The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show 12-17-19

Episode Date: December 17, 2019

The Matt Thomas Show w/ @SportsMT, @SportsRV, and @ProNickLow 12/17/19Drew Brees Is _____ ? (11:46)Ross Says Goodbye To Wade Miley (39:31)Aaron Reiss Joins Matt To Talk Texans v Titans and Tampa Bay (57:56)Matt Doesn't Like Enchiladas (1:08:00)Or Tamales (1:17:27)

Much larger than life. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1202 in H-town. What's happening in lunchtimmers? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Where yes, it finally happened, Ross. Somebody else gave him a 25-point lead in a basketball game. Who is that, Matthew? Well, that'd be the San Antonio Spurs.

That's a shame. I mean, of all the teams to see a team come of a 25-point lead, I'm devastated. It was our friends to the West. The revenge game. Retribution for the Houston Rockets. Or just a December game. Or I'm glad that they didn't puke that one up because I was pissed in the first half.

Man, you're not supposed to show any emotions on the table. You're supposed to be the peanut. And I'm sitting here and putting in my hand on my chin. Dejante, Murray. No. No, no, no, no, no. Brin Forbes. How many times did you have to say Brin Forbes?

Here's Brin Forbes in the first half. Three-pointer, Brin-Forbs, three-pointer, Brin-Forbs, three-pointer. I think he hit six in the first half, and then nothing after that, I think. So he went Bryn Forbes in the second half. He was the real Bryn-Forbs in the second half. Bryn-Forbs sounds like a... Brin-Forbs. Brin-For.

He sounds like he's a guy that's going to handle your investment. Yeah, he sounds like an heir to some kind of fortune, kind of a snot-nosed brady kid. A little Bryn Forbes. You mean like Steve Forbes's son? Right. What's Steve Forbes's son's name? A Bryn? Gets into Harvard, can't even hardly read.

Yeah, he has all the grades that get into Sand Jack, but he's going to go to Harvard instead. Right. I know how you roll, Bryn Forbes. And Dejante Marine, James Hardin getting salty early. the contest. Rockets just couldn't get over that double-digit deficit in the first half. And then Russ said, you know what?

I'm going to stop shooting as many three-point shots. I'm going to stop doing that shot off the backboard which never goes in. Yeah, what's it with him in his fallaway? And how about that one with one minute left? That was last night where he was just backing it in and backing it in like he's a Charles Barkley. Alachianel was in the building. You're going to back it in, back and in back and then.

It was more of a Charles Barclay. Barkley back in and back in and then he just threw it off the side of the backboard. He's like, what are you doing, Russ? Yeah, it is where it is. But they came back. James had a much better second half. Ben McNamore hit a bunch of threes. The shooting prowess of one, Daniel House Jr.

has long been gone for about six games or so. Yeah, it's not been good at all. PJ rebounds like a mother. Clint played better in the second half. And you got the win. And the Spurs only after scoring 72 in the first half, they scored 35 in the second. D, you know what I? It was my defense, yes. D, I was, I think the numbers we did, I was six for nine on defense.

Oh, you're keeping track of those now? Oh, we always keep track. Oh, you're not going to keep track when you're three for nine, are you? Nah, I won't even if you might forget those. Yeah, that's right, that's right. I hope you guys are in a good mood today. We have got a lot to get to. What a glorious day.

Cold as hell, but it's really, really, it is absolutely beautiful. So, when the went, it's strange. When the weather is like this, you know, cold, people are productive. they can call the show, a little tweed a little tweed a bit more. When it's kind of cold and gray and dreary, little rain in the air. I just feel like it's just you and me and Nick talking. It's okay, Matt. We put on a good show no matter what.

We do. We don't care what the weather is. We're like the U.S. Postal Service. We're delivered for you. Whether rain, weather sleet, weather snow. Yeah. By the way, you do not miss snow. I did, however, want to watch a lot of that Denver, Kansas City game on Sunday

because they were playing in Kansas City, and it was snowing like a muda all day long. That's why, if you notice, by the way, when the playoff games get announced, they ultimately do it based on interest, but they also like to, if they have two games of equal interest, like, man, there's a really good NFC game and a really good AFC game, they'll put the cold weather game on at night because they know that ratings are higher for bad weather games. I love bad. It's not really fair to the teams, honestly.

Right? Yeah, bad weather football is great. But I guarantee you, Green Bay is playing either at Saturday or something. It's like 7 o'clock at night. Well, we know when the Texans are playing. There was one game. And I might have been living in Minnesota at the time. And maybe I was here.

When the Giants played the Packers, and it was like 11 degrees below zero at kick time. It was one of the coldest games ever in Green Bay, which is not saying much because it's cold every year. But I remember being my buddy's going to the game. I had to have been living in the Minnesota at the time. And they're like, we couldn't layer up enough. Because, again, minus 11 is ridiculous.

But at least you can go from your house to your car, getting your car shut the door, get going and do your business. Being outside at minus 11, just you're asking for frostbite. You cannot have any part of your body exposed to minus 11 for any more than about three or four minutes at the time. Isn't that just weird? No, that sounds normal.

So you would, you would, you're saying yourself, I wouldn't want to go see my Packers play. No. but they're telling me that if I expose any part of my body for a prolonged of three to four minutes, I might get frosted out. Yeah, it's going to have to get sought off. It costs me some circulation. Packer playoff game at minus 11 or circulation. I don't know which one I want to go with.

I'm going with the circulation. As am I. I'm going with my limbs working in extremities. Yeah, that's why I'm, that's why even though it is nice to have Minute-Made Park Open where you would think a few times during the course of year you'd be able to, um, have an outdoor baseball game. The Texans should probably have at least, my guess, two per year of open game, maybe three, depending on weather. I'm not going to be the ultimate, oh, my God, this roof is closed, guy. Now, the Texans is a little bit different because they never open it.

It's compared to, we know that Minamate Park's roof does work. We have not seen NRG's roof open up in, I don't know how long. Remember that scam report I watch on Channel 2? And then we had, I think it was, our listener Joan, had the theory that maybe after all the storm damage, it doesn't work. anymore and they just are afraid to say anything. Yeah, how you don't get officials from NRG to, you know, when Channel 2 is doing this big investigative report, and you don't go talk to energy officials about it, they're just, they just talk to Ann Emmett, who's on their payroll. It was a lot.

They're not a radio show The Marketplace is going to give you from Rockets basketball to roofs. It's the Matt Thomas show. It's the Matt Thomas show on SportsCoc 790. All right. So, here's what our agenda is today. We have one guest coming up. It's our buddy Aaron Reese from The Athletic. He'll turn us at 1.30 for some Texans conversation.

Everything is kind of sped up this week because the Texans play the Buccaneers on Saturday at noon as compared to Sunday at noon. NFL Network Prime. Well, not prime time, but NFL game that you get to see the Buccaneers and the Texans play national TV. Texans win. AFC South Champions. Fourth time in what, five years? Yes. AFC South Champions, four years out of five.

Brian. Brian. Are they going to win, though? Why wouldn't they? Only three-point favorites. Doesn't matter. Vegas doesn't not determine the endgame. It just doesn't.

They're usually pretty close, though. Usually, but not always. You're right. But if Vegas always determined the all-comic games, we wouldn't put the games. How did Vegas feel about Denver and Houston two weeks ago? Texans were eight-point favorites Yeah, didn't even come out that way Okay

So yeah, Vegas is there for us to have fun with But I'm not going to let Vegas tell me who's going to win the football game I think they give you a good idea of who's Who should be the favorite and who shouldn't Because if you think they're always wrong Then just bet against them and be a millionaire Well, I'm saying don't bet on it at all Save yourself the misery of being wrong

Or right one way or the other That's what I'm saying if you think they're always screwing it up No, no, no, no I'm just go beat them. I don't know, no, I'm just saying that I, anybody that thought that the Texans were going to be, I mean, Denver, Vegas thought Denver had no chance. When you're a multi-high level point dog, they gave you no chance when the football game. When that in reality, it just wasn't the case.

Bucking, look, the Texans have always played on these NFL, like, early games. Like, didn't they play the Jets last year on something like on Saturday night or something like that? They won that game. The Texans have a lot to play for it. They're not going to screw this up. They can win the AFC South. on the Buccaneers home field. And I guarantee you, Bill O'Brien, in his lifetime of things he wanted to accomplish,

he wants to go to Raymond James Stadium and party on the Tampa surface. You know, this is kind of like our playoff game. That's exactly right, coach. Oh, boy. That was from when they were 4 and 12. No, you know, don't tell the audience that. Don't fill them with lies. I'm not sure if you guys watched the film.

Well, we didn't watch the film of the other game yesterday because we watched all the Texans and Titans. And it was a very, very impressive performance. That was good. That worked out good. All right. So, Texans are going to win the AFC South this Saturday in Tampa. And then it's on to thinking about either Buffalo, Pittsburgh, or Tennessee for the final plow spot in the AFC, who will be their wild card opponent. I don't think Kansas City, New England, and Baltimore are going to give up their spots.

Other things to get to on today. We have a little bit of sadness when it comes to the Astros. one of our favorite voice characters of the show, really it's not even a character. We're losing Wade Miley to the Reds. Yes. Okay. The Cincinnati Red Legs.

The Cincinnati Red Legs. Well, Wade Miley is going to there. So we're going to have to get out of our system all of our southern draw of Wade Miley. Until he comes to town or I don't know if they play the Reds next year. Probably not. No, because the Astros put the Central. They play the East next year.

So the only time that you'll ever use your Wade-Molly impersonation again, or at least the Wade-Molly sound of you. When they mean the World Series. It's when the Astros and Reds won in the World Series in 2020. Also, Drew Breeze is now the all-time touchdown reception guy or touchdown thrower in the NFL history. I just want to have, and make sure Gordy is like a mile away from here. I just want to say, when I say Drew Breeze, you say what?

One of the all-time breaks? We'll discuss that next. Oprah Winfrey touched his birthmark. When I say Drew Breeze, you say 713-212-5-790. Also, Russell Westbrook is being sued by idiotic Utah jazz fan, and Stephen Adams was quite nervous trying to make some free throws for his beloved Oklahoma City team will get to that as well. Lots to get to you on the program today.

713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. This is Carlos Correa. Back to Matt Thomas. That's a sports off Saturday. It's your home. A fastest baseball. Time is 1220.

It is the Matt Thomas show. Along with Nick and Ross. I'm Matt. We're really happy to have you with us here on this Tuesday. And again, Aaron Reese to talk some Texans football getting ready for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Saturday at noon. Rockets starting a West Coast road trip Thursday in Los Angeles out for the next week or so with four straight games. And what else going on locally? Cougars, tough loss, Oklahoma State a couple nights ago.

You watch the game? No, I didn't catch it. Come on now. What's busy watching Texas? Take care of business against Central Michigan. man that Texas non-conference schedule is amazing yeah central Michigan

Texas state Purdue Texas Arlington Georgetown they got Providence coming up this weekend what Texas basketball not messing around it's not that great actually

normally it's usually pretty good they were supposed to play Duke in that one tournament but they lost to Georgetown it is what it is all right 713212 570 I'm going to give you a statement I'm going to let you think about it. Oh, okay. I can't finish you yet. I got mad at me when I

try to finish it. Don't finish you yet. Drew Breeze is what? We'll discuss that after we say hi to Thomas in spring at 1222. Thomas, how are you, sir? Doing good, but very worried. First of all, I still am not over the Astros deal. That's that's going to be like that Alabama Rose Bowl or McCoy got hurt. I'm just never get over that. but I'm calling to say that I'm still very worried about the Texans. I feel like we're like the Cowboys. We've got the talent to win a Super Bowl, not the consistency. You know, to win a Super Bowl, you've got to win three playoff games in a row.

Or if you're us and never get a first round ball, you've got to get four. Well, the problem is still clock management. We're not going to ever get over the top. Tony Romo did a great job of calling the game, as you know, because he was pointing out every time Bill Bryan screwed up. We had like two times on a third and a half. And Rowland said, you know, they might as well throw a pass here. Either way, the clock stopped.

And we just ran a ball right into the pile. There was a play where we were setting up for the winning field goal. And Romo says, well, you know, I sure hope he doesn't run out of bounds. You know, he just take the sack and, you know, kick a field goal that's six yards longer. You know, of course, our quarterback just tossed that thing right on out of bounds to stop the clock for them. And, you know, those are the kind of things that gave them the ball back at the end of the game with a chance for a Hail Mary. And I just, when is that going to get better? And why can't we hire someone?

And if we do, why can't we hire Tony Romo? He could bring pizza. What are your thoughts? Thank you, Thomas, with a phone call. There's about a 100% hit rate of people who make bad jokes on their call and then they go listen to themselves on the radio to hear themselves. Let's get to the nuts of both of this. Most coaches are terrible game managers when it comes to the final two minutes. And Bill O'Brien's on the list, though.

And Bill O'Brien's on the list. We happen to have one that's terrible at doing it. But I don't always exclusively blame the coach. Sometimes you have to blame the player. Yes. Deshawn Watson should have went down. That should have been communicated to him by somebody. By somebody.

That's somebody not doing their job and telling him. But Deshawn's an adult. Yes. He needs to know what's going on. And he has to understand that stopping the clock at that point of the game and any point of the game late like that is unacceptable. And he did. It is also easier to think about time management when you don't have a headset on,

when you're not trying to draw plays or call play. I mean... We're thinking about... Personnel moves that you need to make you the weekend. Yeah, it's true. I mean, there's too much on Bill O'Brien's plate. He's not a good enough head coach to handle all the responsibilities. Just hire a mad professional who lives in the Houston area.

I guess you'd have to travel with the team. He can go on Saturdays or whatever they travel. Well, he had to get permission from his parents to lose the house first. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, I'm saying is this. You know, everybody will call and say Bill O'Brien is a terrible game manager, which he is. but there's also 15, say the 32 coaches in the NFL, my guess is 25 of them are awful. Yeah, but I mean, we can't just say, you know, what, everybody else is bad at it.

I mean, let's focus on, why can't Bill be good at it? It's not, he's not capable. It has been a detriment to his entire coaching career, at least in Houston. There's never been a time that you said, man, that was a really smart move call in the timeout. Tony did a really, it was a good thing. On the play he's talking about, he says, go throw the football. See what you get the first down. Don't even give Tennessee a chance.

that's taking somebody going, okay, there's 203 left to go. We're going to get a guaranteed stoppage time anyway. Let's, somebody's got to be a higher thinking person. You know how you work with people that are. I mean, he went to Brown. Yeah, it doesn't matter. No, but go ahead.

My point is that it would take critical thinking. Critical thinking. In the moment. Really smart people can think about that. And Bill O'Brien is among the list of very below average. coach, Doug Marone, terrible job. Mike Vrable probably can't do it. We know Andy Reid, who's running a prolific offense in Kansas City,

doesn't know how to run a two-minute drill. Doesn't need timeouts. But I think there is a lot of head coaches who would realize that you can go with a pass play in that situation. Are you sure of that? Yes, I think so. Because I feel like every time I watch another team play football, regardless if it's a playoff game, a Sunday night game, or a Monday night game,

I go, man, that couch didn't know what the hell he was doing when it comes of managing his clock. I don't think Tony Romo was pointing out. something there that was like earth-shattering. I think that most people would know that you have time to run a pass play there, but I will also say this. It's not like some kind of great. Maybe he just felt like a run play was going to be the more successful play,

but I don't think that's, and I don't know that's where he was going. He was thinking running play is successful, and he's also thinking if Deshawn throws up interception in that time, you're going to give Tennessee the football back with a minute 56 and probably what he needed a field goal to tie the game, so he needed to get 50 yards in a minute 55. he was what he what he what bill o'brien was doing that particular situation was I'm not going to chance my quarterback throwing a third interception in the same game I would agree with that more if it were like I don't know um

Kyle Allen or you know Sam darnall or so I mean some bad court like this is Deshawn while you're supposed to trust Deshawn Watson now his decision making isn't always great but you're still supposed to trust him what you do is you know what you're doing that play you play action is the play and you throw it through a tight end I would love that and you're You throw it a foul. And he has the talent. This is what you do. Yeah. Like you call a play action or you call a pass play. And you tell him in his head. If it's not there, throw it away.

If it's not there, throw it away. Don't try to make something out of nothing. Play it safe. Mm-hmm. It's that simple. Yeah. Because the really good teams, like Aaron Rogers would have pulled that off. Right.

Yes. Tom Brady. Tom Brady would have pulled that off. Yeah. Okay. Back to my Drew Breedge for a second. Big Philly style. No.

No. No, no. I would not put Philly Rivers in that category. Well, Philly Rivers would do that, some stuff like that. He'd make like 16 audibles. You ever watch Chargers games this year? They guys out of control. He is Peyton Manning level Omaha times two nowadays.

Do you think there's a chance? He's like making all these signals. Big Philly ever runs a play that has ever called from the sideline. No. He audible it like three times. Yeah. He just starts yelling stuff and making weird hand signals. Meanwhile, like he's riding a motorcycle.

Like, what are you doing, Philly? Meanwhile, Matt Schaubbs raising his hand like, man, I can never do that. And Gary Kuback, whenever let me do that. Right. It's like Philly's doing like a stand-up set up there. He's talking so long. Okay. So what I want you to go, can I give you a homework assignment?

Okay. I mean, I don't think you're going to do it. But Nick, help out our boy Ross here on this one. Okay. That was always bad at homework. You have until tomorrow to Google search. Okay. Coaches that know the hell they're doing in the final two minutes of games.

From play calling to use of timeouts. Now, you and I have always said that Pete Carroll, it appears, is a good two-minute guy. We don't only know. We don't watch a lot of Seahaw games. So you want me to be breaking. You want me to go as Bill would say, watch the film? I want you to just go to Peter King's column, Google. Hey, who does a good job of managing a two-minute clock?

If you're a fan of a particular team, let me know who do does. Because to the point I was making to the caller is when you go to coaching 101 school, I think that for some reason, most of these coaches in the NFL, and for that matter, college, College is a little more difficult because you get the stoppage on the first down. But I'm talking about pro coaches. They get a free pass on this. I think there are just very few coaches that are known for how to handle a two-minute drill. I'd be more ready to give you a list of coaches who would call the passing play with 204 left.

Okay. I bet I can give you 10 of those. I bet you Drew Breeze went to know the play at 203 left to go and throw the ball down. Exactly. Okay. Speaking of Drew, I'm going to finally answer that question. He is the all-time leader in passing touchdowns in the history of the National Football League. has 541, two more than Peyton Manning.

Tom Brady is on his heels. He's three back at 538. When I discussed you, I'm going to run through the quarterbacks of the five highest throwing touchdown passers in the NFL, and I think we can probably describe them fairly accurately. I want us to figure out how we're going to describe Drew Breeze. Drew Breeze is stupid. That's not very nice.

Is that Rick Flair? Drew Brees is stupid. Jerry Kramer. That's from when Drew Breeze was talking about, like, the pension or head injuries or something. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. It sounds like a little Rick Flaring there. Okay. 1230.

So I'm going to describe the five. I bet you we can describe. When we come back. Five through one. Very easy except for number one. We'll do that next. 1231 on the Matt Thomas show. Woo!

Thank you, Rick. Cougars coach Kelvin Sampson here. You're listening to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Time is 1238. It is the Matt Thomas show. We've got lots of funny little things to get into today, including an Oklahoma City center, really expressing himself after the nerves of making free throws. We have Utah jazz fan wanting to sue one of our favorite rockets. And we have someone who believes they have set a record for consumption at a fast food restaurant. Hmm.

These are the things we'll be discussing. Plus, the Texans getting ready for the bucks. The Rockets went, and if you went to the Rockets game last night, we had Baby Jedi there. No, Baby Yoda. Well, it was just somebody dressed up their baby, right? The baby was one of the cutest babies I've ever seen in my life, first and foremost. And besides your three. Correct.

But she didn't cry. I think it was a she didn't cry. Clutch held her, pushed her around the arena floor. I mean, that baby, whoever it was, was a. star. You know how babies typically when mascots or strange people hold them or put them up in the air like Lion King?

Baby was cool as a cucumber. Good for the baby. Baby Jedi helping the Rockets overcome a 25 point deficit and beat the San Antonio Spurs. All right. So Rossi, number five on the all-time touchdown list is Dan Marino. Easily said

probably the greatest quarterback never to win a Super Bowl. Yeah. That's how you would typically describe Damarie. Probably. There's other descriptions. I would describe him as ahead of his time. One of the greatest of all time, regardless of the fact that he didn't win a Super Bowl.

Number four in the list, Brett Farrve, the gunslinger. Yes. He's number four in the list. Number three, the goat, Tom Brady. And Tom's got a chance of surpass Drew, depending on which one retires first. Okay. Number two, Peyton Manning.

I mean, one of the greatest. I mean, I think you put him in the top five comfortably, right? Yes. Now, he may not be as flashy, but man, for years and years and years, consistency, accuracy, Marvin Harris, T.Y. Hilton towards the very end, Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne. Reggie Wayne, I think I said Marvin Harrison twice. You wanted to make sure you'd get him in there so he didn't shoot you.

That's true. I mean, for two teams. Super Bowl's two different teams. Yeah. Which matters to me. Flourishing in multiple situations, I think, is huge. It is. Especially when you weren't super flourishing towards the straight.

Look at you, Tom Brady. All right. Next, Drew Breeze. Number one, all-time leader in terms of quarterback touchdown passes. 541. Start in 2001. In fact, he started a year after Tom Brady, although the Saints have always been known for a more prolific offense

since the Patriots have been. right? You think so, yeah. You would think typically speaking, whether he was in San Diego or New Orleans. So describe Drew Breeze. I'll go first. He might be the greatest quarterback we never talk about. Because I can, let me give you 6 through 10 in the list, okay, of touchdown passers.

And these guys are talked about more often than Drew Breeze is. Fran Tarkington. Although, granted, we're talking about a quarterback at the 6th. 60s and 70s, but I mean, four Super Bowls in one decade. That's, that's Fran Tarkington. Aaron Rogers, multiple Super Bowls, MVPs. I mean, we talk about Aaron being one of the all-time greats. Ben Rothelberger, all he does is win Super Bowls.

All it does is get the Pittsburgh Steelers the playoffs. Eli Manning, I think, is a pretty easy narrative. Quarterback that maybe if the stats don't really indicate who he really was as a player. And then number six is big Philly style. Hmm. Philip Rivers. Okay. So is Drew Bree's the greatest quarterback we never talk about?

He doesn't ever get put on like the Mount Rushmore of quarterback. Not never, but rarely. If we started quarterback draft this year of guys we wanted, how long is it going to take before we get to Drew Breeze? This year, I mean, he'll be top 10. are we talking about for the future or for this year only? He'd be top 10, but he might be 9 or 10. For as prolific as a New Orleans state.

So the question is why, he's won a Super Bowl. They go to the playoffs on a semi-regular basis. He doesn't get hurt a lot. He doesn't have one of these years where he throws 25 touchdowns and throws 25 interceptions. Why are we not giving, and I'm not talking about Matt Ross Nick, I'm talking about the collective sports universe. Why doesn't Drew Brees get more run?

Or is it just, am I just imagining this? No, I think he gets not as much run as, say, Peyton Manning or Tom Brady did, but I don't think he's as good as those quarterbacks. Why? Why is he not as good? Just because they're a little bit better. There's nothing wrong with him. Gosh, I don't know.

Drew Brees is great. Drew Brees is great. But here I'm trying to defend Drew, but at the same time... He's definitely better than Brett Farr. I'll put him above Farrv. Put him above Marino. I don't know if you'd get that everywhere. You think about if I say Drew Brees or Brett Farr,

most people are saying. Brett Farr. Really? I think. I don't think. I'm just, I'm just pure guess. Because of Green Bay's perceived.

We could do an instantaneous poll on that. Yeah, but I. Where does Drew Brees land on the all-time interceptions list? Because I think Brett Farr's number one. Well, that's because he's the guy. Manning is up there, too. Yeah.

I don't know. I'd have to look. All right, so let's do this. And I will throw this out to those people that know perhaps more than I do. Why? Yeah, Fav is one. If I said, if you had a quarterback, Brett Farrer, Drew Brees to win a game for you, who would you want? Drew Brees.

Are you absolutely sure? Yes. Okay. Why do I want Brett Fav? I don't know. I don't think it's right. If you want to say who's going to throw, let's do a, throw it the longest, to throw at the farthest competition. I'm going with Brett Forf.

That isn't what I'm asking. I'm asking it's, I'm asking why I think I'd rather have Brett Farv. Is it because I know that Brett Farv can play in any weather climate? Or I'm not sure if Drew Breeze can jump on the road and go win a game? I think he could. That's right. He could.

He's one of the all-time greats. Yeah, I got Drew. Yeah. But I don't think I'm making this up that if you were to go to a, a sports bar and give me the five goat quarterbacks of all time. His numbers dictate that, correct? I put him in my five. Everything that he does, touchdown passes, winning games, leadership,

durability, yards per attempt. He's in that group, right? Then why do I not believe that if you got, we went to a bar and had some cocktails? Think about this, Ross, close your eyes for a second. You can close your eyes. You're not doing radio. You're not driving. I'm not driving.

You're thinking of Brady. You're thinking of Montana. Right? Yeah, Montana's in there. You're thinking of Brady? Montana. Manning. Manning?

I think you're thinking of... I think you're thinking of John Elway? I'm putting Bree's head Elway. How about that hot take? 1245 on the Matt Thomas show. Help us with this dilemma that we're in. We're trying to... to sneak Drew Breeze in the top five.

And I think stat-wise, we can do it. I'm putting them in there. But at the bar with a couple of cocktails, I don't think we are. It's the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 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. Time is 1251.

It is the Matt Thomas show. With Ross and Nick, we're going to go on the beat with our friends. friend Aaron Reese from the athletic coming up at 1-30. I thought you were going to go on 93-7 the beat. I mean, it's really the only station I've not been on. You've been on Sunny?

That's a great question. I think commercials have run with my voice on it. Oh, okay. I thought we were going to get you. What happened to the Sunday night disco fever with Matt Thomas? That was when the Astros are going to lose the World Series?

Yeah, they lost. Oh. I've asked Mark Sherman multiple times. That's our programming guru for the building to give me a 70 show, and he's like, Matt, that sounds great. but no one would listen. Nobody's listening to Sunny at 2 a.m. anyways.

No, but that's what I'm saying. Give me the free hour. You mean to tell me that I couldn't generate revenue and ratings for a 2 a.m. Sunday morning show, Matt's 70s flashback? Sunday, it's Sunday 2 a.m. on Sunny. What kind of commercials are you running there? Oh, probably, um, time life music. No, it wouldn't be time.

Pallas. Pals and two for one. Do you want, do you want two for one in the Pound? Probably not. No. What are you running? Vitamins? Yes.

You are probably running. Sleeping pills for insomnix. You are doing maybe some church-related ads come to see us at service this morning. Okay. Well, yeah. It's sunny. It's not like it's the, you know, it's not a bunch of degenerants listening there. I can't imagine.

Depend. It depends. It depends. It's a bunch of creeps. Listen to that going, hey, I wonder who's on the air. I want to call them in Tala how beautiful they are. right? Probably not.

Nobody's listening. That's why you put 70s with Matt. 70s with Matt on 2 a.m. on Sunny. I would listen, Matt. I guarantee you we would see there would be a little bit of a rating spike. I put it on the Uber when I'm riding in at 2 a.m.

I mean, no. Why does Bill O'Brien have a comment on everything? Very rude. Because I have a lot of comments of him. So that's what you do. Hey, let's just keep throwing sound bites in the show work whether they work or not. You want to hear what Sean Payton thinks about Drew Brees?

Sure. You know, we called them Benjamin Button. That happened in New Orleans, I believe. Did the movie Benjamin Button take place in the world? I never saw it. Do you see it? No. I mean, I actually saw like the first 10 minutes of it.

I turned it off. At least the movie was filmed here. Okay. Have you seen the Irishman yet? Yes, I have. You sat through all of that. Yeah. And you weren't bored?

No. At all. No. Do you see it? Nick? Yep, seen it. And you weren't bored. No. Why is everyone complaining about the being the length of the movie being so bad and boring? Because it's 2019, you got a short attention spans. I don't know that you could make it through. There's no chance. Now without my phone, a popcorn and a pee break.

Yeah, I haven't seen like Goodfellas in a casino, right? I saw Casino. Oh, you should see Goodfellas first before you watch. It's too violent for Matt. I don't like violent movies. He gets skittish. Yeah. He's traumatized from when he's hitting people with pool cues. Oh. He's got flashbacks. Yeah, but I hit him nicely. Square in the back.

Square in the back. Let me go to Tony the Woodlands at 1255. Hi, Tony. Hey, guys. How you doing? Wonderful. Awesome question. That really lit me up.

Like, Drew Bree. And here's another like addem to add on that. Like, for the year, I put him in the, for just this year, he's got to be in the top, to me, the top three. But the other question is, how much fun is he to watch? How much fun is that stadium to watch? Who's the most fun quarterback to watch? Yeah. And, you know, all those completions, excellent, all the, all the catches that were made.

But the balls, it's like, it's almost. like he throws like a computer game. It's exactly where the ball should be. And to do that 29 out of 30 times, he is the most untalked about court. Today he's getting a ton of props everywhere. Speeches are everywhere and everything. But I mean, how could you not be fired up in that beginning of the game huddle? when he's going ballistic in the center of the huddle

and he's like we're going to win we're just going to win and the guys are like jump we're going to win you know what I love about him Tony because I'm not I'm not look I work a lot of Saints fans a lot of Saints fans in our community he always to me as an observer

if I was a Saints fan he's never going to let us let us not get a chance to win a football game he's going to get out there you're down 14 with five minutes left to go. Right. He's going to give you a puncher's chance. He's going to the death.

Yeah, yeah. That's exactly. He reminds me of actually the guy he played behind me, and I'll never forget where I was when I was in Miami and I was a young boy at my aunt's house and watch Lutie throw that big touchdown pass to win that big game. And, I mean, it's ironic he played behind him, but he's that little gritty guy that's just going to run through wall

for you. You always had that one guy on your football team in high school where, you know, the running back or whoever he was, that guy, if the coach tells him run through that brick wall, you can make it. He'll try. Okay. And that's what he reminds me up. So thanks to the topic. That was great. You got to appreciate it. That's what we didn't discuss. That he, all the grades have that too. I mean, every one of the quarterbacks I just mentioned, Ross, you give him a minute 19 and 74 yards ago. they're going to get a touchdown for you. They just are. That's why they're the greats of the greats.

And I think to what the caller was talking about, the accuracy of Drew, like Drew Bree's never had the biggest arm, but the accuracy and the anticipation with the he throws and his command of the offense, I mean, that's to me what separates him from just about anybody, the accuracy. And we're talking about all these guys

and the Tom Brady's and the Payton Mannings, Joe Montana's, whatever. I think he's about probably the most accurate on the list. Yeah, I don't even think going to a stat machine would necessarily have to, you know, going to the stat list to show you his greatest percentage because that's a little, that could be. That's contextual and things change. Yeah, that doesn't matter as much.

If I need somebody to hit some money in a tight window 20 yards down the field, I think I'm picking Drew Brees just ahead about anybody, about anybody. Even over Tom Brady. Mm-hmm. I wouldn't do that. Tom Brady's the best at everything. I'm not talking about Tom Brady 2019. I'm talking about Tom Brady 2011.

Just does everything right. Okay. Doesn't take a sack. Fines a completion. Moves a team down the field. Effectively calls timeouts. I think Bill Belichick effectively calls timeouts. I just figured that the one coach it does.

Yes, he does. I thought that was a given. I didn't even bring his name up. That's true. He's like he's grandfathered in of anything that coaches do well, including cheating. Yeah, so says one of his old players. Well, Teddy Bruske didn't really say that. He said it was a bad look.

He didn't say this is, you know, this is a smoking gun of cheating. or anything like that. 1258 on the Matt Thomas show. Let's get the final hour going here on Sports Talk 7. Not the final. We got three hours ago. This show is so good. It needs an extra hour beyond that.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-5-7-90. We say farewell to one of Ross's favorite voices. Next. Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show. How do I? Now, this is really a little embellishment on our part, right?

This is the Matt Thomas Show 104. We don't embellish on the show, man. Well, we constantly embellish. We should call ourselves an embellishment 799, sports talk 790. So a certain member of the Astros pitching rotation has left us, and of course we know that's Gary Cole. And that's not the reason we're playing this song, because we knew Garrett Cole was going to leave the day.

He put the Scott Morris hat on in the afternoon. Astro's Clubhouse, and he called himself, what did he call himself, Ross? Independent worker or something? He's not an employee. Not an employee. He couldn't have told us fast enough he wasn't going to come back with the Astros. There was another picture that I don't know at the end of the day was going to be a Houston Astro. But we loved him in the months of April, Ross.

And May. June was not bad. July was solid, I think. August, he blanked the bed. September, he blanked the bed. I can tell where he didn't get in the bed. Yeah. We speak of

Wade Miley, who signed a new two-year contract yesterday, two years. Wow. With the Cincinnati Reds. One of the things about having Wade Miley on the show, not because he was a great interview. In fact, I don't think we ever talked to Wade Miley on the air.

We might have, I think. I'm not sure about that. So, Wade was a crafty starter. Yes. pitch count was always an issue inning length was always a problem not a problem but just it's who he was

he's a max 150 guy endings we're speaking of so we're not really super sad that he left we're just super sad that we can't do this anymore Wade I'm gonna miss you Wade

and throwing cutters like nobody's business and running the local habitashers in Topeka, Kansas. We're going to appreciate Wade Miley and getting to say Wade Miley. We're going to miss you, young man.

We wish you well on your travels to Cincinnati. And may you and the Cincinnati red legs have great successes. May you export everything along the Ohio River to your satisfaction. Yes.

move your goods and your services up the Mississippi. We look forward to you being replaced by Forst Whitley. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think you've hit on something. Goodbye, Wade, Molly. Hello, Forrest Whitley. Yes, and your right hand, man, Jack Mayfield.

Super Jack. Super Jack Mayfield. No, that's the Governor Jack Mayfield. Governor Jack Mayfield. or maybe a county judge. County judge, Jack Mayfield, running here up along these lines. Yes.

This new territory known New Mexico, very interested, says, Judge Jack Mayfield, soon be governor. And of course, we look forward to more playing time for young Miles Straw. Miles Straw owns the county line barbecue down the street.

See, we still have enough southern sounded names on the team, Matt. So you know what? Why are we doing this then? Because we wanted to say one more time Wade Wade Miley. Thank you, Wade.

It doesn't sound nearly as good if you're doing, play the music here, watch it. Watch names that don't go well with it. Jose Al Tuve. Alex Brickman. Yeah, that's kind of, that's vanilla. Joel Springer.

Justin Verlander. No. No. That sounds like a guy from California. Yeah. I'll give you a good one. Abraham Toro. He might be traded.

Yes. Jose O'Kiddy. No. No. No more. No. Definitely, though, forced quickly. Unfortunately.

Who's the commissioner? What's the guy to mean? Jack Mayfield. No, not Jack McHill. Oh, a baseball. Miles Straw. Wait. Oh, Rob.

Rob Manfred of baseball. I thought you were not on the commission. Governor Manfred. Yes. Have come into these streets known as our counties, our byways, and our highways, and things that our way of doing business is not the lawful way in Major League Baseball. 1889. Strike down on the Astros with a heavy hand.

Not yet. Sanctions the likes of which we had not seen before. Praise Lord, it does not happen, obviously. Well, it's likely going to happen. You can just shut your hole right now. This is a historical documentary. We don't deal with fiction. All right, I'd see.

I'm afraid. I'm afraid. Commissioner Manfred. Robert Manfred. Robert Manfred. Going to come in from those mean streets of Boston in New York or whatever hellhole that he lives on the East Coast. Welcome back. We're just going to do this for the rest of the segment. No, we're not.

I don't hear Bill O'Brien sound bites. Ross, they're waiting until the first year to get their act together on this. They're like, man, we've got so much evidence. We've got to pie through this. All right. 60 witnesses, they said. 76,000 emails? Who would want to go through?

You know what, in all serious? My wife has over 100,000 emails in her account. She never erases them. Yeah, I'm kind of like that. It gives me hives. Yeah, I got 20,000 in mine right now. I have about 11. thousand?

No, 11. Just plain old 11. 11? Oh yeah, I cannot get rid of emails fast enough. I'm like email hoarder. Because something will happen. If somebody asks me something to happen a year ago and I'll just go find it. That'll happen one time in a year.

It doesn't happen that often. You're going to keep 250,000 emails for one. If you try to come after me, it happens to me all the time, especially work emails. Yeah, I'm constantly searching back at old emails. Now, I have a large deleted items list, but I don't have them on the email. Like I look at them, I send them or I need them and then I either file them away in a particular folder or I get rid of them. No, I'm email. I'm email Pack rat.

And I clear my text messages out fairly quickly too. Oh, I don't ever do that. That's probably smart. What? For me. Oh, just in case there's evidence? No. The records are still there. You can't get rid of them. I don't know. I do just because I don't want to scroll through to find somebody. That's just because I'm in or I'm just anil about that kind of thing. Okay.

Like I go on the planes, that's a chance to clear out my emails and my text messages. I come off a flight. That's what you do? Yeah, and listen to music. You have a fresh. You put on some Neil Sedaka and you clear out some emails. Yes. So is James Harden.

James Hardin and I appreciate Neil Saddica. Really? Yeah. He loves laughter in the rain. James Hardin. Do you think he does? No. He loves bad blood, actually, the duet with Elton John.

There's no way. You're probably right. 112 is the time. It is the Matt Thomas show. Chase and Sugar Lang wants to talk about James Hardin's playing out of this world. Do you agree? Is he playing out of this world? world. We'll discuss that next as the Rockets overcame a 25-point deficit to knock off the

spurs. Bottom of the hour, we get to the Texans and the Buccaneers with Aaron Reese of the Athletic. It's the Matt Thomas show. And how about Lance McCullors? Back to Matt Thomas. Turnball swinging a misstack three. On Sports Talk 790, your home for Houston Astros baseball. The line to light to the rap, slams it home. Incredible. 11 straight rocket points. They have their biggest lead of the game. Harding with the stuff. Timeout Spurs, 101.91.97 Houston. So, Ross, as you were watching the game last night, and the Rockets were down 25, did you say to yourself,

oh, they're coming back, it's the NBA? No. You thought this was going to be one of those four-quarter, complete, utter. There were people on Twitter like, this is the first sign that Mike Dan Tony may be losing the basketball team. I saw that. You saw that, too. Yes. I want to make sure I wasn't the only one seeing it.

From some accounts, I wouldn't expect that coming. Correct. Not a hot bacony, but it was just more of, are you really pressing the panic button this quickly? Right. Yeah, I would have, yeah. Yeah, I'm just going to leave it at that, I think. You know, they're playing 667 basketball.

Now, granted, they are, what, seven and six in their last 13. And also, granted, this is not a murderer's role of games coming up here. It hadn't been, right. But were we supposed to win every single one of them? I would like them to, yeah. Yeah, you're thinking the NBA is full of 11-game winning streaks. Which is truth. You're in the five-spot right now.

Do you want to be in the five-spot? Playing Denver in the first round, doesn't bother me. On the road to Denver? Yeah, and then round to the Lakers. Okay, that bothers me. That's what I'm saying. I don't want them ending up in the five-spot. You know how arrogant L.A. fan is,

generally speaking? They're really arrogant. We as America cannot have Clippers Lakers in the NBA Western finals. Oh, my gosh. It's all those Lakers fans that, or I'm sorry, this is what it is. It's people in like the Bay Area probably that grew up Lakers fans and their Warriors fans and now they're probably back to being Lakers fans. And it's also probably a new generation of Clipper fans that have no idea who the Clippers were except for like a year ago.

There's no Clipper fans. There really isn't. Like the Angels could win five World Series. LA's a Dodger Town. The Clippers could win 60 games until Steve Bollmer buys another high-tech company. It wouldn't matter. It's still Lakers City. When the Lakers were winning 30 games a year and the Clippers. Remember how the Clippers with Chris, Paul, and everybody. Yeah. Was getting to 50, 55 and going to the playoffs. Jamal Crawford was scoring like a muddha. Still at Laker Town.

I agree. I wonder what that's like... 24 and 3. Lakers are? Yes. Do they ever lose? By the Milwaukee final loss yesterday, who knew who they lose to? Dallas.

Dallas is tough. Maverick's going to be tough for a long time. They're only going to lose because they're city uniform. are so wretched. I actually... Don't do it. I actually... I can't like them.

Well, that's because you're just... I know I'm very much in the minority. You are very much in a minority. I think they look... They're fine. Do you like the Milwaukee City jerseys? I don't remember what those look like. They say Cream City on it.

Excuse me? Nick, go look at them. Tell Ross what they say on them. Type in Milwaukee City jerseys. I didn't know that. Wow. Is that like... Go ahead. Why is Milwaukee Cream City? I don't know the history behind that.

It's like, is Miracle Whip plant there or... Milwaukee's known for... Is the Ready Whip people? Are they based over there? Milwaukee's known for beer and foam, not cream. Although there's cows in Wisconsin. Oh, okay, Barbas Halls, but the Barbisol folks over there? Why is it the Cream City? I have never heard of that.

that before. Matter of fact, today's edition of Believe or not. It's highly Googledable. It's going to be city nicknames. City nicknames that really are nicknames but you've never heard of them before. I'm wearing right now. I use those all the time when we do. I believe it or not, but I can't wait. So, well, we take this phone call, Nick, find out why Milwaukee is known as cream. Oh, you had the

definition. Cream City brick? No, it's part of, it's because of America's Dairyland. It's actual cream. I've been in Milwaukee's. No, like milk. Like I'm like what the cow squeeze out. Oh, no, no.

No, I keep reading and I learn more. Oh, no. It has nothing to do with the dairy industry. It is known as a Cream City because of the yellow cream-colored bricks that were first discovered and made here in the 19th century. That's what I just said, Cream City bricks. You told me no, Nick. I had to keep reading. That's okay.

Apparently, the dairy thing is a misnomer. Would you like to be, would you like to live, work, raise a family in a city known as Cream City? I don't ever want to be near the Cream City, no. That's a lame nickname. They have casinos, though. What's the temperature right now? Probably 11. Yeah, exactly.

I'm out. Let's go to Chase and Sugar Land at 122 on the Matt Thomas show. Hi, Chase. Hey, how you doing? Good. Beautiful day, isn't it? It is. Yes, sir.

James Hardin is playing out of this world, man. He is incredible. Just incredible, man. It's ridiculous. What do you like? like about his game? His free throw. I like how he can get to the free throw line.

And his stepbacks. Ridiculous, man. Ridiculous. Crazy, crazy. How'd you like last night's game? I loved it. We were down at halftime by what, 22 points? Something crazy.

Something crazy. We came back, man. James Harden, man You're not giving Russell Westbrook any credit? James Harden. You're MVP. Okay. Thank you, Chase.

It was a thrilling call. It was. James Hardin is out of this world. He's amazing. He's the kids would say maze balls. Nobody says that anymore. I like how 90% of the things you say the kids would say they don't say. No, I should say the kids.

The kids once said, how about that? There you go. James Harden's season's average under 39 points, down 38.9. No. By way, Russ is playing a lot better. He is. I mean, honestly, Chase? Besides going one of seven from three last night.

Although I think you've been day drinking and there's anything wrong with that as long as you're not driving. I think it was Russ's determination and his ability to keep the team even halfway close was the reason why the Rockets won last night. James had a much better second half, that's for sure. but Tucker hit a big Maclemore coming off the bench hitting a bunch of threes PJ hitting the obligatory open corner three um

Clint finishing in the basket better in the second half I mean James had a really good season but James in the first half was not good at all Was he a 417 I think Something bad So and then he was like 6 to 12 6 or 12 in the second half Yeah everything when he's short on shots Ross

That's a sense to me that he needs a rest tired. You know, he's number one in the minute. It was, as of a couple days ago, number one in the league in minutes played. Yeah, I don't like that. I don't like bragging about that. I've been banging that drum for like three, four years. If I have one complaint with Mike Dan Tony, it's the rotation and it's

playing guys into the ground. Okay, so let me ask you this. Because that's a very valid point. If Russell Westbrook came here on the notion of he's going to take the second game of back-to-backs off, or miss one of them. So you're down a player. You're down Eric Gordon. Austin Rivers has been battling the flu and see he's not even close to what he is.

So you're telling me at that point you're going to give Chris Clemens 30 minutes a game on those type of situations. No, in those types of situations, I get it. But I'm talking about regular situations. What of that? You had Russell Westbrook last night. Yeah. You had Daniel House. You had Austin Rivers.

Austin Rivers played 11 minutes. Russell Westbrook played 40. Clint Capella played 40. Now I get that because. But those guys are all part of the reason why they were able to come back and overcome the death. So the answer better is not so much worrying about James Minutes, about making the most of his early minutes and not letting this team get into these awful 10, 15 point deficits. So they want to have an, you know, use a lot of energy to win games in the second half, right? Is that what we're talking about here?

I mean, yeah, don't get down 25. Of course. But I just mean in a general sense, as the season goes along, there's been a number of times where I'm like, why is he not playing this guy any minutes or only playing a few minutes? I mean, Gary Clark can contribute a little bit. Austin Rivers only get... Why does Austin River only get... Is Austin River sick? I think he had a little bit of a finger issue.

Okay. Injury's unfortunately our part of the game. It's not the way you want it to be, but it is what it is. Chris Clemens played zero minutes last night. Chris can get some minutes here and there. Okay, why can't we get him five? Get Russell Westbrook from 40 out of 35. You can go launch some threes.

Gary Clark's probably getting some more playing time, for sure. Although his three points... I mean, we're talking about the back third of the Rockets bench, some parts of it being really effective on some nights, some being non-existent. Unfortunately, Tabalcephalos is offering nothing for you right now for the Rockets, offensively or defensively, for that matter. Right now, the circle of trust, Ross, is about eight deep.

It'll get to nine when Eric Gordon comes back. I just think Dan Tony is a little restrictive when it comes to using the bench. And I think it's hurt the Rockets in the playoffs. I mean, that's the only explanation. nation, either you're telling me James Harden is a choker or James Harden has gotten tired. Now, I think it has been that he has run out of gas sometimes there in the playoffs. I don't think he's a choker. No, I think I think gas is a major problem.

Excuse me. Let's get to the Texans beat next. We'll say how to our friend Aaron Reese from the athletic. Swing and a miss, walk him out. This is A.J. Hinch of your Houston Astros. Your teams, your town, your voice all day. Sports Talk, 790. your home for your home team.

I'm the Texans beat right now. Aaron Reese, the athletic. You can find him on Twitter at Aaron J. Reese. All right, we're going to go backwards this week. So Bill O'Brien at his press conference yesterday was asked at the very end about the health and well-being of J.J. Watt. You were there. Can you read between the lines for us?

You know, I think the only thing to read there is that obviously he's not closing the door on it. which I think is significant, right? But I also don't know if it means that it's certain to happen. You know, and kind of other talks to do well and past week and he seemed like he was still pretty far away. He had, you know, he boxes to check before he get to the point of actually going to have the field. So, and we'll see, you know, obviously this has much season left, but if they did add in, even if they go on, you know, kind of limited reps or whatever,

you know, I think that can be huge for the Texans because they're kind of, I guess is really just falling off and go up without why. Yeah, it's 20, throw off your Twitter this morning, 27th in the NFL overall in pass rush. And that includes games with watch. Yeah, I was going to say, this isn't just because JJ's not there. So you answer this question to the audience. Where has the pass rush gone in 2019, generally speaking? You know, I think Woody Marzbo has got off to a hot start, and he was probably bound to regress anyway.

You factor in that he suddenly had more attention attracted to him. I think Jacob Martin kind of is, you know, he's a good speed rusher, situational pass rush. I don't know necessarily when suddenly you need him to be kind of a, you know, maybe your number two pass rush around the team or one of the top ones if he's ready for that role. So I just think they just don't have really the guys for it. I don't know how much more it is than that. I mean, I mean, if you want more than that, I mean, obviously the secondary has been up and down at times this year

and not fully healthy. And so when you're also not covering people well, that doesn't help. But, I mean, at the end of the day, even when the secondary does cover well, they're not necessarily getting to quarterback. I think it was the game tying throw, Tanna Hill made to A.J. Brown. I mean, he had forever to make that throw. That he did. Visiting with Aaron Reese of the Athletic here on the Matt Thomas show.

So all of us are in agreement. This is a very schizophrenic football team. Highs are high, low, low. There's no consistency. I think Rodney Harrison even alluded to it on the Sunday night pre-concuit. game show. They have way more to play for than for James Winston to just add and to stockpile his stats to get a new contract. I think he's going to come back for the Buccaneers. So I don't even think this is an audition for him. So with that said, the Texans, with much more to play for,

should go to Tampa Bay. They are the better team on paper and should win that game to win the AMC South. But there's still a lot of hesitancy and people really buying into that. What say you about this weekend's matchup? Well, I think, James, first of the first, I think James has something to play for if he can get to the 30-30 club of 30 touchdowns and 30 interceptions. I think that would be pretty awesome. Now, listen, we don't need your tongue and your cheek when you're coming on my show. It's all about information here, my friend. You're on the beat.

No opinions allowed. Yeah, I mean, I think that they obviously, they do have more to play for, and you would think that this would be a week that they would show up. But, you know, a lot of these weeks would be weeks that you would think they'd show up. And I do think the one thing about James is, you know, despite all the interception and stuff, he can torch anybody. And that is a problem. I don't think this is necessarily a great matcher for them, although the secondary was at least

a little better. The past rush was really kind of the issue. I think the Texans like going against quarterbacks that love to throw interceptions. They've always figured out a way, even the last couple of years, to win the turnover battle. And for the most part, they have done that this year, although this year hasn't been nearly as pronounced as previous years. Is that because Father Thomas catch up in that secondary, or is it because of the lack of the pass rush, combination of both? Why haven't they been nearly as aggressive enforcing turnovers as they have in previous years? Yeah, I mean, I think turnovers obviously are kind of random to some degree.

So I think that is part of it. I think secondary talent is not necessarily totally there. And that probably does kind of limit what sort of chances for real O'Kronnell wants to take in terms of how he brings pressure and stuff like that. So it's kind of interrelated, but I, for a lot of it, kind of think, you know, turnovers are somewhat unpredictable. Justin Reed makes the huge hit that forces the turnover that turns into the Whitney Marissel's interception.

Justin Reed every week, Aaron, makes those type of plays. He did it against Garner-Minsure earlier this year against Jacksonville. But he's also a walking shoulder injury. Is that just how he plays? Is there something fundamentally wrong with his tackling? Because I feel like the next time he goes for yet another shoulder tackle, he's going to end up being gone for a significant period of time. I just feel like he has, I don't know if it's a technique or if it's just coincidence,

but he just feels like he's the next hit away from missing a long period of time. Yeah, you know, I don't know if actually the Texas has a lot of the change. I think about kind of the way he gets himself. Obviously, Brian Gain is no longer than GM, but last year when, when just Reed was a rookie, I wrote a story kind of about that he was the shortest tackler in the secondary and why that was and what that kind

of led to the Dexon's liking him and stuff like that. So I think that's a huge part of his value, obviously, he's not quite as good at this year versus last, and I do wonder if the shoulder injury is playing through has something to do with it, but I mean, yeah, you're right, he has dealt with it all season. I wrote something yesterday of how he practices in a red jersey, like a quarterback, and

if you see him in the locker, I mean, he's still wearing this kind of brace, he's constantly got it on, that drops kind of like across his whole chest and stuff. So, I mean, it certainly seems like so he's playing through a lot of pain. I mean, O'Brien would say, you know, everyone's playing through swimming right now. And that probably is true. But I did think it was kind of crazy that it's on that right shoulder, and that's the shoulder that he stopped the ball for me

and what was, you know, arguably the biggest play of the game. Staying with injuries. Is Wolf Fuller back or is it how that hamstring feels at, say, 11 o'clock before noon kickoff? You know, I think last week they felt pretty good about Fuller. that he was going to come back, and I don't know how much of it was a, I mean, they say, you know, the game time decisions are how he'll feel that day. That probably is true if he doesn't feel up to it, and it's not going to go.

But, I mean, last week, even, they felt pretty good about him earlier in the week. So I would imagine that they would feel okay about him this week, too. All right, so Tampa's got their two top receivers out. The Texans feel like they're pretty healthy. What else on the injury front of it? I miss so far. Anybody have a huge concern going to the game with it being a short week? Yeah, but no, Drick McKinney.

he suffered a concussion towards the end of the game when the game was kind of already decided for the most part or during that final Tennessee touchdowns rise and left the game late so, you know,

O'Brien said he didn't necessarily rule out the idea that he would still be able to play on Saturday, even though it's the short week, but that would be the one to watch. Obviously, Texan would still have that kind of him inside, but, you know,

with the hospital who would replace McKinney, probably Peter Collin body. That's not a household name under new circumstances. not at all. No, no, no. It's a special team's guy.

I just say that three times fast. Okay, so let's do playoff scenarios here. Let's say they finish off business and they beat the Buccaneers to win the AFC South. I don't think unless Kansas City gets upended at Chicago that there's much room for the Texans to improve in Week 17. Have you gone through the variety of scenarios? Are they pretty much locked in that number four spot once they clince the division?

Yeah, I think they basically need some help from the chiefs or, you know, a collapse with Patriots. Obviously, they play the Dolphins, I don't imagine they lose the Dolphins. Although, you know, weird things always happen between the Patriots and Dolphins. So maybe they would. But, yeah, for the most part, it seems like they're pretty much locked in. I think they have something like last time I checked with like a 10% chance maybe at the 3-Case. Okay, so with that being said, and I know that if you bothered asking this to Bill O'Brien, the day he would yell at you.

what does your gut tell you about the types of guys that might sit out week 17 although in some respects might allow Tennessee to sneak in the playoffs which would then mean they may face the Titans in the playoffs week after this is where things get really can get crazy yeah yeah that's true you know I don't know if they're necessarily I mean I guess when they already coached the division you see how things out of this week but I you know if you look at all scenarios I think they would still kind of be in play for the three seed and so you know they'd have to determine if that's what they care about.

I mean, I guess if I was going to have to pick anyone who I would think who would sit out, probably will full of right. He's like the one guy that seems kind of needs the sort of load management here on this team. And so that would be the position to see out to me. Maybe someone in the secondary, too, because, you know, they've been banged up all year. If you take a game off that might be useful, Justin Reed, for example, but he obviously is super valuable for this team. And like you mentioned, you don't necessarily want to help Tennessee get in the playoffs.

I don't know if that's the sort of team you want to face again. All right. So your gut tells you that Texans are going to go to Tampa Bay and win this game? I don't care if they do it comfortably or not. They're going to win it. Yes or no? Yeah, my gut tells me that they're going to win. I don't know if they'll necessarily be comfortable.

I think it'll be an exciting game and all that. But I think they will win. Very good. Thank you very much, Aaron, for the time, safe travels at Tampa. And we'll visit again next week. Thanks. You got Aaron Reese from The Athletic at Aaron J. Reese on Twitter. If you want to follow him and his insights on the National Football.

when it comes to your beloved Houston Texans. When I listen to the Matt Thomas show, I don't even understand the eclectic nature of the show, the dichotomy, the ostentatiousness, the perfunctory that sounds about as smart as LeVar Ball. Back to the Matt Thomas show, whoever he is. Two o'clock, we recap the Rockets went over the San Antonio Spurs. Rossi, we have a lawsuit involving Russell Westbrook. We're going to discuss as well. and anything you guys want to get in on the Texans,

you can do that as well in the final hour. The show plus, believe it or not, that they get $252. Right now, I want to tell you about somebody, and I want you to tell me if you could change roles with this human being, okay? He lives in San Diego, which first is not terrible. That sounds great. I'm in.

He has been, he apparently has set a new record, although there's no confirmation of such record because the records aren't existing. for most consecutive days eating at a particular restaurant. 114 straight days. Okay. Not including Sundays. Oh, then it doesn't count. Well, the restaurant's on open on Sundays.

Is it the cafeteria at his church? No, it is Chick-fil-A. He gets, the favorite thing on the menu is the original chicken sandwich, fries, and a large Diet Coke. He gets the large Diet Coke with extra ice. Because, you know, the ice at Chick-fil-A's is almost as good as a restaurant. Extra ice. Well, you get free refills, so it's not like it's a big deal.

Well, does he sit in there or is he going to drive-through? I think he's probably sitting in there. Extra. I've heard of, I go light ice or easy ice every time. First of all, you go light ice, easy ice every time. You never ask for extra. It's always a cold beverage coming out of the little knolls on the way. I get no ice sometimes.

He's a real estate agent in San Diego. He was eventually persuaded to set a personal record for eating a chick-fil-A. He became aware of a man in Georgia who ate at his local restaurant for 100 consecutive days, aside from Sundays. And he said, well, I could do that, but I want to beat the record. at 114 consecutive days. Yeah, I could do that if I wanted to be a jackass and make the news. So, wait, is that the record? Well, Chick-fil-A doesn't keep records.

But the unofficial, you know, like, hey, web-generated, hey, how long have you had been out at a consecutive place? Well, I'm beating this dude's record. I thought I heard about a guy a few years ago that ate like 30,000 Big Macs and he was eating two or two to three a day. It's the Chick-fil-A record. Chick-fil-A record, 114 days. Well, that's lame.

Now, look, the three of us are equal opportunity fast food eaters. Uh-huh. We love ourselves a water burger. Yes. In and out. In and out. We love a... Pass.

Subway. We could do... We love a talking cabana. We're equal opportunity. It's delicious. Their fries are awful. Get them well done. Animal style.

Well done. Animal style. It's like eating potato sticks. And everybody loves potato sticks. Uh, no. You're just a hater. Is the fries suck? I'm not going.

It's a burger joint. Not a fry joint. Yeah, nobody goes to eat. It says, I'm just going in and out just for the fries. Thank you, Matt. Thank you. What could you eat

114 days straight of? Now, he's not even, he gets a Sunday off. This is really not even kind of a soft record. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. This is weak. You need to buy two sandwiches on Saturday and eat one on Sunday.

Because really the Chick-fil-A is going to hold over. It's not a streak. Well, according to the Chick-fil-A world, it's a streak. It's weak. Let's go to 114 days of something consecutively at a restaurant. Now, it doesn't mean he doesn't have to have that. He says his favorite thing is the chicken sandwich.

Maybe he goes off. Maybe he gets the grilled chicken, maybe it's a nuggets. One day, a strip, if you will. Perhaps a chicken soup. Chicken soup. What could you eat the same restaurant, 114 days in a row? That's four months. You only have to eat their one meal a day, right?

Yeah. I think the better question is, what couldn't I do? Yeah, I can do any of them. Yeah, I would do Wendy's, Burger King, In-N-Out, Lada Burger. I'd have to go probably to the restaurant with the fast food restaurant with the biggest menu, and that would be probably a McDonald's. Sonic. I told you I'm boy-counting Sonic because of those two gibbons that are in the commercial.

If you're talking about a variety of menu, it's Sonic. They've got the breakfast. They've got literally boneless wings. They've got a Philly cheese steak. They got a hot dog. They got a hamburger. They got chicken tenders. They got popcorn chicken.

They got nerd slush. What about something like Taco Cabana? They're open 24 hours. You can sneak it in whenever you want. But do you want to eat Mexican food? 14 days a year? Yeah, why not? Yeah, I like Mexican food.

I know. I think you get tired of the tortillas and the meat every day. Well, just get an enchilada. I don't like enchiladas. Just get a taco bowl. You don't like enchiladas? Correct. What?

Yeah. What? I know. I'm in the minority. What's wrong with you? What's not to like... Do you like me? I don't like the sauce.

You can. can get varied sauces. No, I'm okay. You can get a red sauce. You can get a chili gravy. You can get a green sauce. No, no, no. Incholatus, a sweet sauce, if you like.

No, thank you. There's like, there's not just one type of enchilada. You can get a green sauce. So let's close out this conversation. No, I want to talk more about why you don't like enchiladas. I don't like enchiladas. When's the last time you had an enchilada? And where was it?

That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you're probably eating it out like ponchos or something. No, probably either a homemade one or a, a problem. That's your problem. That's a problem. Wait a minute. Do you know the wife listens to the show? I hope she's listening.

She's going to come beat you, both of you. She doesn't bring me some enchiladas, and I'll let her know if they're good or not. ATX hobo girl says you need to be kicked out of the state now. Yeah, go back to Detroit. Maybe that's the last time you had an enchilada. No. All right, so let's wrap this up. If you are given one restaurant, fast food.

Yeah. Now remember, 114 consecutive days. Yeah, I'm going to Sonic. I'm not going to, I'm not going to go in my car and have a car hop bring the food to me. Why not? I want to go in and sit down, change up the atmosphere. They have, they have tables.

You can go see one of those. You're not, that's outside. You've ever been inside of a Sonic? No, unless I'm complaining about my order. There is no inside Sonic. Yeah, there is. If they messed up some stuff, I'm walking in there. And look, I get the feeling that hanging out inside of the Sonic could be a little dicey at night.

You know what I'm saying? Why? I don't know. Something, something. What's dicey inside of a Sonic? Maybe relationships are happening. You never know. In the Sonic?

Why are people banging in a Sonic? No, I'm saying like, co-workers. Like, man, I'm so sick to be on these roller skates. Why are they getting after it? The skates are in the air? Why are they getting it after in the Sonic, but not in the jack-in-a-box or the... There's less room in a jack-in-a-box in a sonic. I don't understand why you think they're getting it after it there more than anywhere else.

Because they're all... They're just... I think you're just more sexual... Tension and They're more tired from walking out to everybody They're got the energy for that They're physically fits No they're out of

They're just tired There's not a lot of room to move Yeah Yeah You ever seen inside of Sonic You're gonna knock over a shake machine Or something If I'm gonna go for 114 days

I'm probably in Houston I'm probably going water burger Because I can get my pancakes I can get my tequitos Yeah Do they? I think water burgers They do

Yeah Toquitoes I can get my Chicken stripped back Can I get steak fingers at the Waterburger 2 or no? I'm not sure if they have a steak finger. I don't think so. They have the patty melts.

But I get 19 different versions of the same hamburger. Yeah, look, I mean, Waterberg is number two, but Sonic is number one. No, not until they get rid of those two gibonies. I'm getting rid of, I'm going to Sonic again. The food is delicious. The burgers are underrated. But those two guys are A-Holes in the car. I don't like them.

Footlong, cony. Technically, you could count any of their thousands of drinks as eating there. No. No. If we're talking about food consumption. Well, if it's a slush, it's a solid or a liquid. It's a liquid. Are you sure?

You cannot cut a, you cannot cut a slush. I could. I could cut a shake. Stop. Yeah. What if it's a thick concrete shake? And they got boneless wings? Popcorn chicken.

Yeah. Don't say boneless wings ever get on the show. That's what they're called. They're not. It's a phone. It's called a nugget. I didn't name them. Boneless wing.

Executive. I've never seen. I've never seen a chicken flying in the air, boneless. Okay, well, a burrito bowl isn't a burrito, but it's what you call it? I say Waterburger, what do you say, 114 days in a row? I'm going to go with the Taco Cabana, just so I can sneak it in. I can eat there at 1150, and then walk out and then walk back in 20 minutes later. I'll have two days done. That's cheating. I'm smart. No, it's cheating. It's playing the system. It's not playing a system. It's only one meal that you had there. But anyways,

no, I'd order two separate things. Not all of them are 24 hours. I know we're the one. are. Okay. I don't want to hear any enchilada hate either. It's okay. My palate is my palate. You don't get to judge my palate. You just don't. And I like enchiladas. Inchaladas. I can't believe. No, thank you. I almost walked out of this show. 158. It's the Matt Thomas show. 713-213-2-1-790. Please don't hate me. It's just the truth. And I'll speak to the truth on the show. I don't judge you for things you don't like, except boneless wings are not for real ass men is the Matt Thomas show

the following information is best received while sitting down listen for the keyword to tech I want you to just pretend the song is called Rockets Come Back Okay It'll work, I swear. Watch.

Sing it with me, everybody. Rockets come back. So Ben McLemore has come to play off the bench, two baskets, and his three minutes, including a three. He's got five Rockets, he'll still down 13. Rosen, one-on-one with Mac Lamar. Drives left, loses the ball, gets sworn, plays it back out, nearly stolen by Westbrook, pinballs off of Murray, picked up by Capella, to Westbrook to Hardin. He lays it up and in transition.

Westbrook drives left, gets to the cup, scoops and scores. 13 point game, 73 to 60. Westbrook has 27. You hear a little play by play. That's a guy that's calling a game when it's team down 13, right? Yeah. Listen to how his tenor moves up a little bit here. Now they double again as he works near the logo.

Martin stumbles a little bit. Rockets come back. Rewks come back. Swoze it back to Flickett to Rivers, gets it back to the corner to Maclamore, ball fake reset, shot and a three goes in Rockets within seven again. You hear him? Rockets come back. Forbes fumbled and House got it back to Westbrook in the corner. Tucker back to Russ. Drives, hangs, kicks. MacLamore to House, stutter steps, drives, Ural's, hands and

Capella slams at home. Three point game. They sure did. The line to light to the Rock. 101. Everybody together, ready? You're ready? You're ready? Rockets come back. Westbrook again, back to Capella, off in the corner, PJ wide open, shoots for three, and go! His second triple! Two in a row for the Rockets, they're up 107, 104.

One more time, here we go. Oh, no, we're not going to go there. This is on purpose. Rebound, tip, deflected, picked up. Rockets came back. Dude, I have an important question. By the way, I got one more thing that's going to make you mad. You ready for this?

Yes. I don't like tamales either. All right. No, don't leave. Nick's leaving. What's your question? I don't even remember. Oh, my God. What?

You haven't had the right to mollet. Look, it's not your fault. I just want to bring you in for a hug like this is Goodwill Hunting. It's not your fault. You probably haven't had the right enchiladas. There's just no way you can experience a delicious, tasty enchilada and say, you know what? That was bad. Where are we going to go get the definitive enchilada?

I'm asking the city of Houston for their definitive spots because there is a number of them that I have in my mind, but I'm trying to see where the best ones are in Houston. This is what we need to do. We got to knock out so many things on the post show. We have to get you. We have to get a Popeye's chicken sandwich. Yep. We have to go get a vegetable burger thing.

We have to get the Impossible Burger. And now we've got to get you a good enchilada. You got to your tamales too. The best tamales are just random bars. The guy will walk in and like 1.30. I'd be in the bathroom within four minutes. Sometimes those are really good. Sometimes those are not great.

As long as they have nice green sauce. with them. You need an old, yeah, if the old Mexican lady showing up to the bar with a coup with an igloo full of tamales, you're probably not going to do too bad. Yep. Tomollies are delicious as well. You just haven't had the right ones. I'm okay. Multiple votes for El Tienpo, Nymphas, T.OT.I.K.K.an, which I've had on North Side.

If I'm going El Tampo, I'm getting the fajitas. Okay. Delicious for tortillas and the beans and the rice and the onions. are a cheap cut of meat that are all marketing just like you just you're falling for all the marketing just like the bone in wings you also just listed every ingredient in enchiladas no but I don't want the corn

tortilla wrapped in sauce that gross sauce that's not gross and you can get flour tortilla enchiladas they exist where who's ever gotten that I have not seen that in a long time you've seen them before nobody walk look my wife loves enchiladas she's never walked in a restaurant and said I'll flower tortilla enchiladas

not happening yeah you can yeah they exist we're at by the way she would join you in this hate she thinks I'm nuts we're not like an enchiladas okay so you know what I'm gonna have my sister make some I'm gonna bring you some Chewis I think has some flour tortilla enchiladas yeah there's some places that have

Chewis green sauce is you just get it fried and call it call it chima and call it day I do like Jimmy Chongas it's not that fundamentally different tacos but Chimitanga is a giant enchilada that's fried

yeah that the fried that the fried batter which is awful for you so delicious. I'll give you that. Yeah. If I never had an enchilada or a tamale again, I'd be fine. You can't be in Adonis like I am and not and eat everything. You know what I'm saying?

Got to be selective. Jimmy and Tom Ball at 210. Hi, Jimmy. Hey, Max. You know I love your show. I listen to you probably 12 and a half of the 15 hours you're on each week. You're the best. And I 100% agree with you that

a boneless wing is basically It's like calling a hot hot. It's a homeless. Yep. Boleness, that's exactly right. There's nothing wrong with that. But you get, not going to be enough in Tijuana, but just buy something different, man. You can ask for a flour tortilla anywhere you go.

And also about tamales, the best tamale you ever have, at least for me, you know, you're hanging out at the auto shop on Main Street and Tombaugh. The guy comes along with his cooler. It's selling them right out of the cooler, hot with the saucer. And it's like heaven. It's amazing. Yeah, you know what? And you're in the bathroom like 30 seconds later.

No, you're not. No, no, no. They're good. You head on to work. Drive your back to all day. You're good to go. All right. Thank you, Jimmy, for the advice.

Appreciate everybody out in Tomball. Go to Locatelli if you're going to Tomball. Do they have enchiladas? No, they have great Italian food. It's an Italian kitchen. But if they made an Italian enchilat, I'm sure it'd be delicious. That would be pretty good. I could go for some Italian enchiladas.

All right. I'm going to feed you out there to look at Tilly, me, you and maybe Ross. Depends. Why, maybe? Okay, you can go for sure. All right, where do you want to go? Oh, let's get to the rockets. Okay.

I'm still recovering from you not liking tamales and enchiladas. I've been trying to, you just find the boneless wing forever, so. What do you mean? It's not about justifying. It's a delicious piece of meat. It's breaded. You don't have to fight through gristle. It's a nugget.

Okay. It's a nugget of chicken. I don't care what you want to call it. It's delicious. it's the superior meat. First of all, don't even act like I didn't swing you over to the boneless side

like a couple years ago. I convinced you because I made compelling arguments. You can call yourself a man or whatever you want as you fight through the gristle in your teeth for the throwaway piece of the chicken. I like wings and nuggets.

I like them both. And don't we're wrong. So you're basically a metro winger. Yeah. Or you're a bi-winger. Yeah, I go both ways. That's not a stunner at all. 212 is our time.

We got to talk. about Russell's lawsuit. Okay. And now let's get the people's court music ready for this. Okay. Are you going to read the story of their mind? I can. Sure.

You read it. People's court music with Russell Westbrook being sued and you're not going to believe who's suing him and for how much and for the reasons why. This is Cougars head coach Dana Holerson. Matt's kind of like Shasta without putting on a costume. He's a big old. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. All right, before we get to

Russell Westbrook's potential legal issues, and it's really not through any fault of his own. Vince Young today was honored by Mayor Sylvester Turner as Vince Young Day. He's going to the College Football Hall of Fame. Apparently Vince didn't pay his storage bill. Did you see this the story a couple days ago?

Oh, no. What happened, Vince? He'd stay at my place. There is a storage place that has a lot of his artifacts. and when he didn't pay his bill, he lost not only the storage space, but the contents in it. Well, at least he didn't lose a Heisman trophy. So it was stolen away by Reggie Bush, who I didn't give it away.

But I think he's somewhat one of those football awards, like Walter Camp Awards. Yeah, he won all the Maxwell Awards. He won basically all the awards. And apparently this person that owns a storage place is going to sell all this stuff. Two-time Rose Bowl MVP. Including one of those. Now, on the much more important events, Remember when Russell was a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder and he got sideways with a fan.

And the fan in Utah, well, let's just say, didn't say nice things about Russell. Russell called him out on it. The other fans around that fan called that fan out. And he was no longer allowed ever to go see a jazz game at Vivid Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City ever again. Now, there's part two. In a lawsuit filed Monday, a copy of which was obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune, Shane Kiesel claims that language that he and his girlfriend Jennifer Huff used towards Westbrook was, the same kind in caliber as that of the other audience members in the section,

and was not racist and derogatory as the then Oklahoma City Thunder Star alleged at the time. Kiesel and Huff are seeking $100 million in damages on claims of definitely. affirmation and emotional distress per the lawsuit obtained by the Tribune. $100 million? $100 million. After an OKC win, video of Westbrook saying, I'll bleep you up to Kissel and Huff while standing near the end of the Thunder Bench went viral. Westbrook said it was an emotional reaction to Keseel telling him, quote, get on your knees like you're used to.

A comment Westbrook considered completely disrespectful and racial. Keseel claimed at the time that he told him, called Westbrook to ice those knees up. In the lawsuit, he reiterated that was what he said to Westbrook, now a member of the Rockets. And by the way, the people around this Gibroni don't buy this

argument as to what he really thought he said. He's like an A-hole, right? Correct. The jazz band Kiesel permanently in March. The NBA fined Westbrook $25,000 for directing profanity and threatening language to a fan. According to Larry H. Miller, Sports Entertainment.

I guess they own the jazz. Yes. we intend to vigorously defend the lawsuit. The organization investigated the underlying incident and acted in an appropriate and responsible manner. So the reason why he put it at $100 million, I believe $30 million, is the girlfriend's part of the lawsuit. Okay. Claiming that he can't, he's lost work relationships, he can't drive in certain directions because all the neighbors make fun. I mean, he's just been a, he says he's been a hot mess since this has happened.

I can't even remember what this guy looks like. Is he getting harassed around town? What is this like the extended jazz version? God, I didn't realize that the people's card did a full jam on this. This is a John Williams song in it. Makes you want to have like a cigarette and a kovass thing in your hand, right? No, never mind. So go ahead.

Is there more in details about what he's suing for? Why he's being, what he's suing for? Emotional distress and whatever. I thought he said he had to change his route of work every day because he gets made fun of it. That's not in the, I just have a short little blur from ESPN, so. Okay, so if the jazz are smart, they'll just cut, they'll just basically say, all right, let's settle. I'll give you $50 million. Not. The Utah Jazz have got to counter sue for a stupidity, correct? Yeah, they should have some high-end attorneys that can just beat this into the ground and make him spend so much money he can't finish the lawsuit.

Yeah, and obviously, a low-end attorney took this case on behalf of this fan, right? There's video of this, obviously, of some sort. Yeah, I mean, they did an investigation. This guy just said some money grab. That's fine. He's trying to get some cash. He's trying to set it out $100 million and get it settled for lower. It's an American Dream.

Well, let's go sue somebody. What do we sue people for? Emotional distress. How about terrible? I want to sue Arthur in Spring. Didn't, like, there was, you know, some cowboy lawyers in Luzanne. we're trying to sue the NFL over trying to get the NFC championship

game replayed and all that stuff? How far do that go? I don't know. They wanted the game flipped. I think you got tossed out of cord. They wanted season ticket money being people that bought tickets to the game to get their money back. They made name for themselves, though.

That's what's important in America. You know why they didn't? Because I don't remember who they are. You don't, but somebody does. And quick tip, Matt, you don't want to sue Arthur in Spring. You only sue people with money. That's true. He's nuts. All right.

Let's go to the phones. Donald at 223 in the Matt Thomas show. Donald, how are you, sir? Hey, I'm okay, but I kind of would have heard y'all say something about Vince Young's loss of storage unit. Unless I'm wrong, I think there's a wall that that storage unit has to make a public disclaimer that there's a sale and has to hold an auction. Yeah, Donald, they are. They want to hold an auction. Now, the person that owns that storage unit's like, I'll sell you. Roseville MVP's for $50,000. I mean, if somebody wants it, they can have it.

Yeah, that's exactly what they're saying. They're doing an auction. You're right, right, right, but yeah, right, but they can't just run up and sell the man stuff. No, they'll find themselves in a rather unique position with the county attorney. No, I, you know, and the end of the, my guess is that Vince will figure out a way to get that money to that people. Oh, thank you for the phone call.

It's like a happy Gilmore situation. go to the auction and buy his stuff back. God, your movie recite plot lines are amazing. The only thing I can remember about Happy Gilmore is Bob Barker beating the crap out of it. Yes. That's all I remember

about the movie. The price is wrong, bitch. You can't say that on my show. Oh, sorry. You take a slide at Bob Barker and you will have to pay. By the way, he's 90... Is he alive? 95, I think. No, he's got to be more than that, right? Or, I don't know. I guess

you would know. What do you mean more than 95? You're probably, you're probably going to be the founder and curator of the Bob Barker International Museum. He's 96. He's 96. He's not He just turned 96 this week. Yeah. Last week. Speak of the devil. What? Oh, he's calling it. Okay. That's fine. He's always listening. We appreciate you, Arthur. For listening. Let me tell you something. There are, there will be two days where I will take sick days on the show and I will not be sick. Bob Barker dies and Paul McCartney dies. Are you serious? Yes. Bob Barker's already dead in my mind. What's the last time you see him do anything? Doesn't matter. He's dead to your national consciousness. He's the goat of the game show host. Is he?

Like, who's your favorite performer? Wink Martindale. No, like music performer. Oh, um, Lady Gaga. So when Lady Gaga passes, you're going to take a day off from work. Lizzo. Stop. You are the worst.

Most of my favorite artists are already dead. So I'm good there. Do you realize when Elvis died in 1977? I was five years old. Are you okay? No, here's my point. I don't remember many things about my life when I was five years old. But I remember the woman that babysat me was the biggest Elvis fan ever,

and she couldn't function for like a year. You can still play his records. Doesn't matter. When the king is dead, the king is dead. I mean, I guess that was more of a sudden death type of thing. I'm on board with more like, but Bob Barker is 96. Paul McCartney's got to be closing in on. 80.

There are some people that love musical acts so much so that their lives are going to stop. But if they're still making music and they're young, I'm with, like when Tupac died at 25, that shocked me. Like, I have a friend of mine, Tracy. When the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunchy bunch broke up, she didn't take like three days off and work. Nobody's buying that. Paul McCartney is 77 years old.

Like, you should be mentally. prepared for his death. I am in 20 years. If he died suddenly, like John Lennon dying suddenly in 1980. That was that. People stopped. I feel like that's, I get that more than like. Oh, so you're saying as long as the death is not,

it's not a surprise death, it's okay. Yeah, like seriously, are you going to cry? Keith Richards, it's a miracle he made it this far. Who's going to? And Mick Jagger. Now, people will weep when Mick Jagger passes. Yeah, how old is, like, it's a miracle. Mick made it pat out of the, out of the cocaine and the heroin ages.

And didn't Keith Richards snort his dad or something like that? Yes, something crazy like that. Okay, I'm just telling you. Yeah, Mick Jaggers is at 76. He's in bonus time right now. He's in overtime. He's in stoppage time. Okay, so the rule is only take days off when your favorite stars die surprisingly.

Under the age of 70. Oh, it's under age of 72. Right. So there's 61. It's okay. Yeah. Okay, I'll make sure. How old is Elton John?

He's north of 61. Got to be. Yeah, he's 72. Yeah, you're fine. So I can't take days off. Like Prince died. How old was Prince? Like 50?

Do you know, I was on the air in Minneapolis when Michael Jackson was announced dead. Prounced dead. That was really weird because people weren't ready for that. Now, people would have been thinking about Michael Jackson being weird. And his, obviously, his Never Land stuff was very, very creepy. But there was still a large part of the world that openly mourned his passing. Do you remember the day Farah Fawcett died? Same day.

Yeah. I'm surprised you remember. No one else does. I do. Yeah, who could forget. That was, that was, I think that was the start of who dies in threes. Yeah. How about dying back Daryl?

That was a big one. Was that the same day too? No. Oh. I don't know. He died young. Yeah, whatever. He got murdered on the stage, yeah.

All right. Thanks. You can always count on Nick to dower the mood. You know what you are? You're a show killer. It's my job. You just break the segment in him. It's time to go to break.

Yeah, it is. And by the way, We're team Russell Westbrook. We hope that this lawsuit gets thrown out very quickly. Yeah, it's funny. This is money grab. Money grab, Utah jazz fan. I try to justify it.

I try to say Utah people are nice, but stupid-ass lawsuits are going to not make them look very nice on this. 228. It is the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-79. No fear. No worries.

And no hair. It's the Matt Thomas Way. Houston Sports Talk continues with the Matt Thomas show. I saw a very funny tweet. It's not true, I don't believe, but I just all thought it was worthy of mentioning. So Garrett Cole's press conferences tomorrow, New York at 10 o'clock Houston time. Now, you know the rule about being a Yankee? You have to be pretentious and take steroids? Wow. I wasn't quite going down that road, but sure.

the rule is no facial hair and hair cannot reach the shoulder blades. I mean, it's got to be short. So, okay, so you can have a hear. No, no, I'm making that up. I don't even know if a long... Who is the... Like, who was the guy...

Johnny Damon. Did he... Johnny Damon had short hair when he was in New York Yankee. He was not... He didn't worry about the short hair syndrome with the Boston Red Sox because they didn't care. So this guy in Twitter says, Cole will be shaved by members of the Stiberter family.

And the beard clippings donated to the Boris Foundation. No, no, that was hysterical. They're forbidden to display any facial hair other than mustaches except for religious reasons, and scalp hair may not be grown below the collar. So that's that. It's short, period. Long sideburns and, quote, mutton chops are not specifically banned. So you're saying he could convert to Islam and keep the beard, right?

Yes. Correct. What religions are based on mustaches? They mean beards. It said you can do a beard if it's for religious religions. Oh, okay. Yeah, or if he comes like a Hasidic Jew or something like that, right? Yeah, something like that. Do you think Garrett Cole's going to change from California Boy to Hasidic Jew? Could.

There's a lot of them in L.A. Just to keep his beard, yeah. That wouldn't be the You don't have to believe. Yeah, no. I'd rather believe that the members of the Steinbrenner family are going to shave his clipping beer clippings. And give it what do you think that Boris Foundation's all about? And he can grow those like Jewish

curls? That'd be cool. No. You No, no, no, he's not going to do any of that. He might. Do you think that Garrett Cole said, I'll come play with you, but I get to keep my long hair and mustache and beard? And they said, it's non-starter. Could you imagine losing a pitcher over facial hair? Could you imagine passing on $324 million over the beard?

No, that's why you didn't care about it. Yeah, he's like, if you flip the argument, you're like, there's no way in the world you'd keep the hair for that. Yeah, I'm good. Because I, you know what I'm firmly convinced of on this? I don't believe there was another team that was willing to give him that ninth year. And 36 million dollars. Yeah, I wonder how competitive the Angels offer was because apparently they were seriously considered,

but they said, or, you know, some reporter said that his main concern was winning a World Series championship. That's a lie. When are we going to ever get it through people's minds? And the media's minds, too, now they're only reporting what he's saying. But there's no way in the world that Scott Boris was sending out Garrett's. Cole not wanting to become the richest pitcher in Major League Baseball. That was the end game. It wasn't, if we're going to, now playing for the Yankees is gravy on top of that because

he is going to make, he is going to a very good baseball team. And let's be brutally honest here, the New York Yankees are now the favorites to win the American League this year, no if ands are buts. In the World Series, yes. And the World Series. So he gets the best of both worlds. But I'm telling you, Ross, if Garrett Cole was offered five years, 155,000. million dollars, he and the Yankee.

It was about a cash grab. Well, it's about how much does each matter? It's not completely a cash grab. I mean, I mean, mostly a cash grab. But if, let's say the Angels offer was the exact same, then he's choosing where to win a championship. So that could be true. I'm telling you, if the Miami Marlins would have offered him

a 10th year at $36 million, that puts him at $360 million, Garrett Cole's a Miami Marlin. I'm with you on that. So it's all about cash. Over those 10 years, they might win one championship. So you're saying that Jimbo Fisher is going to win a championship at A&M over those 10 years? He might.

Tom Herman's going to win those championship over how many years his contract is? No, well, maybe. Yeah, Tom Herman, you know what? Yes, Tom Herman's winning a championship. I'm telling you Garrett was about the cash. And I don't blame him because, guess what? 99% of us are about the cash. I have no thoughts of ever leaving Houston, Texas again.

Yeah, you get the right offer you'd go. But if there's a right offer out there, that financially is going to set up me and my family for the rest of my life, I'm gonzo. I'm saying they probably both factored in. Now, to what percentage? How much of it was championship and how much of it was money? It was mostly money.

But like I said, if he has the same offer from the Miami Marlins and the Yankees, we know where he's going. Can't argue that. Even though Florida doesn't have state tax. Yeah, but the chances of him getting a ring in New York over those nine years is significantly higher than the Marlins. I don't even know what the Marlins' direction is, honestly. You think he's going to move into like a 700 square foot apartment since he's in New York and it costs so much up there?

You may want to add a zero to that 700. Ross, you can get a 7,000 square foot apartment in New York City. It's not hard. How much is going to run you? Well, it's in rarefied air. But the thought of, like, when we travel, I'm talking about non-Rocket travel. I'm talking about like regular life travel. Most hotel rooms in New York are smaller than the average size hotel.

a hotel room in other cities. You can get that big room that you're always accustomed. Like, you can get a room in, like, if you're staying in downtown St. Louis, you get a nice size room. It's true. You get a nice size room in New York. It's just going to cost you four times as much. Thanks, New York.

You know, I understand why New York is sexy. More people, more people are going to see you. Not only just the people that go to the games, Ross, but the television, the eyes that are on television, you're going to be in the papers almost every day. you've got a chance and only, especially if you're good to be a hero. Look at how the way

Derek Jeter's been treated for all those years. Oh, so overrated. I mean, really, really, really good shortstop, right? Mm-hmm. But, I mean, you know, we're talking about the shirt,

we were talking about Drew Brees earlier today? Where are you put him on the shortlist? Where is Derek Jeter in the short list of greatest all-star greatest shortstops of all time? He's down the list. He's prolific play for a long time. But he played very well,

good-looking guy in a ridiculously big media market. Gave away gift baskets for his conquest. Yes. That's thank you. Yeah, it's very nice of them. I mean, a lot of guys don't do that. Yeah.

Most professional athletes do not give away gifts after the sex that you sex you up. It's true. Most of them are like, don't tell my wife. So, Carol, it'll be fine. What do you think you put in those baskets? Muffins, flowers. No, they were baseballs, autographed baseball.

Yeah, autographed baseballs, too. You had other stuff in those, right? Probably a sweet message. Yeah. Like I enjoyed our time together. I look forward to seeing you again. I don't think Derek Jeter was one of those guys that would put the gift baskets out and say, hey, you were awesome, baby. Or, you know what?

All the best. Yeah. See you down the road. Catch you next Tuesday. Do you know any guys in your life that would do something similar to that? They would send a gift basket? No. Send anything?

Flowers like, thank you for last night. No. We're too cheap. In chlamydia. It's far cheaper to just change your phone number. We just block them these days. You don't throw changing them. Just block.

You hook up with a girl, and then you block their number. That's not very nice. It happens. He was the opposite. That's why he was so loved there in New York. He said he went above and beyond what you're supposed to do after you have that conquest with a supermodel. Now he's married to somebody half his age and they're a lovely family. Yeah, who is it?

Hanna Davis. Oh, wait. Yeah, he was with Minka for a little bit, right? He was with Minka. Do you remember that website? that had a picture of a baseball diamond with all the women he'd been with in his life? Well, I'll just say this.

They were all nines. Don't Google Derek Jeter Herpes Tree. Stop. Just don't Google it. I said don't Google it. That's right, because you're putting out false information. I'm not. I said don't Google it.

I'm putting out Derek Jeter baseball love diamond. Okay. And you'll see nothing but beautiful women on there. I didn't make the Derek Jeter Herpes tree. It exists. I didn't say it's true. I'm just saying... So you're putting out false information.

I'm not putting out anything. You're part of it. You know what? I said don't Google it. Okay, Ross, Bayless. 244. Don't Google Derek. 244. What is today's edition of Believe it or not all about?

Oh, it's cities. Googleable. We were talking earlier today about how ridiculous the city of Milwaukee's known as Cream City. It's a terrible name. It invites you to be made fun of. Sort of like how Milwaukee's been most of its adult life. Yo, this is Bunby.

And my wife. is the biggest fan of the whitest man in America. Matt Thomas, Matt Troy. Reckless, ratchet, and don't give a fuck. We have one piece of audio. We want to play before we get to, believe it or not, today. And Ross set the scene. It's Oklahoma City playing NBA basketball, correct?

Yes. A hard-fought win for the Thunder is they're not getting nearly as many as they did without Russell and Kevin Doreen company, right? Chris Paul, I think he had a solid night. The other, I think he had like 30 points and 10 assists or something. He's doing okay for himself. right? Sure. Well, let's go

with the postgame interview. Stephen Adams making some free throws to secure a win. Do we have the woman's question to? The young man, yes. Young man's question here. After the game, after an Oklahoma City victory last night. Stephen, how did this feel? Free throw shooting has been such

a key for you this season. How did feel to hit that one and then make the heads up play after? Yeah, absolutely. My pants. And I'm sitting there. I'll What's a lot of it's pretty tough. I didn't realize how much pressure it is, like. But, you know, I made it, mate.

I'll be happy with it. What did he say? Stephen, how did this feel? Free throw shooting's been such a key for you this season. How did it feel to hit that one and then make the heads-up play after? Yeah, absolutely my pants. Wow. Does he realize Oklahoma City still has it here to FCC rules?

I guess not I believe that aired uncut I know it aired uncut because I had to bleep it You okay Matt I'm on the air 15 hours a week give or take Plus rockets plus PA Plus UH stuff

Whatever rocket aster I think I've said five swear words of my life I've done it twice I think now I come close way too often on this show Yeah but never this close. Yeah, absolutely. My pants.

You can't say that, Stephen. Stephen, you cannot say that. I don't care if it's the lowest media market in the NBA. You just can't say that. But brutal honesty is wonderful. Stephen Adams is one of those guys, Ross, if he was wearing Rocket Gear, we would love him. He'd be our favorite player right away.

I love him now. Well, not when the Rockets play him, because he's so annoying. and aggressive and gets a lot of rebounds and putbacks. But yeah, when he's not playing the Rockets, I love me some Stephen Adams. All right, five minutes left to go in the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports game show. We simply called it, believe it or not, and here's that works.

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Believe it. If it doesn't, you'll say this. To believe it or not, on whether these are really city nicknames. When you're prize, Ross, what's the prize? Matt, I got a pair of tickets to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the multi-platinum, critically acclaimed progressive rock group, returns this Sunday, December 22nd at 8 p.m.

With all new staging and effects, see the unforgettable show that started it all, Christmas Eve and other stories, tickets and information at LiveNation.com. Daniel on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? You can believe that. Orlando, Florida. The City Beautiful. Believe it or not. Oh, believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Portland, Oregon. Stump Town, S-Tum-P-Town. Oh, there's a dump town, but I'll say believe it. Believe it. Another winner. Sorry, Nick.

Nick, it could be a rough day when the first two go are correct. Line two, Donnie on 790. Donnie, your favorite part of the radio show today. Rock up come back. Sacramento, California, the Big Tomato. Believe it or not. Not. Believe it.

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the Tala nasty believe it or not not believe it I have never heard that got it got to go hey you went ahead to the Tala Nasty this weekend let's go to the Tala Nasty

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Believe it. Sioux City, Iowa, Little Chicago. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. You go, another winner. Reese on 790, Reese. You're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Columbus, Ohio, Cowtown. Believe it or not. Believe it. We can do these all day long. I could have done like 50 of them. You probably could have. You should have gone out of the one I suggested.

I think I would have won. Go ahead. What is that? Houston. Houston. Surrup City. Who calls it that? Yeah, that's what called the city syrup. Yeah. No. In Houston rap, yeah.

I'd heard that before. It's about cough syrup and with codeine in it. We are the capital of... You mean like purple drink? Yeah, we are the capital of sipping on that sizurp. Yeah. Don't ever say zizurp on my show. Ever again.

Too late. Let's go get tamales and enchiladas. You want to? I would love to. Where we're going? No free plugs. Fair enough. Hey, let's remind you about what's happening today at Big City Wings.

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If on the location near you, you go to BigCityWings.com. That's bigcitywings.com. Adam and Adam are in, are they here in studio today? Are they doing a whole show? Are they going to work a full three hours? Better check their time cards. Well, under their 15-hour limit per week. Have a great rest of your day.

Matt's off tomorrow. Because of travel purposes. Oh, you're off tomorrow, though. Can you handle a show with Michael Connor? And Friday. I'll be here Thursday from Los Angeles. And Monday, don't forget. No, I'll work on Monday. That's right.

We'll still see each other a lot before the end of the year. Stand by. I'm just saying. I take vacation because, Ross, I get vacation. I'll be 10 years. I'll get four weeks next year. Good for you. Ross is up tomorrow with Michael Connor.

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