The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show: NFL Draft Takeaways, Tunsil Extension, Fantasy 5

Episode Date: April 24, 2020

But it's larger than life. Yeah. You, sir! Lunch timers. I'm in my way. Is the Matt Thomas show. Welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 7 on. I'm Matt.

Joe is our producer. Ross, my co-host, my friend. My contrarian. There's no contrarian. The man who teases. More things about me than anybody else in America, more so than Mrs. Thomas. I don't know. It's probably close. It's probably 50-50.

Hope you guys are in a fantastic mood. What a beautiful day outside. This is like we should be on the road somewhere, right? Chamber of Commerce Day here in Houston, Texas, Matthew. It is a Chamber of Commerce Day. So let's open up the fridge, Ross. What do you say? Okay.

What do we got? What do you see in that fridge, Ross? The fridge is about as meaty as it's been in a month. Well, if you're just a hilariously big fan of the the Buccaneers or the Seahawks or something like that. The Texans fridge suddenly is a little more wide open because it's their day today. They will pick once in the second round. They will pick once in the third round.

And then they'll have a plethora of side dishes. Everybody got their main entrees last night. Do you remember back in the day at the Black Eyed Pea, you could get the chicken fried steak, the chicken fried chicken, the pot roast. they would give you your offer of two sides. You get the Texas-sized chicken fried steak, which came on its own plate. That's good. I could crush that when I was about 14, but that's not anymore.

If you wanted to, you could also just get a dinner full of five vegetables, the five sides. And that's what the Texans draft is. The Texans draft, there's no other analysts in the world's going to tell you this. The Texans draft is the black-eyed pea of side dishes. You hope it can make a meal out of it. Mac and cheese, spinach, green, cheese. spinach, green beans, black-eyed peas. The vegetable platter.

The vegetable platter, basically what that was. And I think you can get that at Lubies now, right? Because there's no one more black-eyed peens, right? Are they all gone? That's a shame. When's the last time we went to a black-eyed pee? I used to go all the time. My grandma loved going there.

I love the black-eyed pee. It's all right. It went down in quality over the years. The rolls and cornbread with the butter. The portions and the quality went down over the years. Yeah. Maybe if anybody knows where there's a black-eyed pea, let us know. All right.

On the show today, Brian T. Smith joins us at 2 o'clock for his thoughts about not necessarily what happened last night, but more of what's going to happen today is the Texans will have a pick number 40 unless they trade down or could trade up for that matter. I don't know if they'd trade this or trade up, but they've got a pick in the second and third. We have the Fantasy 5 today, which are very much looking forward to. It's basically fully well known that alcohol consumption in America has grown a lot in the last 45 days, right? Yeah. For me, too. I mean, the Thomas household, we went to Spex again last night. I mean, we're like gold-eleted specs. Yeah, you got your MD

2020 and your Boones Farm. Yeah, I decided to go a little bit off the beaten path. Yeah. I'm more of a fuzzy naval Boons Farm guy, but you made some solid choices. They had a full row of stuff that you drank when you were 18. Boons, Mad Dog, all that. I mean, variety of flavors. Did you know that MD 2020 is not actually Mad Dog. What is it? It's something French or something like that.

Really? Things you learn on this show. Morgan David. That's what it is. They had a terrific selection of PBR available, if you so choose. They even had the vintage Canadian black label, which is one of the first three or four beers ever had in my entire life on the beach in Galveston. The what?

Called Canadian black label. Yeah. You've talked about that before. I thought you were making that up. No, it's not a Canadian black label. Yeah, Canadian black label beer. not tasty. Did they have any, any Mickeys?

I did not see that. I used to get down on some Mickey's back in the day. I almost got me a 40 ounce too. But I just like, Yeah, you should have. You should have got an MD 2020, some fuzzy navel or some strawberry hill. Old E.

I was a Mickey's guy, but Oldie gets a job done. I can step on an old E for sure. Yeah. All right. So that's what we did last night as we watched the draft. And I've got some other observations. And these are in no particular order, guys. And when I make these observations, you're going to be like, yep, I notice the same thing.

And if you guys want to add anything to it, I'm talking about you in the audience, 7132125790, or of course, Joe George Radio and SportsRV. These are 10 things in no particular order that I noticed about last night's draft. First and foremost, the NFL needs to get a host for the draft. Roger Goodell is just not good at hosting anything. I mean, Trey Wingo was the host, wasn't he? But I'm talking about they need a buffer in between the host of the show and the commissioner. They had a lot of buffers.

They just, his material was terrible. It was inorganic. It was... I think he took some pain pills or something. Or he was drunk. Okay. So I don't know what that was. The whole canned fans thing on the computer screen behind him or the...

It was weird. Not weird. It was awful. Where did the fans come from? They had to do it all ahead of time. Okay. But it was flat. Everything in that living room except the picks was flat.

In fact, he even erroneously said that the 2020 NFL draft is going to be in Vegas. It's not. I think he might say 20-22. Is that what I guess? Yeah. Okay. So that's one thing. I just, again, we're not there for him, but it was just the whole fan thing.

And look, they're trying. You're not going to bat a thousand of these things. Hell, this show bets 575. I mean, 42% of the things we do are complete train wrecks. Also, the draft wasn't a train wreck, which you thought it might be. No, that's one thing. It was amazing. They did an outstanding job.

I didn't say it was a train wreck. I said, I was looking forward to seeing the technical snafews. And there wasn't any, really. There was a little bit of pauses in between one broadcast or the other because of the lay of the internet. But short of that, it was really good. Yeah. Really, really good. And they restarted Mel Kuyper's package on Joe Burroughs.

on accident. Yeah. But I watched mostly ABC's coverage. Okay. Which one did you watch? I was on ESPN. Okay. CD.

It wasn't all the same? No. ESPN NFL had a feed. Oh. And then ABC had the college game day guys. I had no idea. Minus Lee Corso because Lee doesn't know these players. Yeah.

Lee's not going to be involved in live people much, no. All right. CEDY land. First of all, probably a really good pick by the Cowboys, right? I mean, I bet Cowboy fans. Hopefully for them, I guess. Not that we're excited about them. I'm not.

But he looks the part. I love the fact that he had two phones in his hand. His girl picked up one of them, and he went to grab that phone back from her in point five off the clock. Clearly. We've all been there. I don't have two phones, Ross. Oh, I mean, you know, girl grabs your phone. You're like, you can feel your soul gets sucked out of your body.

The rule is you must grab your phone. You must hit the line. Locky immediately. That's the key. But in his case, two phones, I get it. Athletes have two phones. What do they say two phones are for us? One for the...

One for work and then one for your personal. That's exactly right. One for NFL teams and one for your buddies in college. Or one theory is one wife phone and one ho phone. Or you'd say bros and hoes. Okay. You could say that, right? I love the fact that the girl went to the phone and he grabbed that thing,

which means he must have great ability. You know how we were talking about DeAndre Hopkins catching a 50-50 ball? Yes. C.Lam is going to catch that because he knows there's a phone up in the air to grab and then somebody else he's going to make sure and grab. He high-pointed the phone is what you're saying. By the way, we kind of find out that Tray Young's ex-girlfriend is that girl of the Atlanta Falcons. Yeah, I didn't know that.

So things you want to know. Next. Jerry Jones on a yacht if you were to guess which of the NFL owners or I should say this which of the general managers in the NFL would be on a yacht

Jerry Jones would be the favorite on that right? Probably. And I didn't watch every minute of the draft last night but I watched, I flipped around a little bit. Jerry Jones on the yacht

is about as that should have been an easy Vegas win, right? I mean, that's the guy. You don't envision half the general manager on a yacht. You don't envision Carolina's guy on a, you envision Jerry Jones on a yacht. And that's exactly where he was yesterday running, I mean, of all the places.

Speaking of places, Cliff Kingsbury, did you see his house? That guy is the goat. Now, there have been stories about Cliff that I'm not going to get into because I'd have no foundation for, but he looks the part. His house is the part. His job is the part. His job is He looks the part of what? A billionaire playboy. It didn't look like an NFL head coach. I mean, he looks like he could select anything, correct? But he does.

I'm sure he does fine, yeah. Okay. His house, I mean, I'm what we're looking at it right now on the NESPN. Those are like 15 foot tall windows, right? One after the other. With a fire pit and. and little pods of grass. Yes.

Has everyone ever been more happy to be fired from a job than Cliff Kingsbury? In Lubbock? He was in Lubbock. So he goes from Lubbock when I, look, my son goes there. He loves Lubbock, I'm sure. It's a great way with school there. Yeah, but it's not that house. It's not.

You can have that house in Lubbock. No, no, no. There's no way. Yeah. No chance. No. It's West Texas. It's saying, no chance.

It's in the middle of the desert. If you can have it in the desert, you can have it in the desert, you can have way more cosmopolitan. You cannot have that house. You can have it built. I don't know. Point being is, I don't know what he's doing, what vitamins he's taking, or whatever he's living the right way. Maybe, you know what? He's probably never cheating on his taxes. He probably gives lots of money to charity. Maybe. And he takes old grannies and walks him across street because the man is living a good life right there. And he has hands that are completely comprised of callous. Remember we had him on at Big 12 Media Day? We shook his hand. That was gross.

Yeah, apparently he hits the weights like crazy and refuses to wear gloves. His hands were like bare paws. It was weird. If you wanted to flip lives, would you flip Cliff Kingsbury, Matthew McConaughey, or both A&B? Well, I'll probably go McConaughey. I feel like being an NFL head coach is really hard. You have to put it in like 60, 70 hours a week. Matt McConaughey is just like playing bongo's naked in his back yard right now probably.

Cliff is working. Cliff is working. Cliff also, it's not hated by his alma mater, but he went there to be the coach forever, and he lasted a ham. Yeah, Red Raider people still like him, right?

They do, but they just don't want him coaching their football. Yeah. All right, so those are five of the observations. I've got five more to get to. If you have any observations that you would like to chime in on what you saw from the draft yesterday, 713, 212, 5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I will tease the sixth observation. Actually, I've only done four. We've got six in the next second. Wow. You ready for this? Not really. Mike Vrable's house.

We will have to discuss that next. 1213. It is the Matt Thomas show. This is Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. I invite all of you to check out our afternoon delight on the Matt Thomas show. Her name is Madison.

It's really spelled goofy. M-A-D-I-S-Y-N-N. That's because her parents needed the attention to make sure their child would be constantly confused with other people. And they wanted to honor our third president, James Madison, who spelled it regularly. I'm pretty sure if you never cared or spell it that way, you're just dooming your daughter to be. She needs to be on a poll, basically. Yeah. Or in the adult film industry.

That's what you did. That's what those parents did. I was thinking about this when you said, speaking of saying she needs to be on a poll and Good Morning strippers in the open on a Friday. What are strippers doing right now? Not working. Yeah, what do they? I mean, Ross, we went through this yesterday. with your non-flora story. I assume that they can file unemployment. Yeah.

Well, they can do home delivery. Of what? That's true. There are them selves. That's not social distancing. I did see there were strip clubs in Portland or Vegas that were doing drive-thrus. I mean, they've got a BMWs three-series car payment in like four kids. This is like that we got to get them some money.

I'm going to peel the curtain back a little bit. Okay. This hasn't involved me. You've been supporting one? No, but I know people, and I won't mention their names, that have gotten strippers' phone numbers before. Okay. And so you would just then text them. Come to the house.

Let's eat some pizza and drink some beer. They're doing house calls? That's what, if I was a stripper, I would do house calls. Hmm. Do she wear a mask during? No, that's until Monday. Okay. As of Monday, yes, she has to wear a mask.

Okay. But not until then. Go introduce yourself to Madison, spelled M-A-D-I-S-Y-N-N-N-W. Whistler. She is the afternoon delight, Sports790.com. And do not judge us. Because we could put up relevant sports. We could put up draft analysis and we'll get 23 hits. We could put up pictures of Madison Whistler and we'll have 43,000 hits. Correct. And the name of the game is hits. Period. And a story. Gentlemen, other observations.

John, I'll let you jump in on this one. What the hell was Mike Vrable doing in his house and who were those people with him? Great question. I don't know. First of all, I'm offended by the mullet guy with the blonde tips. No, it was a straight-up die job, right? It was a blonde job, yeah, completely. Yeah. And then the other dude who was just standing there with his legs, I mean, his arms crossed. And then, Rabel not realizing that whoever was taking the picture that there was somebody in the back left corner going to the bathroom.

He wasn't going to the bathroom. Claims are he was just sitting on a stool. Yeah. Fake news. He was totally in the bathroom and the door was open. No, how? Look at the picture. First of all, it's a reflection. How would you have a door like that in a bathroom?

He had a lot of protein at dinner. And who's going to be in the bathroom with the door open with all these people around? Maybe they're an open family. They're all hammered. There's no way there's anybody in the, I thought this as soon as it came out. So they said, I didn't know that they had released a state. Well, of course they did. There's no way this guy's on the.

bath on the pot. I say yes. First of all, you look at the picture. It looks like a reflection. So it's from somebody in the same room. Then you're telling me that somebody is in the bathroom with the door open. No, they're not on the bathroom. Well, they're not using the bathroom. Alongside Joe George and Mr. Naive, I'm Matt Thomas. Great to have you on the shirt. Mr. Naive. I'm Mr. Logical. Be smart about this. How are they going to be using the bathroom with the door open? That's ridiculous. Because people don't, there's not a federal law that says you must close the door. Yes, there is. When's the last time you had five people in a room and you went to the bathroom and you were taking a number two with a door open?

Because I'm a normal person. The answer is never. Okay. That's what I'm saying. But those people weren't normal. You had blonde hair mullet. You had guy wearing a long latex condom outfit, whatever that was, what he was wearing. That's not a normal situation.

Those are not normal people in that room. Okay. So because they wear a costume, they take a poop with the door open? Better. Yeah. I would go with you. Yes. Okay. No, he's not on the bathroom.

He's not using the bathroom. There's no way. Joe, George, you want to be deciding vote? I'm with M.T. here. How? Look, this is the same guy that on national television. Look, I participate in this activity, had a huge chew in his mouth. Look at the picture.

He had a huge dip in his mouth. Which did you go to go to the bathroom, right? Why does that mean somebody is using the bathroom with the door open? They're reckless. They have a guy dressed up like Mr. Freeze from the Incredibles. Who can't? What does it? He was like a full-length condom is what he was.

Yeah, I mean, it's just... Okay, look, look at this picture. This is a reflection, first of all. You can see these are windows. Yeah, he's dropping... So this guy is... He's dropping the doof. Behind the camera.

So this girl would be able to see him. You're telling me this guy is dropping a deuce with the door open with this girl right in front of him. Yes. Yes. No! There's no way. I'm telling you... There's pot being smoked in there.

There's for definitely two. Alcohol probably, they've been liquor-d up since about 3.30. I mean, look at this guy in the Vrable Jersey. I don't know if that's his kid or whatever, but that's stash? I don't care about any of that. They're all weird. So they, just because they're weird, means they drop deuses with the door open. Yes.

Oh, my God. All right, we're moving on. Guys are out of control. You're just wrong. That's fine. Next. There's no way I'm wrong. Isaiah Wilson.

I can't, I've lost his number. Can you look at where number he was and what Isaiah Wilson. It's an offensive line. Ryan, I believe. Mr. draft expert, Isaiah Wilson. I forgot to write out

who he's with. Okay. It doesn't really matter. Oh, the Titans. Yeah. So, speaking of strange things. So Isaiah Wilson's got his girlfriend

with him right next to him when he gets drafted. Did you see what Isaiah Wilson's mom did? Basically picked up his girlfriend and pushed her to the side and said, I'm getting in the camera shot.

Mom's first. Mom's first. Isaiah Wilson. and didn't do anything to interrupt it. Like, that's my girl. What are you going to do? Yeah, but he, she basically manhandle the girl and said, get out the way. You're going to stop your mom from doing that?

Well, I mean, what he should have done is he should have prevented it to begin with. I mean, my mom. Great video for us. Yeah, my mom is a kind, loving woman. But if she wants something, it's hers. She's mom. Okay. Next.

Roger Goodell. Why did he change clothes middraft? That's a great question. Some of it was probably pre-recorded. Yes, I would have to agree with that. There was a lot of it that felt like there was quite a bit. Actually, I like the conspiracy theory that the whole thing was recorded. The entire draft.

And that that was not live. Because you know what? They couldn't afford a massive telecommunications problem because it would delayed everything and made the league look bad. Yeah, I kind of like that conspiracy theory. Problem is that's asking too many people to keep quiet. I don't believe that would be the case. Do I believe they were pre-recorded segments?

Yes. Do I believe the entire thing was done at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon? No. I think, yeah, I think there were some elements that were live and some elements that were pre-recorded. A couple of the things. Henry Riggs. Rugs are rugs? Rugs. He's not in, there's not Mertau over there, too. What's that? Nothing. He wore a robe. Okay. And it looked good.

Sponsored by Old Spice. Yep. Got himself, uh, 20. $20,000 donation to the United Way because of that. You just don't see drafts with guys wearing robes when they get selected. That was an interesting part of the show. Two last things. I watched the ABC version. I'm not going to watch the ABC version ever again.

It's not because I don't appreciate Kirk Herb Street or David Pollock or Desmond Howard. It's they went to Tom Rinaldi. And since Ross, you didn't see Tom Rinaldi on the, and your version of the draft, the rest of us did that did watch it. Every story he had was profoundly sad. Here is the elation

of a player getting drafted. Here is, wow, my team's got a great eye on the future. And then Tom Rinaldi was the Debbie Downer. He did two stories. One was about Caesar Ruiz's dad, who died when he was helping change attire. There was one story after the other of somebody's parent being ill or dying. It was a drop-dead downer moment.

So that's why I think you have to watch. Why? Because Gus John, do you remember when Gus Johnson talked about J.K. Daven's nearly being aborted as a child as he scored a touchdown, like his fifth touchdown for Ohio State in the game? Well, first of all, if you're watching an Ohio State game and five touchdowns by one person, You've got a betting advantage on it, and that's about it. I want to see if Tom Rinaldi brings up that story tonight. All I'm telling you is they go, hey, that's a great pick by the Buccaneers. Here's Tom Rinaldi.

There was a lot of Debbie Downer stories. Oh, my God. Ross, he's not, you can't say for sure he's wearing pants. Yes, you can. I just said a tweet. Boy, y'all can't get old is, can you? That guy's wearing pants. Look at him. And then the last, last observation is, what the hell with the Green Bay Packers doing?

I mean, I know Aaron Rogers is 36 years old, but he doesn't look like there's any significant drop-it. I mean, there's a little bit, not like he was when he was 28, but he ain't like he barely can throw the ball. And all he said, all Aaron Rogers said pre-draft was, man, I can't wait for us to go get a position player, a skill position, so he can move this offense to the next level. Instead, they get a guy who was a reach at where he was, who the Packers moved up to get, who was a guy that probably If Aaron Rogers is still who Aaron Rogers is, not going to play for three years. Apparently, somebody was a Rappaport said that Aaron Rogers was quote beside himself.

No, that was a fake. No, that was a fake that afternoon hosts on other stations fall for, not Matt Thomas. Oh, okay. So that was not a real aim. I'm glancing over it. It's not like I'm sitting there. So that wasn't Ian Rappaport.

No, that was fake. What was the fake part of it? That it wasn't a fake account. It wasn't Ian Rappaport. But then usually it's like Ian Rappaport. Oh, no, it said Rappore, and it was this picture. You can change your name and change the Twitter handle. The Twitter handle was literally like just a random Twitter handle.

Oh, okay. But I think it's a... But still a very quiet. Even Kirk Herbstry. It's a disaster. Was so like, I don't know what they're doing up there. I mean, Jordan loves all right, but man, he's a real stretch. So that's what, but they sat, they set Rogers for three years with Farrf.

Like, they clearly must just believe that they're going to do the same thing again. but Aaron Rogers and Brett Fav did not get along but Brett Fav is not as much of a pain in the ass Rogers appears to be well you know Brett the reason why Brett Farrb didn't get along with Aaron Rogers is because Aaron's like man can you just teach me the ropes and I want to soak everything up and Aaron and Brett's like screw you no way and Rogers he's not going to help and he's got to be pissed

Shepton tweeted this out last night for the last 15 years they have not drafted a wide receiver or a running back in the first round they provided that guy no help at all and now you draft his replacement I love the back. That to me was the most questionable thing. As an NFC North fan, you probably love it. It's tremendous.

Great. All right. 1230 is the time. It is the Matt Thomas show. It isn't anything goes Friday. Ross explained the essence of anything goes far to the audience. Well, if you want to talk about anything on your mind, whether it relate to sports or not about sports, if you've ever taken a deuce, dropped a deuce with a door wide open and five people in the same room,

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Chicken, a pork, if you will, a pork tenderloin? Yeah, I can do all that. I've never taken a heating question about a tenderloin, but I can certainly try. Okay. Anything goes Friday. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. All right, we come back.

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sound good right now? It just seems like homestyle cooking places just don't have the staying power of I don't know. Why is that? I don't know. Home style cooking places would be like the Boston markets aren't doing very well. Yeah, like a hometown buffet or a blackhead pee. Who else?

You wouldn't call Ruby Tuesday's hometown cooking. Not really. Applebee's no, they're always trying to do crazy stuff. I'm just saying, okay, so, okay, now one more thing. Lubies is not struggling. Okay, to go back. Okay.

So, Joe, we have to apologize to Ross because he's got the definitive evidence. I don't apologize to Ross. That Mike Vrable's buddy is on the pot with his shorts on. I'm assuming those are like his kids, though. You guys were so short of yourselves. It just sounds better how we were talking about it.

You know what, though? Even if we have to admit we're wrong, it was an A-plus radio segment. So that's all that matters. I'll be honest with you. We haven't had a call yet today, but I'm 37 minutes. and we've had a good show so far.

ATX Hobo Girl just got in with Threadgill. Threadgills is like an Austin institution. Closed. They're closing. Yeah. Yeah. What happened to home style cooking? I don't know.

Remember Mason Jar? Mason jar would do some homestyle cooking. They're gone. I'm not familiar with them. A pappies, if you all, an I-10? Grandies. Grandies. You know, my father was a manager of a grandies?

I used to love Grandies. I loved Grandies when I was a kid. Yeah. Chicken fried steak. Yes. The rolls were the... Mmm. If you served chicken fried steak.

Rolls? Look out. You might be going out of business. Who serves the best role right now? I could go for a roll. Texas Roadhouse? Yeah, with that cinnamon butter? Yeah. I think I'm going to grab me that. Yeah, the wife's out of town today. She's leaving out of town. So you're going high carbs. We're going high carbs. High steak.

That's funny. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Ben, is with us on. Anything goes Friday. Ben, good afternoon to you. What's going on? Not too much. I just wanted to talk about. about the variable situation. You guys asked for a story or a situation that was similar. So I was at a pluckers in Austin one time waiting in line to use the bathroom. And so the line's probably like eight people deep.

I'm assuming everybody has to pee because we've been drinking all night. So it's like a one person bathroom, but there's, you know, like a toilet and a urinal. So the guy standing behind me, I'm like, hey, you know, If you got to go, you can use one. I'll use the other one. You don't have to wait. And so I go in there and I grab the urinal and I turn around and the dude pulls his pants down and sits down on the toilet while I'm in there, right, you know, standing right by him. And then I have to turn around and use this thing to wash my hands with him sitting right next to me just doing his business.

Blassing away? So I was very strange. And I have to say that if you lived anything like anybody in the verbal household, I probably wouldn't have extended to the invitation. So that was it. Thank you. Real fast. And this is so blue.

Thank you, Ben. Look, we could talk about second day prospects all we want to in the Texans. But best seen TV or movie about going number two. I know you're going to say the bridesmaids. Yeah, bridesmaids is the first thing. She's in the street. Dumb and Dumber is pretty good. When the guy has to, when he shows up for the date, but he had all that laxative.

How about in, what, how about when, that movie, oh, God, what's the blonde and American Pie? Tara Reid was in, uh, that movie, uh, about the Big Lobowski. No, it was about going to college or something. And she gives her ex-boyfriend, Colin Blow, uh, Cornwall. flakes and he has to go he wants it going i think in a trash can one of those little mini trash help that movie i don't know that one but sneaky van wilder or something man wild that's exactly what it was van wilder good call um finch gets uh oh laxatives in american pie that's a good one sneaky good too i found a top ten list oh my god this is disgusting all right well before you get to that

let's let's keep it to sports because people are bumping around town right now want our projections of who the second round pick is for the texas you've been able to look at a variety of mock drafts. Give us one or two names and trying to sell us, Joe, on these guys being available to the Texans at number 40. All right, so I've found six mock drafts and not one had the same player as the others. Okay, so just go one

right now. Okay, so SB Nation has Trayvon Diggs, the cornerback out of Alabama. I like the pick. I think I'm I'd be okay with that one. I don't think it's the best pick of what could be on the board, but it would be solid. They're the only

a mock draft that doesn't have them getting some kind of pass rusher. So we've basically, we as logically thinking fans believe it's down to a pass rusher or secondary, right? No other category is open. There's no chance they get sneaky and try to grab a running back.

Because you can justify a running back at 40 a lot easier than you could if you're, because I guess it's now pretty much taboo to take any running back in the first 20 picks. We kind of mentioned a little bit yesterday. Okay. I mean, Alabama's the last time the universe,

Houston, the Houston Texans took a cornerback from Alabama. The first year and a half was a complete disaster. Then it was really good for five or six years. And then they couldn't figure out whether he was a safety or a cornerback. And he wound up leaving to go to play for the Denver Broncos. And he wound up helping the Broncos beat the Texans in Houston, Texas. We're speaking, of course, for Kareem Jackson. Now he just makes fun of them on Twitter during the draft like he did last night.

Yeah. Was he trolling or was he being legit? Him and Tyron were trolling, but taking their shots. Man, why is that? Why do we have so much Texans hate out there? His name's Bill. That's true. O'Brien.

Shout out, by the way, the Texans' PR department. They sent me a pizza yesterday. It was very good. Oh, really? Yeah. To your home? Yeah. Wow.

It's tradition, the first day of the draft, that they're available to they serve pizza and cookies. And we got the cookies here at the station, and they sent the pizza to the house. It was good. Good for you, Matt. You weren't even doing any draft coverage. I was thinking, man, does Bill O'Brien know this pizza's coming here? Did we still get pizza up here?

Because the PR department's really, they're really nice people. But I'm just not a fan of their head boss. By the way, multiple suggestions of Cracker Barrel for Homestyle cooking. Yes, we did get pizza and cookies yesterday. Okay. Oh, by the way, Cracker Barrel is the call. That's the only place it's left for true homestow. Yeah, that's probably fair.

Okay, Cracker Row is really good. 1244 is our time. Back with more of you on Anything Goes Friday. 713-212-5-790 Hi, this is former running back of Herschel Walker. You're listening to Matt Thomas on the Sports Talk 790. Our Frank Chrissy telling us that Kelly's over there on the Gulf freeways

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Okay. All right. So we have one pick mock draft in. What's our next one on the mock draft list of players the Texan should take at number 40? We're waiting for Joe. Joseph. Joseph? Good afternoon to you.

Welcome to the match. Sorry, I was trying to find it. Sporting News has them taking Ross Blacklock, the defensive tackle out of TCU. That name has been talked about quite a bit, actually. And your thoughts on that? I think that would also be a very good pick, and that replaces DJ Reader probably in the middle. I mean, is there any pick that they can't screw this up, right? Oh, yeah.

Okay. Well, let's do that. Because you're following a lot closer than Ross and I are. Sure. Is there a particular player that is being mentioned? There's one where CBS has them trading their pick down with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, so the Buccaneers can take D'Andre St. Swift at

40 and then the Texans would be at looks like 46 overall the 14th pick in this round and it has them taking I think it's I'm not sure if it's Darrell or Dorel Taylor from Vanderbilt I don't like that pick You know the only reason why I think you would want to

trade down is get a better third rounder they're at number 90 that's yeah that's let's lower third of the last round right at that third round correct I mean if you're really going to say that there's value in this draft and there are guys that you're ready to work on towards a future, not necessarily right away.

I don't know, 90 seems like a, that's almost fourth round. That's a far ways away. That's a really good distance from between 40 and 90. It's a lot of time on their hands. By the way, what was, what were Bill and Jack doing yesterday? Trying to figure out if they could trade into the first for good value. Do you buy their serious, they seriously did that, or do you think they just lifted a phone call to that girl, what is her name, Diana Rusini, and just said, hey, why don't you float out

there that we're looking to move up? I think it's a safe assumption that they called the teams that had picks like 26 through 32 besides the Titans. And we're saying, what would it take? I mean, you have to at least call. So that's where Diana Racine's tweet is probably factually correct, but embellished and of how serious were that. Because you've got to realize at this time of the year, all these NFL reporters, anytime they get something, they think it's a huge win for them. Yeah. And it's not.

It's just because just because Bill O'Brien called Andy Reid. and said, hey, if this player is still on the board at 32, we really want him. What would it take to get that pick? All I'm saying is this. There are some that are applauding the Texans for not doing anything. When did we come down to that? What world do we sit there and go, thanks, Bill, for not moving up in the first round? If there was somebody they absolutely loved and they thought if they couldn't wait to get him at 40,

and they had to go get him at 29 or 30 or 31, then you make the move. I don't think it's a question of applauding or saying it's terrible or saying, I think it's, frankly, a move of indifference, right? Because I'm not going to judge them based off of what they do with one pick, if they move up 11 picks. We're going to judge them for what they will do over the course of the entire draft. Because that's how we judge Rick Smith, right, guys? Rick Smith hit on his first round picks.

If there is a first round goat Hall of Fame of first round selections, Rick Smith would be a general manager for life. I'm not going to sit there and applaud or say terrible things or good things based on if he didn't decide to move up. We're going to judge Bill O'Brien as a general manager based on relevant trades, free agent signings, and how he does in the draft. And so far, our body of work is free agent signings, yawn, trades suck, and a good old fact, a bit of indifference in the draft because he hadn't had one yet. Well, maybe he's had one. Probably ran last year. Yeah, I was going to say, Brian King is like, man, I get the hell out of here.

So today's theme to me wouldn't be, thanks, Bill, for not doing a stupid thing and moving up. He would have wanted to move up if there was the player that he dreamt of. And by the way, he's got no capital unless you're going to trade picks from future years. But teams don't want that. Nobody's asking for a 20, 20, 23rd round pick. So I'm just not going to applaud. but they didn't jump up 12 spots. Because what if the player that they really wanted was sitting right there

and Bill O'Brien didn't pull the trigger? We won't know that, will we? He's not going to tell us. Unless the only way we ever find on something like that, guys, is if the Kansas City Chiefs say, we thought we had a deal in place for 32. The Texans wanted it, but at the very last second they pulled out. Other than that, we're never going to know.

And my guess is Kansas City wouldn't give that up either. So today is not a day to applaud or frankly criticize Bill O'Brien. The only thing is worth criticizing Ross is the fact there's no first round pick. And that first round pick, his name is Laramie Tunsell. Yes. Still waiting on a deal. Who still is waiting on a new deal to be the highest paid offensive lineman ever in the history of the NFL. Correct.

And a guy that commits a lot of all false starts. Well. And is according to pro football focus. 20th out of 80. Yeah. I mean, it's just a really nice above average offensive lineman. Okay. But not worthy of being the richest one. Probably not, but his contract came up. So guess, well, his contract's only not up.

It's true. He may never be the richest one because they can, in theory. And they need to do that now. They may, in theory, be able to franchise tag him. True. But that means you can't franchise tag to Sean Watson. And that means you made a bad trade. It means somebody's going to get a lot more. Because let me tell you, do you think that to Sean Watson is hoping that they don't get a deal done with Laramie?

I mean, he would never publicly say that. Because you're going to have to franchise tag one of the two cats, correct? Maybe. If you don't get both signs. Yeah, if you don't get them both signs. Which one do you franchise? Here's the thing. You can't go into next offseason with these problems.

One of these two guys has to get their contract done by the end of next season. I saw an article a couple days ago that they, the Pat Mahomes' deal might get done after the draft. So that'll probably help along with. And that pushes a lot of the way. With the Sean Wants. Because I think originally my theory was they were going to wait until these TV. TV deals played out. But now with everything going on,

those TV deals might look severely different. So instead of waiting for potentially more money being there, I think you've got to take what's on the table. So I agree. I think that that story about Mahomes makes a lot of sense. Just sign now. Get your $40 million while you can. Okay, so if Mahomes signs within the next two weeks,

if you're to Sean Watson, knowing that the TV dollars might suffer because of what's going on this year and whatever season we're going to have, do you go ahead and take what's offered? Or do you go, you know what? I'm going to get back on that football field. Be better than I was.

Knowing that Laramie Tunsell's in a position that may need to be franchise tag. If you can't get a deal done with him, if you're Deshawn, do you wait or do you say Pat Mahomes to set the bar, we're good? Because even though Deshaun is not better than Pat Mahomes, if he waits another year, it's his turn to get paid,

just like it's Laramie's turn to get paid. get paid. And Lammering Tunsell is not the best love tackle in the NFL. I kind of want to wait until DAC gets paid because that night I know that I'm getting more than DAC and I'm getting close to Mahomes. At least. And will Deshaun be patient enough to do that? So far it looks like it. He's the only one that can answer that question. That's true. All right, 1257 and is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 7 honey. Ross on the what's on Matt's Mind show page. What is doing well today? That would be our last three afternoon delights. And that's pretty much it, but that's okay.

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NFL conversation. Again, I will give credit what credit to do. I thought there would be some serious technical snafus with connections. Frankly, on the ABC side, they did very few interviews. I think ESPN only, maybe interviewed Joe Burrow. Was that it? I didn't watch much of the NFL on the ESPN side of things. They had a couple of other interviews.

But there wasn't a lot. They thought less is more. That was probably the right thing to do. Maybe like a handful of them. Do the real technical difficulty that stood out to me is, but there was only like one moment where Tray Wingo threw to Daniel Jeremiah from the NFL network and he didn't respond. Yeah, I remember that.

Trey is really good at his job and just moved on. Yeah. Did you hear what Trey Wingo said very early about Joe Burrow? No. That Joe Burrow wanted to go play last year at Nebraska. Yes, yes, I did hear that. Oh, yeah, I heard that, yeah. And Scott Frost is like, we're good.

And out of high school, too. out of high school, we wanted to go to Nebraska as well, and they told them, though. Unreal. That sounds like something Mac Brown would do. But thank God they didn't do it. Matt Brown would have put him at safety. Here's the thing, guys. Not every college coach is going to bat a thousand when it comes to player evaluation.

Correct. You just don't want it to get out there that you messed up. And I feel like yesterday, that was the early theme of the episode of the draft coverage yesterday before the pick was made, is that Joe Burrow was looking to go somewhere else. that his time at Ohio State wasn't going, it was going to be limited. Where can I go? Oh, I think I'll go play to school and I wanted to go play to all along. And the coach who didn't have a great quarterback there to begin with, right? I mean, I don't think Nebraska's not good at all. Is he better than what we've got? That was the quote from Scott Frost.

Do you think he got that from one of his coordinators? Or do you think that was Scott Frost, who was, by the way, an ex-quarterback in his own right? And during college, did the Italian evaluation on Joe Burrough and said, I don't think he's there. To be fair, though, to Scott Frost, when Susie Culber was interviewing Joe, she talked about how Mel Kuiper had him mocked as a six- or seventh-round pick after his junior year. And he frankly just said he sucked last year and that he wasn't very good. I wonder it was because the mechanics weren't good, the coaching wasn't good, or he didn't give it full effort. So maybe Scott Frost wasn't wrong.

And then it took Joe Brady and Coach O to figure it out with this kid and change his life. Because in fairness, my guess is Scott Frost looked at only video of his dime in Ohio State, which was first of all limited, and second of all, not very good. But it didn't help the cause. If you're a high school quarterback in this recruiting period, whatever this time is, and you are thinking about your life and where you want to play in the NFL and you want to go to a place that is going to breed excellence when it comes to quarterbacking, first of all, Nebraska has never been on the top of the list. but to have Scott Frost say thanks but no thanks to eventually the number one pick in the NFL draft. I think it doesn't, for sure, it doesn't make Nebraska look particularly good. And Scott Frost is in the same situation that Arizona, Arizona, I'm drawing a blank. Cliff Kingsbury is in.

Comes home to his school, is beloved by the entire state, and they've sucked. Frankly, has Nebraska been really ever any good since they moved to the Big Ten? No Have they been good since Eric Crouch was there? They were good and they were solid in 2009 when they played Texas in the What is that in the Dominican Sioux? That was in Dominican Sioux just ragged all the Cole McCoy for four quarters and nearly won that game by himself Yeah, nearly one in a Heiseman.

He should have won the Heisman that year. I agree. Because when I was a kid, Nebraska was on that shirt list. It was in the West, it was basically USC in the middle. West, it was Penn State, it was Ohio State, Nebraska in the mix. In the south, it was Texas. It was Texas A&M. In the east, it was Florida, Florida State.

Nebraska, what the hell happened? They went to the wrong conference. They never should have left. Nebraska, the whole Big Ten is kind of a mess in that regard where Rutgers doesn't fit. They missed the Big East. Maryland doesn't fit. Nebraska doesn't fit. None of those schools belong in the Bucers.

Big 10. And Nebraska needs to go back to the Big 12th. They got to find a way back. We'll take them back with open arms. You would take them back in it with open arms. Sure, why not? That's a big, yeah, big time historical program. And then you take history.

And then you take Houston and you're set. For what? For 12, you can't have 11 teams in the conference. No, I said program with good history. Oh. We're going to play the Peach Bowl victory Sunday night here on 790. Okay. They should take Missou back.

Take Missou and Nebraska back to the Big 12th. Like, you know, when you watch in a random, like, you know those 11 o'clock, Locksucky games. You know the ones that always played 11 a.m.? Like Texas, frankly, did a lot this year. Hold on now.

Rutgers versus Maryland is not Big Ten football. I'm sorry. It's just not. It's almost a 9 a.m. games sometimes it feels like. Frankly, if Big 12 was smart, if they were really smart,

they'd call to Colorado and they'd call Nebraska back and say, do you guys want to come back? And they should take them and have a Big 12 north or Big 12 South like it used to be. Nebraska and be fine. Cincinnati or something.

No, no. No, no Cincinnati. It's Nebraska and Colorado or Nebraska and Houston. That's it. No other options. BYU. No, no. So we can get the, what is that Angel's name for Mori?

Moroni. Oh, Moroni? Yeah. Yeah, let's get that guy going. What do you want some cold storage in your house? Exactly. Want some freeze-dry food? By the way, we got to pay off on our teas, Matthew.

What was our teas? The Texan signing. Oh, go ahead, please. The Texas has signed Michael Thomas. That Michael Thomas? No, the safety Who played with the Giants last couple of years He was a Pro Bowl or two years ago

That sounds good But what happened last year? I was going to first year Apparently he's a special team stalwart Oh And yeah, he was a 2019 Pro Bowl replacement For special teams

So there you go He's got an NBA from Miami I don't care smart guy. I don't care. Coach on the field. Hard worker. It's a joke.

Last night. Last out. So where is he in the death chart? I don't know. Right next to your other big free agency signing, Jalen Watkins, on special teams. You know what? The Texas are setting themselves up to have the best special teams in America. Special teams are important, Matt.

They are. They're the third most important group behind the offense and the defense. You know what? How could I possibly disagree with that? Texan special teams, amazing. Everything else? Offense could be good. Could be great with a bunch of slot receivers. And Will Fuller, I mean, could stretch the field provided that he would actually be able to run down the field.

Yeah, if his hamstrings are working. Because, you know, he's got an IH. Yes, he does. I can't even say injury prone ever again. Because all I have across from me is the contrarian. You can say what you want. No, because as soon as I say injury prone, you're like, well, you know, everybody's injury prone. I'm injury prone.

Me too. Let's go to Jimmy on 790 at 110. Hi, Jimmy. Hey, guys. How y'all? You all shows, even for lack of sports, they've been top-notch lately. Thank you. So, well, two things.

First off, I've never heard of that 24-7 thing, Rob Bruncowski. Oh, it's a brand-new belt. I googled it. So at any point, in any time, if there's a referee present, I guess you can just go up and attack a dude. And so there was a guy who held the belt for nine seconds. But I guess the referee was present. He won it. And then somebody came and knocked him out nine seconds later.

So I just got a kick out of that. But here's the thing. Does a 24-7 champion always run around the country with the referee standing in next to him? I feel like to be safer to not have the guy with him so he can take a break. now and then. Yeah, because you want to be able to carry the belt as long as possible. But I guess when you're up for a fight and obviously there's a ref present, as soon as you, I mean, you got to be on the lookout until that ref leaves.

But anyway, I've never really paid much attention to wrestling. It just seemed fake, but I got a huge kick out of that. So I was listening last Saturday to the show that comes on after Ross's show. Space City Saturdays? Space City Saturdays? Saturday. And I want to say it was Greg McRoy was being interviewed. And he specifically said something.

And I think a reference was made to U of H. and he said the Power 5 and he said, and now basically the Power 6 conferences. He said that unprovoked. Perfect. So I thought you would appreciate that. You all have a great week. All he does is speak the truth.

Greg McElroy, a guest on Space City Saturday. last Saturday. No, apparently it was a different show that was after, maybe some Fox. I think he met after Michael on Sunday. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Is that one Greg McElroy's on?

I have no idea. Whatever, that show's getting great guest. Who were your guest on last week, boys? I don't need guests. I don't know. I don't think I had a guest out last week. Was it good? Oh, I tried to get a guest, and then they didn't text me back.

I'm Ross's guest every week. That's true. I do have headlines at 1030 every Saturday. Oh, I'm sorry, what? 1030. Yes, 1030. with Joe George. Pat Starr, State of the Texans,

will be with a draft recap tomorrow on my show. You mean rounds two and three? Right. I guess it is a recap of the two. Yeah, recap of the picks and then a look ahead of what the Texans might do, so that should be good. Will Pat like the picks?

We'll see. That's why I want to listen. Could Pat come out on your show and destroy the picks? I mean, what would they draft that you would destroy? That's what I'm saying. Is there anything they could do? Besides quarterback and... Nobody believes them. Nobody trusts them.

I would say quarterback I would not be happy with. Running back probably wouldn't please me a bunch of, but I guess you need depth, but I wouldn't want it in the second or third round. You wouldn't want depth in that, yeah, exactly. Yeah, that early, especially if you're trying to sell us that David Johnson at $10 million a year is the answer to all your problems. Joe, George, I want you to give me the definitive DJ reader replacement. We come back because that's how I want the Texans to take at 40 if they stay there. Oh, by the way, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Michael Thomas is a former Nimitz Cougar great.

Went to Stanford. She actually got us to the diploma. Okay, good. 113, another Nimitz grad in the city of Houston, working. Beautiful. Living. Breathing. Just trying to make it.

Just trying to make it. Any way he can. 114. It's a Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Load up on those napkins, straws, ketchup, hot sauce, mustard. Oh, and don't forget duck sauce. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch on Sports Talk 790. 118 on Sports Talk 790.

Got a couple of emails in. Does Michael Thomas signing effect with the Texans could do at 40? I mean, we don't... We're not into Mike Bill O'Brien's mind on this, but... Too much. No, he's a special team's guy. That's it. It affects what they do with those last three picks and the seventh.

David Johnson was nothing more than a third running back on the... on the Arizona Cardinals, and now he's the number one guy in the Texas. So slow your role on it. Well, he's nothing but a special team's guy. Hey, well, it's a later signing. I'm sure it's not the big money. It's trying to depth protection. Protection of depth?

What? I don't know. Depth protection. Sure. Like depth perception. Exactly. That's a little going on. Ross has found the number 40 picks in the last decade.

Yes. Let's run through some names. And any of them you go, wow, that's awesome. or that's what we're getting. That's really the only way we get it, right? Pretty much. Okay, go ahead. Well, last year was Trayvon Mullen, cornerback to the Raiders.

Incomplete. Yeah, I wouldn't even think about it in the last year or two as incomplete. Two years ago, the Broncos took Cortland Sutton. That's a win. That's a pretty good pick. Yep. Three years ago, Curtis Samuel, wide receiver Panthers. Just a guy?

He's been okay. Last year he had 600 yards. Just a guy. And six touchdowns? That's decent. He did have what, not Josh Allen. Who took over for Cam Newton in Carolina? Oh, what is a Kyle Allen?

Kyle Allen. I knew it's one of the Allen. Come on. Somebody Allen. Former Cougar. Short-term Cougar. That's why I forgot his name. Former Cougar Great, Kyle Allen.

Great's a strong term. Before that, Sterling Shepard, wide receiver giants. That's a win. He's been decent. Before, it's just four of the last five been wide receivers. Wide receiver Doriel Green Beckham to the Titans out of Missou. He was not, did nothing. No.

Before that, defensive inn out of Florida State to the Niners, Tank Caradine. Don't own. Before that, Kyle Van, no one to the Lions. He's been good. He got traded to the Patriots a couple years after. He was also 36 years old when he got drafted. Yes. And before that.

Amini Silatolu a guard out of Midwestern state to the Panthers. Not familiar with his work. Joe, I know you're a big offensive line guru. Your thoughts on Amini Silatolu. That's a hard name to pronounce. Do you have every 40th pick in the last like 50 years? No, July the last 10 years.

I had to go, I have to go year by year. What I'd like to find out is who's the greatest number 40 pick in the history of drafts. Well, so far, we would say Cortland Sutton. That's not bad. 2011 Bruce Carter linebacker out of UNC to the Cowboys Didn't he have a pretty good career? He was okay Not in the league anymore, is he?

No, no, I'm thinking of Bruce Irvin, I think. Yeah. Bruce Carter didn't, well, you know, he is what he is. And before that, Coa Misi, linebacker out of Utah to Miami Dolphins. Not with the team. No idea. Correct.

So what that just did for you, gang, is temper your enthusiasm for the 40th pick. Am I right? It's kind of a mixed bag. There are people that are trying to sell this as this is going to be an amazing draft night for the Houston, Texans. I don't think 40 can be amazing. 40 can be solid. But you just ran through the last 10 of them, seven of them we had no idea who the hell they were. Well, yeah. One was and two were probably pretty good. So you got basically about a 25% chance of this second round pick for the Texans, especially if they stay at 40 being something that go, you know what, this guy's going to come in here.

And on top of that, you have the head coach saying because there is no rookie meeting camp, there are no rookie organized team activities, it's going to be harder for these guys to step in and contribute right away. So that's why that maybe, and this is a perfect world for Bill here is he might get an incomplete on this year's draft because we're not going to be maybe see too many of these. guys. So doesn't even really matter if the most important need isn't addressed at 40 right now because of his term he's got a veteran latent team that doesn't need to rely on these draft picks this year? Would you think he might want to go for a guy that might help down the road? Like for instance, if there was a running back at 40, then you're like, we've got this guy graded out at 26.

I know we got David Johnson. I know we got Duke Johnson, but there's no guarantee that David Johnson is going to pick up where he left off when he was good three or four years ago. And if you're not going to, if you're not going to use these rookies, and you're not going to rely on many of them to make the rotation or on that 55

man roster every week, why wouldn't you take a risk? If you're already, and you're mentally in your mind thinking, I'm not going to have a great draft this year because of the calendar, not because of these players. aren't any good. I think you traditionally are going to want your first second

and third round picks to be immediately starters. How much of an impact are they going to have is obviously up for debate and up for, I mean, how well they're going to play and adjust and all that type of stuff and factors you can't control. But if you're drafting somebody at 40, you're expecting them to start right away.

You don't draft somebody, you don't stash somebody with the second round pick. But we just went through an example of some very pedestrian picks at 40. Correct. So why would we expect that number 40 to pick when those guys, most of them, never panned out as players in the NFL? Honestly, I think a lot of that's just dumb luck. You could go one spot back and it could potentially be all good.

Why are the Kool-A drinkers going berserk about the potential number 40 being this amazing that the city, Houston is going to go ballistic over this 40th pin? I don't think there's people really selling that. The 40 is just going to come and be a game change or something like that. There are some people selling. Trust me. Well, not on 790 on the in the AM dial. I'm not saying that 40 can't help. But this notion of the Texans are going to have a great night tonight

because look at the wealth of talent available. I'm guaranteeing you every team that had the 40th pick in the last 15 years. Like, look at all those players who weren't drafting the first round. They're going to drop to us at 40. And look what they're going to do. We just proved to you that 40 is just very average. Yeah, I mean, absolutely. It's kind of like what you talk about Matt,

when after a team has their recruiting class and they talk about how everybody's great, nobody ever had a pick number 40 and told to the media, well, you know what? We think Aminia Silatulu is not going to work out. They said that we think Aminisilatulu is great and he's going to help us immediately. And Bruce Carter and Tank Carradine and Doriel Green Beckham.

We're really happy to get him. When Doriel Green Beckham was drafted, I could go find a transcript. What do you get drafted by it? The Titans. The Titans. I could find some in the Titans organization saying, this is a young man that we had a first round grade on,

that we can't wait to get him on the football field as fast as possible. I guarantee you I could find that. Yep. And that's what the Texans are going to believe. And I'm not trying to persuade on a particular position. But let's put some facts into play here. The coach of the football team in this town has already said it's going to be difficult for rookies to get significant playing time. the coach's football team has already said he appreciates what's already here.

He has disposed of draft picks for veteran players who have had a history of injuries. We have a – that he does not value first-round picks like other NFL teams do. Clearly. We're second-round picks. Or any pick. So why wouldn't you at 40? And I'm not trying to convince anybody one way on this, but if you have that mindset in which he does, you're going for the best player available. You are not exclusively thinking,

I need a deliming at 40. Unless, again, you don't think that the Texans can pass rush at all with no DJ Reader, which isn't the truth. They should be able to, right? What? Presuming he's back 100% healthy should put pressure on the quarterback. Jernigan's got a history of putting pressure on the quarterback. If they need a starter right now at 40,

on that defensive line, then they should have drafted and moved up to get a more sure-fire pick. Because the history of 40, as we just explained to you for the last 10 minutes, is largely full of out of the leagues or guys that we just didn't recognize. So all I would say is let's temper, let's not put pressure on Bill O'Brien to have this amazing pick at 40. It should be the body of work. And frankly, you know how he's, remember he wanted us to preach patience a couple of last week?

we should be frankly more patient on this draft than we should be on anything else he's done because this draft doesn't I mean they're guys they're going from 40 to 90 they're they just don't have the same value of the draft that everybody else does well I think that's that's a huge mistake I can't argue with that usually good football teams build the draft tinker with free agency once in a while a trade And honestly, Ross, if you're Bill O'Brien and you can't get along with your veterans, i.e. Kareem Jackson, I.E. Glover Quinn, I. I.e. DeAndre Hopkins. I. Dwayne Brown. Why wouldn't you litter your team with rookies and young players? Because they're your draft picks.

And they got to love you because you drafted them. That's where I'm confused. So you're telling me, Bill O'Brien's all in this year. I'm telling you, Bill O'Brien believes he is, his team is the favorite to win the AFC South again. They are. And are they, are their favorites out there at this point? Yeah. Okay. Slight.

They're plus 170. Colts are like plus 200 or something like that. They are the, they are the. Last I checked. They are the favorites. And they're also a team that should, because they've grown up a little bit, should perform better in the month of January and get deeper in the playoffs than they have in years past. I feel like we're a broken record on that. 128, the Matt Thomas show continues.

713-212-5-790. So let me tell you, if anybody calls it a garbage pick tonight, the reason why you call it a garbage pick is because every draft expert that you trust had a particular player as a fifth ground grade that got picked at 40. Short of that, you really can't. I don't think you can complain about anything they draft. As long as the draft experts, the ones that spend a lot of time studying this, Say, yeah, this guy's second round selection.

Because whomever gets picked, I'm presuming, will not have an immediate impact on this football team. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. The pros do it on the bench. Rest load management. You can do it at home. Oh, I don't want to get up.

Just ask your smart speaker. Play Sports Talk 790 on I-Heart Radio. 132 on the Matt Thomas show. Ross and I just drafted our songs about booze, Fantasy 5, and I think we both lost. I don't like my list. I don't like your list. We'll see, though. I don't hate my list.

It's just not, I can't guarantee a victory. I just feel like there's, like, big ones that we miss somewhere. And the audience will let us know. Yeah, I didn't do a lot. Like there are songs. There's one, two songs that I would have put in the list, but I was a friend. afraid it was going to hurt because of a special genre. Okay.

But yeah, we've got Fantasy 5 songs about booze drinking of any sort or the It's like the song or the whole song has to be about booze or it has to be in the title. Yeah, and we've all agreed all of our songs fit that criteria. And we'll have it for you with production value, which Joe will love to work all that.

You think we think we're going to believe it or not's difficult. These Fantasy 5 have 10 songs? He'll figure it out. We've got that coming up at the time. He's a smart kid. 230. It's okay. I thought we were doing it right now.

I was freaking out. I was freaking out over here. No, you're doing it. I was like, where's the email? I just sent you the list. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. The Matt Thomas show with you till 3 o'clock this afternoon.

Anything else going on in sports besides the drug? We've spent almost exclusively the entire program on the draft so far. I mean, I think that's the biggest thing going on right now. Would you like the number one headline story on ESPN? Before I do. do that. Let me give a phone number out. Okay. Because we have fans of other teams. All right. We have some cowboy fans that call on occasionally.

We have one of our friends as a big Steeler fan. They also didn't draft yesterday. Did you even hear the Texans even talked about it all during the... Just the Diana Rossina thing. That was it. But I mean, not during the course of the show. No. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. If you're a fan of a different team, come brag about your draft. If you're a fan of the Texans, what do you want?

Can you just name a position? You don't necessarily name the player. If you just want a position filled, what would you want it to be? 713-212-5-7-90. You have the top ESPN headlines. UFC 249 to be held May 9th in Florida with no fans. Your thoughts on that, Matthew? At the WWE Performance Center?

I don't know. I guess I could find out. Kobe also documented his final season. Mamba Out, I think, is what they're going to call it. There's going to be a documentary on that as well. That's going to be very surreal. Yeah, that'll be interesting. Some Memphis players are going to enter the NBA draft.

Your thoughts on that? I have zero thoughts. His name is Precious Achewa. Okay, it sounds good to me. So good on Precious. And David Gettleman wore a mask and got made fun of it, but he said it was for a good reason. Reason with the virus, right?

Well, yeah, because he had an IT guy with him. Who said this? David Kettleman. Does he used to host a show on CBS? I don't know about that. David. I was David Letterman. Yeah, sorry.

You're close. I got you. Yeah, people were making fun of him for wearing a mask because they thought he was by himself wearing a mask, but it turned out there was an IT guy there. That's the hard-hitting news of the day. All right. By the way, D. of the week, we don't do D-O-the-week very often, but I'm going to just say the D-O-the-week is

Rob Manfred. Okay. Or J.T. Watkins? No, because he was just doing what he was doing what Alex Cora told him to do. It's true. And that Alex Cora got completely, uh, and again, I'm not even blaming Alex Cora. It was just an awful investigation done by an organization to protect the Boston Red Sox. So you, Rob Manfred, are the day of the week.

Hmm. Okay. I don't know if I have anybody to nominate. who else would be a candidate for D of this week? For D of the week? Who else? I'm just going to assume that Aaron Rogers is being a total D right now, so I'm going to nominate him. You don't think he's calling his general manager going, hey, you know, I like you guys are thinking ahead for the future. No chance.

That guy doesn't even like his brother. Yeah, why is he? Let me tell you about Aaron Rogers. He's got a very awkward family situation. He told Olivia Mun to go away. She is spectacular. Spectacular. For Danica.

Is he still dating Danica Patrick? I think so. I mean, she's not bad either. I mean, you know, it is what it is. But I'm just the biggest Olivia Munn fan, period into story. What was she on that is that she's most famous for? Well, I don't know what she's most famous for, but she was on that show, the network, William Hurt was the TV news anchor on that, on the cable news channel.

It was a series on HBO for a few years And she was like the business reporter Oh, The Sopranos That's not it It's not it at all I don't know Okay I just think she's fantastic

I saw her in person with Aaron At the college basketball tournament game It's pretty amazing Newsroom Newsroom that's it Never watch that It was really really really good I don't come ahead

It had such a short run It got really over the top Towards the end Okay But the early going was really, really good. I love those types. Broadcast news is one of my favorite movies of all time.

I love behind the scenes movies shows. What's broadcast news? Same kind of thing. It was a two-hour movie about a TV channel news department. It had William Hurt in it and Holly Hunter as the executive producer. Never saw it. It was a really good show. I suggest you, if you're going to catch about movies this weekend.

The Bachelor, Broadcast News. Have you seen Bachelor Party in yet? Bachelor Party, that's what it's called. How about we watch Bachelor Party, and we'll put it on a Zoom. How to stream, hold on. Okay. Is it free for you? I'm trying to figure it out.

Apparently, it's on Hulu. I paid $4 to see the Godfathers to each one of them. It's on Hulu. Okay, well, you're good then. Let's go to Jim and Spring Branch on 798-139. Hi, Jim. Hey, you left out Albert Brooks on a broadcast. Oh, excellent.

He was fantastic. Anyway, I was listening, after your show, of course, to, what is it, Tray Wingo or the guys on the other channel, Tiki and Tierney. And they squeezed in an Astro spot or Red Sox spot, and they pretty much echoed everything you've ever said. And, you know, like, the timing, you know, the slap on the wrist. It was good to hear some national people really say that because you don't hear that very much. But they said, this is only going to be, this is it. This is it. This is in one segment we're going to do. You know, it's all draft.

It's all, you know, Tom Brady and Grunk and that, you know. So it was the timing, of course. It pisses me off. And the year of the week, you're right, Manfred. Well, I'm telling you right now, Jim, they did that. They did a classic news done. They knew that if they put this out there the day before the NFL draft, it would have just enough shelf life for people to get all enraged about it,

and then we'd all quickly forget about it once the NFL draft took place. Well, guess what? This guy didn't forget about it, and I won't forget about it. Yeah, and I won't either. I was at the last game of Colt Stadium for crying out loud. You know, I wanted like seven or whatever it was. John Drysdale and Bob Bruce. Bob Bruce went 12 innings, and Drysdale won 11,

and Coles won one and won nothing. All right. Very good, Jim. Thanks for the phone call. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I love your show. Thank you very much.

Let's go to Trouvon and Cyprus on the Matt Thomas show. Hi, Trayvon. Hey, what's up? What's up? We're great. Thank you for Dowland and what's up. Okay, so I would like to know who the best edge rusher is available for the Texas. I would like to know who you would prefer as whatever edge rusher that they may pick.

And if you don't think that ashrer is the best position, I would like to know. who you would like for the checks you pick this next pick, and I'll hang up and listen. You guys be safe. All right, thank you very much. So the gentleman does not want a safety and he does not want a corner. He wants an edge rusher. Let's throw out three names for him when we come back. 142 is the time.

It is the Matt Thomas show. Brian T. joins us at 2, the Fantasy 5 at 2.30. If you're an edge rusher fan, a guy that's going to go in there and help out JJ Watt. We'll give you some names next on 7-9. The Houston Lunchtime Sports Conversation most respected by head coach Bill O'Brien. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Matt Thomas. In his career here in Houston. Of sorts.

The Matt Thomas Show. All right, Joe, you're our draft guru of the three of us. So we're not going to allow nose tackles in a mix. We're talking strictly edge guys, right? I'm assuming that's a yes. Is your microphone right? Yes. Okay.

Sorry, it's cut of the music. That's okay. And then we're going, are we allowed to take Lyman and make them outside? linebackers, i.e. Jadabian Clowney. Sure. So outside linebacker, you're thinking past rush. Yeah. Edge rusher, if you will.

Yeah. What do you? See, I don't, I mean, honestly, all these names that are come to mind, I saw nothing but good reports about them. So for me, it's Utter Gross Matos, Zach Bonn.

William Gaye, Jr. of a Mississippi State, if you will. AJ Epinessa. Yes, AJ Epinessa's thought of as highly as an edge guy. I don't remember which one's which. Iowa. And Uter is the Penn State guy. Yeah.

So, I mean, I look, I'm going Big Ten. To me, it's one of the three Big Ten guys. It's either AJ Epinessa, Uter Gross Matos, or Zach Vaughn on Ohio State. Oh, no, Wisconsin. Those are the three I'm looking at. Personally, I like Zach Vaughn the most. Why do you like him more than any else? I just think that he's closer to Clowny.

like what clownie does. I think the other guys probably already closer to similar to JJ. Oh, we've got a break in Texans news. How big one to ten breaking? Six?

That's not bad. According to Aaron Wilson, the Texans have finalized a three-year contract extension with Pro Bowl left tackle Laramie Tunsell. Oh, that's big, that's not six? That's not. A nine.

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention? I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. Why is it horrifying? I don't know. $22 million per year. $57 million guarantee, $13 million signing bonus according to Aaron Wilson. Wow. They actually got it done.

Good for them. No, that's not. You shouldn't be shocked by that. I mean, we're not sure. I am. I don't you drug on for a minute there. Three years? What are you doing? They are...

What do you mean? Well, they're... He wanted five years. Who did? Joe George did. Yeah, that's what the Texans. You're going to give up two first rounds. You're going to get a guy that's going to be in that position for the next month.

Yeah, but I'm sure Laramie wants to get paid again. What's he 26, 25 somewhere in the neighborhood? Yeah, but you gave up, you're going to have him for, let's say he walks at the end of this three-year contract. Worst case scenario. It's a three-year extension, so you have him. for four. So you'd have them for four years or five years total if it's a full extension. At huge money.

At huge money you gave up two first round picks won't. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure they wanted more years on the deal, but Laramie Tunso probably wasn't going to go for it. And Laramie Tunzo has all the leverage. Who do you think wanted the shorter term? Bill or Laramie. Laramie wants shorter term because he wants to get paid again

so he wants to get paid when he's 29. Which is smart. It's very intelligent on his behalf. Yeah. I'm I can't kill this. I mean, in fact, I'm probably going, all right, you know what, guys, with as many hard feelings that we've had around these parts with guys looking for money, Laramie got paid. Laramie is the richest lineman in the NFL today, right?

And it ain't even close. And he will be that way for three years. So he's at the total of four years, correct? I believe so. Three years on top, I think. Okay. Re-N-Rap Report is saying, the real Ian Rapp Report, is saying three years 66 with 50 guaranteed. Aaron Wilson says 57 guaranteed.

So there's a little bit of discrepancy there. Well, Aaron Wilson got a couple of picks wrong last night. Hopefully he's right on this. I don't know. Not that it matters, I guess. Here is, okay, three years, 66 million, 50 guaranteed 40 due into signing. Ooh, that's a lot of money, guys. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, Wilson says 22 a year, 57 million guaranteed $13 million signing bonus. Okay, so now we've got discrepancies. So we need shafted away in here. We need Shafti to step in. When in doubt, he's a tiebreaker, correct? Because he never gets anything wrong.

I mean, Aaron Wilson has been pretty spot on for Texan stuff. No, Aaron does okay. Aaron is very good contract-wise. We just have two very different reports, so. So one has it at 57 million guarantee one has it at 50. Tunsel will now under contract through 2023 season. So he's got four more, four years. So it's three on top.

Yeah, I'm good with this. This is fine. Yeah. Regardless, he's going to make an extraordinary large amount of money, and most of that's guaranteed. Yeah. All right. The reason why I see the positive is that he leaves after this is over

and Titus Howard takes over as your left tackle wins. his time to get paid. What if it's his contract situation becomes a problem? Yeah, he'll be a pretty good point. That'll be at the end of his fifth year. Yeah. Well, hopefully there's... Are you paying big?

You can't pay them both, obviously. No, I don't think... You can't be paying them. I guess you can't really pay both. Unless, I mean, and Deshawn Watson, depending on how much the cap goes up, I guess. I don't see anything negative at all of this at all. No, yes, is good.

Yeah, if you do think about it that way of where you can't pay him and Titus Howard, It lets you trade or move on from Tunsell at the end of the contract, and you pay Titus. Or you trade Titus and pay Tunsel again. And when Tunsel moves on, you get a nice compensatory drapet. And frankly, gentlemen, how many contracts have we, that teams have been saddled with in years four and five when the production falls off dramatically? Do you think that's part of the reason why Trent Williams can't get moved out of Washington right now? It's because that long contract has settled in with all that money? No, he's still productive.

He's good. he just, he hates the Redskins management. But why, I mean, if he was so good, why isn't he gone? Why wouldn't the Redskins say, all right, look, this is a lost cause? He, when he's never going to play for us again, he's so describing it. I don't know, I don't know his back. I'm just saying that it's, that this to me protects both of them. It gives, it doesn't saddle the Texans with a contract, especially if Laramie

starts to trail off. Laramie gets a lot of money. He's the highest paid lineman in the league just like he wanted to. He gets, I mean, well, it's 50 or 57 million dollars, that's a lot of guaranteed money, guys. This is a win. Yeah, I think Laramie's feeling good. I don't know.

You know, here is the thing. If Laramie Tensell is awesome guys for the next four years, we're not going to worry about those first round draft picks. The reason why it was such a difficult situation last year was for one of, for few reasons. One, because the Texans did not sign him no new deal as soon as he came here. That was the first, like, what are you doing, Bill? Secondly, he was an offensive full-start machine. But he still played well.

It wasn't like he did help the football team. He solidified a position that was among, I mean, the line during training camp, how atrocious was the line being taught? When Matt Khalil was thinking about trying to play for them, was it mad or Ryan, I forget which McAulil it was. It was Matt. They went from Matt Khalil who can't move to a guy that was very highly regarded by the Miami Dolphins, who, oh, by the way, is now a part of your first.

football team. Look, there's a lot of things you can criticize him for, but four years of Laramie Tensell where he's taking care of financially and doesn't really kick in until next year, they did fine on this. And it kind of justifies what Bill's been saying about the Hopkins trade, at least from Bill's perspective, of he asked for a raise and we couldn't give it to him. $22 million a year for one guy. Yeah.

Kind of helps that argument. And yeah, but they also did give the pretty much. much the maximum amount that they could for Laramie Tunsell. Two first round from draft picks and now making them the highest paid tackle in football. Well, they're going to trade Kenny Stills for a seventh round. He's shortly here. So they'll be fine. So they're going to get a seventh round on it as well.

I'm just throwing that out there. Right. Yeah. Honestly, this had to be done. If it went into the season without it being done, I think it would have really caused a lot of issues. Just like, I don't know. I mean, let me ask you all this.

If Deshawn doesn't get his deal in this off season. Is this is this going to be a season of why aren't you getting getting this done? What's the holding point? Especially if Mahomes gets his deal done in the next couple of weeks. It'll be interesting to see and what the money will be and all that type of stuff and when the season will be and if we'll have a regular season. By the way, Ian Rappaport just tweeted out. He clarified he's on, he says 57.85 million guaranteed. So good for you, Aaron. Aaron Wilson had it, which we figured.

Now, doesn't Rappaport get his information from Bill O'Brien? Yes. I feel like Aaron goes more under the agent route. Perhaps. Each reporter has their own ways. Some are super tight into agents. Some are super tied into coaches.

Correct. So 57.8, you said? Okay. I'm telling you, that's a win. It's really a big win for Laramie Tunsell, and I think it makes the Texans look good. He's got almost $58 million, guaranteed.

Now, are we going to tease him if it jumps offside a bunch? Yes. Okay. I also make sure we're consistent on that. No matter how much money he's making. He's got 10 off. Like, he should be penalized for every false start.

He should get a million dollars guaranteed money taken off per year for every fall start he gets. Last year it cost him what, 10, 11 million dollars? He had nine off sides or was it more than that? So bad. And then the worst part of last year was he thought he was being picked on by officials. Yeah. What were his words?

It wasn't picked on or something close. It was like targeted. Yeah, something like that in a target on his back. He basically said that... For false start. I'm more intelligent than you. I know the ball is coming. And I could never potential do that.

All right. We'll see what Brian T. has to say about this. 2 o'clock hour has him, the Fantasy 5, and you at 713-213-5-790. 7-1-2-5-7-90. This is the Matt Thomas show. 201 on Sports Talk 790. final hour the Matt Thomas show begins right now with our weekly Friday visit with our good friend Brian T. Smith. You can find him on Twitter at Cron Brian Smith. He's a league columnist for the

Houston Chronicle. You also, Brian T. live in a city where the highest paid offensive linemen in the NFL currently lives, or at least works. I am honored, Matt. I am honored to cover a franchise like the Texans, and I'm honored to live in a great city of Houston where Larry me console is being paid like a future annual all pro left tackle i'm i'm sure he'll live up to that hey i'll tell you what it's good money for him the texans had to do it four years prime of his career making the most money he'll probably be the highest paid tackle for about a year or so until the next guy's contract is up but this kind of had to be done so i don't know if there's a whole lot of complaining anybody can do especially if you indeed had to save every dollar for him

and then tell DeAndre there was no money for you. Yeah, it's all very interesting, right? And as Bill O'Brien said a week ago, let it play out. Now, that doesn't mean you can't analyze it while it's going on. And the whole thing is just, it's just a huge experiment for the Texans. And because they are so all in and have been so all in in in so many ways, it will either work or it will fail. And we will know in a couple of years.

The Laramie Tunsell, with DeAndre Hopkins, with how they are building this team around the Sean Watson. Let me say this. Number one, you can't complain if you're a devoted Texans fan every day of your life that the team isn't investing in the offensive line. Spend every hour on radio or Twitter or whatever your medium is. just yelling at the Texans, screaming, barking, complaining on and on. They don't invest in the offensive line.

They're not protected to Sean Watson. They went out and did that. Now, have they done the entire line? Do they have the depth they need? That's still a work in progress. But they have not had a left tackle that they could truly count on since Dwayne Brown. And Dwayne Brown basically got tired of the Houston Texan. I mean, ultimately, they had to move him.

He wanted out. They had a couple off years at that position. They went out and got them. guy. They gave up a lot to get him, really a ton to get him. First round picks. You get stills in the deal. But that was for Tunsell. They didn't trade for Kenny Seals. They traded for Lammy Tunsell. And because of the way they did that, there was no extension at the moment, Matt, when they did that trade, which was right before the season. It was, hey, let's let it play out. See how the season goes. If it all works out, we'll extend you. He had all the leverage in the world. So on one hand, if you're going to pay,

him that, if you're going to do all that, he's then got to live up to that other part of the bargain. And Laramie Tunsell was good last year. He wasn't great. He wasn't worth $22 million a year. Hopefully he'll start looking up to it. The only thing we got to worry about, look, I've never worried about what a guy makes. But in the world of a salary cap, which the NFL has, every dollar is accounted for. And if you're going to have a player on your team making the most money at his position, not only on that team, but in the entire league, then the microscopes on him. If he kicks ass and protects Deshawn and he doesn't hurt, then we're not going to care if he made $22 million a year or $25 or $28 million a year.

But if there's any exposure, that's when people start to say, you're paying this for that. So, A, good for him. B, Brian, somebody's got to make the most of somebody. And it does show the Texans do value that left tackle spot because not only they spent a lot of money on it, but they gave away a lot of their future for it, too. So it's all in on Laramie Tunsell, and he's got four years to make that, make the general manager look like a smart guy. That's exactly it, Matt.

And, you know, but they're all pieces. I mean, you have a hard cap. You can move money around. You can massage things, but ultimately it is a hard cap. And so from a fan's perspective, you chose not going off of your words, the Texans' words, You chose not to pay DeAndre Hopkins a few million more dollars a year. You moved on. You used part of that money.

Randall Cobb, Brandon Cooks, David Johnson. So now you are paying J.J. Watt, annual all pro money, and J.J. Watt, the last three or four years, on the field, has not lived up to that. Hopefully he has a bounce back year. He's been pretty incredible before. He's at a cross-vers in his career. But you're paying J.J. Watt, annual, all pro money. You're paying Larry Tunsell annual pro money.

You just traded the way DeAndre Hopkins. And at some point, Matt, before the NFL played this next game, every indication is, and we've been saying this for a year in the Chronicle, Deshawn Watson's going to get paid. Deshawn Watson is going to get paid like Patrick Brownhomes gets paid, $40 million a year. So you're going to have Watson and Tunsell making major, major money. And if you're the Texans and you're Bill O'Brien,

your Jack Easterby, you're Cal McNair, you're that organization, you have to hope that that vision, works out that if you're going to stick a lot, he bounces back, Tunsel gets even better and you can count on him for years. Because if you get it wrong and you're paying the wrong guys, exactly. That's when people really start looking at those contracts. And it all ties into Bill O'Brien and the organization. I mean, he's not just the coach.

He's the coach and the general manager. He more than anyone chose to pay, you know, chose to trade for Laramie Monsul, chose to trade away. Did they have been clowny? They're invested in their guys. We'll see if it pays off. Brian T. Smith with us here on the program. Okay.

So, Brian, the coach decided he, in the last couple weeks, to soft play this draft. No TAs, no rookie minning camp, distancing, no opportunity to visit with these guys and have them work out on their facilities. So if he's downplaying this draft, should we really be overly concerned? what they do at 40 knowing that the chances of who matter, no matter if they need a defensive line, which they do, no matter if they need secondary help, which they do, that that person, whoever's drafted at 40 probably isn't going to make a huge impact at least in 2020. Can you have that notion or do you say, you know what? Because of what you've done and get

rid of your first rounders, you better do a damn good job of trying to find value at number 40 in their pick. If that was buy or pass, I buy on the ladder. I hard pass, Matt, on the first part. I know you're just throwing that out. Yeah. It makes her fun radio. I don't believe that at all. You chose to trade away your, all these things are connected, right? It's like some conspiracy movie. Everything is connected, especially in the NFL. Bill Belichick will tell you that. Any of the best, Andy Reid would tell you that. If you trade away your first round ticks for Laramie console and then you're forced to pay him $22 million. You have to hope that works.

And if you are going to make the DeAndre Hopkins trade and you end up with 40 and you sign Brandon Cooks, you have to make 40 work. Just like you have to make your first round picks work or your second or your third. And those things ultimately define organizations, just like getting the right quarterback, which they did with Deshaun Watson. Every indication is that. That's far, you know, when you're looking at Watson and Mahomes, the home's a little better, Deshawn Watson should be leading to Texans for the next 10 to 15 years.

You've got your quarterback right. But if you're sitting there at 40, no, it's a very important pick. Maybe it's a running back. Maybe it's Dobbins. Maybe somebody slides. Maybe it is a defensive end. Maybe it's a cornerback. Maybe it's a safety.

They have holes. Their defense doesn't floor me at all right now. And on paper, it feels like it took a step backwards. I get the whole idea. It's coronavirus. You can't work out. But Matt, it's a level playing field. Everybody's dealing with the same exact thing.

So someone else is going to make the 39th pick work, the 41st pick work. Someone else is going to get a huge contribution that helps toward a playoff berth from a third rounder. No excuses for the Texans. They are all in. They're not making excuses for themselves. They need to get 40 right. Problem is, so we just ran through the list of 40 last hour, Brian? it's a very pedestrian number, to be honest with you.

It's not. There are very few impactful players. It almost always is. Yep. So, you know, again, I have such limited... I know there's going to be people around that are either talking about the team or screaming, going, man, the Texans cards lined up perfectly, and now they're going to have this... They're going to have...

Ray, right, right, right. ...in number 40. I don't buy it, because I guarantee you, if I went back and looked at the last 10 years of teams picking it number 40 going, man, you wouldn't believe the value we got. Like, we figured it out, seven of the 10 guys didn't even last five years in the league. Two of them were decent. One was average. I mean, it's far from now.

You could say 33, you know, on the outside looking in. But 40s are pretty decent. And then on top of that, they don't pick again until 90s. So you're going deep in the third round. So that's why, again, I have such minimal expectations because Bill O'Brien, through his actions, have said, I'd rather have players I know as compared to players I might have to coach. Yep. Yeah, part of that, though, is they believe the only way that they were going to get a

left tackle that they could truly count on that could replace Dwayne Brown wasn't, I mean, because they would have been the top 10, and they weren't going to be in the top 10 because they were in the 9 to 7 to 10 and 6 land, right? So they believed, hey, we're going to give a first round pick or two first round picks, but we're going to get Laramie Tunsell, and you would have to luck out in the top 10 to get a Laramie Tunsell. But at the same time, Matt, look at Tennessee, look at, you know, Kansas City.

Look at the best organization. I'm not putting the Titans up there yet. But look at the best organizations the last few years. The Texans are close. But those organizations, you don't have to hit on every round. Nobody does that. And that's why so much of the draft is utter made for TV, made for Internet, BS. But historically 40, maybe not that great.

35, 42, you can still pull. a reliable, you know, yearly player. Look at DJ Reader for the Texan. Look at Jimmy Garapolo, Teddy Bridgewater. Right. Those areas, if you are a well-run organization, you should be able to pull, especially if you're going to go in this heavy,

giving away your first round picks. I'm sorry, you need to make 40 work for you because if not, that's going to be holding you back. You went so all in on potentially Watt Watson and Laramie Tunsell, but you're going to be lacking depth. and they don't have a first-round pick again next year, Matt. All right. So now let's move forward to Deshaun.

Is he happy that Laramie got locked up, which then means he's really legitimately only Canada that could be franchise tagged in a couple of years if they can't kind of agreement. But it feels like they're going to figure out a way to make sure their franchise quarterback has a deal signed. Very close to what Pat Mahomes gets provided once he gets his contract done. Yeah, I think all this, again, it's so fascinating. I mean, we've been through so much. I've been here for almost a decade now, but, you know, we've been through so much for the Texans,

and then you look at the Astros and their contracts, free sign-sailing scandal, right? Al-Tube, Bregman, you look at the Rockets and Hardin and some of these situations, but we have not ever had a franchise quarterback who you really want to invest in, who the fans believed in, who you wanted to keep for the next 10 years. The Texans have never had that. Matt Schaub was a veteran, you know, by the time. he came along and he was traded for and it's not like he was a

top you know 12 pick the Texan never had that before if I'm the Sean Watson and more importantly if I'm his people you're looking at that Tunsel trade I mean it's the Tunsell deal and you're saying you gave Laramie Tunsell 22 million a year

J.J. Watts making 15 million year what am I worth? I'm worth double what Laramie Tonsal's making obviously it won't work like that. Mahomes will set the market. Whether Watson gets his deal first and Mahom gets his deal first, if I'm to Sean Watson's people and obviously they don't pay me to advise to Sean Watson, I'm not doing a deal until Patrick Mahomes signs his deal

because Mahomes is going to set the table for the entire league. You have tons, so this is pretty simple. At 22, if Mahomes comes in at 4142, it's a no-brainer. You owe to Sean Watson. and $40 million a year. And that's probably where it would come in. But if I miss people, I play hardball with the Texans. And then you find the compromise because he's not going anywhere. And they want him.

And he's never said a bad thing about the organization. But I think it's going to be interesting as this plays out. Maybe it'll take a while. Maybe it won't. But again, it feels like Deshaun Watson has the leverage that the Texans don't. I got 60 seconds here. I want to make sure you know that I know the Houston Astros 100% cheated, 100% deserve the penalties they deserved. So I'm not trying to play Save versus City.

I know, yeah. I'm just telling you the Astros cheated. They'll be permanently staying because of that. I think baseball gave a ridiculously lean, lean penalty to our friends in Boston, Massachusetts. Here's the problem. I don't disagree with any of that. I wrote that in the Chronicle. The problem is they don't have, this is this factor in the Astros, Matt. They didn't have subpoena power. They're not the federal government. They can, they have to grant immunity to the players. And Matt, if the players don't talk, if they don't have a Mike fired, if they don't have a true smoking gun to really ignite things and put people in a corner, if they don't have anything, they can't do anything. That's why it was just the Watkins guy.

They didn't have enough. It came, it took two athletic reports. They just never pulled by the way, Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellick. It took two athletic reports, Matt, for Major League Baseball to get off its ass and do anything. And you can't tell me there weren't other teams doing it. They're not the anomaly. But if they don't have the goods, they can't prosecute them. And that's what it looks like for the Red Sox.

They had enough on the Astros. They didn't on the Red Sox. Well, I'm certainly glad, BTS that Alex Corr is relieved that he did not have to face any further penalty. And that... Alex, Alex Corr, the joke. His beloved Red Sox, the team you managed, did everything on the up and up.

BTS, have a great weekend. Stay safe. We'll talk to you again next week. Thanks a lot, Matt. You got it. Brian T. Smith from The Chronicle with us. 2.16 is our time. 15 minutes away from the Fantasy 5.

Songs and involve booze. It's Sports Talk 790. Don't leave Matt Thomas in your car. Take him with you. Download the free iHeartRadio app for your phone at sports790.com. Just remember you'll have to feed him. Twitter cracks me up. Everybody, when the Laramie Tensell deal got announced,

they're all, then everybody ran to their Twitter account and said, my sources are confirming what other people are saying. We were never taught that in broadcasting school. Your ass got beat on a story. You just, you're done. I don't know why they don't just throw a retweet out there. I know it's because you know what? They want to, oh, well, like if Ross broke a story and then I confirm that story,

am I giving Ross credit? Nope. Why not? That's rude. Because that's not how Twitter works. Everybody's confirming. I'm confirming through my NFL sources. You know what you did?

You probably just ran to Twitter and said, this guy usually gets it right. Okay. I will quote tweet and confirm. I will say can confirm to your tweet. You can confirm that. Yes, I can confirm your tweet. Okay.

222 on Sports Talk 780. We have draft coverage tonight here on the old 790. Yes, we do, starting at 6 o'clock. That'll be hosted by you? No. Adam Clayton I don't you?

No, very busy How busy are you? What are your big Friday night plans? You just can't You can't go near anybody else? I'm feeding the family tonight You in what way? Are you hunter gathering?

No, are you going to go kill a deer and dress it? I'm going to go support a local business of some sort That's what I keep telling myself. I'm like, yeah, I'm supporting local business, okay? I'm not just being lazy and eating out.

I'm supporting local. That's what I'm doing. Per David Barron, last night's NFL draft, highest ever. Yeah. 15.6 million. Wow. Previous record was 12.4 in 2014. Tonight's going to be a gangbusters.

Who's the 14th draft? It was a clowny draft. Because you had six. Yeah. I mean, you had six teams without a first round pick, so do you think it might go up tonight? The ratings? No. I wouldn't think the second round would be higher than the first round.

In Houston, they will be. and Houston, probably. You have like, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Houston. What was the big drama of the 14 draft? Clowny and Mansell, I guess? I just, I don't think it has to do with,

well, no, Mansell was 14. Mansell, that's a name. Yeah, for sure. Especially as he slides like he did. Yeah, he keeps people watching. Yeah. And more people start jumping in as they're seeing like,

oh, Mansell still hasn't gone yet. Oh, to jump in. OBJ was in that draft, correct? Yes. There was a, go look at that 2014 draft real fast. I'm looking. I'm looking. I'm looking.

Cleo Mac, there was drama kind of where he would go. Blake Bortle's. Stars. Well, then it turned out great, but Blake Bortles and his hot girlfriend were certainly an issue. Whatever happened to her? They broke up, correct? Probably. Brandon Cook's taken in that draft.

He had Bridgewater that year. We know that. He was 33. You know who won? Oh, yeah, that was kind of. They snuck up and got him. No, he was 32. Yes, he was 32.

You know who 33 was? Yeah, I do. Xavier Silfilo. Yes. Correct. Oh, God. Joe, let me give you a little advice. Only remember good things about drafts.

How I pulled that out of my ass, I don't know how I did. Matt, all I know is bad things about drafts. So I'm saying, I'm just giving you bad examples. I don't, why I know that he was 33rd is just awful. Every pick from 32 to 36 in that draft was a pro bowler except for one. All I'm still in the league, I'm assuming, correct? Yes. Joel Botonio, Derek Carr, to Marcus Lawrence,

Teddy Bridgewater. Actually, this is a really good draft. He got a lot of pro-ballers littered in the first two rounds. Well, hopefully. And then you had Blake Bortels. Taking number four. That was the one where Kyle Van Nuoy went 40th. Calvon, I drafted at the age of 41.

Still playing well to this day. It's not true. Okay, 36. He's 29 right now. So he's a relatively young. Yeah. Did he not serve his mission? Oh, I'm sure he did.

well he would have been 23 at graduation so that's still the Mets mission that's two years it just feels like those players of BYU are a lot older he's uh Kyle van Noyes married to miss Utah USA they're both LDS okay doesn't come as a huge shock who was his original team Lions okay

and he got traded a couple years later to the Detroit Lions and Yeah, Marissa Powell. Is she worthy of Miss Utah? What do you think she's doing now? Would she be worthy of a... She would be worthy of an afternoon delight.

Provided that she's an IG mile at this point. That's where we get most of our recruiting ground. All right, you've lost me for the rest of this second. I'm saying, I can... If you hear the pregnant pauses because Rosses isn't paying attention. Gerard on 790 at 226, Jirai, what do you got today? What's going on, man? All that's how y'all doing?

Good. Okay. Great. Yeah, quick thing on Larry Turner. Quick? Tumns. I know you, Lermit Thompson, put thing on him. I think the reason he was given why he was outside a lot last year.

He said he was so quick out of his break that another officer lineman wasn't as quick out of his break. It made it look like he was outside. I think that was one of the reason. He said he's so quick out the break, man, and made it look like I was outside about it actually was. That's why you know, notice when he got those penalties, he always looked at the referee like, what? It wasn't like he was saying, you know, looking at his team. It's like, my bad, my bad. He never had that body language.

He was like looking perplexed. That was the reason he got. So, you know, he got to look at the end of the year with the off-size. It was real rough early on. But a quick thing on the draft with the Texan pick. I like how broke down. It wasn't that many of the pass versus that went in the draft. I think Chase Daniels obviously went number two.

I think maybe one other pass-wistle went in the first round. So they got to pick up a little if they ain't break right early in the second round to get the pass versus that I think they need. Now, the guy I thought that probably was doing the first round going to be there, too. The guy, Matos from Penn State, man. That guy is a beast man on the edge for Penn State. He could be there.

A guy that I mentioned yesterday, Terrell Lewis from Alabama and Zach Braun from Wisconsin, guys that you can look at. With the transactions that they made today with the safety, Mike Thomas, I don't think they probably drafts of safety. The defense attack, like you said, Jerry Day. They bought from Philadelphia,

so they're not really, they don't really need to reach there. So I think they are going to look at the pass rush. I think they're going to look at the pass rush at number 40. And they've got three guys that possibly be there at the 40th pick. Another quick thing, maybe nobody talk about Kiki Kouti. He could be one of the guys. You heard the rumors yesterday that the Texan was looking to move up or something like that. He might have been the guy that they were dangling.

Because I don't really see no role for Kiki Kutti because they've got the four receivers. And they've got Diorgiois Carter who can play the fly-in contribute on special teams. So I think Kutti probably will be taken. get Daniel doing the draft, maybe get a late, late, second day, or third day pick for the Texan. Maybe not to get anybody to fight on that, but it won't be a bit surprised if Bill O'Brien's putting them out of his trade bait. But it's going good for the Texan, man.

Hopefully they get the passers. I think that's the main thing they need. They need a guy that can rush the pass. They really got exposed last year when JJ Y got hurt. They had no kind of passports whatsoever during the stretch that he was out for the Texan. So those three guys that are the guys I'm looking at. and we'll see what happens does tonight. Thanks, drive very much, for the phone call.

All right. If you're keeping time, it was 2.35, 2 minutes, 35 seconds. Rossi, we need judges. This is our favorite thing to do on Friday. I know you want to get into a deep analytical breakdown of Pick 40. I'm chilling. Please allow one segment to let us entertain you. We need five judges to call 713-212-5-790.

713-21-2-5-7-90. Ross and I have each selected five songs that have to do with alcohol consumption. That's our fantasy five. Whose list is the best? 7-13-212-5-7-90. We need five judges. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90.

When you get home, Alexa, play Sports Talk 790 on I-Hard Radio. This song was not chosen as one of ours, correct? That's a shame. Buy you a drink? That's why I play it. Nice. Nicely done, my friend.

Let's get to the Fantasy 5 here on Sports Talk 790. We do it every Friday. Other shows steal our bits. They call them other things. There's only one original. The Fantasy 5 right here on Sports Talk 790. What do you guys call your little thing, the draft? And you're on the three.

Our Monday drafts, the big draft. But that bit doesn't really exist. That's a temporary bit. Temporary. The old temp bit. That's a coronavirus bit. Okay. Very good.

We can't do a biggest loser when there's nothing going on. That's true. All right, Ross and I have each pre-selected our songs. The category today is songs and involve drinking, either in the title or there is no if-ans or buts what they're speaking about. Ross won last week's Fantasy Five, so he had the option of going first. You gave me the first pick, and Ross, you decided to take the first overall pick? Yeah, this to me was the number one overall. This has been drafted multiple times now in Fantasy Five.

It's been drafted for Best Last Call song. I think like a best karaoke song and now it's getting drafted again as a best drinking song that would be friends in low places by one

Garth Brooks sing it folks There is something that we've figured out country music involves a lot of alcohol It's true My Blues away, if you don't know all the words of that from being in bars, you just aren't American.

But I had to go with friends in low places by one, Garth Herbert Brooks. You know, I'm not a huge hip-hop fan. But there is one hip-hop artist that I just, when I was face to face with him, at the Staples Center about five years ago, maybe it wasn't that long, I was, I pulled a Chris Farley, and I just was so scared of meeting

because I was so excited to see him right in front of me that I just choked. He's a guy that I first saw in person in New Orleans back in 2003 or four when the Patriots were playing the Rams in the Super Bowl, and he had a vehicle in the middle of French Quarter moving up and down with lots of green smoke up in the air. There is a song that I looked at everyone on my list is among the all-time great songs involving alcohol. I speak of my I wish I could say close personal friend, Snoop, but I bring to you gin. And juice. This is a great song, despite you not knowing anything about it.

I still love it. No, you don't. Yes. Matt. It was the first song that I talked about this morning at the house. Trust me on this. Next, this is a late 80s band that it's number one all-time song is one of my all-time favorite songs. Okay.

this is probably its number two, right? Would you say? What do you mean? Most popular song? Of theirs? Of theirs? I mean, I don't know where you're going with. As they're number one.

Fight for your right to party? Number one song is you've got to fight for your right to party. I'm going to have to go with Brass Monkey as number two from the Beastie Boys. That's probably. Or Intergalactic. This is a classic song as well. And I'm going to be making Brass Monkey. of the house tonight if you want to come on. Are you really?

What is it? Malt liquor and... I saw the recipe this morning. I was looking it up. So you don't even know what a Brass Monkey is, Matt? I've had it never made one. I'm not a... I don't make cocktails at the house. Honestly, I had no idea that song was about alcohol. Yeah. Yeah, it is. It's, uh... Oh, wait. One part rum, one part vodka, one part OJ. And a little bit of lime, too, right?

I thought it had, I thought it had like malt liquor in it or something like that. Anyways, that's how we used to make the brass monkey back in the day. All right. So mine are gin and juice. and Brass Monkey. Ross has Friends in Lowe's places and he has the next two picks. Next. I'm going to go with, I'm really surprised that

Matt as a closeted parrot head let this one slip through. But when you think of drinking songs and you think of drinking bands, you think of one man and you think of his best hit of all time. You think of Margaritaville. And you know I like the song.

How is this not a drinking song? I've got Margaritaville and Friends in Low Places. How could I possibly lose this? Because I know the certain segment population's like, all right, you old white man. I'm not letting it happen. You could say what you want. Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville is a drinking song, undeniably.

I'm not arguing that. It's a good song. All right. Next. If I had a third round pick, I would have gone with it. You took it from me. I'm going to go with a song by a band, ACDC, one of the best, what would you call it,

arena songs of all time? and just a fun, rollicking good time and some hard rock. I'm going with Have a Drink on Me by ACDC. Nothing wrong with ACDC. Yep. You and I would go see them in concert. Somebody's died from that band. Yeah, I think that, yeah, Angus, they're retiring and dying off.

Yeah, it's unfortunate. Thanks, Matt. Well, I'm just saying. Okay. So go ahead. I have the next two picks. One is a song that was originally recorded by Neil Diamond. Is that right?

but made much more famously in the mid-80s by a group called UB40. It's simply something I don't like to drink, but understand the value of a good fine glass of red, red wine. This is where you screwed up. No, it's not. It's one of the most popular songs of the 80s. This song blows. I'm not disagree with you, but it's a drinking song. It says red, red, red of wine, only in the first three words.

I looked all over it. That's not true. they say it. Red, red, red, white makes him feel so fine. No, that's not true at all. You make it feel fine. I mean, I liked this song when I was six, but when you grow up and realize that song blows. That was a bad piece. It's just somewhat catchy. It's terrible. Next, I had to go to the country Western, country charts. Because I think it's a phrase that we all say, I don't know if we got it from this song, but we always feel like we can say, no matter what time of the day is, especially if we need a drink. We feel like it's five o'clock somewhere.

Okay. And pour is something cold and strong, make it a hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past 12, but I don't care. Everybody's singing with me. It's five o'clock somewhere. That's just a worst version of Margaritaville, but it's not a bad pick. All right. It's fine.

Thank you. Next, I'm going to go with a song that, you know what? It's very near and dear to my heart. Because it was in the Pee-Wee Herman's big adventure movie. And it's just fun for everybody to sing. And when it comes on, and it's also a funny karaoke song because it only has two words, I talk of the champs, tequila. Yes.

This is where you lose. This gets the people going. It does not. It gets 73-year-old people going. You're going to say it. You want to say it. Nope. Tequila.

Yeah, you wanted to. I didn't say it. So when you think of drinks and songs, you think of tequila. Thanks to the chance for that. Next. Now this is the one, Matt, you may be a little bit too old for you. But this is the one when you're in college, or maybe in the last 15 years, if this comes on in the club, there are two songs that get drinking age males excited.

One is back that ass up by juvenile because you know it's going to go down on the dance floor. Number two, you know you're going to get the girl. that are you're with to party when this song's coming on. I'm talking about Little John and shots. Uh-oh. You got the ramp up here? Yes. When this comes on in the bar, it's going down.

That's a great song. All right. Last, I'm going to show, going to go deep in the vault. It's not deep in the vault. Seventies on seven. Oh, boy. The bridge. yacht rock

this song by I believe a two hit wonder Rupert something Rupert Holmes It's called escape But the kids call it The Pina Colada song If you like being 50 years old Everybody loves this song Everybody sings this song

One Either 8 or 38 Yeah everybody who drives a Ford Aero Star Picking up their seven kids From soccer practice Nice. This song is terrible. This song is ridiculously recognizable. Oh my gosh.

And interesting. And fits the bill of songs that talk about booze. It's very on brand. That pick and UB40 should cost you this, but we'll see what happens. All right. So here's we got, we made two, one judge, one judge necessary. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

Here are Rosses, Friends in Low Places, Margaritaville, have a drink on me, tequila, and what is this, the little John shot? Shots. Whatever. Next, mine, gin and juice, brass monkey, red, red wine. It's 5 o'clock somewhere in the Pena Colada song. Which of the two of us have the best fantasy five? 713-212-5-790.

Dosecis on 790 DE who wins, Ross for me. Hey, Matt, do you like Keynes? Cains? Cains? Chicken? Yeah, canes chicken? Yes, what's the point of that? What's the reason? Just what I mean to run out with most of the music?

Listening to your guys, having a good time. Okay, thank you. I guess, oh, man, it's not even close, man. You know that I love you like my grandson or my nephew, but Russ got you on this one, my brother. Don't choke on that chicken. It's not very nice. C-D. All right, next up, let's go to Greg on 790.

Greg who wins a fantasy five. Yeah, I got to agree with the previous, which would be... Okay, we don't care. All right, that's two votes. Wait, what did he say? He'd agree with the previous person, so that's a vote for you. Oh, well. Matt, you didn't have to just hang up on the guy.

That was a bag, tonight. It was a quick trigger finger. Mike on 790, Mike who wins a fantasy five. Oh, once again, Roth, smoke. All right, that's three. let's go to uh y'all don't know what the hell you're talking about line four jimmy who wins a fantasy five man peanut collada and red wine i thought i didn't know those are songs i thought those were annoying commercials y'all played i never heard them it was over five seconds after it started with friends in the places thank you all right that's a four oh sweep

something called the little john shots helps you win that's embarrassing okay here's the thing matt i thought pinia colada is a sneaky good pick, but I love that song because it's in Guardians of the Galaxy. I like 5 o'clock somewhere. I like Brass Monkey. I like gin and juice. I hate red, red wine. What if I had to go with Tequila Sunrise? Will that have helped?

I think it might have, but you, the fact that you let Friends in Low Places at Margaritaville go off the board. Friends and he was the first pick. I couldn't do anything about that. No, I know, but both of them went off the board because like Ross, Tequila. That song sucks, man. Whoa, that sounds amazing. Sucks. They say Tequila five times. Matt

said, find the chorus. What the hell supposed to find a chorus for. Even though I lost, even though I lost, can you please play the Pena Colada song a little bit for us? You already played it. I want to play 30 seconds more of it. It's so catchy.

You got swept out. It's fine. Because all your friends came out. Get the brooms. Seriously, you all have zero taste. Seriously, serious.

Have a drink. Just play the Pena Collada and satisfy me, and then I'll let you win. You don't let me win. Turn it up. The votes let me win. It's got a story to it.

Yeah, it's this song. Yeah, if you're, like I said, if you're 55 years old and you're picking up the grandkids from daycare in your in your minivan, you love this song. Sure. I went to Yacht Rock downtown this past summer and people were going crazy over the song. Yeah, exactly. And people were going crazy over getting their oxygen tanks filled in the back. Thank you, Travis. He's a good pick you win.

Thank you very much. Well, most people are going against you. Chamba Wamba? Was that a drinking song? Yeah, I get knocked down. It's about a vodka drink and a whiskey drink. He drinks a song that reminds him of a good time or whatever. Drinks a drink that reminds him of the good times and the bad times.

That's a drinking song. That wasn't on my list. It was there. You got one person voted for you, Matt. We're proud of you. Songs I didn't have a tequila sunrise. I was going to go Whiskey River by Willie Nelson, but I thought that would have been a little distant too.

That is what it is. Oh, and also I had whiskey for my men and beer for my horses. You know what? I really wanted a giraffe. What a red solo cup? Antsunk blows. I agree, but I would have helped you. I would really want it to pick

supposed to bubble by UGK, but I don't think the people would know that one. Was it clean? Nice. It was kind of cleanish. I mean, gin and juice wasn't clean. That's true. Back to wrap it up in a minute. 247 on 790. Greg Bezjo here. The heart of the order

is up right now. Matt Thomas is swinging for the fences here on Sports Talk 790. All right. We opened the show today with 10 observations of the draft. I'm going to try to take these observations and we're going to talk about how you fix them for days two and three of the draft. Okay, ready for this. NFL commissioner, the can fans bit was stupid.

Get rid of, we don't want that anymore, right? You okay with that? Why did they even do that? I don't think that'll be back. That fell flat. C.D. Lamb, taking the second phone from his girl. Any future draft picks just have one phone on the set, on the camera.

So nobody sees your fighting with your girlfriend over a phone. The Bros. and Ho's phone. Okay. Jerry Jones in a yacht. What's the opposite of a general manager being on a yacht? Would be what in a one-bedroom studio apartment? Okay. Okay, right?

Something landlocked at least. Cliff Kingsbury's ultimate bachelor pad in Phoenix. Mm-hmm. More than the lines of being in a one-bedroom efficient. Maybe in a small room-sized closet type office. You know those rental offices, those regisers is you rent for, like, just space? That's where you need to go. How many women have walk ashamed out of that thing?

At the Clips House in Phoenix? Well, he's been there probably, what, 400 days? Yeah. 200 women. So what's his ratio? I need more information than that. I said my old runner at like 45 and a half. I thought he was dating Holly Saunders, no?

No. No, she married or got engaged that scumbag, Vegas Dave. What is he with? He's just... He just steals people's money. Okay. He's a handicapper. Mike Rables' house.

If you're going to drop the kid, if you're going to do a deuce. He wasn't doing the deuce. If you drop in a poo, make sure you shut the door, right? Joe George. Fact. Oh, geez. You guys were really adamant about being wrong on that one. That's fine.

It was more of a comedian big for the show. Packers take Jordan Lowe, a love. Don't reach for a pick because apparently you're the inherent guy that's already there is going to be really pissed off. That one can say the same. So you want another team to take another course? quarterback, even though the quarterback said very much on his prime. Yeah, can me like the Saints or the Buccaneers now just throwing a curveball?

Well, in all seriousness, why wouldn't the Saints go after a quarterback? Agreed. They're two years away from Drew Brees going NBC Sports replacing Chris Collinsworth. Tom Rinaldi, I just don't want to see him tonight. I don't want to be sad. Yes. He is, and go look, go do your, you want to laugh. Go look at Tom.

Type in Tom Rinaldi on your Twitter timeline. line. And I guarantee you, you're going to see the same thing that I saw. Uh-oh. Tom Rinaldi is going to talk about somebody's family having terrible Tom or a family death member. This is going to be the saddest thing ever. Here we go. I'm never inviting Tom Rinaldi to Rinaldi is ruining the broadcast. His family is excited. He's excited. Let's go to Tom Rinaldi for two minutes of terrible tragedy in his life. I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that. Next, Roger Goodell changed his clothes mid-draft. First of, we're not going to see Goodell, right? We're not? Is it going to be people? Who is going to do it? Team representatives or whatever? No, I think it's just the deputy commissioner.

Okay. Okay, so deputy commissioner, he needs to go with like a, I wouldn't even go long sleeve. Just like a nice polo with some khaki pants. Nice set of brown shoes, good-looking belt, make sure the facial hair is cleared off. Who is a deputy commissioner of the NFL? I don't even know who it is. I don't know. But yeah, we don't need mid-warger opportunity.

for the highest ranking sportsperson in the world. Well, I put NFL deputy commissioner in Google, and it says Roger Goodell. Okay. I don't think that's accurate. And then Henry Riggs or a rugs. Rugs. Rugs. Or a robe yesterday. What's the next crazy bit of apparel somebody would wear? I don't know.

Somebody had sponsored Pizza Hut, right? Was it CD? Yeah. Well, how about what would be, if you're going to go with a rule? Oh, by the way, I saw at least two dogs. We had the over under, right? Three and a half dogs. Anybody see?

I think the under hip but the over for the cats, definitely. Because it happened early in the draft. You know what I want to see more of, honestly? More mothers kicking girlfriends at the side. That was amazing. Agreed. We need more of that.

Like whose mother was, I wrote it down here. Isaiah Wilson. His mom did not like his girlfriend. Get this trick off my son. And that girl hugged him for like 30 seconds. Well, it's like a wedding date. And she was wearing his high school jersey. Obviously, they've been together, at least knowing each other for years.

She's trying to make sure she's clinging on to that bad boy for dear life. So those are the things we're looking forward to tonight. Besides, the Texans picking at number 40 if they stay that way. Thanks to Brian T. Smith for joining us on the show today. Thank you to George for putting the music together. Ross, another lucky win in the Fantasy 5. God, late 4 to nothing? Adam Clanton, Adam Wuxarnex, going to entertain the heck out of you for the next three hours.

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