devante Adams 4.51 time. Believe it or not? Believe it. There you go.

Congratulations. John on 790, John, you're ready to play, believe it or not? No, either. Amari Cooper met his wife, Ashley, while. Alabama, she was on the crimson-tied competition dance team. Believe it or not? Not. Nope.

Statement number two for the win. Amari Cooper is an avid chess player and has participated in tournaments on chess.com. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it. No. If I've said it once at a thousand times, you've got to know who plays chess and who doesn't.

All right, so one winner today, Rossi. Nice job by you. And you put this together in the last couple minutes. It's amazing how fast you put it together when you found out that we've done on Murray Cooper before. Hashtag cut and paste. No. It was actually Browns and the chess question I was writing and we had used before. So it's kind of, it didn't really save me any time.

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Ross, what was your favorite part of the show today? Ross leaves the 254 every day. Where the hell is he going? He doesn't have a nightcap tonight. He can't stick around for the end of the show. It's almost like when Wex comes in and get ready for the show, it's like, Hey, Ross, just take off. Being left and lone like this, this is just not right.

Oh, well. All right. Rockets and the New Orleans Pelicans this evening will have the pregame show at 630. Tip time at 7 o'clock. No Jacques Landell tonight. No Torre Easton. That is Topic A with Wexler and Clinton. Up next. They are the team, and they're on the way now on Sports Talk 790.