The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show 11-18-19

Episode Date: November 18, 2019

The Matt Thomas Show w/ @SportsMT, @SportsRV, and @ProNickLow 11/18/19Texans didn't show up in Baltimore (0:00)The PI Non-Call was a Joke (10:43)Watchu Talkin' Bout BOB (41:29)Ross' NFL Recap (1:04:29)

It's larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. Good afternoon to you. Welcome to a Monday edition of a purely average NFL team in an exceptional city. That's what we are, Houston, Texas. We're exceptional. We have beautiful women, amazing food, great weather, 80% of the year.

Oh, 80%. 60% of the year. No, I'll take heat over snow. No, trust me. Absolutely, for sure. But that damn football team is very consistent. I'm supposed to, as a major market radio, yes, yell and scream.

Fire. Brimstone. About how the team wasn't ready for the big game. They go up there and they blank the bed. It wasn't even a question of play calling. It was just a question of you didn't have enough good players. But I'm supposed to come into you and go, H-town, I want to hear from you. How mad are you today?

I can't do it. That'd be a flat-out lie. Okay. I can do it a little bit if you want. Okay, you know what we'll do? I will take 30 seconds away from my opening monologue and give it to you. Is this going to be more about the Texans or more about Texas and Iowa State? No, I don't care about that. I mean, I care about that. I'm very angry about that, but I'm not going to, I know that people don't care about that. so I'm not going to bring it up.

Okay, but you can still do it. That's topic like, we talk about topic A. That's like topic W. All right. It's Texas versus Iowa State. Here comes 45 seconds. Is 45 enough? Sure.

A 45 second rant on how awful last game was for your Texans. What is going on with you Houston Texans? We send you up there. You're six and three. We're talking about this big three game stretch where you're supposed to prove yourself. You went over and you wanted Arrowhead. You shud yourself well on the road against the Saints. And then you just go up to Baltimore.

and we could accept losing. We could accept, hey, it's a close game to Sean Watson and Lamar Jackson and a big time quarterback duel. No, you don't even show up. And the only points you get are a Carlos Hyde run basically in garbage time where it looked like the Pro Bowl. By the way, I was in full nap mode when that touchdown happened. As you should have been.

I'm not like, you know, listen in the background. I was in full REM at that point. Right. I mean, how do you look? so poor. How do you score, number one, how do you score seven points? How do you give up 41? How do you just not even compete?

I get it. The Baltimore Ravens are good, but you're supposed to be good too. If you're supposed to be someone. We were literally talking last week, one of the best teams in the AFC. If they can go two and one in this stretch, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I feel like an idiot because the last time I tried to sell people on the Texans was the Colts playoff game and you wet the bed. And then I'm like, hey, guys, the Texans are actually really good. let's get in on the Texans and then you do this every time they pull the rug from under me

and I just feel like an idiot. What has been my creed? Free soda at the grocery store? No, that was a one-time thing. Okay. The Texans will never go to the Super Bowl. You're right. With Bill O'Brien as your football coach.

You're right. I don't like absolutes, but you're right. It's just what are we doing out there? And Deshawn Watson just regressed to like week two, Deshawn Watson. He's just holding on to the ball too long. He's just staring everybody down. He's trying to make a little bit of too much out of nothing. And we love Deshawn Watson.

And he does make so many plays. And he is a great quarterback. But that was just very, that was just piss poor yesterday from everybody. The game sucked. There was nothing. The only redeeming value was your beloved kicker, Justin, Doinxa field goal yesterday and the Texans aren't full than a fake field goal. Hey, first, first miss of the year. That's fine. And then, how do you how, I mean,

I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm surprised. That's how I feel about this. Yeah, I wasn't surprised they lost. I was surprised they just didn't show up. Didn't compete. You didn't even show up. You didn't get off the bus. So guess what's going to happen? It's going to be a short week. And the Texans are going to beat the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday. What's just saying, I'm being a glass-half-old guy. They're going to lose the New England and home the following Sunday because New England's much better.

I don't care if Brady's offense is pedestrian. That defense yesterday, he stifled Philadelphia all damn long. So they're going to finish one and two in this most important stretch, Ross. Then they're going to go three and one in the last four games. To finish four and three overall record of 10 and 6, they're probably going to win the AFC South on a tiebreaker of some sort. they're going to blank the bed in the first playoff game against Buffalo or the Raiders or whomever it's going to be.

And this season is going to be right back when we started like it is every year. That's why I tell you, the Houston Texans will never go to a Super Bowl with Bill O'Brien as a head football coach. And as long as you know that, you should temper your expectations. I think he's getting better every week. Who is? I think he's getting better. No, no one's getting better every week. Barquevius Mingo?

mean, AJ McCarron, I guess that would be true. This is the thing. The formula for the Texans, well, for years under the Bill O'Brien Air, it's been let's go ahead

and let the defense take care of it and then the offense does just enough. This year it's been, let's let the defense hang on, make a few plays. We have to keep the, and we have to keep the offense scoring and keeping the other offense

off the field and that way we can win. And it's just not. They just don't have the talent on defense and that didn't happen at all. If you're not getting it going offensively, if the Texans aren't, they've had no chance. I need to do better. Yeah, you do need to do better.

And we'll hear from him at 1 o'clock. Yeah, we'll do what's talking about Bill coming up at 1 o'clock today. Lonnie Johnson, don't know about his playing availability. Justin Reed, it's already a banged-up secondary begin with. Yeah. They're down to no healthy bodies. But that isn't even the, I mean, not having enough healthy bodies can happen

and you can survive if you lose the game 37-21. You know what it felt like, man? 41-7, Ross. That sucked. It felt like an early, like Alabama game or LSU or whatever when they schedule some kind of small, like North Texas. And like in the first quarter, things are a little close and weird stuff is happening. And then the cream rises to the top. The talent shows through.

And it just became more and more apparent after every subsequent snap that the Texans didn't belong on the field with the Ravens. They're tier two. Yeah. Tier one is New England and Baltimore. the Texans are every bit of the Raiders. They're every bit of the Buffalo Bills. They're every bit of the Indianapolis Colts. And that tier two.

And tier two is nice, but Tier 2 ain't playing on Super Sunday. Tier 2 probably ain't playing on conference championship day. Doesn't matter what it looked like. Continue to make the analogy of a gatekeeper boxer. One of those boxers who's good. If you beat him, that means you're good,

but he's never championship level. He never wins the belt. He's a mid-level car. Don't put him on a pay-per-view. because you're not going to get your money's worth. You're just not. Like a Jerry Quarry back in the day. He's like,

hey, he can go knock out some people, but once you just get, when you go up against Muhammad Ali, when you go up against Joe smoking Joe Frazier, you're out in three rounds. I will give you a pro wrestling example. Go ahead. SD Special Delivery Jones.

Yes. Really nice wrestler. Not going to lead a card. I like that name. Special Delivery Jones? The Brooklyn Brawler. I mean, he could fight mid-card. Yeah.

But he's not going against Bruce. produced his beef cake in morning. She's not. A David Tua, if you will. A Lucas Matisse. I've been to a David Tua fight. I know these things. David Tewitt, a perfect gatekeeper.

Hey, hey, he's going to knock some people out. He'll win 20 fights, but then he goes up to Mike Tyson and Vander Holyfield. Remember, he's no reach. And he just gets, he just gets smashed. That's the, the Texans are the David Tua of the NFL. You know what, you know what they are? They're appetizers. Yes.

Yes. They're crab puffs. Delicious. You can make good meals out of crab puffs and say, artichoke dip when you're eating in Jacksonville, but if you're going to go to Baltimore, you want crab cakes and prime rib. I like that. You know what they are?

They're a meal at Chili's. No. I disagree. I'm a big Chili's guy. Are you? Yeah. Yeah, but okay, but Chili's is no Vic and Anthony's or Popper. See, the Patriots are like Papa Bros.

No, you know, the Texans are Applebee's. Okay, Applebee's. They're two for ten. Two for 20. You go in there once in a while. You're in a pinch. I have this egg roll, nacho combo? Right.

Well, who you do? Who are you eating it against? No, Tennessee. Oh, yeah, I'll have it. Right. Nobody ever targets Applebee's. Applebee, they are the Applebee's of the NFL. You're taking an Applebee's cook and saying,

I want you to go to Ocean Air's dining, a kitchen, and I want you to cook up something really special. Yeah, but I only know how to make egg rolls. They are Applebee's and the Ravens are masters. And boneless wings, oceanaires, like, get the hell out of here. Yeah. Yeah, that's what we do on this radio show. We compare...

Who else is giving you these analogies? Yeah, there's no other... Other stations of town are like, well, you know, the linebacking cord. No, no, no, no, no. We're going to give you restaurant references to who the Texans are. The Texans are the Applebee's of the NFL. The Texans are the Burger King of Chicken Sandwiches. Applebee's is far too successful.

I think you're overrating. No, no, no, no. Applebee survives. It's like the Texans survive. Yeah, the Texans are... Yeah, they're six and four. The Texans are Applebee's. Yeah.

As long as you don't expect much, it'll be fine. Yes. You keep your expectations low and you're like, okay, this is not bad. You want a New York strip at Applebees? It's not going to turn out well. No. Right. But if you want pulled pork nachos, they can handle it.

Okay, yeah. I'm getting hungry all of a sudden for some reason. Me too. All right. We have to talk about something else that happened very early in the game yesterday. That once again, if you're a conspiracy theorist, you're going to win this. We've got a major problem with our great sport that we like to watch in the NFL. When we come back.

When we return. Stop that wave. Busting the wave since the stroves were in the dome. Who are you going to call? Wave Busters. Houston Sports Talk continues with the Matt Thomas show. I remember the Monday after the Rams and Saints championship game, Ross, you and I were talking. And a lot of people were obviously outraged.

A lot of Saints fans that listen to the show. and I said, hey, that call was so bad, we're going to get replay of pass interferences. And this is never going to happen again. We're not going to have something as egregious as we had in the NFC championship game. Yesterday's play in the Texans Ravens game between DeAndrey Hopkins and Marlon Humphrey was not at that level. Okay? But it was pretty damn close. that call not being reversed after the challenge is absolutely one of the most ridiculous calls

I have seen the NFL this entire season and I know that Tony Dungey a couple of weeks ago said hey let's get rid of this because clearly the officials do not want to hurt each other's feelings by changing the call and I thought man that's we're letting emotions and ego win over what's accurate what's right. That's sad. We have to keep this in play. Yesterday was a complete joke. Pass interference

on two different times on the same play. Add on top of that, what's his face from the NFL on CBS? Oh, I know you're talking about. Genezor. Something with a G. Gene Ceritor. Said, that's pass interference. Yeah. The naked eye. One quick rebrand.

play says pass interference in front before the ball arrived and certainly as the ball arrived okay then you take the official he goes that little little microsoft surface thing he stares at it's abundantly clear it was past interference and it didn't get called Ross pro football college every bit of athletics is fixed we have to stop watching sports an atrocity. Yeah, that was, I mean, it was egregious. It was horrible. It was ever there. If you pulled 100 people and said, is this

past interference, 100 people who watched football, all 100 would say this is pass interference. So I don't understand. I mean, calls get missed all the time, whatever, especially on a long pass. I guess I don't know. The referees are doing down there. They're not looking or what, or they can't catch up. Right. But you have, we put this in place for this exact reason.

Hey, we missed the call. Let's take a look at it on slow motion replay multiple angles. There wasn't an angle where anybody could say this wasn't pass interference. You can speed it up, you can slow it down, you can do whatever. It's pass interference. And I think part of the problem is the language. But even then, the language is right. It has to be clear.

And it was. And all that type of stuff. And it has to be, what is the phrasing they use? It has to be very clear in whatever for them to overturn it. And it was. I don't care with the terminology. is. Yeah.

That was pass interference on two different parts of the same play. I have no idea what past interference is anymore. No idea. I agree. Bill, I'm right there with you. I mean, your team was terrible yesterday, but you didn't get any favors.

Clear and obvious is the phrasing I was looking for. And it was clear? It was obvious. It was very clear. It was very obvious. I don't know how it didn't get called. Who are making these calls? Who is the guys that's reviewing it?

Is it the head referee? It's still his call. Because they go look at the little iPad or whatever. Right. There's a people that are on headset that say, what do you want to look at? What do you look at? He obviously can say, what do you think? But ultimately, the official calls it. Now, in college football, it's the replay guys up in the press box that make the call.

Do you think they're just being told to not overturn these to simply keep every pass play into the end zone from having a challenge flag thrown? It doesn't matter about where it is in the field. That's a problem, though, Nick, is that this is happening at the third. 30 yard line, midfield. Doesn't matter. So these guys are looking at, first of all, can we get the guys like a 20-inch screen minimum? Like at least one of these sides of a commuter monitor? They're looking at these stupid little Microsoft surfaces.

Which makes no sense. I don't care about corporate sponsor, but not. They're not looking at YouTube. They're looking at a big NFL game with a very important call. Can we get a bigger screen and not on something the size of an iPhone plus? Doesn't Microsoft make a bigger screen? Exactly. Can we get them doing that?

they go look at these tiny little iPads. Remember we were in high school or in junior high where our televisions, we would watch things on... They would wheel it in on the cart. Wheel in one of the school cards. Go to your local high school, grab a video recorder, and push it in there. And you have to have third party. Because these guys are protecting themselves.

They're biased. Doesn't matter. Because if you miss a call, Matt, I don't know, like if you were in a, let's say you were a softball umpire and it was a close call and somebody came to argue with who, you probably thought you made the right call. That's right. Because you just, you're by it's human.

It's human nature. It's not anything against them. It's defending your crew. Yes. We need third party reviewers. And DeAndre Hopkins even tweeted about this yesterday. He's like, we need people. We need somebody in New York.

I don't care if they're in Saskatchewan. We need somebody who's not there, a third party or a pan. How about we get a panel of three people? You press a button. Boom. Pass interference. If two out of three of them say pass interference, it's past interference. But they're all going to be ex-officials that are going to protect their shield.

I mean, I feel like you. at least if they're removed from it a little bit, they won't be as biased. I'm done. I feel like I'm Ben Dubos. I think everybody's screwing everybody over every play. Gene Sterator is a former official, and he's like, hey, this is past interference.

So, I mean, you get somebody who knows what they're doing, and they can just sit down and eat queso and nachos and just sit around and judge these calls. They need somebody who's not on the field. If I'm in the NFL and I'm looking at all these games, and I'm looking, and the officials are working and reviewing their games, I'm embarrassed. I am humiliated that not only did it not get called in the first place,

but with a chance to review it, clearly instant replay. You could slow it down, play it at regular speed. It was interference. It was an embarrassing moment for the NFL. I don't think it changed the context of the game, although it put seven more points up on the board for the Texans because they'd have had it first to go at the one yard line. I don't think it would have mattered because the Texans were out of class all day long.

But it was a terrible vibe. It was a terrible call, and the NFL should be embarrassed. Help me out. So the NBA, they go to seek, do they still go to Secaucus? Secaucus, yeah. So they still have third party that's not there. MLB, they get on their headsets. They're talking to somebody that's not there.

Why do they have it figured out in the NFL? The biggest sports sporting behemoth in the world can't figure that out. It's all collectively negotiated. I know that they do. In the Premier League in England, they go to a third party. I know that. Everybody going to third party. College football goes with third party.

It seems pretty obvious that's what they should be doing because you're just going to defend yourself you're going to defend your crew, you're going to defend your guys. I thought it was a really low, embarrassing moment for the NFL and as soon as it happened, I didn't tweet very much yesterday. But what I did, I was like, you know what,

if you don't think we're going to get another Rams Saints moment, you're kidding yourself. Instant replay hasn't saved their bacon. It just hasn't. I'm telling you this, and I tweeted this yesterday, and I thought this is the whole season. I'm not sure that that call gets overturned, Matt. It's awful.

Because it looks kind of bang, bang, from the regular broadcast angle and you have at full speed, that play? I don't know that they would have overturned it. I don't. I have zero faith in it. I used to trust instant replay. You know what? It's not an instant replay that's letting me down. It's the humans.

Human beings are going to let you down. I think I let people down generally every day. Yes. It's true. And now NFL officials can't Don't have the stones to say, you know what? Our guy screwed up. There's just no excuse for these calls that have been so bad. And then, I mean, it's just, and I get it.

Some of them are really, really edge, razor edge. And we're like, you know what? I don't know. I don't know what's happening here either. That's really, really close. That was clear and obvious. Clear and obvious is their words. That's what that was by basically everybody.

Bad moment for the NFL and it's going to come back and bite our asses when it comes to the playoff time because guess what we're going to have a talk show topic. Yeah. In this divisional playoff game, this Walden car game, that should have been overturned. It's going to come up. And you know how I know it's bad is every time I looked at Twitter or somebody tweeted about it, there was people even in the mentions.

I'm a Ravens fan and that was past interference. That's right. If you get everybody to agree, which never happens on Twitter, especially fans of their own team are in the tank, that's how you know it's bad. All right, we'll go to your phone calls next. 713-212-5-790. Some of you guys are trying to get in right now. 7-13-212-5-79.

If you want to reach out through Twitter, you can do that as well. at SportsMT at SportsRV and at Pro Nick Lowe. This is the Matt Thomas show. We take you today until 3 o'clock. We've got which is talking about Bill coming up at 1. Ross's NFL recap for the weekend at 1.30. And we have other things to get to. Among the topics, Longhorns lost.

We don't have to talk about that. Cougars lost. We definitely talk about that. Yeah, we can have a full breakdown. To attack of a low already had his hip surgery here in Houston today. That's good. The Rockets have won seven straight games. James Hardin played out of his mind this weekend.

Colin Kaepernick's workout was a farce. Should have saw that coming. Stupid me. 1227. Oh, by the way, there is a report that we have a identification of a man in the Astros front office who sent the email out to say, hey, why don't you film the signs so we can steal them? We actually have a name now associated to us.

Yeah, we haven't. That second report dropped over the weekend, yes? So we haven't really discussed that. The email? The email, and then we have a name, which makes me further depressed. Oh, man. Tired of 610. I changed over from the competition.

Take another route. Sports Talk 790. Your unbiased home for your home teams. Maybe this will get the Texans fired up. That's why don't ever emotionally get invested with them. It's a good idea. It's the right way to play it. Astros, I'm a 10, Rockets, I'm a 10.

Texans, I'm a 3. Why? Oh, it's not. It's 41-7 ass-kicking time in Houston. Ass-kicked. And look, I don't want to be reactionary host of this season is over. This was just an important three-game stretch. They can still go two-and-one.

I don't think they're going to based on what we saw yesterday. But the Texans are a much better team. I guess at home they are on the road? I don't know. Deshaun doesn't throw interceptions on the road at home like he does at home. he doesn't throw in the lineman. But they didn't show up yesterday. Two weeks.

You didn't get off the bus. You didn't get off the bus. And yeah, you're coming off a buy. You're literally coming off a buy in the biggest game of the year. Yeah. I can't even get people fired up. I got a couple people that want to talk. Let's get to them now.

But I can't, y'all can't even get fired up because you know why? Because you knew it. I'm never going to prepare a daily show for, hey, everybody. What's a key to a Texans victory? because you don't think they're going to get them. Let's go to, let's break down Texans quarterback versus Ravens secondary. You know why I'm not going to do that? It's going to take five seconds.

Ravens secondary, greater than Houston Texans quarterback. We saw that yesterday. There isn't a need to preview this. Here's what's going to happen. Short week, can the Texans bounce back and beat a very average Indianapolis team, who, by the way, crushed Jacksonville yesterday. Jacoby Brissette is back. We got Marlon Max handbroken.

His backup rushes for 100 yards, too. Texan's team is littered with injuries. Kiki Kutique got on the field yesterday. That was kind of cool. And he also dropped the pass. And Will Fuller still isn't available. IP. And they're favored by three and a half this Thursday.

It's fine. But do you, I mean, okay, so they win this game. Is there any chance they're going to beat the Patriots at home? I guess there's a chance, but nobody's encouraged about it. here's what happens. This is a pattern that continues to repeat itself. Let's win nine or ten games. Let's have one or two really, really big victories that make you feel good about the team.

Let's have two or three massive disappointments. Let's beat up on the very below average teams. And let's get beat up on the road against really good ones. Teams that are legitimately a Super Bowl contenders. At the end of the day, it's about nine and seven, 10 and six, first run exit. And we just go over. It's like a broken record. I know kids that they don't know what records are.

But when a record is broken, it just plays over and over and over again. Texans are going, basically, it's an overuse phrase, but the Texans are going to text. That's what they did. They Texans up there. That's their identity. That's who they are. But let me ask you this. If they had a lost 31.20, would we have felt any better?

31.20? Yes. You sure? Yeah. They scored seven on what basically everybody on the Ravens defense was like checking their DMs. They weren't even paying attention. It literally looked like the Pro Bowl when Carlos Hyde ran that touchdown in.

And I was asleep. Yes. Sleep. So was the Ravens defense. They were just trying to, they were literally trying to get on the bus. All right. So let me give you the phone number out.

And look, we got 40 million topics I get to. I'd like to get into just how bad the Texans were and how much they embarrassed themselves yesterday. And how they're not on the precipice, on the cusp, if you will, of going to the Super Bowl. What they are is what they are.

They'll go to the first run in the playoffs. the Texans, everybody that's a Texan or Debbie Texan or traveling Texan is going to beat their chance. Let's put a bunch of face mask out and let's go crazy. Let's go travel. And then you're going to spend $800 to watch team get your ass kicked. They'll win a wild card game.

Are you sure? Yeah. Have you seen the, like, I mean, what's... Buffalo 7 and 3. Are we sure they're going to win a wild card? And Buffalo, I don't think they're very good. I would have to agree with you. You know what the Raiders can't come in here and win?

Yeah, the Raiders just barely beat the crappy bingles. Okay. It's right. They're going to win a playoff game. Divisional playoff game. Yeah, I think they might. They're going to lose by two to three touchdowns. It'll be fine. And you just step up to the big boys. This is like we said, the gatekeeper. And at least you got the draft going. They're going to step up to the big boys and get slapped. And then Nick Aserio will come here. Hey, I don't know. He and Bill O'Brien are going to hold their hands up in the air together like they're boxing champions. I think he passes on that job now.

Yeah. Why would Nick Casario come here to draft nobody? Yeah, unless he's just bored. Yeah. But who gets bored-winning Super Bowl rings? Unless he's looking for a challenge. Right. Why would you leave the Patriots? I mean, unless you just want...

It's like the CEO of Delta going, you know what? I think I want to fly. I think I want to run spirit. Why would you leave? That's what the Texans are. The Texans are Spirit Airlines. Yeah, you would... They'll get you there.

You might have three or four stops. You're definitely going to delay a plane. Don't give them spirit, man. Come on. At least give them frontier. Okay. The Texans are Frontier Airlines. You're going to ask the CEO, well, maybe not CEO, the CMO, the chief marketing officer of Delta and United to go run Frontier.

Have fun with that. The reason you would come here would be the guy, the head guy in charge. Bill O'Brien's not giving up his power. It's true. You're leaving one C. Bell Belichick has wrestled all the power within that organization, just the way that Bill O'Brien has here. So you're going from one, you're basically, it's basically a lateral move for a worse organization. Why would you do that?

And Nikki will not have any kind of power to fire the coach. Yeah. Because Callant let that happen. So why would you come here? Yeah, that's right. You've got no draft picks. You've got a worst team. You've got a worse organization.

And you're still not going to get any more power. And so the next general manager of the Texans, if they ever get one, will be a puppet. It'll be some stooge for Bill O'Brien. He was actually done decent as GM. Bill O'Brien's played this perfectly. Oh, man. He's a genius. This is a master stroke.

Even if they don't make the playoffs, I don't think he gets fired. No. No. Because no one else is going to want the job. Well, that's not true. Well, no, there'll be a lot of guys that want the job. You get the Sean Watson, Deionner Hopkins, at some point, JJ Watback, yeah, you want the job.

Let's go to Rick and West Houston on the Matt Thomas show. Rick, good afternoon. Good afternoon. Hello. You know, 3-9 are clear left to run runway 26 left. Go ahead there. Rick, West Houston. Yeah, I say, I was calling to tell you,

not gloating, I'm a Ravens fan, but at week seven, they were calling for John Harbaugh's head in ball. Baltimore. They lost to the Cleveland Browns. But at least Harbaugh, he has got the team to playoff, and he's adaptive. He will change his scheme, which he's done this year, or what he's doing. And I don't think that's going to happen with the Texans as long as you've got the head coach you've got. Rick, I think you're absolutely right, my man. Thanks to the phone call. All right. Thank you very much for taking it. You got a two-six left, climb a man.

Maintained 14,000 feet. Ceiling at 21. Hold there at 45 knots. Clear over 2.6 left, right? What is wrong with you? How do you know all this air pilot jargon?

I don't know. I just make it up. Go ahead. Give us the Texans on Frontier Airlines. No, I want more of this. Well, folks, pilot Nick C here. I used to work for a great airline.

We used to build $40 billion in revenue, and we used to have four and a half star to potential five on yelp in our airline review and now i'm flying this airline for you and i don't think we're going to get you there on time i can tell you what i'm sure we're not going to and i can already feel like we're running low on gas we're going to make two or three pit stops because we're trying to save fuel and of course cost sorry about the fact that normally we carry four flight attendants on this flight but uh you know we here at frontier trying to save some money we're going to two stop oh it's got to stop hang on

We'd love for you to get to Limey-Irkel Gordi Airport. Actually, we're trying to get you to Miami for the Super Bowl, but unfortunately, we're just not enough, so we're going to keep you here in Mobile for a few days. Thanks for flying with us on Frontier. That's what the Texans are. They're an airline that will get you only a certain way. You're, okay.

Or you've got to connect three times. No, no, no, no, no. You can't get there. The Miami is where the Super Bowl is issue, right? I think, yes. So we're going to fly to Baton Rouge first, then to Biloxi, then to pass. Skagula.

What? And then the Pensacola, and then we're going to stop there. Because the plane's incapable of flying all the way down to Miami. Then they kick you off onto Deshaun's bus, and they'll take you the rest of the way. No, that's the thing is you can't even get down the damn bus. The bus only goes a certain way. God, it sucks. Referees suck.

The Texans weren't good yesterday. But, man, you know what? I'm telling you drink that Texans Kool-Aid. You beat the Colts this week. It's right where we are back in first place, AFC South, that you're. Because you know that's coming, don't you? The Kool-Aid will be a drunken. It's going to happen, yeah.

Can't wait. Then they're going to lose a New England? For the record, I predicted this preseason. They were going to have a tough stretch of the schedule. They're going to lose a lot of games. And then they were going to win because the schedule softens up. And then they're going to win the AFC South and everybody's going to – And then Bill O'Brien's probably going to get an extension.

Nine and seven is not the bar. That's right. 10 and 6 will be the bar for sure. I predicted 9 and 7. It's probably going to be 10 and 6. All right. You know, just a – you know, does it just get you in him. Pissy mood, doesn't it not?

I mean, thank God the Rockets have won seven straight. I know that generally speaking, it's not a topic of a huge conversation. But James Hardin, we played a back-to-back week because I play back at point guard. The Rockets play the game Friday against Indiana. No Daniel House, no Clint Capella, no Eric Gordon. Then we jump on a... For some reason, the NBA believes that going from Houston to Minneapolis is like Houston to Love Field. We get to Minneapolis at 2.45 in the morning.

What's the weather like then around that time? About 30 degrees. Okay. I mean, it wasn't snowing or windy anything. That's just cool. Hung out there all day. And then James shoots 50 shots. Doesn't matter.

He's got no players left. No Russell Rusbrook playing. Yeah, no Russ. No Russ. Chris Clemens. Isaiah Harmstein almost has 20 rebounds. Yeah. And they win a game.

Against a Wolves team that's winning. Maybe it's time to get on the Rockets. And then the Rockets, what is it over the last? Over the stretch, they have like the number three defense and the entire NBA over this winning. James's personal defensive rating. is considered excellent. I don't take a lot from that, but yes. I don't know.

I'm not a big defensive rating. A team defensive rating, I like. Astros, buddy. You have H-grad, Tex-Mex connoisseur. Well, is there anybody more Houston than Matt Thomas? No way.

Back to the Matt Thomas show. Same old story. Same old song and death. The criticism comes, we've been, weekend, week out. You know, I can go out Thursday and light it up. and everyone is talking highly about us.

So, you know, it's a media-driven lead, and we're just going to continue to focus on us and testing and try to win games and try to get to what we want to get to. Well, so what would the reaction be if the Texans win Thursday? I mean, Texans, Karen, will be happy. Traveling Texans will be just fine, booking up their next trip. I mean, I don't know. I think our audience is like, you know what?

Beating Indianapolis will be no great shakes. Beat the Patriots. You feel a little bit better about yourself. That's not happening, though. We said they needed to go two and one for people to actually start really rallying around this football team. Well, they're one at this point. So they need to win the next two. They're like, Matt, we've heard this act before.

There's nothing fresh. That's why after a while Seinfeld episodes get old. You've seen them over and over again. You don't laugh at the same jokes every time. That's true. All I want to know is if the game was 31 to 20 or 2724 in a late field goal by Tucker to winning, would we have felt significantly different about the game yesterday? I think so.

I don't know. It's hard for me to decide on that. I mean, it just got, it just got, it was like you were in quicksand. You started off. You're trying to get out. There's a struggle. And then they just kept seeping deeper and deeper and deeper. And before you knew it, he was 34 to nothing.

I mean, just, you try to as host to go, I try to. Because look, if they're good, people are always talking about it. It's the, hey, what's the latest thing on the Texans? Listen to with any sports team. Forget about being with a Texan. I mean, it just happens to rank Supreme around these parts. But man, you just can't sink your teeth into a team and get ready for this January run. One of the biggest moments, they just don't show up.

MVP standings update for you, Matt? head. Well, I'm just asking for you because didn't you have Deshaun Watson number one? Goodbye. That's it. Finito. I told you on Friday. If one of these two quarterbacks is a lousy game, they'd probably get eliminated from the conversation. Yeah, I mean, it's Russell Wilson and Salmarne Jackson at this point. I think Christian McCaffrey's off the list now. Yeah, they got crushed, but he still had a good day. But yeah. Yeah, you can't be five and five Carolina losing at home with Atlanta and being

the MVP talk. To a running back, yeah. All right, let's go to Dennis and the Woodlands at 1252 on the Matt Thomas show. Dennis, how are you, sir? Man, doing great. How are you all today? Fine. Hey, I wanted to put the script on the Astros and the signs stealing scandal a little bit. I'm curious of y'all's input and opinions. Instead of removing technology from baseball, why don't we add it? Meaning the videos that I've seen, catchers getting lazy, he's throwing down a deuce, he's throwing down a onesie, and, you know, it's hell pretty easy to steal that.

Let's go back to the Boston scandal and look at the Apple Watches. Why don't the catcher and a pitcher have a way to communicate outside of the traditional way that's truly secluded? And I'll hang up and listen. Yeah, that's what Justin Verlander has been suggesting for a while now. Yeah. Is it there, you give an earpiece to the pitcher. And I don't know, I mean, the catcher can't really talk because the batter will be able to hear him. So I don't know exactly what would go from there.

I don't know. Maybe the pitcher calls the pitches and the catcher. shakes them off, but that changes the dynamics there. Yeah, it's a complete dynamic change. It's the manager would have to be able to speak to the player and the catcher. And there would be only only two-thirds of them could speak. The catcher can't speak under any circumstances. Unless you, I mean, he would speak, he could speak in some kind of code.

And then you're at the, I mean, they would have to be- confirm, flip, plan B, whatever you want, you know, whatever lingo you want to use. Yeah, like something that starts with an as-for slider, but I guess you would, I mean, they would pick up on that. But whatever. You would just come up with some kind of code. I mean, no pitcher has more than four pitches. So you could just come up with code word four of them for whatever.

And I guess it would get figured out then. Hmm. I have to think about this now. You'd have to change those up as well. Why don't we go to a bar? Why don't we? Yeah. And watch old Astro games and devise a plan to help these people out.

You can figure it out. You could do like a college football where somebody just somebody in the back holding up a sign. Or like a picture of something? A bunch of pictures on it. Like a picture of Eggs Benedict? Flags. Yeah. ex-Bennedics a two-seem fastball.

Okay, sounds good. Maybe the catcher can whisper. I mean, if he could speak quietly. No, no, no, no, no. No, what the catcher should be saying is, how's your wife and my kids? That's what you should be saying. Or talking to, apparently Robinson Trino's is not very chatty. He takes, he's very serious at the plate.

If I was a catcher, would I want to talk to the opposing hitters? I would just kind of say, what's up? And if I was a hitter and I knew the catcher behind me, I'd mess with I'm trying to get them off their game a little bit. He would not. Yeah, why not? You'd be very serious. Do you mess people when you play poker?

Yes. No, you do not. What? You're not a blank talker. Depending on how many drinks I'm going to presume that you're catching a majorly baseball game. You're sober. I shouldn't presume that, but, you know. If I get a little chip stack and a couple of beers in me.

Okay. Maybe I stay corrected then. I do stay corrected. Thank you, Dennis, for the phone call. Let's go to R.C. in downtown on 790. Hi, R.C. Hey, Matt. How you doing?

Good, friend. What's up? I'm great, man. I was listening to you today, and you kind of made mention that you think the NFL and maybe some sports is kind of set up and kind of fake and whatnot because of these calls and rigged and what in some type of way.

I'm glad you're kind of coming over to seeing it that way a little bit, particularly after this botch call, you would think that the referees, will get it right, but it seems like it could kind of be a little conspiratorial, but that's for another day. You talked about the

MVP race. Why don't you throw DAC in there? I think they've been Jekyll and Hyde this year, frankly. I don't think an MVP, who doesn't have a great game against the New York Jets of all teams probably is in the consideration. I mean, I'm not saying he's having a not having a bad year.

He's been a little up and down. He's been, he was great yesterday through for what, 400 yards against Detroit, but that's no great shakes. I mean, he's good. I like, you know, I've been the president of the deck. You put him in top five. Yeah, but I don't think he's, I don't think he's going to be top two. I think right now it's down to Russell Wilson and Lamar Jackson.

And I think that the third choice of whoever that may be is way down that list. Aaron Rogers talking about the conversation. He's probably going to, if they make a run, if they win about 11, 11 games, go deep in the play. He keeps playing what he's doing. So it's a regular season award. Doesn't count in playoffs. We'll see. Okay, I'm just telling you it doesn't count.

But you're right. No, I don't know. Unless DAC puts together, they don't lose another game. The rest of the regular season and they come fully win the NFC East. I don't know. I don't know. I think Aaron Rogers is going to get some running. You mentioned him.

But I really think right now it's a two-person race. Lamar Jackson. I mean, look at the numbers he put up yesterday. He, in the games, in the week's marquee game of the week, he was phenomenal. He was really good after really an anxious first quarter. Yeah. He was really, really good.

And Russell Wilson, you know, got a chance to watch him a lot in that game against the honors. He's phenomenal. We're all talking about thoroughbreds and amazing players and athletes. Yeah, DAC has been good. Dax's been good. Dax can get paid. Dack better get paid. 1257.

Let's start the second hour, the Matt Thomas show, in a matter of moments at 713, 212. 5-7-90. Those of you on hold, we will get to you, I promise. Plus, what you're talking about Bill O'Brien? That's all straight ahead. Is the Matt Thomas Show. All right, let's do this where, you know, other radio shows will just give you sound bites of the coach and go, hey, let's break these down every three or four seconds. Let's hear from the head coach. What he had to say after the game? And then we'll talk about how we see him being very optimistic with things. Well, guess what? This radio show, we keeps it real. the kids say.

R-E-A-L-Z. Nobody says that except you. Okay, well, then let me, as SportsM-T, I refer to myself in third person. Time for us to play one of America's most exciting games. It isn't fast as growing. It's just one of them that we like to do it. It's simply called which talking about bail.

What you're talking about? Coach O'Brien. All right, let's call this out here. You are the ones that broke these cuts down. Is that right, Nick? Yep. Okay. Good luck to you on this. I don't, I think I got to refresh my, let's see if the fresh cuts are in.

Fresh, fresh, fresh dues. You just have quite a few of them. All right. Starting with cut, is it 25? Is that we're starting with there? Yep, 25 through the, well, you can see it. This is inside radio here. Yeah, this is inside radio.

Okay, let's just go with a lay-up drill. 34 seconds. What challenges does Shortweek make for the scouting department? I mean, I don't know. know, there's a lot of challenges. Every week's challenging when it comes to scouting, but you obviously don't have a lot of time. Guys don't get as much time to heal up, and we just got to

get ready to go, but same thing on the other side, so we're going to be ready to go for Thursday. Yeah, no, that's a good question. I mean, they've worked hard over last, you know, obviously last week. They're always a week ahead, but even before that. I almost said that. Scouts, just like every team

that are at the different games of the opponents that we play. So, but you're right. I mean, it is a challenge on a short week, they've done some different things even since the last time we played them. They're a very disciplined team, very well-coached team, and we're going to have a bunch of jog-throughs and meetings and things like that and try to be ready to go on Thursday night. Yeah, zero stars.

Thank you. Yep, with. Not a great start. That's okay. Let's give you a chance to get your mojo back. 36 seconds. 36. Yeah, what are the mental challenges of a short week after a loss?

Mental challenges. Well, actually, I think in some ways it can be a benefit. I mean, every week we try to just clear out. And we go one week to the next. We try to go one and oh every week and every week. You just got to clear your head and you've got to look ahead to the next one. And this one comes up quick. So we've got to be prepared.

You can get the loss, the bad taste out of your mouth. And it's an opportunity to win that comes a little bit sooner. Yeah, I actually think that's probably a good thing. You know, I think that, you know, these guys, you know, we have a resilient locker room. These guys will come in here today. They'll come in. We'll squad meet at 2 p.m. We'll meet more special teams, O&D, get right to Indianapolis,

and then have a walk through tonight. And these guys will be ready. They'll be very focused. They're a great group to coach. They realize that in the NFL, it's a week-to-week. Oh, God, you crushed. But on a short week, I think I know that these guys will be very focused. If only he'd have said bad taste out of your mouth,

I thought I would have completely nailed it. Four and a half out of five. Nick, you agree on that one? Yeah, that was good. You crushed. Another layup drill for you. 33 seconds. Is there an edge to being at home on a short week?

Yeah, I mean, look, there's always an edge when we're going at home because we know we have the best fans in the NFL, and they always give us that extra little boost, so we're happy to be home on the short week. You don't have to travel, so when it's a short week, you don't have as much time to do certain things, not having to travel really helps out. So we know the fans are going to be ready. We're going to be ready Thursday night. Yeah, I mean, I think that, you know, obviously that can be an advantage, you know, but at the same time, you know, we were at Baltimore and traveled back.

You know, it's good that we're home on that type of short week. Indianapolis was home. They're traveling to Houston. You know, so I don't know. I don't know if you can read too much into that. I know we're happy to be home. We're excited about being home. We know our fans, you know, are a big on that one.

a real good game on Thursday night from us and our players and our coaches, we realize that. And we're, you know, we're going to be ready for that challenge. Yeah, we'll get to. No, I'll give him to. He always says best fans in the NFL and he didn't say it there. Maybe he doesn't believe that. Well, he doesn't ever believe it, nor should he, but it's usually half empty, but. Because you know why?

The tailgating is so good. I give you one star in that one. I'm giving you two. I can't believe he didn't say best fans in the NFL. I'm actually upset. All right. Last one. Let's go, uh, 48 and a half.

seconds. Let me get ready for this one. Easier or harder to identify what to fix on a short week? What? I mean, we always go back and look at the film and review the game, and we know what mistakes are going to correct, whether it's a short week or not. So, I mean, we got some things, obviously, we need to correct. We didn't perform the way we wanted to yesterday in Baltimore.

So we're just going to look at the tape. We're going to get better. And that's what we try to do every week. So short week or not, we're just going to try to get better and get the thing corrected and fix that we can fix? I think that I don't know if it's easier or harder, but I know there's a big time sense of urgency relative to what you're asking.

So when you get back here last night, you already've watched the tape on the plane. You have an idea of how the game was played and what we need to do to correct some things and what may carry over to this game. And so you get right to work on that because there's an urgency. There's a game Thursday night.

I mean, basically this is Thursday of a game week. You know what I mean? So, you know, we've got to get going. And so I think that's a good thing. I think that we came in here last night as coaches. We worked at it. We got a little bit of sleep. We got back up early and we have a pretty good idea on what we want to do.

And now we have to have good meetings and communicate it to the players and then good jog-throughs and get the players to know precisely what we want to do and build that and be ready to go on Thursday night. So let me ask you this. Just because you spent a lot of hours in a film room, it doesn't pay off. They didn't loaf last week, right? Right. They spent a lot of hours. they didn't get much sleep.

They sat and looked at film over and over and over again. They saw what Lamar Jackson did. And it didn't matter. They lost. And we're not competitive. There's not a coaching staff in the NFL that doesn't work hard. Everybody works hard. Just some are better and work smarter and are better than others.

Yes. More times than not, the Texans are going to lose that coaching battle. You and I can watch film for 10, 10 hours, man. It's probably not going to be as good as say, either Bill O'Brien or Bill of Belichick or someone. or Tom Brady watching film for 10 hours. That's right. Yeah. If I need to evaluate game show host, I'm about the best it comes at that.

If I'm looking to evaluate tape on how to stop Lamar Jackson on a third and 11, probably not going to be me. So I'll give you two stars in that one too. You did a great job. I tried. All right. That was what you're talking about Bill O'Brien, a weekly feature here. We make sound bites at least try to, at least halfway interesting here. I mean, Bill O'Brien's not interesting in itself.

So it's better if we have a fun little game with it. All right. 713212-125790. Let's go to Matt and Spring at 109 on the Matt Thomas show. Matt, how are you? Doing well, and thank you for having me on the air. I enjoy listening to you while I'm driving around the wonderful world of Houston. But anyway, look, I want to go in a different direction.

I don't know exactly what you said, Burlander believes, but I think we need to take a step backwards on technology, because think about it, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, what type of technology would be available, and are you going to introduce it into sports? I think baseball. I mean, you don't have talking pieces between the pitcher and catcher. You don't allow a video camera, you know, focusing on the catcher.

And I know that, you know, baseball broadcasts that, and I don't know if that could be stopped, but you probably can't. But the reality is, I mean, my God, you know, I'm a Cardinal fan. and I was really upset when the Cardinals hacked into the Houston's, you know, executive Luton House deal, but this is bad, too. And I just don't understand why professional athletes would want to treat like that. I mean, to that degree, knowing they're going to get freaking caught, there's no doubt.

And see, they don't know that though, Matt. They don't know at that point in time they're ever going to get caught. But think about it. Hold on, man. Hold on, Matt. Matt, let me finish. When people cheat on things, what percentage of people, that are currently involved in the cheating aspect

if they're going to get caught. And regardless if it's their taxes, whether it's their spouse, whether it's at work, whether it's in baseball, what percentage in your mind at the moment say, I better not do this because I'm going to get caught?

I think it's a very small percentage. Well, yeah, but it also depends what the action is. If you're an independent person doing something, you probably have a much higher level of belief that you're going to be able to succeed to, let's say you're doing your taxes, and that's a good subject.

A great question by you, by the way. But when you've got nine or ten guys are involved in a baseball game, and guys get treated, they get treated poorly by their... Whatever it is. It's just crazy they did that. I mean, I did not believe there was a chance that they really had done that when the speculation, the rumor, hit the streets. But going back to my point is, old-time baseball, keep it simple.

You know, the catcher covers the signals. And if you pick up, and if you on the bench coach picks up the other team's third baseman's coach, signals, good for you. If you don't do it, okay. But that's what has to happen. I mean, I remember, but we all play baseball, and you try to pick up the other key signals.

And that's fine. And that's the thing, Matt, and thank you for the phone call. There's nobody, nobody's complaining about stealing signs when it's done the old-fashioned way. But when you put a computer, when you put television monitors and trash cans and illegal video cameras, that's where it gets, it's unethical. And then add on to the report of,

When you have somebody within the organization and executive emailing scouts saying, hey, can we go ahead and do this? And what was the details in the email or something like, hey, we need to figure out what we can pick up from these guys and all this type of stuff. When you are going that deep. Well, unfortunately, I can give you the exact verbity because it's part of this ESPN story. One thing in specific we are looking for is picking up signs coming out of the dugout. What we are looking for is how much we can see how we would log things if we need cameras, binoculars. So go to game, see what you can or can't do, and report back your findings. That is deep with that. That's an organizational effort to cheat and to skirt the rules and to break the rules.

ESPN, by the way, reporting that the email that was written that was sent out of the scouts is Kevin Goldstein, who was a special assistant to Jeff Luno. Kevin Goldstein used to work in the media business as an evaluator of minor league talent, was director of pro scouting, I want to say, for the athletes. Astros at some point. I know they've reconfigured things. Here's the thing. And thank you, Rick, again, for the phone call. If you're going to do something as sensational as doing what the Astros are, it better be a small group of people that know about it. Emailing doesn't help the cause. Having the scouts that were asked to do this, who probably many of them are no longer

with the team anymore. Because remember the Astros a couple years ago, got it run a bunch of scouts, these guys are going to have loose lips. They're going to be bent. They're going to be upset. They lost their job. They're going to be upset that they, you know, for one reason or the other way, they were treated. And they're going to go run to anybody that wants to hear them.

This is pretty brazen and pretty foolish from an organization that I thought was very, very smart and knew what they were doing. I will say this until I'm blue in the face. As an astro fan, forget about me holding this microphone on my hand. I am devastated about what is about to come to the Astros. I'm scared and a little anxious I think it's going to be bad I think it's going to be really bad and it's going to make me sick to my stomach

that my team that won a world series that has been as good as it's been for the last three years is going to have this reputation carried Rossi until everybody gets losing

until there's new general manager a new manager a new ownership group this could stick with them for an exceptional period of time it'll be interesting see how much this taints

legacy, because the legacy is tainted right now. Matt has eye trouble. He's having trouble seeing Dallas win anything anytime soon. Sorry about that, friends to the north. Back to the Matt Thomas show. Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790 will go to the NFL recap for the weekend, including a huge comeback yesterday for the Minnesota Vikings. Dack was great for Dallas against Detroit.

Don't steal all my material, Matt. I'm not stealing anything of it. And there is a new leader atop AFC South if you were to do tiebreakers. That will be settled on Thursday, Matt. First blush, Texans or Colts? One, two, three. Texans. Texans.

You were, Nick was very demonstrative. I was. What do you got? Stronger convictions. Yeah, let's go. One, two, three. Texans. Texans.

You realize, Nick, if you're right, that will be a three-game losing streak, because they ain't beating the cold. I mean, he ain't beaten the Patriots. I told when you asked me this a week ago, I said, is O and three an option? You said, no. And I was like, well, that's what I'm going with. O and three, followed by three and one, it puts them at nine and seven, and that is the bar. They'll be very Texans of them. They go one and one, then three and one.

They'll finish four and two. That'll put them at 10 and six. So does that make this weekend, does that make this weekend a must-win game? In my opinion, it does. But every time I get an arguing with you about this, you may. and you look bad, so I don't want it to have the conversation with you. I don't look bad. It's just we disagree.

It's fine. They can go in three and then win the last four. Yeah. And they'll get their 10 and six. They're going to win the, if they lose three in a row, how are they going to win the four in a row to close out the year? Because it's Denver, Tennessee, twice, and who's the other one? Tampa Bay.

Yeah. Yeah. Come on. You tell me they can't go four. Yeah. Probably three and one. They'll probably lose. James Winston will probably, well, throw like six interceptions and then like five touchdowns

or something. Denver actually had a really big lead. They were up about 20 in the second half against Minnesota. We'll save it for the NFL. Yeah, come on. I don't think I'd talk about. Oh, I do talk about that one, actually. Let's continue on the phones.

Let's go to Ben in Memorial on Sports Talk, Seminani. Hi, Ben. Mike, with this Astro is cheating thing. I mean, it's obviously really disappointing when the organization has portrayed itself for a while is being this really kind of upstanding thing. but you know when you all say quote real bad is there any like consensus on what the league is leaning towards in the way of punishment and I'll you know hang up and let's the face

there's no way we know no one is saying a word nothing has come out about what's going to happen but we can just go for for precedent's sake we talked about the cardinals thing and the hacking that was a two million dollar fine million two million dollar fine and then the cardinal had to give their top two picks.

At that time, they didn't have a first round pick for whatever. I can't remember what the reason was. They had to give a second and third round pick to the Astros. In the Rob Manfred era, that's the biggest punishment that he's handed out. There's international pool money. You can spend on foreign players. That's going to be gone. I think they're going to lose draft picks.

Yes. They are going to potentially face suspensions involving, I think. I think AJ is getting suspended. AJ, I think, is in trouble, I think, and I don't want him to be. I don't. No, I don't. This crush me. AJ, if you're listening, give me some sort of son that you're not involved with this at all. Blake, bark twice if you're in Milwaukee.

Yeah. A.J.'s, if I had to bet, look, we're speculating, right? Let's be clear with the call. We don't know. This is 100% guess mode. Right. If they're trying to make a statement, how big of a fine do you think they levy on the organization? It could be $5 million.

100 billion dollars for that 100 billion dollars would be a little excessive yeah we're going to talk in the million we're talking in the millions we're talking about AJ I think at least half the year he's going to get suspended this is me speculating that you'll lose multiple first round draft picks and for an office people that were involved

are going to face some sort of suspension can't come to the office kind of thing we might even see luno suspended I think I think luno is going to get suspended this makes me if I'm if I'm really, if I'm really just going to handle this. I can't handle the team that I have loved since I was a child.

Finally, I, you know how Facebook gives you anniversary things, you know? The time hop thing. There was three years ago, they came in here, areas two years ago, it's me and Reed Ryan Holden the World Series trophy. I was in a picture with you for the two. I mean, I'm weeping like a baby. This is the team that I love. That was really cool when the World Series trophy came up here.

The World Series trophy was in this studio sitting next to me. I was massaging it like a teddy bear. And this sucks. This is embarrassing. I'm, I'm horrified by this. And this isn't a, everybody else doing it so back off. this isn't, that isn't the case in this particular situation. They use extreme, illegal, unethical means.

And I got some Yankee Gibroni who was looking at every game film and finding stuff every day and putting on his Twitter account. Yeah, that guy's been a little bit off, though. Doesn't matter. He's muted for me. Devastated. And I'm going to be further devastated when our program director gets an email and says, hey, press conference. in 48 minutes. And we're going to carry it live on Sports Talk 790.

And Ron Manfred's going to go in front of national television and he's going to explain everything that his investigators found out. Can I say something too? We just got a tweet. And I'm seeing a lot of this. So I think it needs to be addressed. Houston Sports 281, pump the brakes. They don't have proof of anything other than fires and trash cans,

which they didn't do during the playoffs. Other teams have cheated with technology and barely got a slap on the wrist. I guess I got news for you, Ashros. fans and these guys who are putting their head in the sand. And there was a guy tweeting me like, oh, this Evandrelich got fired by the Astros and Red Sox. I don't know where all this information is coming from. And everyone is acting like this is a fake news media

hit job. This is deeper than other teams. And the fact of the matter is the Astros are going to get a heavy-handed punishment. You can keep putting your head in the sand and you can keep saying there's not proof. And you can keep saying that they did nothing wrong and everybody else is doing it. If you want to live in a fantasy land,

Astro's fan, you can keep. do that. But the fact of the matter is the Astros cheated. There was a lot of people involved. They're going to be interviewing Beltran, Cora, Hinch, and they're... By the way, Alex Cora may be part of this too. He may be getting

suspended too. There's going to be big punishments and the Astros deserve the punishments that are coming their way. I'm sorry. And I'm vomiting over this. It is what it is. Put your head in the sand if you want. If they don't get heavily suspended and it's just a fine and that's it,

they'll be very lucky. Unless you're telling me that Mike fires lied, Danny Farquhar was way off, the unnamed sources are far off, this email is fake, and Ken Rosenthal is making everything up, all that would have to be true.

And it's just, it's not. Get your freaking head out of the sand. And remember, if this is the New York Mets, we're waiting for them to get destroyed. If this were the Yankees or this were the Red Sox, or the Tampa Bay raise that you played in the playoffs this year,

you are crushing them. If everything is the same, except if it says Houston Astros, it says New York Yankees on everything, you are crushing them. Be honest with yourself. My girl, Grace, who we love more than life itself.

And the local media, also their speculation is ridiculous. So much overthinking, so much gloom. Yes, I'm sorry. You're sports MT and sports RV. This is going to go down as one of the biggest scandals. in the history of the sport. I love you, Grace.

More than life itself. But you're being naive on this. They're coming after the Astros, and they're coming after them hard. And I'm sick to my stomach about it. Because I do have an emotional attachment to anything they do. I have an emotional attachment to anything to rockets do. It's just a truth.

And now they've got Kevin Goldstein's name on an email on this. E-mailing a scout saying, hey, get your video. Multiple scouts. E-mailing scouts. hey, get your video cameras and get your binoculars out. Okay. Do they have that on every other team? No, they have it on the Astros.

Matt, I will continue to go to your analogy, Matt, of everybody cheats in college football and basketball. Team got caught red-handed, and that team is the Astros. Yep. I just, selfishly, I hope this is just 2017. I hope this is not a multi-year investigation. That is a very big point because that's when everything went out and said, hey, stop doing this. If they stopped after that, I think the punishment won't be as severe. If they kept going, it's going to get ugly.

1.30 on the Matt Thomas show, 713, 212, 570. Craig Ackerman here. When I'm not calling Rockets basketball, I'm following at SportsRV on Twitter. You're listening to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 136 on Sports Talk 790 Apparently we're being too much of a doom and gloom on the asterers I'm just We're just two people having a conversation who I'm wondering aloud

Like we said speculating Speculation I hope we're wrong The local team is involved in a huge scandal And we're just wondering how it's going to play out It's our job to talk about it Yeah I'm not I'm not here to sell you on what I think Is going to be a positive impact on this

I'm just not I'm scared to death and that's what our job is, is to speak on what is happening like we would be happening with any other sports team. It just happened to be the one with the word of Houston across the chest. And that's the one that makes it worse, honestly. Because I wouldn't have an emotional feeling towards if the Giants did this. If the Arizona Diamondbacks did this, we'd be like, wow, I wonder what's going to happen.

I wonder if the manager is going to get suspended. I wonder what kind of fine is going to be levied. I wonder if they'll lose draft picks. This happens to be here. And our World Series team. Yeah, that sucks. Anyway, All right, let's get it started off with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Indianapolis.

Colts, Matt, the Colts now 6 and 4 with a 33 to 13 big time win. Disappointing day for Leonard Fournett, only eight carries and 23 yards, although he did catch seven balls for 34. Leonard Fournett, let's go ahead and hear from you. I mean, what's going on with this Jacksonville Jaguars team? This one would probably rather forget. How would you sum it up? I mean, I ain't got no answer.

So what I got? Well, what else? I'm good. Oh. I mean, I got no answer for no questions, so nothing to say. How could the team play better? That's a coach question, not mine. What did you see in the running game holes early?

No, I couldn't tell you. I guess, you know, for this offense, what has to change? It's a coach question, once again. I couldn't tell you. Is it hard for you to not get Yeah, but I mean, I got certain things out of my control. Worried at all about the team winner

4 and 6, obviously a lot going into this game now and much at stake today and to come away with a tough loss going forward. Relax the coach that. My job, I'm trying to do my job, so that's what it is. Oof. Very talkative.

Leonard Fournette after the game, Matthew. I saw that this morning when I was looking around the NFL. Why do athletes do that? We just want to make fun of you for three hours. We don't understand you're mad. He's pissed. Being in front of the microphone, Ross and I argue about this is part of the responsibility.

That's fine. I have no problem with him doing that. I think it's funny. I don't have a problem with it just makes you look like an ass. But he kept saying, ask coach, ask the coach. You think there's a little Doug Marone consternation towards Doug Maron

I don't know there Bill O'Brien, Doug Maron. I'm with you on that. That just shows you how bad that is. All right, let's move along, Matt. You talked about this one earlier. The Denver Broncos going to the half

up 20 to nothing on the Minnesota Vikings. The last 99 times that happened in the NFL, a team won. But unfortunately for the Denver Broncos, it didn't turn out that way. First and 10 from Denver's 32. Cousins under center play action. Bootlegs out to the left.

Looking to the left. Firing. A ballistic bootleg coverage by the Denver Broncos. 27 to 23 victory. Matt, what do you make of Kirk Cousins? He was huge in that second half on the season. 21 touchdowns. Three interceptions and the Vikings now eight and three.

I wouldn't trust him. Just saying. He's having a good year. Do you trust Kirk Cousins yesterday? I wouldn't. say so. He's on a Matt Schaub trust level. You know, the best of Matt Schaub is the best of Kirk Cousins?

He ain't winning. Matt Schaub never had 21 to 3 ratio. He's not, they're not going to the Super Bowl. Just not. Okay. Just saying, Vikings looking pretty good. He's made so much money, though, in his career, though. It's so crazy.

Nice guy, though, apparently. Yeah, good for him. And he looks like a mannequin. All right, moving along. Let's go with the Oakland Raiders, who could be coming into the town for a playoff game with the Texas win the AFC South. They got a win against the winless bingles who are now 0-10. Derek Carr had some interesting comments after the win.

Our Madden ratings are really low, but we're pretty good at football. You know what I mean? We got good coaches. We got good guys that compete their tails off. You know, we got guys that work extremely hard. And we believe in our coaches and we believe in our system. We believe in each other. And to see our defense, you know, win us another game is huge.

If they can hold people to 10 points in this league, you know, Hopefully more times than not, we can win the football game. So our Madden ratings aren't very good, but we're a pretty solid squad, says Derek Carr. A quick side-know, Matt, why does he sound like he's from Mississippi in that quote? He's raised in Houston, Texas. Our Biden ratings are pretty good. There's a southern draw in this town. Yeah, there's a little bit.

Yeah, depending. I mean, he sounds like he's from Baytown. Yeah, what? Give it just a little bit of that, Nick. A little bit of that quote again. Derek, listen to Derek. Mad ratings are really low, but we're pretty good at football. You know what I mean?

We got good coaches. We got good guys that compete their tails off. We got guys that work extremely hard, and we believe in our coaches, and we believe in our system. We believe in each other. And to see our defense, you know, win us another game is huge. If they can hold people to 10 points in this league, you know, hopefully more times than not, we can win the football game. Yeah.

Do we know where the car family lived when they were here? He sounds like we're in orange, and he's giving me directions to the hardware store. Now, you won't make a left down there on the Main Street. and then go to take a ride on first and you'll be right there. Oakland and Buffalo, wildcard teams in the AFC South. Call it. Yes. Oakland's in for sure.

I mean, I'm sorry, Buffalo's in for sure just because of their soft-ass schedule. I'll go with Oakland as the second one. Just saying. Especially with the Steelers. I don't know what they got going on. All right, let's move along quickly here. Final one. I don't know how much a Sunday night football you caught Matt,

Los Angeles Rams scoring. Only 17 points, but they won by 10. The Bears offense. awful yet again Mitchell Trubisky pulled late in the game in favor of Chase Daniel what Matt Nagy says it was just an injury

and an abrupt ending in the segment that's when you could feel it and what we felt and I think what you're going to see is he started throwing with all arm and not a lot of legs and your torque with your hips and that's what that's what we felt so of course as Dak Prescott will tell you the hips are important to any quarterback throw but buy or sell do you believe

it or not, Matt. Chase Daniel was in there only because Trubisky is hurt, or did he try to, was Matt Nagy trying to jumpstart the office? What will I always tell you about athletes, coaches, and players, and owners? They lie. And he's lying. Okay. And that is your NFL recap.

By the way, remember Mitch Trubisky last week was the one was turning down the sound in the Chicago Bears practice facility because anyone hear the harsh comments? You really don't want to watch NFL recap shows. Yeah, you really don't. Or the NFL recap on the Matt Thomas show. All right, there you have it.

144 on the Matt Thomas show, 713, 212, 5790. We are open line the rest of the way. Ross, what is, believe it or not today coming up at 252? Go ahead and hit the cricket something. It's almost like when I say, Ross, what is today's edition of, that's the cricket sound automatic? I don't know. What do you think? Ravens beatdowns, Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore.

I don't want to talk about Baltimore anymore. It just makes you sad. We've had more astro sign stealing calls, and we've had out. the Texans today. People checked out of the game. How many of you napped when I napped? Raise your hand if you watched, Carlos Hyde scored the touchdown.

I didn't. I was asleep. This is Craig Ackerman. And the Rockets get the job done. Oh, here's another new catchphrase I have for you. Good gracious. Good gracious! You're listening to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. I usually go to Twitter on this,

but it got official words. from the Rockets just a manner of moments ago? What was your favorite Ryan Anderson as a rocking moment? Yeah, once I saw him completely, once Clint Capella went down and then you needed help with Tyson Chandler and he didn't get a minute. It was DMPCD. I was like, well, I think he's played in two games this year. Don't hold me to that.

Okay. Took seven shots in two games, I think. Did not play a lot. 140 games of the rocket, 122 as a starter, but today that Ryan Anderson along with the Rockets. Good guy, really good guy, just doesn't have a lot left in the tank. It's been often traveled since his trade from the Rockets to Phoenix. I'll tell you what, Darryl has done this.

It's crazy. Now, I don't mean you beat your chest over this, but he has traded some really crazy contracts. He traded Ryan Anderson when no one thought you could trade Ryan Anderson. True. Now, granted, everybody that came back in the trade is, gone now, but that money's off the table. And you treaded Chris Paul. Remember how much money Chris Paul was left to be paid in the number of years?

He's making $40 million. Is this year and next? Or further? Yeah, I think it's over two or three years. So point being is that, you know, you don't always win draft picks. You don't always win trade. You don't always win free agent acquisitions. But Darry has been able to figure out somehow, some way to trade contracts, especially when those players, uh, the best of their days. have come and go flying Ryan Anderson Greatest dunk ever For a white man I ever saw

We were in Phoenix And he tomahawked one from the free throw line I'm like that man can fly It was like I needed a What's the name of the song? I can believe I can fly in the background Yes R. Kelly from a space jam That was on the Rockets Row up like 60 against the Phoenix Suns

And he goes with that emphatic throwdown It was pretty damn good I think we should avoid playing Rkelly Is it about music or anything Does it make you uncomfortable? No makes you know everyone else on the planet uncomfortable what's his wife's name

Mark Kelly yeah he has like 15 girlfriends oh I thought he was married to some hottie no they're just girlfriends they're all you know 17 or under yeah he briefly married a Leo when she was like 15 oh you know I'm mixing up I'm mixing up the model with the singer

oh you're talking about John Legend no no no no no no no no no no there's a really ugly singer that's married to a hot model. I thought it was Art Kelly. I guess I'm wrong. I better get caught up on my VH1.

Yeah, you better get caught. Who am I thinking of? Really hot female. I don't know. Married to an ugly male singer. I'll go to R&B singer. Somebody helped me. Somebody help me on who I'm talking about here.

I know I'm... Let's go to R&B divas Atlanta. Is that what it is? You know how bad yesterday was of the Texans game? My wife put on the real house... Wives, Palooza, which is in New York. All of them are together. They were all together. Doing what? Just sitting on this stage

in New York. And she's like, this is the greatest show ever. And I'm like, what? Can we put the game on? Oh, another Baltimore touchdown. I'm going to sleep. Oh, man. That sounds horrible. That's right. Seal and Heidi Klum. Heidi Klum. Thank you, how he call her four is.

You think seal's ugly? Just because of the thing on his face? Facial scars? I mean, isn't he got like indentures in those things in his face? I mean, it's just a scar. Is he attractive yesterday? He's got lupus. Is he attractive? I think ladies would think he's attractive.

Yeah, he was pretty ripped, right? When he's saying Kissed by a Rose, didn't he have like a silk shirt on that was all on button? So it's seal and his girl is Heidi Klum. Yeah, Heidi Klum was named. Why didn't you not know that? I said, I said, ugly singer and hot model. I don't know. I thought you were going, I'll love it.

Julia Roberts on us. Austin and Katie on the Matt Thomas show. Hi, Austin. What's going on, Matt? How are you doing today? Well, how are you? Man, I've been down in the dumps about the Astros, but other than that, doing pretty good. Okay, what do you got?

So here's what I've got, and I want to preface this to say, I am not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a strategist more so. What do you guys think about the effect, or I guess, let me start with this. So most of the stuff that's coming out about the Astros and cheating, it's from 2017. Last time I checked the calendar, it's 2019, almost 2020. Why is it almost two years later? We're just now investigating this again for the second time. Remember, MLB did it the first time when they were in the postseason because the Red Sox were complaining so much.

So why is it just coincidentally all of a sudden we're investigating again, which is also on the heels of the start of free agency? Because the reporters, Austin, are getting this information now. I mean, they're not, these are. reporters didn't find out in October of 2017. They're finding out in October 2019. Sure, but wasn't Mike Fears there in October of 17? Fires.

Fires, and he didn't speak. And he didn't speak. I mean, he spoke within the last three months. He didn't speak when he was a part of the Astros organization. I just find the timing very unique or very, very interesting. You shouldn't. There's nothing about the timing. Stuff gets uncovered years out all the time.

Yeah, there's, that do not. let the timing of this play a factor in it at all. There's nothing to do with it. Sure. Not like that much of a chance of Garrett Cole, but I mean, there's no way that he can play for those bunch of degenerates now, right? Oh, my God. No, if the Astros won't offer him $40 million a year, Garret Coe will play for the Astros. This is not going to deter their free agency under any circumstance. Absolutely not. I think so? Yeah. Nope. Garrett Cole is going to make the most money he humanly can. If it's going back to Pittsburgh,

so be it. But that won't be the case. I envision. That would be a shocker. That would be a shocker. That's true. No. And let's be truthful. This will not impact for agency.

I don't think so. No. I don't think you should. No, because there's no salary cap, so to speak. So they can't dock the asteros $25 million less. Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, that won't have anything to do with it. Hmm.

And again. They'll have less money to spend because of fines. Yeah, I mean, when, when problems happen with sports teams, they don't get reported the day after they incident took place. It takes sometimes, depending on the situation. Like the SMU cheating scandal happened in 82, 83, 84. Well, you know, they didn't finally get to it ultimately.

Well, what, 85, 86? I mean, these are just things that are just going to, you know, it takes people talking. It takes investigations. And just because a reporter finds out about something a month or two months after it happens, they're going to have to do their due diligence because Ken Rosenthal and Evandrellich are not going to put their names on something without having. a lots and lots of evidence behind them. Yeah.

So timing of this is, there's no conspiracy to the timing at all. 158. Let's get the final hour. The Matt Thomas show started. We'll do that at 713-212-5-7-8. Can we play a SEAL song coming back to honor him? I mean, we've made fun of his face and he's really... It's basically two, right? It's crazy and then the Kiss by a Rose.

Yeah, Kiss by a Rose is good. Okay. That's a, that's a jam. That is a, that is a romantic jam. I used to love that song. It reminds me in the Batman movie, right? Right. Was it Batman Robin or Batman Forever?

Batman Returns. Yeah, it was an early one because I... It was early. It was like Batman Forever. No, it was the Danny DeVito. Are you sure? Because you know why? Because I didn't watch these last three or four.

Okay. I was a... I watched Michael Keaton and I watched the Joker one and when Kim Basinger was a catwoman. Okay. So I'll go with that. Final hour, Sports Talk, 790. 713212-2-5-790's heart.

You can reach us here. As the Texans suffered, a very embarrassing setback, right? Needless to say, very embarrassing setback to the Baltimore Ravens. You want to get on that. A lot of astro stuff still to get to college football. If you're a Texas fan, if you're a Cougar fan, we're not a bowl eligible this year. Is the Matt Thomas show. This feels like a gaudy parody in the works. It came on the dark side of me.

Don't you feel like that Gordy could do a parody off of this song? This is a jam back of the day. Now that I know it is from Batman Forever, I'm on that side. He's ugly. It was Nicole Kidman was in this. There was the Nicole Kidman. That was like the Val Kilmer and Nicole Kidman one, right? What happened in the song?

Apparently that was a bad fight. Oh, yeah, that happens. That's in our system. That's not his fault. That's right. Our system sucks. By the way, more Astros News. Yuleiguri-Hell, won-year contract worth 8.3.

million dollars with a chance to make an additional 250 and bonuses. He has the right to declare for aency at the end of the season. He had the right to go to arbitration if he had not signed the guaranteed contract. So he's one year, $8.3 million for a hell of a first basement. Yeah.

That's a good value. And I think, frankly, at this point, the Asteros will be looking for a new first baseman come 2021. Jordan Alvarez? Can you give him? him a year to learn the spot?

Two years. Yeah. He should be in whatever Dominican ball or something right now working on it. Although, why can't you play him to DH every day? Because, I mean, you would like him to get in the field a little bit as well because then you can use the DH. The Astros like to use the DH as a rest spot. True. But if Yulee, Guariel can't, actually, Yudu, if Yoron cannot field any position. First base is underrated, especially with this organization. That's true.

Bagwell was an excellent defensive first baseman. Berkman did okay for himself. Yuley's been getting better and better every day. Yuley's really good now. Yeah. I feel like I want to go watch Batman now. Thanks for doing this, guys. Batman forever sucked, yeah.

That's the second worst movie ever made. What's the first one? Batman and Robin. I was going to say Batman and Robin's way worse. Wait a minute. Y'all are saying in the history of movies, those are the two worst? I didn't say that. Yeah, they're right up there.

We did. What is the absolute worst movie you've ever seen. Let me give you a few. Okay. When I was a young man, I had a major crush on Olivia Newton, John. Did you want to get physical with her?

That's not the movie, though. That was a bad one. That was with John Travolta and Mary Lou Henner. That was a bad movie. Zanadu was way worse. I don't even know what that is. Don't even look it up. I'm familiar with Zanagan.

One great song Zanadu was in the movie. I'll give you one. But let me give you the most recent awful. I told you one. The one about the guy, the two guys needing wedding dates. Oh, okay. That was awful. Not funny.

Battlefield Earth. That's got to be one of the worst movies. That's John DeVoltter, right? That's the one off of Scientology, basically, right? Yeah, kind of. Elwha Hubbard? Right. The last movie I walked out of was Chuck and Larry need wedding dates, I think is what they call it, whatever it was?

God. I have never walked out of a movie. I walked out of a sound of thunder. Yeah, that's right. You told us that. Okay. Terrible movie. What other terrible movies have there been? Definitely Batman and Robin is up there for sure.

Why was Batman Robin so bad? It was horrible. You never seen... They're like zooming in on their butts and their plastic nipples and it was all cheesy. That was the one with the Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze and he's like, it's getting ice cold in here. He's just making stupid ice puns the entire time. You're right. I'm glad I didn't see that.

The only two I've seen... That's what I call a freeze frame. Like some kind of terrible, like, didn't he make like, 15 terrible cold puns. It's all around a terrible movie. Okay, the only two Batman's I've seen was one of the villains was the penguin and one was the Joker. Hmm.

And that was... The two Michael Keaton ones? Yeah, that was Phil, not Phil Mickelson. Tim Burton? No. Jack Nicholson as the Joker. Okay. Jack Nicholas?

Jack Nicholas and Phil Miclinson were golfers in the Batman movies. You got your golfers mixed up. You didn't see any of the new. ones? Like the dark night is the dark night's pretty well Nick's going to call it overrated because that's what he does. Yeah.

My. Yeah, good. Let's move on because we've, we've, it's overrated though, isn't it? We've got other terrible things going on the world of sports like the Texas. predictable. Sorry.

I felt like I got Cisco and Iber with me here. Focus. Go ahead. So just how bad were the Texans yesterday? How bad were they? Well, they're so bad. They got down 34 to nothing. They lost 41 to 7.

Deshawn Jackson. I mean, Sean Watson was a disaster. Lamar Jackson was great. And if it weren't for that 41-yard touchdown by Carlos Hyde, you would have nothing from the run game as well. You had nothing the whole day. You just did. It was horrible.

Were you? Did you show up? I was right. Sundays are my main veg day. I don't like to get on the phone. I don't like to talk to people. I'd just like to just lay in front of my television and watch hours and hours of football.

And I thought to myself, all right, Justin Tucker's going to miss this field goal. By the way, the thing that pissed me off at the beginning, was the non-pass interference call by DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah, that was bad. We have to once again revisit that. How are we supposed to as sports fans trust the NFL?

When they, Rossi, that officiant crew should be fired. That was such an obvious call, so bad, it gives you zero faith that the NFL is ever going to change anything about instant replay. We do not trust you officials.

Ross, we don't trust any officials. No, they suck. What's our problem? When? We just came from complaining about umpires, the entire playoffs. Right. We complained about NBA officials all the time. Yeah.

Playoffs, it's bad. How much we complain. Then why are we doing this? Why are we investing our finances, our emotions, and our desires in three sports that we can't trust the officials? Wow, you sound like me staring at my ceiling at 3 a.m. It's a truth. Yeah, I'm serious. Yeah, why?

I don't know. The only sport we can trust, sort of, is golf because we have people that like to call in and give up reports on violations. People that aren't at home in their easy chairs. I can't trust baseball umpiring. I can't trust strike zones. I can't trust whether a ball clears the net or the fence or not. I can't trust officials when they caught. I mean, they have this new challenge system in the NBA Ross that we use.

You can only use it one time. Yeah. And every time that I'm a part of it. the call gets overturned. What do you mean? Like we've done it on the home games. I'm right next to the replay official, or not official, but the monitor supervisor, whatever. And he's communicating with Secaucus, New Jersey.

Seacucus. Every time Mike Dan Tony challenges, he wins it. Yeah. Not literally, but damn well almost every time. He's missed a couple, buddy. Yeah, he's been pretty good. Some of them, though, I will give the NBA credit on those. Some of those block charges calls can go either way, and they've overturned a couple of them that I think they were going to that I thought they should have.

have. So they're doing at least better job with the they're doing a much better job than the NFL is with this past interference where it's just hear no evil, see no evil, they're just going completely blind. Yeah. It was absolutely a 100% travesty. And they're talking about it right now on ESPN. Everybody's talking about it.

Everybody's talking about it that these instant replay officials are not able to scared to all of the above change the most obvious call. Because you're calling, it's your own crew making the call. Why are they doing this?

MLB has a rehabilitation center. NBA has a replay center. I don't know what they do in the MLS. I don't know if they review stuff. Nobody cares. Okay, Premier League has a replay center. College football has a pre-replay center. Why does the NFL have their own crew? You're not going to be willing to overturn your own calls. And it's natural human. I don't blame the referees, but the NFL has to figure this out. It's an NFL problem. How do you take the film of, is it Humphrey,

right? It was the cornerback of the Ravens, right? Sure. I think it's, let me look at his name as I wrote it down.

How do you take that call? You know how everybody reviews plays? Yeah. How do you not go, man, we goofed up that Marlon Humphrey? The hang up is, is they get hang up on,

hung up on clear and obvious. It was clear and obvious. Ross, why am I screaming at you? There's no reason for me to scream at you. It's okay. I'm going to give you a hug and her in the, No, but I'm just telling you, we're going to get a Rams Saints replay.

Not a question of if it's going to be which playoff game. Yep, yep, yep. Absolutely. And we as football connoisseurs deserve better. Those players that bust their ass deserve better. They just do. And the Texans were terrible yesterday. Embarrassing.

Two weeks between games and looked like they were ill-prepared for anything Lamar Jackson did. Did Deshaun spent too much time? Mexico. Oh, geez. Wait, was he in Mexico? That's what I heard. But remember, guys, they're going to win 10 games. And by the way, I don't care where they go on their trip.

They go to Mexico, bore, bore, I don't care. That's their off week. They should be able to go where they want to go. But here's the thing. Bill O'Brien, all he tells us about is all the time he and his coaches are in that room working. What are they doing? Because whatever they were doing last week didn't pay off.

Bill O'Brien's wife would like to have got to dinner. Bill O'Brien's wife would like for her, you know, for him to come and sit down and take care of some honey-dews and around the house. What does he say? No, I got a coach. I got to look at game film. You wasted your time. Either that of the Texans coaches just aren't as good as all the other elite coaches. Maybe he was doing some general managing. No, because I actually brought in the one kid, Vernon Hargrave, so maybe he was doing some GM.

Making claims. We'll check in the waiver wires. 213. The Matt Thomas show continues at 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Why do the Texans spent all the time in the coach's room studying tape and then they lay flat on their face. We're embarrassed and they're not tier one. They are middle of the pack. AFC South champions likely first or second round exit. There should be no thought of any championship game. There should be no thought of Super Bowl. It's going to be just history repeating itself over and over and over again. I'm not trying to be that guy. If it's 3120, I'm trying to think maybe they feel differently, but 41-7 just shows you how far the Texans are from the Ravens and the Patriots.

And oh, by the way, the Colts won their game and they're now atop the AFC South. 2-14 on Sports Talk 790. Hey, it's Carmelo Anthony. The Matt Thomas Show continues. On your home of the Rockets, Sports Talk 790. Yes! Into the future. By the way, Carmelo, Anthony is now a Portland Trailblazer.

What? He is not suiting up tonight up from Paraly. Huh. James Harden, by the way, named Western Conference player of the week again. Naturally. Don't tell me this was a hit. I think he actually did get a hit on this,

but I'm really amazed at all these other covers that he did because they sound like they've got to be terrible. All right, so he hit number two with Crazy. I'm sorry, actually in the U.S. hit, number one hit Kiss from a Rose. Fly Like an Eagle was a number 10 hit in 1996. Did people think of the song back in the 90s? Coming at number 10 in 1996. We need Adam Clanton for his Casey Kaysen.

How about this one? Oh, no. He didn't re-sing this, thing. Stop! I'm mad now. I'm upset. Oh. No way. No, turn this crap off.

This is ruining one of the all-time greats. Al Green is a legend. The Reverend Al Green. Gross. All right, back on the phones we go. 713, 212, 5, 790. Sunny. I think it was a sunny 99.1 staple for a while there.

When I host my show on Sunday nights eventually, yeah. Seale will not be a part of it. Oh, okay. A lot of 70s. A lot of green, though. We were supposed to do a 70s show when the Astros lost the World Series.

Yeah, we were. I think we were all too clinically depressed to do it. We could do that. No, we couldn't. Maybe Christmas time. James and Bear Creek on 790. Hi, James. What's going?

on. What do you got? Well, I think we finally had our referendum on backyard football in the NFL yesterday. It doesn't work. And the thing that frustrated me the most is that the Ravens gave them everything underneath all day long. And when he would just step back in the pocket and it was there the whole time. The problem with yesterday's game was hyped up to be a heavyweight bout. Jackson versus Watson. And Watson was so focused on the deep ball that he just wanted to run around all day long, see if the coverage

are loosened up so he could chunk it downfield and get one of the guys to catch it. That works fine against teams like the Falcons and all these other scrubs we've been playing all season. And when you start looking at the top of the league and you start talking about playoff competition, this backyard football isn't going to work. So I don't know whatever O'Brien's scheming for

when you're talking about playing teams like the Patriots, Ravens, and you know, Kansas City, the thing that worked great by Kansas City, they just kept, they kept Mahomes off the field. Yesterday should have been the same scenario. Well, you know the problem is, though, Jim, Lamar off the field. James, my philosophy in this is

the Ravens are just a better football team. Their defense was loaded with, you know, one pro-bow candidate after the other. Their pass rush was really, really good. their secondary was hard to beat. I mean, the only thing they got going yesterday, frankly, was him and DeAndre Hopkins over the middle of the field. The tight ends weren't really used a whole lot during the course of the game. The running game got nothing to speak of.

Baltimore stepped up and played a really good football game. This isn't to me about what the Texans didn't do. This was just Baltimore being way better than we ever thought the Texans were. I agree and disagree. And here's why. Yes, Baltimore was a better team. But as much as that guy Bill O'Brien preaches about, oh, we're just taking what the defense gives us, they gave them everything underneath all day long. All they had to do was run slants and outs and hit them.

And let's be honest, Deshaun didn't have his best day. He threw a lot of balls into the dirt yesterday. That's because he was also being sacked a bunch, too. Thanks for the phone call. Pass rush was really good. I mean, Houston's offensive line got exposed yesterday, too. The offensive line wasn't good, but a lot of those sacks were on Deshawn Watson as well. I mean, look, I'm not breaking down the All-22.

Maybe there wasn't anything open, but there were times also where he's got to get rid of the ball. He can't just... That point of the first quarter where he was just dancing around back there and... Spinning in circles and... That clock, you know, that quarterback clock they always talk about. After a while, you have to just give up and, you know what, throw the ball away, lived for another down. There were some sacks that were taken yesterday.

You don't want to be overly critical of a guy that has saved this team's baking when it comes to keeping plays alive. But it felt like yesterday there was more times than not he was doing it to the detriment of his football team. Yeah. He has to do a better job of deciding when and being judicious and when is it a good time to make a player? When is it a good time? Hey, you just got to chalk it up and give it away or turtle up or anything like that. That's what some of the best quarterbacks in the league know when to you. It's just time to take it out.

And he's not very good at that. And he does give us spectacular plays when he does get out of those things. So you kind of have to take the good with the bad there. So let me ask you this. So is it fair for us to criticize him on holding the ball too long when if you were to take this last 30 plays where maybe most quarterbacks would have gotten rid of the football? He saves, keeps a drive alive with his arm, with his legs. Is that being selective criticism when we say that? I think it is fair.

Because if you're going to be one of the best quarterbacks in the league, you can do both. You have to be consistent. You have to be good. You can't just say, well, he saves us more times than not. We'll take that because sometimes he'll save a play. He'll extend a drive. He'll throw a pass.

But it doesn't equalize what damage he can do if he is making the mistake of holding on the ball. Because if you complete a nine-yard pass, it's great. but if you want to be suffering a 12-yard loss in the next play because you held on to it too long, that means that you're ultimately hurting your football team. And this insatiable thirst about trying to throw the ball through the line of scrimmage and where linemen from other teams are waiting for the football? That was bad.

That interception was about as bad as it gets. He was terrible yesterday. That was a rookie player. And here's a great thing about yesterday. Everybody was terrible. So much, it's so easy to sometimes say, well, Bill would have called this. Romney would have drawn this up. Lamar was better than Deshaun.

anyone even close. The running game for Baltimore was better. The wide receivers were open. The tight ends were better. They ran for 263 yards. In an NFL game. 263 you'll see in a college game. 263 in the NFL.

There was nothing that Houston did better. Maybe with the exception of, well, hell, Fairbearer missed a field goal. Yeah. I mean, now you probably can't fake a field goal against the Texans special team. Yeah, that was a good stop. You saw that coming.

Good for them on that one. Other than that, I mean, no redeeming value in that game yesterday at all. And that's why I think people are like, you know what, I don't care if you win nine or ten or eleven games. You're going to get your goods thrown towards you come playoff time. That's what it is.

The competition steps up, the Texans step down. They are just what we thought they were, Tier two, not going to win a championship game, and certainly not going to go to the Super Bowl. Hey, it's Carmelo Anthony. The Matt Thomas show continues. On your home of the Rockets. Sports Talk, 790.

Yes. All right, enough, Carmelo. I don't want Ryan Anderson's cuts coming after. This is just not the home of former rockets. This is about current Rockets. I think you've got a Ryan Anderson one. I'm sure you'll find it if you do. That's what I should have done for, believe it or not.

Ryan Anderson? Yeah. What are you doing instead? White chocolate. How old is he? today. 44. Happy birthday

at a white chocolate. By the way, congratulations to LSU. They've signed the new five-star recruit in basketball.

Oh, I saw that. 19 in the country. I know his name, too. Cameron Thomas. I meant to talk to you about that last week, actually. By the way,

we'll be up in Toronto in a couple weeks. Rockets and have the NBA geographically challenged San Antonio Toronto road trip. No.

No weird. Yeah, that is weird. I'm going to get a picture with Matt Thomas. Are you? Yeah. Are you arranging this?

No, I'm just going to walk up to him during pregame show. Say hi, my name's Matt Thomas. Yeah. Okay. I'm sure you get confused with me quite a bit. Yeah, probably, no, I don't know what you're talking about. He probably doesn't know who you are. The two greatest Matt Thomas is in one country.

Wow. Is it the two greatest? How many others are there? I mean, there's probably like some Matt Thomas doctor who's actually saving lives and doing important. During cancer. Yeah, doing important work for people. Hell, even a Matt Thomas bus driver has more utility than you.

You're saying a fringe NBA player and a midday radio host on an AM station, we're not the two most important Matt Thomases in the world? Nah. I mean, maybe if Matt Thomas is doing charitable stuff with his money. Why don't we do a believe it or not on famous Matt Thomas? There's got to be more than two of us. It's like some famous Matt Thomas dentists helping out people with their crowns. I think there was a soccer player named Matt Thomas.

And I believe there was a musician named Matt Thomas. Yeah, all contributing more of the world than you. I've done a few nice things in this world. That's true. Throw parties for yourself. Go on fancy jets, eat trip cocktails. I'm sleeping better. Get a lot of Marriott miles or whatever points.

That's in the past tense. But, man, I can sleep all in planes now. That's good. Everything is a kind of plus if you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I do know what you're saying. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90 I love you, Matt Thomas Which one?

The Toronto Rocker Matt Thomas? Okay. Let's go to Keith on the west side of 235. Hi, Keith. Good afternoon, gentlemen. How are you all? Well, thank you. I'm calling about the Rockets.

I know we're on a big time winning streak, but what are we playing on doing with Eric Gordon? He's going to be out until January. and are you thinking that they're still going to just keep McLemore and Clemens or are we going to look for somebody? Well, NBA trades don't typically happen this time of year. I know that Darrell always likes to make trades during the deadline period. It's kind of its itchy trigger finger thing. But I think right now, Ben McLemore has gained the confidence of this coaching staff to the point that he is going to get those minutes that Eric would have had.

History shows that Eric's a much better shooter than Ben has been. Ben. But Ben has done enough from a three-point perspective to earn the playing time of Dan Tony. So I think right now, the decision is, is once Daniel House gets back, he'll put him back in the starting line up, and then Ben will be your six-man for a while. Wow. So nobody's looking, we're not looking for nothing to happen. We wouldn't stick with her. Keith, I don't know that to be the, I mean, Darryl Moore doesn't call me and say, hey, Matt, I'm looking at this guy. I mean, I wish he would, but he doesn't do that. So I don't know of them actively pursuing

anybody at this juncture. Doesn't mean things can't change in 30 days. It doesn't mean things can't change before the trade deadline. But I would think right now as we speak, they're pretty happy with what Ben McLemore has done. Chris Collins is interesting to me. Clemens, excuse me, can shoot the ball. But, you know, defensively,

with him being only 5'9, he's going to lose a lot of battles. I think you kind of kind of pick and choose your spots when you put him in there. All right, gentlemen. You all have a great day. See you later. Yeah. Yeah, I think the rockets will certainly look. They could use, here's the Ross where they could use really. They could use one more legitimate four.

Hard to come by. And they could probably use one more shooter. Oh, three and D assassin. That would be nice. Three and D wing. Because if you don't get Eric back until January, your rotation's thinner, which means what are you doing?

You're putting more pressure on James to play more minutes. And you know at this point they've had two back-to-backs, and Russell hasn't played neither one of those back-to-backs. So that's one less player that you have. That means more Austin Rivers minutes, which he's played okay so far this year. His scoring average has been good. It's just a thinner group.

Eric Hertz, Cephalosius, not much of an outside shooter. McLemore has been more up than down, but a little streaky of a shooter. That's just who he's been over his NBA career, but he's probably playing his better. He backs back to playing points, yeah. Yeah. And then Gerald Green being gone. That's just an extra body that could have absorbed 15 or so minutes, but he's just done for the season with his foot.

So, yeah, I think the Rockets will continue to search. They relieved Ryan Anderson of duties today, so he's no longer part of the team that opens a roster spot. I don't know if Gary Clark has an answer. I know he's been given a very limited time. Hart and Simon, the most of his minutes, filling in for Clint Capella. Clint should be back tonight, hopefully when the Rockets take on the Blazers. But yeah, I think there's no doubt in my mind.

They are still in search of another shooter until Eric comes back. But I just don't think those things are just growing on trees right now. Yeah, that's a thing. They're tied up with the salary cap and all that type of stuff. So I don't know that moves would be nice, but I don't know the moves are on the horizon. Yeah, let's go to Gerard, Southwest Side on Sports Talk 7. Hey, Gerard, how are you? I'm doing all right.

How y'all guys doing? We're doing well. Thank you for calling. Yeah, like I said, you know, early. It was there. It's the only 13 games to the season. It's way too early to be, you know, trying to figure out why the Rockers having made a trade.

Like you say, you get close to the trade deadline a little after the All-Star break. You know, I agree with you guys. They could be, you know, they could be looking for another shooter and maybe another big. If they can get there, if not, they just have to roll what they got. But as far as the game tonight, it's going to be very interesting, man. You know, this is going to be the rematch, Westbrook against Damon Little. You know, Damon Little waved them goodbye in the playoffs last year. They went back and forth.

that was an entertaining series as long as it went. I think it went five games, but there was a lot of back and forth, a lot of trash talks. It was a lot of trash talks. you got two of the best back courts in the NBA in Lillard and McConnell against Hardin and in the Westbrook. So it's going to be a good battle in the back court. and Macklemore, you know, you still got Gordon.

Harden is a much improved perimeter defender. So I like what I'm seeing from Iraq is so far this season. And we'll just see how it plays out tonight, but I like them to win tonight. As far as the Texan goes, the Texans goes. The Texas against the Ravens, man. I was looking at that game yesterday, man. That's just a tough, tough matchup, man. When you look at the Ravens, man, they got two shut down corners,

in Peters and Smith. And what that allows them to do is the blitz and run all kind of exotic blitz packages. They know they got two shut down corners. So it's just a tough matchup when you have Hopkins and Kenny Stills, those guys, a possession receives, intermediate receiver, but they don't get a lot of separation. So it's just a difficult matchup, particularly when you don't have Will Fuller. And I actually think the Ravens are tougher matchup than the Patriots as far as matchup goes. I don't see, you know, I see them as an underdog in both games,

obviously if they play either one of those teams in the playoffs, they'll be an underdog. But I give them a better chance against the Patriots with their offense struggling this season then against the Ravens. The Ravens got an explosive offense, man. You know, they got a real good defense. It's just a tough, tough, tough matchup for the Texans. Even if the Texan would have played a good game, I would have had a hard time seeing them beat the Ravens

the way they were playing yesterday. So we'll see how it plays out. And hopefully they get Will Fullerback and they get some kind of semblance of a pass rush. That's another thing that's going to hurt now to JJ Watts out. Whitney Mercery started the season out well, but he's kind of slowed down with their sacks. And they don't have another guy that's an elite.

pass rush. That's another thing. Lamar Jackson had all day to kind of pick the secondary apart. So that's the thing that they need to improve on if they meet those two teams down the line. Thank you, Gerard. 241 on the Matt Thomas show. Believe it or not today, all things about White Chocolate. And those are you playing

at home, 243. Tyler White here. Back to Matt Thomas. And it is gone. And it's George Talk, 7-90. Home of Astros baseball. I would love for at some point for us to play sound bites of players that are currently with teams. I couldn't find Ryan Anderson, so I got you the next best thing.

Yeah, whatever. Let me go to Thomas and Clear Lake before we play, believe it or not. Hi, Thomas. Hey, Matt. Brother, love your show. You always run a good one. Thank you. Hey, I just wanted to talk about, I know we're focusing kind of a negative of what we're going on with the Texans right now.

But we can't forget what we have with Darry. more and what he's done with that beautiful trade with Houston Rockles. You mean no one with Russell Westbrook? Yes, sir. We're 10 and 3, number 2 in the West, and we are looking really, really, really good. Honestly, though, I'll say this. Ross, you agree or disagree? The rocket, 10 and 3 is because of James.

James is playing out of his mind. I think Russ has been just okay. I mean, he's been really good for it. All right, let me finish. Let me finish. You got to let me finish once in a while. Fourth quarter, Russ has been very good. He's been able to attack the basket.

He's been able to make his free throws. Quarters 1 through 3. The three-point shot doesn't happen at all at any point this year. It just hasn't. The mid-range comes and goes a little bit. Defensively, sometimes he looks really good. Sometimes he looks real lost. He's getting to the basket.

He's getting to the basket. His zero to 60 speed is incredible. All-time great. So I'm saying this. If I can get a little more from Russ, it's going to make this deal even look better than it originally did. Now, back to your point. Go ahead, Thomas. Well, so you know, this is a beginning of a trade, and they have to gel together.

So if they're pulling this 10 and 3 together at the beginning of the season, what do you think they're going to look like later in the season? I don't disagree with you. I think 10 and 3, remember the first game, and thank you, Thomas, for the phone call. Remember the loss to Milwaukee opening night? Everyone's like, oh, this isn't going to work. I mean, it was the quickest rush to judgment after one game. I think the subsequent games after that is when I was like a little on shaky ground.

You're giving up 158 to the D.C. To the Wizards, that's when I was like, oh, is this going to work? I'm not taking 10 and 3 and making this a 60-win team. No. They're one of the better teams. They're number two in the West. But they're one of the, yeah. I mean, Portland has been a massive disappointment so far this year.

The Clippers look very vulnerable early on. Now look, there's a long, there's 60-something games left and going a long way to go here. But I had been pleasantly surprised how well the team has done without Eric Gordon shooting particularly well. Not particularly, not well at all, without Russell Westbrook being the typical Russ. And James, first five or six games, he was in the 30s shooting-wise. He's come together a little bit the last handful of games. And he's doing this with injuries. And he's the one that doesn't take nights off.

He doesn't, whether you hate it, love it, respect it, despise it. he does not believe in load management. He's the MVP right now, although it'll probably end up going to like LeBron James or something. Or Janus may win in a game too. You never know. All right, 713, 2125-790. Five minutes left to go in the show.

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A perfect idea with a special lady on your holiday list. Category today is all things about white chocolate. Jason Williams. Celebrating birthday, what number 44 today, Ross, is that right? I'll reach a statement about white chocolate. Statements completely nutterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it.

If this statement is erroneous full of bunk and man up, you will say this. To believe it or not, it's all things about Jason Williams will win your prize, Ross. What's the prize? Matt, I got a pair of tickets to the just-announced Black Crows. Shake Your Moneymaker 2020 World Tour, where they're celebrating the album's 30th anniversary to be played in its entirety. Plus, all of the hits, June 20th at the Woodlands Pavilion Tickets on sale now at LiveNation.com. How would the ladies be at that concert? Older?

But does that mean it's okay, though? Yeah, that's not bad. Just a little bit of older crowd. I'm just wondering if you should go on that. Let's see 30th anniversary of that. the album. So you're talking about 45-year-old Cougars bouncing around. That's okay. All right. Fair enough. Let's play. Justin on 790, Justin, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Let's do it. Jason Williams originally planned to play college basketball for Providence,

but after Rick Barnes left, he changed his mind. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it. Sorry. Forgot about Rick Barnes and Providence. Now he's thriving at Tennessee. Let's talk about that. Roger on 790. You ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Jason Williams eventually transferred to play at Florida,

where he was suspended from the team for multiple marijuana use infractions. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Jason Williams is third all-time and assist for the Memphis Grizzlies behind Mike Connolly and Mark us all. Believe it or not.

Believe it. Believe it. There you go. You're going to the Black Crow. Can meet some 45-year-old cougars. Grizzly's legend. Yeah, that's true. Paul, on 790.

Paul, your favorite part of the radio show today? I loved all of it. Jason Williams' nickname White Chocolate was given to him during his rookie season by Sacramento King's teammate Chris Weber. Believe it or not. Not? Not. Yeah, the media relations department of the Kings gave it to him.

Statement number two for the win. Jason Williams met his wife, Danica. while at the University of Florida where she was an All-American track athlete. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. There you go.

It's a bad. Sorry, Nick. Nick is not happy with you right now while most people aren't. Line five, Kelly on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Oh, Kelly, you don't sound very sure of yourselves. This is not going to end well, is it?

I'm going to do my best. Jason Williams played in the 2018 and 2019 Big Three season. for the ghost ballers. Believe it or not. I don't even know what that is. I don't say not. Not. Oh, you're halfway home. Here we go. What was your favorite part of the radio show today? So you take some of the Texans because that's exactly how I felt yesterday.

There you go. Jason Williams' tattoos include a wolf holding a basketball and the phrase, white boy on his knuckles. Believe it or not. Damn. I wish I would have seen his hand before. I'm going to say, believe it. Belie. Oh, Miracle.

You and the 45-year-old Cougars are going to be hanging out at the Black Crows. Nice. All right. Congratulations. Thanks, Kelly, for playing. Three winners today? Oh, he is going to speak. Yeah, we're going to go here.

No chocolate for you, Ross. Sorry. Taylor on 790. Taylor, ready to play, believe it or not. Believe it. Shaquille O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat in large part because he was neighbors with Jason Williams and wanted to play with him. Believe it or not.

Not. Believe it. Oh, if I've said it once at a thousand times, you've got to know who Shaq's neighbors were and whether or not they were good teammates. All right. There you go. I feel like we need to play another,

not our Kelly. What was the guy's name we were talking about? Oh, no, seal? Let's play one more seal. Oh, yeah. We've got some more. You got some more? We've got the whole catalog.

Tomorrow. We have a ton of covers about him. Aaron Reese on the show tomorrow. What else you want to talk about, Ross? We'll talk about how Oh, we'll put our head in the sand About the Astros and not talk about that Maybe, maybe, okay, look, if they're all

Guilty of these things, maybe they're just going to get a harsh fine Can we pray for that? Okay, yeah, I mean, we don't know, we're speculating Oh, this is going to make me mad as it. Wait, what? What is this? You'll know the song I'm not. Another cover! If you don't owe me my now!

Yeah. What? Oh, boy. He just doesn't. doesn't have the voice for these. All right, I want you all to call Adam and Adam and ask him their favorite SEAL song. I will talk with all of you with Ross and with Nick tomorrow at 12 noon for a

hangover Tuesday, right? Is anyone to call it? I don't know. And maybe no more seal music on this show ever. I would hope to not to be hungover. But plenty. I've had enough seal. All right, me too. Have a great rest of your day. Talk to you all tomorrow at noon on 790. Like I understand you. Now, girl, I know the difference

right and wrong. I ain't gonna do nothing to break up our happy home.