The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show : GM/HC O'Brien at the Combine

Episode Date: February 25, 2020

The Matt Thomas Show w/ @SportsMT, @SportsRV, and @ProNickLow 2/25/20Death Threats and Boos (10:15)The Kobe Memorial (32:48)Twitter Celebrates Aledmys Diaz getting Hit By Pitch (40:25)Bill O'Brien's Press Conference at The Combine (1:22:42)

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to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Alongside Ross Villaryau, Nick Lowe, our producer, I'm Matt Thomas. It's great to have you with us. Those who are expecting to hear the Astro Spring Training, game? No, you must wait until 7 o'clock tonight. We will not tell you that the Marlins and

Astros are playing baseball right now. We can probably give them the scores, right? Occasion if they have to. A little update here and there? Yeah, we can do that. Spoiler alert. We'll have Ross, we'll have Nick play some sound bites of some baseball chatter in the background, aka booze.

Because apparently it feels like everybody down in West Palm Beach and the greater South Florida area. Hate your beloved Houston Astros. which is not a good thing. But it's fully expected. It's fine. We are here today until 3 o'clock,

where we will get into the Astros and Boeing. We will get into the Rockets' performance against the New York Knickabockers last night. As the Rockets picked up an easy win, and the Rockets, by the way, Rossie, this small ball bit, they're not as small as you think they are. Covington and Green have good wingspans. DeMari Carroll is by no means a,

6-2-219. I mean, as Mike Dan Toney has said, and you can just take it for what it's worth, they're on average a taller basketball team today than they were when Clint Capella was playing in that group. Yeah, and I mean, let me ask you a question. I'll be happy to answer it. Is Robert Covington versus Clint Capella as a low block post defender? Is there a huge drop-off or is Robert Covington right up there with Clint-Clepella? I would say you're not missing that much.

Do you know that Robert Covington, ladies and gentlemen, blocked three shots of Rudy Gobert, just the other night in Salt Lake City. Rudy Gobert is all of seven feet one inch. Are we calling him Rocco, by the way? Or are we just going? I've only done it on the radio broadcast. I've not called him Rocco on the PA.

I've got to find out if he likes that or not. Yeah, we're still waiting for you to find out if Russ likes Brody. You know what? I think he does. I checked on that with one person, and they said, if they were me, that I wouldn't call him Brody on the PA. Speaking of the last night's game, and by the way, we're all happy to have you here. And look, we're going to mix in spring training with our show. So really, every day is going to be a pulpery of excitement on this show of noon to three, right?

Yes. And by the way, the Brody did not play in last night's game. And Eric Gordon missed the fourth quarter, or most of the fourth quarter. with a knee soreness. I don't know what's going on, but his feels like everything south of his groin is not great. CIP?

Injury prone? You mentioned on the post game last night that he had played 75 games his first season here. And then he hasn't played more than 70. Thanks for what you were listening. I tied. I listened to the show. When I know it's you, I listen.

Thank you. I also feed you information occasionally when necessary. Yes, you did because I was very confused why Markief Morris was a waiver claim, but nobody claimed them. The Rockets had a roster spot. It could have claimed if they wanted to. Here's the thing, Ross.

The rotation is already 10 deep as it is. You had Eric makes 11? I mean, there are going to be some guys that are getting some minutes here and there that are not going to be getting minutes come playoff time. Okay, so what was second before? You got me off train of thought.

Eric Gordon, is he injury prone? He probably would say he's more injured than he'd like to be. That's not an answer. Okay, then when I think of injury, prone. And see, Eric's a good friend of mine. This is in part. I'm putting you in a bad spot. I did that on purpose. Let's move on. You don't have to answer. He's such a good friend of mine that I cannot

do this. I saw everybody, they were focused on you on the arena. You guys were chatting about something and having a good laugh. You had a full gaffa going. I meant to text you and ask you what you were talking about because the conversation was on display. I figured it was something you couldn't mention. There's no chance of all I'll mention

when I talked with Eric Gordon about. You'll have to me later because the entire world could see you guys talking and laughing about something. I will tell you that on the internet-only version of the Matt Thomas show, you would love to find out what we were talking about. Okay, so back to, oh, what was it? You know what was last night? Beyond the fact that they're not good at all. Beyond the fact that I don't know what they were trying to do defensively, but every time James Hardin thought he could go from the free throw line in, there was a clear path. It was a layup drill. It was an invisible man guarding him.

He was a literal layup drill for James Arden last night. So last night, and actually not so much last night, it was like last day. These Travis Scott bobbleheads, people were losing their minds over it. Oh, apparently folks were starting to line up at the TOTA Center at 11 o'clock in the morning for these things. There were 3,000 that were given away. Travis was there. Apparently he liked them. He said they were dope.

Were they fresh? But they love them. And people were like, it was like holding a baby. They could, and I don't know, have you checked in the open market if anybody's gone to eBay to try to sell theirs already? I bet you. I could almost guarantee you. Find out what, if you can go look real quick.

And then we'll try to play the range game. Don't look at this, Nick. And Nick, you and I will gauge what the first one you find, what you can buy it for. Okay. You got one? I've got several already for sale. Okay, give me the median, just a real fast, five-second glance of the median price of a Travis Scott Bottlehead yesterday.

You want to tell you what it is? Yeah, no, we're going to, Nick and I are going to guess. Okay, go ahead and guess. And we're the closest without going over, aka Price's Right Rules. Nick, would you like to go first? You want me to go first? I'll go first. I'll say $17.

$150. Matt is closer. I see one for 45. Most of them are around $200 to $300. Good Lord. Some are about $150. One has a buy-it-now price of $400. I'm out.

Remember you just said, before I did this, you were like, you think you could find one? Look at this. Y'all would be ashamed to yourselves. I see at least $50 for sale right now. Have you ever, either of you ever bought a bobblehead off the internet? No. I don't collect them so I'm taking myself out of that.

I never bought a bubblehead anywhere. $350, $750. $700, $700 your best offer. These people are not setting the market well. These people are nuts. They waited outside for multiple hours. I don't think if you got there at 530, you got one. The $45 one is you have to bid, and it's got six days left on bidding.

So that'll go way up. Point being is this, why did you do it? If you love Travis Scott, I mean, is there an investment out there that says, hey, go wait outside stadiums for bobbleheads and turn a massive profit on these things? If you love Travis Scott, which obviously a lot of people in Houston do, you go and you wait in the line because you got one and nobody else does. There's 3,000 them out there and you got it. Don't go out there and try to turn a profit for it. It's shameful, I tell you.

Shameful. Try to get that cash money, Matt. Well, that's why people are lined up from 11 o'clock. You think that's the reason why? So you're telling me if you and I went out there at 11 o'clock yesterday and asked 100 people what they're doing with them. You're telling me more than half would say it because I'm running to eBay as soon as I grab it? I would say like 30 of them. Okay.

So that's actually a minority then. That's a fairly good minority. 30% of the people are out for profits. Are out for profits. All right. So here's what I got on the show today. We want to visit with you at 713-1-2-125. It's been a while.

We had lots of guests on last week from West Palm Beach. The reaction, frankly, is not surprising what Astro, they're running into when they're in these spring training games. And it's going to continue to happen throughout the sprint training and the regular season. Do you believe it when they say that the guys don't hear it? No. I'll explain why in a moment, why you shouldn't believe them. Also, Bill O'Brien's going to speak today at 2 o'clock. Yay.

Sell it a little bit harder. Don't sell it. Yay? In the 1 o'clock hour, we're going to play a game called guess what Bill O'Brien's going to be asked. Okay. And you have a sounder for this? Yep. Got one.

Go for it. Play it. What you do, ma'am. What you're doing, ma'am. What you're job, ma'am. What they might ask general manager, head coach, and play Calibal Bill O'Brien. Hmm. That's why you're the third best producer in the business.

Wow. Rosh, you never would have thought of that ahead of time. Yeah, maybe early my career. You know when Sabrina gets involved. Maybe earlier in my career before I got disenchanted with this place. Twelve minutes past the hour of 12. It is about. Thomas show on Sports Talk 790.

If you'd like to join our conversation, 713, 2125, 790. Again, Bill O'Brien will speak at 2 o'clock. We got Astros on the brain. We have rockets on the brain. We have Travis Scott bobbleheads in a brain. And if you're selling your bobblehead, call under an alias. Oh, I like that. Call.

eBay user X. Yeah. Call under an alias at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Our time is 12.12. It is the Matt Thomas show, and we appreciate you listen to Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas now on Sports Talk 790. Oh, oh. 11 Ms. Diaz got hit by a pitch. Wait, he wasn't even on the 17 team.

Yeah, but it's just easier to say, uh-oh, and bring back some grandiose over-the-top kind of conversation piece. He got hit by Jose Ureña, Urina. Not to be confused with Jose Orkitti. Correct. Of the Miami Marlins. This is our first day back on the air since we went down there. Were you surprised by anything? The Friday stuff was interesting about how the players were talking about death threats.

And I've been asked a lot about that with my family, with my friends. I went on a couple of radio shows. Unfortunately, I believe death threats. As sick as this may sound, probably are somewhat common in sports among highly volatile athletes? Yeah. I mean, it is what it is. Yeah, you're making that statement, is it wrong or incorrect? I mean, my guess is one of the sweetest men in America.

Cal Ripkin's been threatened by death. I mean, I'm saying. I don't, I don't, obviously there are a lot of angry, upset people in America. Would they have said as vicious of things like to Josh Redick's kids? probably not. But I'm not going to let one keyboard warrior spread over, condemn an entire fan base of America that love baseball. Yeah, maybe I'm just desensitized as well because, I mean, hearing that Carlos Correa or Josh Redick and all them saying that they've gotten death threats, that didn't shock or surprise me at all. No. Because it's easy to death threats. I mean,

Gail King got death threats when Snoop went after her. And by the way, did you see that just the other day, Snoop apologized to her? Oh, did he good? Because Snoop was like, we're going to come after you. Well, it was, um, some other actress was up there on a TV show with him and said, you scared me when you talked like that. And he was like, I forgot who the woman's name was. Um, it was an actress. Oh, Jada Pinkett Smith. Okay. Jada basically, I'm paraphrasing her saying, Snoop, that wasn't you. I was scared when you were talking like that. And Snoop, I've never seen Snoop so remorseful in my life. I know that he's ever been remorseful. on camera to begin with, but he's like, I was wrong, I attacked, or I didn't mean to do that.

That's the thing is that we, we as Americans, we as people on television and radio and music and social media, we just can't run fast enough to tell you how disgusted we are about something. And then 48, 72 hours later, we back off of it a little bit or we realize the mistakes we've had. So, you know... It's almost like we need a cooling off period. Well, yeah. Because what we you know what do entertainers do when they see something that's wrong the first thing is they go run to their Instagram account and they film it or they do you know what I'm saying they they do something to try to get that immediate reaction.

Funky dog hit. Yeah. If you're snoop dog you put on your grandma's scarf and you put it around your head and you start making videos where you're cursing out Gail King. Yeah. And that's the thing about radio is that we are live almost all. the time. Very few times on the show where you hear a pre-recorded segment, maybe with an interview of something we recorded ahead of time. But most of the time when you guys hear us, we have about a seven second difference, seven, eight seconds to spare. If we wanted to change

our opinion about something, it'd be hard to do that. So that's why you have, when you have a microphone in front of you, you bear a large responsibility because sometimes you may say things you don't mean to say or you're just trying to say them half cocked, and then you can't apologize for them later because there's no way to erase that. Where if you're typing something, you're, you're something. If you're a newspaper columnist, you have a chance to read ahead of time what you're saying before you put it out there. And that's why I don't give newspaper people as much of the benefit of the doubt as I do say live television or radio personalities. Yeah, I think that's fair. All right. So they're booing them down in Florida, to no surprise. There were a little bit of

death threats on it. They forgot to boo Cameron Maven yesterday. I guess they entirely forgot he was on the team. And Jake Moriznick. Who went deep, by the way, for the the Mets. Juice ball and spring training already, Ross? Trying to get offensive numbers punched up a little bit? Do you think so? No, I don't. To distract?

I don't think of it. Ask Justin Verlander, what do he thinks? No, it's funny. Justin's going to be pretty quiet this year, I think. You think so? I think the Astro Clubhouse, for the most part, it's going to be a lot quieter about anything baseball related. Because if you, if there is something that bothers one of the veteran players,

and there are very few veterans on that squad, they're older players, but not like season veterans, they're going, if Justin goes on to Twitter at any, point and argues about anything about baseball. He's going to get ratioed immediately. That's true. Immediately. 713-212-5-790.

If you'd like to join our show today, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We'll get to some rockets coming up. We'll get to Bill O'Brien's press conference at 2 o'clock today. In the 1 o'clock hour, we're going to try to guess questions that should be asked of Bill O'Brien in what you're talking about, what you're talking about, head coach, gentleman offensive coordinator, sort of, play caller, challenger, head pooh-bah. And probably, my guess is Cal gave him 25% of the team. He's asked for everything, Ross.

No. Maybe it's like 5%. You mean to tell me if Cal, if Bill O'Brien walked in, say, Cal, wake up. Because, you know, Cal comes across the guy that's on his desk with a little bit of drooled on the side. He's like, oh, I love you. I love you. who like Dukes of Hazard reruns on the TV? Yeah, he's got Dukes of Hazard Reruns.

He's got like a pinup photo calendar of Jessica Simpson before she gained all the weight. I mean, you know. She lost it back, right? Lost it back. Yeah, she's... Or she's fluctuated. She looks great. Okay.

She also wrote a book. My wife wanted to buy it at the airport. It's like $28. I'm like, if you want to talk, if you want Jessica Simpson stuff that bad, spend $28 to try to find her phone number. I think there's a little bit of markup at the old Hudson News, Matt. Just take her to half-price books. Yeah, I don't go on the airport.

I think airport book buying is not a good idea. And wait, did she write it or did she have it ghost written? She probably had a ghost written. Thank you. Yeah, because she thought tuna was the chicken of the sea. No, wait a minute. When somebody ghosts write something, what does that mean? That means you pay someone to write your book for you.

Yeah. Okay, but this would be a biography, not an autobiography. Yeah, but they don't know. You just have a ghost writer. But I bet you the woman's name's on there. Go look at the copy of it, Nick, before I'm what they called? It's probably with whoever. Yeah.

When I write the book, my book, it's going to be Matt Thomas with somebody. I'm not doing the heavy lifting. I'll write your book for a fee. I need an advance. A hefty advance. Would you ever get that book done in time? Yeah. I work great under deadlines.

You've seen the believe it or not. That's true. David and Las Vegas at 1225. David, good afternoon. David. Good afternoon. Good news to you in sports 70. How's everything out there?

We're good. Ross and I are going to Lake Charles. We're out of the show today. We're going to go get our Las Vegas pre-end. going. Play a game of chance. That's very good. Speaking of games of chance or skill, I lost a bet.

I made a gadget bet on the Rockets game on Saturday, and I want to understand why this is happening. The bet I made was that Rudy Gobert would score, would be over on his points and rebounds against our small rocket Librar. And one and nothing of the kind happened. They only had to be a little over the season average to win that prop bet, and lost miserably. And, you know, and I see the Knicks Bigman didn't do much of anything either.

It's part of the Rockets game that I don't understand why it's working so well. I understand what people have been saying, and the guys in the trenches and stuff were wrapping us up pretty well yesterday. You know, other teams, yeah, we have to worry about how we're going to attack the teams' Big Men with a small lineup. But the fact is they have to worry about how they're going to attack our fast small how they're going to defend our fast small lineup, too. And that's been working for us.

I understand that side of the ball. I understand our guards can penetrate and do all these fantastic things, and that's a challenge for other teams. But on the other side of the ball, how are we containing even the league's best centers, and I consider Rudy Gobert, one of those. There's a productive. How are we slowing them down with this lineup?

I haven't been able to see the games. They haven't been on national television, and I've missed the last few telecast. Help me out. Yeah, I will, David. Thank you for the phone call. I got news for you. Rudy Gobert has no offensive skills.

Zero. He dunks the ball. In fact, Ross, you can argue, you tell me if I'm right or wrong. I think Clint Copella has more offensive game than Rudy Gobert does. Tell me, I'm lying. Yeah, that's saying, like, which one of us is a better sharpshooter from the three-point line? He doesn't have any skill. Now, he's 7-1, block shots, finishes around the basket, Allie Oops, but there's nothing outside of

three feet from him. So if you bring him out, from a defensive standpoint, I think it, I think indirectly it brings him out of the offensive. It gets him out of his comfort zone. They don't run place for him. The Rockets don't have to worry about him. And the fact is, the Rockets have really, in the last three years, even with Clint Capella in the lineup or without, Yokic has been just ordinary and Gobert has been held in check. The Rocket has its worst problems, frankly, had been against Draymond Green, who is that smaller

five move around guy, you know, like kind of what PJ and Robert Covington are doing right now for the Rockets. Yeah, I mean, Draymond Green's a really good playmaker as well. Maybe he's starting to fall off a little bit. As far as one of the things that would be the solution to this small ball lineup for the Rockets

would be some guy that you can pound it down low and he can run post-ups and he can be effective at that. And that last part is what you don't necessarily see in 2020 in the NBA. It's basically, as far as guys who post up a lot and who are effective, it's Joel Embed, and there's a huge gulf,

and then it's a little bit of Nicola Yokic and a lot of the Lakers mixed in. Yeah, even those guys aren't that great. I mean, Anthony Davis's numbers, points per possession aren't very good in the post. So, I mean, it's just the way the league is in 2020, there's not a lot of guys who can pound it down low.

Now, if the rockets were going to go up against Prime Hakeem Elijah one or Shaq, I'd be concerned. But that guy's not in this NBA in 2020. It's just not. Yo, this is Bunby. And my wife is the biggest fan of the whitest man in America. Matt Thomas.

Rackleckleck. Rackett. Ratchett. Is that good or bad, Ross? Ratchet. It's not a really good thing, but it's one of those things you could flip and say it's cool, I guess. Ratch just means like... If Bunby's called me...

How about a go to Urban Dictionary for you? And we have to... and get the official definition of Ratchet. I have a Jessica Simpson update, by the way. Oh, yeah, who wrote the book? It is by Jessica Simpson and Kevin Carr O'Leary, who also wrote Stormy Daniels, full disclosure. Damn, he's getting some... Ratchet is a ghetto dialect mispronunciation of the English term Ratchet.

This is according to Urban Dictionary.com. Sure. Would you like to use it in a sentence? Why not? Old girl with her hoochy-ass clothes too tight And her tracks down in her scraggly ass weave With her fake-ass Gucci bag Think she cute

She ratchet Oh, so it's not the most kind term out there But Bunby likes to be so I'm happy about that I think he does We know he knows his wife, queen he does Big, she's a big 12 to 3 supporter Well Bunby's been on the trenches show A couple of times recently

Yeah, it's like co-hosting with ND All right, so we're gonna go buy the How much is Jessica Simpson book right now? Yeah, good questions, find out My guess is, again... It's not going to be $28, regular market. You were pigeonholed into the Hudson News. Well, she didn't buy it, so it cost me zero, so I was very happy about that.

What's it called? It's called Open Book, I believe. Apparently, she was... 1774 on Amazon. What? So the airport's charging $10 more? Yes. If you just want it on Kindle, you can get it for $15.

Ooh, autographed edition, $48. You might want to spring for that as a birthday coming up. But the Kendall doesn't have the photos, right? I mean, she was hot and Duke's a What photos are you looking for? Duke's, I had a little thing for Jessica Simpson. For sure. She was one of the, yeah, she was top of the line.

She was 2000s goat. Yeah. She's on the list. She had that show with Nick Lachey when they were married before. Yes. She thought that tuna was chicken of the sea. It didn't do a lot for her IQ, but I don't think I was really spending time looking for that.

Yeah, that's fine. We're not asking her to solve world peace. She's not married to an NFL, an ex-NFL player, I want to say, right, from the Niners? Is that right? I don't know. And they got a bunch of kids, yeah. But yeah, she had her issues. But I'm not a book reader. I mean, the books I purchased in the last five years are quite embarrassing.

Neither is Jessica Simpson. What, various. Did Bob Barker write a memoir? I'm sure you've got that. No. What's it called? In the last 10 years, here's our books that I have purchased in no particular order. Bought the Jerry Springer book.

Oh, my gosh. bought the... Montel Williams write a book? Bought the Jose Kinseenko book. What? Yeah, that was actually an incredibly interesting read.

Hulk Hogan's book. And Kim and I shared the Tory spelling book. Geez. Any of the Housewives write a book that you need to buy? No. You're looking forward to it, though, right?

No, we ran into a housewife. If Gretchen writes a book, you're going to buy that. I don't think... I'd buy, like, a calendar shoot, but that wouldn't be a book, no. We ran into a housewives daughter in Durham, North Carolina a couple weeks back. Okay. And that's, we'll conclude today's editions of Housewives' conversation for the show.

I'm just saying, Ross, when you ever get married, provided that you do, you will wind up watching shows that you will not publicly want to tell anybody. That will not happen. I tell people. That'll be part of the deal. Because I'm open and honest on this radio show. If I get married, there's going to be a set of rules. Oh, really?

I want to hear this. Yeah, there's going to be, well, you have your wing in the house. I have my wing in the house. I'll see you at dinner. So basically you're going to live in two separate parts of the house. Yeah. Only during wake-up time. Or she can have the garage apartment.

Really? Oh, my gosh. That's funny. You're putting her in the garage apartment. Okay. I see where you're going on that. 713-212-5-7-9. If you'd like to join our radio show today.

You hear this married guys? That's why sports RVs in his early 30s. I don't care. Call my bluff. I'll die alone. I'm all right with it. I'll be there for you. Nick,

will you be there for Ross when he passes? Yeah, I'll show up. Is there going to be free food? Oh, absolutely. Oh, for sure. My funeral has to be a party. Please just hold me to. That's what everybody says.

No, I want you all to have a party. There's no chance. Why not? We're going to cry when you die. Why? It's not that big of a deal. We're all going to die. I've worked with you for 10 years.

I'm going to share a few tears. Oh, I appreciate that. But I don't speak well. I don't know if you want me on the stage, though. Yeah, I keep my secrets. That's true. You do have a few. 713-21-2-5-7-90 if you'd like to get in on the program.

7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Ross, I'm about to tell you something that may anger the die-hard football fans of the audience. I'm not a Combine watcher. You're not? No. Sean and Michael and the morning crew were having this conversation about whether or not it's fair to sit there and watch somebody's 40 time and high jump and measurable hand. Like Joe Burroughs getting crushed.

Because he has nine inch. Because he got small hands. His hands are nine inches. Right? Yeah. What's the average size hand? I think for NFL quarterbacks, they want it, I think it's like nine and a half or ten or something. Okay.

So he's a half inch off. When you watch Joe Burrow play for LSU last year, did you think to yourself, this kid's going to be a good NFL quarterback. Yes. Now, I'm not saying he's going to throw for 4,500 yards and 40 touchdowns. But the body of work running that LSU offense last year, it looked like to me that's a young man who can play in the National Football League. So you're telling me his hand measurement is going to put him in a category of, oh, my gosh,

I don't think this guy can do it. What are Drew Breeze's hand size? I, we can probably find that out. Is Deshawn Watson have exceptionally long hands? I think the metrics in the NFL on the hand size. Nine and three quarters for Deshawn Watson. Okay. Ten and a quarter.

Ten inches and one quarter inch for Drew Breeze. Oh, give me 11 inches. Just thought I'd sneak that in there. Not necessary. So apparently Drew Breeze has very large hands. He's got large hands and he's not even six feet, right? Yeah. So he's disproportionate.

Something like that. But point being is this, are you really NFL critics and scouts and teams going to shy away from the best quarterback in the college football? He's still going number one overall. It's just a piece of information. But it's stupid information. I mean, if you want to say he's slow, like he can't run. and his escapeability is an issue, and he doesn't have a lot of chest and arm strength.

That's one thing, Ross. But this kid did everything and then some to be a successful national championship quarterback that looked the part, that acted like the part, that looked like a guy that could take over a program and help a woeful organization like the Cincinnati Bengals. And you're telling me this kid's hand size is going to be a number one reason why

that people should raise a raise a reason. red flag on this guy? He's nuts. He's still going to go number one. It's not going to affect his draft stock that much at all. Then why is every story I'm reading about the Combine about his damn hand size? Because it's a piece of information. And it's slow. What else is going on the NFL? That's why

again, you absolutely have to be very careful about what you read and what you watch on the NFL Combi. I think for offensive linemen, I think side to side speed is very important. Yeah, they've do

hand size as well for lineman and arm link all that stuff is important. I think weightlifting and any sort of that kind of thing is important because it's going to show, it's going to give you a tendency of what this person did in preparation for this time. Yeah, it's all a matter of context and how you want to use it. Remember Kevin Durant came out

and he couldn't do the 225 pounds on the bench press once? Right. And everybody's freaking out. Colin Cowherd went on his show. I think we might even have that audio from back of the day. Colin Coward went on his show and said Kevin Durant wasn't going to be anything in the NBA because he couldn't bench press 225 pounds, which is just absurd.

And so, yeah, we can say we can come up with these things and hands and all that. You have it? Oh, nice. I think I got it. Okay, well, yeah, let's listen to Colin Cowher talking about how Kevin Durant isn't going to do anything because he can't bench press. Only one player in the pre-draft camp was unable to bench even 185 pounds. Kevin Durant.

Come on. That is brutal. Greg Oden is faster than Durant in the three-quarter court sprint. He is quicker than Durant in the lane agility drill and has better numbers in the running and standing vertical jumps. Oh, it's not even close. The big guy has a much better body and is faster and quicker and more agile than the winning. wing guy? Okay, draft over. Portland's taking Greg Oden. Can't bench 185 pounds. One guy

couldn't bench a buck 85. Well, it doesn't matter. Yes, it does. It's a physical league. It's a long, long, eight-month season. Oh, no. You're telling me I can draft just another wing guy, just another guy. You know, he's got Antonio McDice written all over. He'll be a good player, but he's just another wing guy. Or I can get a guy who literally's got the most freakish physical attributes ever for an NBA big man. He's a wing guy who can't bench press a buck 85. Sheesh. One 85.

That's a curl for me. Hello. That barely gets a swallon for a guy like me. That's that's embarrassing. Kevin, your girlfriend play? Oh, sheesh. Body bag that guy. Colin Coward.

Good one, Colin. By the way, every night, as the Rockets continue to win and move up the Western Conference standings, there is the tweet that's out there, Colin believing the Rockets are not going to. And I like Colin, too. That's a hard problem is that my son likes Colin Coward as a host, but he likes me. He's got very bad taste in a number of things. I probably so. 1244.

It's a Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. Never ever get rid of that. Antonio McDice written all. And he's got Antonio McDice written all over him. 713-21-2-5-790 7-13-21-2-5-70 you know my greatest mistake with my extreme draft analysis and we'll revisit that when we come back Matt Thomas continues on sports talk 790 1249 on sports talk 790 how much of the Kobe Bryant celebration of life did you catch I saw highlights only I was out with my mother yesterday when I also running

of Marians as well. I listened to quite a bit of it, actually, on the Sirius XM. They have an NBA channel. They carry the audio coverage of it. From what I gathered, and again, I just caught bits and pieces of it, probably the most startling thing of it all was how forthcoming Michael Jordan was about a relationship with Kobe Bryant. Yes. Talked about how close they were, and a lot of people didn't know.

I didn't know how close they were and how much of their relationship had grown and all that type of stuff. He liked them as a little brother and just, and just start crying his eyes out. And I think that's because Michael never let us get into Michael's life. He was very private about his father's passing, very private about his marital life, very private about really anything beyond just the game itself. So, yeah, I'm not surprised that Michael went up there.

What I was surprised about was how forthcoming he was about his relationship. Shack had the line We've leaped it out This is 36 seconds of the stuff that made everybody really chuckle yesterday in Los Angeles The day Kobe gave my respect was The guys were complaining She said, Kobe's not passing the ball

I said, I'll talk to him I said Kobe There's no I in team And Kobe said I know but there's an Mee and that m- So I went back in turn Rick and Big Shot Bobba said, just get the rebound. He's not passing. And how about James, Russ, and PJ being there?

I'm going to presume, and I didn't talk to him about it, but my guess they were there for 90% of the funeral yesterday, or not the funeral, with the memorial service, jump on a plane, fly, what, 1300 miles, get to Houston like at 6 at the arena by 630, games 710, and then James puts 37 points up. Yeah. It's crazy.

but it was the Knicks. Yeah. Mark Berman, not our Mark Berman, but Mark Berman, who covers the Nicks, I think, for one of the New York papers is like, maybe the Knicks hold the chance of those guys don't show up and everyone's like, he got ratioed badly. That was one of the worst ratios I'd ever seen. It was at like three retweets and 150-something replies when I saw you tweeted. Yeah, he didn't do well. Not well at all.

I actually don't really have a huge problem with that tweet. If you're just thinking Nick-centric, you're like, okay, well, you know, it's unfortunate, but maybe that Dix will have a chance if all these guys miss the game. Well, in reality. That's what we'd be thinking out loud. And let's think out loud for a second. Yeah. If the Rockets were playing a really, really good opponent, would they have made the Uber-fast progression to get to the airport and fly it in town?

I mean, I think they would have tried. I think it was important for those three guys to be there. Would have Russ played? I mean, and there was a sort of thumb at 630 or whatever. it was. But PJ didn't play a lot because, frankly, he's got, he's got depth now. You get 24, he only played 24 minutes and change, like 24-51. And that is a direct result of having Jeff Green on this team, Robert Covington on this team,

Damari Carroll, who played quite a bit yesterday. Those are all similar oak-type players. Rossi, this is a team that is 6'9 and below. Isaiah Hartnstein is not taking the court anymore for the Rockets this year. That's a shame. he can go dominate for the vipers. He can go for back-to-back G-League finals MVP.

In reality, he probably needs to find a new basketball team. There just hasn't been enough faith in that young man to get any sort of rotation minutes. That Berman tweet has been deleted, by the way. Did it really? Yeah. Yeah. And look, I'm by means a controversial tweet or all.

I just, it doesn't do any good to go in there and try to do that way. But you kind of know if you have 600 reports. repeats or reply saying delete this bro what the hell's wrong with you you probably maybe i made a misstep you might want to take a loss on that yeah it's like my phone my phone on my camera on my uh lens on my camera phone i try to clean it every single day it isn't working so i take a picture of i think it was greening carol yes or coming somebody was sitting in my spot at court's side and took a photo of it with a light shining right on us and there's a little bit of smudge. And there's a little bit of smudge.

Instead of saying, oh, that's cool having two guys right there. The new new rock is, clean your lens, Matt. So I'm like, you know what? First of all, I'm going to triple clean my lens from here and out. And then if I don't absolutely 100% approve of the photo, I'm not putting out there because I don't want to get ratioed. I try to lead a ratio-free life on Twitter, Ross. One guy said it was just taken on a flip phone. Ouch. Well, he's about to get blocked, whoever that is.

I don't got time for that. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-8 we have no idea what the score is in the astros Marlins game because they're having issues their AT&T folks are just happy to have the game on the air there are there is no graphics uh my guess is you know you know how you have things burn out like a you know if a power surge and only certain things in your house are working that's probably what happened in west palm beach by the way there's nobody there yeah looks pretty low attended I mean and it's not because I don't think the Astro. I think it's midweek. It's the Marlins. Yeah. And it's West Palm. West Palm Beach is right now, you guys got to take it my advice. We've got to go down to Florida. Check it out yourself. Stay in the Lauderdale, West Palm, area. Go to the Palm Beaches.com. Check out some of the restaurants we went to, including a Mexican restaurant that gets the order wrong every single time. Well, yeah. We didn't have the greatest waitress ever. But they tried. She was, she tried. Then the food was good. I'm solid.

All right. Second hour of the show will feature a little more on the Rockets, a little bit more on the Astros. And Ross and Nick and I are going to try to guess what questions will be asked of the Astros. The Texans. We need a definitive term for him. The chairman. But that's Bob. That's Cal.

Cal is a chairman now, right? President. Emperor? Prime Minister. I like Emperor. Texans Emperor Bill O'Brien The Texans emperor Emperor

Emperor Bill O'Brien You want me to change the sounder to Emperor Bill O'Brien? I can do that. Let me think about this a little bit and see, but I just want to call him I still like teapot. Teapot is nice.

The official Texan's teapot. Texan's teapot. Yeah, he's a Texan's teapot is what he is. One o'clock on Sports Talk 7. 9. Good afternoon to you. The Astros are down to the Marlins 2-0. They're running the top of the fourth inning already.

Well, they're moving along there in West Palm Beach. By the way, Astroline tonight will feature Dusty Baker at 6 o'clock. Ross, we like ourselves from Dusty Baker. Don't know if we're going to love every one of his managerial decisions, but we're going to love the fact that he is a great storyteller, very not focused. but doesn't look like he's going to, anything's going to really rattle him. Yeah, I think he'll be fine.

I think he was a great hire for this situation and for what the Astros need and for how talented they are and especially retaining Joe Espada so he can run a lot of the day to day. And then Dusty Baker being, I mean, I don't want to call him a figurehead, but making the final say on some things. He's going to make the final decision on some things about whether or now he pulls a pitcher, because that's what managers do. pinch hitting certainly could be in play, although he probably will get some advice from his bench coach.

But yeah, I think, and it's hard to put a percentage on this, but being down there in Florida like we were the last handful of days, it feels like 75% of the job that he was able to get was because of the fact that Dust is going to be very difficult for him to come unglued, for him to become nervous, to not have the right answer on things. And friend of the show, Jared Hughes is pitching right now. Did he sprint out there from the outfield?

I didn't get to see. Probably. We are rooting for Jared Hughes, correct? And also, can I say something, Matt, about this Twitter account that I just saw? Okay. Is it going to be more impactful than what Garrett Cole said about the Astros? It's just Astros related. Go ahead.

Take me five seconds. Please do. There's this Twitter account called Astros. Shamed Tour that has almost 3,000 followers and they're already got video up

of a Ledmus Diaz getting bean so they're celebrating a Ledmus Diaz getting beaned by whoever Irina who was his name, Jose or I don't remember it doesn't matter

of the Marlins and people in the mentions are thinking this is retaliation for the Astros cheating scandal and they're celebrating it here's a problem we're not on a national show

right we're preaching to the choir what I'm about to do a little preaching. Damn it, you put me in the pulpit. Here we go. Listen, baseball fan. The Astros cheated. They didn't sort of cheat.

They didn't cheat once. They super cheated. And if you want to put an asterisk by the 2017 World Series Championship, I cannot stop you from doing that. I cannot stop the shame in the fact that they're going to be booed in every major Lake City they go to, really with the exception of Boston, because Boston should be getting the hammer sometime soon. But for you to boo Yordon Alvarez and Elimaz Diaz and anybody else associated with the 2019 and now 2020 Houston Astros and saying, we got scoreboard, makes you

really stupid. Rossi, I'm growing to hate the detractors. I'm growing. I'm growing to hate Dodger fan who's going to run to Anaheim in about a month and boo the Astros. I'm growing to hate national baseball writer guy. The Astros are going to have to take their medicine, certainly this year, and probably for a long period of time. Rossi, this probably isn't going to go away forever. It will dissipate. there will be not this outrage by baseball Twitter person and by 146 postseason hitter guy,

but it's probably never going to go away. This is so pronounced. It is so obvious what they did. It is so devastating to an image of a baseball team at won a World Series. But don't create storylines. Don't add the storylines that, first of all, aren't there, and B, don't make sense to the 2000. 2017 narrative.

And that's what you're doing baseball Twitter dude when you are showing video of a Miami Marlin hitting a Limas Diaz and putting it on your Twitter account. You are stupid. Let the hate flow through you. And as my good friend said, Big Poppy David Ortiz, if not for someone who claimed the ring,

who celebrated with his team, this would not have happened at all, right, Big Poppy? The snitch? He's not a snitch. He thinks Mike's not already yet. Yeah, okay. Big Poppy's very busy.

It'd have been a very great way to add on to this. You know what I'm saying, Ross? I mean, seriously. Let's confine this. Let's act like you do know what you're talking about baseball fan because right now when you are happy for Lynn Ms. Diaz, it doesn't make you look particularly bright. And Ross, this is not our right.

responsibility. When we are Houston sports host, it's not our job to defend the Houston Astros. It's our job to say, you know what? Attack those that need to be attacked. Boo who you need to boo. But boo the relevant people. In fact, maybe Jose Al-Tube is taking too much booing and maybe he was never involved in it. He has literally taken one for the team. And yesterday in the game against, I think they're playing the Tigers in Lakeland, he was booed. I mean, They were roaring in him.

So when he says I'm not listening to it, I hope he's telling the truth. Because he wouldn't want to hear it because he's going to get attacked. Because there's a certain segment of the population that believes the buzzer bit is a really buzzer bit. I just find it interesting how much people are getting obsessive about this and going a little bit over the top. And, I mean, making a Twitter account where you're actively tweeting out and finding, I mean, a Ledmas Diaz getting hit in a spring training game, That's what's really getting your rocks off right now. Ledmus Diaz wasn't with the Astros in 17 or 18.

And by the way, and this is what our ATX Hoborgers put on Twitter. They cheered Jake Mariznick yesterday for a home run for the New York Mets. Jake's probably involved on this. Yeah. Jake was a part of the 17 team. He talked about it. Now, granted, he was hurt, I think, for most of the postseason, right? He didn't play in the postseason.

That's why they picked up Cameron, maybe. Yeah. But he was a part of the regular season team. Yes, he was. So why does Met fan cheer Jake Mariznick when sneaky snake, Jake, very well could have been taking those signs.

Well, the answer is simple, Matt. Because they're idiots. So here's the truth, ladies and gentlemen. We smart. They stupid. Yes. At least we're consistent.

We were cheering them before they were cheaters. We're going to cheer them after their cheaters, Matt. We're going to cheer them all. And by the way, we're going to crush them for doing what they did. We got zero problem doing that. But I'm not going to crush guys that. on the team. And I'm not going to say, and by the way, when the Red Sox get their penalty, whatever that may be,

they're going to get crushed to, you would think. We'll see. And that's why I think all of us should go to the Astros Red Sox series. It'll be the Polite series in baseball in 2020. I think I'm actually going to go. 108 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

If you want to reach out to us on Twitter, you can do that as well. at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Pro Nick Lowe. Rockets last night, take care of the Knick-Ockers. Rockets, by the way, we didn't talk to anything about the Saturday game. What was your impression level off of the Jazz victory on Saturday against the, for the Rockets? It was good. It was nice. Russell took a few too many mid-range jumpers for my taste, but other than that, good win.

Yeah. Rockets hit 23s in that game. They had 25 the night before, two nights before against gold. Ross, here's the thing. If I told you, the Rockets hit 23s in every playoff game, first and foremost, is that something you think they can accomplish, or is it because you're playing the same opponent the same time, six times in 12 days, it'd be hard to have that kind of fluidity from 3.

It'll depend on the matchup as well, but I would say that's probably not possible for them to hit 20 every single time. But they're hitting 20 on a regular basis, now, they keep hitting an average of 20 between now and the end of the season. They're going to be the number two seed in the Western Conference. And Mike Dantone keeps talking about how their offense needs to get better and how they can make the extra pass a little bit more and get more. The passing has been fantastic.

It's been a lot better, yes. Defensively, they're going to have some problems on a low block. Yes. It is what it is. But three is greater than two. And the rockets are dialing up and hitting lots and lots of three-point shots. It's beautiful to see. And the crazy thing is that, and this is where I have to kind of

take a step back as I see them every night. I think they're way more entertaining today than they were a month and a half ago. I agree, and I don't even think they were not entertaining. Well, I mean, think about it. The Rockets have this rotation of the rotation is much deeper. You have different guys getting in double digits. James' numbers. Six guys in double digits yesterday.

James's offensive numbers, except for last night, have kind of cooled a little bit. Russ continues to give you at least 25 every single night. And that's what you do. the Russell, Westbrook, James Harden combinations giving you

about 60 to 65 points per night between the two of them. That's good enough to be the number two C in the Western Conference. They're what, two games back of the Nuggets?

Game back of the Clippers for the three and the Clippers will be here I think a week from Thursday. Okay. That'll be board the two because they're up two one in the season series,

correct? So they'll need a three one. Yeah, they'll have a three one and then we'll have ultimately a chance to win the season series and gain that game back. So yeah, and the Rockets, they're just more interesting than they were in the first 50 games. Eric Gordon needs to stay healthy.

That'd be nice. This knee slash legs are lower leg and shin and everything, like you said, south of his groin or whatever you said. I think it was a good phrase by me, south of the groin. Okay. I mean, I could have said lower body, but south of the groin sends me. I go with lower leg. I'm going to go south of the groin. All right.

Maybe that groin area is great. Did you just say I'm going to go south of the body? the groin. Don't record that. 112 of the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-1-2-5-7-90. Starting in about 15 minutes, we need to think of some questions that Bill O'Brien needs to be asked. Now, Ross, I feel like there could be some legit. Some funny.

Some funny, because I think y'all are an interesting group out there. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 112 is a time. It's a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show. Come on and join us here on Sports Talk 790. Thomas, it is a Matt Thomas Tuesday here on the show. Hope you guys are in a good mood. Nice to visit with you. Tomorrow, the Astros are to play a spring training game in this slot. Weather is not spectacular for West Palm Beach tomorrow.

So it'll be Astros baseball from Soggy West Palm or Soggy Matt and Ross after hopefully a winning trip to Lake Charles. So we're going to be in Lake Charles. We're going right after the show day. Are we supposed to be in trouble with it being Fat Tuesday in Louisiana? Isn't that just going to be asking for it? it? Is it going to be crowded? And does Lake Charles go ham for Fat Tuesday?

I'm just asking. Do people just head out there or? No, because you have to work. That's what I'm figuring. Yeah. I mean, if you're going to go, you're going to go to New Orleans, right? Which I think is just a big old cluster. I've never, I've never.

In theory, I would like to go to New Orleans for, for Fat Tuesday, but I think in practice it would just be horrible and you can't even go to the bathroom anywhere. Yeah, well, no. Yeah, I was going to say, going in the street's a lot easier on a fat Tuesday because there's not enough cops. I guess there's going to be enough vomiting urine on the street anyways. We're going to get to some questions we need to ask Bill O'Brien, legit and non-legic, coming up at 130. Garrett Cole said yesterday, the Astros played fair and square last season and said he didn't see any teammates cheating in 2018 either. Basically saying, I'm telling you, we played fair and square.

I didn't see anything in 2018. I really didn't, but no one wants to hear it now. everybody is entitled their opinion. This is Garrett Cole telling USA today. It's their opinion. People handle the way they want to handle it. We're all grown guys around here. I'm certainly not going to tell somebody how to think.

I'm personally not offended by it. But I'm not sure that forgiveness is something that some people will even want to talk about right now. Preach, Gary Cole? You know what I think part of it saying is I think part of it is because those are his friends. He's taught me, you just don't leave a baseball team and have 23 enemies back there. I'm sure there are friendships that were creative. He may not have been best with besties with everybody on the team,

but by no means that I think that Gary Cole ever had this reputation of a guy that was hated within the clubhouse. In fact, he was amazing for this team. I mean, should have, could have very easily won the Siong for sure, right? Yes. I mean, you could have flipped the corner him in either way on this. And on top

of it, he was beloved. And he was a guy that had some situations, involving his wife is a good cook, did a barbecue. I mean, he was not like he had his own separate part of the clubhouse. He was liked. Yeah. And people understood that he was going to get a lot of cash.

I mean, that's, yeah, it's no problem with Garrett Cole. But I also, I mean, yeah, these are his friends and all that type of stuff. But he didn't have to come out and say this stuff if it weren't true. He's just being probably tired of being asked about it over and over again. And he's being honest. And he's saying nothing happened. And I'm sure Yankees fan will put their head in the sand when it comes to this. Yeah.

think what the overriding thought has been from any other opposing player has been. If the Astros did it in 2017 and certainly 2018, there's no reason why I can't believe it into 2019. There are people that have problems that have done things before. That doesn't mean you do it every single year, right? In life. Let's say that, let's say that, Ross, you had a problem with cocaine in 2017. Matt, don't tell everybody.

Okay, I'll flip it. Let's say I had a drinking problem in 2017 and 2018. Yeah, that was pretty bad. And let's say I stopped. Those who didn't know me would say, oh, if he drank him two years ago, you must have drank last year, too. Yeah, I mean, and people are using the logic or players or Chris Bryant or whoever other players come out. Well, in 2017, it won them the championship, so why would they stop? Well, I mean, he talked about it in 2017 how people were catching on to what they were doing, and it wasn't effective,

and other teams are changing up their signs, even in the Wall Street Journal article where it talks about other teams catching on to what they're doing. So if people are catching on to what you're doing and it's not effective, distracting, you're going to stop. That's why they stopped. It's not that big of a deal. So, you know, look, I don't think Garrett Cole's trying to protect anybody. I think, I think question was asked. Question was answered. 2019, a completely legit year. 2017, no chance. 2018, certainly up for conjecture and probably leaning towards they did some of the same sort of things before. Please, just go win games. We need them to start fast. We need the offense to be great.

We need it because we want us to talk about winning baseball. Other cities, the Astros could go 24-0, and it wouldn't make any difference. I think it would help a little bit. It would make a difference. You think it would be 24-0 instead of if they started out, you know, 8 and 16? The chatter wouldn't get a little louder. You're probably right. I just think that the booing's not going to stop.

They're not going to go, well, look, the Astros have a seven-game lead in the month of May. I guess we can stop telling them how much they suck. That's my point. I don't know. Maybe if they go one turn through Major League Baseball, like when do you think if we were to do a decibel level check? And let's say the max is in Anaheim on that first weekend, the second weekend of the season, the first Astros road trip.

Wow. Let's not get crazy. Well, but there'll be Dodger fans there for the Friday. So I'm counting, I'm counting the Dodgers. and the Angel fans. If that number is 10, because the Astros and Yankees don't play into the last week of the season.

So I can't even count what the weekend would be like in New York, because that's going to be in September. We don't know what the situation is going to be. But if we count the second weekend of the season, that's a 10, when's the fan base going to get down to the opposing fan base is going to get down to three or four? Seattle doesn't care.

This Baltimore really going to care? Has a whole probably a year. I mean, is anybody even going to Baltimore? There are some cities. Do the Orioles feel like they're screwed by the 2017 Astros? Hell, if I were the Orioles, I would do a campaign of, hey, forget about us. Just come root against the Astros. Yeah.

Trash Can Bang giveaway Day or something. Whatever. But there'll be a, there's only, I mean, honestly, does Milwaukee going, you know, the Oscars are putting in Milwaukee. The White Sox fans, they don't draw. Detroit fan doesn't, they're so bad. Yeah. It'll be fine.

I think it'll be fine in most cities. frankly, it'll be better if the crowds are bigger because Jose Al-Tubei and Carlos Correa and George Springer will not hear the individual. You go play in front of Seattle in front of 9,000 in the middle of April, and you'll hear that guy in that ninth row that paid $75 for that really good ticket

that nobody else paid for. And they will hear everything that person says. What I'm not so much, I'm not worried about what fans say, because here's the thing. If you become too much of an a-hole, they'll just kick you, out. Major League Baseball is not going to change its rules about how a fan behavior is because

the Astros cheated. What I'm afraid of is what are they going to do and how much leeway are they going to get when there are threats of every particular Astro that play on a 2017 team going to be hit in the rib cage, in the shoulder blade, will they go for the head? That's where I want to see how much of a leash Major League Baseball gives its own players. So that will be the opening home weekend for the Angels. They don't play at home before that. Right. It's the very first game for them, yeah.

Okay. So, yeah, it'll be loud in that series. Then after that. Yeah. After that, let's see. They go to L.A. Or they go to Oakland before that. It'll probably be a little loud in Oakland.

Oakland's going to be loud because those 14,000 people to bring their drums with them. That's true. So it won't be that much of a difference. Then they go to L.A. What's the next one city? Arlington. Arlington probably get a little bit. Arlington because it's going to be.

probably a closed venue at that time. Tampa Bay. They're going to be mad. We took James Click to Houston. But will Tampa, was that during the week or on a weekend? It is Tampa, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday in Tampa. Yeah, not an issue. No need to worry about that. Check that off the list. Like, what's the next series after that you, go look to look ahead? Then they're on, they're going to have a long home stand. And then after that, it'll be at Arizona for two. Don't care.

and that's on Tuesday, Wednesday, in Arizona. Really? They were maybe making more out of this than there should be. At Seattle, Thursday to Sunday. No, no care. At Kansas City, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. No, not worry there. At Toronto in May.

No. And then at Boston in May. That's a series I'm thinking about going to. And that's a series where everybody will behave themselves because the Red Sox would probably have punishment down by then. You know, like, Red, like, Astros like, hey, we're getting seriously punished Red Sox, hold my beer. You know what I mean?

Right. So really maybe we're making too much out of this. It'll be a smattering compared to a chorus of 35,000 people at the same time. I mean, then you're into May. Then they go to New York for the Mets for two. Are Yankees fans going to infiltrate? No, I think Mets fans are an arrogant, any hole to begin with. Three in Baltimore after that?

Yeah, so maybe they, after that opening series against Anaheim on the road, opening weekend series. And Oakland before that. Yeah, so maybe their first week, maybe they're worst. And it'll start to dissipate right after that. I never thought of it. And it's not because the baseball fan can't be mad.

It's just that there won't be any baseball fans of those stadiums. This won't be. This won't be there. All right. I suddenly feel better about the Astro situation. Now, here's the big question, Ross. How many booze will they get in a Minute Made Park? Will we be able to hear the, I say, minority of Astro fans that are so discussing with their baseball team?

I kind of, no, I don't think so. I don't think so. Maybe a couple. I bet it'll be a few guys who want to get on TV. There's always some a-hole and some jackass who wants to get on TV. I'm disappointed and then, you know, hot, you know what, from channel whatever, puts a microphone in his face and ask him three questions and he's on the news for a package. I'm glad you brought that up.

Local TV stations do us a big favor. And I don't mean to be rude. But we don't care what the point of. view fan is from Astro fan or for that matter out of town fan we sent you know john smiley outside to a minute made park for this report on trying to find a mariner fan who's mad at the astros john what do you got for us don't care i'm with you man give us what's really important on the local news at 10 o'clock the double and triple murders we see every day in our in the drug parts of town it double triple murders straight to a cat fashion show yeah and our weekend weather

update and the hot girl during traffic. Yes. Let me guess. Traffic's bad. Yes. Weather, it's going to be hot. And there's always a 20% chance of rain. All right. Nick, let's go to Twitter for a second. Let's think of an appropriate hashtag for

questions for Bill O'Brien. Because it's coming up in a half an hour from now, have we figured out a way to transmit that? The availability of one Bill O'Brien at Indianapolis the Combine. And monitoring all sources. And how's that going so far. Nothing is happening. Okay, that's not great news. We're going to attempt to find a way

for you guys to hear the head coach. It's my what you talk about bill off season. Relaxing. Okay. We're going to flip it on you. We're going to ask you questions whether he might get. So if you got any thoughts of what you would like to ask the head coach, the offensive coordinator, the play caller, the general manager, is he a vice president of something? Probably. we, because this is the first time he'll speak publicly since he got his own promotion. Since he promoted himself. Because he promoted himself. And Cal's like, oh, okay, you want to be to get a marriage?

I'll do that too. Jeez. Am I right? Ouch. I like your Calman air impression. It's like, goopie dog. I didn't mean to do it like that. Which way did he go, George?

I know Tillman and Jim are. right people. I don't know anything about Cal. He might be the smartest one in the group. He's lying in the weeds. He sees something in Bill O'Brien that we just can't fathom. Who's fathoming this, except him and Jack Easterby? And Bill O'Brien. Do you think if we pulled DeShon Watson aside and said, hey, your head coach and I'm the general manager, do you think he's going, that seems like a very good idea? He's probably a little puzzled. who here's a better question who's not puzzled that bill o'brien media puzzled fans puzzled players puzzled fans definitely puzzled

thanks bill get the game then talk about it here sports talk 790 is houston's home for rockets basketball 133 on a Tuesday edition. This is the Matt Thomas show. Thank you very much for listening, spending some time with us today. All right. If you have a question that you think would like to hear from the head coach, the general manager, I believe also Director of Dietary Services. Bill O'Brien?

I think he's an equipment manager. Really? He's in director of retail sales. Strength and conditioning? Strength and conditioning. He also handles a roof repair. Well, that hasn't been worried about in quite some time. You know, who was it?

Was it one of our listeners, Joan, or whoever it was? It had the theory that the roof got damaged in Harvey or something like that, and they don't want to spend money repairing it, so that's why they don't open it. But isn't that a public facility? Wouldn't we know about that? Wouldn't it take it? I don't know. Remember when Channel 2 did that awful investigation?

Yes, they wrote you in? They wrote me in, and it was a complete hatchet job of bombastic awfulness. Welcome to the local news. That's what I'm saying, Channel. You had a chance to catch. Yeah, We love you. But you had a chance to get me as a viewer, and you gave me five minutes of that crap and that dude sitting in his car with his sunroof opening and closing. You lost me.

Sorry. If you PN at a TV newscast, I probably watch it now. Is there UPN still around anymore? No, it's just... 20 vision. It's not 20 vision. It was 20 vision, like, in the 90s. So is that the first question?

should ask Bill O'Brien. Is it about the roof? What's going on? No, what's going on with UPN? Oh, no, the roof. My guess is no. So, so far on Twitter, like I thought it would happen, Rossi. We have,

How Short of a Leash is the head coach on this? This is from the Ryan Hancock. It's called My 20. Yeah, my 20. My 20. I like 20 vision, much better. I like UPN. That was what it was for me back in the day. By the way, speaking of back in the day,

Channel 39 back in the day used to have kids like 12, 13, 14 years old read the news update. It's called newsbreak. We used to watch Channel 1 in school when kids would do it. Lisa Ling came from there.

Yeah, but I'm talking about this is a, this was the same channel that had reruns of Sanford and Son on and it carried Houston wrestling. You'd be like at 5 o'clock on a Monday afternoon and something was, you know, President Reagan was doing something, and it was some 12-year-old kid reading the news updates.

It was pretty damn amazing. That's cool. Did you want to get on there? The thought did cross my mind. I thought to myself, how's my mom, who's my parents were divorced at a young age, how is she going to get me over to Channel 39 studios in time? I couldn't drive at the time, obviously.

Yeah. And then it didn't go further than that. Well, now you can Uber. You can't Uber as kids. They're not supposed to. Oh, really? Yeah. You can't drop a kid in an Uber? No.

What if the parents say? Not unless I think the kid's 16 or 17 now. Oh, you could just lie. You could. All right. So how short of a leash is the head coach? Is that on the probability scale of 1 to 10, that's not going to be at. That's going to be at a zero.

Yes. So who do you have graded for a first round pick? Not that it matters. At 4 underscore Adam underscore 30. That's too soon. We don't need that. Do you have a second round pick this year, right? Yes.

Pretty sure. honestly, how do you delicately, and I'm not trying to do this for a sacrifice a bit, I'm just, how do you effectively ask why does he think he can handle both? Is that how you do it? How do you, hey, coach, why do you think having the responsibility of both the GM and coach is so important to you? That's a legitimate question. Coach, you're one of the only NFL head coaches that also has the title of GM. I think actually he's the only one with that official title.

What goes into that process and how much do you have on your plate and how much help do you get from others? Maybe something like that. I think it would go something a little more like this. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something. I am God. I don't think it would go like that. Well, you know, John, we do everything here around here.

There's a lot of meetings. we meet every day about what's happening in the league happens around us well they do have the fewest amount of selections in the entire draft of 2020 they only have four four yes what kind of draft party is that god if you had the astros rockets and astro and texans draft party it would last an hour they have the number 57 pick and then they have no third round picks no first round pick. They pick at the end of the fourth and the fifth and the seventh.

That was good. That worked out good. So no first, third, or sixth round pick. So he's really on the phone making these deals, right? Unless he pushes it off to Easterby. We can't do that. I'm guessing Easterby handles most of it, right? Bill, when you sold your soul for the devil to take over the Texans, did you include a Super Bowl win in the deal?

That's ridiculous. Ask Bill. I would hope so. That's ridiculous. Bill, are you still the clock management person, too? I mean, yeah, no. Bill, when you went into a rage against the fan who said you suck, had you been working out with a new strength trainer Brian Cushing before this?

He was raging. Doesn't matter. Hmm. AFC South champions two years in a row. This is going to suck, Ross. This is really going to suck. After the team got its brains beat out in quarters, two, three, and four, you run back to Houston, you shut the door with the owner

and all the key pieces of the organization, and you say, what are we going to do to become a better football team in 2020? And the answer was, we're not going to bring Nicky Casario in. We're not going to go get an outside voice. We're going to bump you, Mr. Easterby, a vice president of some unheard-of title, and we're going to give you the general manager tag. Rightfully so.

I really want to know what he did to hoodwink cow. Because maybe they thought after the beat down on the wild card Ross to Indianapolis that the division of the wild card went against Buffalo in overtime and then having a first quarter lead was a serious progression. That's, I mean, I'm not kidding. Maybe that's it. Hey, we went from wild card losers to leading. by 24 points in a divisional playoff game

and maybe we just ran into a buzzsaw known as Kansas City and that next year will be that buzzsaw that we have learned from our mistakes. We'll be the one outscoring someone 50 to 51 to 7 over the last three quarters. I hope so. On Twitter at Shynthal says who will be our starting running back in 2020?

Any chance his name starts with Melvin and ends with Gordon? Hmm. They're not saying with the same two guys already, do they think? Do you think? I think Lamar Miller is a free agent, right? Correct. Okay. Carlos Hyde is fine.

Duke Johnson's here. Duky J is here. Duke Johnson is what he's supposed to be. A third down back, but never expected to carry the ball more than, say, seven or eight times per game. But you spend a third rounder. Yes, you did, because he played more than the games he was supposed to to be a fourth round pick. But you can find running backs in the third rounder later. Not according to the Texans.

They found him in Cleveland. Okay. Are you afraid you'll be outclassed by the Houston Roughnecks is Houston's favorite team? What fuck, dude? PJ Walker and the crew. See, I think Houston loves the teams. They just don't. They love the players.

Houston loves J.J. Watt. They love DeAndre Hopkins and Deshawn Watson. They just don't love Bill O'Brien. Not good. Because they do have good, likable players. The Texans or the Ruff-Refax? Yeah, the Texans.

Well, I don't know about the Roughnecks. Well, what player of the roughnecks do you hate? They're likable. I can name one. PJ Walker. Oh, and then that receiver catches a ton of his... Cam, something, right? Yeah, whatever.

Sure, that guy. No, there's no one that says the Texans aren't likable players. Yeah. They're just not likable because of the way they're run. And Bill O'Brien. Well, you know what it is? I actually like them extra because they are being... They're very nice to him.

Dean Torell Owens would be able to put up with Bill O'Brien for anything more than a week? Holy smokes. No, but Terrell loans is crazy. It's true, but DeShawn Watson doesn't say anything bad about him. Deionery Hopkins doesn't. J.J. Watt, who apparently hates the union but loves his coach. And by the way, JJ's getting crushed by his union.

They're like, man, we're taking the 17th game. We're taking the extra paycheck. Know your role. Really? Did somebody come out and say something? No, but they're all reconvening. Each of the 32 teams are going to meet up. this 17th game is going to happen.

And frankly, it's a good thing for the players. It's a better thing for the fans. First of all, you only have to pay for one exhibition game, more than likely. Secondly, you're going to get a whole new crop of fans that we're going to be able to see an NFL game live somewhere else. And they're going to put some extra money in the piggy banks of these players. Houston Sports Talk for lunch. Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk 790.

All right, there's a little bit of breaking news from the combine where Bill O'Brien is going to speak national to the national reporters in about 10 minutes. He gathered the local guys aside. And Tim Kelly, the offensive coordinator Ross for the Houston Texans, you know, like the one that was really named the offensive coordinator, is going to call plays in 2020 for the Houston, Texas. Wow, how many weeks is that going to last? Over under week four, Bill O'Brien has overtaken, due to the stumbling start by the Houston, Texas, Bill and Brian has overtaken play-calling duties. Now, here's a thing. We've heard this before.

I choose to believe him. But there are two factors. One, he could be lying because he's got more responsible and he gets the dog off the scent, right? Or two, this could be a very short-lived thing that in theory, it sounds good that Tim Kelly's going to call the off-the-plays. But in reality, it's really Bill O'Brien. and just saying, hey, Tim, tell him to run this. We don't know how the infrastructure works, but it's a pretty, I think it's a pretty big announcement.

Yeah, I'd say so. That he understands that you can't do everything. So that is coming from the combine right now. And that's reported by Aaron Reese of the athletic who joins us here during the season. Talk a lot of NFL. And John McLean also reporting that. But it doesn't come on our station. Oh, that's fine.

That's not fine. All right, 713, 212, 5790. 713, 212, 5790. By the way, Chas McCormick has just hit a grand slam for the Astros. Wow. That's the other bit of breaking news. Wow. If Chas McCormick was to come in this room and shut the door and sit down and say, hi, I'm Chaz McCormick.

I said, Chad, nice to meet you. I'm Matt. Here's Ross. What do you do for a living? I love your coarse ground black pepper. Is he that close to that group? The McCormick family? Yeah.

Yes. So. Where's schmix? Where does the pepper corn come from? What do you build? Where do you make that? So Chas McCormer with another home grand slam for the Astros. Astros hit four yesterday.

Wouldn't that be cool if they could get a player named Schmick as well? I think Tim Overtito would love to organize some sort of marketing campaign behind that. There have been some strange names out there. All right. So there you go. I don't know. I mean, I don't know if that's at first blush. That's my favorite term these days.

Nick, you hate it. Yes, I do. I would have to say good for Bill O'Brien to do that. That obviously, and again, granted, Tim Kelly has been with Bill O'Brien many, many years. So it's not like it's going to be one of those, well, Tim's going to come in and have this different philosophy of the Bill O'Brien. My guess is he reads from the chapter and verse in which Bill O'Brien writes, and he's going to go off of what he says, which most offensive coordinators do with their head coaches. But what I want to know is, will Tim have the stones to call some of the time? things that would be atypical of what Bill O'Brien would coach, what would call out, and maybe

diversify things a little bit. Maybe throw a little bit more on first down. He's probably under strict instructions. Yes, you're ruining it for me. I'm sorry. Go ahead. But, well, I mean, that is the truth. What would have been really crazy is if Bill O'Brien would have grabbed somebody from another team and said, hey, I like with this, I liked what Eric Bannamy did in Kansas City. I liked what Josh McDaniels does in Denver, or not Denver, and in New England. And that innovation is kind of cool. How often has Bill O'Brien gone really outside of who he knows right away and say, you don't want to bring this guy in?

Romeo Cornell, he knew from his days in New England. First of all, Romeo Cornell was very highly regarded no matter where he was coaching, whether he's an assistant coach and a short time it's a head coach. He'd also replaced him twice now. Yeah. That's true. But point being is this, is that it would have been something, it really would have been something to say, you know what, Tim, he's either growing in the role, or I've got too much on the plate, or I couldn't find somebody else. I mean, it'll be interesting to see, I guess. But I mean, when you think about when these teams are game planning, I mean, you only have, it's not like there's a hundred plays that they're running. You have a set number of plays for first and 10, a set number of plays for second and medium, a set number of plays for third and short. et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So, I mean, while Tim Kelly will be making these decisions,

I'm sure he will be under the watchful eye of Bill O'Brien. Because the perception is that Bill O'Brien is involved in everything. I think he's going to be involved in the game planning, and then maybe Tim Kelly will be involved in the play during the game. So there's no doubt in my mind that there will be a bunch of questions. You're ready for this. Let's do this. Let's do what you're talking about Bill O'Brien. We'll see how much you get ahead of it. Here's the question. Here's what I want you. Here's the question. Hey, Coach O'Brien, why are you allowing Tim Kelly to call plays for you in 2020? What do you think he would say?

Well, look, this is just a decision that we've been talking about for some time. Tim Kelly is a great guy, good coach, smart guy, knows football, been here a long time, and we know that we put the offense in his hands that we're going to be productive. Obviously, I'll still be working on the offense with him, but he'll be making the play calls, and I think Tim will do a great job. And you forgot to say, if he makes a bad play call, I'm going to screw me in the headset and call him an MF. Well, he's not going to say that in front of the media, but that's probably true. Yeah.

So that's, and it's not really, I mean, you know what he's doing? He's grabbing a headline that never needs to be a headline. When you hire an offensive corner, you would presume that most of the time they're the play callers. Not such is the case for one Bill O'Brien, but that's okay. I'm not sure I understand that. Well, you should understand it because it's so abnormal that you would give a guy an offensive coordinator of title and make him earn it for a year of work. That's the crazy part.

Is the Matt Thomas Show. 201 on Sports Talk 790. You know Garrett Cole? Signed that halacious deal to become the richest pitcher in baseball, Ross. Probably money well spent by the New York Yankees. Explain why, please. According to Eric Boland, who is a Yankees beatwriter, he says that, well, Louis Severino,

according to Brian Cashman, Tommy John surgery, recommended. Makes a little more human, right? We'd heard about forearms. How does everything go from forearm stiffness to Tommy John? Do you know why that is? Because they lie. it's easier to tell you something is just okay and somebody's going to be out for a day

as compared to somebody's out for weeks. Remember how shrouded and mystery the whole Lance McCuller's thing was at the end of, what was that, 17 or 18? Right, right. Bill O'Brien to the stage in Indianapolis of the Combine. I think this phase right here

is a big part of the team building process. So we're right after the season, took some time off, came back to work, evaluated our own team. That's the first part of the process where we at with our own team. And then we began the draft and free agency preparations. And now we're into the combine, which is another phase of the draft.

And the whole thing is about, okay, where are we in the process of building the team? And so that's what we're doing right now. And all factors, every position, every player, we'll take a look at it and try to do the best we can to put together a good 2020 team. Yeah, there's a lot of different ways. I think one of the things that's important to us is to do the best we can is to keep our players, players that have been on our team. And I think that's a really important thing for us relative to where we're headed. And then there's all different kinds of ways that you can build a team, right?

There's obviously the draft, there's free agency, there's the college free agent process, there's, you know, all different ways. So we're taking all those things into account each and every day and trying to make decisions in the best interests of the team. Can you talk some more about your history with team? How much you liked it and what are you taking off? Tim Kelly? Yeah, Tim Kelly's an excellent football coach.

So Tim, Tim was a graduate assistant at Penn State. My first two years there came to Houston, was a coaching assistant on offense, tight-end coach, offensive coordinator, worked very closely with the offensive line when he was a coaching assistant and a tight end coach, very hardworking guy. Guy that really cares about the players. The players really respect him.

Does a great job in a meeting room on the practice field. Does a great job on game day. He's just an excellent coach. And we have a great relationship. He's a great person. And, you know, we're excited for him to take the next step in his career here. He's going to coach the quarterbacks. He'll call the plays, and he'll do an excellent job.

Phil, I know it's successful within the United States is going. Yeah. Detroit are still not that far off on the contenders, especially considering how young people are. I think every year's different. I definitely think every year's different. I think that we feel really good about, obviously, Deshaun Watson. We feel really good about a lot of the players around Deshawn on offense.

We feel good about where we are on defense. But we also know that there's a lot of things that we have to work on, right? And we know that 2020 will be definitely a different year than 2019. None of us liked the way it ended, but we have to move on. We have to move on to this process of building our team for 2020, have a really good off-season program, which is very important, and then proceed into training camps. So we're really early in the process of building our 2020 team,

but we're excited about where we are right now. DeShan and I, I'll let him speak for his side of it, but I love the guy. He's an excellent football player, but he's an even better person. He cares about his teammates. He cares about being as good of a player and a teammate as he can be every single day. He tries to get better every day. It's a very smart player. He's gotten better and better. He's improved every single year. And, you know, we obviously feel very good about and very fortunate to have him on our football team. I think having that position, as we all know, is very important. And we feel like we have an excellent player there. What's that? Jack's title is Executive Vice President of Football Operations. He does a lot of different things. He's involved with me on the personnel side. He's involved with me on the salary cap. He's involved with medical, equipment, video.

We do a lot of things together. Jack and I do a lot of things together. We spend a lot of time together. It's a great person, great guy to work with, very bright guy. Hopefully, everybody gets a chance to meet him someday. But he's been an excellent addition to the organization. Consider he's been in April, a lot of the time. How does he have heard of himself? Is he already going to do that? We've has a great presence.

He was a former player and his coach for a long time. He's been in different schemes. He's done an excellent job with our D-line. He's been in front of the unit before. because they divide up responsibilities during the week, so he's been in front of the unit before. It's very smart. And the players have a lot of respect for Anthony,

and he's going to bring a lot of different ideas and creativity to our defense, feel really good about our defensive staff. We added Chris Rumpf, outside linebacker, coach. He had been with Coach Staben at Alabama. He'd been with Coach Pruitt at Tennessee, and we made Danton Lynn, the secondary coach, feel really good about Danton.

Danton's an excellent coach. And so we're excited about where we are staff-wise on that side of the ball. Yeah, I mean, obviously when you have guys on your staff, you spend a lot of time together, right, especially, you know, from, you know, off-season program and then the end of July through, you know, January, you know, you spent a lot of time together. So Weave and I have spent a lot of time together talking about defense. You know, I've interviewed Weave.

I've talked to him about what he would do. if he was ever with the defensive coordinator. And he did a great job in those meetings. Very bright guy has a really good grasp of the whole defense, not just the front, has a really good grasp of coverage in front and how it all works together. He's worked for some great guys, played for some great guys, Rex Ryan, Mike Petten, you know, defensive coaches that, I would say,

are pretty damn good. And so he's learned a lot from them. Then he'll bring his own style to our defense. and I think the players will be excited about it. How is he improved with his vocally as a leader off the field with his senior team? Yeah, he's an excellent leader. I'd say first and foremost, he leads by example. He leads with his work ethic.

He's out there every day at practice. He's in early. He stays late. He works in a weight room, takes care of his body. He'll do whatever needs to be done at practice, you know, stay after practice to fix a route or go out early to try to work on center. quarterback, you know, cadence or things like that. So he does a lot of different things on and off

the field to help us as a leader. He's an excellent leader. Not much. Not much. You know, I think that we have a great team of people that have done, in my opinion, a great job of preparing us for the combine. So Matt Bazzargan, James Lippert, those guys and all the college scouts, especially relative to this week have done an excellent job of preparing us a week ago for this week. And we've had some good meetings, feel like we're in a good spot relative to what we're going to be looking at, who we're going to be evaluating, interviewing, and all that. It's been a lot of preparation put into this, and we're excited about the week. So I think for me, it's just about making sure that, you know, pay close attention to what we need

to pay close attention to and just, you know, communicate with everybody and make sure we're all headed in the right direction. Yeah, I would say, you know, I don't really, I probably would tell you I'm not going to get into any, you know, just specific contract negotiations. I don't think that's probably fair to the player especially. It's not fair to the club, but I will tell you that we want both those guys on the football team, and we're working very hard to try to get that done. Those things take time, James.

I think you know that. You've been around a long time. You know, they don't happen overnight. Everything has to fit together relative to. to your team, your salary cap, what they're looking for. But with those two players, Dishon Watson and Laramie Tunsell, we want those guys on our football team for a long time. It's a good question.

I mean, I think that it depends on where you're playing that corner. I think if you're talking about an outside corner, you know, I think you've got to have a guy that has man-to-man capability. I think it's got to be a guy that, you know, obviously has the right skill set of body type, movement skills, you know, ball skills, instincts, and the ability to tackle the physical nature of the game, the way some offenses are running the ball to the outside, the way some offenses are putting tight ends on the perimeter now.

So I think it's a very difficult position that we're all trying to figure out who the best guys are to get on your football team that can do a lot of different things. I think the inside position is also a very valuable position, the slot corner. I think we call it the star. That position is very important too because that's a guy that does a lot for you on the inside of the defense. Slot covering, slot receivers, doing different things within the front. So I think those are positions that we spend a lot of time talking about and trying to do as good a job as we can in evaluating. You know, I don't think it changes it too much.

I think that one of the bigger changes would be between series. I would spend a lot of time with Deshaun and Tim and the, you know, the offensive line, running backs, the tight ends, wide receivers on the bench there. Before we go out for the next series, I think, you know, I'm not going to do probably as much of that. I think I'll do more about, you know, being able to focus on the whole game and how the game's being played and things like that. But I don't think it changes it too much.

Yeah, it's very challenging. You have to do as good a job as you can of making sure that you take care of your quarterback. You know, I think that's important when you have a great young quarterback. But at the same time, you've got to have a team around them. There's a lot of challenges to that. Not sure we have enough time to go through all that, but I think you have to have really good people in your organization

that understand and can come up with creative ways to help those issues relative to putting a team together. You know, it's not everybody knows, and Deshawn Watson would be the first one to tell you. It's not about one player. It's about, you know, a lot of players. So it's a process that takes a lot of time, a lot of good communication, and that's what we're in the, that's part of our daily routine. What do you think about playing 17? You know, I don't, I thought about that in anticipation of maybe someone would ask me that question.

You know, I don't really want to get into all that. I don't know enough about it. You know, I'm, I'm more involved relative to the coaches that I talk to on the rules side of things, you know. But I don't, I don't know enough about it. Only I know what I've read, which is all rumor until, until there's a deal in place. I don't think it's really my role at all to talk about it. Yeah, they have an excellent team. They have a very tough team.

They have a team that plays great complimentary football, a very physical team, very well-coached team, very disciplined team. Got a great young quarterback, got a great head coach and Sean. He does an excellent job. Got a really good coaching staff, strong guys on their staff. I know a couple of those guys. So they're doing an excellent job. I mean, that was a brutally hard game, you know, that we were fortunate to win,

and Buffalo's got a really good team. But where's tightest that in health? Doing well. Yeah, doing well. I would say that to put a timetable on it, I probably wouldn't be able to tell. I think he'll be able to do some things in the off-season program, though. Yeah, he's doing really well. He got married a couple weeks ago.

So I don't even think he took a honeymoon. I think he went right back into the training room with rehab, but I don't know, I'm just kidding. But he, uh, but no, he's doing really well. He's a great kid. We're glad he's on our team. Are you in favor of keeping the office in the way of what was in the season? That's a good question. I think the whole goal for all of us, and when we go into these meetings, there are great people.

There are some really bright minds in these meetings, both on the coaching side and on the officiating side. and on the league side. And so what we do is we just got to come together on consistency. And what is the standard? And what exactly are we looking for? Because as coaches, whatever they tell us, we'll coach it well. Like, you know, one of the things that's come up recently, obviously, is like, you know, blindside blocks on special teams, right?

And now we coached it. And in my opinion, you see the players reacted very well to that. You see the high screens. You don't see, you know, there's still. some plays, obviously, that are bad and that are trying to get all of them out of the game. But you see players, whatever we coach them to do, these players are great. They're going to do what we coach them to do. So hopefully we can just keep working to be consistent in how it's all called.

Yeah, there are different styles. And when you look at this draft, just in my opinion, I mean, I've watched some of the backs, and there's a lot of different styles of backs. You have big backs. You have 250-pound backs. You have backs that are, you know, smaller, really good in the passing games. game. So it depends on what you're looking for and how you categorize those players on your roster. So, you know, you're looking for first and second down back, you know, a bigger guy that

maybe not as much in the passing game, but really good downhill runner, three down back that can kind of do it all. Third down back, just depends on how you vision the player and trying to come to a conclusion on how we would use that player. I think that's a big part of this process. Kind of curious, Bill, how you process with the kick. Yeah, no, I think that's a good question. I mean, I think we're meeting every day here. We've had several really good meetings here relative to that where we're at. You know, we haven't even gotten close to putting a draft board together, anything like that. But we've had a lot of good meetings, strategic meetings about, you know, what our picks are.

And, you know, hey, this is the group of players that may be there, may not be there, those types of conversations. But we're way down the road from that. We're just kind of chipping away every day at those things. What do you think about the XFL? How much are you guys scatling? Yeah, I think the XFL has been interesting to watch. I mean, some of the different rules, the kickoff rule, the one, two, three point after rule, watch the Houston team.

You know, they're fun to watch. I mean, they have a good quarterback. June's doing a good job with that team. You know, I think it's a fun league to watch. I think I'm not sure that I would want the players being interviewed. on a sideline in between series. I would probably not like that. And I definitely wouldn't want to be interviewed during the series.

I'm sure you would like to see that. But no, I think it's been a good league. I know Oliver Luck's doing a really good job. They got the right guy in charge of that league because he's such a good guy and cares about the game. And so it's been fun to watch. I think any time football is being played, I think any coach would tell you that,

that whether it's CFL, XFL, wherever it is, you're watching those games. Okay, thank you. All right, that again, is Bill O'Brien on a wide-ranging plethora of topics, including XFL, Tim Kelly now is an offensive coordinator, what they're doing the draft, the fact that Jack Easterby is a really cool dude

and someday we'll get a chance to meet him. What was he was president? What was the executive vice president? A football operations. Wow. We'll get to more on what Bill O'Brien to say. Anything you want to say that, hey, this caught me as interesting or this is the same old bill? Whatever.

I like your open and honest opinion on what you heard from the head coach and general manager of your Houston Texans. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Any impressions that you would like to get off your chest. It's next here on 790. Hey, it's Coach Dan Tony. Step back three and the corner is good. Matt Thomas, my favorite voice in Houston.

Now, that's a little exaggerating. Back to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. With Ross and Nick, I'm Matt, 7-1-3-212-5-790. Astros are supposed to play tomorrow, but the weather is not great in West Palm. If they do get rained out, we'll be on the air, and I might get Coach Dan Tony come on for a few minutes. Kind of an impromptu visit. So we will either have Astros baseball for you tomorrow

or our show between 12 and 3 right here on Sports Talk. 790. I'm not going to grade a press conference at a combine. Okay. Nothing. Sounded like a Bill O'Brien press conference. Yeah, I was going to say, if I took that and replayed it in the month of July or in September before the start of the season, I kind of get the same thing, right?

Let me guess. Guys work hard, good teammates, really smart guys. It'll be really funny. If we said, hey, tell us about your experience. experienced with J.D. Clowning. Big pain in the ass. Didn't know, his work ethic was average, didn't necessarily believe he was always hurt when he was really healthy, bugged me about his contract all the time. That's the kind of stuff that I would have, once in a while to get out of his comforts on that, that would gain. But he's not going to ever probably really throwing anybody

out of the bus. No, and I would say most general managers and coaches aren't doing that. No, I would say none of them are, unless it just got. certainly really fast. But the point being is that the press conference was about 20 minutes, and sometimes you need to hear this kind of stuff. Mike Mayak was a little strong-worded with some of the Antonio Brown stuff I thought was interesting. But it's really Mike Mayack, really the general manager of the Raiders? I mean, I love Mike Mayock. You know that. He also said this week, if we can get better at quarterback, we will in regards to a question about Derek Carr. Didn't Derek Carr take a picture of a Clil Mack recently, too, I think? Oh, did he?

They may have been vacationing. I didn't see it because I don't really care about the Las Vegas. You're going to care when we get our PSLs. You got to start selling tickets. Ross and I are going to go to, we're going to like Charles. We're going to make so much money tonight on the tables that we're going to buy PSLs for the Las Vegas Raiders. We'll always have the tickets sold. That's true. So, yeah, the 20 minutes, again, I'll be honest with you, I didn't think there was anything

overly exciting except for the fact that Tim Kelly was now going to call the play calling, but the presumption is, as you pointed out on Twitter, it's going to be for how long? Yeah, for a few weeks in, I mean, because he did it last year in preseason. It's like, hey, Tim Kelly's calling plays for preseason. What? Why? And then all of a sudden he took over. I feel like Bill is so controlling eventually, especially if the Texans kind of stumble out of the gates to start one in three or something like that. He'll be like, all right, I'm calling the plays.

Or they probably won't even announce it. Is Bill at the house at his, and this is metaphorically, cooking all the meals because he knows what he likes to eat, how he likes his chicken cooked, how he likes his beef at a certain temperature, how if he likes his, if he likes marinara sauce over, say, A, and Alfredo. And then he says, Mrs. O'Brien, okay, you can cook now. Right. But as long as you cook the things I like.

I'm going to go do this or whatever. But yeah, then she screws it up or it's not perfect. And then he takes it over the cooking again. He takes it over. Yep. I don't know if that's the best example, but that's what I'm thinking is that he's giving Tim Kelly the reins, but he's doing it because he knows Tim Kelly for all,

has he even mentioned in the press conference, for a very long period of time. He worked here last year, and my guess is Tim Kelly knows what Tim Kelly likes, what Bill O'Brien likes. I'll make an analogy of here up at work. Okay. I ran the board here for 10 years.

I trained a lot of people, probably like a dozen people. Sure. And so it was all... Are you probably that, by the way? I don't know. It's just what happened. Okay. It is what it is.

So, well, some of them stuck. Some of them didn't. when it would be time for me to train somebody and throw them on the board, it would be very difficult for me to not micromanage and say, this is how I do it and this is how I want to do it. And I would have to stop myself from running everything and teaching them how to do it and just eventually taking over. Because they weren't doing it the way you wanted to do it?

Right. Were they doing it a different way or were they making mistakes? Sometimes it was a different way. And I have to let them learn and make their own mistakes and do it their own way and stuff like that. Nick, did Ross train you to run the 790 operator board? No. I mean, he helped a little bit, I guess.

But he did not. There you go. So are you our Tim Kelly? Have we given you the wings to fly? Am I allowed to call the plays? Oh, no. Yeah, you put sound bites that we don't even know about. That's true. You do go rogue sometimes. You frankly call more plays than anybody should. You over-call plays.

Oh, you haven't seen me call plays yet. You want to give me play-calling ability. Oh, no, you're not going to know. We let you have like third and 11. So anyways, in this analogy, Bill would be the guy who would just start taking back over as soon as he was training somebody on the board or something like that, which I tried not to do.

So here is the question. Will Bill O'Brien at some point in the 2020 seasons take over the plane calling duties again? I say yes as a minus 140? And let me ask you this. And perhaps a more important question. would he ever tell us if he did so? That's another thing.

George Gotzi, you remember he was calling plays? Yes. And my guess is that Bill pulled the trigger on that a lot sooner than he didn't let, he didn't let George Gottsy go the entire season, not be happy with his work, and then say, we're going to let you go, and I'm going to do it myself. My guess is that if you were to go pinpoint, go find George Gotti somewhere, he probably got the plays call from him, taken from him, a lot sooner than when he was relieved of his duties from the team.

Yeah. Do you think that Tim Kelly is at home today or when it's a combine, fist bumping people, high-fiving, man, I got this. He's strutton. He's strutting down the hallway. We're calling plays, fools. He's like, yeah, you guys make fun of me, MFers, but I'm playing, I'm calling plays in the NFL. Talk to us in week six.

We'll see. 229 on the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-7. We're a half-hour away from believe it or not. The category today is all things about Fat Tuesday. and what it's like in Louisiana and whether or not you and I will get arrested in approximately nine hours. This is Craig Ackerman.

The rockets are certainly popping the polypropylase. I know Matt Thomas all too well. Hey, by the way, this is my new catchphrase. Nothing but nylon. I just went glance at the Astro Spring Training game. They're playing right now in the top of the ninth in a 4-4 game. A pitcher with the number 93

took a hit away from a hit for the Marlins and he threw the ball to 98. Spring chaining fever. By the way, Matt, it's tied in the top of the ninth. Catch the game right after the A team. And by the way, Wex? Oh, Astroline. Wex, why are you wearing beads?

You take your shirt off today? Oh, there was a Mardi Gras celebration downstairs. We didn't go to get to it. Did you have lunch downstairs? See, you don't even need me. here. Ross has all the answers to all of your questions. Did you have lunch downstairs? A couple of shrimp povoys, some boudan balls, some cake.

Is there anything down there left? I bet you there's some sandwiches. Because we need some food for the road. You're in the building between 12 and 3. The Fiesta happened between 12 and 3. Get a runner. How do we forget about this? I didn't forget about it. I didn't know we were going to be on air.

Can't you eat while Matt talks? I could. What are you celebrating on the very highly successful Tuesday 18? The unbelievable bomb shells dropped by your friend Bill O'Brien. Did you listen to it on our station?

Of course. Oh, my God. I was like nodding off. You thought the best idea was to have Bill keep you awake? Well, you didn't hear us to take shots at local news, did you? No, but I'd love to now while I'm here in the room with you. No, I'll do it right in front of you. Yeah, that's why I want.

Your station had a chance to get me with the whole roof not working in NRG. And your boy, whoever that was, spent half the time in his car with his sunroof going open clothes. How old is this story? It's months old. We were talking about investigative news report. No, we were just mad about somebody. Oh, somebody was asking, we should we ask Bill O'Brien about the roof. We said, well, Channel 2 had a chance and they didn't do it.

Oh, bum. That's bad on us, huh? It is. Yeah, had a chance to ask the head coach about the roof of the building. No, that's what a listener won. Not us. What do you, okay. Today, asked Bill at the Combine about the Roof at NRG stated.

Change the example. We have to attend the Combine. In advance of a draft, they don't have a number one pick at. Yeah, but they got Tim Kelly not calling plays. All going to change this year. Over under on how many weeks? Oh, before he has to acknowledge that he's still calling the playing plays? Six.

I'm going to say this one sticks. I like Kelly a lot better than Godsey. We'll go there. There it is. All right. Adam Wexer with Beads. Going to take a shirt off for the 18th starting at the 3 o'clock this afternoon. Let's go to Brandon and Katie on 790.

Hi, Brandon. Hey, Matt. Hi. My pleasure. So if you've clicked on one story on Facebook about the Astros, you get flooded with every story written from coast to coast, whether the local and national media. And from how many times are going to get hit, hit my opinion. Mm-hmm. And I did read one story locally.

We're talking about the Hill Turn. Should the Astros just become the bad boy? my question to you is, do you think our fan base should do the hill turn as well and just rain down booze? Like we do if they throw to first base. Should we just rain down booze the whole time that any of these guys touch the ball or they come to the plate? Because if our guys, and granted, they were in the wrong and what they did, but at a certain point, I think they need to turn the page. but the national and local media, man, they're rallying every fan base,

every team to just turn against the Astros and the Astros fan base. My question is, should we do the Hill Turn as a fan base and support our Astros that way? No, you support your Astros by cheering for them and rooting for them. You don't do it by booing the other players. The only person's going to be booed in Houston, Texas,

in 2020, provided he pitches here, will be Mike Fires. Mike Fires will he, hear it for hours and days and for the rest of his major league career. Mike Fires will never be able to normally pitch a baseball game in Houston, Texas. Short of that, there isn't anything else that you can do except just really cheer for your local baseball team. But booing the other team, what do they get out of that? What do you get out of that?

Let me answer that question for me. Just a response. I mean, if, you know, if you're watching the game, I've watched the, you know, the games, the coverage from, take for instance, the Oakland A's, you can hear the nonstop cheering and horns going off the entire game, right? Yeah. And you know what? Here's the thing, Brandon.

I got news for you. They got carte blanche to do it. And as long as they don't do it viciously and do it to the detriment of a person or their family, they're going to get the opportunity to do it. And we would do the same thing. If the Texas Rangers were the ones that were caught in 2017 cheating and they came to Houston, Texas, we'd wear their asses out too. So they're just going to have to take it for a couple

of years. Hopefully not more than that, but I'm assuming at least this year, maybe even next. All right. Well, I mean, that's, you know, I need a little bit of a level head. I'm a little more pro, like, I want to back them up and, hey, man, if they're getting on the road, then I would like to break these

same guys for, you know. Brandon, you are, you know what, let me tell you some, Brian, you are a normal sounding person. You want to root your baseball team out, so go to minute, made park this season, do it and you'll be fine. I'm just going to tell you, do you ever travel to visiting games? Nothing further than Dallas. Okay. I would suggest maybe you hold on to that notion for one more season. I don't think it's

going to be a particularly fun year for visiting Astro fans to get into a stadium. I think there's going to be a lot of fights, and thank you for the phone call. There's going to be a lot of stuff going on. I don't think, and Brandon, great call. I don't think it's going to be a good year for traveling Astro fan. I'm not saying this as a threat. I'm just saying this as a reality. that beer, baseball, summertime, and people being pissed off is a horrible concoction. It just is. So if you are planning that road trip to especially one of the areas that probably would be even more volatile than sailors, like if you go to Cleveland, I don't think it's going to be that big of a deal.

I would hope not. I don't think Minnesota is going to be a place you'll be afraid to where you are. But L.A. New York? Yeah. It won't be pleasant. Just don't go to L.A. or New York. Yeah. I would say stay away from L.A. New York.

Where else would you stay away from? You don't go to, they play Philadelphia, but is that game in series in Houston or in Philadelphia this year? I know they play the National League East. Arlington may be a pain of the ass to. Paulinson probably not great. Oakland. Oakland, anyway. Well, first of all, I used to, I don't care if the actual is required boys.

You wouldn't want to be there anyway. It's a crappy stadium. If you're going to go to an Oakland game, go during the day. At night, you do not want to be anywhere near Oakland Coliseum, just telling you. And here's the thing that kind of sucks is that it would be kind of fun to go to Arlington this year

because it got the brand new, you know, it's Minutemate Park light. Looks just like Minutemate Park, essentially. Mimic Made Park, as they're calling it. Yeah, that'd be kind of fun. I do want to go up there because it's roof and I've always been avoiding Arlington in the summertime because it's so ridiculously hot.

But I wouldn't, I'm not going to endorse Astro fans putting on a bunch of, Astros getting into Rwanda. There probably will be a lot. I mean, the last couple of years, it's been like almost a 50-50 split anyways. So maybe you do it strength and numbers. Exactly.

That's what I was exactly. You get your best 20 closest fringe. You get your brass knuckles. You get your baseball bats and you're ready to rumble. Like a good old-fashioned Texans Cowboys Rumble. Like if I call the Astro, the Rangers ticket office and said, hey, I want to buy 100 tickets for an Astro group where they put in me. Well, don't say Astros.

Just telling me for your friends. They're going to say, where do you live? For the Shwainer's Hospital. Oh, so you want me to lie? Yes. So you're telling me a team that cheated fan base should lie to get up to the game. Yes.

That's why you can't be a father that you know of already. Well, 242. We beat the cases. Let's go. Houston's official sports cliche translator. I'm working hard. I'm trying to be

a good teammate. I'm trying to go out here every day and do my job. Matt Thomas. Taking it one day at a time. Garrett Stubbs is at a plate. Garrett trying to convert from catcher to infield. Sounds eerily familiar. They may do that before the Astros?

Not that I could think of. I can't either. A name does not come to mind. Ross, you were checking Twitterverse. Yes, I was. You know, Matt, during the show, I'm, you know, show prep is before the show, but then you also have to be constantly keeping an eye out. In-show content.

Huge sports. news of the day. So let me look at where I'm on it. Okay. There's a promoted ad for The Invisible Man. Of course. Fat Tuesday. Tuesday thoughts, pretty Ricky.

Pretty Ricky. The number two thing trending on Houston trends is, I'll let you say it. Dick Pound. He's the longest serving member of the International Olympic Committee. The what? the longest serving member of the International Olympic Committee

told the Associated Press the decision to cancel the Olympics in Tokyo should be made by the end of May but said an indication show it will be quote business as usual the longest serving member of that IOC is Dick Pound so Dick Pound is coming out really

strong on this coronavirus thing let me tell you I'm going to tell you some little honesty if the Olympics called me and said Hey Matt you did the Olympic in 1996, yes. Would you like to be the PA announcer for the 96 Olympic Games? I'm not going. 2022 or what are they? It's this summer. July 24th is when Dick Pound announced that the Olympic game start. In Tokyo, Japan. Yeah. Hard pass. You would you guys go? I'm good. If I gave you a free

trip to the Olympics, you can see any three or four events you want. Would you go? No. Why the hell would I want to go to that? Well, that's not the answer. Can I just take the flight? If I gave you a free Olympic trip, you would not say why the hell would I want to go with that? Can I just take the flight and not go to any of the events? Oh, so you're saying you're anti-event? I'm anti-landing in a country where there's virus. Well, it's in China, not Japan. But it's moving all over the world. It's close.

It's like the love train. Join hands. No. Join the coronavirus train. I just don't want to waste my time at the Olympics. Dick Pound seems very concerned. I'm afraid to look at the mentions. You should because they're funny. Can you read three of them before we get to believe or not? Trojan brand condoms has responded.

You mean at Trojan brand? Yes. We're not sure what he uses, but we use hashtag Magnum on our longest serving member. Let me see what the AP has on mentions. One size guy says, you got to go by Richard if your last name is pound. What a dot, dot, dot, unfortunate name. This is a lot to... What?

This is a lot to swallow. He's probably popular at the Olympic Village. Don't read that one ever again. He replaced Hugh Johnson. I'm still looking. It's old. It's not just a name. It's also a hobby.

Let's act like more mature people than this. Why? Because we hold these airwaves very, very in high regard. Dick Pound is laying down the hammer. What was Mrs. Pound thinking? I do that all the time with athletes' names. Like, where do you come up with that name? I told you I had a coach in middle school.

His name was Richard Head. Did you meet Mrs. Head? She was an administrator. Yeah, she was the registrar. And you didn't walk over and say, what the hell were you thinking? She was the registrar. This is a Teague Middle School. Aldeen, shout out.

She was the registrar, and the son, the son, Richard, was a coach. Well, Mrs. Bound was a teacher. probably thinking her son was going to be very popular in school. We're getting suggestions we should do a fantasy five of real people's names that are hard. Dick Pound's warning should erect some concern. What's his middle name? No, don't even want to guess. Not even interested.

So, yeah, could we do a fantasy five of real life people's names that are really awkward? Dick Pound really nails it here. Five minutes left to go in the show, Woodshed. Should we do? Please get to the sounder now. No, uh, something's wrong. No one loaded it in. What?

Sing it, Ross. Believe it or not. Bound out. Down down. Now, believe it or not. Here's how it works. We're going to play America's fat.

This is awful with no music behind it. Tracks. There we go. This is America's fastest growing sports game. Shall we simply call it. Believe it or not. And here's how it works. You call 7-1-3-3-2-1.

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Statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Belief it's erroneous full of bunk and man up. You will say this. Nah. To believe or not, so all things about Mardi Gras slash Fat Tuesday wins your prize, Ross, what's the prize? I'm sure it's a really great one.

You can ride with us to like Charles. We're living in 10 minutes. No, we're not. No, he can't ride. Okay. I'll find it. You weren't prepared for the prize. I was, and I was reading stories about Dick Pound tweets.

We've got a pair of tickets to see Brooks and Dunn, Travis Tritt, and Tucker Beethard. I guess that's how you say that name? I don't know who that is. Bethard? Sure. June 6th at Woodlands Pavilion. Info and tickets available at LiveNation.com.

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There you go. Nice job. Frank. Do you get some pancakes, man? Oh, I'm hungry. Frank on 790. What was your favorite part of the radio show today? I like the new theme song you have to this segment.

We sang that. Marty Gras, celebrations were banned in most states during the second great awakening between 1790 and 1820. Believe it or not? Not. Statement number two for the win. In America, the first Mardi Gras was not held in New Orleans. It was actually held in Mobile, Alabama, back in 1703. Believe it or not? Believe it. There you go. Congratulations. Another winner. Sorry, yeah, there you go. Stephen on 790. Stephen, you ready to play, believe it or not? In Mardi Gras tradition, purple represents justice.

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Not. Oh, it was. Very truthful, too. Why are you laughing so hard? Good question. Bill. Oh, hi Bill. Hi, Bill. This ain't Bill. This is Kyle. You sound like, you sound like, oh, hi, Kyle. You sound like Bill, Jim Adler and a mobile.

No, this is Kyle. You know who I am, big man. How you doing, buddy? All right, Kyle. Good luck to you, my friend. In some countries, finding the baby and the baby cake means that you must host a Mardi Gras party. Believe it or not. That is, believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win in New Orleans. Mardi Gras results in about 1.4 million people visiting the city between 800 and 1,000 arrests. Believe it or not.

I'm going to say believe it. No, it's only about 300 arrests, but thank you for playing, Kyle. We'll see you later. And that is, believe it or not. And that concludes the show. Now, tomorrow, we're either going to do a radio show between noon and three, depending on the weather. Or we're going to do Astros baseball. coverage, which means...

Are we supposed to be listening to you right now? Yeah, y'all are just talking right in the middle of the show. Yeah, because he's ready to go, and we're ready to get going. Well, I've got 30 seconds of killed here. Okay, what do you want us to do now? Nothing. What should we do? No, we already did that. Astros, baseball tomorrow or us.

What would you rather have on? Are you sure? Very busy. The Astros may get played either way. Well, no, because the Astros may get rained out tomorrow. You guys work... If you should turn your microphone on, it would probably be helpful. I already turned it on.

somebody turned it off. I'm pretty sure this blue button means on. That's what I just pushed. Anyway, have a great day. We're going to have a great day. We're going to listen to you guys going to late Charles because 790 is beautiful up on the east side. I'm along with you. Black checking craps. We're going right now.

You really mean that. Thank you. Adam, Adam, or next. Talk to you guys either tomorrow or Thursday at 12 noon. The A team is next here on Sports Talk 790.