The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Make A Trade, Brady Is An Owner, How Much Are College Coaches Making?

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to the Houston Texans trading running back Cam Akers and a conditional 2026 seventh-round draft pick to the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for a conditional 2026 sixth-round draft pick. Matt and Ross also discuss:Founder and owner of the Houston Oilers Bud Adams being named a candidate in the Contributor category for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2025The largest salaries for college football head coachesTom Brady becoming a minority owner of the Las Vegas RaidersRookie Reed Sheppard standing out in the Rockets preseason home debutTheir recent displeasures in "Shut Yo Bum Ass Up, Ain't Nobody Got Time" and more.

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Woody Rip Bartay, and a little shut your bum ass up at one. 30 this afternoon. I personally just it's almost like you know how you look at your cow and you look forward to Friday 5 o'clock you can blow the whistle and just have a cup, have a beer whatever you're going to do and just get home and just not thinking about anything the rest of the weekend. That's how I kind of

feel about shut your bum ass up on Wednesdays. I got multiple. Do you really? Yes. You do write them down so you don't forget them? I got it. It's fine. Yeah, but you're forgetful like me. We I'm extremely forgetful. We tell we tease something and we're very proud of

our tease. And then we have to go to Connor and ask him, hey, Connor, what do we just say? We have no idea. We're talking about. Yeah. That's our problem. A lot of things in our minds. It's funny you say it. I did write it down. I have a little, uh, kind of a Google doc that I use. And, uh, I did write down what I was going to say. And then I came up with another one this morning. Good gracious. I'm upset with some people this week. Am I involved any of it? I mean, I think it's just a default. Even if I don't say, tell you to shut your bum ass up, it's implied. It's just no. It's basically just. It's basically just every. single week you have to know that no one

likes you. It's baked in. It's inherent. It's in the segment. I'm telling you to shut your bum ass. I don't feel great about that, but that's fine. All right. On the radio program today, we will get to a depleted Texan secondary. Deplated? What happened now?

Our buddy, Kamari Lasseter's going to be gone a while, it sounds like. What happened? Well, he got hurt. I mean, I don't think he's... I know he was out last week. He's not going to Cancun for a long extended vacation. He wants to. He's been working hard. You can do that during the off week. What happened? What came out about Camarie Lasseter? Nothing, but I think that this is going to be a significant time missed,

and you're going against a legit quarterback this week in Jordan Love, the four-and-two Packers at Lambeau Field. A lot of targets to cover out there. You know, look, I goof on the traveling Texans a lot because they're dorks, generally speaking. Yeah, you're a hater. Yeah, I do hate them. They're annoying a skid eye. I don't hate the Texas. I hate them. You're right. Oh, my God.

But if you were going to go to a road game this year, Green Bay is where you would go. It ain't even close. Because right now it's not 12 degrees below zero there. Over Jacksonville. You go to Jacksonville every year. We want to hang out with Jaguars a lady. Now, yeah, I would say

the Taj Mahal, I guess. Is Lambo the number one football stadium? Well, it depends on you have definitions of what you want. Creature comfort is not even close. No, it's not going to be that one. But in terms of mystique and the neighborhood and the environment, prestige.

By the way, I mean, it's named after a guy named Curley. Yeah. That's how old it is. Oh, how about this?

The game on Sunday, this is another break you're catching. 73 degrees, the high temperature Saturday, or Sunday in Green Bay. I mean, you can't ask for chamber. Great stadium.

Yes. The smells. They tailgate like you wouldn't believe. Oh, okay. The beer brats. The beer brats. The Bolska Kiabasa, if you will.

Okay. The Portly, I mean, if you're into that sort of thing. They're all poorly? You're glossing an entire city and fan base? Do you see my tweet today? Yeah, it was... I had to shield my eyes.

I'm going to mute you. If you can't do in that stuff. Can't. Why are you putting a woman in Packers underwear? Okay, usually you would say stop right there. That sounds great. But then what? It's just, I'm just stopping there.

You can elaborate if you'd lie. No, I'm just saying it's probably a... No, I'm good. 212-7-90. But it is, I've been twice and it was worth it because here's the thing, when I was living in Minneapolis, we went twice and we were going to spend the night, we just can't get any hotels. There's just not enough hotel space. So you have to

legitimately, when we lived in Minneapolis, we drove four hours there, watched the game and came back back. It was, there's only another option. Basically like it's going to be for Georgia and Texas weekend if you're looking for a room in downtown Austin. Yeah. At least I'm getting offers in Sigeon and Leander. You got an offer for El Paso, which I that was kind of a little further that you needed to.

Yeah, we take a shuttle bus. I mean, you get a two-bedroom condo waiting for you in Lubbock. You know what? Maybe I'll think about that. I can bus in and bus back. I'd take the 2 a.m. Greyhound ride with me and 15 of my closest convicts. In San Marcos or in Sagine? The Saugeans were the prison. No, where is it?

Is there a prison in Sigeon? Well, some people say Texas Lutheran is a prison. There's one in San Marcus, I thought, too. I don't know. I don't know. Oh. St. Marcus. Great, great town.

Mm-hmm. I would say best once around in the state. Okay. What does that mean, Matt? It means you drive around the campus once around and you... It's got the most beautiful campus? Maybe in the state. In the state?

Yeah. I'll take your word for it. I've never been there. I've never been on the campus at least. Yeah, I was insanely impressed. Yeah, the outlet malls is great in San Marcos. That's about it. Hey, I've purchased a lot of things at the San Marcos outlets.

I'm sure you have. All right. So we got Texans to get to today on the radio program. Wonderful. We have a train involved in the Texas we have to get to, which is kind of not curious, but it doesn't give you direct help for this year. Okay. And we'll discuss that on the radio show today. The American League playoffs, Cleveland had the bases loaded two different times last night.

We said it. Yankees Dodgers. Garrett Cole They're the best teams in baseball By way, a nationally recognized baseball critic Not critic, but analysts, whatever On the same pathway with you

When it comes to Garrett Cole's voice I'll explain that of the radio show today Okay USA today put out a list of the Coaches in how much they make Stephen Ruiz Or Nate Davis I don't know.

But Nate Davis is always a de facto guess on that one. The database for college coaches. If it once again sways you to paying kids, it's going to do it again for you today because the amount of money that is being spent, Ross, it isn't about the top end schools, the national contenders.

The money that is being spent on average football programs, programs that have not been the title chase that are respectable 7-8 win teams, is still incredible. Like the Missouri coach. Really good guy. He was on the A team with the boys during the Lombardi thing. Not Lombardi, but the...

Drequitz? Yeah, during the Bear Brian Awards. Eli? Whatever his name is. He makes a bowl of money. The money that we're going to talk about with some of these coaches, we're going to play guess how much they make. He's getting all that money to go get thrashed at Kyle Field.

And make Connum McGoverns sad. So... Cotton Bowl last year. That's all right. And then he... Connball, that's a bit. power, what do they call that? A big six game? It's a big six game. Yeah. Okay, so he's probably

worth the money. So don't look at the database. Don't look at it today. We're going to see how close you can get on these coaches. And you're going to miss out every time. And by the way, you were trying to slander Missouri and he's not binding. I was not. I just, what did I said that was wrong? You were laughing at yourself. I said he just paid all that money to get thrashed at

Kyle Field. Where is the, and then you started inaccuracy in that statement. And then you started a belly laugh at yourself. No one else was laughing. I was just looking. I wasn't laughing. You were chuckling. I didn't chuckle. Check the tape. No, I saw you. If we were on Space City Network, people would see you, then you're chuckling.

I'm just, I got a happy disposition in general, Matthew. Is that so wrong? About Missouri? I mean, they had a quality win last week against the Minutemen. You're doing great. See, I'm not allowed to say anything, so I'm just shut up. No, you know, you can say as much as you want. No, Missou's great. They are the best program ever. They should have beat the Aggies.

Eli Drinkwitz needs more money. Well, he's, when you find how much money he's going to make, you be like, he's paid just fine. Shut your bum ass up today at 1.30. We've the Rockets win against the Pelicans last night and a little preseason game. Wow. Huge. It's getting down to one week from tonight. The Rockets opened up the regular season against the Charlotte Hornets.

Wow. What a rivalry, too. What a way to start the season. I mean, it kind of feels like a guaranteed win. I don't want to say that because then all of a sudden you say, well, how are you going to guarantee you win? Yeah. Are you going to go with the Charlotte Hornets just quit? If I would have been,

did I do that with Oklahoma UT last week? I don't know. You could have done that after about the second Oklahoma drive. You could tell that Oklahoma was not going to be able to move the ball. Yeah, for the OU fan is listening to the show right now when you find out what Brent Venables is making, you'll be like, oh, this has got to be fixed immediately. So we'll get to that on the radio show today.

What else is going on, Rossi, that you're curious about? You were out there prepping like a mother for the show today? Yes, I am. Adam Sover doesn't regret backing betting. I saw that headline and I'm thinking of myself, why should he regret it? They've had like five betting scandals. But no, he's not going to regret it. Those checks keep cashing.

Are you kidding me? The number of advertisement dollars that are going towards the sports leagues and their parent TV networks is astonishing. Ross, part of the pregame show on the NBA show on TNT is here's Chuck and Kenny giving you the math mings who does what pick to go i mean the the the yeah the parley yeah i i continue to be so disappointed that we in the set of texas cannot do what just about every other state in this union can do with the exception of what utah and main probably i don't know i'm just throwing out states but it's it's i think it's own over 30 states now it's just crazy that we can't that we because look we don't regulate alcohol like we do gambling

We don't regulate recreational but marijuana use like we do sports betting But you know what I'm saying My point is that there's a lot of other Terrible vices out there Besides betting on a sporting event Yeah I'm actually

I used to be really gung ho about it But now they are so predatory And everybody's face with it And it's and they also These books cut off Anybody who shows a semblance of a pulse As a winner They cut them off

it just hasn't gone I guess I should have predicted it to go this bad direction but it's just bad to me meaning what the odds are bad they're advertising it all over the place like it's a free way to make money and it's not a free way to make money

and then if you're a winner they cut you off you're talking about the ones of the books yeah would that be the case we lived in Vegas if you're like a not to the level of what they're doing with there are some people who are betting like hundred bucks a game getting cut off

by these drafts. Ridiculous. Yeah. So if it's a big Vegas book, you need to be betting like thousands of dollars and then they're going to start keeping money on you. Well, it is certainly an imperfect system. But I want to be the judge of whether or not I think it's an imperfect system. I don't get that option. I'm a little bit worried.

But the next generation of gambling addicts. Hopefully it's going to be all right. I'll say this and I'll be as brief as possible on this. You and I cherish the opportunities to go to Vegas and to Lake Charles. because we don't do it every week. It's a getaway. It's fun. We don't live for it.

We don't, frankly, we don't have an addiction problem to it. But I guess, like anything, you could be addicted to anything. I would say that maybe I wouldn't have as much fun if I could readily do it on my... Like, for instance, me betting on, you know, like the fantasy football numbers I like with underdog, it's fun because you can, you can, there's nothing they can do to circumvent the system. That you either, you hire or lower, that's your decision. but maybe I wouldn't enjoy betting on games once a year if I could do it in Houston. I don't know. I don't have the answer to that.

I don't like to find out. But I certainly, yeah, I want to find out, and I certainly wouldn't want to do it on my phone. Being at home, betting on things would just be, I don't think it would be nearly as entertaining. But again, I want everybody to have that option, and we don't have that option right now in Texas. And I would like for you everybody to at least have that option. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-9-0. reach a show with you till 3 o'clock this afternoon. And again, the Texans make a trade yesterday that

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would you listen to a podcast based on dudes on dudes uh man you know what and i'm happy for them making a podcast getting into the game getting in early on the podcast game nobody's doing what they're doing nobody's doing podcast nobody's starting a podcast yeah i mean there's only nine million of them in which 89 99% of them go away dudes on dudes

Dudes on dudes. No thank you. When I, okay, if I, if and when I listen to a podcast, I want to listen to somebody smart. And Rob Grancowski probably reads at about a fifth grade level. If that. Dudes on dudes. Well, you know what we'll have to, you know what we should do is we should make, make some clips off of that, like the worst clips of that podcast. God, seriously. Between that and failed, you, failed radio host doing YouTube. YouTube video shows. I mean, my God.

Why'd you have to bring that up? One didn't have to do with the other. I do. If you're not in a legit media, you're failed. Sorry. Oh, Matt. You're firing for a reason. So the Texans this week. All right. So Cam Acres gets traded. Oh, no. Cam Acres. He carried your office for a couple of weeks, and this is how you treat them. You send them to maybe the best team in the NFC. So the Vikings will send a conditional 2026, 6th

the round draft pick of the Texans. Yes. In exchange for a conditional 2026-7th round pick is part of the deal. Okay. Okay. So the reality is this. Cammakers is

was on the depth chart fourth. Yes. Realistically. And while again I don't blame the team doing it, my guess is Cam went to Casarra and said, hey, you got to do me a solid here. I got to, can you find me somewhere else to play? Because look, I'm not

going to play over Joe Mixon. I'm not going to play over Damien Pierce. Agumboale catches basses out of the backfield, so I know I'm not doing that. Find me somewhere else to go. You think that's what happened? What would be the other option?

I don't know. Why wouldn't the Texans be trying to shop him around? Well, shopping, they went to the flea market. I mean, they got nothing back in return. A six round for a guy you're not going to play, that's pretty good, I think. But six round pick for somebody that's going to be buried on your depth chart and you don't have to pay their salary? Conditional

six, probably going to be a seven. Okay, six or seven. Anything. It's Cam Acres. It's Cam freaking acres. My question is... You signed him in the middle of camp. But here's my question. Joe makes him fresh off of injury. Yes. Could get hurt again like anybody.

I mean, anybody can get hurt. Damien Pierce, okay, he had one great game against a subpar Patriots run defense. Yes. And a Guilalaya is not a guy that you're a... I mean, not that you're carrying a bunch of running backs, but it's not like you've got a guys in front of you

that have this incredible track record. Now, Joe Mixson was great in week one, and it was great last week. So I guess if healthy, he is productive. Yes. So if you're going to make this move, how about trying to help something for the here and now? Can you get somebody as a live human being to come help you in 2024?

Again, it's Cam Acres. Cam Acres is not very good. He's just a guy. I think getting a sixth round pick, I was shocked they got anything for him. I don't know. I think this team needs as much depth in other categories that you're telling me there wasn't a single team out there that could have given him an extra corner or an extra seat.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Just an extra body. I just don't know why I'm looking forward to a 2026 pick that ultimately probably 80% chance it doesn't even make the team. this isn't necessarily something to help for now. This is junk you have in the back of your closet. Now this is assuming, hopefully, that Damien Pierce and K. Makers are, at least one of them stays healthy for the rest of the season. If they both go down again, then yeah, this is a bad deal and you shouldn't have done it. But you can't do deals on that because any team that loses two running backs is going to get, is going to be in a bad spot.

It can happen. It's happening in San Francisco 49ers right now. McCaffrey's on eye. Jordan Mason has a shoulder injury and you're down to your third guy. I mean, it can happen. But it's Cam Acres. He's basically going to be rotting on the bench, and you got a future sixth round pick for it.

I think that's cool. You can find somebody off the street that is as good as Cam Acres. I truly believe that. I like Cam Acres, but it's not... Wait, man. He, to me, is completely replacement level. He is the best running back with two shredded ACLs. Exactly.

He said he can't get downfield. They were replacing him with Dario Gunbo Wali. after giving him a couple of weeks with a shot as the RB1, they started using Dari Ogunboale more. So really, he's fourth on the depth chart, even if both of those guys go down because they didn't like the way that Kamakers was fitting. He wasn't making runs.

He was not finding cutback lands. He's not extremely explosive. I mean, he's a guy you can find off the stream. My only point is, I don't mind training him. I don't think he plays, again, unless the two running backs in front of him get hurt. My own thought was there was not a live human being that could help you. in 2020. That's my only issue. And nobody has the answer to that.

Except the Vikings and the Texans. Yeah. I guess maybe Aaron Jones is really going to be down for a while if they're going with, they're trading for Cam Acres. Yeah. So, I don't know. Who's to say? It was, it's if that's the biggest splash of

Texans News headline day, it's not a splash. It's not a splash at all. But it's you had something, like I said, he's in the back of your closet and somebody gave you something. It's like you're at a garage sale and you didn't think you were going to get anything for something and then somebody comes up and buys it. Like, oh, hey, sure, Cam Acres, here you go. Six round pick. Okay, sure. Turn into a seven. We don't care. Here you go. So basically you just described the Texas running back as an item at a unwanted garage sale.

Oh, that's rude. Cam, if you're listening, 713, 212, 5790. He's the one that's not me. Well, the Vikings want you, Cam, so that's good. But he was going to be fourth in the depth chart. Dari Ogunbo Wali was taking over carries from him. If Darry Ogunbo Wali is taking carries from you, the organization doesn't hold you in very high esteem. No. Then they helped you out. They probably... Yeah, they did you a solid.

They also did. Yeah. Good job. You're on the best team of the NFC. By record. By record, but the best team the NFC is the Detroit Lions. They play this weekend. We'll see what happens. Are we getting that game this week?

Oh yeah, because it's Texas road game. Yeah. We'll get it. Red Zone. Get them all. This is a 3 o'clock game. You catch almost all of every 3 o'clock game with Red Zone. I have so great. Saturday. My Saturday is basically.

super crazy. I'm leaving in the morning to go to Kansas City. What are you doing? Doing the pregame show and helping out with stats on the Cougar broadcast. And I'm flying right back to Kansas. I'm going up and down to the Kansas City in the same day. Sunday, I'm not leaving the house. That's a short flight though, right? Two hours. That's not bad. That's not crazy. That's good. And then Sunday you come over the house? You watch Red Zone. Texans.

Why don't you come over in my house? It's not big enough. Because you're only watching one TV. It's not big enough. Yeah. We're not going to be exploring your home. Are we playing hide-in-seek? Yeah, but we need to be one room. Is there a room to lay out a big couch? I have a living room, Matt. Yeah, I don't want you. What kind of shack you think I'm living in?

Well, yeah, well, we'll put you on the cardboard box on the floor there, Matt. We don't have a living room so much right now. You've talked about your lack of square footage. This is the utility closet, but, you know, I make do with what I got, Matt. Just get me a long, you know, like a sleeper sofa? Yeah, absolutely. We had an extra bedroom and a sleeper soap, if you'd like. Have you vacuum lately?

Yeah. All right? Well, I haven't vacuumed. Yeah, there's a lot of. Bacterian in the house. 713. 212. 570.

713. 212 570. So Jerry Jones, we mentioned we're going to play the audio of what we did when he did a couple days ago and then we're going to have a follow-up that he had with a conversation with Diana Rossini of the athletic. We'll do that coming back. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

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All right. I'm going to peel the curtain bag just for a second. There's a new weather girl at Channel 6 in Tulsa. We're watching her right now. And Matt is very upset. Where's your other girl? She went on the bigger, better things? She was a former Miss Oklahoma.

And this girl could certainly be in a Miss Oklahoma, but it's just not the same. Has a Miss Oklahoma, everyone missed USA? I don't know. Let me tell you about Oklahoma. Underrated. You know, you've been to the OU Texas games. I have. I just was asking a question.

Oh, well, this year, Oklahoma got third place. Well, then, yeah, don't criticize that great state. I'll be up there in a couple weeks. As a matter of fact, Oklahoma City Thunder versus Houston Rockets. Okay. First things first, we have the hated San Antonio Spurs here on Thursday. It's been Chris Paul wearing a Spurs uniform.

He's got to be looking weird. He's, he's getting around. He just bounces around from team to team to team. Yeah. Let's see. What do you start with the Hornets? Hornets. Or were they the...

Was he a Pelican, the Norlands Hornet? Norlands Hornets. They went to... They were playing in Charlotte? He went to the Clippers. Clippers. He ever played... Then he went to the Clippers in Houston. Rockets, Oklahoma City.

Golden State. Did he go anywhere else? Was he in Washington at any point? Any Eastern Conference teams? I can't remember. God, he's... It's one of the all-time greats. Point God. Yeah.

Sons, we missed. Sons. Zero championships. Hmm. but a boatload of cash and also buys a meal for our media once in a while. And punched a few guys in the nuts on the court. Back when he was at Wake Forest. You never made mistakes in your own college? I've made a lot of mistakes.

I mean, you're still making mistakes in an adult. Daily, weekly, hourly. A couple days ago, well, actually, was it yesterday that Jerry went off on the Dallas radio? Jera went off. And here again is what Jerry did if you did not catch it. not particularly happy with his team's flagship station, the host, asking about why this team didn't make enough adjustments in the offseason to cure the issues that they had going into this season,

which they currently have right now. 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 why. 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.

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. It has to be hard to be a Dallas Cowboy fan because he's taken your team and as soon as he bought it,

granted he was working with other people's groceries, but he hired the right coach. They won Super Bowls. but it's been basically 30 years of what I could or should have, right? I mean, have been 30 years? Yes. I mean, it'll be the 30 year anniversary of their 95 team next year. 30 years of massive, massive disappointments.

30 years of It's My Way or the Highway, get out of my way. I've made more money for this team and for this league. From a business aspect, he's the greatest owner in the history of professional sports in terms of taking investment, not only increasing his own value, but the value of his competitors, frankly. Yes. I don't think there's any possible argument. But my guess is, Ross, when we started the show back in 2010, we were probably criticizing

Jerry Jones for his front office acumen then. And that's 14 years later. And it's his team. He can do what he wants. and I understand his selfish point of view. Like, you don't tell him what to do with my team. I bought this team. I built this empire.

It was worth however many millions when I bought it. And now it's worth like 10 plus billion. Right. So I'm going to do what I want with my team that he continues to run the rosters into the ground. And they continue to underperform. And clearly, his son who's getting like almost 60 now. I mean, it's not like young whippers. He's waiting around.

he's going to be a retirement age before he can take over. I mean, yeah, go ahead. He isn't able to stop his dad. The only thing I've ever heard Stephen Jones do to stop dad in his tracks was dad wanted to take Johnny Mansell. And Stephen Jones is like, no, you're not taking me. I'm going to take Johnny. Okay, relax, dad. Sit down.

Eat your pudding. We're not taking Johnny Mansell. So that makes me think that, I mean, I guess he doesn't have full reins over the, I mean, is he really a capologist? Is he looking at the cap and looking at all this other stuff and dead money? Or how much is it? He's just the buck stops with him. Everything goes with him. I don't think anybody else at this point has any sort of saying there's no cross-checking.

There's nobody he doesn't call it. For instance, there's a lot of family-owned operated businesses in sports and in business. And you may say, well, I'm the one that built this, but I have my kids involved. I have business confidants. Nobody has the stones to go to Jerry and say this is not what you're supposed to be doing. His son who's been with him arm in arm for 20, I think from the time he bought the team, hasn't been able to control Pops. So he talks to Diana Rossini and some guy named John Makota of the athletic.

And basically Jones, obviously, as you heard the audio, took exception to, the questioning that was being asked by 1053 The Fan in Dallas. He goes on there twice a week with them. Twice a week? Fridays and Fridays. Good for him. He always does like the limelight as well.

Quoting a comment the Diana Rossini got. I don't know that I would go as calling the volume connotation as yelling. Meaning, why were you yelling at these guys? Okay, but the facts are that if I'm going to be grilled by the tribunal, I don't need it to

be by the guys I'm paying. I can take it from fans and I can take it from other people. I take a lot of pride in how fair and how much I try to work with the media. We're brothers and sisters. But I was a little frustrated there today. We got in there as of accounting for decisions made in the off season. Okay, they might as well have gone back to my decisions been made in 2010. My point is, and that's from my perspective, there's no question.

I'm sure they would have liked to have grilled me like the fans are thinking, what are you going to do about this? I get it. I get all of that. And I really will go along with you. it. He also goes on to say, the wrong ones were doing the questioning. Now, if those had been real fans sitting there or there had been people that knew what they were talking about, football people, I might have had a different answer.

It's insane arrogance. And look, to peel the curtain back, and I feel like we do that at least four times a show, kind of separates us the difference. It's sometimes as hard as radio hosts on a flagship station of a team to be. able to get in there and get down to the things that you as fans want to know. I think you and I do a pretty good job of that. Matter of fact, I think there have been previous managers, Rusty Raker, that hasn't been overly pleased with the line of thinking of some of the questions we may have asked in years past.

Yes. Joe Espott has been fantastic. He knows. I've talked to him face to face about it. He says, I know. I'm at you just, I said, he knows it's not personal. But there are things that fans want to know. and we are the number one spot to go to

because we have a direct connection to the manager. And I'd be brutally honest, Jerry, if you took fans and they asked those questions to you, they'd be 10 times earlier than you would be. First of all, they'd call you old. They'd call you C now. They'd ask for you to go get a general manager like they've been asking you to get a general manager

a real one for the last 20 years. And my guess is Dallas Cowboy fan would not have been nearly as, they weren't soft peddling, but they were certainly being respectful of the opportunity they have, the radio hosts have, and talking to the general manager of the team. What a mess. It is interesting. There isn't a single person out there that I've at least seen in the media world that has said those co-hosts, those radio hosts went too far.

I haven't seen that. We've played the audio multiple times. I don't hear anything that I go, they're trying to go into saying something. They're trying to try it and they're trying to be antagonistic. That wasn't the case. The case was you just lost what, 47 to 9 or 469, whatever it was to the Detroit Lions. You're sitting here as a middling, meddling 500 football team. And you did nothing to address the issues that you had going into the off season except pay for guys. And frankly, sucked. Dag Prescott apparently on Sunday sucked.

You're paying him 60-something million dollars to suck. CD Lamb, you're paying over $30 million. You didn't address the defense. You didn't trust the offensive line. You didn't get, you know, address a legitimate running game. Everything seemed fair to me. And he's very upset about it. 47 to 9.

47 to 9. Let me ask this. I'm going to throw this out for the next segment here. If you're a cowboy fan, and unfortunately we've got cowboy fans that are in this town. Way too many of them, frankly. They've wanted Jerry Jones out for a while, I feel like. You have to, I don't know if you have to cut the cord because, look, a lot of... Pull the plug.

Pull the plug. Dallas Cowboy fan, to me here, would be because mom and dad were, because my uncle was, my grandfather was. But if you're a 35-year-old and you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, independent of your family, what have they given you in terms of satisfaction? Because when they were winning the Super Bowls, you were a toddler. Yeah, they haven't made a Super Bowl. Have they made an NFC championship game? I don't know. but my point is it's been 30 years of complete mediocrity.

It's sort of like, I mean, frankly, they're on par with the Texans in terms of postseason success in the last 20-something years. I think the Texans have more playoff ways. Maybe they do. But it's, it's, I don't, in the category of I just don't get it, I don't get 35-year-old who doesn't have a mom or dad or cousin or uncle that was a die-hard cowboy fan that can come legitimately say, I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan. And this is the reason why. Because they've given you no joy. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90.

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Welcome aboard. Flagship station of your rackets. Rockets! All right, in 40 minutes. we're going to have Shut Your Bum Ass Up. That is a weekly staple to show on Wednesdays. And Ross has got so many shut your bum ass ups. He might take up the first time with just his own personal complaints.

I just said two. All right. But they're good ones, though. Are these foe? Did you just make these up for the sake of the show? I don't want to oversell it. We'll see. Or is that in the media business?

You do not want to miss coming up in 40 minutes. minutes, the best segment of our lives. Yeah. It will separate us from everybody else in the world of sports radio. What we do in 40 minutes, we'll shut your bum ass up. Okay. All right. Did you catch any baseball last night? Not really.

No, I was busy with Rockets. I was just watching the score. I went to a concert last night. It was good? Yeah, it was good. Six-three of the Yankees win. They're up now, two-nothing. Dodgers and Mets play game through their series tonight.

Yeah. So, I have to give you credit, which I hate to do. Love it. No, I don't love it at all. It pains me, actually. Let's see if I can find, by the way, a lot of people are not happy with my picture of the girl from the Green Bay Packers. That's shocking. Jared Carabas.

Oh, gosh. No, wait a minute. Okay, I'm going to see what his title is. He is the tribal chief of baseball. He is with underdog fantasy. He does a radio segment on 985 in Boston. He works for MLB Network, Nesson. I thought it was a barstool guy.

Is he not barstool anymore? No, it's Underdog Fantasy, which we appreciate. Use a promo code sports MT, but that's a different issue for a different time. It says, which active player do you think will make the best future broadcaster? Think I'm going Brent Rooker here. That's the very young, very talented Oakland A, which probably is thinking the last thing he's thinking of as a broadcast career. He's picking Brent Rooker. not tagging him because he's too humble and will disagree, but it's true.

This guy has 167 responses, 17 retweets, 1,800 likes, and boy, the reach is almost 200,000. So something called Nugget Chef at Jay Hey Kid said Garrett Cole. In which Jared responded, I said future baseball. Castor, not future voice actor for the Muppets. Oh, that's rude. Let me, it's rude. You're the ones doing it.

Why would you say I'm going to be on the Muppets? I'm trying to win a World Series. This is unbelievable. So you and Jared Carabas, whatever that person is, so many followers he has. I'm trying to game plan for Jose Ramirez. Jared, Carabas has 455,000 followers.

What the hell is he doing? He's been a Boston troll for many years. I thought maybe he was a bar stool and left. Somebody else can break this down for me. I've had him muted for ages. Oh, okay. So you don't respect him that he appreciates your Garrett Cole game. He's just a, I mean, he's one of those kind of loudmouth, younger media types that gets a lot of engagement.

So good for him. I just think most of whatever he does is troll-ish. And so I don't engage in that type of behavior. That I apologize for bringing him up. That's okay. But I thought it was interesting that he agreed with you. So basically, this actually makes a lot of sense. What's the problem, Matt?

You agree with someone that's basically a troll. Well, you're a Houston troll, so that works out perfectly. Because we agree on things doesn't mean we agree on other things, Matt. Now, Connor, from here on out, anytime that Ross goes to the... Oh, for Pete's sake, Matt. Goes to the curb of the frog. You have to have rainbow connection on lockdown. What's rainbow connection?

I'm just trying to throw my four-scene fastball. Again, you've been giving instructions. We have to have rainbow connection locked and locked in. I don't know what that is. I'm just trying to strike a... out Stephen Kwan. It's very difficult. So yesterday the Guardians had bases loaded two different times in the game yesterday.

Got Bupkis out of it. Oh, Garrett Cole only went four and a third. Sure it runs. Didn't get the win. Eighty-nine. It was inefficient. I couldn't get the win. I got to be better. You brought this up, Matt. Don't sigh. Don't have you sigh at me. It is

my fault, isn't it? It's your fault. Yeah, it's... I... Now... What is this? This is the most famous Muppet's song of all time. Is it? You've never heard it? No, maybe.

This is from the Muppets movie, a great 1980 classic. I have not seen that, I don't think. Why are there so many songs about rainbows? And what's on the other side? You really never heard the song before?

Rainbows are visions. All right. Only illusions. You know what? Rainbows have not. I would actually turn the station right now. For those of you that enjoyed the first hour of the show and through the end the first hour this way,

have a great rest of your day. We'll talk with you soon. All right, turn it off. You know what, Connor, that's a bad mistake on my part. We'll find it. The rainbow connection. This is your fault. I didn't even know what this song was.

This is totally my fault. And again, please stay with us to this brief. time out. I promise you the next two hours will be better. I can't guarantee it, but it can't get really anything worse. But you just promised. I did promise. Jesus, what am I doing? So we need something meaty in sports to happen. We need somebody to get fired or traded in the next few minutes.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Shut your ball mask up coming up in 30 minutes. Up to who's practicing who is not from the Texans. and we'll do that start the second hour next on 790. Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 104 on Sports Talk 790.

It is the Matt Thomas show. By the way, a lot of people already are giving us their opinions of Jared. What's the guy's name? Jared cannabis. Caribus, whatever. Friend of the show says Jared is a mega bitch, Astros Hater. Oh, wow. that's that's rude

Jackie Daintona makes it cross-reference of Carabas as to a member of the 7-90 air team you could say it if you'd like he said it not us all right this is Jackie caribus is basically Boston's Clinton if he's on your side you love him

if not you hate him LOL okay so there you have it and then yeah somebody else says as RS Juniors he was with Barstool and then left. So I was correct on that.

And Stephen just sent me a giff of Kermit. I'm surprised you've never heard the phrase as well as your Kermit is that you've not heard the Rainbow Connection. No, it sounded familiar. Okay. I've heard it before, probably at some point. Yeah.

And H-Town Dad says Marconi winning segment. Hashtag Garrett the Frog. Garrett the Frog. By the way, there is a new movie coming out called Saturday. I think it's just called Saturday Night. Okay. It's about college football.

No, it's about the very first episode of Saturday Night Live. Oh, I saw that. And they are saying it potentially could be a Academy Award winning picture. That's how good it is. Really? Yes. And apparently the guest on the first show, one of the first guests in the very first show, I don't know because of the first episode, was Jim Henson.

So Jim Henson and Andy Cawpin was also. on that first episode too, are being played by the same guy that played the cousin on Succession. I didn't watch Succession. Oh, my God. It's such a good show. I'm trying to get the guy's name. The Cousin from Succession. So good. Let me look it up here real quick.

He's an actor that's going to be on, he's going to play both roles. Okay. So, there you have it. Looking forward to it. What is the point? No, there's no point. It was Jim Henson. I was just bringing it up. Thank you, Matt. I just thought it was weird that the same actor who would put the cousin on Succession is going to play Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman in the same movie.

Okay. That doesn't happen a lot. Two different characters, one guy? What do you mean? Eddie Murphy did it every other film. Okay, but name somebody else. Go. You can't.

There were some others. Oh, Mike Myers. All right. There's two. You said name somebody else. I'm tapped up. Tyler Perry. Tyler Perry.

Tyler Perry. Mr. Academy Award winning actor. There's three people and it had been 80 million movies. A Peter Sellers? Doing what? In the Pink Panther movies. Didn't he have multiple roles in some of those? Oh, in Dr. Strangelove.

He had like two or three roles. He was fantastic. He was the president, Merkin Muffley, and then he was also the British Inspector guy. Okay. Great film, by the way past my prime. Way out of my time range there. What do you mean? I don't know.

You're older than me. I've seen it. I haven't seen it. It's a classic. Dr. Strangelove, maybe my favorite comedy of all time. Over airplane? See, Airplane is the funniest movie ever made, said me and Rolling Stone magazine.

Okay. Like, I'd never seen a full blazing saddles all the way, but I also put blazing saddles in the same category. Airplane is great. I'm not going to say anything about airplane. Thank you. Thank you for not. I like airplane.

I like airplane. I love airplane. It's funny. And those style of movies. Yeah. Slipstick. Like naked gun. Yeah.

You like... Low brow. Joke a minute. Yes. Slapstick. Yes. Which is why I told you to watch Walk Hard and you won't watch it. Makes me upset.

All right. I'll do it this weekend. In between my Texans Green Bay and watching Red So. You're going on like eight plane rides in a week. That's true. I know you've got time. I do have time. You're not fooling anybody.

All right. As far as the Texans are concerned, and a lot of you are bumping around town going, Matt, who's practicing today? Who's not? Henry Toa Toa, concussion, not practicing to say. Oh, my God. Al-Ziz, Al-Shaer, or Al-Shaier or Al-Shaier or Al-Shire.

Not practicing. Just fantastic. Kamari and Lasseter, not practicing. Okay, great. Jimmy Ward, not practicing. Oh, no. Robert Woods, not practicing. That's fine.

What if Robert Woods' family is listening right now? Robert, you didn't play last week and they had their best offensive week of the year. It's fine. Laramie Townsill is practicing. That's good. That's very good. He hurt his ankle and Blake Fisher had to come in. Yep.

And one of the one thing we failed to mention the first hour, Will Anderson. Congratulations. Named a defensive player of the week in the NFL. Oh, wow. That's great. Yep. So there you have it. That's the Texans injury report.

You will get a much bigger breakdown that tomorrow 10 to noon on the Stan North Fleet show. That's 3 to 6. will lock in on it too. Oh, that's true. Three to six is all in that as well. Oh, by the way, Grace is Saturday night is out and she really enjoyed it. Oh, it's already out in the theaters. Yeah, let's go. You want to go? Have we ever done a movie night ever? Have we ever seen a movie together ever? Over all these years? I don't think I've ever sat. How many seats in between? One. Okay. I mean, if it was crowded, I'd sit next to you. I don't have a problem with that. Are we getting up my armrest? Are we sharing popcorn? Absolutely. Hand in hand, sharing.

my popcorn? Oh, you can get a little one of those little courtesy cups. No, look, I'm not I don't have that kind of... Don't look, as long as you don't lick your fingers in between putting your hand in the bucket, which it seems like you might. No. I don't like butter my popcorn anyway. The, well, the buttered

substance, the buttery, whatever that is, yeah, the imitation buttered substance. I feel like my arteries are clogging up after eating bites. It's a little much to me too. So you and I can share a bucket. Okay, some people like to put pickles in their popcorn bucket. You like that? No, I've also heard milk duds are very popular inside.

Or pickled jalapinos. For lexia spice? Okay. So you're saying no on all that? No, I don't do any of that. I'm just asking you. No, I can just think regular's fine. Okay.

We're not sharing a soda, correct? Why would we share a soda? Because it's 32 ounces of a drink. Okay, I'll get a free refill. So really... I'll bring a foldable plastic cup in my pocket. And we'll... Is that a foldable plastic pocket?

You ever open up a can of Coke? the theater and you're like, you try to cough. No, Ross, I've never done that. You've never done that? Well, I have. Well, that's because it's not stealing if you paid for it. I bought the Coke. I bought the Sour Patch Kids and I'm smuggling in. But I believe the rule is that

you're not supposed to bring any out of out of store food and drink. I don't want to spend $25 for a movie and then $10 on a little bag of Sour Patch Kids. I'm not getting price gouged. I'm smuggling in my candy. What's up? Stop me. You should be stopped. Matter of fact, if you and I ever go to the movie,

I'm going to have you searched. Okay. That's fine. I'll just walk out and eat my Sourbatch Kids. Okay. One of our great listeners is a movie operator, so we'll be fine. Yeah. We'll go to the right people.

Yeah. Okay, that's good. Let's bring the big purse and we'll be good. I'm not bringing a purse. Why not? Back to the Texas. Fanny packs are back. They are not.

I've never had a fanny pack in my life. They call them around the body bags or something like now. What do they call them? I forget. Which member of the 790 Air Staff would be most likely to have a MERS. Stand Northland. Easy, easy answer on that one. Cross body bags, that's what they call them.

Okay. Yeah, get your cross-body bag. Stuff as many bunch of crunches as you can in there. And head on to the film. Watch a movie. What's that one? The chico stick that makes it super, like a super crunchy. Oh, chichol sticks are good.

They're delicious. Underrated, quite frankly. Really good. It's like a longer, more refined butterfinger. I gather similar. lemon juice on popcorn is my fave lemon juice gross you people are sick that's gross what do you bring your own bottle of lemon juice

what do you pack it lemon juice in a holster what are you squeezing lime and cilantro on it too or what the hell is that all about you bring in a zester you zest it to the theater you talk about lemon peel that's gross That's pretty funny.

I think I'm pretty much tapped out. Okay. It's time for a break. It is? Okay. We killed a segment there. We got to shut your bum ass up at the bottom of the hour. There are people bumping around town right now going, Matt, we need Texans conversation.

Okay. Let's bring it to them. We did. Toot is not playing or practicing. Five players deep. Woods, Lasseter, Wood, Toa, Toa, and Al-Shayir are all not practicing today. That's not good. But it is just Wednesday.

It's Wednesday. We only get nervous when it's like Thursday and Friday, basically. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We've got to shut your ball mass up coming up at 130 here on Sports Talk 790. With the word right now for Berkeley Eye Center, I would like for you to celebrate 30% off in LASIC savings by calling 713-526 I. at 713526 eyes and visiting with the incredible people over at Berkeley Eye Center. If you have a synchmatism, has been always concerned about whether or not it could be cured and resolved, it can be when you get LASIC from Berkeley Eye Center.

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Yeah. Thankfully. So they've trimmed it down apparently to 60 people as I think is what it is. Okay. And I'm trying to get the definitive term, but I just know there's one candidate on the list right now that I'm troubled by. But Adams is one of the lists on the finals list. I mean, I know you don't like him here in Houston. I, one of the founding members of the AFL. Yeah. 2025 founding members, AFL founders.

What else did he do besides just own a football team? I would just say starting up the NFL. Well, I'm sure the, starting up the AFL and then the merger with the NFL. 54 years as a founder, owner, chairman of the board president CEO of the titan slash orders franchise adams was a pivotal figure in the nfl help with the merger i'm assuming had two afl championships never sniffed the super bowl got to a handful of aFC championship games other people he's competing with in the contributor class for 2025

rune arlidge television executive no idea who that is um long time ABC I want to say he was Pivotal with Monday night football. Okay. Okay. Chris Berman. What? Derade is. Howard Cocell.

Howard Cocell seems more. Did Monday Night Football between 1970 and 1983. I thought he did it more than that. Okay. Otto Davis was an athletic trainer for the Baltimore Colts and for the Philadelphia Eagles. What?

John Fessenda. Oh. Get John Fissenda and his pack of sigs in there. Mike Giddings created the NFL talent evaluation at analytics company called Pro Scout. Ralph Hay was the owner of the Canton Bulldogs between 1918 and 1922. Oh man, he was so great.

Player personnel and scouting for the Philadelphia Eagles, Redskins, and Cowboys, Bucko Kilroy. Bucko Kilroy. Oh, he's a fine lad from Belfast. Don Klosserman built leagues and built teams in successful three different leagues NFL, AFL, and the USF.

I don't even know. You're going way off the rails here. Let me give you a few more that would make them. Sure, why not? Robert Kraft, owner, CEO of the New England Patriots. Okay. Art Modell, former owner of the Browns

and both more than Ravens. What has Rod Kraft ever done besides just win a bunch of Super Bowls with the best coach of all time and the best quarterback of all time? Doug Williams in there. Doug Williams. Doug Williams.

These are the special contributors. Oh, okay. Would Doug Williams be in there? with some sort of color barrier. How it is described as credited with creating opportunities for future black athletes. Yeah. So then the color barriers. Yeah.

Okay. So let's go to Bud for a second. Do you get in because you've owned something for as long as he has? I would think of more of the AFL stuff. I mean, because the AFL forming and then merging with the NFL, and starting the Super Bowl error is really when things kind of started. But when I think of owners getting big for the NFL. Who did things to transcend their sport, Jerry Jones.

I think of George Hallis. I can think of clearly, you know, Eddie DeBartello before he got into some financial issues with the Niners. when you think Pat Bowling with the Broncos sustained success, stable front office, to be honest, Rossi, the last 20 years of Bud Adams owning the Titan slash orders,

he was a joke. He was given double birds from the owner's box. That was fun. But I mean, he was, he was firing Bud Adams or Bum Phillips after going to the championship games. He had a press conference where I was at personally when he admitted that he told Jack Pardee to put a headside on even if it wasn't turned on or not.

That was an incredible moment in my life. I could not believe I heard what he said. That's funny. He double-birded the fans. He moved a franchise. Yes. After living in that city and working and making all that money in his own private company in that city, he held Jacksonville hostage. He held Houston hostage and ultimately got his, whatever, his palace in Nashville.

Yeah, so you could see why the owners would hail him as a hero. That's true. Holding cities hostages and getting what he wanted. I don't know. To me, I have such a terrible end game for him that it'd be hard for me as an adult to go. You know, but Adams, I appreciate your contributions in 1960 and 1961. I appreciate the merger in 1967.

You should get in. To me, that doesn't do anything for me. Okay. Yeah, but I'm not voting. If being part of, I don't know, Are the rest of the original AFL owners in? I have no idea. I would assume Lamar Hunt in the Super, in the Hall of Fame.

Ralph Wilson, the old, old guard. I'd have to go look at the, okay, so when I say this to you, first blush, Bud Adams should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame for being a legacy owner. You say, no. See, you're having to think about it. I don't know. I kind of don't care.

What does it matter? What is it? What happens? They're going to put up a bust of him somewhere And then the contributor win It would give him shine Yeah, but he's dead Give Amy Krunk shrunk shine

Okay I guess I hate her I know you do I hate very few things in life I hate her I hate what Bud did to our city I mean legitimately

Not hate isn't like I want bad things to happen But I sports hate them And there's a difference I can sports hate them things and I hate other things in life. Like, I hate cancer. I hate people fighting in wars.

I mean, that's what I hate hate. I sports hate the Tennessee, anything related to the Tennessee Titans. They stole my team. I have no football team because they stole them from me. They took them away from me. Embrace the Texans, Matt. Yeah, they're here for you. I'm fine.

Okay, you said if they get to the Super Bowl, you're right. You're right. I'm going to hold you to that. Oh, you know what? The Rockets have a 1 o'clock game that day. And the Super Bowl? Super Bowl? Sunday, yes. What?

Yeah. Is it here? Yeah. Okay. I will I will host the party Okay I will invite all those

Traveling Texans dorks I'll invite Darlene And you'll paint a Texan's logo on your head I didn't say that Now I'll wear some gear Okay I'll ask for Alba has to borrow something from Adam Clayton He's got like 14 different outfits

Yeah I think he can loan you one for the day Oh you know He can borrow one of those five black uniforms he has Oh excuse me deep steel blue You bar your son's Davis Mills jersey God if Davis Mills Will lead the team that's the Super Bowl That'd be really something

My son be like, Dad, scoreboard. I told you. Told you, son. I told you, pops. All right, so there you go. But Adams on the list of potential contributors to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I get it. If we were doing it, I just don't get it.

I get it because of the AFL stuff. Outside of that, yeah, he just owned the team for a long time. Who cares? But if that's the case, why would you wait this long? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. You know why?

Because they didn't have great. Chris Berman's getting me. Chris Berman? I mean, Chris Berman, really? Now, I will give Chris Berman one bit of credit. The highlight show was amazing. amazing. The two greatest highlight shows in the history of highlight shows is Chris Berman doing NFL time time at 6 o'clock in the ESPN on Sunday nights. Okay. And Howard

CoSell doing halftime highlights on Monday Night Football. Does that get you into the Hall of Fame? No, but no. You're talking about Berman. Berman, yeah. What else do you do? But he was also reporter. He called some games and he was terrible. But he also, he's a long-term reporter for the NFL too. Yeah. But he also hosted one of the legacy. NFL shows. Well, I imagine he's in. Good for him. Whatever. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. That's right. I'm not going to change my day-to-day life that Chris Berman's in the Hall of Fame. Will he continue to dye his hair if he gets him to the Hall of Fame? Yes. Yeah, I think so.

All right, time now for our favorite part of the week. And this is where we can tell some people to shut their bum ass up. Now, Ross not only wrote one thing down, but two things. Yeah, let me check my archives. So it must be a special week when something has bothered Ross so much that actually wrote something down. and is going to say two different things. If you got something that's bothered you this week, whether it's your flights being canceled or the plane living without you because of air traffic issues at Newark Airport, or somebody bothering you at the office or somebody that you have not spoken to in six months,

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It's all at two creekscrossingresort.com, Two creekscrossingresort.com Ain't nobody getting time? Ain't nobody getting time for that? Ain't nobody getting time for that? Hey, time for that. 133. Time for some people to shut their bum asses up.

Shut your bum ass up, man. And anybody got time for that. And I got one. Something just happened in the bathroom. Matt, we don't need to know. Not me, not involving me. Guys, and there. on the pot sitting down.

Okay. Having a deep phone conversation. On the phone? On the speaker phone too. Oh. You know what? Get in there. Do what you got to do.

Get a couple of quick wipes and get out of there and then handle the phone call. Ew. Anybody got time for you having a 20 minute conversation in pot number two. I do not pick up the phone in those situations. People that do disgust me. Just tell you, it literally just happened two minutes ago. Goodness gracious. I'm in there just peeing.

He's trying to get back in here to the show. Yeah. I'm going to hear about this guy's life. He's trying to finish off a $3 million business deal while he's dropping trial. It's ridiculous. You know what? Maybe he's doing something right then. A time efficiency is key.

Oh, is that right? Yeah. Okay. I still say it. I saw it. He didn't have any good time for that. Sounds like it's working. I don't know.

I don't got time for that. Ross, what's the matter with you? By the way, if you got something mad at you, 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3. 212-790. So I was at a concert last night. The lovely and talented Nora Jones was at 713 Music Hall. She did a great job.

I've seen her before at Jazz Fest. She's great. But I ran into a problem that I feel like I'm running into increasingly as we go along in years. Okay. Look, you want to take a picture of the stage at a concert. That's cool. Whatever. Some of you people I've done before on this segment,

or maybe for I just don't get it, where you film the entire concert, like you're going to go back and watch the whole hour and a half of the concert, whatever. But if you're going to do all those things, stop putting your flash on in people's faces while we're all trying to enjoy a concert and you're taking a five-minute video with your flash, or you're taking photos with your flash. Keep the flash off. We're all trying to enjoy the concert.

We don't care about the three likes you're about to get on Instagram. Stop using Flash at concerts. Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that. I'll turn around and give Stink Eye in the middle of their video. So you said nothing. You're being passive aggressive. I do this one.

Like this, you act blind? What do you want me to say? Hey, shut that off. I get it. I'm right there with you. I share frustration. Doesn't happen when I go see to my concerts, but that's a different issue for different time. I just sing along in my concerts, though.

Yeah. You okay with that? You're going to sing along? Absolutely. The voice to men on Saturdays at the top of my lungs, I almost lost my voice. Like when Adam Clinton and I went to go see Billy Joel, we sang as lot as anybody else around us. Absolutely. When saw Barry Manilow did the same exact thing.

That's, that's... Looks like we made it. Yeah, look, I think Barry Manilow sucks, but if you, if that's how you get your jollies, you want to go... That's a part of being at a concert. One of the reasons to go to a concert is to get the energy of everyone singing the same song and having a good time. It's good vibes. And that's great. I don't want to hear you.

See your flash in my face. Your phone flash. Okay. Clip that, please. That wasn't that. Well, we're going to use it anyway. That was as egregious as the... Now, you've got one more, do you want to go to Connor?

I'll let somebody else go. I'll take a breather. Connor, what do you got? What's the matter we do this week? So the Rockets last night when their preseason home debut? Yeah, did you hear the radio call? It was spectacular. Didn't catch it.

I caught the highlights. We got a lot of complaint emails about it, though. Did you really? That makes you feel bad. That's terrible. But I wake up to a lot of highlights from rookie Reed Shepard on Twitter. And he looked pretty good, probably going to get more minutes than Aaron Hollidays, the backup point card. But ain't nobody got time for people saying he's the next Steph Curry, everybody hyping him up.

Like, let's not set ourselves up for disappointment. Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for it? Yeah, I've seen that multiple places. I mean, that's ridiculous. Steph Curry is the greatest shooter to ever walk the planet. And it's not particularly close. I have not seen that.

I have been chasing after it, honestly. Yeah, there's been a couple people going with Steph Curry and Reed Shepard comparison. Is that because of Rockets Twitter? I think it actually has been peaceful. If it's Rocket's Twitter. I thought Kevin O'Connell, Kevin O'Conner, or one of those Kevin O-somethings was talking about as well. Like I, as a voice of the Rockets, I hate the Nicola Yokic, Alperin-Shangoon cross-references. It's not fair to either one of them.

Oh, calling him Baby Joker. Yeah. He's not anywhere close. I'm sorry. He is who he is. Let him be him. Okay, so you're telling me that people are putting Reed Shepard and Steph Curry in the same conversation? I mean, that's spectacular territory, but he's got about 15 years of three-point shots to make before he gets in that category.

So, yeah, that doesn't make any sense. Yeah, this was a couple of weeks ago I'm finding, well, somebody said the closest thing. Yeah, Tom Habistro. He used to be on ESPN. I don't know if he still works at him. He's an analytics guy. He's not Steph Curry, but I think he's the closest thing to Steph Curry we've seen in a long time. Okay, we'll see.

Hey, let me tell you. However, if that's going to happen here at Houston. If that's the case, I'm going to make a lot of highlight calls in ESPN. I'm all for that. Oh, my gosh. Yes, just go ahead and how can this help you, Matt? Are you kidding me, Ross? That's exactly what I'm thinking about.

I know. I've called like, let's see, $60, $180, about 220, $120 in the last four years. That's it. I mean, that's it. Rockets wins as well. I did a Rockets preseason when yesterday. You did? That's good.

You know, have we played any of my calls from last night? Connor, who's in the show? What? I don't know, just because it adds to the show. Nobody's locked into Rockets preseason. They should be. Oh, Lord. Come on, Connor.

You got a year of production value on this show. Let's go. Connor don't do it. Connor don't get it. We're close to a break. And I have got to get my second one in real quick. Go for. You're up.

You know what? I'm going to name them by name. Your card readers, H-E-B, suck. I was sitting there in line. First of all, I guess I should have just gone to the self-catch checkout. This happens to me every time. You put the card in. It says bad read.

And then they're like, oh, you got declined. And I'm like, I'm lady, I'm looking at my make-of-a-Mamerica app. I have not gotten declined. My card is not frozen. Then they call the manager over and they're blaming me. Then I try to use my debit card and that doesn't work. Your card readers suck. I have issues with them every time I go.

I know they're finally getting tapped to pay, but this has been gone on for way too long. It's ridiculous. And H.E.B. Managers, shut your bum ass up. My card's not getting declined. I got money in my account, okay? And then also, H.E.B.

Ain't nobody got time for your crappy card readers. Get those tap to pays in now. Shut your bum ass up, man. Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for Newark Air Traffic controllers to take. two-week vacations. So I miss my flights and have to get re-booked and have to buy a hotel room in Newark Airport,

spend the night, miss the show. Ain't nobody got time for any minutes and shows like that? Ain't nobody got time for that. It's funny. United hasn't asked me about how my trip went. You know how usually they send you emails? Like, how would your trip to radar, radar group? They know.

They haven't asked. They know. Go give them that one star, Matthew. No, I'm going to write some. I want to get some miles out of this at least, maybe a free upgrade somewhere. 713-212-5-7-9 oh ross look who's on line three conner you see who's online three oh we had them last week we haven't had this in a while my friends new york james god knows you on 66 w f a and james good afternoon to you

hey good afternoon fellas thank you for taking my call governor thomas listen i'm gonna get straight to the point i got a whole slew of these boz-assas from here everywhere even Even back in New York, I really spoke to RV, and I think I straighten him out. And this idiot from box sports, Jason Smith, he's a Mets fan. Look, I already know what the Yankees could do, and the Yankees are going to go all the way. They're going to finish off these Mickey Mouse people in Cleveland, finish them off. And whoever they play, if they play the Mets, the Mets and six, if they play the Dodgers, it will be a battle. Like nobody would ever want to see it, but the Yanks could take them down in seven.

Even if Othani puts on the show, it will be epic. And also, I got two picks this week. I haven't been out to talk about it for a while. I got the lions over the lines, which they're not going to be winners. They're not going to be, they're going to get that first ever of the season. And I'm sorry to tell you guys. I also got you guys losing to Green Bay. I got a little parlor going with a friend of mine.

Thank you. Thank you for taking my call. Sports Radio WFA in New York. The New York Yankees gonna win the World Series again. The Mets can suck it because I'm a Yankee fan. I was born at 43rd in Rice Boulevard. Going down to the Bronx, they won't be coming back. Yankees got this one in six.

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The one near you, bigcitywings.com. The Matt Thomas show continues. On your computer, listen to Sports Talk 790 on any device with our free IHardt Radio app. That was 6.3 seconds left to go. The Rockets are going to win their preseason home opener and their second in three tries. So tonight from Toyota Center, it's a preseason.

Rockets win. Final score, Houston 118. And New Orleans 98. Damn. The melodic tones of the voice of the Rockets. Great, Matt. We're all proud of you. 10 of 10, no notes.

10 and 10, no notes. 10 out of 10, no notes. You're the best. That's a little key or high key. On the highest of keys. All right. So that's the only call you. last night was worthy of playing, that seemed, that's, that's fine.

I've better get my, I've better get my flowers with the season starts. Do you wait or why? Two o'clock show open or something? That'd be actually pretty good. Hey, when Rockets win, 12 o'clock opens, absolutely. What a great decision on your part. Thank you so much.

I'm going to throw up. So Robert Ford was doing the Robert Ford with Ross Show. Would you tell Robert Ford he can't have his highlights around? No, Robert Ford's actually a humble and nice guy. Oh, my God. God. That feels that was incredibly rude.

I mean, really, as rude as rude as it gets with you. Sorry. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Seth, what's the matter with you? Hey, guys. So I need a got an incident that happened with Spirit Airlines with a friend of mine the other day.

Uh-oh. She's flying from Bush to Fort Lauderdale. Yeah. And going through the security line, here's no problem with her bags whatsoever. They let her carry it on. But coming back through Fort Lauderdale, a spirit representative says,

your bag is too big, you need to go check it in. So she goes over, and not only charging her $95 to check a bag that's slightly bigger than carry on. And then she goes back in line, and a lady in front of a big, twice as big as her,

they let her go through. And the lady, and the spirit rep goes, after why she'll out take it and the spirit right says well she's traveling with a child what does that have to do with anything let's air airlines come on

ain't nobody got time for that this is your friend or your girlfriend a friend of mine okay well first of all be a good friend and tell her stop flying mirrored airlines she's just asking for trouble absolutely we're going south plus from now on

there you go you gotta save your cash somehow Matt you know Seth sounds like a little bit who I believe it would be butthead? Matt Beavis. Hold on. Seth, hold on. Seth, you there? Yeah, I'm still here. Seth, do a butthead impression?

Do your best butthead impersonation. Go for it. Ain't nobody got time for that, Ross. Come on. Man brought it up. Am I right? A little bit. Hi, Seth, this is Ross. Matt is the one saying you sound like the cartoon character voiced by Mike Judge named Butthead. I did not

say that. Seth is Matt Ross asked me to ask you that. See, that is not true. We're sitting right here. The truth. Nobody can see us. We're not on the space city network yet. We can see us saying that. Oh, my God. They need to get us on TV. Do they really? I've seen

seen the 3 to 6 show. Yeah, that were way more entertaining. I was eating dinner at the Tota Center and I saw Clanton's face all over the big screen. I'm vomiting to my dinner. It was terrible. Oh Way too much of Adam Klein They're doing great actually Wishing them the best

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And again Don't eat when you see Adam and Adam On your television screen That's rude That's true All right Last call for anybody That would like to shut their bum asses up

Have someone shut their bumasses up 7132 212-5-790, 7-13, 2-1-2-5-7-90. Uncle Pete says, shut your bum-ass up, all these slobbering from MLB and Jeff passing on the Yankees. I'm not watching any coverage of ESPN's baseball. Shut your bum-ass up, man.

So, let's see here. That's all I got. Everybody seems to be in pretty good mood today. By the way, people aren't talking about when they're putting on their popcorn, lime and Valentina sauce. You will thank me later. Interesting. What is Valentina sauce? It's a hot sauce, like a Mexican-style hot sauce.

You've never had Valentina? You've probably seen it. It's like in the big bottle, says Valentina on it. No, that's the reason why I asked. Oh, yeah, I guess you're not going to taco shops or real ones. Oh, so I have to go to a real taco shop to enjoy Valentina sauce. I don't know how much of that's going on in the K-wood. me tell you someone's not going on the Kwood.

Digestive issues. Valentina sauce at an authentic taco shop? Yeah, I'm good. What's wrong with that? Yeah, you're not going to feel great. You'd be like going to your stomach upset easily? It'd be like going to Edo and getting a barbecue and Edo. What's wrong with that?

You can get digestive issues. It's happy. There's one restaurant in town that a lot of people get sick at, but that's not the here or there. Okay. All right. Last call, 713, 212-570. What do you smell out of bad? Don't look at me that way.

I'll look away. You should look away. Anything else? Let's see. Oh, we got college salaries to talk about the top of the hour. I'm going to be giving you some numbers that are going to absolutely astonish you about the amount of money that college coach are being spent. It's a lot. And it was a lot last year.

And it was a lot the year before. It's more and more. But it feels like it's just getting even the mid, not mid majors, but the mid-power fours are getting crazy amounts of money. This will happen before you coming up. All right, last one. Just in the nick of time. Let's go to Alex and Conroe. Alex, what's the matter with you?

Hey, guys. Y'all are relatively familiar with all my insurance issues over the last year. And I have, man, I can't talk too much about it, but the Daspit law firm, y'all are a bunch of bums, y'all are ambulance chasers, y'all are scumbags, and swindlers. Your time will come. Shit your bum ass up, man. I've got to know that. Well, all right. Hour number three of the show coming up next.

I haven't checked on Taylor lately. How's she doing this more? Are you serious? By the way, I love... Are you doing this in the middle of this? Can you take a break first? I love the fact that I get to find out people that I know that follow Taylor. I won't name who they are, but I know who you are.

Oh, look at full. Okay, Felipe is going to end this. men on a much better note. We can't end with that last one. No rule. Fulipi now. Filippe, what's the matter with you? Well, this goes up to James and Garden Oaks. Man, a guy always calls in, like, he's hyped up on caffeine.

Man, lay up the coffee a little bit. Slow down so we can understand you, bro. Shut your bum ass up. No one cares about the Yankees. No one cares about this and that. No one cares about New York sports. Man, they haven't been relevant for years. That's right.

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Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Here we go with a final hour of the Matt Thomas show. We've got, believe it or not, coming up in 50 minutes from now. Ross, what is today's category of Believe it or not? I have no idea. All right.

713212. 579. Matt Thomas Show with Ross here on 790. Let's get to the latest rankings as announced by USA Today of how our college coaches are being compensated. Okay? How do you want to do a little guessing game?

Do you would like to give you... Number one was always Nick Sabin. So I'm going to guess Kirby Smart is number one? Kirby Smart is number one. Yes. Okay. Within 2 million. $12 million?

$13,000, $282,000. Okay. Let me give you the rest of the top 10. My goodness. Number 10, the 10th highest paid coach in the country is Lane Kiffin. Okay. At Ole Miss.

A million and a half range. Ole Miss. 7, 8. 9. Okay. Mark Stubbs, number 9 in Kentucky. The Kentucky has the ninth highest paid college football coach. Mark Stubes is making more than Lane Kiffin.

9 million 13,000. $1,600. Wow. By 13,000. Brian Kelly comes in at number eight. How many of these are in the SEC, by the way? Stay with me. So far, we've got one.

Two is Kiffin. I'm sorry, Kiffin's one. Stoops is two. Brian Kelly, LSU. Conference? LSU. SEC. $9.975 million.

For a state that's bankrupt. Good for him. Essentially. Number seven. Alabama. What conference are they in? SEC. $10 million.

Kaelin DeBore? He's only making 10 millie? Oh, that's it. That poor guy. Mike Norvell, head coach Florida State, goes from Memphis to Florida State. ACC, his compensation, $10 million. His bonus is a little higher than Kailen DeBore. That's the reason why.

And he might be fired. Number five, Ryan Day, Ohio State. Okay. $10,021,250. Okay. Number four, Lincoln Riley, USC. $10,043,418. Now, that's a private school.

And the initial numbers for him to come over, they said they paid him like $20 million to come over. So I wonder how that averages out for whatever deal he signed. Yeah. Let's see. There's an asterisk next to it. Every coach in Division I is on here, but the private schools are not listed.

He would be, are you sure U.S. is private? I mean, I don't, okay. Aren't they? Wait, am I wrong? Yeah, because the schools that are not mentioned here, are our private schools. I mean, I guess you could call and ask. I mean, you could be... Yeah, it's a private research university in Los Angeles. Yeah, it's private. Okay. So, yeah, you can call and say thanks, but no, thanks. Number three, Steve Sarkisian. You know how much money is making? Well, you said Lincoln Riley was 11?

No, Lincoln Riley is 10,000, 43,000. 11.5. 10 million 600,000. Okay. Dabo Sweeney, Clemson. $11,132,775. Good for him. How was Clemson doing this year? Clemson is struggling. No, they're not struggling, are they? They had one bad loss here this year. They got smoked by Alabama.

And the number one, we talked about Georgia, $13,282,580. Okay, Clemson's undefeated since then, but they've beat App State, NC State, Stanford, Florida State and Wake Forest. Not a murder's row. ACC, even with all the additions, not a murderer's row. Looks like there's one currently ranked team left on their schedule that's Pitt, who's 20th.

Would you like some other schools that would be of regional interest? Yes. Let's continue. We'll go down the list in terms of order. What's Mike Elko making? Eli Drinkwitz. Is that he was pronounced it, coach? Sure. The Missouri fan club? Yeah. Elijah Drinkwitz.

$9 million. He's doing well for himself. How much money can you possibly spend in Columbia, Missouri, if you're making 9 million a year? I mean, what could you possibly spend? That's making like 30 million in Austin. That's crazy. Let me see. Brent Venables at Oklahoma, $8.152,8 million, $152,000.

Money well spent. Mike Gundy, $7.75 million. Lance Leopold, Kansas. and five this year. $7,500,000. Have they just had a bunch of injuries? Why are they so bad this year? I thought Lance Leopold was supposed to be the next hot thing and best coach

in Slight's Bread. Well, he's making great money. Kansas. Billy Napier, the embattled coach at Florida. Five straight one score losses for the Kansas Jayhawks. What's that line over there in H-town? Have you even looked? I haven't even looked to the Cougar line.

they got to be a probably oh no now you're laughing okay limits can i guess go ahead giggling it's gotta be i want to say nine no that's five and a half oh i mean come on man they're one and five the only team they beat is lindenwood and you guys are six point dogs almost oh well that's rough uh let's take the cougars plus the five and a half let's go i'm all for that billy napier seven point three seven million dollars at in florida Billy Napier's not as making as much as Lance Leopold. Not as much. Leopold's made more.

Mike Elko, A&M coming in at number 24, $7 million. That's good. So you're the 24th highest paid. You add what Jimbo's getting paid. They're spending a lot on coaches. Got that right. You got that right. Anything else that you would be interested in?

Let me try to look at some schools in the state of Texas. I'm going on this list here. Sorry for this. Sunny Dykes at TCU. Not happy with them. $5 million a year. Mac Brown at North Carolina is at $5 million a year. $5 million is a great salary over here at North Carolina.

I love it over here and the Tar Heels are going to be great. Sally makes plenty of that apple betty for the team. Dave Iranda at Baylor, $4.54 million. He's chilling. Willie Fritz at Houston coming at number 47 at $4.5 million. Okay. Joey McGuire at Texas Tech, $4.5 million. $247 million.

Hmm. Maybe the best deal in sports, maybe at Matt Campbell at Iowa State, just makes over just shortly more than $4 million a year. How's Iowa State doing? They bounce back this year? They're doing really good. They're doing really good.

They're doing really good. Mac Campbell at Iowa State. You know, you can't disclaim any of them by the plans out of Ames. You've got to watch those cyclones. They're very dangerous. And then let's go to the bottom. Let's go to the bottom five. If you are bottom five head football question, again, there are some schools,

this is anybody, this is anybody that plays college football. Okay. That would include Sammy Houston. Ooh. You what, within $300,000 named Sammy Houston selling for the head coach. Casey Keeler, I believe, is his head coach. Two million. Casey Keeler as the head coach at Sam Houston State Go Cats is making, I just saw it here.

What's the deal here? Oh, $625,000. What? Come on, bearcats. They're good, too, right? I think so. I think so, yeah. 625. That's a lot of, that's a lot of cracker barrel in Huntsville.

What do high-paid high school coaches in Texas get paid? It can't be that far off than that. I bet there are coaches in the state of Texas making 200. Let's see. Major Appoyte, friend of the show, head coach South Alabama, $825,000. This says Barbers Hill coach making 180, and that's the highest in the Houston area. Mike Blumgren, head coach at Rice, $981,000. Hmm.

Tom Herman, Florida Atlantic, $1 million. So what was he getting paid to Texas? That's a major, that's a major drop-off. But, of course, I'm guessing he's still getting paid. Charlie Strong is still getting paid. Charlie Strong is not still getting paid. It was a while David McWilliams is still getting paid.

He's not. Fred Acres not on the payroll, Matt. John McEvick's still getting paid. All right. Trent Tilfer left the college broadcasting career, NFL broadcasting career to be the coach at UAB. $1.45 million.

How are the Blazers doing these days? I think they're terrible. Oh. I think they're getting like getting 70 points put on them by Tulane or something like that. Tulane did beat them 71 to 20. What's UAB's record this year?

They got crushed by Army. Well, Army is the top 25 team. Oh, yeah, that's right. Do you know what's going on between Army and Navy, by the way? Oh, yeah. Aren't they going to have to play each other three times or something? Twice. They could potentially play each other in the conference championship game

and then play each other the week after that probably will solidify one of their spots in the college football playoff. Could potentially be that way. Okay. So there you have it. UAB Blazers have lost five straight games. They got crushed by Navy and Army. South Florida next.

Rossi, Kirby Smart, $13.282 million. And you know what the thing about it is for Alabama or for Georgia? They're not betting an eye on that. No. They're winning championships again. They're winning championships. Their stadium is full. Their corporate sponsorship is amazing.

And they get a hilariously large check from the TV networks to carry their games. They're the class of the SEC. right now. You had to add the right now, didn't you? Yes. What do you mean? Because in a few weeks, they're going to be on, they're not going to be in the top of the SEC world. Your beloved Texas Longhorns are because they're going to beat Georgia this Saturday in Austin, Texas. Well, they're already ahead of Georgia because Georgia has a conference loss. But we'll, we'll see. Big game coming up this weekend. And you've made it a final decision or not on whether or not you're going to go? Still looking.

You know, it's going to cost you $2,000. I know. Do you want to go to $2,000 for a regular season game? You're right. As your friend, I would rather you spend the $2,000 on a playoff game. Okay. Like you did. Where's the championship this year?

Well, it was in Houston last year. I know. That was perfect. And then it didn't go. But you had a good time in New Orleans, all right? No, I didn't have a good time in New Orleans, Matt. I watched my team lose and Quinn Yewers miss a bunch of throws at the end of the game when they were true. when Washington was trying to gift-wrapped in the game.

Thanks for bringing it up. You know what I would say? What are you going to say? Sorry for your loss. Thank you. I was almost going to send out to Gordia today. Because LSU almost lost this past weekend. Oh, the finals in Georgia again.

So the SEC championship game is in Georgia in Atlanta, and then the college football playoff finals in Atlanta again? You know, I'll get you tickets. I know people. Okay. That's a deal. No, I need your credit card. I mean, I'll get you the tickets,

you got to pay for it's a deal 214 on sports talk 790 Texans are back on the practice field a handful of players were not part of that we'll tell you who they were coming up in a minute plus if you went to the Rockets game last or watch it I would take an observation

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Jim Nance? Tony Romo on the call. It's the number one game on CBS this week. Let's go? You can't be surprised, right? It's great. Here are the choices for who is going to get the main game this week.

Pull up the schedule. Okay. So you've had Kevin Harlan, Ian Eagle, and now Jim Nance and Tony Romo in the last few weeks. Yeah. Awesome. Well, I mean, it helps.

They're very, I mean, the team is good. Panthers Commanders is a 3 o'clock CBS game. They only get one game this week, so it's not like a... Raiders and Rams. It's not a double header. Is it not the Raiders and Rangers? Lions Vikings is still at noon? Yeah, that's on Fox.

Yeah, Raiders and Rams is on CBS at 3. But it's a single game week. What do you mean? Doubleheaders on Fox this week. Okay. So we'd only get one game in the market on CBS. Dang, Lions Vikings, huh? That's going to be on Channel 26 this week.

It's going to be on at noon. Yeah. I've got the old schedule here. For some reason why my NFL schedule is not popping up here. This is old. Jaguars are in London again? They live in London, do they not? Yeah, I guess so.

I don't know that those work visas don't expire? How long have they been there? Speaking of stadiums real quick before we've got the schedule here, do you see that the city of Cincinnati is asking to finance the Bengals are to put a roof on their stadium in Cincinnati? Oh, really? Isn't that weird? Well, yeah, they've had crappy weather there for decades. Yeah, probably for centuries.

But it's funny, the same thing was asked of people in Kansas City to put a roof that would cover Arrowhead and Royal Stadium. And the taxpayers of Kansas City said, no. No, thanks. And that's big Chiefs country, too. Yeah. Good for them. All right. So the choice.

For your own stadiums. So the choices where Jim and Tony could have gone this week would have been Houston Green Bay, duh. Tennessee Buffalo. No. Since I think Cleveland? Oh, hell no. Carolina, Washington, and Las Vegas at the L.A. Rams. So there you go.

Yeah, so it's, yeah, most of the country is getting this game. And then on Fox, we're getting Detroit and Minnesota. So it's going to be a great day of two really good football games. Love it. Plus the red zone? Oh, yes. Do not bother me between 12 and 7. He said you're coming over?

No, I'm probably down. Okay. You don't want me to come over. Yeah, why not? Just I'd rather, just put some little smokies in the crock pot, get some nine. nachos going, have a nice little NFL Sunday. A little smokies, a barbecue sauce is very underrated. Get some chips and queso and some bruskees will be a good Sunday.

Does me and you, bros hanging out? No, maybe a couple of other people. It's weird if it's just me and you. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm going through all that just for you. I see enough of you as it is. All right, so as far as the injuries are concerned, we mentioned this earlier. Are we super, super concerned about five players, Ross, that didn't practice today?

Yes, I'm super concerned. There's five key players. except for Robert Woods. Now, wait a minute. Robert helped out a little bit last year. Yeah, we're in 2024. Now, he's stepping in returning puns because Stephen Sims is muffing punts and they don't like that. Nobody likes that as a coach in the NFL. But they'll be fine.

All right. Jimmy Ward, Camari Lasseter, Henry Toa Toa, Robert Woods, and Al-Ziz Al-Shahir. We're all not practicing today. Okay. You'd like to have all of those on the team. if not, it's going to be tough. Especially if both the linebackers, both of those linebackers are out, I think it's going to mean good things for

Josh Jacobs in that run game for the Packers. Yeah. Now, you as a Texan fan, are you, like, as an Astro fan, when the Astros make the playoffs, now you're not comparing apples and apples here. But do you have the energy of, I can't wait to see what this team does in the postseason? or are you like, man, I don't even want to think about that right now

because I got to get past this rigorous, regular season schedule first. Yeah, I would say I'm not thinking much about the postseason right now. I mean, they're, to me, the third best team in the AFC, and the Ravens and Chiefs are clearly a tier above. But you've got good games coming up. This game against the Packers, you're taking on the Jets who have now traded for Devante Adams. I think that's an interesting game.

The Lions are going to be a good measuring stick game. So finally, with the exception of the two Tennessee games coming up, you're starting to, and the Miami game is going to be a little weird because it might have two attack of a lower back. Yeah, what's weird about that? Because what are we getting back from him? I imagine if he's cleared to play, he's going to be okay. He didn't get any, he didn't have any concussions last year, but he suffered a pretty bad one this year. Yeah.

When his arms are flailing, like please get me, scoop me off to feel like off with a spatula, I don't think it's great. It's not great, but he will have been played for a couple of weeks by then. He could be back out with a concussion by the same. So we'll see. Will the Texans to see him? Will he be concussed by then? I'm not anxious about this Sunday's game because I kind of think Green Bay. I mean, the Texans, you're going to lose games.

I mean, they're not 16 and 1. They're 5 and 1. They're not going to be 16 and 1. They're not going to be 16 and 1. Could be 15 and 2. I have them. I did my gut feeling and so far I've not found anything to make me waver. Although, well, maybe these linebacker injures making me waver a little bit.

going with the Texans. I'll say this. I don't care how ugly of a win if it is. If you win at Green Bay with these injuries and that home field advantage that Green Bay has had, this will be safe to say the most impressive one of the year.

I mean, beating Buffalo at home is cool and everything. Yes. But you're going to a territory that has been one of the better home field advantages in the history of the sport. Yeah, they've got a good quarterback, they've got a great offensive line. Good running back. You just mentioned, Josh, running back. They got a lot of offensive weapons as far as past catchers.

Yeah, it's going to be good. I think it's going to, what's the total on this one? So let me ask you this. Let's flip the other side of it. If they come away with that with a loss, do you say, well, against the upper echelot teams, they failed miserably?

As with any NFL game, I will say, how did it look? Losing because they got to kick the last second field goals, one thing, and getting your ass kick like you did in Minnesota, another. So really, we don't even know what to anticipate at this point. Because any win in Green Bay, no matter

how ugly it is, you will come back beating your chest going, oh, hell yeah. Correct. You lose it 30 to 27. You're like, damn, congrats to Green Bay, they knocked it. But if you lose 34 to 10, then it's like, then who are the Texans? It would be hard to figure out who they are. If they're five and two, with their two losses being against upper echelon

teams and two bad beat downs. Right. with every other win other than the Patriots win coming by one score. Getting, escaping by the skin of your teeth. You know what you want to do ultimately? You want to get into the tier one. You want to be with Baltimore and Kansas City. And I think winning at Green Bay can get you a little bit closer.

Absolutely. Absolutely. So a big game this weekend. I'm excited. Big game, big girls. 7.1. What? This is not.

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Ross, believe it or not, today is what? What did I start on? I don't know. I don't have your computer in front of you. You're looking at big women of Wisconsin. Wisconsin. I was doing some cursory research on Cam Acres. He's not that interesting, so I don't know what to do anymore. All right. I didn't make up six things about Cam Acres. No, don't know. I'll help you. I'll help you. We'll figure something out of here. Let me tell you about Two Creeks Crossing Resort. I'm so happy that a lot of you have made a decision to spend some time up there. Up near Lake Livingston, if you can't decide between going camping or going to a resort, how about getting the best of both worlds? And you can do that at Two Creeks Crossing Resort. There's a large pool and a hot tub.

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from an offensive perspective, certainly as a quarterback, but he is now, Rossi, a 5% owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. And I feel like I've gone back and forth on this about whether or not he's going to, if this is going to be an intent to grow it larger or just keep his hands in ownership to see what it's all about. He's got a hilariously large contract to work at Fox. You know, I can give that up. Yeah.

But you see the parameters again that he has to live by now, being a member of the NFL owners club. He's not allowed to be in any practice facilities, not allowed to talk to the players. He's going to do nothing that it would normally take for a color analyst to do prior to a game. Now, he can broadcast Raider games, okay?

But he cannot be in other teams' facilities. He cannot have those night before media availability to talk to the players and coaches. So he's going to miss out on a lot of insight. Now, my guess is the first. folks at Fox will record them. And then he can see them? And then he can see them. What's the difference?

Well, you can't ask questions. Okay. I don't know. My feeling is there's going to be a way if Tom Brady, Tom Brady goes to his game producer and says, hey, go ask this question, get me an answer to it. You know what? Funny, my initial thought is that, man, this is, these restrictions are ridiculous. Why would they just, Tom Brady's not going to use any of this information? Then I'm like, wait a second.

This is the guy involved in SpyGate, Deflake Gate, and Do anything to do anything to gain and edge and one of the most hyper-competitive persons on the planet. You know, it's funny. He's pretty good. I don't think he's been bad at all. If week one was a little rough, but it feels like he's been a decent sense. But you know what it hasn't done? It hasn't spiked ratings. There's a lot. Are you sure? It wasn't supposed to. Yeah.

Do you know what the number one game of the entire weekend in the NFL is this weekend? It's Kansas City at San Francisco. Yes. That is the premier five-star game of the week. You could have Martin Short and Lady Gaga doing the broadcast, and people would watch it. They would. I wonder, this is something I think a lot about, actually. How much does the play-by-play?

Zero. I don't think it's zero. I don't, actually. Because for you and me who are going to watch the game, no matter what, it is zero. But I think for a casual fan kind of just turning it on, maybe it helps you stay longer if the call is good. Not that you're sitting there on your couch saying, man, this is a really great call.

It's that you don't notice mistakes being made. Good energy from a good booth, I think, can add a certain layer. It's very small, and I think it's only a small percentage, but that's also you're dealing with thin margins when you're NFL anyways. is what I think. I'm going to completely disagree with you. Okay. And my argument is this.

If I'm an average football fan, and I'm going to sit down for a little bit, I'm going to watch Kansas City and San Francisco because I know it's the two of the best teams. It's a potential Super Bowl matchup. This is an average fan. What you're asking for in this rager thin margin is for someone that doesn't watch football at all,

or very little. Very, very little to say, ooh, Tom Brady's doing the color commentary on this. I better turn it on. I believe that sector of what that population is. It's minuscule. I don't think it's zero, though. Oh, I think it's close to zero.

I think it's, and I think a lot of it is more subconscious. Like I said, it's not active. Now, I will say this. In my own, first of all, I'm in the business. So maybe we have to take ourselves out. But I can tell you this. My friends, my sons, my son's friends, will turn a game off

if they don't like the commentators. Like when Beth Mowens does a game, see? They turn it off. But if it's, for instance, Fox's number four crew is Kenny Albert and Jonathan Filma.

If all of a sudden they were given in Kansas City of San Francisco game, you're not going to get anybody to per se turn it off because those two dudes are doing the broadcast. Then why does Fox pay Tom Brady 300, 400,

or whatever million dollars. It's hellaciously bad money spent. I mean, and Tony Romo gets all this money. Terrible money spent. Why wouldn't they just, if the deal is up with, say, Jim Nance, right? If the deal is up with Jim Nance, why don't they say, all right, screw you Jim Nance. Because you do want to have, we're going to kick you to the curve. You do want to have the best in the industry doing it. Is it only to impress their peers? I think it's for a variety of reasons.

One, you want the best doing it. Tariko is the best. He got it and gets paid compensation. Somebody has to be paid the highest because you're the best. You're telling me if they fire, if NBC fired to Tariqo and just got some guy, then it wouldn't matter. I think largely it would not matter. Now you do, now when Mike Toreko calls a game on NBC,

there are very few complaints because it's a solid broadcaster. Which you don't want to put somebody in that position that is overmatch for the job. Case in point. Notre Dame games on NBC. Chris Collinsworth's son, I think his name is Zach or Jack or something, was so bad and got ridiculed for being so bad at his job,

they eventually said, we got to get rid of you. So what you have to do is you have to put somebody really good with the really good games. And that's what the network is. The problem that what the networks have is they are paying the really good people way too much money. It is a lost benefit for CBS to have Tony Rummel being paid $15 million a year to do the Texans and the Green Bay Packers.

And like I said, I think about this. I think for you and I'm going to watch the game no matter who's on it. But also you and I live and breathe sports. Not everybody lives and breathes sports. But the Texans had Andrew Catalan during the week one game against the Colts. Did anybody go, I'm not watching that game because Andrew Canelon's in the game? No. No, it's not even about that.

It's about sticking with something more when the call is better when it's the other guys, when it is Jim Nance and Tony Romo. I just think of, this is my belief. For the casual, which the most. incredible waste of money, network television has spent as on talent. I think if... Do you want to have the best doing it? Do you want Kevin Harlan doing a basketball game?

Yes. Does Kevin Harlan have a value? Whatever that value is is determined by Kevin Harlan's agent and by the network. The network has said, we believe Tom Brady is the best analyst and will be the best analyst for our network and we're going to pay him $375 million over the next 10 years. I'm telling you if I was a stockholder at Fox, I'd be like, Tom Brady's good. Tom Brady is worth X, but he ain't worth $375 million X.

And that to me is not money, not money that I'm going to lose, but I just think to me it is a way, way over compensation for what you're asking. It seems like it to me as well. But every network does it. And we're not talking about just, you know, I mean, Prime Video is doing it. ABC, CBS, NBC, they're all doing it. It hasn't seem like it must have some sort of benefits to them. But who is being, and we got a little time here, who is being overpaid? Romo's overpaid.

Yes. Tom Brady's overpaid. Is there anybody else that you would say? I don't know. If I told you that Mike Tarrico is making $6 million a year. What's Jim Nance making? I don't know. I don't know.

But they're the very best of what they do. They should be paid. I can see five or six million dollars being fine. Well, if they thought anybody could do it, I think they, I think these networks look to cut money anywhere they can. That's why Brady's never going to leave. Brady's got the best broadcast deal in the history of broadcast talent.

He's making $37.5 million a year. Do you know what to do, Ross? To do 20 NFL games to go speak at a Fox advertising get together and to be a mole for the Raiders. And to be a mole for the Raiders. And to play golf with some high-end Fox

executives and Fox sponsors. By the way, he... You, by the way, you bring You bring Tom Brady to a golf affair. That's going to carry more cashier than if you brought Mark Schlerer to a football into a golfing affair. You know what I mean, to sell a deal? Yeah, okay. So maybe that's what they see the value.

Perhaps. It has to have some value somewhere. I don't know where it is. It's to me still. And look, I'm all for getting as much money as you can with anything. But I just think to me, like broadcast fees, ABC paid hundreds of millions of dollars for the SEC. Good deal. Money well spent.

People watch it. I was glued in the East Coast watching Ole Miss LSU Saturday night. It just was. It's money well spent. All right, believe it or not today, Ross, what is the topic? And what are you playing for? We'll see. Hold on. I got to get together. Judas Priest tickets.

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We will visit with Dr. Roto at 1.30. We will visit with Willie Fritz, Houston Football Coach. We'll be with us at 2 o'clock. We're also the Rotten 5 tomorrow at 2.30. And we'll obviously break down like a mother, the National League Championship Series game between the Dodgers and the Mets tonight. And hopefully some Texans players will. get back on the practice field after five key players not available today.

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That'd be Raphael Montero? No. Still on the team. That's Stier Rake 1. Well, how is Aal Tuva? Steer Rake 2. Josh Hader? No.

Lance McCuller Jr. Oh, well, he's been hurt. That's injuries. That's not me. Oh, God. Five minutes. Stupid. We'll talk more about that tomorrow.

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John on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Will you. Cam Acres announced his commitment to Florida State on ESPN after the 2017 Under Armour All-American game. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, he had no such thing. Was it even there?

I don't know, maybe. All right. Jacob on 790. Jacob, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? The whole thing. Cam Acres played both quarterback and running back in high school and was regarded as a five-star recruit by Rivals.com. Believe it or not? He was. Ouch. Don't underestimate the power of Cam Acres of the high school player. Andy on 790, Andy, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Yes, sir. Cam Acres wore number five at Florida State because it was his college number of his favorite running back, Ladanian Tomlinson. Believe it or not? Not. That's right. Statement number two for the win before tearing his Achilles in week 16 of the 2020 season. Pro football focus had Cam Acres rated as their sixth best running back in the NFL. Believe it or not?

Believe it. No, Ross made that up. You're so proud of your work, aren't you? Brian on 790. Brian, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Cam Acres ran a 4.3640 yard dash at the 2020 NFL Combine. Believe it or not? Not. That's right. It was a 4-4-7. Statement number two for the win. Cam Acres is third in the Florida State Seminole's all-time rushing list only behind Dalvin Cook and Morric Dunn. Believe it or not. Not. That's right. He was six. Congratulations. Sean on 790. Sean, what was your favorite part of today's radio show?

You, Matt Thomas? Cam Anchors was also a basketball star in high school and was offered a scholarship by Central Florida and South Florida. Believe it or not? Not. That is right. Statement number two for the win. Cam Acres is a sneaker head and has stated he has over 200 pairs of rare Nikes and Jordans. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, he doesn't care about shoes at all.

Ross, a lot of knots. I told you was going to make up six things about... You fooled them, though. And there's a guy on Lion 5 named Tiny Meeker. Have we ever met Tiny? What is that? Let's find out real quick. Tiny.

Yes. Is your name really Tiny Meeker? That's a really weird name. You should Google it. You might have talked to me before. I don't think I want to do that. Thank you, though. Tiny call back tomorrow.

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