The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show : It's Cal's Fault

Episode Date: March 17, 2020

The Matt Thomas Show with @SportsMT, @SportsRV and @ProNickLow 3/17/20The Fault Lies With Cal and Janice McNair....Sell The Team (0:00)Matt Reviews The Godfather (33:04)Angry Patriots Fan (51:52)Suspension of Fun (1:15:12)

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1201 in H-Town. What's happening in luck? Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Alongside our producer, Nick Lowe, my co-host, my cohort, SportsRV Ross, Villariel. Hi, I'm Matt.

I'm Matt Thomas. You can find me on Twitter at SportsMT. some of you did yesterday. Thank you for the follow. I don't typically listen to my own show back. And the same thing goes with my play-by-play broadcast. Now, occasionally I'll listen to play by to see if I'm doing something right or wrong or I could have used

a different term. Oh, I got a lot of pointers for you. A lot of notes. Remember, remind me to ask you, never 31st on that. So, yesterday, we were getting a lot of traction in a particular video that was put together. And I was like, what is so interesting about this video? It's a bunch of DeAndre Hopkins highlights. Yes.

It was you and me talking about the moment we found out that DeAndre Hopkins was traded. Correct. And everybody's laughing their ass off. They're all copying and sharing it to their Facebook page. We got good numbers on our website. I didn't realize how utterly emotional we were and frankly, speechless. We were in disbelief. Yeah.

I think I just kept saying what, 25 times. over again. And I didn't do it intentionally. It wasn't a bit. This is the real thing. So now that I've had basically 24 hours to think about this and watched it, Stefan Diggs

got moved from Minnesota to Buffalo, which included lots of draft picks, including a first-round selection. Yes. And now that I noticed that the Texans picked up a safety I've never heard of before my life, and then they picked up Randall Cobb, who is clearly in the downside of his career, clearly was not

much of a threat to Dag Prescott in Dallas, the second half of the season, because I had Randall Cobb in my fantasy team, and he did bupkins for me. I've had a chance to kind of take a deep breath, so to speak. And after taking this deep breath, Bill O'Brien is a horrible football coach and a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible general manager. And as Adam Clinton was talking about this yesterday on the A team, which you guys can catch three here on 790. Ross, he's right. We're done blaming Bill O'Brien. This is all on Cal and unfortunately Mrs. McNair, Janice McNair. This is on them. I'm done telling you how bad Bill

O'Brien is. You guys already know that. Thanks, guys. I'm tired of telling you that he has way too much control of this organization. I'm tired of trying to figure out what the hell Jack Easterby has on Bill O'Brien. Or why they're such best friends. I'm tired of figuring out how Bill O'Brien, as the team goes into a next round of futility, whether it's a loss in a key regular season game, or a boneheaded loss at home during the playoffs, or giving up a 24-nought-point lead at Kansas City in a playoff game, and then it gets more power.

I'm done figuring it out, Ross. there's no need to Bill O'Brien has been given the keys to the Mercedes or whatever vehicle of he is choosing I haven't been operating like a Mercedes It's acting like a Chevette If anybody knows what a Chevette is

What's the bottom line vehicle in today's world Gosh I don't know Ford Fiesta Fort Fiesta A What's the little There's the little cars The little smart cars

Yeah. That's what the Texans are. They're little smart cars. They get going a little bit, but they tap out at 57 miles an hour. Yeah. The driver's clearly intoxicated. Clearly. So from here on out, and obviously when we get to the games, we'll have a chance to go over individual coaching decisions.

But for the most part, the Matt Thomas show is not going to take a series of well-deserved critical marks towards the head coach. It's only ownership. Cal McNair needs to sell the team. He's not going to. I know there's a petition out there for Cal to remove Bill O'Brien. Cal just, I don't either think he has the capacity to figure out what's going on, or he just doesn't care. I think this is the capacity. I don't think he doesn't care.

Does Cal ever come across you as a person that's right on top of things? I don't know. I don't know anything about Cal. We never hear him speak. He's operating in the shadows. He's never been on the forefront. He never speaks. He never releases even a statement or anything.

He's spoken two times in the last 12 months. One of the Houston Sports Awards to talk about Jerry Jones and his dad and his dad and how his dad was honored. Cool. And one time on the Texans radio broadcast with a prepared statement that you could clearly tell,

and I've heard it, was right off a piece of paper. He doesn't... John McClellan. Elaine doesn't even get a chance to talk to him. And John's very favorable to the Texans. I mean, he goes on Twitter and has all this bluster, but that's not him. He gives him F-minuses on the grade sometimes.

Yeah, but then he softens it up. And that's fine. I mean, John's got to cover a beat. I mean, we all, let me peel the curtain back. We all got to be, we all got to temper ourselves. We all do. And no matter what sport we cover or talk about, we temper, depending on what our relationships are. And I'll be the first tell you.

I mean, I'm going to have a much. more optimistic viewpoint of the Rockets and say a lot of other people are. Because I'm around them. I see these people. I have relations to these people. That's just what I am. And I don't hide from that. But John's not going to ultimately crush them because he's got to go work with them and be with them every day. But that's really not even beside them. The point is that Cal McNair never speaks. We don't know what Cal's thinking. We don't, when Bill O'Brien said things about Jack Easterby and said, you know, hopefully some days you guys will go chance to meet him. Who, who decides that? Jack Easterby decides that. Bill O'Brien decides that.

That's like when you're on your phone with your parents at college and you're like, yeah, I've been dating this girl, you know, I'm hoping someday you get to meet her. What? Oh, I got one for you. This is what my son would say. Hey, dad, I'm having a great job. Doing a great job here at Texas. My grades are pretty good and someday you'll get to see them. Wait a minute. I'm paying your tuition. Yeah, okay, dad. Sometimes you'll get a chance to see you. All right. Thanks, son. That's why I root so hard for Mike Dan Tony. He's a good person and I know he wants to win and he's genuine. That's why I rooted so hard for A.J. Hinch. He's a good person and is genuine and unfortunately made a terrible mistake that cost him his job. I don't get that feeling. My guess is if we went inside the Texans offices

and when pulled off some high ranking executives who shall remain nameless or employees or people around there. I bet there is nothing but eggshells over there on Kirby. And you know who's responsible for those eggshells? Cal McNair. Cal McNair. And I'll never and I have people that I know over there that work in those offices that would never, that would

never tell me otherwise. Sometimes when you're trying to protect your job, you're not going to say things about people that you know that if ever got back to them they'd lose their job. And I respect that. I get that. But I guarantee you, if you and I Ross went over to NRG Stadium and walked inside those offices.

Figuratively speaking, there'd be eggshells all over the place. Probably. It just seems like, I mean, the word used by Aaron Wilson in his tweet was friction, and that's what we've been going with. There's friction between Bill O'Brien and DeAndre Hopkins. There's basically friction with everybody, and it all

seems to stem from Bill O'Brien. We got a lot to get to today. Tom Brady has announced, as an Instagram we were announced it, I think. I'm not sure. He is no longer going to be a member of the New England Patriots. Statements released by Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft. We'll read those. Bottom

of the hour. Matter of fact, we're going to read those statements coming back because it's fresh news. Bottom of the hour, Ross did a little internet dive yesterday to find out what people around the NFL thought about the trade and they graded it. The national perspective, Matt.

And we will also celebrate new Texan signings. It's the Matt Thomas show. If you guys want to in, I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to change. You're not going to take it anymore.

Well, I haven't taken it since the franchise has been built, but there are a lot of people in there. I mean, there are a lot of people that have texting something in their avatar, or they spend all of their money on tailgating, or they go on the road and act like asses when they go to City Hall of different cities. I mean, when are you all going to wake up?

This, I mean, again, it's ridiculously easy. I'm going to speak from personal experience. It was very easy to root for AJ Hinch and the Astros. It is incredibly easy to root for Mike Dantone. I wish you all got to know Mike Dantone like I did, like I do, because you'd root really hard for him, for him to get over the hump, just like for the Rockets.

I don't know how you root for the Texans. It doesn't make any sense. And if I was the only one on an island on this sports RV, I could probably feel like, you know what, Matt, you just don't like them and you never have. I've been frankly indifferent to them for 15 to 16 years. Now it's just you, what they're doing is they're taking our listeners who love the Texans and they're spitting on them. Because of personal, as you said the term or what Aaron Wilson said, friction. Bill's a grown-ass man who's got an incredible power.

If he's going to have problems with people and then instead of trying to try to, fix the friction, just move them all for 10 cents in the dollar. This organization is screwed. This is the Detroit Lions. Ooh. This is the New York Jets. This is what those organizations do.

Right? Yeah, but they've had more success in those organizations over the last few years at least. Okay, division championships. La-di-da. For the last five years. And embarrassing embarrassing playoff losses

and more power when most coaches would have lost their job. But don't the Detroit Lions and the New York Jets actually at least get some value out of the players they run out of their organization? Hell, even the Minnesota Vikings

who haven't tasted a Super Bowl since what the 70s? Yeah. They got first round picks for a guy that Stefan Diggs hated playing in Minnesota. They got a first, fourth, fifth, and sixth. Yeah, I think they keep adding draft picks to it. Buffalo's like, man, we feel

like we undervalued this. We're going to give you one more pick. It is the Matt Thomas show. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. Taking your way, takes everything you've got. Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.

Wouldn't you like to get away? The hell is this? Is this like the long version? No, this is the actual song. Oh, it is? Okay. Extended version. Remember when MTV did unplug or whatever? Or it was the one who did the acoustic show?

Unplugged. It was unplugged? Was this ever a hit? I hope not. I mean, people heard it a lot. You want to be where you can see. The struggles are all the same. Sing it with everybody.

go where everybody knows your name. All right, Ross, fate this down. You read what Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick said. Okay. We'll start with Robert Kraft. How do I possibly sum up the depth of my gratitude to Tom Brady for what he's given us in the past 20 years or the sadness I feel knowing it's ending? I love Tom like a son and I always will.

He's brought so much happiness to me personally. and to all of our fans. I'd hope this day would never come, but rather that Tom would end his remarkable career in a Patriots uniform after yet another Super Bowl championship. There simply will never be another Tom Brady. I now look forward to the day where he can bring him back home to the New England Patriots to celebrate his Patriots career, his endless achievements, and his legacy

as the greatest of all time. I love him very much. Robert Kraft. Tom was not just a player who bought into our program. He was one of its original creators. Tom lived and perpetuated our culture. On a daily basis, he was a tone setter and a barraiser. Tom and I will always have a great relationship built on love.

Admiration, respect, and appreciation has been a privilege to coach Tom Brady for 20 years. Sometimes in life, it takes some time to pass before truly appreciating something or someone, but that has not been the case with Tom. He's a special person and the greatest quarterback. of all time. And now we're on to Cincinnati. Now we're on to whatever week one is. Why didn't you read it in your Bill Belichick voice?

I could have. There you go. I might have to download this song. It's so damn catchy. It's okay. You don't want to, I mean, you want to be cruising down the highway listening to this? Have you seen my iPad?

Yeah, that's true. I mean, man, it's, I've been on road trips where you, where you've had control of the radio. It's the worst. Yeah. This is extended. What is this the Inagata-Davita-Lengthy mix? Bown-Bown-Bown.

I wonder if there's an extended version of Growing Pains. That show is pretty catchy, too. That's enough. BJ, we're playing Growing Paints coming out of the break. Hell, you know, we're going to play TV theme songs today. I don't care. By the way, at $150 today, an hour and a half from now, it's our, we're going to do suspension of fun yesterday. Okay.

But since all that crap. Bill O'Brien suspended our fun. Yeah. He's going to permanently suspend our fun. We're going to do suspension of fun game. It's going to be, are you smarter than Ross? We're going to do this Monday through Thursday. Not that game every day, but we're going to do different games.

And today's edition is going to be, are you smarter than Ross? I'm looking forward to it. I'm nervous, though. We'll explain more of the rules later on. Let's see. By way, angry Patriot guy is calling him the show about a half-hry-fatry fan where he's back. He's going to call in a half an hour. And when are we going to get Matt's movie review?

We had to put that off, too. We'll do that in half an hour. Okay. Grow nice and quick. What's that angry Patriots fan is going to... Well, he's on a conference call. Apparently he's talking to all of his buddies in Boston. Oh, that's a sure.

Let's go to some phone calls. Stephen in Richmond at 1223 on 790. Hi, Stephen. What's going on, guys? Thanks for taking the call. You got it. Listen, I think he hit it on the head a little bit regarding Cal McNean. And, you know, just kind of the absentee owner's stance that he and, you know,

his late father has kind of taken. and, you know, all these head coaches have all really worn out. They're welcome going back to Capers, Cubiac as well as Bill O'Brien. So I don't really want to touch on that. I think you hit it. But the thing that I wanted to say my part on, and I know this is going to be unpopular because obviously the compensation for Hopkins was not commiserate with his true value.

And it shows with the Dix trade with Buffalo. but you have to consider Hopkins is going, or sorry, Watkins is going for 35 mil minimum next year. Consul is going for, what, 18 to 20 minimum? He's going to be the highest paid tackle in the league. You got to re-sign Justin Reed. You still have gaping holes in the secondary. You got to replace DJ Reader.

They've shown an ability to draft well, I guess, with wide receivers minus the health aspect. So I see where the idea, sorry, if Hopkins agent made it clear, hey, we're going for Julio Jones money. We want to, you know, cut up this three years, 40 million. We want three years, 60 million, or four for 80, or Amari Cooper money. If that was clear and, you know, concise from his agent, then I can totally understand biting the bullet, maybe one year early, and trying to get some value. obviously just the talent evaluation from O'Brien is way off. You know, nobody's...

Yeah, see, that's the problem, Stephen, is like you said, if they're at an impasse, and he said, pay me as the number one pay, I want to be the number one highest paid receiver in the entire NFL, and Bill O'Brien says no, and they say, you know what? Well, you know, we're between a rock and a hard place. We need to move on. That's fine.

That's business. That happens. And he wouldn't be the first big-name player to ever be traded. But to trade him for what, you got for one of the best wide receivers in the entire NFL, that's the part to me that is inexcusable. You can say we were budding heads and we needed to move on. That's fine. But then to get a second round pick and a broken down running back who you're paying $10 million plus a year the next two years, that's what makes it unacceptable. Yeah, Stephen, you had me all the

way until we've got to the compensation part. Because again, if there was a bridge they couldn't cross and there was a lot of disharmony and there was worried about him being coming in the top two receiver at his age and his next contract or the next extension. I'm all in for what you said. But you didn't give this opportunity to trade

a valuable commodity and you got literally 10 cents in the dollar. And that's the problem we have with it. First of all, you trade one of the best in the game. That's a problem A. But you didn't get anything close to to their value. Look at what this Minnesota Vikings got in return for a guy that didn't even want to be any part of being

in Minnesota Viking. They got a massive haul. The Texans got nada. Zilch. Follow up? Oh, yeah. No, I mean, I totally agree. The compensation is that. Any way you put it. But, you know, are we really, are we really surprised that Bill O'Brien is dropping his pants and didn't, you know, went alphabetical order called Arizona? I didn't call anyone else. I like that. He went alphabetically through the directory and then he's got Arizona and that's what he, that's.

That's what he settled on. He's like, well, don't need to go with anybody else. Second round pick, let's do this. So you're telling me that I don't have to call Baltimore because, no, excuse me, I don't have to call Atlanta. They would have been next on the list. There you go. Thanks, Stephen.

Appreciate the phone. That is hilarious. I heard that before. That's what Bill O'Brien did. He started at the top of the list. Is Arizona first? Yeah. I think they would be.

Yeah, then Atlanta. Then Baltimore. then he didn't get to Atlanta because they were too busy giving off a better package for Hayden Hurst. All right. How did the rest of the NFL see this trade? Nicholas, you need to find an appropriate song for Ross to read the grades of other team, of other national media. Can I get an idea where this is going to go? Okay.

I'll work on that. All right. 1227 is a time. It is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. That's how you reach a show. 713-212-5-79. If you want to reach out through your Twitter, you can do that as well.

It is at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Pro Nick Lode. More Matt Thomas. Now on Sports Talk 790. All right, ladies and gentlemen, before we return to your phone calls. By the way, we have one line open. Come on in and say hi to us. We need to fill the pain together. You know Janet Jackson's coming to Houston this summer, supposedly.

Would you go see her in concert if I got your tickets? Yeah, if I didn't have to pay, I'd go. Yeah, she's one of those I wouldn't pay to see. But I'd go if somebody said, here's a pair of tickets. Younger Ross was a big fan of Ben Jenna Jackson. I don't know, 47-year-old Matt's a big fan of Janet Jackson. I've been a big fan of hers since she was panting on Good Times. Did you know that?

Yeah, I knew she was on Good Times, but... Name her second TV series she was on a regular basis. That would be Matlock No, not Matlock What are you nuts? Not a bad poll, but that's not right. Just throwing a guess out there. Do you know, Nick?

What, Matlock? No, the second... Silver spoons or whatever. No, she was Willis's girlfriend on different strokes for a while. Of course. Okay. I never watched different strokes or good times.

Oh, by the way, I would tell we're playing games. TV theme songs. Are we all day? Oh, I was looking for something for Ross's question. Do you have a definitive song? I got something. I don't know if I like it that much, but we'll try it. Start us off here, see if it helps.

Ross will read reporters from other parts of the country gradient of Texan trade. Oh, geez. Yes, this does fit. A little Sinatra. Let's start with ESPN and Bill Barnwell. My first instinct when I saw the terms of this trade was to worry whether Hopkins had lost a limb. This is a jaw-dropping, mind-bending, inexplicable trade for O'Brien,

whose bizarre run as Texans' general manager is going to be the subject of a 30-for-30 documentary one day. Johnson would likely be in line to get a one-year deal in the $2 million range if he hit the open market. If the Cardinals wanted to trade Johnson's deal to a rational team, my best estimate is they would have to need to attach a third round pick to get it done, and even that would be on the light end of possible compensation. Instead of sending a third round pick to ship off Johnson, the Cardinals somehow managed to ship off Johnson by swapping fourth round picks with the Texans and getting DeAndre Hopkins.

And that's basically the gist of it. You get it. Texans grade F. Okay, so so far, the report card has from one teacher F. Yes, and they had worried if Hopkins had lost a limb. Let's go to the next person. This is from CBS Sports. Okay. This is great, by the way.

Nice pull. There's no point in beating around the bush here. Instead, let's grab the mower and barrel right through it, which is exactly what the Texans did to any sense of logic before striking this deal. It's virtually impossible to fathom a scenario where in a team would trade arguably the best wide receiver in the league in exchange for a running back. Now, let's take it a step further and note the running back in question was demoted in 2019. and he's far from guaranteed to return to his prime. And the Texans are also taking on the entire brunt of Johnson's contract

to the tune to combine $20 million cap hit over the next two seasons, despite Johnson having only $1,000-yard season under his belt in five tries. Grade F. Okay, so we have an F and an F. Let's do two more to balance this out. Sure. This is from the sporting news. The Texans were in a market.

market for a running back with Carlos Hyde and Lamar Miller heading to free agency. David Johnson is 28. He only played 13 games and was essentially benched for Kenyon Drake after dealing with a few injuries. The Texans now need to dive deep into a class of wideouts with a first round pick because they can't go into the season with oft-injured Will Fuller and Kenny Stills is their only two reliable options at the position. Hopkins makes the Cardinals a much better team. Johnson makes the Texans no better than they were in 2019 and probably worse.

grade D. So there you go. That's an improvement from an F, right? Okay, so you got an F, you got an F, and you got a D. So that averages out to D-minus. This is from this, yes, the next one is from USA Today, frequent 790 contributor, Stephen Ruiz. Let's go with F-plus instead of D-minus. Fair enough.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on NFL stars who were likely to be traded. I'd consider putting David Johnson on the list, but decided against it for two reasons. Johnson had lost a starting job to Kenyon Drake. we can't really consider a backup running back a star. And also, Johnson's contract was basically untradable on its own, so any team that wanted to trade for him would actually be trading for a draft pick. I underestimated Bill O'Brien's incompetence. The Texans did trade for Dayton Johnson and his guaranteed salary.

They also got a second round pick in the deal. Oh yeah, they also gave away D'Andre Hopkins. So essentially, Houston paid $15.3 million for a washed-up running back in a second round pick, while giving up one of the best three receivers in the league and a fourth round pick. The Texans added some much-needed draft capital, but now have a gaping hole at receiver. Maybe they can use that second-round pick on a receiver and hope he's as good as Hopkins. Grade?

Oh, here's one last thing. I don't know what Bill O'Brien is doing. Texans grade F. Okay, see it. F, an F, an F, and a D. Correct. That's enough Bill O'Brien is getting held back a grade

Based on these grades Bill O'Brien Can't apply to school Bill O'Brien can't be a part of extra-cricot activities I don't think he's getting back into brown Off of these grades Cow's reaction Well

You'll be better What did you say? Why is Cal the teacher from peanuts That's what Cal is Are you saying Cal has like special needs? No, I'm not saying that. Oh, geez. No, we're not going down that road.

He's just, he's just ruining the franchise that came to Houston in 2002. Cal and Bill and Jack Easterby are the three-headed monster that are destroying a Houston NFL franchise. I can listen to Sinatra quite a bit. Oh, Sinatra's one of the goats, Matt. He is one of the goats. I was surprised. Bill O'Brien is not one of the goats.

Was there a, was there a, was there a, Frank Sinatra. There wasn't a Franks Notter song in Godfather, was there? Maybe I've missed it. No, I don't think so. Was there a soundtrack? Yeah, a soundtrack to the movie? Most movies have a soundtrack, Matt. Yeah. No, not every one movie has a soundtrack. Pretty much, yeah. What do you mean? Every movie has music in it. Well, yeah, but they don't have a soundtrack. They go sell it to the audience.

You could probably go about it. All right. Back on the phones. Judge Sam. Silent movies didn't have soundtracks. Oh, guys. It's been a long time since I've called radio. I know. Are you all right? Yeah, I'm okay, but I'll tell you what. O'Brien needs to go, and I'm going to tell you what, the reason we can't get any better than we are is because we have an owner who does not know how to speak.

And whether he can speak properly or not, that's really a, really a, oh, God, I don't know what all to say. He's an idiot. The whole franchise front office are idiots, and I hate them. And I hate what they've done to this team. they mortgaged our future last year. Now they've given them away the top receiver in the NFL, I don't know what the hell's going on. Anyway, F-minus.

F-minus. Let me tell you something. When a judge gives you a bag, like, Judge, if we put Bill O'Brien in front of your court, you would have sentenced into, I don't know, God knows how long, like a lifetime sentence of never running an NFL team, or maybe somebody else's an NFL team. That's right.

That's right. He'd be through. I mean, we need, but see, the problem is we can't get rid of him because we've got our owner that does not speak. You know, he's afraid of everything. He's all you can find him in Red Bull Country Club drinking martinis every day. That's where you can find him. Yeah, thank you for the, yeah, Judge, don't be a strange to the show, my friend.

Good to hear your voice as always. Thank you very much. Does anybody know, I mean, do you, does anybody run into Cal by accident? Like, you know, if you live in, like, his part of town, which is obviously River Oaks. He's not grinding it out in Katie. You know, but I mean, you live in a certain part. I think he's like in Greenspoint or something? No, he's not living in a one-bedroom apartment off of, I don't know, Laura Copy.

Put it that way. Don't you just by accident run into him in a grocery store? Maybe. I mean, don't you? What does he look like, though? What is Calic? We've seen him in suits. Does he just wear like Adidas jumpsuits in the way?

Does he wear a windbreaker and sweats? I think he looks like Captain Kangaroo. He is wearing, hmm, how do I put this? Blank huggers. Really? Yeah. He's in the short, like with the long striped shorts and a headband? Like, for instance, you know the hottest one.

You can I say not huggers, right? Can I say not huggers? Probably. Okay, we just did. Real fast. Like Stockton style. The hottest department store to find women not named in the gallery is the target. is the target over here on San Felipe.

You single guys want to go out and see what good-looking women are. Go to that target. They're all married over there, though. They're housewives. You and I go get a nice scene. Well, actually, is Target open? I don't even know if it's open or not. Probably.

But that's where I could see Cal going in with those really short shorts. Collar, and is he going with a collared shirt? Why would he wear a collared shirt and nut huggers? It's what bignanors do. He just does whatever he wants. He's just eccentric. trick. Yeah.

Like a Howard Hughes? But does anybody ever see him and I always say, hey, what are you thinking? Because people will see me at restaurants and introduce themselves. I was over just the other day at a restaurant and somebody introduced himself. And I'm like, okay, well, you guys know if I'm in King, one, I'm going to be in the area. Now, I'm doing a lot of takeout now in the next couple weeks. But somebody's got to run into him and say, what, cow, why? Or are people just afraid to say, cow, why?

That's a new t-shirt we need to build. Just build a t-shirt that says on the front, Cal, Y, question mark. That's it. That's it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Matt Thomas continues.

On Sports Talk 790. A promise I made to those. of you during this time of our coronavirus and the fact there's no sports is that I was going to watch a movie a week once a week yeah then I'll report to you on Monday and we were into this yesterday but because of all

everything they went down today is the day but I tell you that I watched all three hours of the godfather and it probably took me four hours to watch because I had to watch a couple of scenes over again just to kind of catch up on your phone that may be true plus dinner and whatnot

that as you guys know it is not my genre of choice. Yeah. You're more of a Shrek and Cars kind of guy. Toy Story 3. No, I like to laugh at movies. I don't like to see dead horses on a bed. I laughed at the godfather.

Spoilers, Matt. What's that, Nick? I laughed a lot at the godfather. I bet you did because you're disturbed. Dead horse in the bed? That's hilarious. No, it's not. It's gross. So just really fast observations. We've got some more phone calls to get to.

If you guys want to jump in on just how an up the tag. Texans are. Excuse me. How enough Cal McNair is. And if he can call the show, I'd like to talk to him, but he's not going to. Bob used to listen to the show. May he rest in peace. But Cal is probably not listening. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-1-2-1-2-5-7-90.

First of all, I didn't realize how much star power there was in the movie. It's all over the place, Matt. Secondly, it's so funny how the movie turned when Vito decided he didn't want to get in the drug game. Correct. He just wanted to do gambling and... Good old fashion. Political corruption.

Yeah. Like, you know, buying off politicians. A little fashion racketeering and running numbers running. But good safe stuff. But I... What else I want me to say? Except I just... I cannot wait for this weekend.

Do you have any questions? You need any clarifications? Everything makes sense to you. Okay. So I am to understand that... And now when somebody says that Luca Bratzi's... loops with the fishes. You know what they mean? Yes. I'm surprised Luca didn't last the whole movie. He wasn't the sharpest nail. I'm surprised that Sunny didn't last the whole movie.

So you were, yeah, Sunny dying was a shock if we're the first time you watch it. Sonny, frankly, the godfather dying was, I mean, Vito dying was a big shocker to me. And then. So this is like Game of Thrones before Game of Thrones. Nice, polite, not involve of family business. Michael decides he's going to take the corrupt police cop and one of the mob boss, other mob family bosses, to dinner in an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn where he goes to the bathroom, and he pulls up the weapon and he shoots him both in the head. Which, by the way, I didn't know they had chained toilets back in the day in restaurants.

Well, they said it was old-timey. Yeah, that's true. It was not, what, 1948? 50s or something. Somewhere in that range. So all I'm going to tell you is this. I loved it. And this weekend, I'm going to watch Godfather 2.

Godfather 2 is some say better. I don't know. They're both pretty close. But what I never realized is the star power. Marlon Brando I knew. A young. James Khan. James Conn.

Robert Duval. Al Pacino. Yes. Diane Keaton. James Khan looks like he's 23 and Sprite. You know what the funny part is? Abe Vigoda still looks about 80. That's because he was.

And what about the fantastic foreshadowing? So Vito tells the son, he says, whoever sets up the meaning to, you know, work out a deal with you guys is going to be the one that's going to try to snitch on you. He was like, he knew who the snitch was going to be. You know, why not being a pagoda? Who we see it in the car and we don't know what happened to him after that. I'm going to presume that he was no longer with this as well.

And how do you like the complicated plan of taking out, Sonny? you have the brother-in-law beat the sister just to get him to leave the house and then they catch him at the toll booth because they know he's a hothead. Oh, I didn't figure that part out.

The brother-in-law was in on it. Well, I knew the brother-in-law was shady. So the brother-in-law says, I'll take an ass kicking just so I can get him back into the car. Yeah, he was ordered to or paid off to one of the other. I guess I don't really explain which. Makes me not want to go to a tow booth ever going.

I can tell you that for sure. Well, you don't stop. at toll boost anymore for the most part. By the way, did you know yesterday I was on a toll booth? They're not taking money anymore. It's an IOU system now. That's what it is. It's been more for, like a Hardy Toll Road's been like that for a while now.

Okay, I just had not been on the same Houston in a while, and that's what I just found out that you cannot pay anymore to get on there. You just get on, they've got a license, plenty, and they mail it to you. A Talia Shire, a young Taya Shire, if he will, who went on to later be a star in the obvious of the Rocky movies? Yeah. I'm good. And Diane Keaton was a Fox back in the movie.

the day. You forget what a young Diane Keaton will look like. Diane Keaton's like, you're not, tell me this isn't true. Michael says. Oh, she says, did you know any of this? He lied right to her face. No. And then those buddies come in, one of the cop that killed one of those.

So, oh, here's a question. So they've killed all, they've killed off all the police, all of the crime families, right? Yeah. My presumption is somebody's pissed about that. Would that be a fair assumption? Yeah, probably. Don't tell any more. And the first one, the baptism of Connie's baby,

did you notice that all that killing was happening? Yes. It was Michael being baptized in the blood of his enemies and the baby being baptized in the blood of Jesus, and he's becoming the godfather. It was also a fantastic alibi, too. That little allegory there. That's one of the greatest sequences in movie history.

You know, I did a little research. People consider Godfather being a top five movie of all times. Yeah. But a lot of people have it number one. Yeah, it's either one or two. And you spin all that. I love how you're just like, wow, this movie was awesome. Like, we've been telling you this for a decade. Well, I mean, again, I don't like Gore, and there was plenty of it.

It wasn't that much. I definitely don't watch Goodfellas. Then if you don't. Goodfellas is on Netflix now, though. That's, so it won't cause me. It costs me $4 to watch Godfather on Amazon Prime. You're in it? Yeah.

Leave the gun. Take the Canoli. Another great quote. So what they do, oh, that's right. So, yeah, they killed off the bodyguard out there in the middle of nowhere. A lot of people died, Matt. I'm assuming that in Godfather, too, also quite a few people died. Yeah.

Okay. Thanks for the heads up on that. So that's my next summer, my next summer, my next weekend's watching because we're not doing anything. Truth be true, totally told, Ross and I were planning a little getaway for 24 hours, and that has been canceled. Our good friends in Lake Charles have decided to close the casinos for a while. That's a shame. All right. Let's go to an online casino going. Seahawk, Mike. I didn't realize there was a Seahawk Mike in the Houston area.

Hi, Seahawk, Mike. Good afternoon, guys. First of all, let me thank you for the opportunity to pontificate on your problems you have right now in Houston. And let me say, first of all, go hawks. I can remember about two years ago all the Houston so-called fans calling the Houston shows and horrifyingly condemning Rick Smith as the worst general manager to come down the park. I mean, you guys just couldn't wait to get rid of Rick. Smith. He was the worst thing in the world. Let me also say thank you for

Mr. Brown and for Mr. Clowney, although Mr. Croney right now is asking for some money we might not be willing to give him. But the 12th here in Houston, want Houston fans to know that as your franchise continues to go down the drain, you might want to call Mr. Rick Smith to see if he wants to talk to you.

And this is what I really got to say to you guys, because I've really been enjoying the last 26 minutes of listening to you, talk about these theme songs from these different shows. Sports really has gone to a low right now, but the Houston fans have one thing to look forward to. One thing to look forward to.

The next couple of days, you can probably see JJ walking out the door saying, I got to be traded, and Watson doesn't demand to be traded. Your franchise is sunk into the second workflow in all time. Go Hawks. Go Hawks. Thanks. Seahawk, Dave, or whatever his name

is. Do you think he even knows who Steve Largen is? Maybe. Does he have an idea who Jim Zorn is? Does he even know where they played most of their games before they went to. Do you know who a Sean Salisbury is? Yeah. Former Seahog Great.

A Jacob Green, if you will. Second hour of the Matt Thomas show. We are 50 minutes away from the debut of suspension of fun. The category is today, are you smarter than Ross? By the way, Tom Brady, the Fox Sports Radio thinks they know where he's going. We'll tell you about who they think Tom's going to in just a moment. 713-212-5-790 This is the Matt Thomas show

Here we go, 103 on the second hour The Matt Thomas show. You are welcome. I know you're still pissed off, because I am. I don't even have a dog in the fight. Ross, you're way more of a Texans fan than I am. Am I? Well, I shouldn't say way more.

You're just more. but does these events just make you go oh screw it I'm not a Texans fan I wouldn't consider I mean I guess I kind of root for them

when they play on Sundays I don't get invested in the Texans I've been consistent in saying that the Oilers are my team and the Oilers were my team and once they went away I've only been saying this to you for 10 years Matt

thanks for listening I mean I have I'm actually literally wearing a Texan's shirt today because I think it's funny. Or was it clean? Tell the truth. And it was clean. Fair enough. I didn't buy this shirt. Any Texans gear I have was given it to me as a gift. But, I mean, I don't get invested in them. I don't, I mean, I don't go to draft parties.

I don't, I mean, I've been tailgating a couple times. I've been to maybe two Texans games ever. I've had fun, but I don't really get too invested in them. And so this is not going to make me done with them or not done with them. I think that makes it easier for me, luckily, because they've been a largely in-up franchise throughout its history. Right. Okay. So we're going to get to more on that and just how absolutely absurd yesterday was. And again, if you should go to our, is Facebook and Twitter have our live reactions to this?

That was the funniest thing I've seen in the last time. It's on Instagram and Facebook, the longer versions, if you want to find it there. It was just, it was just us. We just didn't know what's going on. Totally shot. In disbelief, we didn't believe that this was really happening. And then it did. And then when we got the compensation.

The best part is when we found out, I was like, wow, okay, it was probably for a lot of draft capital. Not exactly. Okay, I'm going to play a piece of audio. I think this is off of our Fox Sports Radio account. So, Nick, if this isn't it, we're going to turn it off pretty quickly. Colin Coward. Oh, great. Who bats about, and I like Colin a lot.

I don't. Why? I just do. What do you like about them? Opinion ended, which is good. Bad opinions. Yeah, he's a little hot bacony for me, but I've met him personally, and we had a great visit. That's what it is.

You just like him as a person. Yeah, yeah, I do. That's okay. Well, he's a bad broadcaster. He has bad takes, and I think he says stuff disingenuously and doesn't believe everything he says. Wow. Okay. That's not what I want here.

That's not what I want. Okay. Here's what I want to play. I was just told Jason Whitlock is joining me. Speak for yourself is off this week. So you're a busy guy. You're not listening to me. I was told 35 minutes ago, Jason.

You want to hear what I was told? Go ahead. Tom Brady signs tomorrow with Tampa Bay. Wow. Wow. He has made a decision. He talked to Tampa Bay yesterday. He was willing to resign with New England,

but he watched Stefan Diggs and D'Andre Hopkins go to franchises. And he then called Robert Kraft. An hour and a half later talks to Robert Kraft and says, I'm out. Robert Kraft acknowledged that. That Robert Kraft this morning acknowledged. Tom called me last night and came over. I don't think it's a coincidence. It was after Stefan Diggs had signed in division. And he also yesterday, you know, you could do this, talk to Tampa Bay.

Tampa Bay says we don't have a deal. I am told Tampa is the choice and he will sign tomorrow. Wow. That's an amazing story. Now, it is not a football source, Jason. I said this. It is not a football source. It is a source of wealth and celebrity connected to sports that knows Tom.

Hmm. A celebrity that knows Tom. Well, let's run through the possibilities. Jacelle Bunchton? Well, okay. That would, a celebrity that's in sports. Mark Wahlberg. That also knows Colin.

Because a celebrity is not going to go run to a national radio host. Let's think about this. Let's connect the dots on this. Because Rich Eisen has a lot of celebrities on his show. So is it Marky Mark? And the Funky Bunch? With good vibrations. Well, I'll tell you who a good celebrity friend of his is.

Go ahead. He was on, let's see, Home Alone 2. He hosted a show on NBC, a reality show. Leave Tom Brady alone. And he's the leader of the free world. Is Donald Trump, Colin Cowherd's source? It's like a chess player, Grandmaster, playing against a checker's child. Okay, so you're telling me that President Trump is battling coronavirus.

Yeah, well, he doesn't have it. No, he's battling the virus spreading across our country with our economic downturn. We got a potential recession. here going and he thought that it would be in his best interest to float a phone call to Colin Coward a quote-unquote iconic person and tell him that Tom's going to the Tampa Bay box welcome to the world of the media what you think could be Colin can't go on a show and goof this up right believe me I wouldn't think so oh believe me I mean Colin has said a few things like the rocket

aren't making the playoffs. I feel like I need a shower, though, after you just played Colin Cowherd and Jason Whitlock together. They don't bother me. I'm way more bothered by Skip and by... Same category to me. Max Kellerman. All in the same category.

Stephen A. used to be there. I don't know how he climbed out. Just by not being as idiotic as Skip Bayliss and Max Kellerman, I think he looks better. Do you know why he's done that? It's because he has backed off of the unbelievable hot takes, because ESPN is using him on SportsCenter. They're using him on a variety of different platforms. You can't be, like, for instance, they never run to Skip Baylis on Fox and say,

joining us now for his and, no, they know that two and a half hour, three hour show is just spit out as much crap as possible to see what it's. He's a cartoon character. Yeah. That's what Skip Baylis is. He's a professional wrestler. Right. That works.

Except he's not all oiled up in his underwear. By the way, I watched wrestling last night. How to go? Really odd. In what way? They were doing it from their performance center. The WWE is a place where they trained their wrestlers. So it was a full ring in a place where the guys, girls would walk from the backstage on this ramp to the stage to the ring.

Yeah. There was nobody in the crowd. Zero. That's it. Were the guys still able to effectively cut themselves with razor blades? That's not happening anymore. Oh. That's good.

But here's a thing. That's a health hazard. If you're wrestling against these people, you know, you talk to each other during the match. I don't mean to give away any secrets here. Like, hey, go this way and like, they communicate. Yeah, they communicate through very small words. Right. But they talk about what their communication is before the match.

You can hear all that? If you're close enough, I didn't see a match where you could hear that. They've got to be very careful about that. I mean, it's, it's K-FAB. It's something that's not out of the ordinary. K-FAB? That's what they call it. Kind of telling the secrets of the world.

K-fabe. Yeah, that's a term they use for telling the secrets. of wrestling. Sounds like a boy band from Korea or something. Okay. I didn't make it up, so it is what it is. How do you spell that? K-F-F-A-B-E.

K-Fabe. A word that probably was not in Webster's Dictionary 20 years ago. Okay. What does the definition say? The betrayal of staged events with the industry as real or true, specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine. That's K-Fa-Fa- That is what he just, that is what we're saying. is. There you go. They're just giving you the behind the scenes of the act they're trying to tell you

about. Okay, so let's do this. Let's come back. Let's figure out who could be Colin Cowards, what do you call him, iconic? Celebrity. Celebrity? Is it somebody that maybe is a past athlete? Yeah. I wonder if one of Tom Brady's buddies buddies called, like maybe a former athlete. Angry Patriots fan is going to join us too. He's on the line. You guys remember Angry Patriots fan? He's never happy about anything except about the Patriots. Patriots. He loves them more than life itself. Well, and he loves to talk trash about the Texans. Do you think angry Patriots would take any shots in the Texans and the Deniardiery Hopkins trade?

It's going to happen. We'll find out next on 790. Matt has eye trouble. He's having trouble seeing Dallas win anything anytime soon. Sorry about that, Friends to the North. Back to the Matt Thomas show. Not going home. You love this song, don't you?

I do. This is a Matt Thomas special. It makes you want to vomit. The Bee Gees are the goats. This song blows. Barry. Keep the flame alive. May he rest in peace.

No, he's alive. The other ones are dead. My bad. He had some really bad teeth back then. Let me tell you. You look at the video. Is that what you're doing? Yeah.

Ooh, can you be at 49? Don't doubt it. This song is not good. I'm going to listen to this on the way home. I bet you will. Listen to a young Barry. Listen to him to scream this out. This is really getting your juices flowing?

This is a strong term. That's a very clever song. And it's perfect for our buddy, Angry Patriots fan. That's where we're playing. I hope he's angry after hearing that song. Do you love that song? Do you love that song?

Oh, absolutely. It's a staple. Thank you very much. Thank you for calling the show today. Tell the city of Houston that's listening to right now and every word that you've called over the years and bagged on everything Texans-related about your boy, Tom, leaving New England.

Tell me about it. Well, Matt, we all knew it was coming. We're prepared. The hands have been coming. Now we did to find out. Is it Billichick? Is it Brady? I'll just say Billichick did win a couple of Super Bowls

before Brady was ever, I think, even born, maybe. So that's how you're trying to sell it, huh? And, you know, is it disappointing? Absolutely. Can we still beat the Texans? I mean, of course we could. You beat you guys with Jacoby-Britz it with a broken shoulder. And we got more Super Bowl banners than you have AFC championship banners or AFC championship banners.

Or AFC self-champions. Yeah, all right. And I didn't call to talk about Tom Brady. I mean, there's enough being fed about Tom Brady. I really, really, I was thinking about changing allegiance this morning because I was real sad about Tom. And you get a lot of expatriates. I was thinking maybe, you know, Brian be crazy enough to do something like sign him.

I mean, who knows what that guy's doing lately. I really called to talk about what is going on in the franchise, because I can't change allegiance after I thought about that trade. I mean, you call old Hopkins now, you know, nuke. I think O'Brien's name should now be nuked because he's just dropping nuke on your team since he's been in charge. I mean, what is going on? Well, you know what it is?

It's envy because Bill O'Brien thinks he's Bill Belichick light down. here. No, I mean, it's bad. I mean, he makes Matt Mellon look like a, like, competent GM. Oh, you just dropped a Matt Mellon card on this radio show? Oh, like a competent G&. I'm talking like he makes them look like GM of the year, like of the year. I mean, you've gotten draft picks for the next 30 years.

I mean, it's just beautiful. This is all that's making me feel better this moment, actually. That's how incompetent of a football team used to it is. in the greatest state that loves football more than anywhere in the world, you have this incompetent of a football team. It's amazing. I mean, I really want to know another reason I'm not sad is because in like two years,

the Sean Watson will be our quarterback. What? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow your roll down. Slow your roll down. You think he's going to stick around to watch this, this, this garbage fire? Have you just called your shot? You're telling me, angry Patriots fan, that in two years, Deshawn Watson is going to be a picture.

Retrient? If he can't figure out a way to do it faster. Oh, jeez. I mean, you think he's going to stay around for this garbage fire? Well, I think... I mean, who's the other throat? Do we'll full his shadow? Because he's on the bench all the time.

Oh, no. We got, hey, the Texans got Randall Cobb now. Randall Cobb's a Texan. Oh, whoa. Line up the hall of fame. Here you go. Stop booking your tickets now, Texans. We don't need this.

We already have. Bill O'Brien is beating us up. Why are you kicking me in the groan repeatedly? Bill, Matt, Bill, Matt Millett, O'Brien. Oh. You're cracking yourself up, aren't you? I am. It's just amazing.

I mean, literally two hours later, Stefan Diggs was training for, like, seven picks. Stefan Diggs, what has he done other than, like, two years? You know, all right football. I mean, he's not Hopkins. It's going to be awesome watching them play out there in Arizona. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. Brady, it doesn't bother me because they'll come into New England.

They'll lose, just like every other team that comes into New England. Angry Patriots fan, I would like to thank you for the coming on my show, but I just can't. I would like to thank the city of Houston, well, actually not the city of Houston, the Houston Texans for giving me one bright light in this hard time right now of the world. They're in my one, like, humorous. They're still getting me to laugh because I've been real down with the way things are going. But absolutely, they still give me a good deal and make me laugh, and they remind me that there is humorous still in this world.

Damn. Angry Patriots fan on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, just when you think you're down and out, obnoxious Boston fan comes on your show and rips you the hell out of you. That's a shame. That's not one here. we already know here in Houston. Houston has enough of their own problems

with sports right now. We don't need Patriot fans kicking us while we're down. We've had Seahawk fan crushed the city. Yeah, what is going on? Why is every single other city coming on this show to dunk on Houston Texans and Bill O'Brien? When's Bear fan going to come out? Where's that,

what's his face? Joe George. Where's Joe George when you need him? And Sags, Adam Sager. When is Jacksonville, Jaguar, Jaguar Jack Jack going to call the show I don't think he's out there Jamie Christmas Is there Titan Rick

Titan Rick Titan John Are they listening? Well, Titan Rick doesn't call my show anymore because I always put him in his place But who's that Who's the other guy? Titan Sean will call the show occasionally Yeah, Titan Sean

You just signed Ryan Tennis Titan Chris Titan Chris is another good one You just signed Ryan Tannahill To this ridiculously big contract With a lot of guaranteed money. Hope that works out for you. Adrian, tell me where Colin Cowers, Colin Coward's sources. What do you think? I love you like a step, brother, but you are overthinking this. Okay? Go ahead.

New celebrity, ex-football player, played with Tom Brady and how many Super Bowl rings? Last name, Granikowski. You know why that makes a lot of sense? You know why that makes a lot of sense? It's because guess what Rob Grankowski did last year? He worked on the Cowl and Cowherd Show. He worked on Fox on that pre-pre-show. They used to have it 10 o'clock in the morning. Yes, sir. He sure did.

And as far as Sean going to New England, Matt, it's not going to happen. Are you sure? Because before the summer gets here, Bill O'Brien's going to trade him for Cam Newton. All right, Matt, see you later. All right. Well, that's maybe a stretch. Ross, that makes sense. That's Rob Grankowski.

That's Rob Grankowski calling Colin Coward, who's been on his show. That makes 100% sense. Then he say he was non-sports? What is there his exact words? Can we find that again? Yeah. Let's try to play it one more time if you don't mind here. Let me look it up.

Far be it for me to ask for more Jason Whitlock on the show. Well, he didn't say anything. Let me look. I'm looking at Fox Sports Radio on the website. I think he called him an iconic figure, right? Grankowski is iconic He is Donald Trump also

Makes that distinction as well All right Let's say here we go I got the audio here This is coming off of the Fox Sports Radio page It's a part of the IHeart radio company We work for Um

Let's see here Um No I got I gotta look I gotta find it I'm just hard to do it while I'm doing a show So don't hurt yourself Matt Well I mean We can get a next segment

Yeah we get a next segment 126. Kronkowski makes sense, though. Yeah. He does make sense. Let's go to Alan and Spring on 790. Hi, Alan. Hi, guys. I want to say thank you so much for having me on the show right now.

Sure. I know y'all focusing right now on Tom Brady, but I did want to talk about, you know, the newest trade with, well, not the newest trade, but the trade with Diodre Hopkins and David Johnson. because now that we got Tim Kelly calling the new offensive plays, now that we have a new running back and we lost arguably the best by receiver that we've had in this franchise, does that mean we're going to have a brand new office coming into the next season? No.

Why would Bill O'Brien change anything philosophical? I mean, I think he wants players that fit his system. He doesn't want to necessarily worry about players coming in and then adapting a system to them. But don't you think that with Duke Johnson, you know, Duke Johnson, we had a solid running back duo this last season. I don't understand why he would

have going to trade for David Johnson, who had, like, for the past two seasons, mediocre season. Here's the question, Al. Why is Carlyle's Hyde not as good as David Johnson? Can somebody help me out with that? Ross, you're going to answer? He's a better pass catcher?

That's what we're doing? That's what we're doing? We're trading Deandre Hopkins because David Johnson is a better pass catcher? We'll see he can run and catcher. The Under Hopkins can only catch, Matt. You just got more versatile. Alan, there's no justification of this trade whatsoever. I'm sorry to tell you that.

No justification. You think that this trade was even worth it? No! What do you mean? Where have you been, Alan? No! We've spent two days ripping the hell out of it. No, no, no, no.

Not worth it under any circumstance. Zero. No chance. No how, no way. Thank you for the phone call. We'll repeat what Colin Coward had to say. We are 20 minutes away from Are You Smarter than Ross? I'm excited and nervous.

We'll explain the game of that as part of our suspension of fun. We're going to get Sabrina to get a new opening for a suspension of fun? Because we really had a big bombastic. I think he's got, yeah, Nick's got under control. Okay. From Clutch City. A step back three. Got it!

To Crush City. That's drilled deep to left field. The most complete coverage in the city on Sports Talk 790. Your home. for your home teams. I thought you're going to play a little growing pains. Oh, yeah, I forgot we were doing that. Let's get the segment off to a good start.

133 on the Matt time of show. Is that really going to get the people going? Well, I mean, it's going to get me motivated. Well, you know what? Let's get you motivated in Matt. Hey, next segment of the show, we're going to play, Are You Smarter than Rawls? It's our first suspension of fun game.

I'm not going to tell you it's five trivia questions. It's Texans related, related to the news of the last 24 hours. Oh, I'm scared. So what's going to happen is I'm going to choose one listener. I'm going to ask that person five questions. Okay. And where am I going to be sequestered?

You're going to be sequestered. Now, see, don't you feel better now? No. Who sings a lead on this, you know? Donna Summer. B.J. Thomas. No, this is not good. It's really good.

The Good Times one is good. The Jeffersons is the ghost. Oh, the Jeffert, Sanford and Son for instrumental purposes. Samson's good. This is terrible. You don't want to hug this out after the show? No, I don't. Well, actually, we're not, we're social distancing, so we don't be no hugging.

If you want to feather my hair. Spawned, Leonardo DiCaprio. I'm sure he would have been fine without it. All right, so the next segment, so we're going to take one listener, and we're going to, I'm going to ask. you five questions. Okay. Each question is a certain point total. There's five total.

And if you, whoever is the most points, well, if you have more points than Ross does with the same five questions, you will be smarter than Ross. And Nick will find you. What if we tie? Then the tie goes to the listener.

Okay. I want the tie to go to me, though. No, not my rules. We should have a question off. Excuse me? Tiebreaker. Okay, well, but we'll add a six question if we need to. You could add one that's,

what is it closest to the pen? That's true. All right, so that's coming up. And so if you think you know Texans and you think you know about the events in the last 24 hours, you're going to want to be the contestant. And are you smarter than Ross? Here is the audio, as we played a little while ago. This is Colin Coward telling his buddy Jason Whitlock.

All those Fox people are all buddies with each other, apparently, that Tom Brady is going to have a new home. I was just told Jason Whitlock is joining me. Speak for yourself is off this week. So you're a busy guy. You're not listening to me. I was told 35 minutes ago, Jason. You want to hear what I was told? Go ahead.

Tom Brady signs tomorrow with Tampa Bay. Wow. Wow. He has made a decision. He talked to Tampa Bay yesterday. He was willing to re-sign with New England, but he watched Stefan Diggs and D'Andre Hopkins go to franchises. And he then called Robert Kraft.

An hour and a half later talks to Robert Kraft and says, I'm out. Robert Kraft acknowledged that. That Robert Kraft this morning acknowledged. Tom called me last night and came over. I don't think it's a coincidence. It was after Stefan Diggs had signed in division. And he also yesterday, you know, you could do this. Talk to Tampa Bay.

Tampa Bay says we don't have a deal. I am told Tampa is the choice and he will sign tomorrow. Wow. That's an amazing story. Now, it is not a football source, Jason. I said this. It is not a football source. It is a source of wealth and celebrity connected to sports that knows Tom.

A source of wealth and celebrity that is connected to sports that knows Tom. I would still categorize Grunkowski as a football source. He said not a football source. That's what I'm saying. If you think of Ron Krankowski, you think of ex-football player. You don't think of him as You don't think of him as current reality star Or future WWE wrestler

Which apparently is going to do You think of him as a football player A guy that's going to go in the Hall of Fame in four years Right? Yes Icon source of celebrity and fame Connected to sports Wealth

That would have to be an owner, right? I mean, Donald Trump wasn't a USFL owner You can't go to that. The USFL or part of it. But he's not calling Colin Coward on this. He's trying to stop the coronavirus. Who is it? He's got free time.

You can't pee him away from Fox and Friends. But you know what, though? He doesn't, Colin doesn't have to tell the truth. Teddy Trouf. It's got to be Grankowski. Because he's the only one he knows. I'm going to tell you,

Colin doesn't leave his studio. He goes from his studio to his house. Maybe it's Rob Lowe again. Or Rob Lowe? Didn't he break that Peyton Manning was leaving the Colts? What am I missing, Nick? Is there somebody worth forgetting about?

Celebrity, influence, connected to sports? Who, I mean, the patrons have a bunch of celebrity. But again, they're not Colin, Colin Collard. It's Mark Wahlberg. All right, I'm going to text his producer, see if we get the source. Okay. Greg Too, he's going to tell me who's the source. I'm going to at least try.

David and Cyprus on the Matt Thomas show at 138. Hi, David. Hey, how's it going? Good. I wanted to talk about the Hopkins trade, as everyone else, I'm sure. I just, you know, in 99, I was like eight, nine years old, so I didn't unfortunately get the chance to, like, be an Euler fan. I've been to Texan fans since they started, and I just got, this, this has really caused me to not even want to watch this team this season. We didn't even give Andre Hopkins to, like, for Andre Johnson, the last, like, two years of a,

career, just kind of like threw him to our rivals and then this too. It's just no loyalty. I know that's a sports money issue, but fans need to be more upset about this and maybe even consider giving them a break for a few games at least. Have you met Houston, David? I live in Houston. Have you met him? Have you met Texan fan? Oh, I know plenty of Texan fans. You know, like all my. family, all my friends, everyone I know in the city is either a Texan fan or a cowboy fan,

you know. Yeah, I have not met a real Texan fan that has said, I'm done with them. Now, they get mad, they get angry, they, um... I was with Bill even after the mistake this. You know, I was fine with him up until this move. I don't know what else it would take, and thank you for the phone call. Rossi, what else is it going to take for the fans that have been there since 2002 to say, you know what, I'm good?

I don't know because I think there are a lot of people who are loyal and a lot of people who support the logo and the team and the idea of the Texans. Blindly, whether it's Bob McNairn in charge or Cal McNair or Janice or whoever, whether it's Gary Kubiak or Don Capers or Bill O'Brien, they want to support the Texans. they want to be there and they love NFL football and they're going to be there no matter what. Because you know what? In all sincerity, it's not fun to root for a team that lives 600 miles away. Yeah. You just can't all of a sudden say, I'm done with the Texans, I'm now rooting for the Saints. It doesn't work that way. Life isn't worked that way.

So what you do is what I think a lot of people are going to start doing. They just don't have a dog in the fight anymore. Or canceling season tickets. It'll be interesting to see because this is happening right now. we're in what, the middle of March? Right. Is that anger and hate going to sustain all the way until the season starts? I would tend to think not.

But what's going to, you tell me, you're telling me that just time passing is going to make people, you know. For the people that are blindly loyal. They'll be, they're angry right now, but they come week one or whatever. I don't even know when the Texans' first home game is. I don't know their schedule. They're going to be there. They're going to be at NRG or they're going to be watching the game. They're going to have their Texans again.

on. They're going to be putting on their spiky shoulder pads and paint in their face. They're going to run to city hall to go out to Texans, put their first game in a different city and make asses of themselves.

Shugging 19 beers and vomiting all over the place and tailgating. And putting on a spike shoulder pads going, Texards! Texards! Yeah. It's that group that it's got to change.

They won't. And I don't know if they should. I don't know if we should tell them how to live their lives. They want to be hopelessly devoted to the Texans no matter what they can. But then you just can't call my show and tell me how mad you are.

What are they supposed to do, though? What if, okay, you're a huge rockets or Astro? Let's say, just go Astros. Astros die hard. What if the Astros? I mean, they were the temper per years and the bow porters and the Bradmills and there was a year where, I didn't, I'm a little bit different. Did you jump ship?

Should you jump ship? I just checked out. Should people have jump ship? Okay, well, you can check out. But you're not going to jump ship. You're not going to go route for another team. Okay, so then let's do this. Let's ask all those weirdos that travel, all the cities to not travel, to check out for a while.

Well, that's their choice. But Texanville doesn't care. They know you're going to be there. Every decision, none of them are based on fans. I think that's part of the way they operate. They do. And part of the reason they're so slow to change or improvement. Because at the end of the day, they own a professional.

You own a professional football team in Texas. you don't have to be a genius to print money. And that's bearing out. That's what Astros think. When the Astros are losing 100 lost seasons after 100 lost seasons, this is before the sale of the team. Fans checked out. I'm okay for checking out.

But the difference isn't what the Astros did is that there was some rhythm to what they were going to do. They bottomed out because they wanted to build from scratch. give me the logical rhythm and the ways of the means of what Bill O'Brien has done with two of the best players that they've ever played in the franchise The logical thing is you can say

Hey they've won their division for They've made the playoffs for the last five years They've won a couple of playoff games They have a great dynamic Starting quarterback and Deshawn Watson And maybe they If you're died in the wool You think the arrow is pointing upward somehow

because they haven't been the unmitigated disaster what the Astros are. They haven't been horrible. They haven't been great. There's never a time, as you've been saying. Will the J.D. Clowney and DeAndre Hopkins trades prove to eventually be a winner for Bill O'Brien? We'll discuss that next at 144 here on the Matt Thomas show.

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First of all, he's a great guy. He's a hard-working guy. It's Matt, and he's back. It brings his lunchtime, Houston Sports Talk. The Matt Thomas Show on 790. Sports facts are fun. If you know them all, get Matt. Matt's questions right, and you'll have a ball.

On suspension of fun. Here's your host, Matt Thomas. Thank you, Sabrina. Thank you, Nick. Thanks, everybody. We have some breaking news on the Astros before we play suspension of fun. Justin Verlander is going to have surgery. This is announced by James Click.

minutes ago, expected to be out six weeks. It is a surgical procedure on his right groin. He was delayed until March 1st because of discomfort in his right groin. He ended up making up two starts this spring. ERA of 3.86. Early prognosis that Justin will be out approximately six weeks. Justin Verlander undergoing surgery on his right groin out approximately six weeks, which I don't even think will be the start of the season, honestly. Yeah. Whatever happened to the lat injury? Well, he's got that too. He's just banged up right now.

Everything should heal properly. I'm a lad expert and a groin expert. I have both of them. All right, here we go. Every day at this time, unless you get some dumbass breaking news from the Texans about a stupid trade they make, we're going to play suspension of fun.

Today's game is, Are You Smarter than Ross? Ross has been sequestered. So here we go. Let's say hello to our contestant. Well, are you a big DeAndre Hopkins fan? Yes, I am, absolutely.

All right, terrific. That is, I didn't want to give you the category because I didn't want you to run to Google here. I'm going to ask you a question, and you get three seconds to answer it, all right? Fantastic. And each question is a different point value. If you have more points than Ross,

you win a very valuable prize. Nick, what are we playing for today? Do we know? He's looking, he's looking. The prize vault is open. He's looking. Just give me anything you want. wants. Whatever we got in there, let's just give it to him.

How about some tickets to see Sam Hunt? That's not until Friday, September 11th. I think the world will be back to normal by then. They better be. We're going to get you something really nice, Wes, for playing, or as I should say, Will, for playing this, all right? Here we go. Fantastic. For one point, you get three

seconds, one point, his uniform number with the Texans. Number 10. That's correct, he gets one point. For two points, who threw him his first touchdown pass? Who threw his first touchdown pass to him for two points? Matt Schob. That is correct. You have a total of three points.

For three points, and you get plus or minus one on this. Okay. What number draft pick was he? For three points, plus or minus one, what number was he in the 2013 draft? You got three seconds. Number 27. No, he's number 12. Oh, that number 12. Are you should be in the draft class? Yeah. I don't believe that's correct.

Wait a minute. Why don't you think it's correct? Because we had that, because the thing is in 2012, we finished what, 12 and 4, so we had a later draft pick in the 2013 draft, and then we went 2 and 14 his first rookie season. I'm looking at his number here. it says, let's see. Oh, you know what? You're right. 27th is right. What I get 12?

You fixed me up. All right. Well, that's right. You now have picked up three additional points for a total of six. I screwed up on that one. You're absolutely right. Why was I thinking it was 12? Maybe, you know what? I was getting Deshawn Watson that mixed up is what I think I got it mixed up. Yeah, no, yeah.

DeShon Watson was 12. Yeah, the Texans traded up. That was Rick Smith's parting away present. And right now, I would beg to have Rick Smith back. I would, too. I never thought I'd ever say that. Should we have Will those? It's unbelievable.

Let me do the game. Sometimes mistakes happen. Bob Barker hit accidentally the wrong button once in a while. All right, for four points, you've gotten every one of them right so far. Plus or minus five, number of career touchdown catches within five. Got three seconds. 59. The answer is 50.

54, we'll give you the four points. All right. For a perfect five for five, which gives you 15. Plus or minus 500. Number of career yards. Three seconds. 7,800. The answer is 8602.

So. I can remember. You did really well. You went four for five. You got 10 points. So let's find out right now. Let's bring Ross in. Let me call.

Should I call Ross? Let me try to call him here. this is this is live radio as it happens we're going to call ross bring him in here and he is going to come in and finish this off i'm going to call him right now i'm calling him he's in the secret room ross amts get in here right now we only got one minute left from this segment come on hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry oh no he's locked down here goes all right ross our contestant will got uh a total of ten points you guys you guys you get one point for each one question, and there's a multiple points.

He got 10? What? He got, is the question's got more difficult. Okay. And he actually corrected me on a mistake than I made. What, Matt, geez. I know. This ain't. This guy's smart. I'm not winning an Emmy on this one. All right. Good luck. For one point, Ross. DeAndre Hopkins uniform number. You get three seconds. Ten is right for one point. Who threw him his first touchdown pass for two points? Oh, wow. Match up? That is correct.

You have three. For three points, his drafts number within plus or one, plus or minus one. Where he was drafted? Where he was drafted? 20th. No, he's 27th. All right.

For four points, plus or minus five, number of career touchdown receptions. Wow. Hurry. 62. The answer is 54. You lose. Will you win?

You are. smarter than Ross. Yeah. Dang it. Here's the last question. I swear to you, the first number that popped in my head was 54. A number of career reception yards, plus or minus 500. What do you think?

Career reception yards? Yeah, this is for 500. I don't know. Just take a guess, plus or minus 500. 55-55. 8602. You suck at this game. Well, we're going to put you on a hole.

We'll get you to Nick and you have won a prize for something cool that we can send you all with people. questions sucked. They were great questions. These questions blew. And remember, Will, tell... Actually, they were a pretty good question. Thank you. What did he, what did he correct you on? I had him as a 12th pick in the draft.

What, you didn't look it up? I wrote it down wrong. No, no, I just, okay, so just for clarification purposes, I was actually going to call in to kind of comment on the D-Hop trade. So, I am no longer renewing my upcoming season tickets. I actually

bought my PSLs back in 2013 when it was B-Hop's rookie year. So I've kind of followed his career as a Texan, obviously, not only as a fan, but financially as well, right? But I texted my friend and I said I'm no longer going to, you know, invest my hard-earned cash into that dictator shape that Bill O'Brien is running over there on Kirby. Have you told the Texans this yet? Well, so my friend actually manages the account. So I think he's going to go ahead and inform them. But, you know, regardless, I think it's going to take a pretty large group of disgruntled fans like myself to really make a dent in Cal McNair's pocketbook because until then, you know,

what, that season ticket priority wait list was like 10 years long. I don't know. I mean, but it just, you know, I was there when DeAndre Hopkins caught his first touchdown, I think it was an overtime game against Tennessee. That's it. And then we shot through it. I think, yep, and I think, if I remember correctly, then we went and ripped off 14 losses in a row. That's right. Unbelievable. Yeah. And that was the clowny pick up the following year.

But, hey, you know, great, you know, great show. Y'all keep up the great work and stay safe out there. Thank you, well, put you on hold. We'll get you with a price package of some sort for you to pick up. Thank you very much for playing. Are you smarter than Ross? Clearly, it's not that difficult. Tomorrow we'll play a new game.

We'll be out of you smart than Ross. We're not going to make a lot. No, I want to play this every day. We're going to play it once a week. We're going to do it once a week. You get a chance next week to make it for. First of all, those questions sucked. No, I didn't.

Guessing number, how many yards does he have? Next week, I already got next week's questions already locked and loaded. It's going to be an NBA related. But I wanted to do something to Andre Hopkins. Fine. This is the Matt Thomas show. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show here on Sports Talk 780. Ross, Vior.

with you, Matt Thomas with you at 713212-1-2-5-790. Coming up at the end of the hour, we will have, believe it or not, David Johnson addition. And let's just say there's not a whole lot of interesting things about David Johnson, but that's okay. You can add some Randall Cobb. Or that safety from the Browns of no one's ever heard of. Do you know what deal Randall Cobb was on before he came to the Houston Texans?

No. It was a one-year, $5 million deal. Okay, so that's one-year, $5 million for the average of $5. million. Go ahead and give us the new numbers. Do you have it? What is it? With three years and 27 million. Okay. So that makes it $9 million on average. If he stays the whole three years. Yeah, 18 of it guaranteed.

God, Bill O'Brien is so stupid. And I don't like to use the word stupid. Hold on. Let me cough in my elbow. How stupid is he? We're going to play match game sometime this week, too, by the way. Okay. Bill O'Brien is so dumb. How dumb is he?

He traded the Andre Hopkins. for blank. Bound boom, boom, I know the answer. David Johnson in a fourth round pick, or second round pick. Toilet paper is the winning answer right now.

And Justin Verlinder's groin is going to be surgically repaired. Yep. Did you mention that in the last segment? I did before you were in isolation. I bet you that guy Google those answers.

I need to go back and listen to this segment. I'm still upset. Do you think Nick he Googled that? It sounds like he was a really affluent Texan fan. Well, I guess you would probably just have to pull up a quick page on DeAndre Hopkins stats.

You could have most of them. You could have had all of that. Yeah. That's why I said, I'll give him three seconds an answer. I didn't give him a chance to look it up. But, you know, and it's, that's a problem with doing trivia games is that you don't, technology allows. That's why you do it jeopardy style so that I can out-answer him.

Okay. Well, we'll try the, I think I do like, are you smarter than Ross? But I didn't tell him the category. I didn't tell him the subject. He just had to go right with it. All right. I'm going to be mad the rest of the show. We're going to play.

We'll have some other games. We'll have range. We'll have the match game. We'll have Who Am I? We'll have the magic number. Who am I? Yeah. Like I'll give you a little clues of who the people are. Right. And they have to guess who it is. Like, for example, like it took me eight years to go to U of H. And then also I was the voice of Rice football and U of H football. Who am I? Who is sports empty? Yeah.

Slow steady climb towards 25,000. You're over 25. You're supposed to make that Photoshop your avatar now. Oh, yeah. You're right. I should do that. I will change it during the break. Okay. I got to over 25,000. I'll do that. Tom Brady's not going to return to the Patriots. We do that for sure.

Fox Sports Radio. I just texted Greg Tooie. That's Colin's executive producer. He's like, I can't tell you. I'm like, well, of course you can't tell me. I'm sure he knows. We should ask them to tell you off the record so you can tell me off the record and so I can know. I think it's Donny T.

He says non-NFL person, but high-ranking sports figure. Donald Trump. minute. Wait, you know what? That's got to be, you know what that is? That's got to be an agent. Jim Nance. No. Seriously, agent. Non-NFL person. An agent is a non- Oh, I would say agents are absolutely high ranking. I think, no, but I think they're also, that would be, if I heard from a player's agent where someone who's going, I wouldn't say that's a non-football source. Well, then you're getting the semantics. Well, yeah.

No, I would say an agent doesn't have to be per se an NFL person because an agent can represent multiple. It would be Lee Steinberg. Is that his agent? No. Tom Brady's agent. We remember he interviewed him a couple of years ago at the Super Bowl. Yeah, I don't remember his name.

Wait, Don Yee? Yeah, we interviewed Don Yee. We interviewed Don Yee? I must not have been there. Yeah, we interviewed Donnie. He was going to open up another spring football league, which I think it's been squashed. Well, that's unfortunate. Remember that guy prank called the, like a Boston sports reporter?

as Don Yee and said Tom Brady was moving on or something. And it was like it was a prank call. And the guy had recorded it. Thankfully, not got whatever this is. And then the reporter ran and with it and said multiple sources are telling me Tom Brady is doing this. Okay, that's what I'm going with. I'm going to go with. He's a sports agent.

Follow SportsMT. Get into 30,000. And then at that point, Vegas will be open for business again. Hopefully the COVID will have blown over. Yesterday, and I didn't spend a lot of time. This is the obligatory woman at a COVID moment. Okay. I watched President Trump's press conference yesterday because I'm very fascinated by the updates on these things.

Okay. I wouldn't say it was cathartic yesterday because obviously there was a tremendous serious tone to it, but it was a bipartisan press conference yesterday. I think we as a country are taking this very seriously. Well, some people aren't. Well, whoever they are is, they have their heads in their ass. I mean, seriously at this point, if you're not taking it seriously, there's no other warning signs. don't go to restaurants, don't go to bars, schools are closed, I don't know what else they could,

every sport has been canceled. You have to take it seriously now. You just, you can't be cavalier about it, even millennials. But I felt a little better yesterday for no particular reason. Good. I mean, I think you use the term blown over. This is going to take a while to blow whatever this is, but it's going to be blown over. This two shall pass, Matthew.

Just like every other virus that was supposed to, you know, devastate our country has gone. Well, this is more major. This has been, these measures have been more drastic than the past. Oh, I don't disagree with that. But I felt for the first time yesterday, like, this sucks. I miss my sports. I miss going to bars and restaurants. I'm going to miss when we go to the movie theaters, bowling out, whatever. But we'll be able to go back. But I'm in all, in all honesty, very concerned about the local businesses. And I, and I speak for many of them. And I'm really concerned about them. So that's why I ask you, to go to Locatellis on the North Side.

That's why I ask you to do big city wings. Get with local-based companies. They need it. They need us. Because I don't want our friends. I don't want our clients. I don't want our community to be shut down. But we're going to have to suck, you know, poor bars.

You can't drive through bars. Where am I going to go to pick up skanks, Matt? You mean women? Oh, yeah. Grocery store. Hey, how's it going? Do you have to do a decorate and margarine? Drive-through dais.

Yeah, I didn't think of that. I feel like those are illegal in the first place, though. Can I still do that? I don't think you can go there now. But where are we going to drink? At home. That's it. We're drinking at home.

That's not any fun. Ross can't, you know, Ross can't come to Kingwood and I can't bring all my friends over there. I'm looking at, I'm social distancing, Matt. All right, fair enough. Sorry, I'm very busy. All right, 713-212-5-790.

News of the day. Tom Brady is out in New England by his own words, not by the Patriots. A report from Fox Sports Radio says he's going to sign tomorrow with the Buccaneers. Also, Justin Verlinter has an injured right groin's going to have surgery on that. And the Texans are a mess. But Jack Easterby's got everything under control, everybody.

Jack, freaking Easterby and Bill O'Brien. And Cal McNair just sits there and lets it happen. I guess that's not even sit there. He has to say yes. that's why Ross, as I said in the opening of the show today, we've got to spend more time ripping the hell out of the owner of this football team. Right? He's allowed all this.

You can set up your sign petition.orgs. You can cancel your tickets. You can say, I'm not going to be one of those gobs that go on a road trip to go see the team and hang out in City Hall and screaming yellow, a bunch of Texans and go kind of thing. But the only way this is ever going to stop is if Cal McNair, The light bulb turns on, but it's just dim. It's a dim light bulb. 212 on Sports Talk 790.

713-212-5-790. Houston's Sports Talk for lunch. Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk 790. All right, I just changed my avatar picture. Go look at it at SportsMT. Is it time for the Rotten 5? You know what the Rotten 5 is? Texans, Texans, Texans, Texans, Texans,

Bill O'Brien one, Cal McNair, two, three, Bill O'Brien, four Jack Easterbeat, five Cal McNair. There's your Rotten 5. God, how is it... I mean, you know how Angry Patriot fan was talking about how bad Matt Millen was as a general manager of the Lions?

That's what people in Detroit to live through for all those years. He was completely inept at his job. Bill O'Brien is completely inept at his job. Now, the only way he gets scoreboard on us for us for us, Ross of the Ross of the Texans go to the Super Bowl. That these moves

made them a significantly better team. You can't find a single soul except with the last name of O'Brien or Easterby that thinks this is a better move, or McNair for that matter. Do they believe that? Would they just believe it's better for the long-term health of the team to get rid of him, I guess?

Well, that if he was grumpy, we don't need grumpy people around here. It's my way or the highway, says Bill O'Brien. In his way is the path to mediocrity. don't you take, this is just a little bit of advice for me. Why don't you distance yourself from the Texans? We're social distancing from each other.

That's true. You want Bill O'Brien to distance himself from the Texans? No, I'm talking about you fans. Take a distance. Take some time away. Yeah. That was Bunby's advice yesterday. Yeah.

That's right. Because here's the thing. If you distance yourself from this train wreck of an organization, you might feel better. Sundays won't hurt as much. what listening to Bill O'Brien Press Congresses won't be nearly as painful because you don't have their relationship. You know, you know how relationships are Ross. Sometimes you break up with a girl.

It's true. And you know what? If you miss her a lot. Or you go on a break. You go on a break like Rachel and Ross did on friends way back in the day. Fact. Or like Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union. They came back together.

Yeah, Dwayne Wade fathered a child while they're on break. I can't reference that to a text. thing, but that's okay. It's okay to separate. Because sometimes you miss your wife or you miss the girlfriend and you get back together. Or sometimes you find something a little more pleasant out there. Or you father, child, and still get back together.

I don't know why you continue to go to the Dwayne-Waing car, but that's to each his own. That's just what happened. You were talking about going on a break. Go on a break. Okay. Take some time off. Distance yourself. Relax.

There's no games for a while. Because here's... Clear your head. Now, here's the problem. If too many people distance themselves from the Texans, then when the Texans play a game, we won't know. Nobody will really care. Sort of like a Monday after a Texans win. Oh, you mean, then the ownership will get a message that the fans aren't happy.

That doesn't sound like a horrible thing. Yeah. The sign petitions and burning thing, that doesn't do anything. First of all, do you even know, Cal's computer turns on? You know, when I was a young reporter... Does he have a phone in the court? It doesn't go to it. It's not plugged in. When I was a young reporter, one of the most astonishing press conferences I ever went to was Jack was Bud Adams at a press conference at the orders.

Okay. And he insisted on Jack Pardee wearing a headset. He said he didn't care if it was turned on or not. He just wanted to have the headset on. Right. And we were all flabbergasted when he said that. I could not believe that an owner would tell a coach put a headset on even if it's not turned on. Just to give the appearance that he's actually.

That's what happened. At the end of Joe Paterno's career, he was over there with like a rolled-up newspaper, just slapping it against his hand and throwing his hands up and arguing with refs. And everybody's like, can we get this man a headset so he at least looks like he's involved in the coaching? So, wait, do you think when they're making these calls to other teams talking about these trades, do they bring Cal McNair, like one of those toy plastic rotary phones? And tell him, here, Cal, you can listen in and talk whenever you want. He's like, what are you going to give us for DeAndre? And it says, Cal says, move. Well, the example I was thinking of, and not that yours aren't good, was that we'd have to call Cal Secretary and say, does his desktop computer work?

Does he have a laptop that actually has battery supply? Because, I mean, do you get the feel that he's a 9 to 5 guy? Do you get a feel that this guy is really into everything the organization is doing? It's probably at the golf course. When did he find out about DeAndre Hockenst, like just now? Yeah. Hold on.

Does he know yet? Did Bill O'Brien change his voice to sound like Cal? So when somebody says, does Cal know about this? Bill O'Brien would say, oh, yeah, Cal knows. But the problem is we don't know what Cal sounds like. So we don't know if we know if it's a, uh-oh-oh or a uh-oh or a ho-oh, or a hell, yeah. Or a, man, I don't know. Why does he sound like that?

Why does he sound like he's on he-ha? He-he-hi-ha-ha, he-h-ha-ha. Texans ha. We got a grumpy wide receiver. Let's trade it. What do you say, Cal? Ha-ha. He-ha-ha.

Does Cal McNair know at this moment? Do you know that Deshaunton Watson didn't know? Do you know that? Deshawn Watson did not know of this. Why wouldn't you call the quarterback your franchise guy? and say we're trading your favorite wide receiver. He-he-Haw! He-Ha-Ha-Haw!

Cam McNear! Did he know? Oh, shucks he did! He-Haw! Oh, God. I know what TV thing I'm using next segment. You're playing He-Haugh coming back, aren't you? I know how you roll.

David in Las Vegas. Is there anything alive in Las Vegas? Is there a ghost town? What's going on up there? Well, I'll give you a little report to you guys. I don't want to bore your listeners. Sure. Really quick.

And I know you always care. You know, up through this weekend, I'd say everything's about 80, 85% of normal, believe it or not, even on the strip, and especially the locals casinos are about 90% full. My best friend is a lift and Uber driver out here, which pretty much kind of pulse houses. His income was 80% of normal on an hourly basis, even going into the weekend. Now, since then, the win has decided. to shut down. There are two properties.

MGM grant. His shutter, MGM is shutting down seven or eight major properties. But it's not universal. All the Caesar's properties are still open. And all the locals places are open. All those stations, casinos and, you know,

and Boyd's and things like that where the locals play. It's remarkably more normal than you think it was. One funny thing is when you go into any casino that's open, they have had to turn off every other slot machine. to create some seeding distance for people so they won't spread the virus as easily. So when you walk in, it's just weird. Every other screen on the rows of slot machines is blank. Now, if you're sitting in one of these machines,

what we know about how long the virus can live on a surface, like a doorknob or whatever, I still think a slot machine or a video poker machine's buttons are pretty nasty. Well, if Ross and I get the kitchen pass from our, well, he's not married if I am, We're going to come because of airfares to Vegas are like $130 round trip. So once we get some sort of all clear from the press, Ross and I are making a quick roadie. I don't know. Well, then the airfares will have gone up.

Well, we might as well buy them now then, right? I'm scared. I don't want to go on. You do understand that there are rumors out there that they might shut down all domestic air travel. That gets bad. What? If you do this, you might get stuck out here in which case you get a really long trip to Vegas. I'm getting ripped on my he-hawn impersonation.

Thank you, David. Thank you for the update. Hey, stay safe up there, okay, my friend. Oh, and also, David, did you hear that you can now bet on the weather? No, no, but I am looking for things to bet on. I was really... They set over-underers for the temperature for the next day, and you can bet on that. And we're betting on airport weather, right?

What the airport weather is at the airport? Is that right? That's what you normally would do. I'll look into it. I was very psyched for betting this Mexican soccer match on Friday night. Oh, my God. The last thing going, but... Let me guess.

The over-under was one. It doesn't matter No, it was over that You're wrong, as usual All right David, I got to roll a break Thank you very much We're gonna match my

He-Haugh impersonation With the real he-ha song Oh no That sounds disturbing Yeah, let's see Did you watch He-Haugh back in the day? They used to have some little country little honeies on that show

We can bet Houston weather tomorrow You can bet on it right now What is it? Over under 81 degrees I'll go over Over is a minus 180 This seems

Just awful Under is a plus 140. Let's see. Jacksonville, Florida. Over Under is at 83 right now. Man, we need sports back. Philadelphia, PA. You can bet on the over under at 59 degrees.

No, Minneapolis. I don't see it on here. All right. More phone calls coming up. And again, if you've not heard the word about Justin Vernaner, we'll give you update on him. Justin Verlinder, out some time. But frankly, it won't affect the regular season.

I don't think. 227. The show continues on 790. This is Carlos Correa. Back to Matt Thomas. His and inside the park. It's your home of iceos baseball. Welcome to He-Ha!

All right, Energy Stadium. Roy Clark. Cal's office. You know, I never watched He-Ha. Is that a mistake on my bar? Okay. Stupid. Hi-ha.

Can you name the most famous He-Ha-Haw Honey? in the history of the he-ha-honeys. That'd be Goldie Hawn. I know, but an excellent guess. Nick, do you know? The most famous he-ha honey? I do not.

Let me give you some more hints. She would become a talk show host. Oprah. She married a famous ex-football player. Oh, I see the answer. I looked it up. Then you used to stay out of it. Married a famous ex-football player, had a talk show. Judge Judy.

Did Judge Judy Mary Famous ex-football player? I don't know. Maybe she did. Do you prove me she did? No, she did not. What other hints could I give? Sally Jessie Raphael.

She always talked about our kids and how annoying they were. What other examples could I give? Oh, she was a singer on Name That Tune way back in the day. That's why I'm going to help. Just tell me. Kathy Lee Gifford. Okay. She was a he-ha honey.

Was she? Yeah. Good for her. Is that how they met? No, I think she met. They met while he was doing ABC, mother-in football or something like that. I think Kenny Rogers married to he-ha-honey, too, if I'm not mistaken.

Really? Yeah. How many Barker Beauty's got married to famous people? None. None? No. Bob kept all of them for himself. Yeah, it's true.

I was going to say, Bob took care of that. We call one of them fat and she sued him. Well, a lot of them sued them. They had two of the three did, for sure. Yeah. And then one he had relations with. One of them sued her, too. But, you know.

Yeah, when two of the three beauties sue you, it's not a great deal. So, yeah, two shows as a kid, when I couldn't look at, you know, the Playboy channel on a mixed screen, was I'd watch Benny Hill, those hot girls, hot British women. And then I would watch he-ha-haw honeies on the he-haw show. Interesting. And then have inappropriate thoughts about Ginger from Ginger. Gilligan's Island, too, way back in the day. Okay. That's Matt Thomas and a nudge.

And Suzanne Summers, of course, from the three's company. And what's her name? With B or whatever? With what? Her name's last name is for the B? Adrian Barbeau? No. Who?

I can't remember. All right. Let's go. I can't remember all the women you had inappropriate thoughts about in the 80s. My life was full of inappropriate. I tell they're inappropriate in 2020. Taylor and Rosenberg on the Matt Thomas show. Taylor, good afternoon.

Good afternoon, guys. You forgot. The last chance for Kathy Lee was at her product line or whatever link to like sweatshops and children in the wherever, whatever country. I loved when Kristen Wigg would make fun of her and impersonating her on Saturday Night Live. It was hysterical because all she would do was just drink wine and just guffaw everywhere. But that's on the here nor there. Continue on. So I'm driving along and I'm cracking up listening to you guys with He-Ha, and I'm singing out loud.

And I'm thinking, like, of all the bumbling, you know, dupus, characters through all the movies and TV shows I grew up watching and I'm like what father's and I thought of like big and little enous and smoking the bandit. But then I thought really like junior who was Jackie Gleason's, you know, son, Richard T. Justice's son. Right. Would really probably be much, much, much more appropriate for Cal. Although Buford, you couldn't really say that Bob was, was, you know, a Bufre because he wasn't that, you know. So I think maybe if you swap them did like sun swap, but being. Enis, Jr. You're living at Cal and Bob,

so it's, and then maybe like Mel Brooks, as the dummy mayor and Blazing Saddles, it's maybe the, like, Bobby Mayer. All right, excellent. Bill O'Brien. Yeah, Taylor, you hit them all in the head, my man. You can't go wrong there.

Thank you for the phone call. The boys are thirsty in Atlanta, and there's beer in Texarkana. Like, you know, I'd rather play. I'd rather play sound like the Dallas theme because if Jerry Ewing, you know, he was a big businessman. He was ruthless, but he won.

You know, Ewing Oil was really popular. Or like if we played, like, we played like the dynasty theme where Blake Carrington, he was a big time owner. I mean, he commanded a respect. How about Boss Hogg and the idiot sheriff from Deuce of Hazard? That's the McNair. And that's McNair and Bill O'Brien. That's Enis and Sheriff Coltrane, right? Roscoopi Coltrane.

We're playing dumb-ass southern comedy shows and movies, Ross. Or maybe Cal's more like Flash. I'm not familiar with any of these, unfortunately. Well, it's okay. Some people are like, you're right, Matt. You're right on the nose on this. I think Cal is more like Flash, the dog that just sits there. Flash!

The droopy dog just sat there. Doesn't do anything, doesn't say anything. he's you're right is bob mclair the flash of the dukes a hazard that doesn't know a cow you call you mean cow i mean that's what bob knows no is cow flash i don't know

because i've never seen this show or whatever i'm talking about you know what they are too i'll give you a little a little more current who's the who are the comedians that are one doesn't speak and one does uh penitenteller yeah cow's the comedian that doesn't talk

and Bob is running everything else. He's one of commands a conversation. I think you're selling Penn and Teller a little short thing. Yeah, I saw their show in Las Vegas, Rio Las Vegas. It was excellent. Was it really? Yeah. That's a show that I would.

Like, there are two shows that I wouldn't go to. They do like magic and comedy. Impersonator shows I wouldn't do. And I wouldn't go see the Blue Man group. They look like very non-fony people. Yeah, I think it's, I don't even, I don't get the appeal of that. They just bang on drums with blue paint on the face. And they scream and yell at each other.

People are so go, ooh, and I don't. I mean, I did the Cirque, the Soleil thing, and I'm kind of into that. I've done a couple of those. Yeah, but. Penanteller. So Penn and Teller was good. Oh, I saw the Lion King at the Mandalay Bay or MGM? And?

It was good. Okay. I'm a huge Lion King fan, though. That was one of my favorites when I was a kid. But don't we want, in all seriousness, don't we want our owner to be a badass? Like, Jerry Jones, say what you will about some of the moves he's made and his, in his reluctant to be the general manager or to still be the general manager and coach. But when Jerry Jones walks in a room and sits down and wants to negotiate,

that's a badass owner right there. This is also the thing about Jerry Jones. You never question that he wants to win. Now, does he maybe want to win so much that he screws things up? Sure. But you never question that Jerry Jones' goal is to win a Super Bowl, and he's doing everything and scratching and clung to win a Super Bowl. Get your damn act together.

Yeah. I don't have the patience to jack with you today. Yeah, he's getting mad at people and radio. personalities. He wants to win. Every NFL owner wants to win, but do you want to win so much that it consumes you? I want me some glory hole. Jerry Jones wants him some glory hole.

Yeah. And I'll take Mark Cuban in Dallas too. He wants to win. Right. Into your elbow, Matt. Sorry. He, those dudes want to win. Yeah. Now they're a little eccentric.

Correct. A little off the beaten path, so to speak. but they want to win. Yeah. I used to hate Mark Cuban when he would be on the floor and getting involved. He's calmed down in his later years. Since he got a championship, he's calmed down a lot. I like Mark Cuban now a lot more than I did in years past.

And in fact, he went after officials yesterday or when he was going to find a half million dollars. Yeah. Woo. He can afford it. Jay's on the east side on 790. Hi, Jay. Hey, listen, I got another take on it. What if Cal is like a silent assassin

Like the Benny Blanco And Cal said You know what? I don't forgive you for what you said about my daddy About how making it still like slaves So he made Bob McDarric go out there and do his I mean made Bill O'Brien go do his dirty work And he didn't forget it

And he said Either way you can do it Get him out of here Well Dwayne Brown said that Dwayne Brown made that kind of those types of comments DeAndre Hopkins didn't To my knowledge No no no

No He did. What did DeAndre Hopkins say? I think he said he made him feel like a slave. I don't recall that. I don't think Gianni Hopkins is tied to that. Oh, I think he did. I think he had a problem with it.

So, I mean, I don't know. I think Calaminar is a bumbling idiot. Wait, wait, this guy's right. What does it say? DeAndre Hopkins said he felt like a slave again? Yeah, I do believe she said it. So, I mean, what if you sit back? and buy this time and waited for the right opportunity and not put any blood on his hands

and let Bill O'Brien look like the fool that he literally is and let him do the dirty work. And he says back like and just just just like a laugh and laughed about it. Like who has a laugh laugh on that one? So you think that Bill, that the Cal doesn't want to take the PR flag. So he said, look, I'll give you all the power and let you make the decisions. You got to take the go with the bad. I just want to be the owner and collect my money. but in return he got to go.

That's an ownership. If that is the truth, if Cal gave Bill all the power because Cal was afraid of being criticized, I will eight million times double down on my, the Texans are never going to the Super Bowl with Bill O'Brien as a coach. In fact, I may even say the Texans will never win a Super Bowl or go Super Bowl Ross until Cal sells a team. Janice may say, son, you've had this play toy long enough.

We're going to sell this, making a, killing the money. We're going to give away some money to charity. Because the McNairns have always been very charitable, to their credit. And I can't give this to you. You don't know how to handle this. I can't believe, and I don't know Janice at all. I can't believe she's allowed this to happen. That's why this is on ownership.

It really is. They've empowered this terrible football coach and awful general manager. And I shouldn't say it's a terrible football. He's a bad football coach. average i'm going to say average i will say below average i've tempered it below average and a horrible general manager and i'm not backing off of that believe it or not it's coming up next hey it's coach dan tommy step back three and the quarter is good Matt thomas my favorite voice in houston now that's the low exaggerating

back to the matt thomas show on sports talk seven manor just a good old boy never meaning no harm be tall you never saw and in trouble with the loss it's a day they was born

Another great theme song This is definitely better than growing pains I'll go with you on that Someday the mountain might get on but the law this is Cal's ringtone

This is fine Making new way I'm not available right now I'll call Bill O'Brien I want yeah can does cal even have a voicemail set up Colts are on the verge of signing Philip Rivers Texas has got Randall Cobb yesterday and a safety I never heard of

who always a part-time player from one of the worst teams in the NFL Randall Cobb went from being on a one-year five million dollar deal to a three-year 27 million dollar deal and by the way DeAndre Hopkins it is not a night it is not a dream it is a full 100% nightmare is a member of the Arizona Cardinals by way Larry Fitzgerald already photoshopped a picture of him, Kyla Murray, and DeAndre in there.

Way too soon, Larry Fitzgerald. Stop it. It's not nice. We're grieving here in Houston, Texas. 713-212-5-790 will be the number you will use for believe it or not. If you've not heard, Justin Verlender had surgery on his right groin. Going to be out six weeks. You would normally go, what, Ross?

Oh, no! Yeah, it'll be fine. And now we can say he'll be okay. And get the lat rested up, get the groin rested up, don't let Kate anywhere near it. You'll be fine. It? The groin. Can she go to the left groin or she can have to be a right one?

I don't know which one he had operated. It's the right one. Okay. It sounds like painful to walk. You ever had a right groin strain? Yeah, I've, I've strained my groin and sport back and playing football in like in middle school or high school. I strain my groin in my teenage years, but that'd be as far as it got. All right.

Valerie Bertanelli. That's who I was thinking of with a B. Valerie Burtnelli. Is that how that strained his groin? Yes. Among others. Five. Yeah, wrist injury.

All right. I'm disgusted right now. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports game show. We simply called it B, believe it or not. And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-2-5-790.

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