The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show: Future Of CFB, Joel Klatt, Prescott Contract

Episode Date: April 15, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-02 and H-town. What's happening, lunchtimers? Good afternoon to you. And welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 with our Philin producer Joe George in for Nick Lowe,

my co-host, my cohort, the one and only sports RV, Rossville, Real. I'm Matt Thomas. Good afternoon. Hope you guys are set for another addition to the radio program. We will have halfway through it, 130 today, in our series of people we miss hearing from, our good pal, Joe Clatt from Fox Sports, most recently called the games of the XFL. He is their number one college football analyst. He's with his weekly on the show during the college football season.

And my guess is Ross. He'll be with us again this year. it might just be from like January 9th to March 13th or something like that. You know, college football is, as Gordy just mentioned a couple minutes ago, they need the season. They need full stadiums. They are in no hurry to wait. And yeah, there might be some snow in South Bend, Indiana, or in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

but they don't have that, the no crowds at all. And I think that's why some of the thought is college football doesn't have like a calendar, our ticking calendar like our friends of the NBA do. right now. Yeah, I think, I mean, the thing about it's more important, I guess would you say it's more important than any other, the, it's obviously, I'm going to call it professional because they generate billions of dollars, but because of you have that on the backs of basically the entire athletic program is off the backs of football for most, I mean, even, even Kentucky football makes more than Kentucky basketball because of the, the rights in the SEC and the money that they get for their

football in their TV package. So I mean, that to me is definitely one that I am most interested to see in how it plays out and where we are from now because, I mean, it just seems like, man, every day. We get a new thing of how long things are going to get pushed back. We've heard, I mean, remember initially it was like, oh, you know, beginning of April, April 1st, we should be okay. Well, no, then it's getting pushed back to May, then June, then July. And now we're talking about January. So, I mean, lots of. Logically, you start thinking, could this get pushed back even further talking about these stay-at-home orders and where people can go and where they can't go and all that type of stuff? Well, the crazy thing is, you know, I have my son Cameron, who is a sophomore at Texas Tech, and he's been home and will be home for the rest of the semester.

It sounds like at least the first semester of the spring, you know, of summer school is going to be the same way. I mean, they may not even allow anybody on those campuses until September, much less any sort of fall workouts or training camp. Again, who's to say what that's going to work out? But we've got plenty of time to get to that. We'll talk with the Joel Clyde of Fox Sports at 130. Well, let's get to the main, not necessarily breaking news headline, but Dr. Fosi, is that my pronouncing it right?

Fauci. Fouchi. It's back to the Fauci. And a doctor to Fouchy, an Italian grill, and lead the doctor in America. Dr. Fauci. By the way, he's kidding. I don't know how much news you're watching, Ross.

I've watched 25 times more than I have. I'm not watching a ton of news. His critics are out there a little bit. What? There are people who don't like sweet little Dr. Fauci? Yeah. He's like America's pet. You just want to pet him on the head.

You want him to tell you everything's going to be okay. Yeah, you trust every word he says until you. you realize that there may be a little bit of some financial things behind some. Is Dr. Fauci corrupt? He looks like such a sweet old man. But there's books out there. Go do a search on him. Oh, no. Doctor Fauci's Italian Cafe. Stop. Dr. Fauci. What should I put? Corruption? Vested interest.

Hmm. Point being is this. Dr. Fauci came out yesterday. And basically, in no uncertain terms, said, you know what? Y'all sports leagues? Y'all want to get back at it? Go do your thing. Let's get going on this. I have some audio of this, Matt.

It's him talking about it. It was some YouTube channel I'd never heard of. By the way, Dr. Fauci is America's TV guest right now, right? Has anybody been more booked than Dr. Fauci over the last couple of weeks? Hey, Joe, we tried to book Dr. Fauci. Oh, you know what? I bet we could get him. he's on every damn podcast and YouTube channel in the entire world.

I don't see why not. We'll try. Yeah. Let's try to get Dr. Fauci on the show. I want Dr. Fauci on the show. We've had some great gets.

Yes. That might be the all-time get. America's doctor. He is like the biggest celebrity in America right now. But anyways. You know how there's those Judge Mathis is and Judge Jerry's and Judge. He's going to be, he's going to have his own show where you go up to him and say, hey, I don't feel good.

I've got a sore throw. and then he runs through it like a tent he's going to diagnose you? Yeah, he's Dr. Oz's like quaking his boots right now for this. Speaking of corruption. I've heard Dr. Oz. Anyway, so here's Dr. Fauci talking about sports coming back. There's a way of doing that. Nobody comes to the stadium.

Put them in big hotels, you know, wherever you want to play. Keep them very well surveilled, namely a surveillance, but have them tested like every week and make sure they don't wind up infecting each other or their family and just let them play the season out. I mean, people say, well, you know, you, you, you, you can. can't play without spectate as well, I think you'd probably get enough buy-in from people who are dying to see a baseball game, particularly me. I'm living in Washington. We have the world champion Washington Nationals. I want to see them play again.

Was, was, wait a minute, hold on. No, while again, I understood everything he said, was there like a queen song in the background, another one bites a dust? You know, I hate people who conduct these interviews on their YouTube channel, and they just put music behind it the whole time. Joe, and ESPN does it as well. Put another one bites of dust on for us for a second. Let's see if that matched up at all.

Because I have a feeling that was pretty damn close, which I think is a very inappropriate song these days. Sports are you to be honest with you. It's not inaccurate. Yeah, that had a feel of a queen, like a backup. That's what it was. Listen this. All right.

You want to play it again? Play it again. There's a way of doing that. comes to the stadium. Put them in big hotels, you know, wherever you want to play. Keep them very well surveilled and maybe a surveillance, but have them tested like every week and make sure they don't wind up infecting each other or their family and just let them play the season out. I mean, people say, well, you know, you can't play without spectators. Well, I think you probably get enough buying from people who are dying to see a baseball game, particularly me. I'm living

in Washington. We have the world champion Washington Nationals. All right, I had to stop it there. I think I'm right. I think you are. Whatever YouTube channel he was on that I ripped this from, they like to put music in the back of the entire video. Not good. I think it's because 2020, we just get so,

if it's him just talking, we start to fall asleep after 30 seconds because our attention spans are so little. And it maybe gives it a little more punch when they put music under. Maybe we should put music under the entire Matt Thomas show. Well, you know, when I was in Minneapolis, working there, the Vikings coach was named Brad Childress, and he was beyond boring. He was beyond boring.

So I just put the Benny Hill theme behind his side. Oh, okay. Because I needed something to energize me a little bit. Yeah, can he sex. So, yeah, it can happen. That's what I'm saying. You know you're a boring interview when buck music comes up behind you. So, Joe, you got the authority today and today only.

Now, I didn't say right now, if there's any point of the show where you think the show was lagging? Just fire off some music of some sort. Like in the middle, like if Joel Klatz given a too long of an answer, we'll just hit him with some music or something. Don't be disrespectful. Just do it when Ross talks about something. Yeah, probably.

That's fine. Yeah, here we go. You're not even supposed to talk during this. I'm going to get my horns up. Oh, this is such a great song. I mean, I understand it's horrible if it has no meaning to you. It's really just I've been working on the railroad. This just warms my heart.

This is usually after some kind of heartbreaking Texas Longhorn's loss that I've stuck it out to the end of. And they play the fight song, win or lose. The eyes of Texas are upon you, Matthew. They are upon us? And are there any great Texas replays on tonight? Any one of the variety of networks? I'm assuming. I'm probably.

Longhorn Network's going to have hours of it. Yeah, why not? They were playing 2005 basketball hits. Speaking of replays, did either one of you catch any of the game one of the world series between the A's and the Dodgers last night on ESPN? I did not.

2008 Texas versus Oklahoma coming on at 4 o'clock. I was at that game, 45 to 35 win for the Longhorns. You remember every moment of it or did you blackout drunk? I don't think I got super drunk for that one, but it was a great game. It was one of my, probably one of the favorite games I've ever attended. And oh, with 2011, Kansas versus Texas is a classic.

You wait a minute. Kansas, Texas football is a classic? Wait, they're going back to back. 2011 and 12, Texas versus Kansas. When is the word Kansas football and classic ever using the same section? Yikes. Well, this is what's on the Longhorn Network today. And then, of course, the retrospective on the 1969 national championship season also later in the day.

All right. Well, I watched the 88 game one of the words. World Series. And I was saying we go ahead. The Kirk Gibson home run. You can't believe what you just saw. That was actually Jack Buck that said that on CBS radio.

It was not even Vince Scully's call. But you know what I and I thought about this. And this may be, you know, nerdy from me and probably over, you know, nobody in the audience cares. But Vince Scully Ross never made a mistake. Now, I'm sure he made them. I just never heard them. I can't say I listen to a whole ton of Vin Scully in my life.

Well, I did for decades because I was such a big baseball fan and a Vin Scully fan. I told this on Twitter yesterday. I've never had a play-by-play broadcast where I thought that was the perfect broadcast. I've had really good ones. I really thought, man, I could really, you know, this is one I would really shine on. But never perfect. I listened to Vin. I listened to World Series.

I've listened to hundreds of his games over the years. I never heard him ever go, oops, I meant that guy, or that was a catch. No, it dropped. I mean, I've just, he was just so perfect for so long. And, you know, at that time, that was 30 years ago. So he's probably in his early 60s at that point. He still had his fastball. And I don't know what he was like the last couple of years doing Dodger games only.

But, man, I mean, just the greatest broadcaster of all time, I think, play-by-play-wise, calling one of the most incredible moments in World Series history. It was for someone that's kind of getting tired of watching old stuff, I found myself stuck on ESPN for about 90 minutes last thing because I just thought the whole drama of Eckersley, Kirk Gibson being hurt, getting into the dugout when he wasn't supposed to play in the entire series. He gets one at bat in the entire World Series,

and it's one to lift them to a two-run home run on the ninth inning to win at baseball. game. It was just awesome. I don't know if you all saw it, but it was just great. But back to Dr. Fulci for a minute. It sounds encouraging that he wants sports to resume. We'll talk more about that as our afternoon moves along. And a call late in the show with Indy and Chris today was about

how it might be difficult for a lot of people to watch sports without fans. My response to you guys on that is, I'd rather have that than none at all. We'll discuss more of that in a moment. 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It's a Matt Thomas show with a message here for bronze roofing. Taking care of your roof, especially when everybody is at the house, almost exclusively these days, is very, very important. The bronze roofing team is ready to visit with you if you feel like you're in a spot where you are in trouble with a roof that has had some damage or needs to be looked at.

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Says you need a large hotel You need lots of test And you need a facility That can handle all these athletes And that's Arizona's baseball fields or Florida's or both, and one large complex in Las Vegas, right?

And I think the biggest thing people are trying to wrestle with is you're going to test these guys, and I think I saw the story, correct me if I'm wrong, they want to test these guys weekly, is that right? Will there be enough test when they decide to do this that you can effectively test these athletes every single, and staff, and not take away tests from people that really, really might think they have the virus? I would say yes I would say that they wouldn't go ahead with something like this

unless there was widely available testing I have to think look I'm not a manufacturing expert but I have to figure out they're pumping these things out by the millions and they should be more and more readily available in the coming months yes yeah I think that based off the call that happened what was that two weeks ago with Donald Trump and then there's another one happening today with the commissioners of the leagues Mark Cuban Jerry Jones and

and Bob Kraft, they probably have some insight to that that's going to be available. I can't imagine, you know, like Mark Cuban would be predicting that the season will start without fans if he didn't know for a fact that this kind of test was coming. And frankly, guys, it's up to the various leagues to pay for these tests, right? Because that's the thing is you don't want. You don't want these tests going to these leagues just as a safety mode when there are hundreds of thousands of people across this country that are desks. to see if they have the virus.

So that's the logistics of it is who picks up the tab, which would be clearly the sports leagues, but then how fast can you get these made? It feels like to me, now again, I'm not an expert nor, as you said, Ross, in manufacturing, but I feel like these tests are being made faster and faster and faster every single day, which is a very good sign for all of us, right? Yeah, it feels like they're more and more becoming available, and I would imagine in a few months it would be even more available.

For those of you that miss the visit we had yesterday with Eric Gordon, you know, I posed to him the Vegas thing. And he said, you know what? And I was a little bit surprised by the answer, but it was really pretty thoughtful. He says, look, if we go to Vegas, it's pretty simple. You play basketball, you eat, and there's no other time for anything else. But that's a sacrifice that these athletes are going to have to make, whether it's in the NBA when it's finishing off this season or Major League Baseball. in their season, at least for the short term, you know, that's all you're going to have to worry about. If you want to get paid, if the television dollars are going to come in, and that's going to pay your salaries,

and you're going to keep these major league baseball franchises afloat and have competition and have something we all want, we're all going to have to play by different rules. And so that's why I was kind of curious. I think Larry called into the trenches show just where we joined the station here. And he says, you know, I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this. Honestly, who's going to say I'd rather not have any sports than have sports in empty stadiums? I mean, you know, for those, and I hate to bring up wrestling, but that's the only thing that's really live these days on a regular basis. It is bizarre watching the WWE in these vacant studios that have a wrestling ring and no fans around it.

But if you love wrestling, you'd rather have that than watching old wrestling a 20 years ago. So I think we're all going to have to adjust in everything. That's another reason why I think, Ross, honestly, this massive realignment that Bob Nettengel of USA Today brought up last week probably is going to happen. The Astros are going to play in the Great Fruit League Southeast Division for one year. And we're going to be like, oh, this is weird. Oh, this sucks. But you know what? We're going to see them play.

And as Brian McTaggart brought up earlier today on 790, you got guys that are in the prime of their career. careers that are looking to make that. I mean, George Springer this year is a free agent after the end of this season. He could use one more amazing year to help bolster his future contract. These guys, A, want to get out there because they're competitive, but they also need to get paid. The free agency list, just alone on the Astros, is going to be pretty good. Josh Reddick's going to be looking for work. Michael Brantley will be looking for perhaps a new contract.

You know George Springer will be. I mean, there will be a lot of different guys that will need a year of activity to work on their next contract, especially in a guy like George, who this is the first time in his life, he's ever tested free agency. It could go the other way, too. I mean, if it's like a 100-game season, I mean, we've seen guys slump for 30, 40 games. If somebody like George Springer or, you know, Alex Breggman, who's been a slow starter throughout his career, I mean, it could also affect them negatively. What if somebody starts slow, then gets injured?

I mean, we could see it go both ways, I think, as far as the free agency thing. But you know what, though, if you have a sucky season and normally you're awesome, you know what you can just blame? You can just blame the season. You know what? COVID. COVID did it. You know, we weren't in normal situations.

We were playing different opponents. We started the season super late. Yeah, I mean, there's a variety of different things you can go to that would basically give you a little bit of excuse. bottom line is guys and I know that it's maybe cruel to say but you know if you're making 20 I mean hell Ross if you're making $3 million that's $3 million you'll never get back again if these guys don't play baseball this year and that's why I think all athletes are saying you know what yeah it may suck that we're going to be in neutral sites or we're going to be an unfamiliar territory or there'll be no crowds and it's going to be an adjustment I mean it is I mean the last

Again, we were talking about this yesterday. When was the last time, Ross, that LeBron James played a sport, I played a game, not like a scrimmage, but a legitimate game in his life that he didn't have thousands of people around him? Maybe when he was about 11? I mean, that's no question, right? He doesn't know, he doesn't know what it's like. He has no idea what it's like not to have a massive dunk and not have people cheering and wanting to high-five him. But I like, the adjustments you have to make?

Yeah, that'll be fine. think that's going to be something. As far as the players who are motivated, these players who are on the court, I understand that they play for the fans and they think they feed off the fans and stuff, but I pointed out before, remember you watched that, the NBA TV documentary on the Dream Team in 92, and like one of the most electrifying games that the people don't ever talk about was it was in a close practice, where it was Michael Jordan's captain team against Magic Johnson's captain team and Michael Jordan, you know, Magic had been the guy for the entire 80s. Michael was trying to announce himself as the new sheriff in town and all that type of stuff.

And apparently, that was like one of the most competitive games anybody's ever seen. So, I mean, you can have closed doors where these guys are professionals. If LeBron James can't get up to go play against somebody in the playoffs for an NBA championship because there's no crowd, I mean, that's on him. I think there should be motivation enough to want to beat the guy who's across from you. I mean, that happens in any blacktop game that you've ever been on. people get competitive and people get in fights and all that type of stuff. If you're a competitor, you're out there to beat the guy across from you.

The fan motivation is kind of a cherry on top. And the bottom line is this, Ross, you brought this up before. When you play with these little playoff series, there could be best of threes in the first and second round. It should motivate the Memphis's and the Dattleses of the world, and maybe even the Rockets. You never know. that the L.A. Clippers atop the Western Conference pedestal

may have a bad series of games and might be eliminated a lot faster than if it was a normal seven-game series. Same can be said for some of the teams in the Eastern Conference. They try to slay the Milwaukee Bucks. With Ross and Joe, I'm Matt, we appreciate you listening to our radio show today.

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with every Wednesday during the course of the college football season. We'll be with us at 130 today. You guys can join us right now if you so choose. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. So, Ross and Joe, apparently Dak Prescott had this big party last week in the Dallas area. Him and I guess Ezekiel Elliott had some people over. And whoa, whoa, whoa, not according to him, Matt.

I know. Wasn't a big party. TMZ reported they were close to 30 people there and DAC was not happy about that and said there were fewer than 10 well obviously having less than 10

is better than having more than 30 or whatever the number be but the rule is really you're not supposed to have anybody in your house except your family now are people following that 100% of course not did he do something to further this the virus being spread hopefully not

but it feels like that DAC And now there was some talk today that he has told the Cowboys he is not going to partake in any of the viral offseason training activities and not really do a whole lot of checking in with the Cowboys. In some respects, that's his right to do that because he has not signed the franchise tag, which he was tagged and Amari Cooper was not because Mari got his new deal. But there's also good faith of, you know what, we want to work a long term deal out with you. We want to get you paid as much as we can. Let me, let's face it, it takes a while for the Cowboys to pay their guys, but they do pay their guys, do they not? I mean, didn't Ezekiel Elliott go through the same kind of rig and marggemon roll a year ago,

and now he's doing very well for himself? Mario Cooper's gotten paid. But the thing is, you can't pay everybody. You can't pay everybody. And that's the thing that's probably driving Jerry Jones nuts right now is he wants to, but can't. You know, we always talk about timing is every. everything. The problem is, if you're the Dallas Cowboys, aren't you going to watch in the next year to 18 months how much Pat Mahomes gets? Aren't you going to sit and watch and see what the

Texans do with the Sean Watson and how long how much they're going to pay him? It seems like they're all kind of waiting on each other. It feels like that nothing's going to happen with Sean Watson until it happens with Dak or maybe even until it happens with Pat Mahomes. Because as we talked about before, if he signed a lot. He signed. it franchise tag, he's going to make an average of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL, which will be a lot of money this year. What is it? 33, I think. It's something crazy.

And then if he signs a second tag, he's going to get that. I think he gets 110% of that, right? I mean, he gets a bonus on top of that. Maybe even more. It might be even like 125% or something like that. Yeah. So if your deck, he may not know this. Well, he kind of does.

He's got two really, really big paychecks coming here. his way. I mean, he's got the Kirk Couss's treatment. Kirk Cousins did the franchise tag twice with Washington and did very, very well for himself. Frankly, Dax's a better quarterback than Kirk Cousins. Dax's going to get more money whenever he signs his next long-term contract. But the reality is, Dac isn't as good as Dishon Watson. Dac isn't as good as Pat Mahomes. It'll be 120, by the way, percentage. So he would go from $33 million to $39.6 million. So he's sustaining to make, what, $70 million in the next two years?

Yeah. Even if he signs two franchise tax. It's hard, Ross, for me to be sympathetic for him, especially when he's not the number one in his sport. Forgetting about when guys are due to be paid. And you know I've loved Dak Prescott. Thomas Sports Enterprises pegged him out many years. years ago as my number one draft prospect.

And it worked out very well. John Ross, not so much. Dak Prescott, absolutely. Where do you put Dak Prescott if you were starting an NFL team today? Now, you put in, you consider age, you do consider experience, past performance, and future performance. Where is Dak? Is he top 10 quarterback in the NFL?

I think he's definitely in that conversation. By the way, I have, I had the wrong number on the. It's not $33 million. It's $27 million, not $33 for a QB franchise tag. And then 120% of that would be $32 million. So he's looking at about $62 million. Yeah, he's going to be doing okay. He's going to be okay.

He's north of 30 on the average. Right. That bonus is that $120. If that's again at the Cowboys franchise tag in the second year, that really puts him in the high stratosphere. Well, okay, well, let's just go through it. Who are the... Is it like next five years or so? or just like starting a franchise today.

Let's just start. Let's just make it simple. Well, I mean, it's a franchise tag. So let's do over the life of the contract for the next three years, I guess. You would do it, right? Two years. Let's go two years. Okay, next two years.

Who would you have for the next two years? Russell Wilson. Would you rather have Aaron Rogers or Dak Prescott? Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers. Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson. Russ.

That's two. Pat Mahomes three. I would take to Sean Wants. over him. Yes? Yeah. Ross? Yes. That's four. By the way, I think that one's closer than we think, though. That is. I think it may be, it may be, but I still think I would take the shot.

Drew Breeze, next two years. I think Drew. Yeah, I think next two years. I think I still think Drew Bruce. That's a close one. Five then. I'm at five right now. Lamar Jackson. Six. Let's go to Matt Ryan.

Ooh. That's tough. All right, you know what? If we're arguing it, that means if we're arguing it, that means let's give Dak the benefit of that one. So right now we're at six quarterbacks in front of DAC. We'll put Matt just behind him. Carson Wins?

I would take Dak. I'm going Carson, actually. Because Winses' injury. Is he IP or? or is he injury, he's got an IH. Injury history. I don't know. I like IP better, but I hate for the sake of this argument.

Let's go with Jared Gough. Who would you rather have? I mean, DAC, yeah. Okay, so right now we're at 6, which means we got sick. Tom Brady, we're going to go with DAC on this, yes? For the next two years? I think I'll still go Brady. That makes seven then.

Kyler Murray? I mean, Joe? Yeah, I agree with Tom. No, I'm going DACA. I think I'd take Kyler. What? Based on what? One year.

I'm all in on Kyle. No, I'm all in on Kyle Murray. Wasn't their 5 and 11 record or whatever it was? Okay. No. He'll throw like 20 touchdowns of Hopkins next year. That's true. I throw my weight on this one.

I'm taking DAC over him. So that's seven. Anybody else is coming right to mind that we're forgetting about? Baker Mayfield? No. Philly Rivers? No. No.

Drew Locke. Tannahill, no. True lock. Get out of here. No. Mitchell Trabiske. No, no, no. Sorry, Joe.

No, I'm a Nick Foles guy. That's true. Okay, Nick Foles. No. Dak Prescott. Oh, Jimmy Garapolo. Dak Prescott. That's a good one.

I like that one. I think I'll still go Dak. Me too. Okay. Kirk Cousins? I think we've... Okay, we're good. So I think what we've done is we've made

Dak Prescott the eighth quarterback in the national football league. Eighthish. Eighthish. Joe Burrow? Burrow? change stop he's eighth and when you are a franchise guys like the Dallas Cowboys who have spent a lot of money not only on first round picks but on free agents trading for players signing running backs of huge deals who hold out you can't pay the eighth guy like he's one or

two at least long term you can't laramie tonsill's about to get paid like he's one and he's probably I mean, according to the pro football focus, what was the 24th or whatever? But the Texans, you know, what the Texans did with that? They said, Ross, you're right, you're right, Ross, we can't do that. So we're going to get rid of one of our highest pay players to make that happen. DeAndre Hopkins leaving was in part because they wanted it. They in their mind could not afford to pay what DeAndre wanted and what Laramie wanted. And that's what the Cowboys have found themselves in.

I don't know. I don't know what you do. Because, again, two years and seven. $60 million are basically guaranteed for Dack Prescott in the next two seasons. If you're Dallas, you're like, man, we're trying on this, but I got, I mean, they're never going to say this to him publicly, or maybe they would. They got to wait and find out what Mahomes and Watson are making right first, don't they, to figure out what the true barometer is on this?

Knowing that DAC is probably only the eighth best quarterback in the NFL. Just because you're the eighth best, doesn't mean you get paid like the eighth best, but at some point you have to have a little bit of conservatism in your spending ways. And we're saying that we have DAC at 8. Dak and his representation probably have him much higher. Well, and we have him at 8. Like if we have a man, if we say, hey, Dak's agent, who's better, Deshaun Watson or Dak Prescott? They're going to argue Dak Prescott.

So we have him at eight, but we also said two years. So if you look at a three-year contract, we probably all jump in front of Breeze Brady. So like now he's borderline top five. Well, he's not like, well, here's the thing. He's not looking for two or three or kind of. He wants a six year deal with probably $100 million guaranteed. Well, I'm probably more

than that, actually. These are great questions. And frankly, if Dallas is going through it this year, guess is going to go through it next year, gang. Your beloved Houston Texans. 1244 on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-7.

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Coming up in the top of the next hour, we have some websites that like to send us information about odds and plus and minuses and some various strange bets. Rossi, our friends at betonline.ag already have lines out for all 16 of the Texans games next year. Our friends? Well, how close the friends are we? I've never met either. Okay. But point being is they have the odds out, and they don't even know when the schedule is.

I mean, they know who the opponents are. They know where they're going to be. But they don't know if it's on a Thursday night, a Monday night. If it's off of a buy week, I mean, all sorts of stuff. That's fine. They've got to take action on something, Matthew. I mean, there's no sports for them to bet on. They're probably hemorrhaging money.

If we're not thirsty for recaps of game action, we might as well go way into the future. So we'll tell you, I'm not going to go through every game in terms of who's favorite and who's not, but I'm going to take a trend. Okay, maybe I will then. That's fine. We can get some NFL music? We can go through it. One o'clock. Okay, one o'clock.

One o'clock, one o'clock. So don't look. If you get the same email that I got, don't look at it. Okay. You know I don't check my email. 1.30, Joe Clott's going to join us from Fox. And then after that, Rossi, I want you to explain we're going to do a little bit later in the show. And that is we're going to take some MT bucks that we have earned.

Yes. And we're going to spend them on some great sports or maybe not so great sports auction items. Explain to the audience what we're going to do. Yes, they're doing, I think it's called the All In Challenge. It's run by Fanatics. And they have a lot of items up for auction. for example, if you would like a Phantom, if you would like Meek Mills, what is it, a Rolls Royce,

you can get that. If you want to bid on golf with Peyton Manning, there's like 15 things out there. You can be in Kevin Hart's next movie. There are things that you can bid on, and we're going to talk about things that we would bid on ourselves. Now, they're not like you have to outspend somebody. You're buying ticket, like raffle tickets, right?

Well, some of them are raffle tickets and some of their bids. Like, for example, the golf with Peyton Manning starts at the bidding, it starts at 50,000 bucks. Other than them are lotteries type of systems. So how do you want to do this? Do you want to do we get one big bank account to spend? Because Joe's going to spend, I'm going to spend,

and you're going to spend, and whoever spends the most gets to win these things. Okay. Do you want to just do it that way? Between the three years? Sure. Okay. So, we're going to each give ourselves $100,000 of MT bucks. Wow. Okay. So that's half of Rolls-Royce.

Joe, you want to go in a Rolls-Royce? Royce with me. We can trade it off every other two weeks. I'll pass. Okay. But it's Meek Mills Rolls Royce. Number times you've been in a... Number times you've been in a Rolls Royce in your entire life. I believe I have been into one in an auto show when I was very young. You know that you had the Houston Auto Show every year? Yeah. I think I got into one there. Was it a Rolls Royce or was it... It was some kind of

luxury car. I don't know. I was like probably like 12 years old. I was in a Rolls one time of my entire life. Did Tillman pick you up? It was not a bad call there on your part. It was the day I got married, November 29. Oh, okay. You know what? Yeah, my sister, they had an old classic Rolls Royce for her, too, when they got, after their marriage, they got all, you know, like a little chariot or whatever. It was an old Rolls Royce, I think.

Now, obviously, I didn't pay for the wedding of my father-in-law did. That's good. But I want to remember that it was some outrageous. We went from where I got married, St. Anne's, on Shepherd and. And Richmond, give or take, you know where that is? No, it's not what St. Ann. It was called, or was it the French-sounding place, I thought. No, that's what the reception was.

Oh, okay. I'm talking about where I got married. Oh, okay. I got married at St. Anne's. All right. And then the reception over at La Clum deor, which is on the audience. Yeah, that's what it was. So that's maybe.

Which sounds like a brand of makeup. Yeah, like maybe a 10-minute drive? Okay. So you were in Rolls Royce for 10 minutes. 10 minutes. We took pictures in it and we got in the car and we had somebody show for us over there, okay? Mm-hmm. You didn't do anything else in the car, did you?

No, 10 minutes? Well, 10 minutes, man, Ross, I was 25 back then. I could go a little longer than I did now, but that's how they're here or there. Okay. I want to say it costs $1,000. $1,000? Screw that. I don't hold, don't hold me to that.

but I mean I remember it being when I asked I didn't I didn't like directly ask my phone and I was like how much this cost that's kind of rude but I remember somebody throwing the number out going it cost this and I'm like you spent this on that weddings are the biggest scam of in the history of the world as somebody who just got married Joe says there Joe Joe since you didn't invite us your wedding you have to tell us what was the most expensive Let's see as part of your wedding. I mean, the porch... The Cups.

The Porsche drove off in was like $900. Well, Porsche. What? Yeah, I didn't pay for... That's like the only thing I didn't pay for. Um... I mean, I was kind of like the venue and stuff. I mean, everything was like $3,000, $4,000 probably, probably like when you, like, ended up, like, doing all of it.

Like, the... Can't... My wife told me she says... Video, I defer. Yeah, my wife will get... My wife says... that her father will give us a lump sum of money. We could go on a nice vacation of a really simple wedding

and then we could put a down payment down in a house. And I'm like, that sounds great. And she goes, no, I want the big wedding. We as dudes get no rights at all when it comes to this. No say. We actually had like a similar thing happen to us. We found out like her dad, he chipped in and he took care of the food because since we covered everything else.

And he told us later on, he's like, you know, instead of the paying for the food, I would have paid for a down payment on a house. house and we were like, what? And I think she knew. She still said she doesn't know. I think she knew the whole time that that was on the table. She told her dad to help out with the wedding.

I'm going to be honest. That's grounds for divorce, my friend. I can't do that. And at least wait for a year. All right. So, yeah, Ross, if you ever get married and Joe and I will come to your wedding, whether you invite us or not. No, I can go JOP, man.

I'm not doing some big old fancy wedding. Screw that. It's a waste of money, as you both just said. yeah let's get this thing done by the JOP in the LV and get it done for about a thousand bucks I head from the paternity court head straight to the JOP is that in the same building does she wear white then in that situation or no no I mean it's up to her she'd take the leopard off for a couple of couple hours is Elvis doing your wedding or

I went to an Elvis wedding last year I went to an Elvis wedding by the way I'll never do that again it was in the middle of June in Las Vegas outside on Las Vegas Boulevard. It must have been 110 degrees. You're a heavy sweater, Matt. No, I'm not. I'm a glistener. I'm a glistener?

Yeah. I've seen you sweat at Chinese buffets. That's because of the food. I'm glad I did it, but I'll never do it again. I'm not going back to Vegas unless there's games. I mean, you know, that's how you, that's how you, that's, That's how you live, like, you know, well in Vegas because you can spend some time in the book watching games and then sometimes,

but when there's nothing to bet on except like Major League Baseball games, which you've got no business betting on, that and an Elvis wedding in June, when it's hot outs, oh, hell no, do not do it. If any of you're going to have a wedding in Vegas and you want to invite sports RV and myself, we will come, but it must be between the months of, say, what, September 10th and December 20th, somewhere in that range, Ross. Are you okay with that? Okay.

And we'll help, we'll be your wedding course. We'll take exactly what to do. This is the buffet where you'll send your wedding party. Yes. You'll get your pictures taken outside of the front lobby of the hotel by somebody that's a, you know, that's parking cars. Give them a good tip. They'll take good pictures on your phone. Just do all future weddings under $1,000 and you'll be much happy.

Receptions at O'Shea's. Classy joint. And, of course, bachelor party at the Glitter Gulch. I'm more of a, I'm more of a Spearmint-Rino guy. Well, you can do a crawl, right? Oh, boy. It's going to be a pricey crawl. It's like $20 for a cocktail inside of the rhino.

It's absurd. Honey, why was your bachelor party $7,000 in our wedding was two? All right, we start the second hour of the Matt Tava show in a matter of moments with the point spreads of the Texans games are already out, despite the fact it's April the 15th. We don't know what's going on, injury-wise or draft-wise. or when the dates of the games are. But it's the offseason. 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790 with a message here for the Shell Federal Credit Union. Hey, if you're looking to refinance your vehicle, you've got a new vehicle that you're purchasing,

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Yeah. This is the Matt Thomas Show. No, the second hour of three of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. You are welcome to join us at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. We'll visit with Joe Clata Fox Sports at the bottom of the hour. We have our sports auction where Joe Ross and myself will each spend 100,000 M-T bucks and we'll bid against each other.

And I'm assuming we're going to just want to spend our whole $100,000. Ross has a list of real-life sports auction items. We'll have it for you coming up later this hour. I'll bet you $1,000, please. You don't even know what we're bidding on you. But the bid is in, so it's in for $1. That's a congratulations. You've won it for $1.

Thank you. If I ever got on the prices right, I would just bid $1 every single time. Do you know I was watching it yesterday? And somebody on the road bid $1 to open up his bid? he was the first one, which in theory would be the dumbest thing ever. Yes. He won? Yeah.

That's what I like. What about that guy? Wasn't there a guy who bid 420 every single time? No matter. It was like a toaster. He's like $420 there, Bob. Was that one? Was that Bob or was that Drew Carrey?

It might have been Drew. Because Drew would know what 420 would be. I don't know if Bob would. Probably would have no idea. Let me tell you about Bob Barker. He got his fair share of action in the day. Yeah. And he's got his fair share of harassment lawsuits as well.

And a variety of lawsuits as well. But, I mean, for about three years. Yeah, the 420 guy was Bob Barker. I'm looking at it on YouTube now. So go ahead, Matt. I'm busy the next four minutes. There were three main ladies on the three main Barker beauties. And he got with the most attractive one for about three years.

Diane Parkinson, he did us a Playboy centerfold spread out. Was he about 50 years older than her? Um, no, I would say probably 10 to 15. Oh, Diane Parkinson and filed a lawsuit in 1994 for sexual harassment. Yeah, yeah. Which I don't know. Can you file the sexual harassment if you both openly said that you had an affair for three years? Well, she said she was extorted by threats of firing, but she did later drop the lawsuit.

Okay. But, I mean, what's that relationship like if he's hooking up with one of the beauties? The other two beauties even know? Were they jealous? Did they just accept it? Like, you can be with that dirty old man. I don't care. Or it's like a Doc Antle situation, and he gets with all of them?

No, I don't think he ever got with the other two. You don't know that. One of me called fat all the time, and she sued him for that. Let me tell you some, there's not another radio show in this marketplace. There's not another radio show that give you more anecdotal information about Bob Barker and his post-marriage trist like this one can. All right. Have we had the NFL music queued up?

Because our friends in Las Vegas Well, I said I was friends. I think they're offshore as well. Okay. Some offshore gibronies decided to put up the point spreads. Do you want me to tell you how many of them are favorites, how many are pickums and how many are under unders? Do you want to just go on and just try to guess, period?

I mean, I don't even have their, I'd have to get the opponents in front of me. Let's see. I'm going to tell you who they are. Okay. Let's just see how well you do. All right. I have not seen the numbers.

We'll do the home games first. And this is in no particular order because we don't know when these games are being scheduled. All right. We don't will be opening games. Actually, you know what? The Texans could go to Kansas City and open up the season on Thursday night football. Kansas, and then they could go good because they get outscored 51 to 7 in the last 40 minutes of that game? Could happen.

Well, does history? Does history repeat itself sometimes? Sometimes. Yes. All right, here we go. We'll go to the home games first. Ravens at Houston this year. What do you think the spread is?

Ravens minus three. Ravens are minus five. Dang. I almost said four. Bengals at the Texas. Texans minus six. Six and a half. Very good.

Packers, Texans. These are all Houston. games. Ooh. Texans minus one. Pick them. Okay. Vikings, Texans in Houston.

Texans minus three. Pick them. Dang. Colts at the Texans. Texans minus three. Minus one. Jaguars Texans in Houston. Texans minus Still Gardner, Minchew.

Six and a half. Eight and a half. You're not all. off to dang, no, I want to be closer. I'm actually upset.

No, you're doing good. You're doing good. Patriots at the Texans. Texans minus, this will be the first time they've been home favorites of the Patriots in their history,

right? I think, I mean, I presume, Texas is minus three. Minus one and a half. Titans said the Texans. Texans minus two and a half.

Minus one. So you were within about two points either way. Yeah. You actually had the right sound in every one of those, except for the two pick-up games because that was nobody's favorite. All right.

Let's go to the road games. Texans at Tennessee. Texans plus one. Plus four and a half. What? Yeah. What were they just favored by at home? One.

They got a point dog on them. Yeah, I guess I should have gotten more then. Okay. Texans at Pittsburgh. At the Steelers. Texans plus four. Plus five. Texans at the Chiefs.

Ooh, Texans plus six. Ten and a half. Ten and a half. Well, you just saw what just happened a few months ago. Ten and a half. Yeah, but they won the one before that. What was the spread on the divisional game? Do we remember that?

What was it like? Six and a half. Yeah, it was probably like six or six and a half. Okay. Wow. Texans at the Jaguars. Texans at the Jaguars. Texans minus two and a half.

Three. Very good. They are a favorite on the road. Texans at the Colts. Texans plus two. Plus four and a half. Dang. Texans at the Lions.

Texans minus three. Plus one. Really? Okay. Yeah. Two more. That's the far off that I'd been. Texans at the Cleveland Browns.

Texans minus one. Plus three and a half. What? All right. I don't make some bets on some of these. And last but not least, Joe George, you get the honors of making your first guess on this one. Texans at the Bears. The Bears.

Texas Bears. Plus three. I'll say, hold on, let me answer. I'll say, you know what? And they're plus one at the lions. I'll say pick them. Yeah, that's true. Plus three and a half, Joe George.

Oh, look at that. So to recap it, according to this, Beauvada or whatever hell this is, bed online. Bed online. Favorite in six games, dogs and eight, and two pickups. So they have them at 6-8-2? 6-8-2. The rest of the AFC South, those are you playing at home. Indianapolis is favored in 10, dogs in six.

Jaguars favored in zero dogs in all 16 Wow Tennessee favored in 10 dogs in 6 I don't know what to make out of that

except Vegas is sometimes wrong you said Tennessee favorite in 10 and then Colts favorite in how many 10 as well they were beat both we've been favored in 10 games Wow do we make anything of that Mr. Las Vegas I think Texans are

of AFC South favorite, but by the odds of the AFC South favorites, I think last I saw there were plus 170. And I think the next best was Colts at like plus 200. So I don't know, those aren't those two, those two numbers are not jibbing. I think I like, I think they underestimate the Texans in a couple of those games, which is, I think the Texas is the same. I mean, I know Sean Salisbury on our Monday night meeting on our Zoom had the Texas finishing third.

Wow. You know. He doesn't think he doesn't think Tanna Hill's going to drop it all. That just smells like a massive fall from grace. If you look at the numbers, the people who are into analytics

and all that type of stuff, like his yards per attempt and his all those types of numbers, all the inside numbers, they're very, very way above expectation and expected to drop below back to Earth. Kind of like, you remember how Deshawn Watson,

his touchdown numbers were just astronomical his first year, and there was an expectation that that was going to drop off. because it was a small sample. They're saying the same thing about Tannahill, and they were right about Sean Watson. So, I mean, unless Tannahill is just all of a sudden turned it around

and he's one of the best quarterbacks in the entire world, or he's Ryan Tannehill, there's probably going to be a drop-off from his production of last year. Two more teams real quick. Patriots, favorite in eight, dogs in seven, one pick them. And on the NFC side, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I just curious, I didn't even look to see here. I'm just scrolling through.

Favorite in 12, dogs in three and one pick-em. Okay. Now, their schedule is not very difficult. Raiders, giants, lions, falcons who were terrible in their own division. I think Tom did a pretty wise thing. Got great money to go to Tampa. All guaranteed. And even though the NFC South is a bear,

the rest of the teams they play are not bears. I mean, Panthers with Teddy Bridgewater, Buccaneers, Falcons. Last year, it was Saints won 13 and 3. Falcons are 7 and 9, bucks are 7 and 9, and Panthers are 5 and 11. They have the Rams and Chargers both going to Tampa Bay.

You know how those cross-country trips usually suck the West Coast teams bad. And they're only far, they go to Denver, which is just an average team. At the Raiders, I'm going to scare any. buddy. Favorite in 12, dogs in three, one pickum. What would have been if James if what would have been if James

Winston was the quarterback? Probably like Favorite in five. Nine and one, two. Yeah, something crazy like that. All right, 713, 21, 212, 579. If you'd like to join us, 713, 212, 5, 790. We visit with Joe Clatt from Fox. People we miss hearing from. Bottom of the

hour. Sports Talk 790. This is defense of tackle. DJ Reader. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. Real Texans talk here. 119 of the Matt Thomas show. Dr. Fousey, did I pronounce it right finally? Are you just screwing with us now? Maybe. Dr. Fauci? Fauci.

And Dr. Ruffey's. Yeah. Who owns in a tank, a cafe in 48 states? He's battling Olive Garden for the moderate family Italian food. Okay. What does Carrabas have to say about this? Crabba's like... And Ibukadabbo or whatever. Yeah, yeah.

So what was I going on with? Oh, so the good doctor basically had said we want to get sports back going again, and we're okay with you guys doing with no fans. Let me ask you all this question. And you guys are certainly welcome to joining the conversation to it at 713-21, 25. of an inning. On a scale of 1 to 10, and Ross, you go first. What do you think the success level will be for these guys to behave themselves if they are given strict parameters of from clubhouse or locker room to court or stadium to your hotel and no stops in between? Do you think

one to 10, one being there's no way in the world they'll follow these rules and somebody will start to deviate from it? Or do you think nine or 10 these guys know how to how serious this is and they're going to play by the rules. Will Major League athletes, professional athletes, behave themselves if they are presented this situation in order for them to resume their season? How long are they quarantine? How long is this going on?

I will give you the NBA will be done. They will be in the quarantine June 15th to August 15th. So I'll say 60 days. Major League Baseball? I will say 120. I'll say four months. Oof. And now with the basketball, the whole 60 days, I mean, half the

teams are going home when the playoffs starts, right? That's right. Every set, there'll be new, there'll be fresh teams leaving. That's exactly right. I'll say basketball. I'll give them, I'll say basketball six and a half, baseball seven. So you think baseball will do a better job of behaving themselves in basketball?

Slightly. even though they're going to have a longer time. You know, okay. Oh, you know what? I'll say baseball six. They're getting down a peg. Just because of how long it's going to be. But how can, I mean, you can't even sneak out if you wanted to, right?

What choice do you have? If they agree to this quarantine or whatever bubble, they're going to be living in. My guess is there'll be security, right, at hotels, yes? Yeah. Because here's the thing. Will they be able to, and these are all things to be discussed. Will they be able to say, hey man, I just need to get out for a walk.

Get some fresh... And then just bolt. From that. Right? I mean, I'm being all seriously. Yeah. I mean, what if the... I mean, I'm kind of joking, but I'm kind of not.

What, I mean, what are they going to do for companionship for four months? Ross. What? I mean, I'm serious. They're human. Ross, I know it's foreign to you, but there are people that have gone four months without seven. I don't know, Ross, what are you doing right now? You're quarantined.

Yeah, Ross. Why don't you peel the curtain back a little bit, Ross? And nobody wants that curtain peeled. Joe George, one to ten, can baseball players and separate basketball players behave themselves for a period of time? I'm going to say yes. So my, for basketball, because some of their quarantines will be lesser, I'll go like a seven and a half confidence. Okay. Baseball, I'll say like a six and a half.

Guys, I'm telling you, and I never thought I would say this, I think basketball is going to have a significantly easier time of this than, say, baseball players for two reasons. One, there's less of them. Actually, multiple reasons. One, there's less of them. Two, every round of the playoffs is going to drop people, so you're going to have less people thinking about getting super antsy,

wanting to go out and deviate from this. And lastly, they know that they're being put together because they want a crown a champion. And if they don't, if they have to stop this season again, there will be no NBA champion. And I think that will crush

those teams that are on the verge, say, in the playoffs or going for a conference championship or NBA finals, if they find out that one, two, five players decided to go out and get frisky and have fun one night and go out and drink can do whatever and not behave themselves during that time.

I think basketball players, just like Eric Gordon said yesterday, Eric Gordon is going to be in position where they know that if they got a crown to go get, they can go from hotel to arena to restaurant to locker room because there's a sole focus and that's trying to win an NBA championship. I think it's a lot easier for baseball, for basketball players. Baseball, you know, you can only hang out so long in the locker room. You're getting to the ballpark early as it is. creatures of habit where they go out and get something to eat after games.

You know, usually basketball players, you play your game, you jump on a plane, you get to go to the next city where you go sleep the rest of the day, or you go home. There's very little post-game stuff unless you're playing a home game. So that's just off the top of my mind where I thought of, especially because they only have a handful of games left. There may not be any regular season games left. There may be just a handful of regular season. games and then the playoffs where everybody is supposed to be on their best behavior.

Guys aren't supposed to go out. Guys aren't supposed to stay out late. Guys aren't looking around going looking for ladies. Or Ross would say conjugal visits. The eyes on the prize, Ross, and it's an NBA title. Okay. So stay with their rules. Yeah, I mean, I guess boxers abstain while they're training for their big fights.

So it'd be like that. J.J. Watt abstain during the football season. Well, that's true. Abstaining does raise testosterone levels. So we're going to get the most competitive basketball that we've had in decades, Matt. These guys are going to be all charged up like the BYU football team. You know, I lived in Utah for two years, and BYU was the big rival for Utah games that I would call. We would make fun of their testosterone level.

We would just make fun of their general age because, you know, they would go on these Mormon missions, and they'd all come back 27, 28 years old playing college football. Yeah, I think it's totally unfurricular. fair, Matt. Their bodies are completely developed, and they're all charged up from the extra testosterone. There's no wonder they haven't won more national championships. They won a couple in the 80s, right? Or at least one? The question should be, Ross, should I take, if the NBA says, yes, we need announcers to go to Las Vegas. Ooh. Would I be willing to give up the opportunity to spend quality time at home and worry about my testosterone level if I know the eye on the prize was trying to help the Houston. to Rockets won an NBA championship.

Well, you're married, right? I mean, you're used to abstaining. It's fine. So really, I'd have no adjustment at all, would I? No, you'd be just fine, Matt. Well, talk to you would call it four months. As you would call it August. God, he's so accurate, unfortunately.

Let's talk to Joe Clatt of Fox Sports. Lead College analysts. Worked on the XFL. We'll give him his thoughts on what it was like covering those five weeks. We'll do that next. It's the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. The Rockets are raining threes. Hey, it's Coach Dan Tony.

This is Sports Talk 790. You're home for Houston Rockets basketball. Time is 131 on Sports Talk 790. We've had a lot of great friends joined the show over the last few weeks in the category of people we miss hearing from. We've had Kevin Harlan and Jim Nance. We've had our friends from AT&T, all the Astros and Rocket broadcasters. And a guy we love talking to because he is such a great analyst, got a great sense of humor, and is a star at the Fox Network.

we speak of our good friend Joel Klatte joining us on the show. Joel, most recently of the XFL, first of all, great to hear your voice. And how is everything in Southern California? You guys are somewhat in the epicenter of all this mess. How is it like moving around to L.A. these days? Yeah. You know, I would say it is what it is. I actually live in Orange County down in Newport Beach.

And, I mean, to be very honest with you, you know, I don't know anyone who has gotten or been infected with COVID. And a lot of our friends who are doctors and nurses are, you know, have told us that our hospitals in Orange County are, you know, almost empty. So we are thankfully doing great. I don't know, you know, if that is a shock to you guys or not. But I think L.A. County is a little bit worse than us. But where we're at, we're doing, you know, fairly well.

and I just hope that we can get back to work so some of these people can get their jobs back, to be honest with you. Amen to that. You were in the middle of calling your first season of the XFL. Just give me a couple of thoughts from the time that you watched your first game, whether it be in the rehearsal game or some practices as the season moved along. I'm going to assume it exceeded your expectations in terms of quality or did you kind of expect what you saw during the course of your five-week run?

No, I think it was probably a little bit of both, right? I mean, listen, there were some moments that were ugly. But I thought there were a lot of moments that exceeded my expectations. And you have to understand that just by the nature of the sport, if you have a team that is an existing team, a college football team and NFL team, offense and quarterback play always lags behind. Because offense and specifically quarterback play is all about details, timing, and execution. and that just takes longer because you've got to get several people on the same page of those three elements. And, you know, all 11 guys really on the offense on the same page of all those elements, whereas defense can be more about line up correctly and then play without standing effort.

Now, obviously, there's some technique and talent and athleticism involved, certainly. But that's one of the reasons why defenses have always been ahead of offense is at the beginning of every single season, whether it's the preseason in the NFL or if it's fall camp for college football. So having said that, can you imagine that's with existing teams? Now you move to a brand new league where everybody on the offense is brand new. There's no incumbent starters and everyone's trying to learn. So I thought that the offense was going to be struggling early in the season. And candidly, it exceeded my expectations in particular with teams like Houston.

I was so bummed out for Houston because they were having such a magical year. I felt like the fans there had really attached themselves to the rough necks. PJ Walker was playing outstanding football. So, yeah, I mean, from the first time I went down there, I saw some practice games in Houston when everyone was there playing preseason. It looked rough. And by the time I was there for week one and PJ Walker was running all over, it was exceeding my expectations. I'm severely bummed out for that league because it was nothing that they did. You know, this was a league, quite frankly, Matt, that was.

going to survive. It was going to have an outstanding championship and it was going to have a second season and this took that away. And I'm so gutted for those people that worked so hard and now have lost their jobs for something that was not any doing of their own accord. Yeah, and I'm stunned that not only did they shut the season down, which was no surprise, but that they essentially, I don't think we'll ever see a spring league again. If Vince can't put this behind him and put the money and the marketing behind it, I don't know what else, because he had a great television contract. It felt like the TV partners were heavily vested in it. So it was sad because we had quite a few listeners of ours, Joel, that enjoyed the roughneck stuff. Last thing about

the XFL, there were lots of different rules. Was there one or two that you'd love to see implemented in college and or pro football that you thought, man, this is just a great idea. Other mainstream football needs to adapt to it immediately. Yeah, the kickoff. I think should be adopted across all levels of football immediately, starting eight years ago. I mean, this is the no-brainer of all no-brainers. And quite frankly, the only reason that it won't be adopted in the near future or it won't be adopted immediately is because of hubris and ego. And that's a shame because it was done with the right intentions. It wasn't done just to be different.

It was done to be better. I strive, you know, I shouldn't say I. I've read a lot of, I'm a big reader and leadership books and philosophy and so on and so forth. Have you heard me talk about when a new coach gets a job, he should always talk about building a culture rather than changing a culture, right? That little nuance in language is so important to get the existing people within that organization on your side rather than pit them against you. You don't want to create factions by saying we need to change. the existing organization because you're putting those people down. You want to say you want to build an organization because you're inviting them to be a part of something better.

So I think along those same lines when it comes to trying to improve a product, no one should change for change sake. Okay. Like if like for instance, when FS1 started, they made a lot of mistakes and a lot of those mistakes were born out of the fact that they just want to. it to be different just to change from ESPN just for change's sake, rather than changing to be better, right? There should be a purpose to every change. I go through that long dissertation, Matt, to basically tell you that I thought that the XFL's kickoff rule was a change for the betterment of the game, and in particular, the health and safety and wellness of the players and the participants, and it can increase the longevity of our sport, at least in my estimation. The

kickoff play accounts for about 6% of the snaps or action in college football and pro football. And yet, that play, that 6% of action accounts for 21% of the head trauma because of the long run impact, the long run collision. They took that out of the game and yet retained the exciting aspect of having a return, having the kickoff be part of the game, having it be more penal for the kickoff to go out of bounds or in the end zone, so on and so forth. It was a fabulous change and should be adopted across all levels of football immediately, immediately. And the only reason it wouldn't be is because of hubris and ego. The other thing that I would say is I thought that the clock rules were very good in order to try to speed up the game, in particular outside of the last two minutes of each half, you heard me talk about

this in college football in particular. Right. There is no reason to stop the clock on a first. down outside the last two minutes of each half. And so I think speeding up some of those games would not only limit or, I should say, negate some of the volume of snaps on the players, which then again goes towards player safety, but it would be a much more entertaining product for the fans because of the speed of the game and how it happens.

So there you go. Long answer for both of those. I got you. I loved the different extra point opportunities. And I also love the Sky Judge. And we brought this up yesterday how the NFL just. decided to give up on the overruling of the past interference calls. And I hate that they did that.

But I thought the Sky Judge was a very efficient way, too, especially because we were actually taken in the room and were able to hear them talk through the play with the official. Yeah, I agree with you. I think even more so than just the sky judge aspect is just the transparency of it. You know, being able to be in there and hear it was phenomenal. All right. Yeah, and I thought y'all did a great job.

Both ESPN and Fox had a great job. but really putting it in the us in front of the guys and talking to it. We're visiting with Joe Clyde Fox Sports here on the Matt Thomas show. Okay, next thing on the list for us, and we've got so many things to get to, is the college football season itself. And I know that Mike Oresco, the commissioner of the American, said, look, we have no time clock.

We had Chris Pezman on, the athletic director at the University of Houston, and says we're on no clock. You don't share facilities for the most part with any other franchise NFL team. Maybe Miami would be one exception, maybe a couple others. could you envision, Joel, this college football season kicking off November 15th. In your mind, is there any hurry to get this season started? Because I feel like, and you're a much more of an economist of sports than I am, I feel like college football needs the full building way more so than the other sports

because those 85,000 at Bryant-Denny, the 90,000 at the Coliseum, the 100,000 at Michigan Stadium, they not only fund. those athletic programs that like to have lots of fancy and nice things, but Michigan football is going to bankroll the Michigan tennis team and the golf team. And also, by the way, when Ball State comes to play Michigan and they get $1.2 million, Michigan's not going to pay that kind of money if they can't put 100,000 people in their stadium. So where do you see college football a with or without fans, and would you be willing to see the season push back a little bit in order to get those fans in the stadiums? Okay. Great. I mean, that is a great question, Matt.

And you're on the absolute right path. Let me just state, first of all, what I feel like is the biggest financial difference between college football and the National Football League. And it's not just volume, right? And it's not just dollar amount because that's clearly a stark difference. The NFL is just a behemist. Now, having said that, the NFL is a behemoth, but a large portion of that revenue goes to line the pocket of the orange.

owner. Okay, we all understand that. It's a business, right? Wouldn't you agree with that? Yes. Okay. In college athletics, all of that revenue is not necessarily lining the pocket of the quote-unquote owner as much as it is going to the operations of the athletic department. Now, you can say that they're paying some people within the athletic department, namely the head coach and the athletic director too much. I understand that, but that is still and operating expense. Okay. And so in college football, all of that money is vitally important in order to sustain other sports.

And right now, I believe the number that the NCAA deems minimum amount of sports needed in order to be an NCAA-sanctioned athletic department is 16. I believe that that number will be lowered and that that barrier will be lowered so that schools can cut programs knowing that they're going to take a hit to their overall athletic department budget, whether they play a full season or not. Because remember now, a lot of these places are going on donations and fundraising and so on and so forth. And that's going to be down as the economy is down just overall. Now you talk about having fans in the stands. Remember, I just told you, every dollar is vital, not for the purpose of lining one's pocket outside of

operational expenses, but for the operating of all the programs within the athletic department. So these athletic directors know that it's not just about throwing the product out there and televising it, whereas in the NFL, they televised with no fans. They're still making millions and millions, hardly billions of dollars. It's a very different proposition with the margins in college football are much smaller than in the NFL. So because of that, I do feel like there is going to be some wiggle room about when the start date of the season actually happened. The only thing that they're going to have to get pushed up again is potentially the draft, and they're going to have to work with the NFL as it relates to next

year's spring draft and whether that's going to get pushed back into the summer so they can finish a football season, whether it's going to stay the same and they'll end right before it, what happens to the draft process, what happens to the combine, what happens to in-person meeting, so on and so forth. That's just one of a million issues that they've got to think about in terms of timing of the season. But first and foremost, be rest assured, they can and will move the season. They understand that they've got flexibility in that realm. What is much more difficult for them is to try to land on a time period twofold that they can, one, ramp up and be safe, right? So how much time does a team need in order to be ready to play a contest? And two, how do they get these 100 to

200 to 300 support staff all together in a safe way, test them enough times to where we know that this virus is not running rampant through an organization. Those are questions that I think are much more difficult to answer. So to go back to the genesis of the question, will they move the season? I'm not sure. Are they going to try to play it? Absolutely. Because they have to. Every dollar is vital to the operation of the entire athletic department. When they play, it remains to be seen. play it, I do believe that they will. Do they need fans in the stands? Yes, they're going to need fans in the stands,

whatever that looks like. I can ask you 50 more questions. I'm going to narrow it down to one last one. You've got your draft guide out on foxports.com. Look, we here in Houston don't have a first round pick. Don't feel like we'll ever get one again. So let's get to the big question of this draft.

Were you putting Tua in the draft? Are you concerned, not concerned? Do you watch the videos he puts out there. Give me your thoughts about Tua. Where he is as a quarterback, what you've seen in the video, and what team will take that chance on grabbing him in the first round? I love Tua. I love his game. He's explosive. I love his release. It's quick. He's accurate. He was highly productive. He did it with three of the best wide receivers as a trio that you can have in college football. In fact, the best one's probably not even coming out in Devante Smith. And they're still going to

have two first-round picks and Cherry Judy and Henry Ruggs. Having said that, I am so concerned about the injuries, namely because they all happen in very much the same vein. He thinks he's more elusive than he actually is. He gets caught from behind and rolled up on. He hurts his ankle. He fractured his hip. The surgery on the hip, I think, is a huge deal.

And while the video of him throwing at his pro day, quote unquote, was good, I was really concerned about the last few throws because it looked like, at least to me, and I don't think I'm trying to hunt for ghosts here. It looked like he lost a lot of velocity. And if you go back and watch, I think you're going to see what I saw. I think some teams are going to look at that and be a little skittish. So it wouldn't shock me at all, to be quite frank with you, if Justin Herbert is the second quarterback taken,

in particular because teams love his arm, love his arm. I know many teams are split between Tua and Herbert, borough number one, split between Tua and Herbert with loves falling behind them. Great stuff, as always, friend. Take care of you and your family. Stay safe. We look forward to seeing you back on television whenever it's going to be. And thanks for being part of our segment of people we miss hearing from because we miss hearing from your friend. And talk to you very soon, my friend. Thanks for the time. I appreciate it. You guys have a good day. Okay. Anytime, man. I love coming on with you.

Great. Joe Clatt, the great Joe Clot with us during the football season. We'll have him back whenever that may be here on Sports Talk 790. Vice President Mike Pence spoke with college commissioners. We'll tell you about that report next. 147 on the Matt Thomas show here on Sports Talk 790 with a message here for oops steam cleaning you want your carpets done the right way professionally done you got to go with oops 281 822 0561 is the number that's 281 822 0561 for professional carpet cleaning done the right way that's with oops steam cleaning they'll take care of your carpets they'll take care of your area rugs they'll take care of your air ducts if you have water remediation issues they'll do that as well. All with one great company, Houston-based, with full-time employees, nobody working on a contract. 281-8-2-2-0-561 is the number. That's 281-8-2-0-561 for good smelling carpets, look clean at the very best. It's Oopsteam cleaning. 281-8-2-2-0-561 online oopsteam.com. The pandemic continues. The no-dam sports pandemic. I'm not leaving my house.

Luckily, the most infectious lineup in Houston sports continues. Now, here's masked, rubber glove, but still Jesus sandaled. Matt Thomas, sanitize those toes, would you? You don't know where they've been. Thanks again to Joe Clack on the program, 151 on Sports Talks. I'm going to save the Vice President Penn stuff at the top of the hour, because we've got a little bit of a shorter segment here. Any takeaways, Ross and Joel's visit?

I mean, kind of we're all kind of saying the same sentiment. College football needs fans and the stands badly, period. Yeah, I mean, it's where we're laying out basically what we all know. And we know the problems and the problem when you get that and you know what the problem is and you find the solutions. And it's just it's easy to poke holes in every single solution. It's easy for us to complain about every single solution because there is no perfect solution because we are under one of the biggest and worst global. pandemics ever. It is what it is, basically.

Basically, my overarching theory or phrase, I guess, for this entire thing is it is what it is. And we're kind of at the mercy of health care professionals and guys like Dr. Fauci and our president and our governors and our mayors. We're kind of just, we have to

figure this thing out day by day. Yeah, and we'll tell what Vice President Pence meant with a bunch of commissioners on a conference call today. We'll tell you about that the top of the hour. A little lighthearted thing here. Ross, are you a big fan of Major League eating? Define big fan.

Have you ever seen it? I've never seen it. They have a Major League eating. They have a YouTube page. No, I've never seen. I mean, it's just disgusting to me, and then they end up throwing up and all that. It's just, I mean, I like, I will watch the, I've used to watch the hot dog contest like every year, but doesn't Joey Chestnut win it basically every year, except for like once in the last decade? Yeah. Unless Kevin Hoffman screws it up, right?

Yeah, and Kevin Hoffman can screw him up. That's true. I was supposed to go, but Hoffman screwed it up. He cost me the chance to be one of the judges. I was really mad. Are you really? You wanted to see a bunch of soggy buns getting crammed down somebody's throat as they try to hold back their vomit? Yeah, but it's something you do once in your life.

It's like going to a Las Vegas one. It's one of those things you just want to knock off the bucket list. Bucket List is Nathan's Hot Dogs. Mangiola is going to have a YouTube page of four different. different events coming up. And it's not of how much you can eat. It's a speed contest, Ross. Okay.

Joe, we'll throw you both in on this. The qualifier round, fastest to win, I guess it's elimination. You have to knock back two pounds of sliced bologna. Two pounds of sliced bologna. Plain? Can't put some mustard on it? Or ketchup?

ketchup and bologna. Oh, ketchup and bologna is very good. Is that right? You fry the baloney or what? Just normal. No, they're not frying it. You can't ask for it how you want it grilled or saute or anything. No.

There are eight people that are competing in this round one of the event, which is two pounds of slice baloney. I can't tell you the last time I've had baloney, period, much less trying to knock back two pounds of it. The last time I had baloney, like an actual baloney sandwich. I couldn't tell you the last time. College? I'd have to be under the age of 10. Yeah, maybe a camping trip, maybe like 15 years ago. Yep.

All right. So let's say you advance past the two pounds of slice baloney. I wouldn't. That would then put you in the quarterfinals. Okay. Go on. Round two. Fastest to eat first.

48 Oreos and a half a gallon of whole milk. All right. Hold on. Recap that again? This is round two. All right. This is after I... 48 Oreos.

Is this at the same sitting? No, different nights. Okay. This is speed competition. This isn't about how much. It's about how fast. 48 Oreos can be done. I guarantee you that.

But if you're going to eat 48 Oreos, it can be probably done. But you're probably in no significant hurry to knock those back. Yeah, I mean, I would knock out a sleeve at Oreos without even noticing before, though. I mean, I think we've all done that, right? Yeah, but what's a sleeve? Like 12? Probably. Four sleeves?

48, 48 sleeve? Four sleeves. I'm saying I could do it. And you're going to wash it down with a half a gallon of whole milk. Ross, can you do this on our Monday night meeting this week? Like, you don't talk. You just finish the, you have 30 minutes to accomplish this. I think it's really good.

This is a great idea. Standard-sized Oreo cookie package has three rows of 15. Cordy to Google. So you basically need three and then a little bit of a four. I'd have to eat a whole pack of Oreos, half a gallon of milk is where it starts to get a little tough. Can I throw like, that's tough. Can I throw ten bucks in on this? Skim, you could probably do.

The hole's going to hit your stomach pretty hard, right? For how much? How much money were you getting? We'll start with ten. Okay, I'm going to need it to go higher than that. First of all, it's going to set me back ten bucks to buy the Oreos in the milk. All by the Oreos in the milk. They are penciling round one, which is the two pounds of bologna to be consumed in 69 seconds.

Oh, what? It's the over-under time. I'm over. I'll take the under. The slowest time, 89 seconds. So they're saying within 90 seconds, everybody that's going to compete in this

is going to finish off the two pounds of bologna. So let's go to round three. Let's say you get making it to the semifinals. Your food de jour, a gallon and a half of baked beans. Yeah, that's, I'm out on that one. That's not happening. A gallon and a half?

Gallon and a half. So take a gallon of milk. Okay. You know the gallon of? you go at the grocery fill it up with baked beans get that half gallon and knock that back

it's disgusting then the championship round this is why I need a little clarification 10 chicken noodle cups oh how much sodium is going to be in that what is a chicken noodle

cut you mean like like a just a regular bowl of chicken soup yeah what are you talking about this guy just it's loaded with salt uh I just I don't know I mean what I think a chicken noodle cup is a box of ramen.

So going with that. That could make sense. Yeah. But what's so devastating about, I mean, of the four things that is brought up, that would seem like to be the easiest. Probably, I guess. This is the championship that nobody wins. This is disgusting.

The grosses of the four would have to be that pound and a half of baked beans. A gallon of a half, excuse me, a gallon and a half of baked beans. The Orioles I could probably live with, the chicken noodle cup seem to eat. easiest. The slice baloney would... Here's the thing. I could probably eat two pounds of slice baloney, but I couldn't do it in 90 seconds.

69 seconds, I thought. That's the low time. The high time is 89 seconds. Gross. All right. If you're finishing up your lunch, sorry about that, but we'd have to pass along what's going on at Major League Eating and their YouTube page.

Final hour, the Matt Thomas show starts with what Vice President Pence found out from the commissioners of the major sports in college. We'll tell you what that is in a moment. 159 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show. Here we go in the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. Our time is 202.

Again, we had Joe Clyde earlier today on the program about a half hour from now. If you missed that, we'll have that on a blog post at Sports790.com. Vice President Mike Pence today, Joe and Ross. and those will be listening to us out on Radio Land were, it was on a conference call with the college football, playoff management committee. Did you guys even realize there was such a thing as that?

Wrong. Okay, thanks, Bryce. There was one conclusion, simmer down. I'm sorry. There was one conclusion drawn by those on the call. Okay. The message to Vice President Pence Ross was very clear.

There will be no college football until students are allowed on campus. Hmm. Commissioner Bob Bolsby of the Big 12 said this. Our players are students. If we're not in college, we're not having contest. He further would go on to say, our message was, we need to get universities and colleges back open. that we were educated-based programs

and we weren't going to have sports until we had something closer to normal college going on. This is pretty consistent, right? I've not heard anything to the contrary, have you? To the contrary of what? Of what Bob Bolsby said. I have the feeling that most college administrators, especially even in athletics,

where they know how much money is being made, have said, we're not bringing our kids back to campus unless there's campus. I guess if you want to make that distinction if you want to just continue to tell yourself and fool yourself that it's all about being student athletes I guess

but we know that the reason why they wanted I mean you talked about it with Joel Clack and we've been talking about it for weeks why they need college football back is before the money to support all these other athletic programs and other things that are going on in the universities I guess if you're still trying to win lawsuits

that the NCAA is going to get filed against them and sell them as student athletes, you have to be consistent. So I get where they're coming from from a legality standpoint. Let me ask you this. This is pretty ballsy them, is it not? Because those conference commissioners have to, their bosses in theory, are the league members. And if Iowa State can't play football games and I don't know what Iowa State's philosophy is. I don't know what Vanderbilt's.

I don't know what Ohio State is. but my guess is that Vanderbilt's volleyball program is going to suffer big time on this. Iowa State's golf team is going to suffer. Hell, for that matter, your beloved university, the University of Texas would have some problems with the Olympic sports if Darrell K. wasn't full with people. Maybe the television dollars, while they're awesome, nothing beats having all that revenue to yourself when you're putting 100,000 people in, paying crazy ticket prices, crazy parking, and buying, you know, luxury boxes and sweets. making all that money.

It's in stark contrast to what we think the answer would have been from those guys. Instead, they're saying, no, if we don't have regular college life, we're not playing games. I'm actually a little bit surprised that this notion hasn't changed. That there are people that are putting their foot in the ground and saying, we want regular college life before we start playing college football games again. I mean, but if you want to sell the student-athlet thing and if all the other students are still taking online classes and doing it that way. Why do they have to be on campus?

What's the distinction? What does it matter? Yeah, because let me tell you. If they're still getting their education, they're still taking their test, they're still going to do it, doing Zoom tutoring or whatever, and you could say, you know, what, hey, they're still being students. They're like every other student. They just happen to be doing this extra activity. Yeah, I mean, my son is a sophomore at Texas Tech. He still goes, he takes his online classes.

He still consider himself a Red Raider. He still wants to go back to Lubbock. But he's also under the notion that the people that run these institutions are not going to reopen these campuses until they feel like it's completely 100% safe for everyone that they can resume normal activities. I don't think colleges want to be spending millions of dollars social distancing every class and every student. I mean, you can't. I mean, these are college campuses that have 30, 40,000 students, a lot of them do. But, man, you are putting your foot down to say, if we don't get it back to normal, we're not playing.

I wonder if that is the commissioners just taking it upon themselves, or do you think that Bob Bolsby really did contact every member of the Big Ten, or the Big 12, and say, what do you guys think about this? When I speak to Vice President Mike Pence, what am I supposed to tell him? Well, we know that Mike Pence knows that they're not going to play college football again. Not that Mike Penn, let me tell you, Mike Pence has way more things to worry about than whether or not there's a college football season. I just think there is a more concerted effort.

to get sports going again. We've already seen that with the WWE be considered essential, which is then going to open up the UFC to go down to Orlando where the WWE training facility is and have matches there. You are seeing that now this is going to allow Florida to have spring training games. We're seeing sports interwoven more in this COVID stuff than we have probably in the last 48 hours when we have in the last two or three weeks,

because A, people are getting antsy, and B, you've got a lot of influential businesses which these sports are that are dormant right now that need to get going again because I think the president thinks that if we get sports going again, it's the first sign that we can return to normalcy, which, you know, then the argument then becomes Ross,

are we ready to be normal again? How close can we get to what we were, say, six months ago? But the NCAA with this, they can now forever, for the rest of time, say we're clearly not a professional sport. Like they're making that distinction right now of we're not the NFL. We're not the XFL.

We're not your farm system. These are student athletes. That's the determination that they're making by this decision no matter the cost. It doesn't mean it's right, but in their mind, that's what they're doing, at least from my perspective. So let me ask you all this. Are we applauding the commissioner's thoughts? Or is there hypocrisy in this? I just can't figure out why they're doing it and why they're making the distinction.

if these players and students and student athletes are still going to class? It's really, I mean, and obviously it's unified. I mean, first of all, when the commissioner or with the vice president of United States calls for you guys, you're going to take that phone call. Just like President Trump has put this advisory role together of all the different sports commissioners and a few owners. I mean, this is crazy. This is a call you have to take.

it's a call it's you know obviously pens was in it was in a good listening mood he wanted to hear what they were thinking but man the NCAA has already taken the shorts with no tournament they are ready to take it in the shorts perhaps with a college football season until we get back to 100 percent maybe it's because the member institutions are all afraid that if you open things up to get to where they are and we're not completely cleared of this that a particular campus can get could be infiltrated with the virus again i'm just thinking up the top of my head Well, but Matt, I mean, early on in the virus, one of the things people were most critical of were college students that ignored the virus and went to Florida and went to spring break. So, like, if now all those students are all, like, you know, like one of the reasons why Austin's a hotspot or has a lot of cases is because of those kids that were UT students that went to Florida and then came back.

Like now if you're having kids from all over the country go to every different university from all over the place, like you're just exposing all your students as well. Yeah, realistically, Ross, this is the most student-athlete-type thing that college athletics has done in the last decade, right? I mean, they're saying that we believe our young men are students first and athletes second. That's what they're saying. They've always been preaching that, yeah. Well, but I mean, they say one thing and they do another. I mean, they're taking hellacious contracts from these TV networks, not giving the kids any of the money. They're taking the kids out of school.

They're doing all these sorts of things that would be very much what a professional athlete. Check, check. You think Vince McMahon regrets filing bankruptcy now? Because couldn't he just do an XFL season in the spring or in the fall? Why, there's no regular football? And tell Trevor Lawrence, hey, I know you can't play college football. Come play in the XFL this fall and we'll play our games on Saturdays. That'd be interesting.

I couldn't. They could have just done that right now. I think that's what they should have done from the start. actually. I think the XFL should have tried to lure away college athletes before they were eligible. Didn't the USFL do that? They did. And the XFL had one player

this year. I don't remember what school. He went to a big time of school. It was like a Florida State or an LSU, but I mean, they could have, Vince could have just said, hey, we're going to cancel the XFL spring. We're going to move it to the fall because there's no college football happening and we're going to

pay all these kids from Alabama and LSU and Clemson and Ohio State and we're going to put on a product that everyone would want to watch that. I would totally watch that. I'd be all in. You know what? Vince guys might have wanted to do that. Maybe a stockholder said, look, we're already taking it in the short of WWE.

The last thing you're going to do is try to fund this fledgling league by yourself. Because it doesn't make any sense. Well, I mean, he just fired a bunch of people today, too. So I guess it doesn't make, it's not too surprising. WWE did Yeah they just had a huge furlough and layoff I was reading about it because they're crippled Wait a minute is

Randy Orton still employed? Yes Is that your favorite? No. Undertaker? Yes Has the Undertaker been furloughed? Michael Cole still has a job Oh that's good No that's too bad is Michael Cole's a wrestler

No he's a announcer He's like the Matt Thomas of the WWB He a KTRH alum as a matter of fact really? Really? Really Did y'all not know that? I did not know that. Like that's where he started? I did not know there.

Yeah, he was, his real name is Sean Colthard. And he was, yeah, this is, I'm telling you the God's honest truth. Sean Colthard is Michael Cole. C-O-U-L-T-H Arity. He was the K-T-R-H reporter that they sent to Waco during the whole Kresh compound thing many, many, many years. I actually think I've heard him talk about this. I just didn't realize it was K-T-R-H that he was working for. Yep. I remember as a young adult in the business, working at KSV turning on KTRH,

and hearing live from Waco, Sean Colthard, News Radio 740, KTRH. That was him. And look where he is now. Good for him. I'm here with you, and I'm here with you two Dubronies. Sorry, Matt. Time is 213-212-790. We've got some phone callers coming in if you like to join our conversation. 7-13-212-5-790. So when there's no sports, what do we talk about? Hmm, maybe Netflix binge talk.

No, no, no. Kids driving us crazy talk. Yeah, that works. Hand-wash talk. There's a new favorite. What's new on Pornhub Talk? Have you seen the one with the nurse? Oh, sorry.

You should wash your hands. You're dead to pay. The Houston Sports Talk continues on Sports Talk 790. A couple of things I want to mention real quick. Those of you that know that before I got into broadcasting, I decided to be a wrestling update guy on the dial of phone service, and I was Turnbuckle Tom Turner. So if you ever see me in another market under a different name,

it'll be Tom Turner. Probably not Ross with a term turn buckle in front of it. So that'll be my alias. What's something wrestling related and alliterative for Ross? beside rope top rope ross top rope ross um ring rope

Ross uh rasslin ross right like rassland rassolins rassus rassland rassin uh you could be a decent wrestler think so yeah Joe George would you put him as a Intercontinental or United States contender

I think Ross is a tag team guy okay is that good or not It depends. All right. I'd have to hit the weights a little bit. Well, you know, Joe, I'd have to slim down and bulk up. You and Adam Sager would be a tag team.

Call yourself the Windy City Connection. I'm okay with that. That one actually makes sense. I'm a manager. I can't go in there and fight, but I can talk a good game. I got an idea. Are you going to wear like a bedazzled jacket and stuff? Joe, here's all I'll go with here.

This will go over Ross's head. It may be over yours, too, but I don't think so. I'm going to wear a red jacket. with an orange or yellow tie. I'm going to have glasses on, and I'm going to carry a tennis racket around. What do you think? I think that one went over my head.

Sorry, Matt. I thought you knew who Jim Cornett was. That's too bad. All right. Matt said he made like three jokes on Monday night and our Monday night meeting. I didn't get any of them. I could get that.

I could see that. There were references. Was he making like Stanford and sent references? I didn't watch the thing, admittedly, man. I'm sorry. Should I go back and watch it? Yeah, it was good.

It was our highest. We've had two weeks, and we had higher numbers this past week than we had the week before when you were on. Yeah, maybe you should keep me off then. You're back next Monday. Salisbury Superpowers. That's true. Yeah, you're back next Monday, by the way. You don't know this yet.

Speaking of Zoom, I'm going to do an IG video with Kaylee Griffin tonight on the AT&T IG account. You know, they've been doing these rocket rewind games. and they do it at 530 and then we're going to do the IG live at 515 Oh, that's right And Kayla Griffin opened up a forum for questions On her Twitter account That's why I brought this up

Would you please read the question That you posed for Kaylee to ask me tonight at 515 What are your top three episodes of God friended me? Or is it too hard for you to choose? Is it too hard for you to choose? She has no idea what you meant No idea whatsoever Well, I didn't make the joke for her

I don't even follow her I made the joke for you, Matt What's up with Klan's question So you don't like when people say that you're the voice of their childhood? No, he just does it all the time just to do it. And it makes Matt feel old. By the way, I've been recording these Hardwood Classic games on NBA TV. Same.

I have them all sets of record, and I just sift through them after that. Yeah, they had the Dallas Mavericks Rockets game from 1995. This is when Clyde had first joined the Rockets. The Mavericks won the game in triple overtime. I didn't see my face, thank goodness, because I wasn't a very handsome man back then, but I did see what I was wearing. It was a red sweater

with these really, really thick-fonded Rockets emblem across the front in cursive. It was the epitome of 1995. That sounds awesome. You still have that sweater? Probably a little loose on you. It would be a lot loose on me. But point being is that the people in the rockets,

back in the mid-90s, didn't know how to dress me particularly well. Weren't you dressing yourself? We all wore the same thing. There were like four of us in the scorers table. We all wore these obnoxious red sweaters. You all had matching outfits on the scores table? Yeah, we do during the games at home too. Oh, you still do that?

Yeah. I always see you in a Rockets polo. I figure you just tell you to wear any Rockets polo. No, we have two or three different color polos we wear. One's red and black and then what else? we had a white one for a while, but that's gone. So, yeah, it's usually red and black. I didn't know that.

Every time I see you at the arena, I'm like, hey, man, how's it going? I just figure you're wearing just rockets gear because that's what you're supposed to. No, we, no, yeah, we just, we wear specific to, and they said, they scheduled based on what the rockets are wearing that day kind of thing. Oh, okay. The point being is that I've been watching a lot of old Rockets games on these NBA channels and looking to see how gross I was back in the mid-90s. I'm calm down, man. Thank God. I'm what?

They should put you in Rockets jumpsuits, like warm-up jumpsuits. That would be cool. Did you ever see an NBA game in the 80s when the guys would have those big, thick, collared warm-up jerseys? Yeah. Those were the best. The three-point shootout when Larry Bird's wearing his is so good. So good. Those Celtic jerseys, Celtic warm-ups with the word bird on the back, like somebody hand-stitched them on.

Yeah. They need to bring those back. bothered taking off his warm-up jacket. I want a harden one or a Westbrook one just like that. If the NBA was really cool, forgetting about the old-school jerseys, go back to the old-school warm-ups. I mean, go look at any NBA game from, say, 1978 to 89, and these warm-ups the guys were wearing were awesome.

Big collared, long, would go down past their waist. Those were the best. Those were the absolute best. 224 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to get in. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We had a couple of callers hanging tight that dropped. So if you want to call back in, we'll get you right here before we get to the bottom of the hour.

Bottom of the hour, we're going to have our little sports auction because Ross is each giving us 100,000 M.T. Bucks to spend on some sports auction items. And we're going to see how we spend our money and what's important to Joe Ross and myself. And again, if you want to catch me with Kaylee, it'll be on the AT&T Instagram account. I think they're doing it. They call IG Live. We'll do it about 515 this afternoon. That's 515.

Ross, anything else I'm missing in terms of sports headlines today we mentioned the good doctor telling us that baseball and other sports, and to resume. I mentioned Dak Prescott. Yeah, Matt, there's huge sports news that you missed. What is it? The Cleveland Browns change their uniforms. Okay. Change is a strong term. Altered?

Well, they're what they were 20 years ago. Apparently they're what they were five years ago. Yeah. What they wore recently sucked. Horrible orange on top of horrible brown. I saw them today. Yeah, they look exactly this. What did they change exactly?

No, they did make a massive change. Go look at last year's uniforms to what they were today, and they're dramatically different. I think their letters, I think their numbers are white now, right? Whereas... But they also have alternates that have orange on the brown, and then they have brown on white. It looks...

I think they said... I think Sager said they had Cleveland on the front. And they just took that off. Yes. Yeah, good. That's it. No, they're way different. Go look at it.

They're way different to me. Like the main three... Or the main two look like the ones that, like Tim Couch wore when he was on the Browns. That's true. They're the same, but they're just Nike. That's the only, they're just Nike jerseys. Yeah, I mean, they're the ones that the traditional one, the brown top white on white is what Bernie Cozar wore, right? Bernie Testa Verne, Ernest Bynne, of those guys.

The Greats. Yeah, I mean, if there's such a thing as Greats in Cleveland Brown. I mean, I don't know what Jim Brown wore, but I'm assuming it's not nothing they wore now, but that's, you know. If the owners, if the Texans were to change uniform, what would be the number one thing you would change? Do you change the logo? I mean, I think when you announce a jersey change and you add a logo to the back of your jersey above the name like they did last year,

that's just such a huge change. I don't know if you can do it again, Matt. So you're saying that your body would not be able to handle the shock of such another change, like adding an age in front of their jersey name. Oh, that's a big change. They already say Texans on the front. What would they change? I don't care.

Could they change the blue to a baby blue? I actually don't have like a Columbia blue? No, no, no. I know, Matt. Columbia Blue died with the way. Actually, I think a black Texan's jersey would be dope. Oh, really? There's probably something outside the box going black with a jersey.

No, I know, but like the all black Ravens jersey, it's really nice. So if they just didn't all black Texans jersey with like what type of lettering, red? Red? just black and red like red raiders like you know what I like those rush uniforms they wore during Thursday night football

the color rush yeah I like those red numbers blue jerseys permanently yeah those are those are really nice yeah I do like those

can we go back to the could they bring back the original helmet that was never actually released go white helmet I've never seen that at the at the

announcement the original announcement, it was a white helmet instead of a blue helmet. If you look back at pictures. Or it was either the announcement or Yeah, I'm looking at a picture with Robert C. with a white helmet. I like that actually.

And then when it was there and then when the Texans were at the first draft, the year before the Texans became a thing, the Texans white helmet was on the NFC side, not the AFC side. They didn't actually

announce what conference they were in yet. I'd be for that more in the white helmets once a year. Wouldn't that be kind of cool? Yeah, I'm down. Yep, down. I like it a lot, actually. Up next. Joe, Ross, myself.

We have all been given 100,000 M.T. bucks to spend on a special sports auction. Ross will be the auctioneer. We'll spend that money next. It's 229. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. Sports Talk 790. available everywhere with the IHard Radio app. Now number one for podcasting.

Before we go to our sports auction here, we should mention that David Johnson. Is this correct? Joe has passed his physical with the Arizona Cardinals. Is that right? The Houston Texans, yes. Well, yeah, Houston. So, yeah, he has passed his physical, so the trade's done, officially.

Still sucks. Yeah. Any hope that the Texans were going to get more drafts compensations? is now officially over. Go on. Never can justify it. I don't care if the receiving core is deeper. It ain't better.

Maybe deeper, but not better. By the way, Aaron Reese, the athletic believes that Kenny Stills might be the odd man out. I was thinking Kiki Kootie would be the guy that would be worried about making his roster come 2020. Well,

I think Kiki might not make the roster, but Kenny Stills probably has some trade value on draft day. You think there's one too many receivers here? Well, I mean, your top three then would be Cooks, Randall Cobb, and Will Fuller, and then Kenny Stills would be your fourth guy, right? Yeah, but Will Fuller has an IH, right, Ross, so we're not worried about him, per se. So does Cooks and Cobb and Stills. Oh, then he's got to stay there.

No, I agree. I agree. He doesn't have an I-H. He missed some time last year, didn't he? Stills? I think a little bit, yeah. not a history like the other guy but doesn't have no of the history of being gone as much as those guys

nobody's got a history like tomorrow yeah no kidding tomorrow uh bill o'brien's having a zoom meeting with the media on the draft wonderful that'll be at 11 o'clock so i'll be watching that and uh we'll be recording it obviously at the station and playing some of the highlights of that

will it get testy boys will bill o'brien keep his cool will bill o'bill o'brien take a lot of questions about DeShonna Watson. If I gave you odds of Bill O'Brien getting so annoyed he leaves the Zoom meeting before it's supposed to be over, at like a, just like an even odds. Minus 1-10 yes, minus 1-10, no. Bill O'Brien gets so annoyed he leaves the Zoom meeting.

Where would you place your dad? No chance. I don't know. It's so easy now. He can just say it's a technical issue and just be like, I'm dumb with this. See you. he hits the escape key for some un-reason, no known reason, and he calls it technology issues?

Yeah, he's just like leave meeting. Nope, can't do it. He's going to have to leave the meeting when they being the Texans, determine the meeting is over with. Like, it would be very obvious if he got pestered with four or five in a row and he said, look, I'm done with this, goodbye. Now, he might go to the, we're here to talk about the draft. That's a bigger question, Ross.

Will he at some point say, guys, I'm here to talk about the draft, not about the past? Where would you put the odds on that statement or some facsimile of being said in the Zoom meeting tomorrow? We're here to talk about the 2020, Houston Texans. DeAndre Hopkins is a great player, one of the best wide receivers in the league. Sad to see him go, but it was a decision that we had to make best for the team, capital T, capital E, capital A, capital M. but we wish DeAndre the best, but he's not on the 2020 Texans. He's not on our draft board.

So we got to focus on the things that we have in front of us right now. Now that, Joe, is Bill O'Brien thing. That sounds like Bill. That's what I would take. Yeah, I would take a Bill O'Brien says, guys, we're here to talk about the draft, some sort of statement, way quicker than guys I got to leave or guys I got technical issues.

That is a possibility way more so than him, trying to being so mad and so angry he gets out. So that's tomorrow. We'll play a lot of that on the program between noon until three. Ross, you are an auctioneer. What is up for grabs with our 100,000 MT bucks? Well, Matthew, there are a number of things that you can try and get. $1.42.9.

$3.43. Now, $1.43. $1.43 and a high. Now, $1.44. $144.44. $144. $144.4. $1.4.4.

$1.4.4. $1.43 and high now, 44. sold him 143 and a half, 143 and a half. Put them on number 109 on 16, 109 on order 16. And there you go. That was really good. Thank you. I thought I before pretty well myself.

Yes. Okay, so there is this all-in challenge that is put on by fanatics, which is a, I don't know, would you say sports clotheaer? They have or memorabilia or whatever. So they have a number of things that they are putting up for auction. you can either, some of them are done in a lottery system and some of them you can just flat out bid for. So they're all for coronavirus relief efforts

and we were talking about this yesterday with Joe. I don't know when you're going to be able to do some of these because some of them involve going to various sporting events and stuff like that. But let me run through some of these. This is a new one. A walk-on-roll in a Scorsese film with DiCaprio and De Niro. That's a lottery system.

So if you want to buy 10 lottery tickets to that, it's $10. or you can buy... For the sake of us, for the sake of our show here, let's just pretend that all of them are up for action. Okay, let's the three of us auction off a few of these things. Okay, that one wasn't up there yesterday. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Home Opener Invite by Tom Brady is on here. Justin Bieber could sing one less lonely girl at your house, man.

I know you would love that one. Bidding lesson from A-Rod and take home is World Series Trophy. Really? He has a World Series trophy? What do you? Like a, like a replica? Is he going to shoot you with steroids in the middle of this? Is he going to make you kiss him in a mirror? Are you going to have to take home?

Can I take home his picture of himself as a minotaur? A centaur, I mean. That's all added value, my friends. All right, so Ross, this is what we'll do. Let's pick five things, unless the three of us bid them out and see what we want, want them. Five things that you think all three of us would like. Well, Texas football sideline experience with Matthew McConaughey. I'm guessing one of us would like that more than the others.

All right. All right. All right. You open the bid. I'll bid $10,000. We got $100,000 total. I'll be $10,000 total. $100,000 total.

Yep. I go $15. And your bid is, how much again? 10. I'll go up to $15 for that. I'll go $20. Oh, man, you guys are killing me. I'll go $22.

Do you get to play bongos with him afterwards? Sure. Bids at 22, 22, 22, 22. I'm out. I'm tag 25. Joe, it's yours for $22,000. I was trying to drive the price up for Ross. I see that.

I'm bad at this. Okay, walk on roll in a Scorsese film with DiCaprio DeCaprio de Niro. I'll open the bid at... Go ahead. 20,000. Ooh, I'm going to go 25 off the bat. I'm going to get to hang out with some of these models DeCaprio is hanging out with, right? I'll go 30 for me.

30. I'll go 32. Ooh, I'm going 35. 37. Oh, my gosh. 30, 40. Oh, I thought I had it. 42.5.

It's with DeCaprio. I know. And Scorsese and De Niro. And Scorsese. I'm going 45. I'm out. Joe, you want a top 45? No, I'm out.

All right, fine. I went that one. Ross, you spent almost half to be an extra in this movie. That's fine. And I'm hanging out with DeCaprio. So currently Matt has his full 100,000. Ross has 55,000 left, and I have 78,000. All right, golf and dinner with Peyton Manning in your hometown.

25. That can't bid on anything now. 2,501. I'll go 30,000. I'm out. 35. I'm out. I'll go 40.

Wow. 42. I'm out. 42. Yeah, this is because you're going to bring your wife with you, right? Duh. That's why you're doing that one. That's called.

That's hash. Hashtag Christmas present. All right, so I spent $42,000 on golf with Peyton Manning. Dang. I got you. Here we go. Chicago Cubs game day experience with Anthony Rizzo. I'll open it a thousand.

5,000. 6,000. 15,000. Drive it up, Ross. I'll do it. This sounds fun. I'll go 20. All right.

I'll tap it out. That's fine. That's fine. 20 is a good value. for that, I think so. Joe, you've got great value. You're hanging out with McConaughey and Rizzo for a total of $42,000. I know.

Yeah, I've got the same amount of money as you, and I've got two things already. Be in Kevin Hart's next movie. Zero. Zero. I'll drop a five ski on it. All right, I'll bet 50. $5,000. How much are you bidding that?

Zero. I'm not interested in at all. I'll throw a five spot. I'll get 10 on that. 15. 20. Oh, geez. You can have it.

I'm out. Damn, Joe. Matt, you're out, too? All right, throw out the first, I'm out too. Throw out the first pitch of the next World Series. Ooh, ho. Whenever that may be. 10.

10. I'll go 50. I'll go 17.5. Going once? 20. Ooh. What do I have left? I only got 55 left.

I'll pass on that one. You can have it for 20, Matt. I got it for 20. That's good value. I think so. I'm assuming I'm getting tickets, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right, play horse.

I'm a game one of the world series? Play horse and sit court side of the Lakers with Magic Johnson. Hmm. I'll throw a five spot on that. 15. Oh, 15. I'm going 15. 15.

I want to pass. You're going to pass? I've always liked Magic. Yeah, Magic is great. Yeah, 15 is good. You know what, fine. I was 17.5. 20.

Oh, geez. How much money do you have left? He's got 38,000 total. So he's got 18,000 left after his bid. Ross, you got 55. You could knock him out. You could just go 39. I don't want to play a horse with magic that bad.

All right, I'm passing. You can have it, Matt. Damn, that's good value, too. Yeah, that's a good one. Here we have a lot of stuff going on. Mike Mills, 2018, Rolls Roy's Phantom. I mean, Ross, have you. You want, you can take it.

I'm putting 20. I'm putting 20 down on the Rolls Royce. You're out, Matt. You don't have 20. I'll go 21. Wait a minute. What do I have left? I have 18,000?

Oh, I got screwed. I'm not going to Rolls Royce out. I'll go 25 on a Ralee. I'll go 27. Oh, my gosh. Ross, you have 55,000 left. I'll go 30 on the Rolls Royce. I'm out.

I'm out. I don't want to go higher than 30. All right, I'll take a Roli for 30. I got 25 G's left. What's the first thing you got? going to take this Rolls Royce. You're going to take the Rolls Roycee movie. I'm flipping it for 200 Gs.

Let's see. Here we go. Design and call a play at a Philadelphia Eagles preseason game. 18. Yeah, you can have it. I'll just take it. So I'll take it for 19. Oh, here's a good one.

Damn. You just scoot, Matt. That's messed up. Be on the cover of Sports Illustrated. 18. You got 500 left to play with, don't you, Matt? No, he's got 18 total. I thought he had 185.

Oh, 18. I'm taking all 18. I want to be on the cover. To be on the cover, I'll bid 19. Damn it. Take a break. I'm out of money. 245 final segment of the Matt Tom.

His show next on Sports Talk 790. With masks, a case of Lysol, and fruit-flavored hand sanitizer. Mmm, peach. Wait a minute. No, watermelon. Ah, Granny Smith, Apple. Yep. The Houston Sports Talk continues on Sports Talk 7-90. Final segment of the show today, 249 on the Matt Thomas show.

Tomorrow, Bill O'Brien will be speaking to the media via Zoom at 11 o'clock. We'll record that. I have never been a part of a press commerce before where it's done via video. This will be a new thing for us. He can stare at you. You can stare at you. him. I mean, I guess all questions will be up for grabs. I know it's supposed to be a draft

preview, but again, this is the first time he's spoken to us, at least the media, since the trade. I think he'll have a couple of opening statements. He's going to say, guys, I'm here to talk about the draft. What would you say, if we play, what you're talking about Bill? Let's do this ahead of the game, Ross. Okay. What if I asked you,

coach O'Brien, why if this draft pick is so full of great depth that so many positions, why you are so willing to trade as many draft picks as you have done so far? Well, one of the issues with when you're drafting, and that's anybody, even the best drafter in the entire world, you're dealing with a lot of the unknown. There are a lot of factors that go in, and Brandon Cooks is a proven commodity in the National Football League.

Guys who have had over 4,000-yard seasons, scored a lot of touchdowns. Brandon Cooks is a great NFL receiver. So we know we're getting a sure thing in Brandon Cooks, and there's a lot of element of the unknown, and there are a lot of needs on this team, including wide receiver. So you take a guy in Brandon Cooks, who's a great player, good teammate, works hard, and we know what we're getting out of him.

So you're betting on more of a sure thing when you get a guy like Brandon Cook's. Hey, coach, two of your acquisitions, one through trade, one through free agency, has a history of injury, issues in the past. Are you alarmed about that at all? Who you're talking about exactly? Well, we could talk about Brandon Cook's has got three concussions in the last four years or four

in the last five. We kind of lost track of how many concussions he's had. Well, when it comes to those types of things, I mean, look, the National Football League is a violent sport. You have guys that miss games all the time. So, I mean, anytime you're going to acquire a player, I mean, we have guys on our own team. I mean, look at the JJ Watts and those types of guys. I mean, Deshawn Watson went down for a year. You never know you can't predict those types of things, but we do know is that Brandon Cooks and Randall

are two very productive wide receivers and they're going to be a tremendous addition to our offense this year. What about David Johnson? He's got wrist problems apparently. He was on third of the depth chart and you traded away the franchise's best wide receiver for him. Oh, I'm sorry, this is on a draft question. David Johnson is

an absolutely dynamic running back. I mean, what he can do in the running game, what he can do in the passing game. I mean, people forget just a couple years ago, the guy had 10 touchdowns at over 1,400 yards. So David Johnson is a great running back. We're going to get him here. He's going to be healthy. And I think he's just going to be a great addition to our offense and really open it up.

As far as versatility, that's what I like with David Johnson is that he can catch. He can run. He can block. He does everything. He is a complete running back. And we're happy to have him here on the Houston Texans. Next on the Zoom chat is Joe George Radio. Yes, Coach O'Brien, who is your favorite all-time Chicago bear?

I'm sorry, little Joey. You're not supposed to be on this chat. Can you answer the question anyway? Why are you talking like that, Joe? Hey, Bill, what do you think about JJ Woppy and traded to the Bears to be reunited with his wife? All right, you can go ahead and cut that guy off. I don't know who that is. Sorry.

Next question. Hey, Bill, what does buying draft picks mean? Well, it's a concept. Sometimes you will take on a contract or a player that maybe isn't wanted where he is. And one of the ways you can do that, anything in this league is about leverage. All right, you can have players, you can have commodities, you have contracts, you have draft capital. And if somebody has somebody that they're a little bit undesirable to them or there's a new system in place or anything like that, you take on that player. and one of the ways you can leverage taking on certain contracts

or certain players is to also have draft picks come along the way. Next question coming in. Coach, excuse me, tell me about this Jack Easterby guy. What's he like? I'm sorry, who are you? Identify yourself? I'm with the Katie Times. Hey, Bill, I got a question for you.

A good question. The Katie Times. How long have been printing the Katie Times out there? It's a local community newspaper. All right, sorry. What's your question? Jack Easterby. What's he like?

Jack Easterby is a very smart, bright football mind. We're happy to have him. He's loyal. Excuse me. Katie Times here again. He's got no experience in coaching. I'm sorry. I'm trying to talk, Katie Times.

You're lucky you're even on this damn thing, all right? Jack Easterby is a good friend of mine. Jack Easterby is a smart football mind. He's come up, worked with a lot of smart football organizations with the Chiefs, and obviously with the New England Patriots, who thought very highly of him. We were lucky to get away from the New England Patriots, and he's obviously somebody that I can turn to

when we're discussing things and looking at players and just overall, a great human being and a great football mind. Thoughts on the Oilers when they drafted Earl Campbell? Excuse me. Kenny Times here again. What carpet cleaner company should I go with to wrap up the Matt Thomas show? I can't help you with that.

that. All right, we've got wood flooring at my house. Obviously, that's the way that we wanted to go with it. So you'd have to ask my wife, Colleen? Or is it Colleen? Whatever her name is. My wife, she uses a swiffer, sweeper, and that's what we go with. Obviously, you've got to go with the Brazilian wood floors. All right. That's the sampling of tomorrow's press conference. How did the Katie time to get in so many questions? I don't know. Why were they sound so smarty? I don't know. I have an answer for the carpet cleaning it's oops at 281 8220561 get your carpets done the right way with true professionals it will steam clean your home using only the best chemicals to make sure all of that is true steam cleaned 281 8220561 if you have dogs have caused accidents if the rain in the mud in the recent weeks has infiltrated your home if your wife and your kids or yourself have spilled things get your carpets done right especially if you have expensive oriental rugs in your home. 281 822.0561. 281.82-2-0-561. The best carpet cleaning company in Houston is simply

oops. 281, 822-0561. For Ross, for Joe Clyde, for Joe George. I'm Matt Thomas. Thank you so much for listening. We will dissect everything that Bill has on the pre-draft Zoom call tomorrow. We'll start it at noon. Clanton, Wexler, combined are the A-team. And they're up. Up next on Sports Talk, 790.