The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show: NFL QB News, Ian Eagle, Texans Decline Conley's 5th Year

Episode Date: April 30, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. Now, what's happening in lunch timers? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 with our producer Joe George, my cohort, the one and only Ross Villarreal, the Twitch King of Southeast Texas. Okay. Well, I just heard you guys doing it on their Twitch bit today.

Twitch.com. Is that a good way to make some money? If you're certain people, yes. Not me, but... Like, if I just said, hey, I'm on Twitch today, come talk to me. I mean, can I make a second income out of that? You would have to build an audience, and you'd have to do it every day consistently for a long time. And you'd have to be compelling and have good content.

We know that. 12 to 3 is not doing that. So why would that, when I think at night do anything differently? Hey, we have a very interesting show today. Our good friend, Ion Eagle, one of the most respected play by the play guys into business. It's funny, I've been watching a lot of NBA TV,

and he does a lot of those voiceover works for NBA TV. He also calls the Nets games, works for Turner on their NBA coverage. Of course, you see him on CBS all the time. He does probably, what, two or three Texans games a year, give or take? So he'll join us at 2 o'clock this afternoon. We have non-Florida stories at 2.30.

So we are jam-packed towards the back end of the show. Front end, we've got a lot of, of interesting little headlines. I will say this, boys, if we weren't in the pandemic, okay? If we were just regular old sports world, would Andy Dalton being released by the bingles be breaking news? I think it would be a news item, yes. Would it be the number one headline and number two and three headline on some of these sports websites that I'm looking at? Of course not. Because I woke up this morning about 830, which is about an hour later than I normally do. And I put on ESPN to see what was going on and that show Get Up, which actually is not bad.

because they've kind of retooled it now. And they put those breaking news crawlers on, which, by the way, I think all TV networks use that breaking news thing way too much. I don't know. It's for drama. There's no argument to that. Sensationalism, Matt, that's what sells. I mean, could you imagine if we just hit the breaking news sounder on this show 14 times a day?

Be like, okay, it'd be like the boy who cried wolf, right? Yeah, we might overuse it a little bit. Breaking news, Matthew. Joe, we've got no breaking news. Don't use that. Yes, we do. I'm sorry. Wake Forest has agreed with Steve Forbes to be their next basketball head coach for the demon deacons. You mean the financier?

No. Were the former boxer? There was a boxer named Steve Forbes, wasn't there? I don't know. But no, I'm, no, I think we in general use the breaking news too much. We hear on 790 because we're responsible people. But the breaking news of the day was that Andy Dalton is going to be released from the Bengals after nine years. in the Natty. He had a winning record. Do you know that? They went at the playoffs.

They never won a playoff game. Never want a playoff game. And that was, is that more on Andy Dalton or is it more on Marvin Lewis? Probably a little bit of both. Yeah, that's true. Because a quarterback and the coach usually get either too little or too much blame. They had some really good defenses in those years. So you know what?

I'm saying Andy Dalton's fault. Yeah, you never in your mind thought, Andy Dalton is my franchise quarterback. Andy Dalton's going to win enough football games. And by the way, if anybody who's listening to in the family and Katie, I'm not anti-A-Dy Dalton. I'm just telling you that when you go to that list of, I've got to have this quarterback to start my franchise, it takes a while to get to Andy's name. And you know what? I would think he'd be responsible enough to believe that that that's not crazy.

I mean, when you have all these great quarterbacks we've had in the last 10, 15 years in the NFL, Andy's name just doesn't come right at the top 10. He was average, though. I mean, yeah. He was like fringe top 10 sometimes. He should be out of Texans, frankly. He's just average. In his career, yes. Yeah. So he is out of work.

Cam Newton is still out of work. Yes. Judevian Clowny. Giadabion Clowny is still out of work. And James Winston yesterday signs a one-year deal to back up Drew Brees in New Orleans. And then there's all New England is sitting out there. They're in Stidham country. What would you do?

They seem to be fine with it. Do you hand the reins over to Jared Stenham? who has not taken a meaningful snap in the NFL. And does Bill Belichick believe in a rebuild? Because what makes you... I mean, their defense is still very, very good. But they have always been void of offensive threats in terms of the guys that really stretch the field.

And now their quarterback who basically has made a lot of very average slot receivers become very, you know, the elements of the world, that kind of thing. Stars, they're gone. I mean, now you got Gronkowski warning things in Tampa Bay. Clearly, Rob was not a huge fan of Bill Belichick towards the stretch down the stretch either because, you know, how do you just retire and all of a sudden say, hey, I'm ready to go to Tampa Bay right now? Because he missed Tom and he missed being, he wanted to be with a different organization. Yeah, and part of it was they were going to trade him to Detroit, right? Yep.

And he's like, all right, I'm going to retire. And that's what, and that's what built the Belichick way is. I'll trade somebody with a year left. Right. And a little bit left in the tank is compared to running out of gas with the, team. For draft picks, which are valuable, Bill. No, they're not. We here in Houston, watch the Texans move draft picks left and right. In fact, you sometimes have to trade draft picks? Yes. To get a starting quarterback in the NFL, like Gary on Connolly. And then you don't

guarantee his fifth year of his contract. Because he's not worth it. So, in theory, Gary on Connolly will be a free agent after next season. And you traded a third round pick for a guy that's going to play for you maybe two years. Doesn't mean he can't re-sign with the Texans. Doesn't mean there can't be a four or five-year contract attached to it. But at the $10 million of Garyon

Connolly is supposed to make next year, well, he will not be making that. If he was a really good player, then the Texans would have picked up that option. $10 million for a good cornerback would be not necessarily a steal, but a pretty darn good deal. It's probably fair market value, right? Yes. So they're not picking up his

option. Anno, by the way, speaking of of draft picks. You traded a third round draft pick for Duke Johnson. And that worked out so well that you later on traded for Carlos Hyde and now you've traded for David Johnson. It's like there's a feeling to me that maybe the Texans do not believe in participating in any draft. Maybe they'll be the first team in NFL history next year not to even be involved in a single draft pick. Like our draft contests we like to have here on the show? You just won't have one. We just won't have one. It'll just be like, here's a question for 10 points. Will the Texans have a drive pick? Yes or no. So you've got that going.

on. So there's a lot of little interesting tidbits on this. Are you a little surprise, gang, that the Patriots have not made a move? Or are they waiting to find out exactly every free-engine quarterback and then trying to bring in a veteran to compete with Jared Stidham? It just seems like they, I mean, maybe the whispers that they're really all in and Jared Stidham and think he's good. Maybe they're true. Maybe Jared Stidim is ready to take over the reins. Because let me tell you some, you hear whispers that they like him a lot. And if you didn't hear it, it wouldn't be a surprise. Second of all, nobody's forcing anyone to spoon-feed out information about how great Jared Cinnom is.

I mean, these players are saying they liked what they saw. They believe in him. No one has a gun to their head to say that. It just would be among the boldest moves in recent NFL history to go from the goat, 40-plus years old, seasoned, seasoned veteran to a second-year quarterback who was not considered a, You know, was not a first day pick. What was he in the fourth round? So he'd be day two, right?

Day three. What draft? He was the, yes, fourth round of last year. So he was a, so you're going to go from the greatest quarterback of all time to a third day. Was a sixth round pick. Yeah. To a third day pick just a year ago and hand him the keys to the Patriots. I mean, to be brutally honest and unfortunate, if there's any team that would turn that into a great deal, it would be them.

It would be the Patriots. Most things they do work, right? Yes. Not everything, but most things. So that's just kind of what's happening on the NFL front. So Andy Dalton is out. Cam Newton still doesn't. Are we surprised that Cam Newton doesn't have a job yet?

Because he wants to go be a starting quarterback. I can't imagine. That's the thing. I can't imagine Cam holding a clipboard. There's just, I mean, I don't know how many starting jobs are really open right now. Problem is, are we completely sure that Cam Newton is 100% healthy? That's another good question. That's really the only thing that's really hampered him in the last couple of years.

He's still a good quarterback, I think. Isn't it funny that a guy that has the big arm that can move a little bit and has the body of a linebacker, frankly, more so than a quarterback? They're worried about him whether or not he can be able to stay on the field for any length of time. So does that dispel the notion of bigger is better? It doesn't matter how big you are. If you take the beating that he's taken over that long, length of a career. It's going to happen. You're going to break down a little bit. Like the frail quarterbacks.

And that's, and that's maybe not a good choice of words, but the slimmer ones. Russell Wilson's had no serious long-term injury problems, has he? No. True. Who else would be in that group? I don't like to use calomerc because he's just been a rookie. Who else is a slender NFL quarterback that has been able to stay away from injury? Brock Osweiler was very slim.

That's not what I'm looking at. He just didn't play because he wasn't any good. He didn't play because he wouldn't hurt. No, I'm talking about quarterbacks that have been good in the NFL that are the atypical six-for. Drew Braises kind of slight a build. Yeah, I mean, 5-10, right? Yeah.

I mean, his injury last year was freakish. It wasn't because he was getting sacked on a regular basis, getting concussed or tearing a hamstring as he's moving up and down the field. But when you think of what you want in a quarterback, big arm, big body, move a little bit. Cam Newton answers all those questions. But Cam Newton's been hurt the better part of two seasons. There were some issues about maybe some leadership issues in the past

and how he handled certain situations. And right now, he's looking for a job, which is crazy to me. Because five years ago, even though Cam Newton got some criticism about maybe some of the way he handled his leadership, he to me was what you'd want NFL quarterback. I mean, literally MVP of the league five years ago.

Yeah. And so, I mean, again, you had the Brady and the Rogers, the Rafflesburgers, that kind of thing. But Cam was this hybrid guy that you felt like he could take a couple of hits and still get to the five or six extra yards and you weren't worried for his life. He'd get right back up and go again. All right, if you'd like to join us on our show today, we're going to mix football. And we got a lot of

basketball stuff to get to, not necessarily about on-the-court stuff, but some conflicting stories out there. about the NBA. And since I don't follow non-news websites or non-sports websites, I wonder if this is media bias or just selective interviewing or just clickbait. We'll talk about what that I'm talking about, and that is about the future of the NBA for the rest of the season.

We mentioned about Gary Ann Conley, and for you Dallas Cowboy fans, if you love number 88, you're going to love who's playing when we're in 88 in 2020. And it's not Michael O'Rourgin coming back. We've got a busy show today. Iron Eagle 2 o'clock. Non-Florida stories at 2.30. It is the Matt Thomas show. 7-13-212-5-790.

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up until 3 o'clock. We've got Ian Eagle of two and non-flora stories at 2.30. And also later today, we're going to hear from Brandon Cooks, the newest member of the Houston Texans. He'll be speaking on a Zoom call. And Justin Verlander is also going to

speak. I'm assuming about hey, I'm feeling great, guys. Remember that? He was supposed to miss like six weeks or whatever, recuperating from his variety of ailments? He's... That's good. That should be a thing in the past, right? That's wonderful. who's going to have thought I mean

and this thing we'll get a little bit later on in the show but it feels like to me that spring that all that spring training work is gone yes they're going to if there is a baseball season they're going to have to have another month of getting back together and starting from scratch because

they're not they're not competing against live hitting they're not in a cage day after day after day like they are in spring training I mean how long would they were down there But four weeks, give or take. Something like that. That's, that's, it's moot now.

Yeah. It's moot. It's crazy that all that work was for basically nothing. It's been 50 days since a live sporting a bit. 50. Because that was March 11th, was the Rockets. Yeah. And the next day it was the 12th. And that's when everything came down to, it's been 50 days.

Yes. Our lives have been flipped upside down. It's pretty crazy. We're chugging along, though. We're making it. Show's going great. That's true. Thanks, everybody out there.

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I do. At Garrett Jones, TV. Appreciate the spot. TV. Hold on. TV. You're not on TV. You're on radio. What are you talking about? I initially pursued a career in TV. Well, it's not going to change that avatar then. I'll be right on that for you, Matt. Yeah. Sorry all your hopes and dreams have led you here. Yeah. I'm happy to be here, man.

You went from... Did you hear how high? I'm at it. Happy to be here. Yeah. You guys are great. Yeah. We're just paying you. That's the reason why you're here.

You're not overjoyed. I'm so happy to be here. I totally want to be here. Okay, yeah, sure. He's trying to suck up early. I see how this guy was. All right. Okay, so let me give you,

I don't go to CNBC for my news, my sports, I should say. I don't go to CNBC for anything. Yeah, I'm not really heavily involved in the stock market. Except for a billion dollar buyer, starring Tillman Fertita. Have you watched that show? I've seen like literally one episode.

Okay. I did too. It was with the Texas Matchermaker guy. Yeah, you've all. Good guy. Shout out. So, what was I going on with this?

I don't know. So there's a story today by CNBC that our buddy Ben Dubose has been tweeting out saying it's ClickBake. And the headline basically is growing NBA concerns about the season, some owners and front office people want the season to be officially postponed. Okay. And what is the sourcing or the details on this? Well, there's no, nobody's been officially quoted on this.

It's a lot of, quote, unquote, MBA executives. It's a lot of, quote, unquote, general managers. I can't imagine a bunch of owners have answered phone calls from CNBC. Who's doing the reporting? We know it's some person we don't know. Some person. You're going to say, Gibroni. That's okay. Yes, it's some jabroney. point being is this. If there was growing sentiment to this, then why would Commissioner Adam Silver come out a few days ago and say,

we're going to start opening up these camps on May the 8th? Here's my philosophy on this. I truly believe, Ross, that there are some general managers and some front office people in NBA cities that don't want the season to return because their teams are not going to the playoffs. But the problem with that argument is, is that these all those teams do want their full television local marketing dollars. Yeah. And doesn't, I mean, the playoff money gets shared between all the owners, right?

There's some semblance of... There's something where there... The TV money is all shared. So I choose not to believe that because I think I'm just purely biased and hoping that I wouldn't think there's a handful of front office executives running NBA that want the season closed. Yeah, we know you've been itching to call PA. Yeah, I mean, I'll come to your house and do the PA. Yeah, are you doing PA of like your dogs eating food and stuff like that? Um, no, it's

Or walking into the room? No. It's Sadie. Introducing the Thomas family at one dog. Sadie. The other dog is court. Yeah. Matter of fact, we may be doing some stuff like this coming up.

Okay. I like to get my little cameo account going, but they won't return my emails. That's a shame. That is a sense of topic, too. Well, you're not as famous as Andy Dick. It's true. Andy Dick does not do well on the Comedy Central Roast. Jeff Blumman, Julie.

Morales are on there, right? Yeah, but it doesn't mean they're getting any business. We don't know that they're not. That's true. I bet you Julia's doing all right. Hey, Camio, if you're listening to me, hook a brother up. I mean... I bet you there's some people who they've had to deny it for Julia Morales on Camio.

Yeah. Yeah, she can't say that. Please take your money back. Yeah. Julia cannot say, oh, baby, I want you. I don't care how much money you're offering. She's not going to do it. She'll wish your kids a happy birthday and that'll be about it.

All right, so CNBC's got this story out that says there's growing concern about the season coming. And first of all, everybody's concerned. Everybody is concerned about whether they'll be a season or not. Everybody who likes sports, yes. And that's all the sports. That's football, basketball, baseball, hockey too. But I don't believe the story that CNBC is putting out there is necessarily completely accurate. I feel like they went to two or three people instead of talking.

talking to 20 or 25 or 30 executives to get this story out, especially because, again, if the NBA was not interested in trying to return, two things wouldn't be happening. One, you wouldn't be hearing about the players coming back on the 8th to go back to their practice facilities. And two, there's a story coming out in the last 24 hours that this Walt Disney World plan is growing some steam to it because Walt Disney has already offered up its facility. It's closed. And, oh, by the way, Walt Disney is a huge partner.

It is owned by, owns ABC and ESPN. So there's already a natural element. Plus, you have plenty of hotel space. You have plenty of gyms to, I guess that Walt, Why World of Sports has a bunch of gyms? Yeah, I was going to say, why is there a bunch of basketball courts at Disney the Disney Resort? You know why?

I just don't understand. Oh, it's easy to figure out. High school tournaments. Oh, they do some, don't they do some Summer League in Orlando as well? Is it not there, though? Not there. Okay. No, they have high school tournaments there all the time.

Okay. They have a big college basketball tournament there every year. So, yeah, they, it's like basically a de facto AAU spot. Okay, that's fine. And on top of this, they have multiple television production trucks there too, so that you wouldn't have to necessarily have to worry about shipping television trucks from all over the country. They have production facilities available for people to do their broadcast.

Okay, well, let's do it. So that's the reason why I have a little hesitation in the CNBC report is that why would you hear stories about Walt Disney World? Why would you have Adam Silver when, quote, unquote, there is growing concern about whether or not they should have a season and maybe that would be time for the NBA to call off. That doesn't mean the talk of Walt Disney means or the talk of these practice means we're going to have a season. I still run very hot and cold with the NBA. I do. I think because they're the closest to completion, that's why it will happen. Or it could be the close, it's also the one that could be the first one to say, all we've done it all we can.

Because here's the one thing. There is another story out today that Woj put out. The NBA is going to move their calendar. No matter what. Not no matter what, but heavy leaning towards. Interesting. And what was quoted in the story was this isn't just a one-year deal that they're talking about this being a two, three, four, five-year test to see if the December to August NBA schedule would have more. more excitement to it.

When I believe the answer to that is yes. I think so. Especially when you're only having to compete with Major League Baseball in the months of April and May and June. Once the March Madness is done, it's basically you in early regular season baseball games for three months. I think it's absolutely a win-win deal for the NBA. Yeah.

I think they should push maybe, everyone says December or Christmas, maybe like Thanksgiving, because then you have the pop of opening the night and the pop of Christmas, you get two pops. Yeah, I can see, I can see training camps opening around that time. I don't know, I don't think December 25th, I think December 25th is too late. Yeah. But I can see December 15th and then build up with that, you know, that super crescendo of five games on Christmas Day. Because opening night in the NBA is usually a big deal. Yeah. It just then it kind of, then it just falls off for two months. Then it just peters out for a couple months until Christmas.

Yeah. So I want to let you hear what Mark Cuban had to say. On that, I do want to hear about whether or not we can go to CNBC for relevant sports material. Seems a little odd. And some NFL news again today with Andy Dalton being out in Cincinnati. And cowboy fans will introduce you to the brand new number 88 of your football team. How many cowboy fans we still got left in this town?

Have we kicked some of them? Thousands. Have we kicked some of them to the curb, unfortunately? Fortunately. Thousands. Really? They haven't moved along. They haven't moved along.

Texans Karen hasn't sent them out. No. She argues with them. And sends little memes to her Cowboys fans of like Calvin Peeing on a Dallas Cowboy logo. On the back of their car. Oh, yeah. They haven't on the back of their car.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-790. Our time is 1230. It is the Matt Thomas show. We appreciate listen to Sports Talk 790. Safety first. Once we can determine that we can keep the players and all the important personnel that are required to put on a game,

then we'll certainly look at all the options. And, you know, I'm cautiously optimistic. We'll be able to finish the season for television. I don't expect that we'll have fans. My feeling is this, Ross, is if we were going to have a season, Mark's going to say, yes, Mark Cuban, by the way, owner of the Mavericks. Yeah, CNN. I'd love to come out with you, but I need to kind of

not. You know what I'm saying? He wouldn't come on there at all, or he probably wouldn't, I just, Mark Cuban is a lot of things. Mark Cuban, I don't think, would just be spout. He's not stupid. I'll put it that way. Because he doesn't want to, you know, he, he originally was very optimistic. And now he's cautiously.

He's not been, he's not enjoyed having to take it down a notch. So if Mark, you know, again, Mark Cuban's not going to turn a microphone down. That's just who he is. But if Adam Silver, who I think he's got tremendous respect for, if Adam Silver says, just say, I'm very busy, can't do the interview. Or say, hey, we think this is things going to get canceled. He wouldn't go on TV and say this is, at the very least, like you said, he wouldn't agree to it.

And if he did, he wouldn't go out there and say, I'm cautiously optimistic. And we also have LeBron James just tweeting out. Saw some reports about execs and agents wanting to cancel the season. Absolutely not true. Nobody I know is saying anything like that. As soon as it's safe, we would like to finish our season. I'm ready for, and our team is ready. Nobody should be canceling anything.

And that's why, again, why does CNBC, why, and I'm not just saying CNBC does this. No, they just did it, though. But there's a lot of non-sports networks, websites, TV networks. Like, do you remember when we had, when the Astro stuff was going on during spring training, how I told you about watching Good Morning America or the Today Show about why are all these Astros being hit during spring training games? Yeah. Must be because of the cheating. And I said, today's show, stay in your lane.

Today's show, you have no business talking about sports. You just have like TV airheads making stupid jokes. That's why. They're going to have a real banger of a season, Tom. I hate when TV news anchors talk sports. Yes. Or they go out and do those news sports stories. They go get their man on the street or whatever.

You and I do never talk about the upcoming presidential election. Correct. Because we don't have a. firm grasp of the issues. There's a presidential election kind of. I know. I know. It comes to a surprise.

And I'm not saying that if you have a microphone, you can't go outside of your norm occasionally. But CNBC puts out this story in which now LeBron James has to say, what the hell are you thinking? What CNBC did is somebody knows somebody who knows somebody who's an executive of an NBA team Ross that is not going to the playoffs. Charlotte, Chicago. Oh, Michael Jordan's talking. Is that what you're saying? Highly doubtful. But you know my point is that they got something and said, oh, I can make a story out of this.

Even a team that's not making the playoffs, I would want to share in the play. The TV revenue is distributed evenly, right? Well, I mean, everything could be up for grabs here. Because if the NBA could very easily, Ross, say, all right, listen, Sacramento, you're not going to the playoffs. Stay home. No sense getting you guys all worked.

up to play four or five games. Think about this a little bit. Because I've always been the proponent of, you need to play some games before you start the playoffs. But are you really going to rev up? I'm just throwing this off the top. Are you really going to rev up San Antonio

and Charlotte and Minnesota and Chicago? The playoff teams have to play somebody. Everybody play like only 16 teams come back and they play each other in the regular season? No, I'm saying. Or do you start with the playoffs only. I'm saying play three or four exhibition

games. Against each other? Yeah. I think they're going to want more than that. And like you said, you want these local affiliates want to get to 70s. That's right. That's where there's a conundrum. So our teams willing to give up

their television money in order to have their players just not have to go through the pomp and circumstance we're trying to get back. Because what kind of motivation? And I'm just throwing this out. What kind of motivation does Atlanta have to go through four weeks of training camp only to come out and play five more games in which you're probably going to lose four or maybe all five of them.

Paychecks. Game checks. Acid answered. I mean, that's pretty much it, which obviously is millions of dollars. But how do you balance that against if we're going to go to Orlando and finish this season in the bubble? I'm throwing that out there. Major League Baseball, by the way, is staying away from the bubble. They ultimately want to get you in your stadiums, whether there's fans or not. They want to get you in your stadiums.

And we'll see how feasible that is. That's true. We have not heard anything from the NBA saying it's important for the Houston Rockets to play at Toyota Center. It's important for the Dallas Mavericks to play to American Airlines Center. We've heard more bubble talk. If you can make the bubble smaller by not sending Atlanta and Charlotte to those, does that help them speed along their process? That means less test, less hotel rooms, less people that could potentially be involved in a potential spike of a virus.

I don't know. I'm just, it's a lot to think about. And I mean, the biggest reason, and maybe it would be easier, the bubble thing is easier for the NBA because you're not talking about an entire season, right? That's why it was mostly rejected by MLB players is because they said, I have a baby coming in August or I don't want to be sequestered for three to four months. It's not going to be three to four months for the NBA. You can play games every other day, and you only need a few games left in the regular season, and then you're dismissing half the teams, and then you're dismissing half of those teams after the first round of the playoffs. So you're talking about eight teams max involved in this within a few weeks.

Right. I think the very easy point is, and again, this is over most people's heads, but there's a lot of local television dollars that have to be recouped. and Atlanta can't get that money from Fox, Fox Regional, unless they play Atlanta Hawks basketball. Or unless everybody gets together and says, hey, let's save these non-playoff teams and let's do another revenue share based off of what we've already made. Again, that's a whale over our head, but that's just, that's the only thing I can think of. I'd like for them, they're going to have to, I don't want them going from practicing Ross to the playoffs. I think you're going to get lousy basketball games, really, really lousy basketball games.

you're also opening up the potential for guys getting hurt. And the thought of all these teams playing 70 games, they're about 65 games, and then they're done in three games, if they play a best of five first-round series, you're giving them very little room for error. So that's why I think four or five regulars in games is good. The question is, is it worth grabbing all these non-playoff teams and throwing them in there for a month of training camp

just to finish out a four or five game regular season schedule. I don't know. That's the question. That's what India has to figure out. That's why if we were in Adam Sover's office every day, it would be so confusing. He's probably not sleeping at night.

No, no. Let me tell you. Who's sleeping while right now? Hmm, not me, but that's always. I mean, everybody's businesses are, I mean, we're opening up to 25% tomorrow. In restaurants. I can guarantee you 99% of the people,

that are running these restaurants aren't going, oh, here we go. This is it. We're back. No, because it's... First of all, you don't know if that's going to work. It's a trial period. Second, if it's only a quarter of your percentage. And thirdly, my guess is if you're opening up your restaurant, you're still operating at the same.

You have less waiters, but your electricity costs the same. Your refrigerators, all the costs of opening up a place costs the same. You know, you're only going to have a quarter of your dining room available. That doesn't seem like it's going to be a big cash cow. That's why we've got to keep the dry... We're going to keep the takeout stuff going like we have plus the 25%. And then maybe you get close to what you were making before. But yeah, there's no guarantee.

No one's sleeping well right now, including these sports teams. The only people sleeping while are the ones that are still receiving checks, even though they've been sliced a little bit. 1242 on the Matt Thomas show, 713, 2125.790. Ross will introduce to you the new uniform number of the Dallas Cowboys' first round pick. Cowboy fans, how do you feel about this? We'll tell you about that. after this word here on the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790.

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Eight, and it is a Matt Thomas show. Garrett's producing the show. I just looked at your Twitter, and you're a massive Dallas fan. I had to say a little earlier when you asked if you had rained all the Houston or the Dallas fans out of Houston, I was kind of sitting here awkwardly.

Yeah, get the hell out now. We don't need you. On my way out. All right. So you'll like this. Ross, can you name some of the great 88s in Dallas Cowboy history? Drew Pearson. Ding.

Michael Irvin. Ding. And Crazy Leggs McGee. I believe Crazy Legs McGee was 87. Okay. That's right. The newest member of the 88 Club is Thomas Sports Enterprises rookie of the year. Oh, really?

Yeah. You're making the call now. C.D. Lamb. I was so impressed with the way that he took the phone away from his girl. Oh, okay. That I wanted to sign him up immediately as a time of sports enterprise as a client. All right. He will be wearing 88 for the Dallas Cowboys.

You're also missing one big 88 in the group. Des Bryant. Yes. Okay. He sucked. He was a lot of mouth, right? I was trying to get Garrett upset already. Was Des, I mean, Des, I mean, Des was awesome.

him for a while, right? Yeah, he was great for a couple of years. But then he just got too controversial, right? It wasn't about controversy. He couldn't beat anybody off the line. Ever since he had that major foot injury, he was never the same. Yeah. Okay, so apparently the Dallas Cowboys are not retired numbers.

They just put them on the ring of honor. Will Des Brian ever make the Ring of Honor? No chance. Ooh, no chance. No chance. Run through his numbers and it'll back me up. three-time pro bowler one-time first-team all pro led the league in touchdowns in 14 75 400 yards receiving 73 touchdowns if there was a haul of pretty good he'd be a decent career

yeah he had 3,000 yard seasons so he so cd lamb the thomas sports enterprise's rookie of the year is going to wear 88 for the dallas cowboys okay it made us think off will other teams do this? Because so many numbers are... I think retired numbers are a big, big deal. Like, I can't imagine anybody... Unless you're the Astros. Hmm?

The Astros got a lot of retired numbers. They do. I can't imagine anybody wearing 80 for the Texans ever again. I don't think anybody will ever wear 99 again for the Texans. That's the thing, though. I mean, football is a little harder because you're a group by position. That is correct. You have five receivers, and they can only wear 80.

or they can only wear single digits. Yeah. Single, I guess they can do single digits as well. Yeah. So they've really got between... Yeah, I guess you got 30 numbers. They can do one to 29.

No, one to 19 and then 80 to 89. Okay, but a defensive line, and what can they do? They can do 60s and 70s. 70s, 90s. Defensive usually is liners, they're 90s, right? The 90s are the ones that could be the biggest problem. No, I'm talking about, yeah. Well, I guess what is in defense...

The defensive linemen can't wear 60s, and that's... No. I think they're 90s only. point being is this the Texans will be comfortable enough in retiring JJ's number right and Andres

I think in football it's kind of harder that's why the Cowboys haven't done it because you like I said your group pie position it's easier in baseball or basketball so why are the Cowboys

putting 88 out there I mean now granted Michael Lurvin hasn't played in 20 years but Des was really good for a while yes do you think do you think they were doing that as a slight or they are like, you know what,

we've only got a handful numbers we can go to. Let's go with this one. It was also a really big deal when Irvin gave Des Bryant his blessing to wear it when Des came up as a rookie. So I'm wondering if they went to the same thing and the same thing again. I mean, he has a first pick. Did Des give his blessing? No, I was thinking to Michael Irvin.

Because if there's anybody that, well, here's the thing. If you're old school Dallas Cowboy fan, Drew Pearson's your best 88. But both those guys are in the Hall of Fame. so it really doesn't matter which one. But I mean, that's such an awesome number. Doesn't it carry a huge weight with them? The two of the greatest receivers ever to play in the NFL and you're a rookie getting their number?

I'm curious if Dallis Sports Radio is going balkers over this or not. Oh, this is topic A today, right? That wouldn't be a topic A for us. No. Unless somebody, unless a Texan drafted or receiver, like your Brandon Cooks today gets announced and he wears 80. Ooh. It'll be a little much.

What about DeAndre How? Hopkins is 10. Oh, somebody's worrying that within three years. Bill, let me tell.

I got a guarantee in life for you. Bill O'Brien hates DeAndre so much that the next time they draft a receiver worth anything, they will slot that

damn 10 on them as soon as possible. Aryan Foster's 23 got given away pretty quickly. Yep. Who else? What was Duane Brown 76 or 74? Dway old. Yeah.

If you get south with the team, the organization, you get sideways, Ross, your number, forget it. Like when Deshawn wants it eventually plays for the Patriots, the Texans will get rid of that number four really,

really quick. Okay. Has nobody worn 80? Has anybody worn 80 since? I don't think so. Andre Johnson has gone? Because let me tell you, you'd get the dirtiest stink eye look in the history of Houston sports if somebody were.

Like, 34 is a very important number. Even with all the teams, all the different guys on RECD, if you're carrying 34 with the Houston sports team, you better be damn good. Like, who have been the history of 34? Can he looks up for the Houston Texans? I think Stacey Mac was 34. Oh! I think there was a defensive back recently who was 34.

Because I think 34 is the most important number in the city of Houston's franchise. I mean, although one wouldn't be terrible, right? Wasn't Tracy McGradia one? Yes. Warren Moon was a one. Carlos Correa is a one. It's true. Damn, one and 34. Strong.

88 and Dallas seems to be a big deal. You have two guys, Hall of Fame. receivers and you're giving it to your first round pick? There's not currently a 34 on the Texans roster, but there was one recently. I can't remember who it was. Now, that's obviously not got the same cachet as other sports teams in town. But to me, and maybe, you know, you're just, again, limited because your receivers and then they must think CD Lamb is going to be something special.

By the way, Stacey Mac was a 34 for the Texans. what was his career numbers not good I can look like the greatest running back in Texas history is Arian Foster yes number two is Dominic Davis Yeesh Ron Dane

Not Ron Dane Not Ron Dane Steve Slaten Slaten was all right Oh didn't Ben take it a thousand yards one year Yeah he did Good for him Damn this Texas is running game

has been, ugh. The all-time leading rushers list for the Texans gets pretty nasty in a hurry. Who are the top five? One is Arian, Dominic Williams. Or Davis, depending on how you knew him. Number three, Lamar Miller. Oh, oh. Number four, Alfred Blue.

What? Five Ben Tate, six Steve Slaten, seven, Rondane. Eight. eight. They actually go eight deep on this? Eight is David Carr. Nine is Deshawn Watson. Ten is the great. Jonathan Wells.

Carlos Hyde just outside the top of ten. In one season, Carlos Krored is 11th. Are you all vomiting on the side of the road right now? No one of the teams ever going to an A championship game. I told you. It's pretty nasty. That running back to all-time list? Maybe Arian Falls was like, you did a damn one. I'll retire my number.

Ahmad Green is literally 13th on this list. Didn't mean to snort it. Yeah, you just snorted over Texans' running back history. Chris Polk is 20. Okay, that's enough. Jonathan Grimes, where is he? Jonathan Grimes is actually, I just saw him. Where is he?

He's 12th. Man. He's in the top dozen of Texans running backs. Are the running back, is the running back position the worst in Texans history? Receiving's not that great either. You know what? It would have been quarterback, if not for Deshawn. think about the

quarterbacks. Shob, who was good for like two or three years, and then suck the last two or three. David Carr, who never was good. Brock Osweiler. Tom Savage.

Brian Hoyer. Brian Hoyer. Ryan Fitzpatrick. Tony Banks. Dave Ragon. So you're telling me two of the most important skill position players

on a football team, and we just ran through the gamut. in the list of the all-time greats. Receiving yards, Ryan Griffin is 10th all-time. Joel Drescent 11th. Joel Dreson. And again, I say, are we not surprised now?

The Texas is never made it to the AFC championship game? Second hour starts. Okay, that's enough. Walter or Walters? Kevin Walter. Owen Daniels. He's third all-time, receiving yards. Starting the second hour of the Matt Thomas show,

713, 212, 5, 790. We're going to talk about much more lighthearted things because talking about the all-time great running backs in Texans history has made me be priced. Billy Miller 13. Okay, you're off for a segment. Back in more than a minute, 1257 on 790. Is the Matt Thomas show.

101 on Sports Talk 790. At 1.30 today, the Texans and the Astros are going to have dooming, dooming. They're going to have dueling Zoom calls. Brandon Cooks is going to speak for the Texans. Justin Verlander for the Astros. We'll play both of them for you throughout the last hour of the radio show. That's Brandon with an eye and Justin with an eye.

How would you not spell Justin differently? How would you spell Justin differently? No, you wouldn't. You could spell with an O, Juston. No, you couldn't. Why not? You could spell Brandon with an eye. Yep. Instead of an O.

Yep. Just on. You don't get Justin out of J-U-S-T-O-A. Well, that's what I'm naming my firstborn now. Are you? Just because you said that. Okay. Justin McKinney is an actor.

And how does he spell his first name? With an O? I think it's Just on McKinney. You think it's just on? Just on? Just on? Yes, yon. They got the rule all?

713. He likes the party on barbaw? That's enough. 713, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 5, 790. I've got two, that's enough. So the last five minutes. I'm doing good. You see, this is how Gary, you don't run a radio show.

By letting this man. This man lead you off the track. Gary on Conley does not get his fifth year option. That's a shame. We'll talk a little bit about that and whether or not that is another very risky decision by the Texans. Because $10 million for starting cornerback, that's top 15. And if you're trading for him for a third round pick, don't you assume then that Garyon Connolly should be a top 15 cornerback? Did he not play to that level yesterday?

I mean, we can find these are some cornerbacks that are making $10 million. Bradley Robey. Damn. Kindle Fuller, yeah. Desmond Truffant, Joe Hayden. I guess it's a lot. It's pretty premium up there. Justin Coleman of the Lions, he's good.

It feels like the Texans either really, really, really overpay for people or are taking a great chance that they're going to be able to get other players at a much lower dollar amount in following years. Because, think about this. I don't know what they're doing. Randall Cobb is being paid way more than market value. Yes. David Johnson, way more than market value.

Yes. The new safety was from Cleveland. Eric Murray. Way over market value. Laramie Tensell, way over market value. Where is the, that's a steal? Now, the answer that could be, Brandon Cooks. $8 million next year, meaning 2020.

If he sticks around for the 2021 seasons, we're $12 million. Two years, $20 million for a starting wide receiver is good money. That's money well spent. Yes, for the guy whose production was cut in half and had four concussions last year. Hashtag buzzkill. Let's go to Joseph. Hi, Joseph. You all right? Joseph. I'm going. Hello. Hello. Hi, Joseph. How are you doing? Can you hit me?

Sure. Okay. I got one. question y'all was talking about numbers of football. It wasn't about two double-outers, Ken Burr and Jim Otto. Is it correct with that? And then most numbers in the Hall of Fame, thank you very much, talk to you later. What now? Canny Burrell's not in the Hall of Fame.

What about Jim Otto? I don't know. He is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame with the Double Zero. I don't know who Jim Otto is. No, it's before our time. Former Raiders great in the 60s. Okay. Again, as I said before my time.

Great is zero. Double zero. What was Billy Whitechews Johnson? What was he? I don't remember. Yeah, I don't. We're not going to do greatest of this number. I don't even do numbers.

Maybe in a month when there's still no basketball and baseball. Let me tell you. Let me tell you, here's what we're going to do for you all. If there is no NBA season, we'll do Daily List Radio. because we know how much y'all love Liss Radio. Oh, and how? How much I love Lus Radio. Isn't there a team with a...

Is it the Blazers have a zero and a double zero? There's actually a couple teams that do. I don't know who they are. But, I mean, they have the same value. This is very confusing and inconsistent and makes me upset. Don't know why. Not that you could be upset about it.

Be more upset if there's no of the cancellation of NBA season if we don't play baseball until December 19th. That'd be much more of a disappointment. All right. So, yeah, and by the way, Google works beautifully, folks. You can go knock this stuff out. Yeah, Dames is zero, and then it's Carmelo Anthony's double zero. Yeah, but he's been like nine different numbers, does he not?

How do you, how does a referee do double zero? Both zeros in the air like that. And then one zero, you hit a fist pump? Well, you go with the circle around like that. Okay. I knew you would know. I know that if there's one man in America asks this question to, it's you. That's true.

So in my world of being bored, Brent, thinking about hand signals. Well, first of all, you did, last time we heard about your boredom, it was you went through the top songs of your graduation year. Which is what I'm starting to do now. Which got me followed by the band Linear.

Yeah, how's that working out? It's great. They invited me to be in the band. And they're going to be performing at my 30,000 Twitter party in 2002. I've basically given up the thought of it being in 21. Yeah. I'm just not willing to do something viral to get it that way. I thought we were going to have you eat Ebola Alpo.

I'm not going to get 5,000 new Twitter followers based off of that. I may get 5,000 new Twitter followers. It's people. It's fine. Numbers are numbers, Matt. You think Kim Kardashian cares about the 80 million people that are following her or on Instagram, the 167 million people? She cares about a couple thousand of them. Okay, back to my original point. So, I don't think I brought this story before.

in my when I was graduating from high school I thought I about becoming a basketball official until I realized that that would revolve require a lot of running cardio so then you settle on baseball and then I decided not to do that because I thought I'd go to college anyway because you were getting you and then when you did try to do it you were just getting yelled at by drunks correct people in St. Paul with the bracelets around their ankles so I thought you know what this just wasn't meant for me and literally bats in their hands so it's not a good idea so I was a senior in high school and we I had an English teacher. Her name was Mrs. Exley. And she was not very nice. Was she hot? No. She just, she, teaching students just wasn't her calling because she just didn't like any of us. Hmm. She was like, uh, she failed at something else and decided to become a teacher.

No, she actually was an author. She wrote a lot of books. Oh, really? Yeah. She failed to being an author. I don't know if anybody bought her books. She wasn't a million. That's what I'm saying. You're no millionaire authors teaching kids. There's an Exile elementary in Katie in Texas running and named after her. What?

Yeah. So obviously. She's legendary. She became a superintendent or something? Nope. She's just a teacher and they named a school after. Correct. Well, maybe she was legendary, Matt. Maybe you were just a little badass.

That's true. Rebellious. So she was notorious for writing our names on the board if we talked during class or didn't follow instruction. Basically conduct cuts. And you would get E for excellent S for satisfactory and for needs improvement or U for unsatisfactory. and I would get quite a few conduct because I was a talker. I mean, this comes as no surprise. This is no, no, and it's not.

And one day she was just in a very, very bad mood, and she started writing everybody's name on the board for these conduct cuts. And the girl in front of me, her name was Amy, got one. And Amy was one of the most soft-spoken people that I went to high school. Was she hot? She was attracted, yeah. Okay. And so she got a conduct cut.

And I said, that's enough. So I got out of my chair. And Ross, I waved her. I put my hands in the air like referees. You know, wave off baskets. Yeah. And I gave Mrs. Exley a technical file. Not being a sports fan, she had no idea what the hell that meant.

Yeah, she thought you were making gang signs. So she immediately said, go to the principal's office. Mm-hmm. And I'm thinking to myself, I only gave you a technical file. I didn't kick you out of the classroom. So she gets one more. That's exactly right. It wasn't a flagrant too

That's right So I go to the principal's office And I sit in his office His name was his name is Pete Dempson We didn't call him Pete We'd call him Mr. Dempsey I said he says All right Thomas

What did you do? I said I gave Mrs. X-Lead a technical foul And he goes What did you do? I said I gave her a technical foul He goes Did it hurt?

I said no Was it offensive? I said I didn't think so. He goes, well, whatever that is, don't do it again and go back to class. Thus, I got an in on my conduct card knocking me out of the good sportsmanship league at May Creek High School. Well, it's a good sportsmanship league. That's where you represent your school to other schools in the district. What does that mean? Like, you'll have sleepovers or something? No, you, at football games, you go over and say, how did some of their, you know, your opponents,

say what's up, how are things? You give them a gift. They give you a gift. Get some numbers? I don't, well, I guess you could. But yeah, I got kicked out of those good sports. Do kids today even get numbers? Or do they just follow you on Twitter and then slide in or Instagram? I might guess it's... I'm guessing DM business is really good. Gosh, that's way easier.

You had to get up the courage to ask a girl's phone number. And you get it on a little piece of paper. Then you call it in your... There's like a 75% chance her dad's going to pick up. Well, the key was going out with girls... Damn, these kids have it so easy. Listen to this. The key was going out with girls that had their own private line. Oh, I thought you were going to say they didn't have fathers. No, no, of course not. Yeah, that's

probably easier. No, that was because we used to get a directory of all of our students in the high school with our phone numbers in. And it would say, P, being private, meaning you had your own number. Yeah, but I thought you were saying, like, they didn't have fathers and they have daddy issues and there's everything. No, no. Okay. You took that one step too far. That's what I do here. Okay. But yeah, you had to do all that back in the day. Now these kids are just sliding in each other's DMs like crazy. This is not making me feel good as a father of a 12-year-old daughter. I'm just saying, man.

I'm just laying you out the realities of life. I'd rather talk about Gary Ann Conley. Okay. Than bringing up horrific future memories of my beautiful, young, innocent daughter. Who's on TikTok constantly. Did TikTok have DMs? I don't know. God, I hope not.

Just asking. All right. 7.13. Time for a break here. Yeah, exactly. Now I'm in a bad movie because of my future. My children are in questions. Matt, it's okay.

She's going to grow up and get married and have children. It is what it is. Good. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9 if you'd like to get in. Where do I go from here? What do you want to talk about next? Because I'm completely flummoxed.

Let's talk about the All-In Challenge thing. Oh, yeah. You guys have been hearing about this All-in stuff, and it's raising a lot of money. We're going to try to guess. Joe George, myself and I are going to try to guess. I think Joe saw some of these. Joe, did you see some of these? Yes, he's shaking this out.

So, Joe, you're not involved. By way, Joe's mailing in today. He's training. I'm on it. It's okay. He's training. He's looking at something on YouTube right now. He's training.

You let the man run the board and you keep an eye on it. What am I supposed to do? He's called Shadowing. What do you want him to do? He's looking at Bears' highlights on YouTube from 1989. Yeah, they just signed Ted Ginn Jr. I got a look at highlights. Oh, geez.

God. 713, 212, 5, 790. We're going to guess how much it would cost to take part in all-in challenges. Iron Eagle at 2 o'clock, non-Florida stories at 2.30. It is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. The Matt Thomas Show continues on Sports Talk 790, where Rockets and Astros play. And real Texans talk. Matt Thomas Show.

All right, we got some calls to get to. Those of you online, stay tight. We'll get with you in a matter of moments. The all-in stuff has been very. Very interesting. But Ross, I got to be honest with you. When you're going to read through these things. And these are some amazing ones in a lifetime opportunities.

Wouldn't it be cool if there was an all-in that we could all afford? And I guess I know that there probably is one. There is, but it's just you can only, Tom Brady's only going to have dinner with you once. Yeah, it's probably like a weekend with David Lee Roth or something that you don't really want. Like, what would you pay for an all-in with me? I need to get some, I need free stuff. Oh, you're saying I got to pay you?

Anytime we hang out for a weekend, it usually involves you paying for my hotel or something. Okay. So that didn't sound particularly good. Yeah, I did. All right. So the All-N challenge, is that a website? Yeah. Remember we went through and we were talking about it?

It was like played golf with Peyton Manning and all that type of stuff. So. Give me a range and these and see how well I do. Range? Yeah. Like plus or minus a certain dollar. Well, I'll tell you this. The Tom Brady's package.

Excuse me? Tom Brady's package Yes Went for $800,000 That was what Going to a game You get to work out with him Or something like that

Yeah you would get dinner Or a workout After his first game As well as tickets to the game You get his jersey and his cleats And you're going to Tampa too Tamp isn't that terrible It's part of Florida

It's okay It's okay Well they'll be good For example How about this Remember meat mills Rolls Royce. The starting bid was $200,000. So I got to guess.

Plus or minus what am I going to in order to win this? $5. Come on. Give me a... Plus or minus $30,000. Okay, that helps me figure it out. It's sold for $375,000. $320.

Damn. Okay. So there you go. The Roles Royce Phantom. I don't know. What was that above sticker? I don't know. How about a double date with Russell Wilson and his wife? I would say it's in the six figures.

$250,000. $240,000 for Russell Wilson and Sierra. Taking a step back. He's obviously one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Won a Super Bowl, correct? Yes.

But is he overly intriguing? I mean, I'm asking what he puts in his curls. They look pretty nice. Like, if I got to meet Russell Wilson, it would be cool. If Russell Wilson came to Radio Row We interviewed him, it would be a, as we'd call it the business, a great get.

Yeah, because he's a big name. Is it because he's interesting? But, and again, if he's, if Russell Wilson got my number and said, hey, Matt, this is Russ. Come up dinner, I'd probably do it. But I don't know if I would, the value of paying for that, just, there would never be a number. There wouldn't be a number that I would go, wow, that's, I think I can handle that.

Like, I don't even think I'd pay $5,000 to eat dinner with Russell Wilson. You know how I know it's going to be boring? tell me he saved himself for marriage nobody nobody like that's going to be really cool so frankly the dinner would be better if sierra didn't show up it would be better if russell didn't show up and sierra oh there's floating pictures by the way of russell wilson with his old girlfriend and married now to sierra oh the the girl his college girlfriend and her laugh yeah she she wouldn't bad looking yeah she's fine yeah just they got divorced they got married eventually and then she got divorced.

Okay, so you're telling me. She got some money. $240,000. Yes. Better be a damn good dinner. Yeah, is he picking up, who's picking up the check on that? Like Wagyu beef, right? Yeah.

Kobe beef, maybe. Wagyu is American Kobe, I think. Okay. It's American style Kobe, because Kobe has to be from Kobe Japan. But unlimited ice tea. Well, it would be unlimited bourbon or something. Really good desserts, too. Yeah.

perhaps a creme brule. Can continue on. They also, okay, so remember one of them packages was a game of horse and court side seats with Magic Johnson. Also six figures.

Court side seats. Now, I would do magic. Excuse me? I would. I'm going to go 275. 220. So why don't you draw? You could have made a bid, Matt.

I'm terrible with these guessing games. Golf with Bubba Watson and Denny Hamlin. And attend the Daytona 500 with Hamlin. Also in the six figures. Probably about the same range of where we've been. 225. 200.

Okay. So good guess there, Matt. Thank you. A weekend in Napa Valley. With? At Screaming Eagle Winery. It's just donated by Josh Cranky. Cranky, Cranky, Cranky, Cranky.

Okay. Crinky. But nobody's going to meet us there? I guess, no, I guess it's just you. I'm good. $160,000. Hard. That's bad value. Eli Manning's Corvette, which he received as the Super Bowl MVP in 2012.

How many miles is it have on the car? That's a great question. Can we find that out? If you're Eli Manning, do you have any one of your vehicles have more than 25,000 miles on it? Probably not. Do you drive anywhere? No. You have a town car, take you to and from practice. Starting bid on the Corvette was $10,000. It went way up. I'll go $75,000. $140,000.

29 bids for his 2012. I'm trying to look at the speedometer. 5,830 miles on it. Okay. So the year it really isn't that bad. It just hasn't been used very much. It's a Corvette Grandsport convertible Centennial Edition. Okay.

Titanium with black leather and tin. Any of them like dinners with somebody or hanging out with people that would be really worthy of putting out some serious cash? Let me see. Those are the only ones I have right now, the ones that have ended. How much would you pay for a night with Bill O'Brien and Jack Easterby? Here's how it works. You get to go to dinner with them, but you don't get to choose where you get to go. Okay.

Who's choosing? Bill? What do you think Bill likes to eat? Steak? Mashed potato. You don't think he's like a papacitos guy? No. That's having to share a player.

I think he likes spicy salsa? No. Okay. Here's how, here's our Bill O'Brien dinner would go. You don't get to choose where you get to eat. You don't get to choose the time or the day. You don't get to bring somebody with you. There'll be no autographs.

And you can't ask about other trade partners for DeAndre Hopkins? Well, here's the kicker. Or can I? You'll only be asked to speak when spoken to. He's not going to speak to me the whole time then. What am I doing there? So essentially it's going to be you, Coach O'Brien, and Jack.

Sitting in silence. With Jack and Bill, no, talking shop. Do you think Jack a spoon feeds Bill? And when something important comes up, either Jack will say, lean over Jack, or Bill, I'll whisper this to you, or Bill O'Brien will text the question and answer back to Jack, and you'll be out of the mix. You will not get relevant information. You're basically just sitting there, eating a decent dinner, but having no interaction with the general manager and the vice president of football operations. Do you think if Bill O'Brien's shoe gets untied that he sends Jack to tie it up for him?

Jack, shoes loose. No, here's how it works. And then he shines his shoe while he's down there? Nope. Here's that work. Hey, Bill, your shoe's untied. I can tie it for you. No, I got this.

Thanks, though. Like, he's overly trying too hard. Jack is really going to do anything that Bill wants him to do. Yeah. Like, Jack would ask Bill if he wants his meat cut. He's going to cut up his steak for him. You know how you have to worry about who's going to get the car? Jack's always going to get the car. Jack gets the car.

You want to drive? I can drive. You want to drive? Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're not in Bill's vehicle. Jack says, I'll drive. You've had a hard day. Jack can drive. Do you want me drive? Yeah. But if Bill wants to drive, because I prefer driving. That's why we get along. You don't like to drive. I prefer to drive. Yeah. When the dessert menu comes by, Jack wants dessert Yeah No Jack's like Ooh that looks good

What do you think Bill? No I'm good Yeah I don't think it looks good either Or he'll be like Man this carrot cake looks amazing No we'll have three scoops of ice cream That actually sounds better too Yeah

Oh yeah yeah that's good Yeah good call Bill Yeah Jack's not making up any Making up the minds of anybody He's a he's rolling He's a yes man And then when Bill goes to the bathroom

And you're a part of this dinner and you're like, Jack, are you going to do everything for Bill? He's like, oh, he likes it that way. We're bros. We've been friends for a long time. This is kind of how we roll. That's just Bill being Bill. Don't worry, but he's really a teddy bear.

So I just described to you what a Jack Easterby Bill O'Brien dinner would be. Let's recap it. You don't get to choose where you get to go. You don't get to choose the menu. You don't get to choose the day or the time. And there'll be no direct conversation with Bill O'Brien unless he ask you a question. What would you pay for that?

$100. No, $50. Not $25. You don't get to even invite anybody with you. That's the worst part of it all. You don't get anybody to go with you. The three of you got to sit there or they're going to, the rudest thing you can do is text somebody at your table.

They're going to text back and forth with each other. So you don't get to hear the goods. They're talking about trying to keep Gary on Connolly's contract for a fifth year. You'd like to know that. So you can go tell your friends. You wouldn't believe what they were discussing. They were texting each other at the dinner? At dinner.

Why all these caveats? I don't want to go to the dinner. It just makes it less appealing. Do you think a Bill O'Brien charity? It's not very appealing in the first place. Charity dinner would have zero caveats to it? He'd be the most caveat thing ever. If he's doing it for charity, I think it would be fun.

Meanwhile, Mike Dan Tony, just the opposite. I've had dinner with Mike Dan Tony in a few occasions. Yeah. Do you tie his shoes? I did not tie his shoes. He'd be like, Matt, get that F away from me. He would then order up numerous bottles of wine. He'll order every pasta dish on the table, lots of appetizers, and he'll be gregarious and fun and chill.

He's the guy that orders for the whole table. Oh, yeah. But he knows what he's doing. Yeah. We ate at an Italian restaurant in Miami, and he knew exactly what we all liked without even really knowing us. He carried the room. Okay. Bill O'Brien's like, you'll have a steak.

It'll be well done. No, pink. No, I don't want to hold on. going to this dinner if my steak has to be well done. It's the way Bill O'Brien wants it. Okay, well, I'm not going. Who's going to send that third chair? I'm not bidding. I don't know. Somebody.

Eight of these auctions are ending today. Let me tell you, Texans Karen would still go to dinner. Of course you would. She would. 18 holes with Greg Norman's on bid for 75 Gs right now. Eh, that doesn't sound great. Vegas golf trip with Chris Bryant, 28.25,000. 28,250. then we could talk to him about how

he needs to shut up about the Astros. How much would you pay to have dinner with Jeff Passon? We should have broke bread with him. We should have took him to dinner. Yeah, you were so mean to him. I totally screwed that up. You were very mean to Jeff Passon. He was nothing but pleasant.

And I would have taken a picture of he and I and a selfie and sent it to Adam Clanton. Yeah, no, he's a little nerdy, yes. Little nerdy? He's a little nerdy. He's significantly nerdy. Yeah, but he was nice to us, and he stayed with us and joshed with us and joked with us.

Yeah. I mean, you just had such a... I was bitter. We were trying to be contentious. I was bitter. Still am bitter. I'm consistently bitter about that. What did he do? He was smarmy on television about the Astros.

Okay. So I can be bitter about that. I think I'm okay with that. 130. We'll get to some phone calls next. Plus in a half an hour. A man who's not better, one of our favorites to speak to. Ian Eagle from CBS and Turner joins us on the Matt Thomas show in 30 minutes on 790. This report is sponsored.

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Real Texans talk here. Sports Talk 790. On the show, 713, 212-5 at 790. We were talking about Jack Easterby a minute ago. Brayin Cooks on the Zoom call. that he's doing right now with the media. Moments ago said the following about Jack Easterby. I can't say enough about a guy like Jack and what he's meant to my life.

You talk about a guy that holds you to a high standard. Those are the guys you want to be around. No wonder they were so giddy for getting him. Brandon Cooks loves him from Jack Easterby. All you got to do is love on somebody and you get eventually traded to that team. It's talked about how they prayed together and all this stuff when he was with the Patriots. I hope they pray for no concussions I would imagine that's on the docket

I think God's right about concussion lists Concussions concussion list Well You think J.C.'s like today Clearly not in the case of Brandon Cooks I'm looking over Energy Stadium Look at the nice fans Worried about the virus

Worried about international warfare Worried about economy And Brannin Cooks may your head be healthy and wise And you too Jack Alex in the Woodlands on 790. Hi Alex. I got three things I want to hit on real quick. First of all, this is a little bit more serious. Everybody's about to go out and start eating again. When you go out, please take care of your servers. Tillman-Fertita restaurants, Landry's restaurants, the servers tip out 3% of their overall sales every night.

So if you sell $1,000 in food, automatically $30 is coming out of your wallet. to the restaurant. Okay. Second point. I just watched Goodfellas again for the first time in a while. Jack Easterby is Robert De Niro's character. Bill O'Brien is Joe Pesci, and Easterby is De Niro. He can't be made.

He can't be a head coach, but he can stay near the power. All right. You know what I'm going to do now? I'm going to have to go watch Goodfellas this weekend. No, none of that's accurate. That is accurate. It's accurate. He can't be made, so he's got to stay near the power.

Peschi is O'Brien. He can be made. He's a head coach. I'm just saying it works out. Okay, getting to my story, about 21 years ago, this is weird. 21 years ago, Jeff Bagwell was suffering a shoulder injury. And during Sunday school, I was still in the younger kids class, my Sunday school teacher's is like, all right, does anybody want to lead the prayer?

I was like, oh, I got this. So I'm leading the prayer. And I start praying for Jeff Bagwell. I was like, dear God, please take care of Jeff Bagwell's shoulder. Let him come back, and she's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, that's not how we're doing. I was like, and I'm like, I wasn't even trying to be funny. I was like, legit trying to get the good Lord to heal my first basement.

I needed that shoulder healed. She cut it off. And so whenever she turned around, she was being a real, she was being a real B, you know? So whenever she turned around, I hit her with that chop suey, that BX chop suey. And I don't know if she saw me or somebody riding me out. I can't remember that part, but I got in so much trouble. Wait, minute. Hold on.

You DX somebody in a church? I DXed my Sunday school teacher in church. But she didn't, I mean, I didn't do it to her face. I wasn't that brave, but, like, I hit her with that chat. I mean, maybe she heard the chop. That's probably what it was. I hit it so hard, she turned around. She was like, what was that?

But from that point forward, I was in the teenager class. You didn't say suck it, did you? No, heck no. Oh, heck. No, come on, Matt. You could still get beat by your parents back then. Hmm. And last point, last point, I actually think that the Astros are probably really excited about the prospect of playing all of these AOS teams and NOS teams like everybody bunched up if that actually happened. Because it's so much easier to beat your stepchildren when they're bunched up like that. and you're not going to get booed by the parents either. I think you just dropped the mic on that one.

Dodgers Astros would be interesting. 12 times. At 9 o'clock, though? Can I be selfish? Could we be selfish for one minute? Yeah. These games are going to be late at night. Yeah.

Until they start playing games at Minamade Park. Every game is going to be 905 first pitch. maybe a few day games in a mix. Get your pot of coffee, Matt. Show doesn't start until noon. Why does the other teams in the Major League Baseball get shorter travel trips and get to play games in normal time zones? Because they're bunched up geographically,

except for the Rangers and the Astros are west somehow. Well, they just, they just, I mean, as further west you go, there's more separation. I can't be that guy, can't? I cannot complain about the fact the Astros are going to play nothing but West Coast teams. Let's get Yordon Alvarez up

in Coors Field. That sounds good. Problem is, when are they going to go play in these stadiums? I have a, doesn't it feel like they're going to start off

in Arizona first? Yes, first. I think so. Okay. There'll be some 205 first pitches, right? Yeah, it'll be 305s.

Look at the, yeah. 330s. If you're going to try to take 10 teams in play, I'm assuming two games a day in Chase Field, and then play four or five. You can't, you're not going to want to play games at three o'clock in the afternoon, and it's Phoenix.

You get some 9 a.m. joints. If they're 9 a.m. here, that'd be, I guess, 11. Yeah. It's not bad. Do the post-game show. Yeah, well, we would do the, we really do, really do a post-post show. We'll do the 10th inning as a lead into the, uh, the, the A team. We'll have the 18 do it.

They don't worry. They don't work Harley and says it is during baseball season. That's true. Okay. So when this schedule comes out, if it does, we're not going to bitch and mona complain about all the teams in the West that the asteros have to face. You're just going to say, but this just dems the brakes. Yeah, which is going to be happy to have games at that point, correct? You're absolutely right.

So hereby, at 141 on this glorious 30th day of April, no one is to bitch about the number of games and who they play under any circumstance. you hear me everybody nobody complains about seven or eight nine o'clock starts in a row no one's going to complain about a 405 you wouldn't complain about a 405 you listen to astro's baseball on the drive home nothing wrong with that

problem is is robert and steve going to do it from here or there it's kind of a question we all have at this point are the broadcasters going to travel to those places or are they going to set up these TV trucks and you call it games off the television Mike Breen, who was on Real Sports yesterday and the NBA announcer, thinks that the broadcasters are going to broadcast games from a remote location. I could do that.

It's going to be more difficult. Oh, it sucks. It's not fun. What are the hardest things about it? Because you did the game that was in China. I did two China games. It's just harder to see. I mean, technology is better.

The HD screen does help. Yeah. Get your glasses fixed. But you don't know who's coming in per se. Yeah, he's checking in and stuff like that. Checking in. These are just small potatoes, really. You don't know, there's no feel for it. If there's any confusion.

It's kind of harder to tell who I guess, like if there's a foul call, who's it on and what's the call? Yes. If you can't see the referees. A referee could be from the other side of the floor where there's no television camera on him. I mean, it's not impossible, but it's not nearly as good. But like I said. You're a trained profession. Yeah, I'm trained.

handle these things. 143 on the Matt Thomas show. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Brandon Cooks is speaking. Justin Verlander is speaking, and I and Eagle from CBS and Turner. We'll be speaking to us in about 15 minutes. This is the Matt Thomas show. We've got non-Florida stories coming up at 230 today too. So think about, listen to our stories. Tell us which one's the best. Now in Florida coming up in 45 on 790. Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk 790. Baseball, football, basketball in Houston. Home for your home teams.

Shambi works for Ian. He's one of their play-by-play broadcasters. He was a John Shambi. They call him Boog? He's the redhead guy. Boog Powell? No, Boog Shambi. He is on ESPN's, I think, Wednesday night game of the week.

His friend of Shons. And he was on this morning. asked, and it was asked, does Major League Baseball need to play? I can't sit here and go through the economic realities of these different teams. Like, if you start to think about it, you know, you'd think that there's a tipping point on, at a certain point for the Royals, it probably would make sense for them not to play. My personal opinion is if we're just, like, if you can somehow push that aside, And I also would volunteer this, in my opinion of the sports right now that might not play, baseball can afford it the least.

Baseball is making a ton of money. I make this point all the time. I don't know whether people realize it. Last year, baseball made $2 billion more than the NBA. Think about that for a second. Two billion. And with that said, popularity and the age demographic of the fans trending in the wrong direction. So I don't think baseball could afford not to play.

First of all, I didn't know about the discrepancy in money. I would think that baseball in theory would make more money because it's got a much longer season. And it has much bigger facilities. The smallest baseball facility is 35,000 seats. I mean, it's sold out every time. But in theory, very few baseball games are drawing less than 20,000. There may be a little bit here and there with weather issues, but double the games. They're double the games, and there's also double the payroll.

There's 15 guys compared to 26 or 30, depending on how many players have been up to major leagues. I don't think any – Ross, I don't think any of these leagues can afford not to play. I think if these seasons get canceled, we're going to see dramatic changes. When are college footballs – when are universities going to ask their coaches, we can't pay you $5 million this year if you don't play. play. We just can't. I mean, I'll use the University of Houston as an example. What does Dana Holgerson get? Four and a half million dollars in? I thought it was three. I think the entire package is close to five when you add the base and the TV shows and the endorsements and the shoe deals

and whatnot. I mean, it's a lot of money. Uh, three point four. But what is that? Three point five. Does that just base salary? Is that everything? It's annual base salary. Yeah. Okay. So there's, there's other things. I think it's closer to four. when you add everything else in there with other things. How is University Houston going to pay Dana Holgersen $4 million? Wait a minute, what? This says base salary of $300,000 and non-salary compensation $3.4 million. Okay.

Well, that's even better. What does that even mean? Oh, there's a variety of things. This is your salary, but here's also $3.5 million on top to do whatever. That's not whatever. There's things you have to do for it. That's interesting. The whole package is $4 million.

Like I said to be in the same thing, we're getting in semantics here. How do you pay that? if you've got nobody to play, you get no television money, which isn't great for the American, but you get no fans in there. You have no big donors writing big checks because they're not running big checks just to do it because they love you. They're doing it because they want to have better club seats at the games. And big donors, portfolio is probably not doing great right now, or they're probably might be losing money in whatever business depending on what business they're in.

How do these NBA players expect to get paid the rest of their salaries if there's no more games? If baseball doesn't play a season, every one of these baseball, baseball players, right, Ross? They're not living, I would hope that there's no baseball player today living paycheck to paycheck. No. But you might

have some young guy or a minor leager or somebody on the cusp of the major league or somebody who had a taste in the major leagues who really needs that paycheck. True. I mean, you do have bills to pay. But most of the players that have any sort of service time in major league baseball, I mean,

They can't expect the major league baseball players, the teams to be paying their players. They don't play a season. League minimum in MLB is actually more than I thought it was. It's $535,000. It's good money. It's not bad. Really good. Nobody can afford a skip a year.

You're going to get crushing your corporate dollars. You're going to crush in your season ticket base. You're going to get crushing your team. Nothing comes in. You can't go to Astros.com and make millions of dollars off of Astros. dot com and showing memories of old games. AT&T is not going to write a check of the rockets or the Astros if games aren't played. They're just not.

So I don't even know why you would even have a conversation of can anybody not afford to play. I can't see any of the industries going, you know what, a year to cleanse ourselves? Now, of all of them, wouldn't the NBA be the easiest to say, all, we've done most of it. We're not going to cry on a champion. It sucks. I understand. But at the same time,

their season's almost done. Most of those guys have gotten most of their money. They've still been paid beyond the games that they missed. I don't know. I just, I can't find anybody that would go, you know what, let's just call this a year,

let's get healthy. They all want part of it because they know that they're never going to get that money back. We're going to see teams lose position. We're going to see universities lose departments. I don't see anybody going, you know what, it's time for us to take a step back, get this virus under control, and then play. They're going to do everything they can to have the confivors controlled and still play because there's too many people that are going to lose a lot of money on this.

Yeah, government and health officials would say that. But if you're in the sport, if you're a player or owner or fan, you're one of the ones that wants us back as soon as possible. Same thing with people that work in restaurants. All of us universally want the virus. under control. Yes. We all need our jobs back. Yeah. No one is, I don't think anybody is going, unless you just have such a deep bank account, you don't have to worry, but no one has ever saying, you know, let's, let's nothing resume again until this virus is under control.

Grocery stores might be saying that. Yeah, that's about the only people. Plorox. Look at Tim and Fratitas. Pirel, they're doing all right. Four billion dollars. He's hemorrhaging money. He will lose everything if there's, if this, goes on for six or seven more months. Yeah, because he owns a bunch of restaurants and, you know, dabbles in casinos. His whole life of service. Everything is shut down, yes. So while in theory, if you're going to raise that flag, if we got to get this vaccine

offers, then we're going to might as well close every restaurant down, every business down, every mall down, shut sports down. That's why I think you have to keep the lines of conversation open to say, you know what, what's reasonable? What's smart? Do you put them in a bubble? Do you put them? Do you only do it in certain cities? Do you wait for a couple of more months? But yeah, I know, these are, nobody's getting paid. People are going to lose their jobs left and right. And we may never see sports again the same. That's why I don't ever want them to ever think about, you know, it'd be best of us to take a step back and think about 2021. Because I think we would lose so much money and people lose their jobs and livelihoods. And I don't want to think about it.

So every time I see a story about league executives want to shut the NBA down, well, who does that? Is that 15 people or is that one person that knows somebody that's a second cousin that works at CNBC? Because I thought the story did a lot of damage when it should not have done so. When I think, frankly, the NBA is trying to keep the league alive because there is money. There are people who are going to get paid. The players are going to get paid.

The team's got to get paid. And ultimately, we as sports fans want to see these games. I think Ross, we are very much determined and accepting of the fact that we can watch an NBA game with no fans. I think Major League Baseball fans are feeling they can accept the notion of watching the Astros pull the Dodgers with zero people there. It may not be optimum.

It may be awkward, but we're ready to see it, right? Yeah, I'll be fine. Joe Buck says they want to, he wants them the piping crowd noise. That's okay. That is a little weird. Here's Joe on that. I think, you know, doing a big NFL game, big touchdown and hearing no reaction

from any crowd, for those of us who call play by play, is, daunting and scary. So I think what they're going to have to do is put in some sort of, quote unquote, fake crowd noise or past crowd noise, like a laugh at work that's been put on shows just to give a little bit of support.

Now that, to me, is way more preferable and way more appetizing than having just flat under broadcast. I would disagree. I think we'll make fun of the crowd noise. Yeah, I think it'll be cheesy And weird Just like the Goodell stuff, right?

From the draft Him clapping at Vikings fans We hated that I mean they could I guess I saw someone proposed just like on Twitter Like at the Toyota Center Or at MinuteMay they would Zoom in a bunch of fans

And on the on the big screen No No thanks Look you'll just treat it like basically every single bowl game There will be no crowd It's just like a, it's a low-level high school football game, bowl game. Yeah, like, 75% of these bowl games don't have anybody in the crowds. Division III football.

These guys have played plenty of games in their life with nobody around. Will it be not nearly as fun, of course? But there's going to be somebody still hoisting a trophy at the end of the year. That's what you should be fighting for, not worrying about whether or another other's fans to high-fiving. Let's talk to Iron Eagle next, 158. Final Hour, Matt Thomas Show next on 790. on this show. Oh, I miss this music.

Actually, I miss March Madness music. Hell, I miss the NBA on T&T music. I think that's where I and even can be found anywhere you can find him. He'd be really busy this time of year. Instead, he's letting his son hang out with him in his house during this pandemic time, which is crazy because his son Noah, who I've got to know a little bit, is the new voice of the L.A. Clippers. Ion, you're a great dad for letting Noah come hang out with you and

eat all your food out of your refrigerator. I can tell you that for sure. I know, Matt. He's back on scholarship, and I'm enjoying it. It's been a nice family reunion. It's good to see the young man. Who's taking care of his apartment? I mean, I know he's making decent money of the Clippers, right? He's okay, right? Yeah, that's not an obtrusive question at all. No. No, of course not. He's doing very well. He's doing just fine. No worries. Well, I was saying I'm worried about his apartment is who's watering his plants, who's taking care of his pets. These are all things you should be worried about when you live 3,000 miles away from your home for a short period of time. Yeah, we've thought of none of that.

That's a great point. You've now changed our lives in that one statement. We're going to have to look into that. Very good. We are part of our people we miss hearing from series. And it is, I talked to Jim Nance about this, your colleague. This is your busiest time of year. You would have gone from March Madness to the NBA.

to the NBA playoffs. How is the Eagle family, notably you, who lives out of a suitcase much of the year? How has your time been? And how have you adapted to all this beyond the obvious? Yeah, in addition, I do the French Open every year for Tennis Channel. So I go NCAA tournament to NBA playoffs to Paris for the French Open. I've been doing that.

This would have been the 15th straight year. So it's been surreal. It's very odd to go from 120 miles per hour. hour to zero miles per hour. But I must say I'm okay with shutting off my brain. I'm okay with recharging the battery, but I'm just used to doing it in mid-June to July before I ramp up again for NFL. So I've tried to take that mentality that I normally have over the summer and shift it to this time. And then hopefully, and I know you're crossing your fingers as well, that we're just going to have an avalanche of sports action, and that would be the dream right now. The dream

scenario is an event every day starting at a certain date and right through the end of the year. Oh, I think for us, because we carry both the Astros and the Rockets, it's great for us, and I'm sure for you as well, if everything comes together, and hopefully it does, knock on wood, you could be doing an NFL game on Thursday, an NBA playoff game on Friday, and if college football takes a delay, and maybe they put some NFL games on Saturday. Who? I'm I don't even know. No one knows this. Not even the commissioners of these respective sports. What the sports counter is going to look like for the fourth quarter of 2020.

No. It's all speculation right now. Anyone that is speaking with any conviction on this subject is probably unwarranted in doing so because it still hasn't taken its shape or form yet. We need certain information to start coming to fruition before we can take that next step. But we are allowed to dream. And to me, that would be the perfect scenario to have all of these events and to be engaged every single day. And not just events, big events, the feeling that it's going to be a sports fan's cornucopia starting hopefully soon enough. And I know, again, we can't say this with any true confidence, but we are allowed to daydream about it.

Ion Eagle from CBS Turner Tennis Channel with us here on the Matt Thomas show. Ian, you live in the New York, New Jersey metropolitan area, and obviously that corridor has been devastated by this virus. And the one thing I keep bringing up when talking about resuming games, and whether it's with fans or not, do you envision any events sports-wise, whether there's fans or not at MetLife Stadium, at the two baseball stadiums, at the U.S. Open?

I mean, is any of that going to happen in your neck of the woods for the rest of this calendar year, do you think? think? Yeah, it's hard to visualize that, Matt. I can tell you very early in this process, I knew six people that were admitted to the hospital here in the New York area. Fortunately, all six are okay. Some were there for three days. A few were there for six or seven days. I know one person that was there nine days, and they've all recovered. They're all back home. I wouldn't say they're 100%, but they're certainly on the road to recovery. So that made it very real in this area when it's people that you know, people that you work with,

people within the industry, behind the scenes, and you're getting texts and phone calls from people that you just can't wrap your brain around, that this has happened to them. And it's a very helpless feeling. There's nothing you can do. You can't visit them. You can't go to them. You can't help them or aid them in any way. So the idea of picking it up where we left off here in the New York area as if nothing happened is very unrealistic.

But the idea of doing it in a remote location and creating a potential bubble like the NBA has discussed, that seems more realistic if it's a controlled environment. And of course, the Players Association has to sign off on this, and you have to get all the parties involved to agree that they're doing everything in their power to keep things safe, to keep the players, the participants, and any of the essential members of the organization healthy. And that's the only way that we can take this next step.

You're also, we should tell the audience here that you're the television voice of the Nets, and there are two very interesting Nets that haven't worked together yet that have been both hurt. what are their progress like if you know anything? And it's kind of funny that people bring up, well, if they really push this thing to October and November, could Kyrie and Mr. Durant play?

So I'm assuming the answer to that is no, but is it fun to even speculate about something like that? Yeah, Matt, there have been questions posed to the organization about that. The Nets have been pretty adamant in saying that's just not going to happen. But then every now and again, video emerges of Kevin Durant, working out. There was a fun video that popped up just a couple of days ago that he was on a basketball court trying to take the basketball against a offensive lineman that was drafted. It's a rush the quarterback. It was, I believe, a player drafted out of Temple and how those two

ended up together. I had no idea if they share an agent, if they know each other, family friends. And it's him cutting and him trying to get around this large human being. and then he ends up on the ground laughing and smiling, and you think to yourself, well, wait a second, he looks pretty spry. He looks like he can do this. So if you're just looking strictly at the timetable from when his injury happened to where we are today, he physically could go out and play. That's my belief.

Now, has it been the same rehab that it would have been with the team supervising? Of course not, because nothing has been what we once knew it to be over the last. last 50 days. But Kevin Durant was certainly on his road to recovery. Irving is a different issue, was a shoulder injury for conflicting reports as to when he could possibly be back. But boy, the clock is ticking. And if we're looking at a potential July NBA start resumption, I'm not going to say definitively that, no, those guys aren't around. The Nets can because that's what they should do. They should side with caution. But from an outside perspective, I think Kevin Dorett is chomping at the bit to come back and play and play in meaningful games.

Ian Eagle with us from CBS, Turner and the Nets here on the Matt Thomas show. Ian, you probably done four or five at six, maybe as many Patriot games per year. I don't know that your assignment's going to be like this year coming up, but I feel like you may be going to Tampa once or twice this year. Just your general shock factor when you found out that Tom was a leaving the Patriots and then moving down to Central Florida. Yeah, Matt, I'm sure I was in the minority. I was not shocked. I just felt the last two years meeting with Tom in our production meetings. He's very open. He's very honest. He never came out and said, I'm done with New England. That wouldn't be his style. But just talking around it, you could tell that he had another chapter in mind. And it didn't necessarily line up with what the Patriots might be thinking. So the fact that he ended up somewhere else, not campus, specifically because I certainly couldn't have predicted that. But the fact that he ended up somewhere else was not that surprising to me.

I thought there was a very good chance that Tom Brady would take his services somewhere else and right off into the sunset with a new experience and something different. This Tampa situation lines up pretty well. Bruce Ariens is a great guy. He's a player's coach. He's an offensive guy. He was a quarterback guru. I can see the two of them hitting it off.

It's going to be very different, the dynamic between Tom and Bruce and the head coach he played for Bill Belichick throughout his NFL career. He gets grown up there. They have excellent skill position players. He makes them relevant right away. There's no doubt about that. There's going to be a curiosity with the Buccaneers. And he has an immense amount of pride. So whatever it requires of him physically to be ready.

Look, at some point, Father time is undefeated. He catches up to everybody. Right. But Tom Brady does. has this other non-human ability to somehow do things that others cannot do. So if you're telling me right now that Tom Brady can still play at a high level with Tampa this coming season, I'm not going to fight you on that. I'm going to trust that he still can.

Yeah, and that's probably going to be make things even more competitive in the NFC South. Before I let you go, and I have spent a lot of time watching old NBA games on television. You've done a long-time voice on NBA doing the TV shows and the highlights and whatnot. I saw Vince Carter dunk that you called not too long ago. How is the Eagle family, you and your son, because he's now in the league with us, how are you guys consuming television? Are you spending a lot of time looking at old games? Or do you happen to catch an NBA TV game where maybe you're calling the game with one of your many partners over the years?

Yeah, Noah turns on NBA TV every day. He doesn't wake up until noon, so keep that in mind. He claims that he has remained on West Coast time. Which I don't quite understand how the body could do that. He's been here for 45 days. So I'll let him continue to think that. That works for him. That's okay.

He wakes up at noon. The second he comes downstairs, he pops on NBA TV. And you're right. You get caught up in these old games. I've gotten caught up in rabbit holes on my computer. I don't know how it happened. I ended up watching seven minutes of Rosho Nesterovich highlights. the other day. I don't know why. I wasn't exactly a huge admirer of Rasha Nistervic. He was fine. He

was a good player. That's freaky. That's freaky. It's what that is. Yeah. Like, yes. There's no rhyme or reason to where you end up when you start going down these rabbit holes, you start looking on the right side of the screen on YouTube and just random links start popping up. And mine was Roshoneisterovic. So I feel like I'm all caught up with Roshonezsterovich. Well, I'm going to give you two. One is John Lucas is one of the assistant coaches of the Rockets. He and I are good friends. And I saw him in a Milwaukee Buck uniform in 1987 wearing those really short shorts.

And what I do is I take pictures of him and then text it to him, where he tells me what I can do with these texts. And then number two, I was the PA announcer for the Rockets during their mid-1990s, and I was significantly heavier at the time. And so they'd have a Rockets Knicks game on from the 94 finals. And I would take a look and try to find myself. and I'm like, my God, I was a fat slob 25 years ago. That's my life, Iron Eagle. That's just what I did. Very nice.

So you now, you have a restraining order from John Lucas. Yes, you do. Yeah. And you're going back and you're seeing yourself at a time where you probably realize that you shouldn't have had dessert. Yeah, and I'm thinking, how did I marry a good-looking woman like this? Look at me. I mean, she must have thought of my economic potential, which is doing okay. It was just the weirdest thing.

But yeah, I have become an NBA TVaholic because no disrespect to ESPN, but I don't want to watch any more Lakers Celtics games. I've seen every one of them between 2008 and today. That's all the show. NBA TV gives me the good runaround. Major League Baseball Network does a good job as well. And then the Masters, CBS did a great job with the Matt. I mean, we all need to be working. That's all there is to it.

But we're all trying to find time. And I appreciate you spend some time with me. Tell no, I sent my best. It's been great meeting him and watching his young career grow. And I look forward to a Laker. Clippers, Western Conference playoffs, whether we're doing in Las Vegas or Orlando or wherever, in the May case, maybe. Yeah, Matt.

Yeah, he's really enjoyed meeting you as well. I've got to get back to some of the stuff I've been working on. I've really gotten into Russian literature during this pandemic. No, that's not true at all. I know nothing about Russian literature. I just wanted it to sound like I was doing something productive. Yeah, okay, so if I could find Iron Eagle on a game show, which one would you go on that you had the most success with? Oh, game show.

I mean, I was a game show-aholic as a kid. You name it. I watched it. My father, who was an actor. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You and I next time the Nets and Rockets play, which is the next season. We'll have a game show trivia contest because I think I could beat you in it.

Really? Oh, yeah. Now I'm going to have to bone up. Now I have something I actually study for. Yeah. My dad was an actor and was very successful in commercials more than anything else, but he did television and he did movies. but his success came in the commercial genre,

and he appeared on Family Feud because they had commercial stars. I think he went head to head with Mr. Whipple, and I believe Richard Dawson kissed him. So those were career highlights. Damn. Well, so if you had a family feud of CBS Sportscasters, who's the five on that you're putting on that team there? Oh, that's tough.

I can't tell you, Matt, because someone's going to be offended. Oh, then let me do it then. Let me do it then. Trust me, I would be on the, I would be on the squad. Yeah, yeah, you are, you're the captain. Be you, Nancy Harlan. We got to put color commentators, or we're going to go strictly play-by-play guys. Yeah, play-by-play guys work.

Okay. You harle. We can go against the analysts. That was probably a really good matchup. I'm going to go, boy, this is a good one on the, Greg Gumboe, got to because he's just been there forever. Yeah, he's got good, deep knowledge, musical knowledge. And I don't know Spiro Ditas very well Would he be an asset to your squad?

Very nice guy I think that would be a battle with him and Andrew Catalanus Who we would put on the squad for Family Feud And then the analyst MacArthur also has knowledge Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah And the analyst side

Well actually you know a Carter Blackburn guy lives in Austin He would be in a wind up with it Oh Carter's got a lot of Carters got funky knowledge He knows like weird stuff Yeah he's got better hair than two than both of us All right all right He does he's also growing a mustache

You need to see it during during this And the analyst side, Bill Raftery, you got to go. No, no, Bill wouldn't be honest. Bill would get no answers to that. What's the question, Steve Harvey? Yeah, and then he'd have a glass of Vino in his hand, right? For sure, correct? Yeah, he would.

All right. Well, we'll forget it down the road. Go enjoy your Russian literature. Take care of it. And we look forward to hopefully seeing you, whether it be in Orlando or in Houston sometime soon. Boy, I hope so, Matt. All the best of you and your family. Thanks very talented and funny.

I am Eagle with us here. on the Matt Thomas show. 217 is our time. We hear from Justin Verlander. We hear from Brandon Cooks, and we hear from you at 713-212-5-790. Bottom of the hour, we have non-Florida stories. It is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk 7-90.

Your rockets, your Astros, your voice. We're going to hear from the Justin Berlanner in just a couple of seconds. We've got our non-flora stories coming up. Mine involves Spain and the media. Spanish media. Spanish media. Where's yours from?

Oregon. Oregon? Joe George? I think Colorado. What do you think? You'd guess? Well, it better not be Florida. It's either Colorado or North Korea.

I would decide where I'm going. What? Oh, man. What a diverse set of storage you've got there working. Yep. All right, let's go to Derek in the gallery on 790. Hi, Derek. Hey, what's going? Is Ross in now? No, he's not. Hi, Derek.

Oh, he's not. Hey, Ross. Okay, well, let me, real quick. Let me clarify something, but I meant the other day. My wife is standing in front of him. She'd be afraid that I'm going to cuss on the radio, and I tell I'm not. Let me clarify something. There's only a few ways you can count the 10. Okay. I'm 44 years old. I've seen everything that Michael Jordan has done from Ben, from 83, all the way up to right now. I thought Derek why it's the stupid? Because you can see, I've seen this story before. That's why I said it was stupid. I don't like basketball.

I don't care for Michael Jordan. I don't care for none of them. So I just wanted to clarify that with you. That's what I mean. It's only a few ways you can count 210. 24, 6, 18, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 70. I've seen this story so it don't mean nothing to me. Number two, Mr. Thomas, there is this big misconception that the Patriot way is done.

I want to tell you first before the season even starts again. I want to tell you first, the Patriot Wade will still remain the same. Yes, there will be a new quarterback. Yes, there will be a line-in-all kind of changes on the defense. But the Patriot way, Mr. Thomas, is the Patriot way. They will make the playoffs. I'm not saying I'll win the Super Bowl. I'm saying they will make the playoffs.

They will 10 and 6, 11 and 5. As long as Belichick is still the captain of the team, it's going to be like that. I want to be very clear about that. And last, but not nice. When the Astros get back, When this season starts to pump back up, we're going to do another World Series campaign again this year. I hope you talked to Justin. I know you already got your questions lined up.

You got to ask them, but I want you to ask them one question. How important is it that after all the debacle that we've been through the entire summer, the entire winter, after all the debacle, how important would it be to come back and put it in their face and be 2020 or 2021 champions? I don't know I'm going to finish the baseball season. I don't know when we started. I don't know, but you know what? I need to talk to Justin Verlinder right now.

Thanks for the phone call. Appreciate you listening. You're going to talk to him? Yeah. Justin, kind of give us an update, if you don't mind, on your groin right now. And the groin is doing really good,

some good days, some bad, but in general, everything's been moving in the right direction. And it's starting really this last couple weeks. It's started to feel very strong, particularly in throwing. growing. That was probably the toughest thing on the groin, which I think points to why I needed this surgery in the first place, because throwing was putting a big strain on it. I would say

particularly this week, I've made a big stride forward and am very optimistic about how it's feeling and looking. There's no other station in the marketplace going to find out that Justin Vernon just told us his groin is strong. It's looking and feeling stronger. started to feel very strong. There you go. See? Is your groin? Did he say it's growing or he's thrown? No, no, it's looking and growing strong.

I mean, looking and throwing strong. We should have asked Kate about this. Is your groin, let's make sure we get this right again. Hold on. And the groin is doing really good, some good days, some bad. But in general, everything's been moving in the right direction. Moving. And it's starting really this last couple weeks.

It started to feel very strong, particularly in throwing. That was probably the toughest thing on the groin, which I think points to why I needed this surgery in the first place, because throwing was putting a big strain on it. I would say particularly this week, I've made a big stride forward and am very optimistic about how it's feeling and looking. It didn't sound nearly as blue the second time. It's feeling and looking good and it's making big strides. I got news for you, J.B. When you get in your 40s, it won't be that way.

I mean, he said some days are good. Some are bad, so maybe he's already there. How his lat is feeling. Hey, JV. Thanks for joining us on the Matt Thomas show. How's your lat? Doing very well. So my lat is just about healed.

I'm throwing some wrong toss, just not quite throwing the ball 100% yet, throwing it with good effort. And the reason for that, first and foremost, is to not re-injure the lat, which is a common thing to do because you feel so good before it's actually 100%. So I'm just being very cautious, obviously with this extra time, there's no reason to push it. If we were in a season right now, I feel like I might be at a point where I could be further along. Boy, he didn't sound like it's tomorrow. But you know, here's the great news, guys. It doesn't have to be tomorrow. There's no baseball tomorrow. Because here's the thing, if they said baseball resumes, boys, they're five weeks away from playing. Yeah. Whatever it is, it's five weeks.

And the groin is looking and feeling good, he says. You're fixated on that, aren't you? I'm not fixing. I'm not fixing it. I'm just telling what he said. So I think everything we've gotten so far from JV is good news. And ultimately, he is happy that he had the surgery. After the surgery, the doctor said he's very happy that I had it done because it looked like it was about to really tear fully. It had been pretty beaten up that ad hoc their longest muscle. So I think this is something not unlike like a sports hernia or the other surgery I had done where it's more of an overtime thing. There's not one moment that you feel it and you tear it. It's just kind of a cumulative wear and tear.

I think that that started to manifest in my offseason this year, where I noticed my groin a little bit when I was working out. And I wouldn't say, it never, like, stopped me from doing what I needed to do, but it was noticeable. And some days it would be pretty sore. So then, you know, you go into spring training. And the second that I started getting off the mound at a high effort, it started bugging me a little bit, Jeremiah and the training staff, got together and discussed all the options of which surgery was one, but that felt pretty aggressive for me at the time. But obviously the right decision.

And that is four minutes of groin talk that you will not get anywhere else in the marketplace. Thank goodness. We can talk groins better than anybody else in the marketplace. I really feel that. I think I'm all tapped out on that. You can handle the rest of it. Non-Florida stories. Next, as the Matt Thomas show continues, 713.

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Hey, Google. Play Sports Talk 790 on I-Hart. Radio. All right, 235 on the Matt Thomas show, 713, 212-579, if you'd like to jump in in our final segment of the show. Time now for our non-Florida stories where each of us have a chance to give you a bizarre, outrageous story that comes from anywhere except the Sunshine State. And since Joe George, you've barely spoken today because you've had basically a half-day

off already. It's true. Let's get to where you decided to go to for your non-Florida story. All right, so we're actually giving you in the state of Washington. A lady who once ran to be the mayor of Colorado Springs, she decided that her and her daughter would pose as photographers and drug a new mother with a cupcake to try to steal a baby. So she's not happy that she doesn't have another daughter.

So instead of trying to just have a kid like normal, she decided to drug a mom dressed up as photographers with a cupcake. and try to steal her baby. You're sitting on Florida stories. These are not interesting and fun. That's a sad story. Half of them aren't fun. Half of them about death and murder.

What's the difference? You suck at this. I do. I don't know where to look. I don't think it was that bad. I'm not giving away my sources, though. All right. I want to give you what I think is a real good story.

Okay. You guys have been noticing the local TV anchors have been doing their shows out of their house, right? Sure. Yes. Well, It's also happening in Spain. There is a show called Estado de Alarma, which is a news report show.

Okay. And it features a news anchor by the name of Alfonso Berlos. Okay. Okay. Alfonso has a girlfriend who is on the, well, is a former star of their version of Big Brother. Her name is Marta Lopez. Okay. So we have Alfonso, the news anchor.

girlfriend reality star Marta, Marta Lopez. Well, apparently Alfonso was doing a news report from his house last week. Uh-oh. When someone came down his steps onto where he was doing his news report, she was scantily clad, and it was not Marta Lopez. It was somebody else. Maybe his sister was staying over. No. Marlis remained silent for days, despite academic.

of two-timing. Then he apologized to Lopez during an appearance on the Anarosa news show. Of course. Quote, if you think that my attitude has not been correct

or that there have been things that I have not done well, I have no problem asking for forgiveness, although my goal was not to harm anyone else. I need you to read that in Spanish, Matt. He claimed he broke up with the reality star before the at-home segment was shot. Oh, they were on a break.

But Lopez insisted they were still together at the time. Whoops. She called the indecent, incident unpleasant and shameful. The partially clothed woman was later identified as journalist Alexa Rivas. According to the news site, 20 Minutes. Rivas said she had been dating the newsman for several weeks. So, advice to all of you doing TV news reports.

If you have a side piece, make sure they're within far distance of your computer when your TV station is filming you doing a report. and that is my non-flora story. Wonderful, Matt. Well, as you guys are going with scandal and bringing people down, I'm here to bring you joy. And by the way, can I go look at this girl, Miss Lopez during while as you read this story? Marta Lopez. Yeah, sure, when that. I'm looking at her.

Read your story and I'll look at her up. That's with a Z. Yeah, she looks good. Okay. As I said, I'm here to uplift you people and bring you a good story. Matt, as you know, The coronavirus pandemic, and Joe, of course, as you know as well, has really affected a lot of businesses, including restaurants and including bars and including, of course, breweries. One Chicago brewery has come up with a great idea, a great business idea, to help their customers during these tough times.

Of course, Joe, I know you're familiar with the Goose Island beer company in Chicago. Yes. They're delicious. I love their IPA. I love me some goose islands. IPA suck. It's a bad take. You're wrong.

But that's okay. So what they have taken to doing is stealing a business model from what you liked as a child. Ice cream trucks. They are now stocking ice cream-style trucks with beer and driving around town and putting their phone number on the side of it.

And if you call them and ask for a beer, they will serve you, said beer, from the truck, ice cream truck style. That is a great story. That is a great business model. Guys, why are we doing this? The side of the truck says, want a beer right now. You call the number, you order a drink, and they'll bring it out to you right there.

Okay. So when ice cream trucks usually go through your neighborhood, you hear it. Yeah. What song do you play with the beer truck? German polka drinking music. How about all my rowdy friends are coming over tonight? Oh, I got friends in low places. The drinking songs that we literally just all drafted.

Margaritaville. Margaritaville. But you got to find out like, but it's got to. even won. That's just a 5 o'clock somewhere. It's 5 o'clock some. That's exactly what that. And I didn't win with that. That just shows you what frauds you were for not voting myself. Or how bad your other

picture. You got swept. Yeah, because I don't trust Joe. Literally swept. Horrific take. Yeah, you lost. Matter of fact, play it. It's 5 o'clock somewhere. And let's see if we if Ross, you and I can be in the truck here for a second. Be it's 5 o'clock somewhere. Now you're running the truck. Ice cold

Bell This is what all the stadium workers can do since they don't have jobs right now Ice cold bill, Bill, yeah? Hello everybody in Mission Bend Would you like a cold brew Deliver it right to your home? So there you go.

Feel good story from the Goose Island brewery All right. Ranking the stories. I like your story. I love mine. Yours was hot garbage. You hate all my stories. Yeah, you're a hater. Turn this up a little bit. This is a drinking song. It really is.

Thank you. It's like, you know what? But red red wine is terrible. It was my favorite song drafted in the Fantasy 5. Guess what? But Red Red wine is just so awful. But that doesn't mean it that's terrible draft overall. Look at the Texans.

They draft great first round picks and second round. They're lousy in the fifth round. They don't have lousy drafts every year. Matt, you made a bad pick. Just get over it. It's almost been a week. and you got swept. Are you going to get swept together tomorrow, too?

No, well, no, probably because you'll at Russell, ball of his buddies, he's calling in. Matt, you know I don't have friends. Tomorrow, by the way, the Fantasy 5 and 2.30 is restaurant-specific appetizers. Ooh, someone's, Jeff Harner says, Cheers theme song. That's not bad, dude,

because it's got the little piano. Try that. It's not bad for a truck circling the block. Let's go to Spring Branch right now. Hang on. Let's go to Spring Branch. All right. Let's see. We can get the music first. Yeah, give him a second.

We'll give him time. Follow sports empty. It's all steady climb. Very slow. Very steady. So slow. Yeah, this would be good. Cranking this up.

Because it has an ice cream truck feel. By the way, Des just sent us a tweet. There's somebody doing frozen cocktails already. Bovine and Barley is a downtown, it's a downtown bar. I guess they're driving around with ice cream trucks. Here's what they're going. Midtown, downtown, Montrose, Washington Area Heights Gullery. Guess what? Let's bring them to work. Why did they go to Kingwood? Hey, I got Kingwood. I got a Tascaceta. I got Humbold. We'll go over to Spring. We'll go, uh, we're not going to Greenspoint. No chance of that. Aldi, no way in hell we're going there. We'll go over to like Jersey Village. Joe, you can drive. I'll handle PR and announcing. Okay. Ross, you'll get drunk in the back. You'll be doing the pouring. One for you, one for me.

Yeah. Well, can I have one? No, you're driving. So. What we're name it? Three guys in a beer? You heard you're a bad driver. Three guys in a beer?

Three guys with beer. Three guys with beer. Well, 790, we're leaving. The beer guys. Three guys and the beers. But this could work after the pandemic. Because Governor Abbott said they might be doing drive-through liquor. I mean, to go liquor, like forever.

Permanently. Yeah, yeah. Which is awesome. Yeah, I'm all for this. Three guys with the. beer, a new food truck moving to these suburbs, not intercity suburbs only, 244 on Sports Talk 790. It's Matt, and he's back. The Matt Thomas Show on 790.

Houston's home for Houston teams. Time is 248, Matt Thomas show for a couple more minutes before we send you over to Adam and Adam for the 18 between 3 o'clock until 6. Tomorrow, 2 o'clock, Brian T. Smith for weekly visit with us, plus restaurant appetite. because tomorrow restaurants are opening up. So we've got to help you out. Best restaurant apps. And you have to be specific with the item and the restaurants, which means we could have, in theory,

let's say somebody had good queso. You could have to decide between who has a better case of between two different Mexican restaurants. So be ready for that tomorrow as part of a Friday. Anything Goes Edition. I have a question. Yes, sir. Is an appetizer off the board?

No matter what. Like, as someone drafts cheese sticks from X, restaurant. Can you still draft cheese sticks from another restaurant? He literally just said that. You did? Literally the last thing out of his mouth. I just said casso from two different restaurants. We have to decide who is the better

Koso. Oh, I thought you meant like just choosing for yourself. Take the L. I was confused by what you said. Yeah, yeah, Matt, you didn't make it clear. I'm going to go on to spend. I'm going to time off for the rest of the show. See you later. You already focus on the 18. You can give

two crabs about us right now. See you later. He was bringing us back. He's running us. the board back there. The man's busy, all right? Great show. That's right. Give me a second. Great now in Florida story, too. Very memorable. Graham on the southwest side on the Matt Thomas show. Hi, Graham. Hey, man. How are you? Wonderful. Good. Hey, there were a number of positions that the Texans did not address

in the draft that were areas of need, right guard, back up, running back, maybe another safety, another cornerback. And I noticed that they that they signed a number, of undrafted free agents recently, but I haven't read anything about how those prospects look, whether or not there was a chance that they might be able to contribute this next year. Just wanted if you had any information on that. I really don't at this point because, again, those are undrafted guys, and since we didn't get to see them this year at rookie minning camp or anything like that, the first time they're ever going to get a chance to be really seeing will be at true training camp.

but the chance is greatly to answer your question is maybe one makes a team because as Bill O'Brien has already said he's got a veteran-laden team as it is they're not a whole lot of open spots and then lastly because those guys are going to be behind the eight ball because they won't have any extra training

in front of them they're going to have even a more difficult time than maybe in years past making the football team there wasn't one name that I saw in the list and went wow I can't wait to see him surprise everybody There was a right guard from TCU. Sorry, I don't remember his name, but I know that's an area of need that they were trying to either from a backup or have he potentially moving as a starter down the way.

And I thought maybe since he was from TCU that we might have some intel on him. Well, here's probably if Cordell Igwagwagoo. Yeah, there you go. That explains what I couldn't remember. Yeah, if an undrafted guy makes a starting line, up, that means the offensive line is in terrible shape. Well, right guard may be in terrible shape. Yeah.

Well, you got, you got, who's there now? Zach Fulton? Zach, he's just a guy at this point. Thanks for the phone call. Jack. Six foot three, 311 pounds, Iwagu, in 39 games in his career. He was invited to the Senior Bowl. Did he go?

Yeah. Okay. I'm just, there's just so many different guys that are just looking to just get into training camp. As far as running backs, of course, Ole Misses Scottie Phillips. It was an undrafted free agent for the Texans. Matt, your thought on Scotty Phillips.

Didn't watch it. I'll look at him. You're supposed to say, yeah, it works hard. Yeah, I can do that. But that's fraud. That's fraud. Good running and catching the ball. Got a lot of prospect. You know, it's got some potential. Is this size on there?

Excuse me? You know what I mean. I don't have it. Okay. When in doubt, if you want to, B.S. your way through sports radio, you can say his height and weight. His height and weight are a concern. That means higher or lower.

5-8-211. Or you can say that he was often injured. 5-8-211. Went to Ole Miss. Yeah, 5-8 guys typically, not a lot of, unless you're playing for New Orleans Saints make the NFL. Last year, rushed for 542 yards and 5 touchdowns.

How many games? I don't know. He had 18 starts in this career, though. Okay, so he didn't miss some time. No, you played juke. Oh, yeah, you didn't. And then you played jukeobal first, it looks like. That's what Wikipedia tells me.

Okay. And, you know, a grown man named Scotty, you can always get involved. It's good. Is it S-C-O-T-T-Y or than I-E? Or than I-E. Or than I-E. Like Scotty Pippen or Scotty. Scottie was never Scotty Brooks.

He was called that, but he was Scott Brooks. Scotty. He's Scotty to me. I know he's got to you, but to the rest of the world is Scott. We're bros. We're bros. So I call him Scott. Brad and Hollywood.

How are you, Brad? Hollywood. Fine. How are you? You were talking, yeah, Hollywood, Florida, not California. You were talking about rookies getting Hall of Famers numbers. Down here, they're debating two again, Dan Marino's number. No way.

No, they were not. No chance. I'm telling you it was on the radio this morning. Well, let me take some radio host, don't know squat. Let me just tell you that perfectly clear. Hollywood, Florida sports leader was talking. about it, Matt. I don't know who the sports guy was from Florida.

He's been around for like 30 years. He thinks he should get his number, and then the radio show said, no way. It's retired. Well, he can still get the number. No, that's what it means. It's retired. Unless Dan Marino said, yes, you can have 13.

They're going to give Tuatogatovala 13. No, freaking way. I say no, but they were debating that on the radio. Well, they are probably cocaine inhalers. Another thing you were talking about. You know, Miami people do smoke, do what you do cocaine. You know that, right? They smoke cocaine down there.

Hashtack Florida, man. Yeah. How's Brendan McCurry doing? He might make the team of the new GM. Hey, I was going to ask you, I was going to ask you about leadership. What is the definition of leadership? Basically, the Matt Thomas show. I am a leader of this station among the young man in broadcasting.

So you're saying, so. I don't think that the Astros had any leaders since they all followed whoever the cheater was during the 2017 season. What do you think about that? So you're saying that you think the Astros should trade for a leader? No, that they don't have one. Well, no, the other do. Jose Al-Tube is a leader. Nobody said anything about, hey, we can't do this.

This is not right. There's going to be repercussions. We're going to regret this down the line. Please, let's stop this right now. But they all went and followed. They followed the leader, who is Carlos Beltron and or Alex Cora. Yeah. Why didn't they stand up to him?

Apparently, who was it? Brian McCann or somebody did, and Carlos Belton said, no. AJ H wasn't happy. He destroyed television monitors over it. Brad, I hate to cut you off on this because I'm okay with it. Okay, well, we saw sound effects in the background there. The peanut galleries here. All right.

You want to hear from Brandon Cooks? No. You want to hear from Justin Verlander in his groin? I mean, yes. You will be hearing from both those things with Adam Wexer and Adam Clanton. They are known as the A team. And they're up next. Talk to you tomorrow for anything goes Friday beginning at 12.

And a fantasy five Friday. Yeah, which means you'll win again for nothing probably. I can't wait. Have a great rest of your day. A team next on 790.