The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Panic Level, Gut Feelings & Ryan Pressly

Episode Date: September 22, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. 1201 in H-Town. What's happening, lunchtimmers? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. today from the Kingwood Studios because apparently

59 heading southbound there is an 18 wheeler that's on fire and floods it's on fire in the middle of a rainstorm yes that's a strong fire yeah the freeway's been close for like two plus hours and apparently it's raining like a some bitch or you guys are right there's always an excuse from you Matt geez yeah it's always something

you can just stay at Kingwood. Yeah, because I've only worked. I don't know how many days and nights of hurricane coverage. Torrential downpours and 18-wheeler's. Big deal. Yeah, no. But you know what? It's the voice that counts today, Ross, right?

The voice of Houston Sports, Matthew Thomas. I'm here in a soothing time when floodwaters are really hitting everybody, I think, frankly, basically what, south of I-10? Now, you are only about two miles. You're at what, Westheimer in Fountain Viewish, basically? Uh, Sam, look, I'm not giving away my location, Matt. Oh, I wouldn't either. I mean, it's a palatial estate, no question.

Yeah. It's a modest one-bedroom apartment. Go ahead and tell him. It's Tanglewood. What? I know. I know. I didn't mean to give that out.

So how was it? How was the commute this morning for you? Uh, it was wet. Okay. That's it? Uh, it was soupy. It was rainy. Okay.

And one car thought they was okay. to drive in two lanes almost the entire time, and I had to honk at them. You don't want to give people the, you want to give them the benefit of the doubt in these types of downpour situations, but you got to pick a lane, buddy. Let's go. So, well, okay, let's defend the guy that was raining so hard Ross that he couldn't see the dotted lines. I could see them clearly. So they either need some spectacles or corrective lenses or they need to get off the road.

All right. Are you honk and swear it guy or just general honk guy? It depends on the offense Like that guy who's in two lanes for a little bit too long I gave him a pretty harsh honk If somebody say I'm behind somebody And the light turns green I'll give them a nice little quick tap of the honk

Like hey let's go Like it's all right Right After the quick tap if they still don't go Then you're getting the hard honk Matt Yeah Now I agree with you on everything you just said

But I will add the I have to scream at them But the key to screaming at somebody Is rolling your own window down What? I don't know why this is, but when I scream in the car at somebody and all the windows are closed, like on a typical hot day, I just get more upset. But if I can roll the window down and yell at them, it's almost like a sigh of relief. It's a breath of fresh air, so to speak.

It's a release valve. Yeah. And there may, there's no sense of that whatsoever. I'm just telling you that's how I roll. Yeah, no, I know. You're Mr. Snappin people guy. I've seen that before. No, you have not.

I've never seen you road rage, though, because anytime we go somewhere, I drive. That's right. That's the reason why there's no road rage. And I don't think you've seen me rage at anybody, right? We've been on long road trips. No, you're good. Yeah, I'm more like, hey, I'm sarcastic kind of guy like, oh, come on, bike. What's going on here?

Oh, this is your road? Yeah. That's why I believe in my heart of hearts that you and I could open up a Uber sports app, and we would crush it. you're a safe driver. I provide witty banter with sports. You argue with me. It's like getting a mini talk show in a car ride. We could make lots of money.

You charge people to hang around with you. No, but talk sports. What are you going to call it? Sports Uber. Uber's trademarked. They're going to get another cease and desist. Oh, man, I've got quite a few of those. All right, we got time to figure this out.

Hey, we've got a busy show for you today. coming up at 1 o'clock, it's the return of gut feelings, where Brendan was right about his gut feeling, although it didn't help yesterday. The Astros were horrific against the Mariners. I think, look, the gut feeling takes a week. The gut feeling is a whole week. Oh, that's true.

So maybe Brendan, you don't get as much credit as I thought I was going to be. Because he said we wouldn't be worried about the Mariners. I would say we're worried about the Mariners right now. Hold on. Hold on. What? It takes a week. It's gut feeling seven days later.

My gut feeling was they would be up by at least three games yesterday, and they were up four games yesterday. Nope, today's the day. Now, if they win, the match number gets reduced by two from four down to two. I will say this, Brendan, you will get your opportunity to claim a gut feeling if they win today. If they lose, we go the opposite direction and we start hitting the panic button. I didn't realize I was going to be hanging out a threat on Tuesday because they were exactly where I said they'd be. Your exact words, the Astros will not have to sweat Mariners. And we're sweating him.

Those were Matt's words about my words. Yeah, we're glistening right now. I don't know. Check the tape. I'm going to hear you to check the tape then, Brennan. All right. My gut feeling hit. And again, it wasn't a great one, but it was, you know, I'm not looking for tremendous value.

It just was the Texans were not going to stay within 10 of Baltimore. And they didn't. And you had a fight in the Dodgers Padre series. Yeah, that didn't happen. That's okay. Incident. Maybe perhaps a bench is clearing incident. Maybe not punches through.

Yeah. Neither of that happened. My feeling about gut feelings is we don't keep record unless you hit them. And you go, hey, remember that time I had that gut feeling? I don't think we should keep a percentage on this. So I'm just telling you, I had the easiest of the three of us, and I hit it, and that's fine. More gut feelings coming up. We want to get you guys in on the gut feelings as well at 1 o'clock this afternoon.

Err Reese on the Texans. Did you see the tweet Aaron had about David J. Johnson in his running and who he had to face in the game on Sunday, Rossi? I did not. At no time in any of his carries. And I'm going to have Aaron double-triple research this, and we'll talk about this when he joins us in 90 minutes. If I read the tweet correctly,

David Johnson never faced eight men in the box during any one of his carries. And he only got 31 yards. Hmm. I'll take care of words. Yeah, Aaron gets a lot of these things from like pro football focus and stuff like that. So I'm going to guess that he didn't just make that up. No, I don't think he would either. But if it's true, does that put that on tape for other teams?

That you don't have to worry about jamming the box with guys to make sure that David Johnson doesn't become an explosive runner? Yeah, you never want to jam the box with guys, Matt. Well, here's the thing. I don't think he was as bad as he was on some. Sunday, but I also don't think we're going to get a lot of what we saw against Kansas City either. I mean, don't you think it would be like a gentle mix of the two? I think, I mean, this is from, look, I'm not an NFL scout, just from me sitting on my couch and watching. I think he looks decent.

And I think week one, we were like, oh, he looks pretty good. And that's because we were expecting to see a corpse out there. That's right. So he looks better than a corpse. That's right. But I wouldn't say he looks like any kind of dynamic running back that's going to be a game change or anything like that, which is. what you want if you're going to pay him $10 million.

And you're going to trade DeAndre Hopkins for him. Yes. No, that's exactly right. There's nobody in Texanville today except Texans Greg who thinks that this trade is going to be anywhere close to being even. I shouldn't say Texans Greg. It really should be Texans Jack. Texan Jack.

Easterby. Texas Jack and Texans Bill think this trade is going to work out well for both sides. and that weird burner account for Jack O' 69. That's a listener. Or, I mean, he might have to be a listener, but that's just a Joe fan. No, I think that's somebody within the, that's like a friend of someone. It looks like Bill O'Brien's cousin or something. I think it's too obvious.

No, I think the guy already outed himself at some point. Well, what did he say? He said, hey, I got you guys, and he just happened to be somebody else. No, I mean, I mean this in all sincerity. I don't think Jack O'469 or whatever the hell is called is any is anything more than a listener or a sports guy fan, not anybody close to the organization. Because let me be honest with you. Rossi, if we were to have burner accounts, we would make sure they would be completely non-infogat, you know, infotis. I mean, it wouldn't be like fan of MT or sports talk 7-94 life.

You know what I mean? It would be something. It would be something opposite. It would be something that you would never be able to put two and two together. Well, his isn't Bill O'Brien for life. It's for Jack O'Brien.69. Yeah, but his moniker says he's got two kids. He loves Texans football, which Bill O'Brien has. Bill O'Brien's friends can't have two boys. It's like Bill O'Brien's neighbor. He drinks Coors Light. Probably drinks it with Bill O'Brien on his patio. Well, I don't know. I'm not against him drinking Coors Light. At least you have a nice fine beverage.

I'm calling BS. I'm calling there's nothing authentic to a friend of a friend. I think it's probably just a... Look, we got a lot of people that have multiple accounts. Some handle it better than others. Like, I believe three or four people that absolutely hate me are actually radio people in our industry in our city that are jealous of what this show has become. Did you find my burner account? Why would you be jealous?

You're a part of it. I'm just kidding, man. Okay, good. All right. 7-1. Yeah, I'm telling you, Rossi, I'm never going to have a burner account because, you know, I just don't want to get caught up in messaging from the wrong account, right? It's too risky.

I'll go ask Kevin Duran how that works out. Or who was the 76ers guy who had the board? Oh, the general manager. Yeah. What was? Calangelo. Yeah, that's who it was. Brian Calangelo.

Brian Calangelo. Now, Brandon, if you want to have it like Detroit Lions, H-O-U, then we would definitely know it's you at this point. But I don't think he even cares about his lions anymore. I mean, they're going to be out of relevancy pretty quick. The next time the Detroit Lions get major run on the show is when Matt Patricia gets fired. And we talk about how the Belichick tree fell once again. The Texans play the Lions on Thanksgiving. That'll happen.

Oh, that's true. We're going to a full breakdown. You know how, you know, Brendan, we usually go to other cities to talk to other people. Will you be our Detroit Texans or Detroit Lions inside of that week? I'm happy to be. I'm sure it'll be lots of fun. Nobody believes you. I mean, I have no.

issue doing it but they suck and I hate everything about them. Welcome to Houston. All right, gut feelings at 1 o'clock. Aaron Reese, 130. Astros closer Ryan Presley at 2.30. He'll join us from Seattle. 713-212-5-790. You may join us right now.

I want to get into the Raiders Saints game from yesterday and how I think Las Vegas may be one of the most exciting sports-town. I mean, it was already exciting to begin with, but you're adding pro sports there? I mean, come on now. Also, the USA Today has power rankings. And, Ross, how do we feel about power rankings? They're terrible unless they're the rotten five, which is the gospel. Correct.

Well, I did have to look at USA rankings. The top 10 is littered with future Texans opponents. I don't know how you feel about that. The NFL has come down hard on three coaches and their teams for those coaches not wearing mask. discuss that. NFL COVID results are in. Very good news on that. And a UFC fighter has beef with LeBron James. We'll get to that. A busy Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790. Come on in. 7-13-212-5-790 with a message here for TGS insurance. If you are shopping to look for a new home, well, guess what? You can also look for a new policy for that home.

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Brings his lunch pill to work every day. Lunchtime Houston Sports Talk The Matt Thomas Show on 790 Time is 1219 It is the Matt Thomas show Good afternoon, everyone Alongside Ross and Brendan, I'm Matt Gut feelings at 1 o'clock

Rossie, I'm going to tease my gut feeling I think it's Rockets related and it's again Just pure gut because You can't use inside information to have a gut feeling Okay So I'm going to go gut on the Rockets coaching search will be my gut feeling. Well, usually these gut feelings,

we have to be done with them within a week, Matt. This will not. I don't think. I don't think the Rockets. That's not my good feeling. I don't think. I, it may be a while. Okay.

Okay. So we got that. Aaron Reese, 130. Ryan Presley at 230 here on Sports Talk 790. 713-2125. 79 if you want to get in. Rossi, one more thing before the phone. Go to the phones.

I don't know how many people watched the baseball game yesterday because, frankly, the NFL game was better. Can we just like send Jose El-Tube away to an island and have him just laying a beach and just say, come back as the old Jose Al-Tubei. He, now granted, lead-off walks are never a good thing. But he had a sure-devil play ball that he booted. They went up, them being the Mariners, went up scoring four runs. He had a couple of hits, but.

Yeah, a couple of hits and a walk. Only one strike out for Jose Al-Tube these days. days is amazing. But I mean, I want my Jose L. Tuve back. He is one of my favorite, favorite, favorite Houston Astros. Not that we have any relationship, not that we've ever broken bread together, not that he comes on the show a lot. But I just like him. I like everything about him. I think he's a good-hearted person at the end of the day. There are so many frauds in professional sports, he ain't one of them. But Rossi, he's having an awful year. And it's affecting his defense, which if you think about anything about the Astros in the last five or six years,

It's been, they've been one of the best defensive teams in baseball. And they booted away a game yesterday. And again, McCuller's tough luck loss. He did give up the home run ball, which was, you know, an under and run, but it was still the run. And the Mariners got a victory, a very rare one against the stroke. So all I'm asking is, what do we do to get our Jose Al-Tube back, the one that we love? And don't send him a trash can or put a buzzer. I ain't got time for that.

This is an international radio show. You know, and if we're talking to Houston, we're talking about the Jose Altubes. we've watched for a better part of a decade crush the baseball and play great defense. I don't know what it's going to take. We keep waiting for him to turn the corner and saying it's going to happen, it's going to happen, it's going to happen. Is there any part of you that thinks that the downturn's beginning?

As in his career downturn? Yeah. I wouldn't say that. I think everybody gets a pass for the most part in 2019. I'm 2020. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I'm seeing the down.

turn. We have seen it in players, but I don't think this is it. Now, let's you and I revisit this, say, March or say May of 2021. And if he's struggling in May, like he's struggling all this past year, then we can start to worry. Let's go to some phone callers. 1222 Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. Adam is in Cyprus on the Matt Thomas show. And let's go to him now. Hi, Adam. Oh, I was trying to punch him. him up it doesn't work oh well we were having phone issues earlier you want to try to punch him or i can't no my machine is messed up well i was gonna his his comment was time for alarm with texans okay do you want me to try to uh you do want to what you're talking about adam and try to let's do this phone call is going to be what's you talk about what you talk about adam from cypress

hey matt uh thanks for having me on appreciate you love the show thank you uh how are you doing good you want more air time for rosses which you're just trying to tell me basically. No, I actually don't care for him and listen to him for years. But anyways, just wondering, I mean, when are we going to hit the panic button on Bill O'Brien? How much leash is he going to get from Cal McNair and management? Because I just think I'm a little bit tired of the way that things have been going with him. And he's already shown us that he's not an elite level coach. And I'm just wondering, when is Cal McNair going to recognize this? And I'll hang up and listen. Thanks, Adam from Cyprus.

I got to be honest with you, Adam. The rope is long. The leash is long. There is no pressure. What kind of... Two, tomatoes. Adam.

Adam, hang up that phone, please. We've already finished your phone call. Brendan, will you turn Adam off? Yeah, thank you. There we go. Back to the call before he started ordering in the drive-thru. By the way, this radio show has more More people ordering through drive-thru than any other show in America.

Thus, the reason why we call that you ask you guys to be on lunch timers because you're listening to Sports Talk and you're grabbing a number three with no lettuce. All right, back to what I were saying. No, there's no pressure. Rossi, I think shorter them going 0 and 16. He's back next year. I think of 1 in 15, he's out. Okay, so what's the threshold?

The over, under, I'm going to go 5.5. If they win five games Bar like Deshawn Watson's health as well factored in If Deshawn Watson's out Yeah he's got Cart Blanche

Okay if everybody's healthy Or the main go-to guys are healthy We're talking about Watt Reed Watson Who else Who else has to be a key

healthy guy I don't even count David Johnson frankly I just don't Um Brandon Cooks maybe if he's your number one receiver because Will Furler has no history of staying healthy.

I think the over-under on he gets booted would have to be, I think they'd have to go 3 and 13. I even think he survives a 4-12. I mean, he's done it before. I want to say you're crazy, but he's done it before? No. No, I mean, I'm very, I'm not being silly on this.

I'm serious. I think he survives a 4-12 season. Do I think the pressure, the burner is turned up? Yeah. But he survives a 4-12, because think about this you can go to the we didn't you know we had to make some moves to go get laramie tonsel we had we had to pay him we did loss a first round pick our rookies didn't get a chance to get work in it's been no i mean there are excuses galore now granted every other NFL team has

the exact same excuses i think the only way the bill o'brien would have to face the music and face cow mclair on the day after the season wondering about his his future of a job is if the Texans went 3 and 13 this year. And Rossi, I got tremendous news for you, especially for those of you that are fans of Bill. They're not going 3 and 13. The schedule is too easy. You played your big bears early on. This first month, in theory, was supposed to be a murderer's row.

Ravens and Chiefs already were the case. Steelers are actually pretty good. Now, the Vikings have been a massive disappointment, but that's the team that's gone to playoffs last couple of years. So you've got Sinty, Cleveland, Chicago. I mean, I don't think Jacksonville's very good. The only way that he has to worry about his job the day at the end of the season is if the Texans go three and 13. So I will put the over, I will put the number at he's got to be worried at three. sure of that he ain't going anywhere

and I'm telling you I believe I've told you this before I think Jack Easterby out survives Bill O'Brien but to be pretty damn sneaky Jack Easterby goes to Cal and says let's go get us a coach when Jack Easterby was one that brought Bill O'Brien here to begin with just a short period of time the calendar doesn't wet mesh well the calendar doesn't mesh

the schedule doesn't mesh and the thought and everything's screwy about this year doesn't mesh with firing a coach. Unless again, everything, everybody's healthy, and they massively underperform. They have not underperformed so far this year. They're exactly

who we thought they were going to be. 1228, Sports Talk 790. Oh, Adam and Cyprus is back with us. We'll see how close. Well, we hope he is. We got to see how close you were with your what you're talking about Adam and Cyprus. We'll also talk to Brian. We'll talk to you guys.

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Slam's it down. Sports Talk 790 is home for your rockets. Do we have to play that one, guys? Really? Is that one going to go down as one of the liners of players that are no longer a rocket before next season? Is that your good feeling?

I'm asking you a question. I don't know. Well, here's the reality of it. Daniel House has talent, right? We're not arguing that, correct? And we're not. And he's on a good, cheap trunk contract. And there's your answer.

So I would say that will they absolutely kick the tires on moving Daniel House? Yeah, for sure. I hope that he spends the entire offseason apologizing, and he gets back to the good graces of his teammates. Maybe the new coach will be, you know, one of those type of people that will say, all right, we'll give this guy a second chance. But in honesty, Ross, that's the second straight postseason where Daniel House goes MIA. One, because he has to have sex, and two, he refused to play defense.

Matt, they could have been playing trouble. They could have been, or they could have had sex. Maybe they were doing Bible study or something. Or they were having sex. Maybe they're playing mousetrap. or having sex. All right. Now, does the phone lines work now?

Maybe. Give it a shot. Let's try this. Adam and Cyprus. Adam, we play. What you're talking about, Adam and Cyprus? How close did Ross get to what you were going to ask us? Well, he was, he was, he almost got it.

He almost got it. But I was going to ask, I was going to ask, are we ready to sound the alarm on the Texans? I mean, are we ready to. go that far after, after, you know, two games. I mean, we're always, we're always, even in the off season, we're always, you know, announcing, hey, the Jaguars are going to do good. Hey, well, I mean, we know what the Titans are going to do because they went to the AST championship last year.

But, I mean, the Indianapolis is going to look good. And, I mean, even as we got far last year, it's like, we did all this mixing and shaking and moving people, you know, I think they've got to jail a little bit before we, you know, start saying who's going to the playoffs and who's doing this and who's doing that. You know, a lot of these teams look great. I ain't going to lie. I mean, Arizona looks good. You know, all the teams that we thought were going to look good, of course, Kansas City, Baltimore. We already knew that, but, you know, I just, I don't think it's quite yet to sound along with the Texans. I mean, what do you think?

Well, thank you for calling, by the way, and I'll let you have a follow-up. I told the audience this, that you never should have determined how the Texans, how you felt about the coach based off of these two first games. Because honestly, Adam, nobody in their right mind thought they were going to win these two games. Now, there were a few that maybe thought they would split. There were a few that maybe thought they could win two, which would be just completely assidine. But most logically thinking Texans fans thought they were going to lose the first two games because the Ravens and the Chiefs are significantly better than the Texans.

They haven't, you know, the Texans got worse and the other teams either stayed or stand pat or got better. So for me, the season for the Texans, and I mean this in all sincerity, and you can check the tape on this, the Texan season starts this week against Pittsburgh. If they go to Pittsburgh and embarrass themselves, then I think you do hit the panic button. But if you go out there and win the game or you keep it close and it's 2724, again, I know 0 and 3 sucks, but it wouldn't be a startling notion that a team that had a rigorous, difficult schedule against three really good teams would start the way that they are.

I'm telling you, I would not change who I thought the Texans were based up of these first two games, and I'm standing pat with that. How about you? Right. No, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. But we can't, you know, JJ Wong comes and make excuses for them. Well, we got to, well, how many years have we been trying to keep up with these teams? You know, how many years that we've been falling short of getting embarrassed by these teams on national TV?

You know, it's been the past four, five years. You know, so it's getting tired. You know, we're getting tired of seconds like you're saying. But, you know, I mean, there are who we thought they were, right? That's right. They've not, yeah, that's right. They played two games. They lost both games.

Thank you for the phone call. Ross, I mean, you tell you, you jump on it. Do you, is there anything about these first two weeks that have really surprised you? I was hoping that they were going to be at least a bit more competitive in both of these games. Hey, how about even one of them? Nobody expected them to win either of these games. But, I mean, and of course. the Vegas spread is not and all be all, but you weren't close to covering the spread in either

game. So that means you weren't close to expectations. So for you to fall short of expectations in both weeks, I think is a bit of a disappointment. The result, not surprising, the lack of competitiveness and the complete, just how clear it was that the chiefs and the Ravens are in a completely different other world in tier than the Houston Texans is disconcerting, because you're supposed to be close to them. You're Bill O'Brien, you're in year seven, you have your franchise quarterback, have you locked in for $40 million a year

over the next X amount of years, you have your left tackle, you have your receiving core, and you're running back that you wanted, and you can't even get close to teams that are Super Bowl contenders. See, Ross, I'd like to be able to say I felt the exact same way that you did, but I didn't.

I thought they would be two, frankly, not competitive football games. and they were. So I think they've got a better chance of going to Pittsburgh and competing and or winning. So I'm going to stick with that. Not a good feel. It's just, I mean, they can't come out of the gate

this poorly three weeks in a row. They might, right? They might. Because if they do Rossi, do you know what that means? That we overestimated who they are. That they were never going to be on paper or in action of 9 and 7 football team. one and three was a realistic possibility, and it still can be.

But if you go to Pittsburgh next week and you lose 35 to 10 and you make the same mistakes and Kiki Kootie Fumbles and you have a bunch of, and the offensive line, I mean, I'll say this, the one thing so far that has surprised me is how bad the offensive line has been this year. When it was supposed to be not, I mean, I would say we were expecting average to slightly above. But Titus Howard has had his struggle so far.

You know, Laramie Tunsell hasn't, I mean, he's, how many hits he have so far? 13, something like that? I mean, it's been, it hasn't been a great run, especially for that right side. So if there's anything to me that has been extraordinarily disappointing, it's the fact that Deshaun hasn't had the time to throw. Let's go to next up, Brian in Missouri City on the Matt Thomas show. Brian, how are you? All right. How's it going, guys? I haven't talked to you quite some time.

Nice to hear from you. Hey, guys, worthwhile, I want to give you some kudos. I heard your program yesterday with Earth, Wind and Fire, and one of the old guys, I really appreciate it. We love Earth, Wind and Fire. That's our jam. All right, second of all, the expectations of the Texans was really known, or nil, because you still have Romeo Quill, and you still got Bill O'Brien,

you still got the same offense, and you still got the disheveled defense. To make them go 9 and 7, which is the bar, it's not going to happen. You know, and I think the city of Houston has really gotten fed up with Bill O'Brien. It's two things in Houston and Texas that we understand. That's barbecue and football.

Everything else doesn't matter. But, hey, I appreciate you guys, and talk with you later. Thanks, Brian. Rossi, we know barbecue and football. We also know bad coaching, but Cal McNair doesn't know that. He took an average coaching game general manager's title, and he brought in another guy to kind of help along the way

who had zero experience running an NFL front office. Correct. I don't, how much does, I mean, we never hear from Cal, so it's kind of hard to gauge, but we can only look at what he does and we can only look at the results. That's right. So we can just see that he's just handing over the reins to Bill O'Brien. It's one of those.

And that's, you know what, sometimes we talked about Tillman Fertita, right, and how we complimented him for saying, oh, well, I don't really know basketball. I'm not going to be interviewing coaches. I'm going to leave that to Darryl Morey. So it is a good thing when owners want to trust smart football guys. I just don't know that Bill O'Brien is that smart football guy. Well, I mean, I always feel like, you know,

say what you all about Robert Crafts, extracurricular activities. But I think Robert Kraft hands over the Patriots to the smartest people in the room. And that's him. And that's not him when it comes to football. Who else would have it or?

I think the Rooney family has done that for the long time, right? I appreciate teams that have consistency in their front office that aren't changing coaches out every of the year. Like Dan Snyder in Washington, he can't keep his mitts off the team. he's always changing things up.

Now, the Texans don't have a history of changing a lot of things up. They just, they haven't hit a home run. I mean, Gary Kubiak did have this team in the playoffs, but when it was time for Gary to go, nobody was like, no, please stay. So, you know, I don't know. I'm just so discouraged. But again, these first two weeks didn't make me more or less discouraged because that's who I thought they were going to be.

713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 the matt thomas show continues in just a moment houston sports talk for lunch matt thomas returns on sports talk 790 matt ross fernand with you on a tuesday gut feelings are coming up at one o'clock today mine is about the rocket's coaching search and again we preface this by saying i have no inside information i'd love some So if you're a rocket official, want to send me a text, I'll be happy to take it. But, you know, I like surprises. You guys know that before.

Some people don't like surprises. I love them. So when the Rockets hire the coach, whomever it may be, I want to be a surprise. So, but I have a gut feeling about who the Rockets, not necessarily a name, but the type of person they're going to be going for. And it's no great analysis, but it's just a gut feeling I got. 130 will visit with Aaron Reese on the Texans, Ryan Presley, at 230 here on Sports Talk 790. Ross, you know, and I don't mean to say this to be antagonistic,

but when the older is lost, that was my football team, right? That was the team I grew up with. Same. Cried, laughed, all the emotions. And when they left me, I was left without a football team. And I tried to embrace the Texans, but I just couldn't. I was very excited for their first game. I was there.

Stayed up all night long, working the game coverage, cheering on Billy Miller. Billy Miller, travel with the team, went to San Diego for their first ever road game, and Continental Airlines stole my luggage. Ever tell that story? What do you mean they stole it? Yeah, sold it.

Like they were walking around wearing your clothes? Yeah. Go on. Okay, I'll tell the story. It's not for that story time. And we'll get some more phone calls in. So we traveled to all the Texans' roads games because they got stomped in that game, right?

Oh, yeah, they got stomped a lot. Did they finish 4 and 12 that year, I want to say? I'm going to try to look it up. Yeah, four and 12. So, yeah, we went to San Diego. And so flew continental at the time. This goes back to 2002. And landed in San Diego.

And San Diego is one of my favorite places on Earth. And I thought, well, I'll grab my bag, get the rental car, and drive around. It's just a great place to drive around and look at stuff. Beach, parks. I love Southern California. You just want to look at hotties on the beach is what you're saying. Okay, well, that certainly was in play as well. But bag didn't come out of the beach.

out of the carousel. And I had my shirt, my shorts, my jeans, my dress shoes, dress pants, Rossi, my radio equipment that wasn't mine, that was the companies that we were using to broadcast back to Houston. Nothing, nada, zero zilch. I had a new pair of Colhan shoes that I loved, loved, love, love. Wow, you've been a fancy man for some time. The Colhans? Well, I mean, I think people that were making mid-level money at the time

but still afford a pair of nice shoe. I mean, coal-hans are not that crazy expensive. So I go to Cotton and I're like, why don't you go to like Walmart or Target and we'll give you $100 clothing allowance? And I'm like, okay, so I did. And I covered the game and couldn't. do my reports on k i was working k tarry sports in the morning at the time so i couldn't do them

over the phone so i sent a bunch of pre-recorded stuff in and kept checking and checking and continental is like yeah we have no idea where your bag is usually most times when when airlines lose your bags in technology that's obviously it's better 18 years ago or i mean it's better today than was 18 years ago but they can usually find it was it was put on a wrong flight very rarely is it is it somebody stealing your stuff it's it's just the bag got sent to Denver as compared to San Diego kept finding it so they're like well we're going to give you 400 bucks and I'm like the hell you are so at the time we had just moved to Kingwood and I was surrounded by a bunch of continental airlines employees

pilots factory worker I mean it was a it was a variety of different people and they said you know what the easiest thing you can do is to write a letter to gordon bithoon who was the ceo at the time of continental airlines and he says i'm going to give you a my buddy my next door neighbor who was a mechanic with continental says i'm going to give you a bunch of their jargon stuff that we like you know the code words that that would resonate with gordon bithoon so rossi i wrote a certified letter to gordon bithun the ceo of the company explaining who i was what i was going for and that I chose his airline to fly to San Diego when I've chosen any of the airlines ago.

And I used a bunch of continental-esque-type language that would make them feel like, you know, I'm a loyal flyer and whatnot. So I called and I got the response that, yeah, my letter had been delivered. I get a call from his secretary and says, we're going to send you a check for $6,000. What?

Well, because remember, the radio equipment was in the bag. That's true. So the equipment itself was probably $4,000. Hmm. So they cut me a check. I paid for all my clothes, including my, I got a new pair of Coalhan shoes, which I still miss this day, 2002. And I gave, I gave Clear Channel, now I heart, $4,500 to replace that radio equipment

that we had lost. Were they going to charge you for that money? I don't think so, but it was just the right thing to do. The right thing to do is pocket it, Matt. Okay. See where I am today, Rossi? By making the right decisions. Hmm.

Okay. And that's Matt's travel story. So anyways, what was the point of, where were we going on this before? Oh, the first year of the team. The Texans, yeah. Yeah. I try to become a fan of the team. Yes.

But they just kept making one mistake after the other. I never thought Charlie Cashley was the right general manager for the job. I thought he was basically living off of his heyday being Bobby Beatherd's second guy in Washington, which he was. And they made bad draft picks and first round bust and second round bust and Tony Bisselli. And I just never could get into them. So I move in 2005 and I'm out of side of mine for five years. I come back in 2010 and it's more of the same.

It's on the outside looking in. Now they do make their first playoff appearance when I move. back in what was a 2011 when they won the AFC and they had the one playoff game and whatnot. But I've never been impressed with Rick Smith. I was never impressed with Gary Kubiak last couple of years

were painful to watch and I've just never thought the decision to give Bill O'Brien along the leashes that he was given seven years ago was ever the right thing to do. So I've tried, I just can't be a fan of theirs. So do I treat the Texans differently than I treat the Astros and the

Rockets? Yes. because I'm fans of the Rockets and Astros. I just am. Now, I want the Texans to be good because it's important for the city. It's important for a lot of you to listen to this show because you are Texans fans. I don't want to stand in the way.

I want to join in with that. And Ross, I'm going to tell you one more thing. When Bill O'Brien eventually gets replaced and they bring in somebody that I like, like Eric Bannamy, I might go full 180 on you. That's good, Matt. I think that's how fans should Fandom should work. If you're unhappy with the

organization, you're not a fan. I'm generally speaking unhappy with the organization. Well, if you go into the Houston, Texas Twitter mentions, it's pretty much the same thing. It's not that I'm against any of their employees and not against them any of their fans. I mean, it's not against, well, traveling Texas fan annoys. You are mad they didn't name the Toros.

Well, that was probably a mistake number one. They had called him the Toros and Bob Ming there would have come on my show back then and said, you know, Matt, what a great idea. I'm going to name them the Toros, and we'll name them after you. Would you like a pair of season tickets? Then maybe things would be different. But the point is, they need to make good decisions. They need to get to a championship game in 18 years.

Then I'll be a fan. I mean, I can't criticize them when things aren't going right, but I will give them perhaps more of benefit for the doubt that I do now because they're repeating history. And what they've done, Ross, is they've taken a lot of your money, meaning you're the fans listening to show. Season tickets, hats, shirts, chains, tailgaining and they've done nothing with it.

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281-480-9900, 281-480-990-0.Bronsrufing.com. That's B-R-A-U-N-S, Bronsroofing.com. the Matt Thomas show. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. All right, here we go. Time for us to find out what your gut is feeling. Thus, the segment called gut feelings. Here's how it works. It's no grandiose prediction.

Now, if it does hit, you can call us back and say, remember I called you all four weeks ago with that gut feeling. I can accept that. You can also send us your gut feeling. by sending it through Twitter under the hashtag gut feeling. Ross, I'll go first. My gut feeling this week is that when the Rockets hire a coach, there will be a distinct Houston connection to this coach,

meaning that this coach has either worked with Hardin or been somewhere in the Rockets organization. I do not believe they will go organically way outside of the organization to hire their next head coach. That there will be some ridiculously close connection to the Rockets organization. Ridiculously close. Like, I mean, I wouldn't say, like, well, he once had dinner at the TOTA center. That would not count.

I'm talking about somebody that's either coached, been in their front of, office played. There will be a Houston Rockets connection to the next Houston Rockets coach. Just my gutfeeling. Okay. Most, would you say, who are the top candidates right now? Jeff Van Gundy,

Sam Cassell, Tailoo, Kenny Atkinson. You don't like Kenny? He's all right. I heard nothing but great things about it. Hey, nice guy, sure. Chris Finch, the former assistant with the Rockets who was assisted with New Orleans. So basically

you're like 75% of the canons have a Houston connection. Well, I mean, there could be somebody really outside the box. Who would be somebody that's been brought up thought of? I mean, maybe somebody that's like, you know, in the Popovich coaching tree somewhere that would have

no Houston ties. I'm just saying, that's just my gut. My gut tells me that you will go, oh, that makes sense because he was here or he did this while in used to. Okay. Just my gut. All right, man. I like that. Okay. That's good.

Were you letting Brendan go next or me? Well, let Brandon go next. It's just poor lions are owing to. So I kind of have a two-part one, though. All right? Ooh, a two-parter. And I hope it doesn't take anything from Ross. Uh-oh. So I'm going to go to the NBA for both parts of this. Okay, yeah, I'm not NBA. I believe the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat will go seven. And the Lakers Nuggets is a sweep.

I like that. Man. See, I had the Lakers in five, so that's not too far. But man, you are going. That is a gut feeling on a sweep. Big game number three tonight. Nuggets have been bouncing back, so it was a heartbreaker in game two. But we'll see.

All right, I guess that makes it my turn. Yeah, what you got? I'm taking the longest shot out of all of us, folks. That's okay. And this is one that's going to, we may. the rule that it's supposed to happen in a week, but I guess we broke that rule one week. No, it's okay. Yeah, it's fine.

But I'm going with one that's going to happen in this week. This week, starting today and into next week, Jose Altuve will bat over 300. He had a hard hit ball last night, 106 miles hour off the bat. You are ex a Velo guy, aren't you? He had another single last night, two or three. we've been waiting for him to turn it around the whole time. He's going to hit over 300 in the next week. Okay, there's six games left.

Yes. Three, we're having two with Seattle, four, with Arlington. You believe he'll bet 300 in the next six games. Yes. Okay. At Shocker Bob, seven, we're responding. Send us your gut feeling. He says, LOL, did you eat Indian today, M.T.?

That's not what I'm thinking about, when I'm thinking about gut feeling. Indian food sounds amazing, though. You know what? I've never had a sit-down Indian food dinner. What does that even mean? When do you stand up? No, I'm just saying like going out and saying, let's go get it. Like, I've tried a little bit here and there, but I've never had, let's go eat Indian food. All right, let's go. We're going to go to Briani Pot next time you're in the Indian. Next time we can make it down here.

Do you know who used to love Indian food? Probably still does, although probably his diet probably didn't allow much anymore. Is Rudy Tamjanovich. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, there's a lot of good Indian places. All right. Tiffany 722 says Sam Cassell. Maybe her gut feeling is that he would be the coach.

Why? Because he went to, well, is Charlie Ward on the list too? Because he went to Florida State. Oh my goodness. Actually guessing the coach is really bold. Yeah, because there's so many people candidates. I wasn't ready to do that. I couldn't pull that trigger. So if any of you have any gut feelings about anything in sports,

I would hope that. I like the song. It is a good song. Kind of gets you in a better mood, right? on a kind of a lazy, rainy day, right? So send us your gut feelings, hashtag gut feeling, or you can call it 713-212579. We do not take political gut feelings.

Trust me on this. No, I think we should do one. November 2nd or what was... Oh, so you want us to predict the winner of the election? I honestly don't know where to go with that one. How about this? Let's see how smart you are. Why don't you have a gut feeling of who the next Supreme Court judge is going to be?

Ted Cruz Well you know what There were some people asking for him to do it He doesn't want to do it So you were trying to make a joke But it didn't work I wasn't it trying to make a joke

He was on the list of Trump nominees Wasn't he? Oh yeah Yeah He's hiring a woman Apparently And he originally

When asked about it He was not interested Oh okay Well that's unfortunate Okay So what do you think about Let's evaluate each other's gut feelings You okay with mine

I bet rocket ties to the job Yeah I think that's a Yeah, I think you should have to lay odds on that. That's fine. It's safe. They don't need to be grandiose. Just me say. No.

I think I get the longest shot. Yours is very intriguing to me because I hope it's right. And that means he is actually batting his best this entire season because there was a what about a little bit of stretch that Jose was batting 300 for like two weeks somewhere in that range. And then did he go on the injured list at some point? Yeah, he did, right? and then kind of got quashed? Yeah, he went to the IL. Yeah.

Remember because he ran into the third base with his tank? Oh, yeah, I forgot that part. I've never said the word you've just set up my radio show. And when he hit that double last night, he kind of, look, you don't want to take things out of context or make too much out of a little thing. It was a little weird to me when he hit that double after having to leg it out and sliding into second. he kind of just stood on the base with his hands on his knees for a second. Like maybe he's in pain.

Did you catch that? I did not, but I would totally buy into what you just said. I remember. How about this observation from the game yesterday? I don't think Alex Bregman's hamstring is 100% at all. Yeah, I agree with that too. He was swinging a little awkwardly. So maybe my prediction is a little bit off because maybe he's not 100%.

And you know what? Maybe he was having a deep moment of reflection or maybe he's, He had something in a rocking his shoe. I don't know. It just went to the way that Jose Altova kind of stood on second base and just didn't his body language and his facial expression, I was thinking, because he's still hurt. So why would you then give us a gut feeling on that based of what you saw last night?

Because I'm a pied optimist, Matt. Fair enough. Let's go to Dosecchi's to wrap up gut feelings. Hello, Dosecys. Long time not called, gentlemen. It's good to talk to you. Thanks. Matt, my gut feeling is the following on the Astros,

and I've been following the Astros for a long, long. time since the 60s. I have a feeling they're going to lose tonight. They're going to win the following day. They're going to go to Arlington and clinch the playoff spot in the last game of the year. Oh, no. If that's the case, oh, we're going to have so much heartburn. Oh, my God. Matt, let me tell you why. And like I said, I've been calling the sisters for a long time. You know how it is. When the pitching's there, the hit is not there. When the hit is not there, the pitch is not there. And it's been a long year.

And I think the effect of all this mess with being going on, it's a little bit undermined still. I love my Astros. I hate to say that. But that is my guttale. Thanks for taking my call. Go Coopers, man, go Coot. Okay, thanks very much.

Rossi, if they have to wait to the very last game of the season to clinch, should they even jump on a plan and go to Oakland to play that? series. Anything can happen in a three-game series, Matt. So yes. Five-game series? Maybe take that trip off. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90, and that is another gut feeling.

So Brandon's gut feeling was, what was your boss in Miami predictions? They were going to go seven games. I'm not going to lie. I feel better about that one. I just think those teams aren't evenly matched, and I think for the most part, that's what I've seen. Nuggets might still want I'm a little bit more nervous there But that's why it's a gut feeling

That's why it's a gut feeling You're not your feet aren't being held to the fire on that for sure I think the nuggets have outperformed Who they are in the bubble I think the Lakers Have Made relatively easy work of everyone so far I don't know man

I just I think Loran the Lakers wrap it up All right 113 is our time You guys know I've been doing Camie we have a new person to join the Cameo Family that our friend Jung just sent me to. We're going to have to play it. We come back. So be ready for the newest member of the Cameo family.

Plus, the NFL, speaking of NF coaches, find a bunch of different coaches for not wearing masks yesterday. We'll discuss that next. Right now, I'll work here for Berkeley Eye Center. If you would like to get LASIC savings extended, like a lot of folks have been doing the last couple months, We're talking about extending of the savings of $1,200, plus a designer pair of sunglasses valued at $300. All I ask you to do is text the word LASIC, LASIK, to 48, 4848, and set up a consultation and visit with Berkeley Eye Center. Clear vision without glasses and contacts can be found very easily with the renowned surgeons and the latest in technology from Berkeley Eye Center. So if you want to save $1,200, that's right.

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Well, I guess he could in the I-Heart radio app wherever he winds up coaching next year. It's fair point. They have I-Hard in Philadelphia. Is that where he's going? I would assume. By the way, Commissioner Adam Silver on CNN says that he believes the NBA season will start next January, and the goal is to play 82 games, and the goal is to play in arenas.

Do you know the bubble cost the NBA $170 million? I did not know it was that high. Now, that's clearly money well spent because there have been no COVID outbreaks, and they're going to finish the season, and they're going to cry a champion, and they're going to get television money. But that's a, Ross, that is mind-blowing money that is spent to keep a season alive. And that's money that is being spent. That's not income coming in. That's money going out, meaning that basketball-related income, which helps determine the salary cap, that goes as a minus 170.

Yeah, is there a negative salary cap next year? What does that mean? If you want to play in the NBA, it's going to cost you an entry fee of $13,000 a game. Yes. It's going to be like, AAU, you have to pay to be on the squad. Yeah, that's why Adam Silver is trying to be as politically correct as possible. It's like, the hell we're going to have a bubble again. We can't afford it because there's no money coming in.

Even if they draw four, five, six thousand in arenas next year, that's revenue coming in, correct? Yes. And you're not paying the Disney resort exorbitant sum so that the rockets can be holed up in the Grand Floridian. Yeah, and then having door data taken. Well, Daniel Hous. All right, some NFL coaching news to discuss, not a hiring or firing, but first, I've been doing a few cameos. As a matter of fact, I did one for a guy who was celebrating his birthday, and he was a Rockets fan in St. Paul, Minnesota. So that was fun doing that yesterday.

Somebody has joined the Cameo family, Ross. Who's that? Who's that to say one of our favorite all-time assistant coaches? his name is Wade Phillips. Hi there, Wade Phillips, NFL coach. I'm on Cameo now, look me up, and we'll have fun together. Thanks. I'm on Cameo, and my dad, Bubbin Phillips is the best NFL coach of all time. Appreciate you. Go Coogs.

Thanks, Wade. Can I give Wade a little bit of a little bit of, advice? Not that I would build them a whole lot of things. Put a little personality into it? Well, you want to have a few seconds of what you could do. Okay. Like, for instance, I sometimes on my cameos, I do play-by-play. Oh, really?

Sometimes I just wish listeners a happy birthday. And then sometimes I pretend on the arena announcer for the Rockets, and I do special introductions of their kids' names or their husband's names. So I give them a little bit of a sample of what I can do. Yeah, I'm looking at your samples right now. And? Are you going to get mad at me? Go ahead.

Clean your lens. That's not getting mad. Okay. I don't know. I'm getting five, got nothing but five-star reviews so far. I'm just saying, lens is a little dirty.

Just wipe it off. Play it. Play it again. It's constructive criticism. I'm trying to help you. You know what? It was constructive. You weren't mean and ugly like you usually are.

Here again is Wade, just in case you're looking for Wade to wish you a very happy birthday. Hi there. Wade Phillips, NFL coach. I'm on Cameo now. Look me up. And we'll have fun together. Thanks.

He is a treasure, right? I love Wade Phillips. Love him. We had him on the show. What was it? Like when he had a book coming out or something? Yes. In the pandemic and, you know, punch up the energy, Wade.

A little little personality into it. All right. What do you think of what you heard yesterday that Pete Carroll, Vic Fangio, and Kyle Shanahan were each find one? $100,000 for not wearing face mask. I saw that number and it blew me away. That's not the start of it. Yeah, I know.

Go ahead. Each team on top of that got fined $250,000. Wow. Who comes up with that number? That's what I was getting at. Was this collectively bargained or thought of anybody or I guess the NFL can find coaches and executive as much as they want? That is a lot of money.

To be having any masks. Three coaches with no mask. And by the way, John Gruden barely had a mask on. Sean Payton did not have a mask on last night. I think they're getting fined. They're going to get fined. $1,050,000 in total fines to three coaches and three teams for not wearing a mask. Now, the anti-maskers are losing their blanks over this.

You know this, correct? But I will say this. I think the fine is ridiculously excessive, ridiculously. But the NFL today announced 7,045 players and staff tests were distributed. Now, there's obviously less than that in the NFL. But between all the teams, there were 7,000 tests given in a period of seven or eight days. zero players tested positive for COVID, five other personnel.

And I don't know what that means. If that's front office, trainers, who knows, PR people, five people. So you're talking of 7,045 tests given Ross, five positive test. The NFL obviously wants to keep it that way. Yeah, aren't these coaches subject? Do the players have to wear masks on the sideline? I've never seen a player wear a mask on the sideline. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

and the coaches are subject to the same amount of testing, right? Yeah. Yeah, once you're tier one, if you're a tier oneer, you have to take the tests like everybody else. Like you have H academics. Yeah. So they, if they're subject to the same amount of testing, I don't understand why they have to wear masks and players don't.

Maybe the presumption is that they're on the football field. You can't wear a mask when you're playing football. Yeah. I mean, obviously a lot of this is just optics and PR, but that's fine. But don't you think it's a bit tough? It's huge, yeah. You know what 100,000? 100 G's coming out of your pocket just because your mask flipped off your mouth or something like that?

Now, frankly, all three of those guys could comfortably afford that. Yes. And that's just the truth. Absolutely. 100,000 of them is probably, what, 100 bucks to us? Maybe 200 bucks? I don't know. Some may be more to others.

Ross. Sorry. But that's just what is. Thanks. All right. Cecil North, Southeast Houston, Hank tight. We'll get to you. Also, we will get to Aaron Reese from the Athletic in the next.

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Let's go to, well, is our phone system all screwed up again? I was going to go to Cecil. Cecil, can you hear me? That'd be a no. All right. All right, Ross, what are we doing? We got the phones. The phones are all jacked up on Mountain Dew.

Is that what they were doing here? That is correct. Okay. Well, let me do this in all seriousness for a second. So before we get airing on. One of our funniest segments we would do, for one or two years, Rossi, was when Dina from the Rod Ryan Morning Show would come to Donna does your picks with us on the show. Yes. And it was a way for her to bring herself into the studio and make fun of me and you and have a good time.

I got mooned one. I got mooned ones, yeah. And so we had a good time with Dina. And Dina decided that she was going to leave the radio industry to go pursue a psychology degree and become a therapist. Yeah, she wanted to be a counselor and help people. Yeah, just found out, and I'm going to contribute here in just a little bit. Dina has stage 4 uterine cancer that has aggressively spread into her lungs. I'm reading this off of a GoFundMe account that was established six days ago.

She's going to begin outpatient chemotherapy later this month. Each chemotherapy is going to cost approximately $20,000. She'll need at least six treatments. Insurance will not cover those. cost. So I just put it on Twitter a couple of seconds ago. If you guys can spare a little change to help out Dinah. We've worked with Dinah probably Ross eight years, give or take. I mean, she was with... I'm not sure. Yeah, maybe not that long. Yeah, because Teresa was with raw in the morning first and then Dinah came in now. Well, Jessica was there too. And Jessica.

Tess is now there now. But Dinah now, we've all worked together probably at least five or six. and funny, sarcastic is all get out, good person, just a really cool young lady, and just devastating, devastating news to hear about what's going on with her. So I did put a tweet out to her co-fummy, so if you can help her out, I know she'd appreciate it, and she's too modest to ask her this for herself. I just know how she rolls, and hopefully she can get the treatment that she can get. So anything financially you can do to help her.

her along the way would be greatly appreciated. And we are rebooting the computer system, I believe. Yeah, we're trying to figure it out with the phones. They're having a major issue right now. Well, at least we're working on it, right? Yeah, we're trying. Okay, so yeah, please go to my Twitter account at SportsMT, and you can see how you can help out Donna because she certainly is going to need it.

We hope to have Ryan Presley with us an hour as long as our phones are working. And what else? Believe it or not today, what are we going to do with a believe it or not? I feel like Ross, we should actually do a believe it or not on cameo prices. We've been talking about that for a long time. We did one of those when it first came out. We can do another one. I think we should. I didn't even see.

How much is Wade charging for his cameos, by the way? Is it a hundred bucks? I didn't look either. It was $100. Okay. Now, he is one of the greatest assistant coaches in the history of the NFL. And he's part of football royalty. I just don't know if, I mean, I would have to have,

probably him tell a big story. If you were getting a cameo from where, you'd want to hear a story about a player or something had happened that you would normally hear from anybody else. But, well, yeah, we'll do cameo prices on, believe it or not, today coming up at $2.50. What else we're going to go on? Oh, let's talk about this before we get to Aaron.

And poor Aaron's like, man, I'm sitting here waiting to talk to you guys. Rossi, you know that I started watching a little bit of UFC, MMA. It's something about it's not. must watch TV for me, but I'm finding it more and more interesting as we get along here. Do you know who Colby Covington is? I have not heard the name until recently. Well, he won his UFC bout not too long ago, and he wanted to, as part of his post-fight celebration, talk about who he was fighting for and who he was honoring after he defeated somebody close.

called Tyron Woodley. His quote was this. I want to dedicate this fight to all the first responders, all the military out there. You keep us safe. Not these woke athletes. Not these spineless cowards like LeBron James. So he goes right after LeBron. Obviously, Colby, and I've come to find this out, is conservative in nature and is a pro-Trump supporter.

And obviously, LeBron James is not. So LeBron has not responded to any of this, but a lot of other people in the NBA have. Kevin Durant, I think Austin Rivers, there's a few other people. So Colby goes back to his Twitter account and says, LOL at the Snowflakes that believed King James could even last 10 seconds with me. If that coward had the balls or the ability to kick anyone's ass, Delante West would have lost his teeth long before his meth habit. I mean

Yikes Savage Savage savage savage savage But it does beg a question Colby Covington or King James In a MMA bout who do you like? I would like the guy that's a professional fighter As what I

Colby Covington or LeBron James one-on-one in basketball In a game of horse I take LeBron In a game around the world I take LeBron if I put him in a 12-round boxing match, I'd take Colby. If I take M.A. Yeah. Yeah, Colby as well.

If LeBron James had trained his whole life in MMA, I'd probably take him. I will say this. I think LeBron is handling it the right way by saying nothing at all. Well, we'll see if he says something. It's not in his nature. No, not usually. Yeah, yeah. All right.

As promised, the phone gremlins have been fixed, we think, for this segment at least. Aaron Reese from The Athletic is with us here on the Matt Thomas show. and I'm going to have you guys punch them up because every time I try to do it, I'm unsuccessful. We might have it. Aaron, is it really you? That's me. I heard whatever the heck you were,

I heard the tail end of whatever you were talking about. I'm going to have to go back to that whole segment. You're talking about Wade Phillips and getting cameos or Colby coming to? Oh, yeah, LeBron. Who is your team? Who's your basketball team? I don't really have a team. I like basketball in general.

I grew up here in Houston, so I was watching the Rockets Law when I grew up. But honestly, like, when I went to college in Missouri, I kind of just stopped watching local teams. So I just kind of became a fan of whatever I could watch. But I enjoy kind of the Rockets pushing the sport forward. I just in general, like innovative ideas. So I'm a fan of, like, shooting more threes and pushing the limits on stuff. I think any of those things are fun to watch. Daryl Mory loves you for saying what you just said right there.

All right, you had a tweet yesterday that was pretty alarming. It concerned David Johnson and the lack of people that were in front of him as he was trying to run the football. Would you please explain the audience what that was, where he got it from, and how we should interpret it? Yeah, Next Gen stats, NFL Next Gen stats, which, you know, is just based on a lot of tracking data and stuff. They can track how often a player runs into loaded boxes,

which is eight or more defenders in the box. And David Johnson did not face a single loaded box against the Ravens in week two, yet he ran for 34 yards on 11 carries. I'm a big believer that, you know, part of the reason I think a lot of people and kind of more analytics-focused mindset is that running backs are replaceable or whatever is that a lot of it has to do with situation more than it has to do with the player. Not to say that's entirely what it is, but it is a large part of it. so that can be as far as the line blocking well or the way the scheme is built so that the guy doesn't face a lot of loaded boxes, all those things. So the reason that's important is because, you know, he was put in what would appear to be a relatively favorable situation, and he still was not efficient.

So how do you think Bill O'Brien interprets what you just said? You know, I don't know. I think, I mean, Bill, like as much as people in, you know, at Houston, I think, I think any NFL head coach obviously knows more about football than me. And I think whether he wants to do it based on the analytics or look at the tape, I think he's going to see the same thing, right? The other Ravens are playing a lot of two high safeties and that David Johnson could not make them pay for it. So let me ask you, Aaron, I didn't give them a chance on either one of the two games.

So in my mind, the season starts this week. I would have to say of the two weeks, the offensive line, frankly, has been a massive disappointment for me in terms of what I was not anticipating being a problem. Do you agree with that, or did you find something that was more pressing of an issue after the first two games? No, I would agree with that. You know, I think like, like you said, I didn't expect them to win either of the two games. I think if you're a fan, you're discouraged by the fact that the games weren't at least close, right? that they weren't even competitive, really. And you would like to think that if you have Deshaun Watson,

you just paid them all this money. If you've invested all this money in the offensive line, you've done this whole overhaul of the receiving corps because you believe you can add all its speed and have layers of production, as Bill O'Brien likes to say, that at least the offense could compete in a shootout, and that was not the case. And, yeah, I mean, the offensive line is clearly the worst,

or the most concerning part of that, because at least cooks and Cobb, they came on this past week, Will Foley didn't get a target, which is odd. But, you know, Cook and Cobb came on, so you can say whatever out the receiving course. But, you know, the offensive line is one area where the Texans the whole time, we're preaching like, oh, you know, like have continuity, returning all five starters for the first time in the Bolivarian era. That's like a huge deal.

And they're going to be better this year. This group is not better this year. This group has been really bad. You know, this unit ranked 8th in ESPN's past block win rate last year, which is a measurement of how often they hold their block for 2.5 seconds. So far this year, Sarah Barshop, who covers the team for ESPN, she tweeted out, they ranked 31st through two weeks. There are 32 teams in the NFL.

Oh, look at you and Sarah just dropping facts on our audience. It's so alarming. Hey, we caught you late. Can you hang on for the next time? Because I've got to get to a break in because I got 10 more things I want to ask you. Is that okay? Yeah, yeah, I can hang on. You're the best.

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Taking it one day at a time. All right, we're going to have a couple of minutes here with Aaron Reese from the athletic. We appreciate him sticking with us a little longer because of our phone issues. And I think the weather gremlins are handling a lot of that responsibility. Okay, Aaron, so Pittsburgh will not provide nearly as prolific of an offense that we have seen in the first two weeks. but their defense is pretty stout. If you were to bend Bill O'Brien's ear for a couple of minutes or he was going to give you his ear,

what would you be talking about? What are things you want to, that he wants to see this week that he hasn't seen from his club the last couple of weeks? Well, you know, when we went to commercial, I think the biggest thing is that the line needs to be better for this game could be really disastrous for the Texans. And if it is, obviously, they get to O-N-3,

and, you know, they came back from that in 2018. But in my opinion, that probably makes it even less likely. they would be lucky enough to do it again in 2020. The rate Steelers, I think, ranked first in pressure rate last season. They ranked second so far this season. And that probably is the most alarming thing about the Texans' Office of the line performance through the first two weeks is that the Ravens and Chiefs have, you know, fine pass rushes, above average pass rushes, at least if you go based on last season's numbers,

the Steelers have a much better one. And, you know, and I think that, so you can imagine that Deshaun Weptan who took, I think, 13 hits in week two, this could get really ugly if the line continues performing the way it has. On the defensive side, Whitney Marcellus is one of our favorite people on Earth, as you would know, but three tackles in two games. Where is he? Is he just not right place, right time? Is he missing assignments?

Why has he been so profoundly quiet so far this year? Yeah, you know, I'd have to go back and I'd have to, you know, watch him more specifically. and, you know, maybe that is something worth doing here coming up. But I think the, you know, the biggest thing is that this unit in general, like, sacks are kind of fluky. And so the fact that they have had four sacks against Lomar last week, that's good. But QB hits is probably a better indicator of pressure. And in general, this team, I think, only have eight QB hits, which ranks like 24th or something. So, I mean, they're not going to rush in the passers, which is probably something most real could have anticipated coming into the season.

but, you know, Marshall is key in them at least being average in that regard. And a slow start to him is discouraging if you're hoping that they can at least be average. No turnovers to speak of. Not that you can coach turnovers, but you can anticipate, you can be close, you can do some things to strip and force fumbles and whatnot. So what do you take of that? Because if you think of the greater Texan defenses in the last decade, regardless of who is quarterbacking, regardless of how the offense is moving,

short fields help the Texans out. Why has that been such an issue so far, you believe? Yeah, you know, I mean, I think the Texans do talk a lot about Anthony Weaver and Bill O'Brien have both talked a lot about that, that they need to create more turnovers, and certainly they do. I think, you know, it's probably not the cleanest reason or the reason that people want to hear because it doesn't really provide a fix, but there's some level of randomness involved in this.

You know, the Texans in 2018 had, I think, the second-best turnover margin in the league. this past year they were exactly average with a turnover margin to zero, just as many as they forced as they gave up. So if you just kind of base it on luck and just the way these things have been flow,

they're probably due to have a negative turnover margin this year. And we certainly are seeing that early on. That being said, if you don't have any turnovers in the first two games, odd there you're probably due to get them coming up. That's kind of why there's that saying, you know, they come in a bunches. For I'll let you run. I'll go back to the

offensive side. Two weeks with Tim Kelly play caller, it doesn't look like anything's changed. Do you, do you notice anything different in a Tim Kelly calling plays in Bill O'Brien in the past handful of years? You know, actually, it's funny you say that because I probably, if we had done this call, like three hours ago, would have agreed with you. They added all this speed, but they aren't really producing a lot of explosive plays. Duke Johnson was out this past week, so we didn't really see much of these two-back formations that they had talked so much about. But, you know, I was looking on a website that allows you to kind of look at early down pass frequency,

which, and it controls for win probability, which is based on what the scores and stuff. And the Texans actually right now lead the league. They are the most like pass on early downs more than any other team by a wide margin. I don't expect that to continue necessarily because, you know, Tim Kelly has been a with a Bill Bryant since Penn State. It's really kind of the only guy he's worked under for a while. I think their philosophies are pretty aligned.

and the Texans probably will come back more towards the middle of the pack in that regard, which is where they've been the past two seasons with Sean Watson and Bill O'Brien calling the plays. But that at least has been one thing. I was not expecting until I saw it, and obviously is a bit of a departure from the Bill O'Brien play calling. All right, we've got a few days before we get to the Sunday matchup.

Give me some anticipation. How do you see Sunday playing out? You know, I think it'll be a – I don't think it will necessarily be so non-competitive as these past two games. But, you know, the offensive line is really worrisome. And I don't see a reason to think that they're going to suddenly turn it around. You know, I think Titus Howard, he looks like he's still kind of working his way back from an injury that he, you know, he was coming back in rehabbing on the offseason, and get back in shape with,

and he's dealing with an injury again. It's been on the injury report in the past two weeks. And, you know, they benched Mac Sharping for a series or two this past game. So it doesn't seem like they feel really confident about this line. And I think it's going to get pretty ugly against a Steelers defense that causes a lot of pressure. So I anticipated a low-scoring game, but I think ultimately the Texans will probably lose. When will Deshawn start feeling the heat personally about his performance if he has a similar type effort this week? You know, I don't know. I don't look at it. When I look at it, I find it hard to blame him.

He is, you know, fans, I think, want to blame when you bring up the pressure, you bring up the QB hits and the facts. Like, fans want to say, like, well, it's on him. He's got to make quicker decision. the guy is averaging the fastest time to throw of his career. So it comes down to he's not holding out the ball too long. That makes a lot of sense. Aaron, thank you very much for the time. We greatly appreciate it and look forward to sending, hopefully, many of our listeners to your great account at Aaron J. Reese on Twitter

and certainly at the Athletic for all Texans coverage. Aaron will talk again next week. Thanks again. Yeah, thanks, that. You got it. Appreciate you hanging with us a little extra long as well. Before the top of the hour, Cecil in southeast Houston on 790. Hello, Cecil. Yes, you tell him, I mentioned earlier about what you consider excessive fines with the coaches.

If we're going to tell this story, let's tell it all. In order for the NFL to operate the coaches and general managers and players' association agreed to a certain protocol. The first week of the season, these coaches did not. It adhere to it. It didn't wear their mask. Troy Benson, who I guess is the position of the show. like the director of enforcing this stuff. It's Monished.

He warned him. He cautioned that, look, don't do this. If you do, we're going to let the hammer down hard. Okay? And the coach from, you know, the Raiders, and I forget whoever else it was, they didn't do it for the second time. They were the owners, but they were told,

that's why the fans were so excessive. Because like they said, hey, look, this is what we agreed to do it, you agreed to do it. Even group when he addressed it said, hey, I was told, I'm going to pay the $100,000 sign. I'm not going to concern myself about it. If we're going to play football, we're going to do it safely. We all agreed to do it a certain way. They violated the policy. And in my opinion, they were opposed.

appropriately fined. And if they do it again, then they need to up the ante on them. Because this pandemic is real to heck with all these bass deniers. Okay? And in the interest of full disclosure, I'm 702 years old. And when I went to the grocery store and saw three kids without bass, I ran them out. I didn't even go get to manage it. That was the second time I'd seen kids at that.

Hey, y'all get out of here. Of course, people are the old Brisbane bad, naturally. he ran on. I'm obviously I was wrong. But hey, man, if you're going to do it, and if you enter an agreement, you'll file the agreement, or you pay the cost. I'm out.

He's out. I don't think they were, Ross, I don't think they were anti-masters. They were just trying to coach. I don't get the feeling they were trying to be mask or stupid. They just wanted to scream at all their coach players. How many coaches was it that they were fine? It was like three or four,

right? Three, yeah. 32. And it's probably It might be a couple more. I mean, Bill O'Brien had his mask on every time I saw him on the sidelines. So, I mean, if he can do it, why can't anybody else? What's going on here? Well, yeah. They're going to, yeah. I don't think they were doing it as an anti-mask.

They were doing it because they want to be comfortable and they want to scream with their players. Yeah, and I forgot the, I forgot the last week there was a Goodell or whoever. There was an issue warned. There was a warning issued to the coaches saying, hey, you're going to, you need to wear your masks. Oh, for sure. And my point is that didn't have to be $100,000. Probably not. That seems a little stiff.

All right. Thank you to the call. We always appreciate 72-year-old sees the call on the show. Never be afraid to do so. But, yeah, I don't think this was anti. I'm not following the rules because I don't want to do it. I think they just want to scream and yell because that's what coach is do on Sundays. Final hour, Matt Thomas Show.

Ryan Presley joins us in 30. This is Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show? 203 on Sports Talk 790, the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. Thanks again to Aaron Reese for joining us. Ryan Presley in 25. Ross, I just checked the radar. I don't know if it's good news or bad news, but I mean, it's raining like in most of our audience area.

But I don't see anything dark. It's just like green, regular rain. And it looks scattered like you wouldn't believe. So, like, it hasn't rained in Kingwood here in a couple of hours. I don't know what it's like over where you guys are in the gallery. But it looks pretty dark outside. I don't know. No flooding issues, though, as you were coming in, correct?

Not as I was in here, Nick. That was three hours ago at this point. Yeah. It feels like to me that, again, everything south of I-10 is getting the brunt of it. But just be careful. I don't have to tell you that, you know, if you have a low, small car, don't go into areas thinking you can go through it. Uber. Uber's your best friend today, if they're going.

Like Uber XL? Maybe, I mean, our Uber drivers out right now? Yeah, I would say Uber Excel is doing okay. Stay home, Uber drivers. Just everybody just stay home. Yeah. I mean, do you show in your underwear? Oh, that's me.

I'm sorry. Yeah, people have been working from home since like March now, right? It should be that much of a difference. Yeah. You know, Carly, when we told our kids they were learning virally, not viral. I always say virally. It's not a viral learn. Virtually.

Virtual learning. I'm forgetting a couple letters. They're like, this is the best thing ever. That's the problem. We're also 2020. Our kids are enjoying virtual learning. I want those teachers to teach my children and let us have some breathing room in our house.

I was going to say, you just want them out of the house. That's exactly the truth. I could lie to you, but I don't want to lie to you. They need interaction. They need away time from their parents. Plus, if you notice, virtual learning, like Carly is the king of, well, the assignments do at 11.59 p.m. So she'll do nothing all day,

and then she'll start working about 10.30 tonight. Because she knows she got an hour and 29. So basically she's learning college techniques in the seventh grade. That's what you used to do, right? I would do the same thing. I was a king procrastinator, Matt. I worked best under pressure. But see, the difference was when I was going to school in the late 90s, I couldn't deliver it through email.

I had to type the paper up or do it and then get to U of H to drop it off in time. You know, make sure the paper got thrown underneath the desk or underneath the door, the guy at the professor's office or some of you couldn't you know send me a email tag at least i could back then but now today's kids are got it so lucky these kids today they just have no clue matt they have no clue i know and it's my partly my fault they don't even these kids today don't even know what a typewriter is but i i told you my the type the typewriter story correct uh no you drop one on your foot nope my buddy ed and i who are friends he and i are friends he and i are friends friends of this day, you know Ed. We were going to be roommates together at North Texas,

our freshman year, which we were, and then eventually I moved to the University of Houston. And we wanted to get something really good for the dorm and we were going to be in. It's like, well, don't we go get us a, we don't want to try to win a dorm refrigerator at Project graduation? It's like, no, they're not too expensive. We can go to, you know, Sam's or Walmart or get one. Or let's go get like a sandwich maker or something. I'm like, no, no, no. A sandwich maker? You know, like a Panini maker back at that. Like a Panini press?

Yeah. Man, you're fancy. We didn't do that either, Rossi. Sorry. We said, why don't we get something that's practical? Yeah. Why don't we go for, we'll combine our winnings at project graduation and go for the super ultimate prize in an electronic typewriter with auto correct. And, you know, you didn't have to use a whiteout to correct your mistakes.

You could just go backwards. It had its own little, yeah, I remember that. So we did. And that was probably the biggest mistake of our entire life because I think we used it once or twice. Because by that time we were in college, you could go to the university, borrow one of their computers and just type your two papers that way. The failings of a young 19-year-old Matt Thomas, folks. Didn't want a mini-fridge. Didn't want a pinnini maker.

Instead, I want an electric type. Yeah, you just put a ceramic plate on top of your sandwich inside of the frying pan. You're fine. Same thing. Plus, I don't think we were even allowed to have sandwich makers in our dorm because imagine the potential for a fire in our dorm room. They banned sandwich makers? Yeah, I think so. I'm not for sure.

Is that on the list? What about a George Foreman grill? That was my jamming college. Oh. See, dude, even today's college kids even appreciated George Forming girl? I don't think so. I don't think so either. You just slap some hamburger meat on there, and in 10 minutes you got yourself a delicious hamburger.

The problem is the grease. You know, they always said the knocks the grease out. Yeah. Cleaning that grease pan is disgusting. Eh, you just throw it out. It's fine. A quick wipe down. It'll be fine.

All right. One more thing I want to get to. before I go the phones. You know who the new head football coach is at Jackson State? Yes, I do. Prime time. He said, oh, you have to call him Coach Prime. That's what he's going on. I don't care. Okay. So, a lot of ex-athletes become coaches. Yes.

Normally not Hall of Famers. Because, let's face it, when you're Hall of Famer, you've got some built-in income with autographs signings and appearances and whatnot. I mean, to be a college coach, a lot of hours, a lot of film. A lot of recruiting, a lot of being a de facto dad. It's a, I mean, they make big time money at these big schools because they carry huge responsibility. I would say college football coach, the most difficult high-level coaching job possible? Yeah, because you've got to win. You're going to make sure your kids graduate.

You've got to make sure your kids behave themselves. And you've got to take care of the alums. And blue, yeah, you've got to do the booster stuff and all that. And it's like 24-hour recruiting. It's just incredible. And when these kids come to your campus, you become their dads. Yeah, it just is what it is. Yeah, to make sure they're not going to bus parties.

Or going to get some lemon pepper wings with NBA players in Atlanta. Or hanging out in parties like the kids at Notre Dame apparently did because now their game has been canceled or postponed. Notre Dame's has? Yes. Who are they supposed to play? Notre Dame Wake Forest has been postponed. Well, yeah, that'll be rescheduled because that's an ACC game for them.

All right, so Dion Sanders is the coach at Jackson State. I don't envision this being very long. I'm with you. Okay. And part of the problem is two members of his coaching staff are going to get in a fistfight in one of the meeting rooms. His wide receiver coach is a Hall of Famer. Yes. His name is Terrell Owens.

Hmm. Okay? Yes. His defensive line coach is also a Hall of Famer. Warren Sapp. His offensive coordinator is a former. Houston Cougar and Jason Phillips was a wide receiver. My thought is these assistant coaches put in, Ross, as you know, a lot of time watching film,

a lot of time recruiting, a lot of time on the phone. I mean, thankless, thankless jobs. Now, some of these quarter under jobs at big Division I schools pay million bucks or pay half million dollars or whatever. I mean, they're good salaries. A lot of work, but a good salaries. I don't believe that Jackson State doesn't have the same athletic budget that the Division I schools have

and, please, you know, FBS schools, is going to have a lot of money for Warren Sapt and Terrell Owens to put in the hours to justify the pay they're getting. So let's, and look, this might be the greatest story in college football history, but you're hiring a first-time college coach with two assistant coaches that have never coached before at a D1 or an FCS level, I just get the feeling this isn't going to last very long.

This was a very much a, let's make this as sexy AF higher as possible, and they did. Because Deon Sanders is one of the greatest players ever to play in the NFL, period, end of story. I just don't know if they're going to put the time that would be required to build a football program, especially for an FCS school that's just not going to be able, to economically compete with the FBS schools. Signed Clyde Drexler at the University of Houston. Yes.

As painful is it for you to say that, it's the truth. It wasn't painful for me. I'm good. It was paying for me to listen to it. Oh, I'm sorry. Is there anybody else you can think of? Major superstar player goes to a college campus crushes. I'm waiting.

No. I'm sure there is. I'm not sure there is. I've seen major superstar players become coaches in the NFL. Some have worked, some have not. Most of them, frankly, haven't. But in college coaching, when there's so many layers to the job, I don't know. I mean, Larry Bird is Pacers coach is the only thing that?

He had some level of success. He's like, one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the NFL is Bart Starr. You know, Green Bay Packers, right? Yes. He was a very average NFL coach. very, very average. As a matter of fact, Greg Cook loves him, but, you know, they weren't very good when he was there. Isaiah Thomas would be a below average coach.

I'm trying to think who else would be on top of the football. Think about this for football. Do this start with a break. If you guys have somebody in mind, keep it to football if you can. Who is an awesome, awesome football player that became an awesome, awesome football head coach, either in the pros or in college. If you got an idea, let me know. At SportsMT, you can dial one in at 713-212-5-790.

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Sports Talk, 790. Home of the Rockets. All right, Ross, does that liner stay? What do you mean? Why wouldn't it? That's what I'm saying. I want it to stay. Well, whether he's on the team or not, it's going to stay, Matt.

That's true. EG for three. But if he plays for another team, I can't say EG for three when he's hitting three-pointers for like the, I don't know, it's cavaliers, right? Why don't you just? Uh-oh. What are you trying to say? I'm not saying anything. I'm just throwing it out there. I want him to stay a rocket.

Houston Rocket, Kevin Love, is that what you're saying? No. Oh, my God. You are the worst. By the way, thanks to anybody that has contributed to Dina Powers GoFundMe for her cancer treatment. It's up to $14,309. Oh, wow. That's wonderful.

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You can get the link that way for Dinah's recuperation process. Stage 4 uterine cancer. Absolutely devastating to hear, and we wish her nothing but the very best. Only coach that came to mind when people off air, Ross, that was a Hall of Fame player that went out of being a really good coach was Mike Dicka in terms of football. Yeah, that's a good one. That's about it for me for football.

Now, there's some been basketball. Larry Birdie, as you mentioned, is probably the number one. But, yeah, football, it's Mike Dickin, not much else after that. So there's anybody else you guys can think of it was a Hall of Fame-type football player. A lot of people are saying the Harbaugh's. Well, yeah, they're good, but Jim Harbaugh was never a Hall of Fame quarterback. Not even close. Solid NFL starter.

But not a Hall of Famer. And Joe George says Mike Dick is overrated. I don't know. Didn't he coach the greatest defense in the history of the NFL in the one year, 85? Yes. Well, yes. So basically it was Buddy Ryan's what he's saying? Maybe.

They only won that one Super Bowl. Find that on Wendy City Saturday, which will be, uh, what time was Wendy City Saturday? He was a disaster with the Saints. Well, it's Space City Saturday. It's one o'clock Saturdays following the Sports RV show 11-1. Sports Talk 790 Saturday mornings. Isn't there a Texas game this week, so their show's cut? Well, is that right?

Yeah, I think so. Aren't your Longhorns playing somebody this week? Yeah, they play Texas Tech. Although my show's not cut. I think Cam's going on that game. You may not stay for long. Let's go to Thomas in Pearland at 221 on 790. Hello, Thomas.

Hey, how's it going? Good, what's going on? Nothing. I heard you talking about the cut. Coach was getting fine for not wearing masks. I was just going to mention, if you haven't seen it, you've got to take a look at the way Belichick was wearing his mask. I can understand some of the coaches not wearing them.

They're trying to coach a game, talking to a mic. It's pretty difficult to hear that, even, you know, even one-on-one conversation, let alone trying to direct the whole football team. That's my point. I don't think they were doing it. Thank you for the phone call. I don't think they were doing it, Ross, to be anti-maskers. They were doing it because they wanted to coach.

Now, just because you want to do something and the rule stipulate you must do something else, then you have to pay the consequence for that. Yeah, I'm just wondering if the coach, I mean, they did get warned week one. I'm just wondering, I mean, how did this protocol even come into place? Because, like I said, if the players are going into the same amount of testing and the same around, you know, rigorous security checks and all that type of stuff, then why do they not have to wear masks? I just want in any of this, I want some consistency.

That's all. Well, I think part of it is for show. Because if you show, because you don't show every player on the sideline. You may get a glimpse of somebody like a quarterback. You know, like, you know when Deshaun was watching Baltimore run up and down the field against his defense? They kept panning to shot to him. He had a towel in his head and he looked like he wanted to leave. Yeah.

But they show coaches a lot more than they show. quarterback sitting on the bench. And every time they, you know, like last night, every time they went to Sean Payton, he didn't have a mask on. That's true. He's next. He's getting fined. If the NFL was finding Carol and Fangio and Shanahan,

they're going to get Sean Payton. So not only did the Saints give one up yesterday, by the way, I thought their Saints defense supposed to be good. Their defense cost me huge in fantasy yesterday. I'm a little upset about it. Who's defense? Saints. Oh, I'm sorry, Matt.

No, you're not. You're happy. That's a shame. I might be the best 0-and-2 team in the I-Hart Football League. Do we know who's number one in points in our league? No. Do we know who? Let me do a quick check.

Who has the most points scored? Mark and humble on the bat. Mark and humble on 790. Hello, Mark. Hello, fellas. Primetime is going to be the head coach for as long as primetime juniors, the quarterback. I've seen them in one game. The kids pretty damn good.

But, yeah, I didn't know he was the quarterback until they said it. My question is, is with the sports reporters slash announcers slash interviewers that interview Bill O'Brien. And I only see Belichick, he's writing all these notes for adjustments on his palm. I know he's got a little paper in there. He all just get a big pad, right? And my question to them is, why wouldn't they confront Bill O'Brien and say, hey, look, your idol writes down everything that he needs to tell his players on his palm or whatever,

and he makes the adjustments, and they come out, and they don't do it no more. And one of my suggestions for O'Brien would be what these reporters should be telling him is say, hey, the first thing you should put on there is the play for fourth and one. So the reason they don't confront him is because do they pull their credentials, don't allow them in the building or they're just can't do what they're paid to do because it is their job to ask the tough questions. And I'll hang up and listen. So you don't think the media is asking tough questions?

Is that what he's getting at, Ross? The media. Bill O'Brien's not being held accountable because the media is not asking tough no questions, Matt. Yourself included. Yeah. I mean, I'll take the blame. Let me tell you something. We went to a little happy hour with the coach during the summer.

It wasn't very comfortable because I poses him, and I said this is the most respectful way. I said, Coach, he doesn't know me from Adam. I mean, he just doesn't. Not like Adam Kleiner orweg. I'm just saying. Oh, say, Wexler? The phrase, yeah.

Coach, if you're in my position and you trade your franchise receiver for a guy that was third team on the depth chart with another team and you inherit his big contract, how would you think I would handle it? How would you handle it if you were in my position? He goes, I don't know. I'd give it a chance. Trust me.

He's getting no free passes. Rossi, is he not the made fun of by every general manager, every, not general manager, every national media guy, not named the in Rappaport? Anytime something happens or a trade is made or like, it's like, oh, Bill O'Brien would trade for him for six first round picks. He is a national laughing stock right now. Yeah, trust me. There's nobody giving him any breaks. I don't think we don't really care what I say, just like I don't really care what you say.

Brilliantly said, my friend. Gavin on the bin-Balmont on 7-90. Hi, Gavin. Hey, what's going on? I have a quick question. Do you think the Browns are now playoff contenders after beating the Bengals and Joe Burrow? I know that they got blown out by the Ravens in week one, but so the detections. So is the Bengals enough proof that Baker Mayfield can be a franchise quarterback and lead this team to a playoff appearance?

since 2001. No. No? No. Come on. All right, so what would it take? What would it take? What would it take, though?

What would it take? Because, I mean, he has the most rookie passing touchdown, you know, record in 2018. No. No, I don't, I think their defense is inconsistent. I think Odo Beckham Jr. is going to eventually meltdown. do have a nice two-headed running game, which is very impressive for them. But they got to beat somebody that's good. And the Browns beat the Bengals on a regular basis.

They beat the Jets on a regular basis. How many huge wins has Baker-Mainfield Ross had in his NFL career against even average competition? Not a lot? No. No. I bought into the Browns last year, Ross, stupid me. I'm done. By the way, Pittsburgh and Baltimore are going to claim the two.

playoff spots in the AFC, right? In the AMC North. Now, there are two other wildcards. I don't know. Feels like New England's a wild card team, if not Buffalo, right versus. There's a second one. Correct.

And who would be the third wild card? Well, you had the Texans 9 and 7 and being the third one, so there you go. Yeah. And, oh, by the way, the Titans and the Colts believe they're a wild card worthy. No, Cleveland's not getting in the playoffs. Ain't happening. Sorry. So rude.

You got to shoot that guy. He was so disappointed, Matt. It sounded like a big Cleveland. He's dog pound for life. and this is how you treat him i could have soft peddled and said you know guys if you know do you things happen here no it's just better to be honest right that's that guy is the guy in be bonham's like i appreciate matt's honesty that's what matt thomas show is noon to three honesty truth analysis we bits of humor and it's about shaw's jewelry the corner west grand mantras

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Time is 232. It is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. We are happy to be joined by the closer of your Houston Astros, who hopefully will drop the magic number down to two when the Astros beat the Mariners tonight here on 790. Let's say hi to Ryan Presley, joining us from the Pacific Northwest. Ryan, I'd say how are the streets of Seattle, but you guys don't get to go anywhere, so how's the hotel room?

Yeah, we're on lockdown. You only get to really do a whole lot. It sucks, because, I mean, look, I know you guys stay in nice hotel. and the food's good and whatnot. But, man, not to be able to go at least get a walk-in. Stir crazy. Is that a fair way to say it? Yeah, definitely.

You don't get to do a whole lot. I'm not a big gamer like a lot of the guys on the team, so I just kind of just sit there and binge watch on Netflix or Prime Video or something. But, yeah, there's not a whole lot to do. All right. What are the two or three shows you're binge-watching right now? Oh, man.

You know, I just, me and the wife just got down watching Yellowstone, so I'm kind of searching right now. I've been dabbling a little bit of, I've watched the Formula One drive to survive. I thought that was a pretty good, pretty cool little documentary. But for the most part, if anybody's got any suggestions, I'm open to them right now. Yeah, I know your wife's on Twitter. Are you on Twitter?

No, no, I don't have any of that social media stuff. That's probably a smart thing to do, to be honest with you. So if you were to write a book about this season, and obviously the ending is still not yet to be determined, how would you characterize this being a major league baseball player during a pandemic and a 60 game schedule where you are playing in front of no fans and you are traveling to other cities and playing in front of no fans and you go to hotels and you can't leave? Is there a way, if you thought about penciling some of this down and about the odysies of this year? You know, there's a lot of guys on a clubhouse that are saying that this season would make a great book.

It's definitely, if I were to describe it, it's awkward because you can hear everything. You can hear the conversations in other people's dugouts. And whenever somebody gets a hit, you hear everything from their dugout, vice versa. So it's very different this year. But, you know, we miss the crowds. We miss the noise. miss having everybody out there. So as soon as we can get down with this whole pandemic thing, I'm all for it.

You mentioned listening to the other dugout. Now, I'm guessing if you're in your own dugout, you can hear it. But when you step on the rubber and get on the hill, can you block that stuff out? Or is that even a little bit of a chore right now? For the most part, you can block it out, obviously. Like, you know, when you give up a hit, you can definitely hear it. But, you know, it goes on both sides. And nobody really gets their feelings hurt.

Some things are kind of funny that you hear from the other side, but for the most part, you block it out and just try to move forward. But you do hear some things, so it's interesting. I like you to say who it is, but you probably won't. But is there anybody that's got, like, bad material and maybe conversely has good material? Like, you're like, that was damn funny, or that was the stupidest thing I ever heard in my life? You know, it's usually you'll just get some people from the rafters that are just random drop-ins. Garneau is pretty funny from the dugout. He's got some pretty good one-liners.

You know, Springer, Springer's always got some pretty good commentary going on, too. So we've got some guys that can drop some one-liners. It's always funny to hear in the dugout. Can you go to them and say, look, I'm trying to get a savior. Can you all shut up for like nine outs or three outs or whatever it has to take? Sometimes, you know, I'll look in there and tell them to knock it off, I guess. That's not bad. Ryan Presley with us here on the Matt Thomas show.

Let's retrace our steps a little bit here. You see Roberto goes down. Does Dusty have that formal conversation with you, or did you kind of just know that because you were the veteran arm, you've been in late at leverage guy for a long time with his team, that it was your job? And do you remember what that was like, or was that just kind of an unspoken common thing of, you know what?

Ryan, we need you to be the guy for us in the ninth inning of games. You know, I think it was kind of a, no, I mean, to answer your question, no, Dusty never really had a conversation with me. Neither did Stromi. It was just more of a, hey, you know what you need to go do to get people out. And, you know, you've got to fill a role right now and losing Osuna with a huge, huge blow to us. You know, he's a young guy that can relate to a lot of young guys in the pen. However, he's got better in status of he's probably one of the best closers. in the league. And, you know, when you lose a guy like that, it's kind of hard to replace. So, you know, I had some big shoes to fill, and, you know, still trying to fill those shoes. But, no, there was no really conversation or anything like that. It was just more of, you know, what you need to go do. So I just try to do as best as I can and help this team, you know, close the door. I don't mean to get all baseball on you, but your mindset, because you've been an eighth inning guy

that's gotten some incredible outs in the past. and all the great managers have always told me, you know what, sometimes the keyest outs to get are the ones in the seventh and eighth when it's a one-run game or a tie game. It may not be the outs that you get in the ninth when you're up three. Has your mentality honestly changed that much

since you've been primarily on the ninth-th inning guy for this team this year? Not really. You know, there's 27 outs in the game, and all of them are big, and they can all be big at different points in the game. So whether it be in the ninth inning or the fourth inning, You still got to get 27 of them.

So for me, there's not really any overthinking it. It's just go out there, do your job, and you can do it in as less pitches as you can, so you can be available to go again tomorrow. But no, not really. The mindset doesn't change a whole lot. What about pitch selection? Well, pitch selection is a little different. You know, you go off of – it's kind of hard for pitchers,

especially bullpen guys who can't really see the game. from 370 feet away. So, you know, we rely a lot on Maldi and how he had seen the hitters adjust throughout the game. And, you know, those guys are professional hitters as well, so they know how to make adjustments. And, you know, we have to be able to do that on the fly as well. So we rely on Maldi and Garnow back there a lot. So we just trust the fingers that they put put down and just go from there. I would think no matter if you are starting a game,

game, if you're in the sixth inning, you're in the ninth inning, try to close it. The biggest aggravation for a high-leverage reliever is the lead-off walk. How have you, is it still a battle in your mind that how do you appropriately shake that off when you know that baseball adages, lead-off walk guys usually score in baseball games? How much of a chore is that to try to fight that off? Did we lose him? Yes, yes. The phones have died.

All right. Well, I thought it was a great question. Ross, you want to answer that? I'm good. You didn't even hear the question, did you? I'm working on believe it or not. Damn, I wanted to answer that question. Is he trying to call back in?

We might have him, but the phone system is acting up. Well, tell him thank you. We did the best we could. I let him know. I said things for his time and sorry to lose you so last second like that. Oh, that's such a good question, too. Damn it. Oh, well.

All right, Ross. Now I got to think about what he's going to have to say. How do you fight off a lead-off? When you're playing beer league softball, Rossi, how do you fight off a lead-off walk? You just got to bear down and execute your pitches, Matt. And then take another swig of beer. Yes. Oh, well.

Okay, thanks again to Ryan Presley. Boy, the A-O-D-A team's going to love our... Oh, believe it or not, should be a hot mess today, right? Yeah, I mean, should we just scrap it? Should we scrap it? I mean, you tell me if the phone system's all effed up, excuse my French, but... Oh, well. All right.

Well, that came to a grinding hall. We can rally here. Thanks again to Ryan Presley for joining us from Seattle. Astros and Mariners coming up in just a few minutes. So as Ross alluded to in the last segment, Notre Dame game with Wake Forest has been postponed. COVID testing becoming an issue. How have the, I mean, look, the NBA has zero COVID testings, positive, cost them $170 million. The NFL probably spending obscene amounts of money to keep COVID problems becoming an NFL.

The colleges, well, Notre Dame spent a lot of money, still have it, positive tests. Memphis had their party buses, cost them, and then of course, Baylor supposedly, allegedly had not enough offensive linemen to play last Friday. It's a mixed bag, and that's why Dana Holgerson has said on multiple occasions that you've got to be ready for every different scenario. Speaking of Dana, he'll be with us on Thursday for a visit leading into the North Texas game, which could be the first game for the Cougars,

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The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. Real Texans, talk here. All right, 248's final segment to Matt Thomas show. We are not going to do, believe it or not, today, because we are scared to death. The phones are going to crash. I think it's a byproduct of the weather. who knows. I think it's your fault, Matt.

I'm 34 miles from you. There's no chance it's my fault. That's exactly the reason. Oh, so you're saying if I would have been there, it would have been fine? Everything would have been perfectly fine. Okay. Anything else we've failed to discuss so far on the radio show today? Oh, power rankings on the NFL.

I forgot that we mentioned this. So USA Today, our buddy Nate Davis, right? I mean, Mr. Aggregated guy. says the Ravens and the chiefs of the top two teams in the NFL. That's no surprise, right? No. Of the top 10, four of the teams are future Texans opponents. He has the Packers at four, the Steelers at five, the Titans at eight, the Patriots at nine.

That's not good. That's not good, Matthew. That actually helps your eight and eight cause, right? First of all, those four teams are not going to go undefeated the rest of the way, so the Texans can beat one of them. Of course. Or multiple of them. Or the Texans could lose to the Jaguars.

Or they can just beat up on the bears and the browns and their Bengals. And the Lions, don't forget. Don't forget the Lions. There's four Gimmy wins right there. There's no Gimmy win in the National Football League, Matt. If anybody's going to tell you, it's going to be Bill O'Brien. We have set the over-under at three before Cal McNair has Bill O'Brien come to his office and save his job. Texans go four and 12.

He does not have to worry about his job. three he probably does. Hmm. Okay. I'm sticking to it. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to see.

We should also recap our gut feelings from today because people have missed it. By the way, that's going to start to gain some legs, don't you think? I think so, Matt. It's going to get up and walk. Yeah, it's got a nice bump on Twitter today, so I always feel good about that. My gut feeling is the Rockets will hire a head coach that will have some sort of connection to the Rockets organization. Somehow, some way. All right.

Your gut feeling was? Hotel Tuve will bet over 300 this week. So six remaining games. Not counting yesterday, correct? Correct. Starting today to the end of the week. You know what? Go ahead and give me yesterday, so I'm just kidding.

No, that's okay. No, that wouldn't be fair. That wouldn't be fair. And Brendan has the Lakers wrapping up the series in four, and on the other side in the east, I have it going seven games. I feel like he hedged his gut feelings, which he didn't need to. I feel like I doubled down. Yeah, but the Celtics and he going.

seven is no, I mean, yeah, that's a gut. I guess it's a gut feeling. Yeah, I'll give it to you. I mean, you're a man is kicking our ass on NFL picks. So why should I be arguing about your predictions? I was going to say, I might just be feeling a little too good right now. I might need something to knock me down a little bit. Ross, how much of the Raiders Saints game to she do you watch you?

Raiders Saints, I had it on the entire game. Yeah. A lot of Darren Waller action. Is Las Vegas becoming the it place for, sports now. I mean, it already sort of was for boxing and UFC and special basketball tournaments and whatnot. But, man, I'm

telling you, Rossi, I don't think they can, I don't think Major League Baseball would thrive there. I think the NBA would be a major hit in Las Vegas. I think that stadium looks incredible. I would love to go there at some point. I took a helicopter ride when it was in construction, and it already looked like it was going to be just

the most amazing facility. And I think it looks better than the SoCal Stadium in Los Angeles. The So-Fi. Yeah, the So-Fi one looks incredible as well. That was $5 billion that one. In England, of all places. Which is always up to no good, as you know, man. Not the most savory part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

I'll tell you the truth. But I'll say this. The Clippers are doing the right thing by trying to separate themselves from the Lakers. They're going to take over the form and read, they're going to gut that out and make their arena. So that area could be very, very good chip. And I think the NFL is going to open up a huge. office in that area where the NFL network's going to broadcast

all their stuff. So I think the NFL has just as much interest in making that Inglewood area a thriving place for people to go besides going just on game day. But could you imagine, Ross, the Golden Knights already are killing it, right? They went to the Western Conference finals. The Raiders look like a brand new franchise

for some reason. And all they need is an NBA team. And Memphis is just kind of laying out there going, do we have a lease? Do we not have a lease? I know Seattle is where everybody wants the NBA to go, and Seattle's a fantastic city and deserves an NBA team. I think the NBA would be smart down the road and expand by two cities and give Seattle and Las Vegas those two franchises. And what are you going to call the NBA franchise again in the end of the Las Vegas?

The 21. I think they should be the craps. In theory, I understand we're going with that, but I just think there's too many double entendre phrases you could go with that. Yeah, 21's not a good name, though. Why? I don't know. I just don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I just don't think of it. Well, no, because the game is called Blackjack. It didn't have to do with me thinking of it. You don't think the Las Vegas 21s is a good ring to it? No. Oh, I do.

I'm going to lose on that, but because I think there's another, like the WNBA team is called the Aces. I like that one. That's not bad either, but you can't. I don't see a WNBA team becoming an NBA team name. Hmm. That's just me, though. Like if you said the sevens, I don't like the sevens either or the 11s. How about the yo 11s?

I like that. C&Es? Yeah. How about the hard eights? Yeah. Time for Las Vegas, Baccarac basketball. The Las Vegas double downs. You ever play Bacarach?

Baccairot. No, I've never played that. I have played, I have never played, but I've watched. watch an NBA player play it, and he raped. Hmm. Like $3,000 in like five minutes. Well, it was James Bond's game, right? So it can't be too bad.

I don't even know how you play it. Me either. You go with the bank or the player. I think it's a 50-50 type of game. You can ask me any question you want. I wouldn't have the answer to it. Well, how about the Las Vegas Pygale Pokers? Or just the pokers?

Nah, that's a little weird. How about the Las Vegas flush? And then Daniel House can go play for the Las Vegas pokers? Well, he was an Orlando poker for a while. That's what I'm saying. Too soon. Way too soon.

Tomorrow, Joe Clatt's on the show. How cranky is Joe Clock going to be tomorrow? About the Notre Dame game or what? No, he flew to Waco. Oh, that's true. He had to go right back. Did he get some points out of the deals? That's what I texted him.

I said, at least you got your American Airlines, Miles. Stop bitching. Joe Clat and the Rotten Five tomorrow. It takes no skill to give you the five best. teams in NFL who are the five worse and Ross will the Texans be in the rotten five I look forward to finding out clinton wexler next they are the A team and they're on 7 90 I'll talk to you guys at 7 for Astros baseball