The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show : Tunsil Wants To Get Paid

Episode Date: March 30, 2020

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Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1202 and H-Town. What's happening in lunch timers? Welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 with our producer Niccolo. My co-host, Ross Miller-R-R-A.

I'm Matt. It's nice to have you with us. Hi, Matt. Hi, y'all doing? I'm pretty good. We are, our studio is cleansed. It has been Lysol, it has been Clorox Wiped. I wiped this bad boy down.

Yeah, it's okay. You never know what a Chris Gordy is getting into. Oh, it's probably something Cajun-flavored. That's true. The cases are very high in Louisiana. Yeah, by the way, if you want to go to Louisiana for a day trip, good luck with that. Don't do it. Here's the thing, I don't know.

They're saying if you go, you have to self-quarantine yourself or face, you know, a potential fine and or time in jail. How do they know if you've gone or not? Did they stop you at the border? Yeah, I think they actually have. I guess law enforcement agents at the borders to on major highways into Louisiana. I'm sure you can get around them. Yeah, I was going to say it would be,

not that you should try to get around doing that. You shouldn't be going to Louisiana unless you have to. But, I mean, there's not a self-quarantining police out there, is there? Well, I think they have, I don't know what agency it is, but they're stopping people asking them what address they're going to and then giving them a verbal order to stay there for two weeks. Oh, wow. I got you.

All right. Mondays are always a great day for us to recap the things that happened over the weekend. Like, did you catch that game? Did you see that pass? Did you see what this person said? Or did you watch that? I mean, and so we don't have that. But I still feel like it's an opportunity for us to kind of catch up on the world that we live in over the last couple of days. On Saturday, for me, was a really odd day.

I was going to get out and get 10,000 steps in early in early in morning. I was going to be productive. and I did just the opposite. I got in like 15 steps in my house. I ate about every 95 to 120 minutes. And I went through seven or eight episodes of Ozark. Got up on Sunday, finished off episodes 9 and 10, and then clean the garage, and then day drink the rest of the day. All right?

That's nice. That's Matt's weekend. What were you drinking? Cold beer. Oh, ice cold, refreshing beer? Refreshing, yes. It was to me. The weather was good.

It was like 75. It was a good day to be outside or, you know, working in your garage doing something you want to do. Yeah, that cool air came in with the rain a little bit. And then it was a nice little weekend. Did not watch any cable news at all on Saturday. Sunday, I did watch the press conference Sunday night because after about 3 o'clock I was spent. And I was like, I'll just put her on television. But the one thing that's great about Netflix is that you get to watch your favorite show if you love something.

And they, you know, and they release it. All at one time, you can just go right at the next episode. Binge is the kids would say. Although I think psychologists say it's very unhealthy for you to sit there and watch a show episode after episode, but that's okay. Have you looked at me? We're going to do it anyways. I don't need a doctor telling me that. I made it through seven episodes of Ozark.

I watched five episodes of Tiger King yesterday. Okay. So we're all binging. Yes. But here's the negative about binging is that once you are done, you want more. It's like crack. You're done. And now I got to wait an entire 12 months to get the next 10 episodes.

Yeah. So that's the life I live. Maybe that's why you should pace yourself and do one every Friday for 10 weeks, stretched it out. Well, if I had, let me tell you, it's funny because the Rockets would still be on the road. We had a five-game road trip. That's a meaty. There was going to be a 10-day, five-day road trip. I would still be on the road today.

I think I'd be in Philadelphia in stop number five. Okay. Checking out the Liberty Bell. Or the casino. But that's not in the New York. You're in a Philly steak? Philly steak for sure. By the way, Philly steak, do you put the Velvita on?

The whiz? I'm with a no whiz. I'm no whiz. I'm without. I do like the provolone, though. Put the little layer of provolone, the hot steak on top. Peppers. Close it up, peppers up.

Mmm, delicious. That's the only redeeming thing about Philadelphia. It's really one of my least favorite cities. But that's where I'd be today. Doing the show with you talking about a rocket's win against the Detroit Pistons. You would hope. You would think. Yeah.

Instead, What did MLB Network do for us this weekend, Ross? Oh, geez. They put on Kerry Woods' 20 strikeout game, and they put on the 86 Game 6 between the Astros and the Mets at the Astrodome, in which the Mets won after Dave Smith gave up three runs in the ninth inning, and the Astros came back a couple of times but could not fulfill a game six victory, leading Mike Scott in his perfectly ready to go arm in game seven, just sitting there.

If you just go throughout sports history, basically basketball, baseball, and football, and you look at the greatest comebacks in history and the greatest games in history and all the... Houston Sports is on the wrong side of a lot of those. Well, here's the unfortunate thing. You could create a sports channel called Houston Goof-Ups.

Yes. It just would be non-stop Houston sports sucking or having epic comebacks and losses or epic things that would happen that went against them. You could do that 24 hours a day probably for a while. I could program. You know, people are always worried about programming things on, you know, on AT&T or on ESPN, the Ocho.

I think ESPN is bringing back some Monday Night Football games. Yeah, we're going to talk about that today a little bit. And it's a nice little caveat for us, but they're not bringing back what they should be bringing you back. So if I created this special Houston Sports Network of this, this is the Entertainment Tonight theme. Okay. Oh, this is like an old one. Yeah, this is the classic 80s version. I don't even watch Entertainment Tonight.

I don't even know if they have a theme song anymore. Yeah, I think it's the same thing. It's more updated. Okay. So midnight to three, we'll open up with Damien Lillard, beating the Rockets on a buzzer beater. Then we'll go from 3 o'clock until 6. We'll go with the Mike Renfro non-catch in the AFC championship game.

Actually, we'll spread these out for if that's a four-hour game. That's three to seven. Seven to ten would be Kerry Wood's 20 strikeout game. Yeah, we saw that this weekend. Yeah. Carrie Wood, by the way, my goodness. And then the suck. Those pitches he were throwing.

The sucky Astros in like 2012 or 13 get no hit by the Giants. We could put down it for three hours. Then we can put on an endless loop for like eight or nine hours. The Bill's Oilers game. And then, oh, and then, by the way, we've got massive amounts of five slamma jama versus North Carolina State. Rockets go 0 of 27 from three.

Oh, for sure. Now, I know every city could say they could do this, but we here in Houston, special way. It's like our specialty. Yeah. How about the just this from January? Texans get up 24 to nothing and lose by 20. That's historic. And then we can have like

a news segment called Houston Sucky News Stories. Bill O'Brien trades DeAndre Hopkins for as Michael Orvin said, a ham sandwich. No, I don't want to do that. You know what? Forget turn us off. I'm in the bad moon now.

I didn't mean to do that. I forgotten about Matt Haynes perfect, though, against the Astros. I didn't remember they threw one, but I forgot it was against the Astros. I blocked that out of my memory. We were doing, the games were on exclusively on KTRH at the time, and I was, in that point in our programming, we were doing 10th inning shows after every game, regardless of they started at 7 o'clock at 9 or 9, and I did the 10th inning show after that. Do you want the Astros lineup that day?

How many could I get? A couple. 2012. I bet you should get. I mean, if you really think about it, you're like three. Yeah, that's fine. Let me, let me. Two are obvious, I would say.

One is super obvious. Is Matt Dominguez at third base? He is not. Jason Castro catching? Jason Castro was on the team, but he pinched at that game. He didn't start. Okay, so at least he was there. You're not going to get the regular catcher.

Okay, am I going to get the- second base you'll get. Justin Maxwell on the team? He didn't play this day. Okay, at least I'm not. Second base you'll get. Okay, Jose Altuva was on this spot? Yes.

Okay. Jose. Who else am I supposed to get? He might get shortstop. Left field as well. Marra Gonzalez? No. I think Red Sox now.

Red Sox. Go ahead. Just run the line. J.D. Martine. Martine. Okay. Let's start. Okay. Starting off.

Go ahead. At center field is Jordan Schaefer. The former Atlanta Brave. Batting second, Jose Altova at second base. Batting third. Jed Lowry is shortstop. Okay. That's good.

J.D. Martinez. is it four? That's not a bad two, three, four. Honestly, that's a two, three, four that you can probably take in 2020. Well, then we take a tumble. Brett Wallace is at first base. God, the way Leno would sell him. All he does is hit.

I remember that. All he does is hit. He's a hitting machine. I knew he wasn't going to do squat in a major leagues because all he did was hit in March. He's a hitting machine. Well, maybe he should hit the elliptical machine while he's at it. Chris Johnson at third base. Chris Johnson was solid for a couple of years. Yeah, and then got traded to Arizona, right, and then was never the same? Wasn't he any Astros All-Star one year or something, or close?

Well, they had to have somebody to be an All-Star. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Wow, okay. Brian Bogussevick and Wright Field. All right, 790 family. I don't even remember this person playing for the Astros. Chris Snyder. Catcher.

Yeah. And then Jay Hap started that game. Spelled J. period A period Hap. Right. Reiner Cruz came in in a relief. Oh. Brian Bixler pitch hit at some point. Brian, who?

Brian Bixler? Yes. And who could forget Xavier Sedano and Jason Cacharo, Xavier Cedano pitching and also Jason Castro, pinch hit me. God, what an atrocity the early decade of the Astros were. Pretty bad. And I was doing 10th inning show. And I had this producer who's no longer employed by us, thank goodness,

that I would say, look, it's 11. Oh, D.H? Yes. We would have to, he said, we have to end this show at the bottom of the hour or the top of the hour. We cannot end this show at 20 past. I'm like, dude, it's 112 in the morning. No one's listening to me except really, really, really drunk people that want to hear coast to coast and they're calling you. We have to go to the bottom of the hour. Yeah, people don't understand. If you, if you ended at like, if you ended at 1220 or the game ended,

you'd have to go all the way until two o'clock. Well, we would have to go. Well, we would have to I'm sorry, 1231. Yeah. If you ended up at 1231, you would have to go all the way to 2 o'clock. Right. We would do 45 minutes, hour 15 on West Coast games after a beat down by the Padres. Back when they were National League team. But you know what?

You still love the job. You know what? Let me tell you some. I would die to do a 10th-ending show right now. We did one in their day. For an hour and a half. But yes, we did do one for the stratomatic. How are the Astros doing?

I know they bounced back for a four-year-winning game. They should be three and one at this point, right? We'll have to check the stratomatic. All right. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. A few NFL tidbits to bring along. One is about expanded playoffs, and one is that, again, there are people in the NFL

that are not happy there's going to be a draft at the end of the month. We'll discuss that next. 7-13-212-5-790. With masks, a case of Lysol, and fruit-flavored heads. sanitizer. Mmm, peach. Wait a minute. No watermelon.

Ah, Granny Smith, Apple. Yep. The Houston Sports Talk continues on Sports Talk 7-night. We thank you for spending some time with us today. It is the Matt Thomas show, where the NFL is going to make some decisions this week. The number one, most important one is the formal addition to an extra playoff team in each conference. They'll have seven teams in each conference make the playoffs, which means only the number one seed in the AFC and the NFC

grab a buy-in week one of the playoffs. Zero problem with it. Okay, now you're wiggling on me. What's the matter with it? How many teams make the playoffs now? 14. That's a little much. I like it the way it was, but I mean, I don't have a huge problem with it.

It's just more playoff games. It's more money. That's why they did it. It's whatever. 12 teams seem to used to seem like a lot. Now it's 14. It's about half. I mean, how many? 32. Yeah, almost half.

So it is what it is. I'll watch. I'm still going to watch. Yeah, I'll say this. If they go any more, then it's going to be tricked out. It's going to be, if you don't give the number one seat a week off, then you're not really fighting for something to really to shoot for, to play for, to aspire for. So, yeah, give the number one. seeds a week off. Let them let the body relax. Let them not have to go through the warfare of trying

to win a game to a survive. Let that 12 and 4 or 13 and 3 record mean something. Usually two seeds are probably in that same spot too, but if you're... That's what I was thinking. I mean, last year... You don't follow the number two seed. Two seeds are what, 12 and 4 typically? Chiefs... I'm sorry, was it the Patriots were the two seed last time? No, they lost, remember they lost in Miami? I'm sorry. They were both 12 and 4, Chiefs were the two seed. Of course, the Ravens were the one seed of 14 and 2. Yeah. So I'm okay with it. If you're going to give me one extra playoff game, just one and not, again, make it where everybody gets in, everybody gets a participation effort, a trophy or a ribbon for it? No, I think one extra team is good. I remember last year you had the Saints go 13 and 3 and they didn't have a buy. Yeah, that's crazy. So what's going to ultimately happen, and it sounds like this could be the year that the playoffs go to an extra, to an extra.

team is you're eventually going to have 17 game seasons. And I'm curious about how that's going to work out. If how much of that is a mix of teams going to play overseas, which that ultimately could be permanently changed because of what's going on right now, or playing in non-traditional cities that don't have NFL football, that have stadiums. That intrigues me tremendously. I still like the every-year rivalry thing.

Oh, you're talking about just playing the regional, favorite? Yeah, I mean, not everybody's going to have one because, I mean, the Astros, didn't they play like the Rockies or some weird team was their rival for a little bit? Between the Rockies and the Diamondbacks. Yeah. It's fine if everyone doesn't have one. But, I mean, you know, Jets and Giants every year, Cowboys and Texans every year, Bingles

and Brown. Oh, no, the Bengals of Browns in the same one. Yeah. But, uh... Phillies, I mean, the Eagles and the Steelers, but how that... Yeah, there you go. ...Norland's local rival then. Tennessee?

Sure, why not? Jaguars? Jaguars don't have one. Well, I guess you jaguars and bucks. Yeah. Or the Jaguars and the dolphins. Dolphins and bucks. Why do they have to be in their conference?

We could figure it out. We could figure it out. Well, not necessarily on the air, but yeah, certainly off the air. No, I am not for that. But I am for how you schedule that 17th game, but I would think it would be awesome. Live from Des Moines or live from San Antonio at the Alamo Dome. Live from Des Moines. I don't know if Des Moines got a big enough stadium

But where'd the barn stormers play Well that was in an arena football So that'd be kind of But I mean you tell me that Darrow K. Royal Wouldn't be the place to be for a Sunday NFL game For Texans and Cowboys every year Oh no no no no no no If you're going to play Texans and Cowboys every year

You're going to bounce it back between the two Why should Austin get the fun of that? Because you're just going to have fewer murders I would think That's what you're looking for is less crime Because do you remember when This show was pretty early in its infancy. When the big controversy happened when the Cowboys and Oiler Texans fans got in the nasty

fights in the tailgate. There was great web content for us because we put like six. There was like a bunch of them on YouTube. Yeah. On YouTube. Yeah. And it was, well, this can't have potentially happen again. I'm like, wait a minute.

It happens in every NFL city. Actually, it's some people with some stones around here. And then the Texans had to go and say, you know, if you don't have a ticket to the game, you cannot tailgate. Get your shivs, get your brass knucks and head on over to the tailgate. I mean, when the writer fans found, out about this, they were devastated. By the way, you not can build a tailgate in Vegas, by the way.

First of all, it's going to be way, way too hot. Yeah, it's going to be a little warm. And secondly, there's no parking. They'll have indoor tailgating at some casino, the nearby or something. Yeah, and by the way, you talk about how things are... How far off strip is a stadium? It's right on 15 on the other side. It's very close to the Rio and all that side, right on that over there.

Tailgate at the Rio. Or the Palms is right there as well. All that. Either one. It's on that side of I-15. Okay. The thing of it is is that they intentionally don't have any parking spots. They wanted the stadium in downtown, or not downtown, the strip. Paradise. Paradise.

And these casinos are like, sure, we'll park people at our casinos. Because there's no way you're going to go park at the MGM, take a shuttle over, and not want to go back to the MGM and put a couple dollars down the tables. Yeah, they'll just shuttle you. Does there a train run by the stadium? Did they connect that through? No. That's on the other side. Yeah, the monorail is on the other side of the freeway,

and it only goes through about four or five hotels. But no, they're going to... People in Vegas did it smart. First of all, they built the stadium. They secondly made it so nobody can park there. So you're going to have to go to a casino and drive your car off. Beautiful. Free enterprise.

That's smart. It is smart. They show us your game day ticket free parking or something like that. Well, why do that? They should charge. Think about the additional revenue that a... Yeah, But if your casino is charging and I say, I'm going to do it for free, they're going to come to me.

Do they all get together in a, what do they call it? Oh, collusion. Collusion and say, everybody in charge? Yeah. And then if you're closer to the stadium, like I'll say that you're at the MGM, not MGM. What would be the one? Caesar's parking lot would be really close to it. Business is colluding?

That would never happen, Matthew? Well, I don't know. You know, the arena is the T-Mobile arena. Do they have parking there? I can't imagine being a lot. I don't know. But it's only worried about, you know, filling up $18,000, not $70,000. They do a lot of big fights there.

I wouldn't want to go to a fight. But the thing of it about Vegas is that I think third. What is it? The Vegas stadium seat 70,000. I bet there's going to be 20,000 from the other city there every week. That's why we got to buy PSLs, Matt. We've talked about this. I'm trying to save money, you know.

It's kind of leaning around these parts. The PSL should be pretty cheap then, right? That's true. All right. So that's issue number one on the NFL. Peter King had a story in his Monday morning, Monday morning quarterback about still people bitching about this draft taking place, right? Well, if you remember, well, we talked about it last week.

First of all, there were some general managers who came out and they were upset, guys like Mickey Loomis and others, and they talked about how they voted against having the draft on time because they can't get their hands on these guys. They're having to go through FaceTime and all that. Well, so Roger Goodell put out the memo last week. Hey, the show must go on. We're going to have the draft.

And oh, by the way, if you complain, there's going to be disciplinary action. Well, according to Peter King's Monday Morning quarterback, a lot of people are still upset with this. This is from Peter King. Roger Goodell has to know how angry team personnel are with him right now. Some are unhappy that the draft will go forward on April 23 to 25th. Figuring all the restrictions on scouting will make it harder for all teams to get up to speed on players.

Some are unhappy that in Goodell's words, quote, public discussion of issues relating to the draft served no useful purpose and his grounds for disciplinary action. So there you go. One personnel person did say, why on earth would you ever threaten an opinion? another one said whatever happened to freedom of speech and then Peter King gives his opinion on that. Well, okay, to be fair,

I don't think he's trying to quash freedom of speech. But let's say Ross, we were told something here at our radio station and we didn't like it. Yeah. At a certain point, our bosses are going to say, knock it off because we know how you feel and it's time to move on. Yeah, if we came on here every day and we're like, can you really are putting Adam Clanton and Adam Wexler together three to six?

Yeah. Terrible idea. I mean, you're really going to give Rossville a weekend show from 10 to noon? Terrible. Why would you do that? That's a waste of air time and producers' hours. Yes. You wouldn't come on air and say that.

I mean, freedom of speech is something granted by the U.S. Constitution, not the NFL Constitution. That's a private corporation that they can do whatever the hell they want. Yeah, I mean, I don't think. They're not being prosecuted. Well, I just think that what Roger Goodell wants during this time is he ain't never going to get complete cohesiveness, complete team players. but if you have everybody barking every single day about how bad this draft sucks and the date of it, I could see him going, okay, enough. Yeah, but I understand why they're upset, though.

They're only doing this for money. They're only doing this because they want to be the only game in town. They want to get as many eyeballs on TV as possible because nothing else is going on. We're starved for something. And oh, by the way, that money that they're speaking of helps to create the $9 billion in overall revenue that is generated by the NFL, which again, what is it? 49% of it goes to the players. I mean, so I understand they're saying it's all about money,

but it's also money that goes to the players and it goes to those teams of those salary caps. It also goes to those 32 teams that employ those 32 general managers. Yeah, but if I'm a general manager and I'm a scout or whoever, and my job depends on these picks. If these picks fail, I could have three good drafts. If I have one good draft, then my head might be on the chopping block. And if I'm not able to vet things out the way that I want, then I'm going to get crucible.

for it and I'm going to say, hey, I didn't get to do my due diligence. I don't disagree, but the problem that that is, is that you're then presuming that there's going to be a lot of to have these meetings in a month from now. And look, we just found out today or yesterday that April 30th is now the new deadline for these, you know, closed quarter, so to speak. I don't know if you can change if all of a sudden one additional month with no meetings in person is going to change what teams are supposed to do. And it's still a level of playing field.

All of the other teams are dealing with the exact same thing you are. it's your job to be ready and adapt to it. That's true, no, but what if I'm better at vetting people and talking to people than whoever? Then a face-to-face meetings than Bill O'Brien. So he could make big people or whoever. I mean, Mickey Loomis or whoever, any of these guys. Then you've hired the wrong person or on your team. Because under all circumstances, you should go.

I'm saying, if I'm the guy that's better, then I'm upset. If I'm using something, if I have an edge somewhere and I'm unable to use that edge, what's going to cost me? I'd say, do you have the coronavirus? And you say, no, I don't. I'm like, well, then you're lucky. But you could, it's totally easy for the NFL to put it. It would cost them nothing to push it back.

I see your side, but pushing it back and also knowing that they're going to have that chance is not guaranteed. At some point, you have to have the draft. If they have the draft at May 25th instead of April 25th, or I don't know, if some of this stuff gets lifted and you're able to, I mean, what is that going to really hurt? It may hurt television ratings. There you go. Let me tell you everything comes back to money in television. Everything does. you can't, if you're a general manager, you can't be selective about that.

You have to understand this is, the Goodell is looking for the best interest of his league and making as much money and as many eyeballs in the league. I think you're going to be consistent. I just think you do. And the simple fact that you can actually pull this off without endangering anyone, why not? Yeah, 1230 on the Matt Thomas show, 713, 212, 5, 790. Would you mind if the draft was pushed back a month?

Because let me tell you something. I don't trust Kirby any more than I do if they push it back to September 25th. because we're doomed. Maybe they're not. No, no. Last year's draft wasn't that terrible. He was okay. Titus Howard was solid until he got hurt.

Max Sharping was good. What else? Who else do they pick? We'll recap the 2019 draft. Lonnie Johnson wasn't great. He's going to be a starter now. Whether he should be or not, he's going to be a starter now. 1231 on the Matt Thomas show 713,

212-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Hey, it's awesome rivers. You got Sports Talk 7-90. They need it. They get it. Flagship station of your rockets. 1235, it is the Matt Thomas show.

Ross and Nick with us here on this Monday. If you'd like to join us about anything on the agenda, we're going to throw a bunch of different things at you because there's no games per se to get to, but maybe something will strike a nerve or give you guys an opinion. 7-13-212-5-7-90. There is a thought out there that Peter King and, to a lesser extent, Mike Floreo from Pro Football talked about today,

and that is basically grabbing every NFL player that we want to do it and compete and play, put them all together in one location, give them proper testing, and quarantine them for the entire season, and play your NFL games every week in one or two. two locations. So again, I'm thinking this outside of the box, you put them in a hotel, you feed them, you clean their clothes, you clean their sheets, you clean their room, they practice in the same area.

It'd be like a big brother type thing for an entire NFL season. I mean, well, they would have to do their own laundry. Whatever. If somebody come in and do it, they're, I mean, they're probably, they could be exposing. But I mean, everybody that would be in this bubble, so to speak, would be, would be cleared of any sort of particular. So you'd have to have some kind of janitor, some kind of support staff, and they would all have to agree to just live there. How about with their families?

You make it like a bubbled community. No, it wouldn't be families. Like a bubbled city. No, no, you're not, you know, you're taking 32 teams at 55 players apiece at 60,000, give or take. You're talking about coaches, trainers, equipment managers, giving them rooms, building practice fields or that are fields that are already there, like maybe golf. courses and put chalk on them and conducting an NFL season that way. Is that just too many people? I think this is too.

Ice Cube's doing this with the big three. That's true. They are making a reality show. They're making it. They're partnering with Big Brother. And they're going to get some big three players and they're going to put them all in a house and then they're going to have them play games. So you're wanting that basically, but on a much larger scale?

I'm not wanting it. This is what's being pitched. I mean, there are crazy things being pitched every day. Yeah. In every league. A lot of people with a lot of free time, Matt. Well, it's like there's a notion out there the NBA should have finish its season

and play in one or two locations and do it like you would go to, say, Las Vegas and you would do it like they do Summer League where you have four games a day in the same venue with the same people running the games. That would be kind of interesting. Do you think you would watch more NBA if it were like that? There's only two games on,

or whatever it would be, or how many games a day would you have to play? Probably maybe even, gosh, not eight. Well, no, you would play from 11 o'clock in the morning to the last game would be at 8 o'clock at night. So let me use Las Vegas as an example. You have the Thomas and Mac Center, and then right next to what you have a smaller building called the Cox Pavilion. Excuse me? Cox, C-O-X.

Okay. You could put games on in 11, 1.30, 4, 730, and 10. Kind of like the NCAA tournament where there's four games in one place in a day. Okay, so let's say you did four games or whatever. In each building per day. It's two buildings.

It's eight games a day. What if one goes to overtime? It doesn't matter. Just push your anything back. Eight games a day. How many games could you get in? You get 30 NBA teams. I mean, it would be like NBA TV

would just put the channel on and just say, here's one game. Well, if you're doing it in two locations, everybody could play. No, not everybody could play. if you do it in three locations everybody could play I don't think you have to play every day

yeah yeah teams will get days off and what if one team in location A needs to play a team in location B if you flip it around you just fly them over there or make you know no I'm saying you're doing this in one you're doing one city two arenas

well yeah that's from side of okay that's why I brought up Cox pavilion is right next door to Thomas and Mac hmm and there's a T-Mobile place there too yeah but that's actually more of it you're then requiring everybody to get out in vehicles and go over to this other play. I mean...

And then you rent out one casino. They can all... And the players can stay there. One strip club. Yes. For entertainment on days off. One strip club. I vote for the spirit,

Rhino. Do you also push the reality show aspect and cut together like what they did over the weekend or they're a couple days off between games? You know what they'll be doing? It'd be nothing but sitting in their hotel rooms. We're not doing... We as collective America and the world,

we're not doing anything fun until this thing subsides. no one's no one is going on top of the Eiffel tower no one is going to mount Rushmore taking pictures no one's going to the beach or at least supposed to be we are essentially what working watching television and going home and getting gas and getting groceries and eating yeah i basically described america i've not done much interesting but that's usually my day-to-day life so that's okay well so you wouldn't want to go home and watch bill o'brien watch ozart No. You know what, Bill O'Brien

doesn't get the right to watch Ozark. I think if you're an Ozark watcher, you are a good, rare, interesting breed of person. He doesn't get... I hope his Netflix account gets deactivated. Why? He doesn't deserve Ozark.

Why not? Because he's ruining this NFL franchise in this town. That's your opinion. He just made the divisional round of the playoffs. Okay, I'll say this. Does anybody believe that he's not ruining this team? If you believe that everything

that Bill O'Brien is doing, it is for the good of the Texans, I'd like to hear your voice. Cal. Cal's going to call right in. Under an alien, because I know the Bill. I know what you sound like Bill O'Brien.

I know, I know your cadence. So you're going to call in like he-haw? I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know. We should do some more, what you're talking about Bill's. You should ask him about Tiger King

and I'll answer. That's actually pretty funny. You know, it'd be funny. We could also do this. We could also go back in the archives and find Bill O'Brien talking about how great Deshawn Watson is. it would be a lie. When he was traded, literally the week they played the bills,

he talked about how DeAndre Hopkins is the best wide receiver in the league. Yes. I think I still have that cut if you want it. Why don't you play that for old time six? You want to go to find it. By the way, real quick, in the next segment, there is, we're going to do a very brief, I don't want to give you what happened in Ozark because it was amazing,

but there's a word I've been using more in the last 36 hours than I ever had before, and it's because of Ozark. I'll explain that what that word is. But here is Bill O'Brien. This is playoff week of the Kansas City game, right? The Buffalo game. Bill's game. Here is Bill O'Brien talking about DeAndre Hopkins, the week of the bills.

Tradavis White's a great player. I mean, he's one of the better corners in the league, and we've got what we feel like is best receiver in the league. So it's a great matchup. That's what playoff football is all about, you know, when great players are going against each other. Both guys are competing at a high level, and, you know, it would be a big part of the game.

Best receiver in the league. Best. That we traded for a second round pick and a broken down running back. On a huge contract. Well, we shouldn't say he's broken down. We don't know if he's broken down. Well, okay, I'm sorry, a benched running back on a huge contract. We know that.

He was benched. Yeah, you can't hide that at all. 1242 on the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. if a word from the series Ozark that is coming out of my lips way too often in the last 36 hours. And it's not good because I have family that are way younger and I have to control my language. It's a Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk 790.

Your rockets, your Astros, your voice. Top of the hour, ESPN has got some new. programming they're going to start putting on their network, which makes a lot of sense. And I don't think they've gone deep enough with it. I'll explain what that is in about 15 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. So, Ross, I binge watch, as I mentioned at the very top, Ozark. And I'm not giving away any of it except to tell you that if you loved seasons one and two, you are going to triple love season three.

Yeah, so far this one has been even better than the rest. The best. It explains the characters. It gives you, it's not as confusing as maybe the first two years. of it were surprises left and right. Just a fantastic, fantastic show. Ruth may be one of my all-time favorite television characters. So I got to ramp it back up on the Ozark is what you're saying.

I think I stopped in the middle of season one. I liked it. I just, I don't know. So are you almost done? You said, Nick? I have commitment issues. I'm through episode seven of season three, so I'm three episodes away. Yeah.

You are going. And unlike Tiger King where the last two episodes kind of fizzled out, we're ramping up. Tiger King at the end, it just got really sad. It's sad. You know what? And we were talking about this off there. Tiger King probably could have been done in five episodes. They made it seven because they know that we're going to watch it.

Can you believe there's petitions and GoFundMe's out there to try and free Joe Exotic? Free Joe Exotic. We know what the, you know, the reason for that is is because the other people in the cast probably are. are guilty of at least the same, if not worse crimes. That's true, but why isn't the petition to prosecute Carol? Well, I'm glad you brought that up because there is a prosecutor, the Hillsborough County Sheriff, and that's Tampa, Florida, by the way, put on his Twitter account, when did he do this, Ross?

Today, this morning is, in fact, it says, since Netflix and COVID-19 quarantine has made Tiger King All the Rage, I figured it was a good time to ask for new leads. Hashtag Carol Baskin. Hashtag Don Lewis. Hashtag Netflix. Hashtag Tiger. Hashtag Big Cat Rescue. Hashtag Joe Exotic.

How many hashtags? Hashtag Tiger King Netflix. Hashtag H-C-S-O. That's way too many hashtags. But he put his number on on his Twitter account. His Twitter is at Chad Chronister. C-H-R-N-I-S-T-E-R-R-N-S-T-E-R-R-N-Ster. He is the Harris, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's.

And he's like, if you have a new leads call. That's, you know what that's asking for, Ross? Anybody that watch one episode to call in with something, you don't open up a case 30 years after the dude is dead and think there are new

leads out there. If somebody had something to say, they would have called Hillsborough County I don't know, in 2000 or in 2005. His, I guarantee you, we called the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. We said, we've got something for you. They're like, yeah, take a whole, put you on

They put us on hold for two and a half hours. There is somebody in the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office having to field ridiculous, preposterous takes about where in the world Carol Baskin's ex-husband lives. There could be somebody with new information, Matt. All it takes is one. You could crack the case. Okay. So you're going to...

So you're on the call, right? You're answering those phone calls. You have 6,000 people that are calling you. Probably not 6,000. Have you met America? Yes. Have you met how boring we are? You're exaggerating.

Do you think I really am? Yes. You think they took 6,000 calls on this this morning. Nick, do me a favor right now. Look up the number. Call in right now. Let's call in it. You want to call them?

And let's ask them how busy they've been. Okay. That's not a crime, is it? No, no, no. Yeah, it's not a crime. Just call in. Just call them right now. Put them on your line.

And we'll put them on the ear. You do the die. Don't call 911 or anything. That's a crime. Call the radar. What's the Twitter? It's, uh, the guy's name is Chad. C-R-O-N-I-S-E-E.

are chronister Chad Chronister He's got a bunch of hashtags as I just went through them a minute ago There's no He's they had to been inundated with people calling in

With crazy ass stories What are they going to say? Okay I found it Go ahead and give him a call This is a bad idea It's not a bad idea This is somewhere We're just going to try

Okay Matter of fact Nick If you don't feel comfortable Putting him on the air Just ask her how busy Her phone lines have been He put this out at 810 Our Time this morning

here we go. Here's one on Twitter. She was a prostitute working on Nebraska Avenue when he picked her up for a date. Oh, wow. See? That's good information.

What's wrong with that? Yeah, you're going to put that on the Twitter account as a reply. Okay. Doesn't that make sense, though? 9-1-1. Thank you. Oh.

You're going to be a home. Jeez. So, your name is important for us. And it's been no good. Here, I'll just listen to this. That actually makes a ton of sense that she was just a prostitute on the street. Remember he picked her up?

Yeah. Oh, there's no question. She was distanced from her family. Yeah, there was issues for sure. I bet she was being, was hooking. That makes sense. What does it make sense is the whole thing about him leaving going to Costa Rica, never coming back. Now, you've been to Costa Rica.

Could you evaporate into thin air? No, I don't know. I'm not an expert on the country. I visited for a couple days. Could you do it, though? Could you like, man, this place is so nice. Oh, yeah, it's cool. I mean, I guess.

And it's the most important thing is you can survive on a lot less money over there. Food is, I mean, you can get a full, you know, five course, not five course, but, you know, I can't remember what they call the plate, the traditional Costa Rican plate. It's like two bucks. Yeah. Get you a soda for like 30 cents. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah.

So back to Oz. So if he's a millionaire and if he stashed away, remember he talked about how he had a bunch of money stashed under the, you know, He had gold bars under buried and he had money stashed. But that was 30 years ago, right? I could totally buy that he had money stashed away. For 30 years of life? He dug up his money. Yeah.

Well, he might be dead by now. He was what in his 50s? He'd be 81 right now. Yeah, see, that's what I'm saying. He could be dead by now. Okay. It must be busy because they're just leaving us on hold. Told you.

You didn't tell me anything. This was the worst thing that Sheriff Chronister could have possibly done. Hey, call us with your ideas. Any leads on the cold cases they can get? Good for them. Probably, yeah. Probably should have done it days after America watched Netflix. If you could bring Carol to justice.

Some people think that she shouldn't be brought to justice because she'd nothing wrong. Her husband just vanished. I actually could buy that. We were talking about this before. I could buy that he just disappeared. He wanted to get away from her. She's threatening his life. He's got money stashed all over the place.

Hello? This line is recorded. How may I help you? Hi, my name is Matt Thomas with Sports Talk 790 in Houston, Texas. I saw that Mr. Cronister has asked for leads. Have you been inundated with phone calls about this all day? For the whole Tiger King thing? Yes, ma'am.

Yeah, they are. Let me look. I just got an email about it. I'm going to assume that most of them are just wasting your time, unfortunately. I mean, I can't specify. It's okay, but I mean, would you have gotten 500 calls about it today? I don't know. We've gotten a whole bunch of them.

They're being referred to. criminal investigations right now. I guess because of who is supposed to be handling it. Yeah. So that and our tip 411. Just, yeah, I feel like y'all, too many people had too much time on their hands. Thank you for taking a minute for your time of this.

Have a nice day. You too, bye. Bye, bye, bye, bye. All right. Here you go. We were on hold for, what, two minutes? Yeah, because she's sending them all to the criminal investigations unit. But those people are like, leave you alone. I'm trying to avoid the coronavirus. I like how you slightly went from 6,000 to 500. I don't know.

I was just guessing. She couldn't tell me the number. She's got to keep... She was pulling up the email, and then you kept talking to her. Well, I wanted to make sure the conversation was flowing. You should have asked her if she had watched it. She got her thoughts on the show. She did.

She said Tiger King. By the way, again, please watch Ozark. It is amazing. I'm going to do a Facebook live on it, probably at the end of the week. Everybody has an assignment to finish off Zolzark by Friday. But the one word... I can't do that. Well, you're not invited to the Facebook

I've mentioned. The one word that is used in that show more than any other, Nicholas? The? Nope. I'm trying to think.

Oh, come on. If you've watched the first seven episodes, you hear this word 150 times. There's a lot of cuss words that I can say. It's a cuss word. It's the F word. Okay. Everybody uses it.

And I'm not giving me any secrets. Every... And so, when you, when you hear something over and over and over again, you start putting it into your own vernacular for no reason. Like Kim, last night and says, what do you want to eat? I'm like, I'll have a blank blank jambalaya.

I'm talking to myself, what's wrong with me? Everything in Ozark is an F word. Well, I mean, I guess that means you really wanted some good, powerful jambalaya. Yeah, I don't know, no. I don't want to be mad at me because I don't want to be screaming at my kids. I don't want to be talking to my wife that way. Like I rocked in today, I said, Ross, how the point are you doing? No, you didn't.

I'm like, this is terrible. I cannot live my life with nothing but F words. But when you watch 10 episodes of Ozark in 36 hours, that's what happens to you. I have become an F-bomb machine, Ross. So if I do, if we have a tip jar here at the radio station, if we have anything, if I drop an F-bomb by accident, A, we hit the delay button, and B, we have to put a dollar on the tip jar. Just $1?

Maybe $10. Then I'll get admonished by my boss is here at the radio station, so I just got to make sure I keep the filter alive. Yeah, I'll call the woman back at the Tampa Police Department soon. Because she'll tell me, she didn't want to say anything on the air. We can get daily updates from her. Yeah, we're good. Ross be like, how old are you, honey?

What down in the Ross? You can't have been asking for dates from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Carol did it, by the way, and I'm not trying to give away anything. That's what you should have asked her. Did Carol do it? Did Carol do it? Because Carol sure as hell did it in my mind. We start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show next on Sports Talk 790.

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We've gotten a Monday night games to discuss. We do have Tiger King People that want to talk Tiger King Which we're going to do that If you haven't seen it yet, that's more on you I have lines lit for Tiger King And that's fine We have no games to get to

But we do have sports to get to So ESPN Is this is the modern one I hate this one Can you find the old school one? The classic Do you know where the original classic came from From a movie about the Revolutionary War?

Is that right? Because I remember being in Miss Love's eighth grade history class. And she says, we're going to put this film on about the North versus, it may have been the Civil War. It was some war. It was like George Washington, they played this while he was on the Delaware River? No, but it was like, here's the movie about the North versus the South. Bump, bump, bum, bum, bum.

Oh, it was a civil war. I was like, what? This is Halic Tau Self. When Robert E. Lee had his boys storming at Bull Run or something? This is what they played to get them ramped up. In Richmond, Virginia. No, I can't do it. 7,000 troops get themselves prepared for battle tonight.

They put the flag down, and then they started shooting after each other. They're left, to the right, to the left, to the right. Robert E. Lee's artillery regiment has been on fire winning three battles in a row. I swear, I'm not making this up. This song was a part of a movie. talking about some war. I watch it in junior high school. I'm not lying to you. I mean, I'd lie to you about a lot of things, but this wouldn't be one of them.

George McClellan, coming off a by week, should have the troops fresh and ready for tonight's battle. Okay, so the reason we're playing this is that besides doing our horrible Howard CoSell... Who doesn't do a Howard CoSell?

Everyone does a horrible... Let me hear it, Nick. Give me some Howard CoSell quickly. It's going to be a tough one. Hear it. And Tidam, we've got the North versus the South All-Stars. That's pretty bad. I feel like I'm going to do the rest of the show in my Howard Cosell impersonation.

Seven, one, three, two, one, two, five, seven. That's what we need is George Cassell, I mean, George Cassell, Howard Cosell calling the Civil War. All right, so Monday Night Football Classic start today. They're going to be on every Monday through the end of April. Let me just give you the list of the game. Casey versus the Rams, November 18th, that was Pat Mahomes versus Jared Golf, really a high-scoring game. It was a Mexico City, right?

No, it was supposed to be Mexico City. They moved it to back to L.A. Atlanta versus New Orleans, September 2006. That was the first game after Katrina. Green Bay versus Minnesota. Brett Farr plays against his old team for the first time. Indie versus New England, where the Peyton Manning wins in Foxboro. Dallas versus Buffalo in 2007

where the Cowboys score nine points in the final 20 seconds. Okay, those are all good games, right? I can't believe they're not doing the... Remember that Monday night one where the Texans came back and then Matt Schaub threw a pick six, like the first play overtime? Matt Scha! Let us tamer the fourth quarter.

But then once and savory pass. Okay, sorry. Don't do it now. A mind-blowingly bad gaff from one match shop. Why aren't they, and maybe they, I need to reach out to ESPN. Why aren't they showing games in the 70s and 80s? That'd be low. I would watch the Earl Campbell against the Dolphins game.

You wouldn't watch Earl Campbell's jersey being pulled by Jim Bo Kampa of the Miami Dolphins. Yikes. I'm going to tell you something about my young life. I had to get all my homework done on Monday nights before 8 o'clock because I wanted to hear Howard CoSell do the game rewind. and I stayed up until half-time hotlights are with and I went to bed after that. But that was tough because in the 7 o'clock hour for many years, the show called That's Incredible was on. Kathy Lee Crosby was one of the host of the show and she was a fox. Kathy Lee Crosby.

Yeah. She was married to Joe Thysman for a while. Really? Yeah. It was her. And then, of course, Frank Gifford. Her, Fran Tarkington and John Davidson host of the show called That's Incredible. And it was an hour.

That's her. She's a very strong jawed. Excuse me? Point being is this. That show is so intriguing because they would show like, watch these tarantulas eat a cheeseburger. And we'd go, ooh, this is really interesting. Or watch this guy put 80 bricks on the top of his head and not fall. That's incredible.

Yeah, it was somebody. He had to crush his face. That's why it was incredible, Ross. That's incredible. So I'd get caught up in that. I would fall behind on my homework. So that was the Monday night conundrums I would have. But I would watch the orders play on the night.

We'd have the Eagles against the Cowboys. And then NFC. Stop it. Stop this. And then halftime highlights where he would improv these highlights of the great Dan Marino in just his second year. That's enough, Matt. Okay. If I do it again, hit me.

I'm going to kick you. But those are the games that we want to see, right? Why don't I want to see Brett? That's fresh in my memory. Give me Dallas versus Minnesota when Tony Dorset ran for a 99-yard touchdown run in 1983. Give me that. That's what I want to see. This stuff from 2015. So what. And they missed the match shop, pick six classic, unfortunately. And that way, they weren't a classic. All right, let's go to some phones.

Lamont's with us in Missouri City at 109. Lamont, what do you got today? Hey, man. I want to talk about Tiger Team. First things first, it just hit me. Caroline, Baskin, she looks like, if you really look at her, she kind of looks like Hillary Clinton. And that's kind of odd to me, but going back to Tiger Kings, what I did find interesting about this show, and maybe I missed something along the line, but how did they have all of that footage, how did they have all of that footage of Joe when they said that he blew up everything?

I mean, they had all this footage and the one dude that was kind of like the main I'm not going to call him the narrator, but the older guy that was all mad because... He was the producer, yeah. Yeah, the producer's footage was blown up. A lot of the footage that they had, they shot themselves. Yeah, and so I was just wondering

And if someone blew up all of that stuff, how are we even still looking at the Netflix show right now? Because they have a lot of footage. He blew up his own footage. They blew up that guy's footage. The guys, the people who made this documentary had their own footage. Okay. Okay. Which is odd too because that guy said in the show that he on the internet show and he on the internet.

He basically said that he owned all of the footage. So it was just kind of weird to me on that. But it was a damn good show, man. That's all I got. All right, thank you. But the internet shows are probably you could find them on the internet and just pull them from there. And then the other stuff, a lot of it, they just filmed themselves.

Because they were following, while all this was going down is when they started following them. The guy says in the first episode, the filmmaker, how they followed him for like four or five years or whatever it was. Yeah, I think people are getting confused. That guy on the show was not producing Tiger King. He was producing a different documentary entirely. His own, yeah. And that guy also got fired from Inside Edition for smoking crack, according to an article I read. Yeah, the guy that they were, you know, was always smoking a cigarette.

Yeah. He has a television background. He's done news before. So, yeah, he was. Inside Edition. And that's a big show. Was that the show? But wasn't he also doing local news at some point, too, I thought?

Probably. And apparently now he's working on another documentary, but I have no idea about what. Yeah, that man who was interviewed during the documentary, that wasn't Tiger King. He just happened to be along for the ride. doing his own Tiger King and unfortunately lost all the footage. Let me get to Will and spring at 111. Hi, Will. Hey, good afternoon, Matt. A big fan of the show and a long-time listener.

Thank you. So you had to kind of just piggyack off the previous caller's point. Yeah, I watched Tiger King last week, me and the wife. Well, yeah, it had nothing better to do, right? And it was quite entertaining. So there's some great Tiger King memes. I'm sure you all seen those surfacing throughout the Internet. And I did binge Ozark Season 3.

All right. I really enjoyed one and two. I thought season three could have been better, but the last couple of episodes really left you. I don't know. I just feel like I don't want to put any spoilers out there, but they really play. Okay, okay.

Anyways, so I just want to see what y'all we're going to watch now. I was kind of considering to re-watch Breaking Bad, you know, seasons 1 through 6. Just want to get some recommendations from y'all, and I'll hang up and listen. Thank you for the phone call. I appreciate it. I'll say this. Oh, we do. We do. Okay. We have Howard Kosanamoble is going to be joining us here. This could either be radio gold or a minute of your life you'll never get back.

I have to go with something funny in the next go around here because let me tell you what I've watched in the last month. Godfather one, Godfather two, Tiger King and all of Ozark. Listen to me. You have Hulu. I do. It's always sunny in Philadelphia. You're welcome. That is a great show. Is it timely still? It looks old. The first couple of seasons look old. But yeah.

I'm telling you, Matt, you're going to love it. Okay. I'll do it. Or if you don't, you're wrong. But that's okay. But I mean, it's really gut-busting funny? Yes. Okay.

I need that from you. It's dark humor. It's off-color. It's depraved. That's me. It's great. Literally the first few episodes, they make fun of racism, cancer and

well that's not me abortions that's not me yeah I think you've got me confused with somebody else 113 on the Matt Thomas show 713

213212 5790 something called Howard CoSel on mobile line can you can you pull up a little halftime of highlight first when we come back Nick just go to some

I'm sure you can find something on you know those little pregame things of those I would one time I watched a few of those on YouTube just got in a little mini YouTube hole You can get into a YouTube hole on Howard CoSell yes you know tonight. Neil Lomax of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Or the Bob Costas pregame NBC with the theme starting to ramp up and stuff. It's good. Those are good ones. 113 on 790. The pandemic continues. The no damn sports pandemic. I'm not leaving my house. Luckily, the most infectious lineup in Houston sports continues.

Now. Here's masked, rubber glove, but still Jesus sandaled. Matt Thomas. Sanitize those toes. with you? You don't know. Hello again, everyone. It's good to have you with us for this event. It figures to be an exceptional one, one that doesn't need any buildup. The rest of Monday night is given over to those gargantuan Goliaths of the Gridiron for that bouncing behemoth Pally known better as professional

foot. We look forward to this game, as told as it is, my colleagues are not as suitably garbed as I am. They are younger. could no longer throw the long ball. But watch him. Give him a weapon like Double Zero Kenny Burrow. He'll do just that. A little bit of, that was like a montage.

Awegocell. All right. So apparently Howard's calling us from the grave. Not often we get calls from the grave here on the Matt Thomas show. Can either one of you name the other TV show that Howard CoSell hosted for years on ABC? Yeah, laughing.

No, no, not even close. You don't get to even ask any. You get no hints. Thank you. The last salvaging hope on this one. Nope, not a clue. Battle of the network stars. Dang it.

I was going to say that, but I couldn't think of the name. You remember that, sure? I'd don't ever really watched it. They brought it back for a little bit. Yeah, they would have TV people on doing things like a tug-of-war and obscure courses and potato sack races. Just imagine the best-looking women. on television, the 80s, wearing not much in doing this for charity.

All right, Howard Coselle on Mobile, good afternoon. This is Howard Coussel. Speaking of sports, I just heard what your Matt Thomas laughingly tried to pass off as an impersonation of yours truly, and quite frankly, I am mortified. For the first time in my life, I am virtually at a loss for words. As I once said to my good friend, Jackie Robinson, Jackie, I said, you have got to be the most sestipidacious individual I have ever encountered. I will now put that same term to Matt Thomas.

Matt Thomas, you have got to be the most sestipidacious individual I have ever encountered. And that's all I have to say to you for now. Matt. You know, as he was talking, by the way, that was excellent. Could you imagine first take with Howard Coasell and Stephen A. Smith the amount of 11-syllable words

that would be used between those two guys? True. I miss Howard. I mean, a true television character. He was on Monday night football and Monday night baseball for no reason. Devere played it down in his career. All he would do is just blank start everybody and just say outrageous things to get in trouble.

And then, you know, he called lots of boxing matches and the panel of network stars. You know, somebody like Howard Krasel probably wouldn't make it today because he doesn't sound like I went to Syracuse and I talk like this and over enunciate everything. Oh, there's no chance. There's nobody who said, I mean, everybody sounds cookie cutter these days for the most part. Yeah, ESPN would never hire. There's no chance. No chance. Everybody sounds the same.

Syracuse, welcome to the ballpark. It's just, it's all, there's no, I mean, who's the play-by-play guy, who is who is not like in his 70s, who doesn't sound like everybody else? Everybody sounds the same. Terrible. If there's a 30 for 30 that needs to be done, it's why ESPN hires only Syracuse people. Why Syracuse killed broadcasting? And how many favors, because an ESPN executive, went to, Syracuse does that pipeline exist for?

Now, there are some Syracuse people that are the nicest people on Earth. Iron Eagle, Syracuse guy. Terrific. His son, Noah, great kid. Ian Eagle here from Madison Square Garden. He doesn't do it like that. No, he's not that way at all. Now, there are some really... Okay, 7-1-3-1-2-1-2-5-7-90s.

You want me to say something? I don't want to say anything. I'm not going to do it. 713, 212, 5771, 1, 3212, 5-790. Nick and I are going to discuss something that it was on Twitter involving food at the bottom of the hour. But, yeah, if Mother Night Football wants to give us the classics, like right off the top of your head in all seriousness,

what Monday night games can you remember? Let me give you five right off the top for me. The night the day before Brett Farb's dad passes away. He plays for Green Bay. They go to Oakland. I think he throws five touchdowns. something crazy like that. There was one where...

Let me give you my quick one first. Oilers Cowboys was on a Monday night football game back when I was a kid, maybe 10 or 11 years old. I remember the night that Lawrence Taylor broke Joe Thaisman's leg into multiple pieces. Nobody wants a replay of that? No, but I'm just saying... Here's Joe Thysman's leg making a J. That's true.

What other be memorable Monday... There was a Green Bay Denver game in which Greg Cook played in. Massive snowstorms. Storm in Denver. He talks about it all the time. I remember that game like it was yesterday. And then I remember Tony Dorset running for 99 yards on one play in the Metrodome against the Vikings. Those are just five off the top of my head. What are you, what are somebody? I don't know if I can go to five. How about the one we had Son of Bum talking about this past week? There was the, was it the Rams and the Chiefs? It was like 51 to 48 or whatever. That was a great game.

Of course, the match shop picked six game. Oh, when when Michael Vick scored like 50-something fantasy points. Wasn't that on a Monday night with the Eagles against the Falcons maybe? Don't ring a bell, but I would choose to believe you. He ran for a couple touchdowns. He threw for like three or four touchdowns that Deshawn Jackson. It was one of the most incredible single person quarterback. A single person dominating a football game. I don't remember ever saying it like that. I do remember Atlanta and New Orleans because wasn't there a block pun in the game that kind of turned the game around for the Saints in that year? I didn't Katrina, I think, is what it was.

I mean, yeah, so there are going to be quite a few. But my best memories of Monday Night Football are when I was a kid because just to me, they were just, it was a special event. Monday Night Football now is just in the interrupts 12 straight hours of NFL live talk. They don't, they just, it's, it's not the same, Matt. It has been Channel 3. It has been ABC. Okay.

I mean, there's, there's really no reason for. it, but I'm just telling you, if you wanted to really go back to the essence of what Monday Night Football was, you treat it as a... Like, Sunday Night Football is a special event on NBC. You know what I used to watch? You know what I used to tune into ESPN every time before Monday Night Football? What? When they would do the jacked up segment. You got jacked up, and then they would have the biggest hits of the weekend. Then, you know, concussion lawsuits started filing in.

And now it's come on. Come on. Come on, man, it's fine. It's good. But jacked up what I was, that was must-see television every week for me. I would make sure to tune in to the last segment of the pregame show so that I could see jacked up. It's funny when I was in junior high school on days that we were in one particular class. I was PE, as a matter of fact, I think, in my sixth grade. And we either hit our marks or we didn't cause any trouble or we were supposed to do in running. I remember on Fridays, our coaches would bring in the VCR and would show outrageous hits of the NFL season.

You know those videos like, well, you know this, but no, I love those. Early 80s videos, like watching Ronnie L. We'd get VHS. No, I would get the, we would get the V.A. My dad would have the VHS's. Like Sports Illustrator would put them out or football, NFL, or whoever. Right. And my dad was a subscriber.

So every year we would get those VHSs. It would be biggest NFL hits, craziest, you know, baseball bloopers, baseball, amazing catches and amazing plays. Loopers was great. And it was the NFL hardest hits. They're like, NFL greatest hits. Not allowed, suspended, 15-yard penalty. I would watch those on a loop.

We would just sit down and we'd just watch them for out. We'd put like all three of them on and just watch them. Sit there and watch them. Yeah. On a Saturday afternoon. Oh, the good old days. Ah, good times. Now we have limited practices and helmet protection like never before.

I remember when Joe Thaisman wore a single crossbar on his, not crossbar, what are they call those things? Chinstrap? Face masks. Face masks. Single face masks. Single bar? He's single bar. Kickers used to do all the time.

And Joe Thisman did it. now you couldn't even possibly try to do that in 2020 by the way it was against the falcons game was against the redskins as ATX hobo girl weighed in he had six touchdowns in that game Michael Vic that was one of the greatest mondayette football games I ever saw yeah if I had the name one the greatest man I remember Tony Dorsette going for 90 90 oh another one for you remember when bow Jackson was playing for the raiders and they went to seattle and they and bryne bosworth I think it was a rookie at the time and bo jackson ran a touchdown so long long. He went Forrest Gump. He went into the ramp of the stadium and then came back. I know the highlights, but yeah. I didn't. Yeah. God, Bo Jackson is a raider was fun to watch too. 127. See, yes, we're doing. We have to go nostalgia here. That's fine. We got nothing from yesterday. So we're going to talk about the past and hopefully the future. You know, I saw, I heard somebody this weekend say that Bo Jackson never even worked out, never lifted a weight in his life. Is that accurate? I think I've heard that too. I don't think it comes to a surprise.

I'm surprised. He looked like he's built from granite. He never lifted a weight in his life? Some guys are lucky. You think I got this body overnight? No, it's years of high cholesterol. Speaking of high cholesterol, there is a challenge out there that is making its waves through the world of Twitter.

It involves the golden arches. Could you do what I'm proposing to you next at 127 on Sports Talk 790? No sports? No problem. the A-holes who are hoarding toilet paper. And now I have to use a cut-and-half roll of paper towels to do my business. Let me tell you, the quicker-picker-upper?

Abrasive. Go ahead, ladies, you try it. Yeah, now say it with me. F*** you, A-Holes. The Houston Sports Talk continues. On Sports Talk 790. Put a big warm bun and a huge tongue of meat. 133 on Sports Talk 790.

It's the Matt Thomas show. There is a gentleman by the name of Troutoneman. Trevor Donovan. Donovan. Does that bring a bell to you? He has got, he has got 149,000 followers. Who the hell is this? He dogs are the sappiest species and we are just the pets. Citizen, he must be something with K9. Citizen canine or something. CK9. Store has 149,000 followers. Good for him. Don't know who he is. How many more than you? 125-ish. Yeah, about to hit 251. That's nice. Still a lot of work a lot from that bone to get the $30,000.

Not really. I am a 374 way from $10,000. Well, let's, you know what, dude. Let's go to Lake Charles. As soon as you get $10,000. We're $10,000. As soon as you get there. Now, we probably can't come back.

At Sports Harvey. All right. So this guy, Trevor Donovan sends out a tweet, it says, and a lot of my friends have retweeted it back to us. Somebody offers you $3,500 to finish everything on this tree in 90 minutes. could would you do it now the tray for those of you because we're radio it has the following it has three double quarter pounders with cheese and no vegetables it looks like onions are on one of them one single quarter pounder with cheese okay looks to be about 30 nuggets um yeah 15 the

side, it looks like. Okay. Two medium orders of fries. Four medium-sized drinks, the presumption it's a Coke cola there. So we got three double quarter pounders with cheese, one regular quarter pound for some reason that one doesn't have a double patty on it. Two medium orders of fries, 30 nuggets, and four cooks. Am I allowed to change the drink?

First of all, this is making me hungry. Second of all, why is he offering $3,500? Third of all, what do I get if I don't make? If there's no penalty, if I don't make it, of course you're going to at least give it a shot. I would be honored to try that. You don't need to pay me. Wait, do you want to go? Hold on. Do we get some after-show content?

Are we going to go try this? I'll take y'all down. First of all, I couldn't do it. I think I could do it. But I would love to try. I would have to not eat for at least 24 hours to have a shot. Well, from my years of following competitive eating, the first thing you do is change out the Coke for water. that's absolutely no it has to be a it's got to be it's got to be as a see that's a problem it's got

have a soda with calories that's what the that's the same thing i thought nick when i first saw it i was like the biggest issue here is all this soda because here's the here's what you're going to do easily you're going to be able to knock the 30 nuggets and the two fries out pretty quick it's going to be the double quarter pounders they're going to get you at least two of those if you take off two of the burgers i can do it if you let me go with iced tea or something like that i can do it i'd be one to throw i can't eat i mean after watching Did you guys ever watch that show Food Inc or whatever on Netflix? Where it goes through what they do.

When I saw how they make chicken nuggets with the chicken slurry of the pink slime, yeah. The pink slime. Fake news. I've just been. Fake news. Now. You know, it's disgusting mushy chicken gristle with blood in it.

And it's delicious. It's slurring. So, I mean, I've kind of been off chicken nuggets there. Everybody does nuggets now. Wendy's is telling you 12 nuggets for a buck. See, I don't, yeah. Why do you think they're giving you 12 nuggets for a buck? It's this nasty pink chicken slime slurry.

I would like to, I would like your ruling, please. May I get rid of the four quarter pounders and put four McRibs in there instead? Oh. No, it's not the same density. How about four Big Macs? It would still be less meat. More bread. Way more bread.

But less meat. Bread's worse. And if you're trying to eat a lot of food. But do you also get the special sauce? And, oh yeah, for sure. Special sauce is going to make it easier. Two off beef patties, two all beef patties, et cetera, et cetera. again so if I was to attack this

we're going to get back to sports here in a second if I was so attacked this you go chicken nuggets first in the fries you can knock that out probably within 15 minutes you don't do fries first you want to stay low carb to begin with so nuggets then you probably go yeah I mean you got to eat it eventually doesn't matter

which order you eat it yeah it does actually and you have to eat fast the faster you do it the more likely you have a chance to actually finish it I if I were doing it I would take all of the hamburger patties off of the hamburgers and eat those first then I would go nuggets then I would go

fries and buns and trying to drink as much of the soda along the way as I can but the soda is also going to expand in your stomach which is bad news basically we're going to die

so maybe you eat all of it and then go soda's last you try to 90 minutes you say you try to choke it all down in an hour and then the last 30 minutes you just sip on Coke I would suggest none of you try this

yeah the more I'm looking somebody is going to die the more I'm staring at this photo I'm linking this is heart attack or choking or something that's going to just put your body in some sort of toxic situation. We should put a PAA. Sports Talk 7-Noddy and Matt Thomas and Rosavia Real and Niccolo do not endorse you trying to eat this challenge. But I feel like here's the problem with this. I feel like I ate that as an 18 year old. Because when I was working McDonald's back in the day, I would eat nuggets mid-shift.

Now when I was in my teens, I used to get a I used to get a wopper meal and add an extra whopper. I used to do, we used to do two Big Macs for two. when I was first starting at McDonald's, and I could eat that comfortably. Thus the portly figure that I had for much of my life. The 70s were a different time. I once ate 27 pork chops. What's that? I said, I once ate 27 pork chops.

They were boneless. They were the smaller ones, but I ate 27 of them. How? Why? I don't know. I was a kid. I liked them. You're like, I'm just going to sit.

Who made, your mom made 27 pork chops and you ate 27 pork chops? Some of my family went to a restaurant to pick up some kind of soup because they were from out of town and they wanted this particular. soup and when they got there all the pork chops were gone and my mom was very angry. You were just eating them in the corner or what? Yeah, I thought everyone else was done. Like I had eaten and apparently we didn't wait for whoever went out to go get this soup and I ate all the pork chops.

Were you a fat kid, Nick? No. Were you quietly sobbing to yourself? How did this go down? I just really like pork chops. I feel like the three of us knocked this out, right? We could do that, right? Three of us together, yeah.

Two of us could do it. I still think I could do it if the soda is my biggest concern. concern. Yeah, it's got to have calories. I won't even let you go get diet drinks. You got to have something with calories in it. It's the CO2 that worries me. Because I think I'm going to end up vomiting because of that. I haven't planned things he could do it. Yeah, this is a challenge I don't want to have, but it's interesting that he put that menu together. Where's the filet of fish? Where does it make chickens? I got a very good question for you. What sauce are you going with with the nuggets? Sweet and sour. Same.

sweet and sour for life. Ketchups a better leup. Anything but honey mustard. Hot mustard. I like barbecue and sweet and sour.

What about the classic Setsuan sauce? That's fine. All right. If someone had the $3,500 in cash right in front of me,

I'd try it. All right, how many calories do you think this is? I'm going to calculate it. Let's ballpark. How many calories do you think it is? It's got to be 24,000. Hmm.

We can probably look this up. That's what I'm saying. All right. I'll do it during the break. I'll do it during the break. 7-1-3-212-7-90. Monday. any football is on ESPN. That's cool for us. We like that.

NFL is going to expand its playoffs to 14 teams. They're probably going to solidify that this week, which is good. I want the number one C to have something to play for, right? It's important for me the number one C plays for something. Yeah, but I mean, right now you have one and two. I like that too. Yeah, but I think a third playoff game each day is going to really add something. It is. Because there's always going to be, now, now there may be a year where a seven to nine team kind of finds its way in. Yeah, it's going to be some crappy team.

But this year it would have been the Rams, right? And who else would have been in the playoffs on the AFC side? Let me look at it. It was like the, wouldn't it be the Steelers and somebody else, right? Or the Titans? No, the Titans got in. Yep. It would be the Steelers.

It would be the Steelers. Eight and eight Steelers with God knows what at quarterback. That's true. Do you really want them in the playoffs? Yeah, give me one more game. Okay. Frankly, honestly, one more game for people to be. bet on. The Rams are 9 and 7.

Yeah, I mean, this thing is going to be, that 7 is going to be 9 and 7, typically more years than not. Or 8 and 8, which the Steelers were. I can't imagine like a 6 and 10 team getting in. Probably not. Maybe an Oakland team or not Oakland. Las Vegas team would be in that spot. All right, 142. It's a Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 713-213-212-790. Tom and downtown says, use will uh can i use vince wolf fork as my designated eater for the macdonald's challenge i think you can handle it what human being could knock that out comfortably

well maybe not comfortably but could do it like who's the fattest human being alive right now how are you going to convince a designated eater why wouldn't they just keep the money that's the point the point is he wants to say who an america could knock that back like when andre the giant was alive he could eat that who i mean i don't don't think who's the fattest player in the NBA? Who's the fattest football player? Put those guys in a... Zion Williamson? Is he

the fattest player in the NBA? Well, he's pudgy. But once he loses away, he's going to be a... He's going to be phenomenal. Or that baby fat turns into muscle. I'm scared of him right now. I saw him a few weeks ago. In person. He's really good. He'll be great once... I think he loses 15 pounds, because I think he's going to

play at the position he's going to play at. He's going to need to be in a spot where he, you know, can't carry the extra rope into the court. Joey Chestnut could do it because he just ate what 30 something I don't even count those guys because those guys their bodies are trained for that

I'm thinking about just a good old fashion NFL like could Whitney merciless knock that down I don't think Whitney would want to be a part of it could JJ Watt do it probably would be like I can't do that so I'm not going to hurt my my statue of a body

who would be a tub of crap NFL player that wouldn't mind remember Gilbert Brown played for the Packers for a long time Gilbert Brown would would eat that easily. Nate Newton? Nate Newton would eat it. Give him a sack of weed first.

He'd knock that down. He put the weed in the burgers. Yeah. Special sauce. 143 on Sports Talk 790. So, uh, when there's no sports, what do we talk about? Hmm. Maybe Netflix binge talk.

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

You should wash your hands. You'd deathy peat. The Houston Sports Talk continues on Sports Talk 790. All right, before we go back to the phones, Ross did a little research, the caloric intake of four, well, you got three double quarter pounders of cheese, one regular quarter pound with cheese, 30 chicken nuggets and two medium orders of fries with four medium-sized coax. by my calculations that is going to be 5,600 calories That's it? Yeah, 274.5 grams of fat.

The double quarter pounder is about 720 calories a piece. Singles only 510. The nuggets are 1,600 calories. For 30? Yeah. Hmm. A four pieces is 220, so I had to do that times

four and a half. Four, okay. Oh, wait, then I did that wrong. 220 times 4.5. Yeah, it's even fewer calories, actually. I overestimated on the calories. And what's the average person supposed to have a day, 3,000 calories? 2,000.

Oof. So it's not even 5,000. It's probably around like 4,900. All right. I know we're doing for the post-show show at 3-1 today. I don't think I can do it. All right, let's go out to my buddy. Alan Glylisten's in the Bay Area on 790.

Alan, what's a good word today? No, I just wanted to call in, say hello. If I'm taking a little bit of break. I work out of my home. So I had a 30-minute break, and I said, okay, every day I'm going to try to call one of my friends on their sports talk shows. Say hello and letting him know that life is different, but life is certainly not insurmountable here in Sanfant. It's very quiet. Yeah, Alan keeps stats for us on Rockets Warriors games for us when Craig and I are working together.

And so as a city, I mean, look, you live in one of the most hustle and bustling cities in America, much less the world. How is San Francisco right now as we speak? quiet, and I'm not even being dramatic when I say that. I live a blog off the bay, and I walk down to the bay every day. I make it a point to get out. You have to, otherwise you're going to go crazy. I walk out to the bay every day, and I look at the bay, and there are many, many days where there are no boats on it at all, and the bay is just like glass, because there's

no, there's nothing to make it. I was out of fishermen's wharf, and I'm trying to do all the times that you guys have have rolled through here. You've probably been to the wharf a few times, sure. Sure. I was down there, Matt, 5.30 on a Friday night. I keep you not. And I was the only person walking from that big steering wheel, the famous wheel that everybody sees on the wharf.

Oh, yeah. From there to Pier 39, I was just taking a wrong walk. We can do that. You've got to get out and you've got to go for walks. And I took a long walk, I turned around, I took a picture, and there was nobody out. It was the most eerie, weird feeling. People here after the first week where they were kind of taking it all,

a little loosey-goosey and going out to parks and playing in the parks and, you know, and picnicking and having corona parties. I kid you not. This week after the governor came out and kind of slapped him around a little bit. It's very quiet. You see people are out, and apparently it's going to be like President Trump said yesterday. April 30th, I guess, is the new date, and that's certainly up for grabs. I'm curious, what is gas prices now in the Bay Area? Because, you know, between you and L.A., it's like the two of the most expensive places to buy gas in America.

Well, anybody that wanted to debate this would have, or with me, they would have lost because after the Saudi Arabians tanked the price for the reasons that are meant for another talk show, our prices only went down like 30 cents a gallon. I'm still paying. I don't have to get up because I'm not really driving anywhere. It's like 3.30 a gallon. L.A. is more expensive. Historically.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't want to tell you. we're paying down here. I think we're at about a buck 75. Wow. Yeah, that doesn't surprise. Actually, I would have been even lower. But they just tax the day like that out of here. I mean, this is such, you know, California's such an inefficient place.

I mean, I don't live here for the, I don't live here for the way that they conduct government business here, that's for sure. It's so inefficient here that, you know, that the prices of this. I mean, you almost get the feeling like six cents on the, you 60 cents on the dollar, our goes to taxes in the state. Sometimes you get that billion. That's the truth. All right.

Well, Alan, I appreciate you calling in. It's good to hear your voice. We are done with the Warriors this year, at least in Golden State, so we won't see you for a while. But by the time I think we'll see you, you should have a healthy basketball team by then, right? That's the rumor.

You know, they made the trade for Andrew Wiggins. And Wiggins is a good player. This is the right fit for him. We are up with this team. Now, if they can get a big man, I like Marquise Chris, by the way. I do, too. He's a good kid.

He just hasn't been able to stick anywhere for a long period of time, but he's a really good kid. Alan, thanks for calling, my friend. Take care yourself and you and your family. Look forward to hearing from you soon. Okay, I will talk too soon. Please say hi to Craig for me. I will do that for sure. Thanks very much.

You know, gas prices always in California are just out of control. Makes you want to not run a car because it's so crazy. What's the cheapest you ever remember your gas ever costing? 87 cents. As a kid, in Detroit, I remember it a 56.57 cents a gallon, 56.9. As an adult, I remember paying 99 cents probably when I was 20 or 21. I remember the 87 cents because that was, I think, the first week I had a driver's license.

Yeah. Isn't that funny how you remember that kind of stuff? Hey, you're not that much older than me. I remember when I was, it was like a dollar. I remember being mad when it jumped up to like $1.30 something, like my freshman year of college. I remember being an under a dollar at the old diamond shamrock. When it went over a dollar, I remember my dad being mad. My dad would go get gas and he'd say, go into Utah and get whatever you want.

That's what the name of the convenience store was. Okay. And I would get either orange soda or Mountain Dew. I drank so much of it that I don't drink either one of them anymore because it's one of those situations that you get sick on something. You never want to try it again. And those two are on my list. no metal yellow, no mountain dew, no orange soda, no cantaloupe, and I'm trying to think what else is on the list. But yeah, those are the four things I'll never eat again because I ate so much of it as a kid that I threw up in like, I'll never eat that ever again.

I don't have anything like that on my list, but we were a diamond shamrock family. Gross story to end the 56 cents on gallons. 56 cents a gallon at the car wash slash gas station. And my mom and I went to go get some of that cheap gas and we turned the emission on. after the car wash and we heard our like what the hell was that? There was a cat stuck underneath their car and it died obviously

we had to go get it washed out so this got weird just bad stories in my youth so Ross are you a Valero family now no I'm more of a shell guy or Chevron doesn't matter just give it to me cheap

that's true like going to a Kroger to gas like that. Why not? You know, it's all the same gas. Yeah, they're not making... Raceways gas is less or more special than anybody else's? I don't know, man. I used to do, when I was a delivery driver, I would do field tests, and I would test my

gas mileage over which ones I was getting. They all just take a timeshare of the same pipeline that's pumping the same gas. I think raceways is different, because I don't know. I'd always get bad gas mileage from there. But raceway is always the cheapest, though. The only difference is additive. Yeah, they probably put some water

in there. Something illegal. Oh, there you go. Raceway for listening, we think you're a great company. I think. I don't know. I would be happy to endorse Raceway if they would like to pay me. Yeah, Raceway gas, America's Gas. Okay. All right. Boy, the two hours, would you say this flown by?

They're just flowing by ear. Let it this week, we have voices we miss hearing from. We're going to catch up with our buddy Craig Ackerman, Rockets, TV, and Radio host, Play-by-Playman. And I have not called Robert Ford yet, but I'm going to try to get on for the show tomorrow. You know he tried something for the first time yesterday as a Houston resident? Crawfish. Oh.

Okay. Did you suck the head? 713-215-790. We start the final hour with the Matt Thomas show next here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show. I'm Sports Talk 790. This is the final hour where we normally spend much of the Monday day

recapping the weekend that was. So my weekend included eating multiple meals and short periods of time. go ahead and recap your weekend, Matthew. That includes watching every episode of Ozark season three. How many episodes are there? Ten. Oof, about an hour apiece or what? Yeah, right about an hour.

That's a haul, Maddie. Yeah, I don't know if I should be bragging about that. What does the wife have to say when you go away, or does she watch it with you? She's behind. Okay. How does she feel about you skipping ahead? In my experience, significant others don't like that. We're more than okay with it.

Because she's home today. She could be catching up while I'm here. That's true. Well, shouldn't she be homeschooling? She is. She's given good lessons, good lessons? Now she's got a third one because Cameron started school back today at Texas Tech online. Oh, his extended spring, his three weeks spring.

How many weeks of spring break you get? Two weeks. Two weeks spring break. That's nice. And then Carly and Payton have been doing their homeschool and via the computer that way, too. So it's, I feel bad for high school seniors. This is not how you're supposed to wrap up your high school career. That's true.

Or for that matter, those that are trying to go. graduate from college, get that diploma. You should be getting drunk and make-out alley or whatever. Make-out alley. Where exactly is make-out alley? Well, you told me it's over the, by the airport. Well. And there were a lot of people who agreed with you.

I was actually shocked to find out. For those of you don't know, we, Ross and I debate a lot of things. And one of them was, have you ever gone and made out near the airport? Apparently, a lot of people had. And a lot of people have. You got a weird smile on your face. I was just thinking this is funny. It's making me uncomfortable watching you reminisce.

Well, where were your makeout points? There was an alley behind some apartments where some 18-wheelers used to park. One time we got caught. Which airport are you talking about? Bush. Okay. Excuse me? Bush Airport.

If it was hobby, I'd say, man, telephone road. Is that what you called it back in the day? You do not want to be down there. Yeah, you don't want to be in a dark alley by hobby. You know, it's funny, the rockets take off in a private air terminal. right off the telephone. And every time we landed some strange hour, there's always,

always one business always open. And it's a modeling studio. If you pay enough money, you can go in there and make out. There's the bar over there called the cockpit. You go over there? Excuse me? The cockpit.

No, I've never been there. But I'm talking about three. You know, the part of the airplane. The three o'clock in the morning. But why is that, why are people looking to model at three o'clock in a morning? They're not modeling, Matt. What are they doing?

I don't know. But why would you, wouldn't the cops wouldn't that be like an open invitation for you to come inside and get arrested? Am I right? Now we know what we're doing on the post show show. I'm not talking about idiots. Okay.

I'm trying to police myself right now. Yeah, back to my weekend. So I watched all the Ozark. I cleaned my garage out yesterday, which was way too laborsome because my garage was a hot mess. We're trying to a little pick me up, projects around the house while all of us are together. But no, we can definitely watch different shows at different times and not feel bad about it.

Good. Did you watch any sports? I watched some classic fights on Saturday. Let me tell you what I did watch. A little bit of the 86 Game 6 Metson Astros. You watched. I watched a very little bit of the Kerrywood game. Very little bit of the carrywood game.

And I've also, I've been DVRing the Hardwood classics on NBA TV and watching old games. NBA championship games. Like the Bulls Cavaliers game where Michael Jordan hits a winning shot, 89, you know, when he fist pumps in the air, that was on. A lot of my, a lot of the LeBron James championship games have been on TV. You know, look, these networks have to put the games on that people care about. Putting LeBron James on is not going to hurt those channels. They're all going to have issues getting, you know, listeners, period, or viewers.

But you put LeBron James, you get a better chance. of watching that than putting say on a game between I don't know the Sacramento Kings and the Denver Nuggets may have been interesting and great but there are no superstars to it people want to see LeBron a younger people want to see Kobe Bryant younger Shaquille O'Neal the Rockets Jazz game did not appear this weekend thankfully but it appears on a lot of other things

trying what else they did have the the Rockets the game six two weeks ago at least I saw it two weeks ago yeah the game six stockton that was on a couple weeks ago Yeah. I watch a little bit of that. And watching Clyde Drex are being held by the shorts by Carl Malone. Why didn't they put the EJ shot the game before on? Come on NBA TV.

Because they're biased. NBA TV hates the Rockets and loves the Utah Jazz. I hope our buddy Ben DeBose does not watch those games because there's always going to be something officiating-wise that is just going to make him lose his top. It's true. The refing was bad then. Refing's always been bad. Refing was bad, and if you go back to say

the early 90s, you're talking about two officials, not three. Imagine how hard the game was to call with two guys, much less three. I watched the Kiss of Death game like not last Sunday, the Sunday before. It was like, it was a foul fest. Did you know that Kevin Johnson had 22 free throw attempts in that game? Wow. No. He made the first 21. He missed the 22nd that that's kept the game

cut tied at 110 where then Mario Ellie went down and made that three. You know what James Harmon reaction was to that? Hold my beer. You know, things have cooled off on a variety of sports issues because of the virus. And one of them is the universal hatred for James Harden. No, the biggest one has been the Astros. The Astros is number one for sure.

Every day there was a story of what's happening with the Astros. It was a national story. Yeah. It's all over ESPN and ESPN.com and everybody's Twitter. Did you see Evan Gaddis's tweets over the weekend? Oh. Why don't you read them? Because I did look at them.

and he put something out he thought would be funny. There's nothing funny about Mike Fires and the Astros and their relationship under any circumstance. No one could gain. So he puts, tell the audience what it is when you pull it up real quick. And then. And then he tries to downplay it and saying, hey, I wasn't trying to stir anything up.

Mike Fires is a friend of mine, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And y'all leave him alone. And my guess is, as I said before, Mike Fires will never live this down. Even if he has applauded by some, he's not going to be applauded by everybody, especially Houston Astro fans, especially if he tries to come pitching Houston, Texas this year. Okay, so to set the scene, it was a Houston business, I believe, that did this. It was the Flying Saucer?

Yeah. They made a cup with Mike Fires' face on it that says Snitches get stitches as a promotion. And Evan Gattis, you know, he probably just thought it was funny. So he retreated the image of this. and I think he ordered a cup for himself as well. But people did not take kindly to Evan Gattis retweeting out the photo. We need to look up some of the responses to that, actually. Well, any of them using clean language, I guess the bigger question.

Good question. I don't know. But anyway, after Evan Gattis got a lot of heat over this, he tweeted out this. Quote, for the record, I have zero back. feelings towards fires. We have actually texted and I hope he didn't get too much hate. Parentheses actual scary hate mail threats, etc. He was our teammate. I just thought the glass was funny. And then he continues. The way the public feels about us cheating is how I felt when I at least assumed that other people were cheating against us.

No excuses, but I understand everyone's anger. don't exactly, doesn't exactly put Humpty Dumpty back together again. So is he saying that, and I don't mean to overinterpret one tweet, but is he saying that he did it because everybody else, the word around baseball was it every team was doing it? Pretty much. I bet you if we went and got true serum for all those players in that clubhouse, they probably said, you know what, if one team is doing it,

think about this, Ross, if Alex Cora comes into the locker room and Carlos Belcheron comes into a clubhouse and says, here's how we're going to do it. They were not, in those young players' minds, younger players' minds, they probably were thinking,

this isn't organic. These guys learned this from somewhere else because they've both been in Major League baseball over a decade. Makes sense, right? I got two salty veterans coming into our clubhouse saying, here are the tricks of the trade,

here's how other teams are doing it, here's how we're going to do it. And I think that's what Evan Gattis is saying. Evan Gattis is saying, well, if these guys are doing it and they're saying, you got mad like you're telling me that the Cleveland Indians were steering our signals well I'll show them one and they did it that way that's why maybe the Astros did it the way and that that's why

it was not necessarily endorsed but certainly accepted by people in the clubhouse is because they thought well if we're not doing it everybody else is we're in a competitive disadvantage doesn't mean it justifies it but but I think there was some of that feeling for sure but Evan Gattis is basically saying that he was mad when he found out so you know what Instead of blowing the whistle on other teams, he'll just, we'll just do it and join the club. You want to hear some of the replies that Evan Gattis got? Can't wait. Oh, there we go.

All right. The reply music. Nicely done. First one I see here, how can anyone be happy they cheated to win? Next one. Wow, that's a cowardly thing to say. Fires has bigger balls than you do for coming clean. Ouch.

That's pretty ridiculous. Evan Gattis is much bigger than Mike Fires, so his balls are clearly going to be. All right. All right. That's official physiologies of 790. Houston loves you, Evan. There's some positive stuff mixed in here. This is why people want to see Astros players get hit by pitches.

I can't wait until Altuve needs stitches on his lips after eating a fastball. Wow, that's nice. At least there's no bravado on Twitter. The keyboard warriors in full force. But that is interesting enough, the two things that have been slowed down considerably, Since this coronavirus, because there have been no live games, is that James Hardin dribbles a ball too much, and all they want to do is shoot is contested threes,

and the Astros cheat. What else have we missed from sports since Twitter's, since this happened? Is there anything else that we have had constantly thrown at us on Twitter that we've missed because there have been no games? Astros cheating number one, Hardened... Small ball.

Small, small, general small ball conversation. Yes. Will Mike Dan Tony come back as coach? Seems like, I mean, did he buy himself a year here? I guess he wouldn't sign a one-year deal because his deal is up after this year. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what's going through.

I wonder if this whole year, I mean, I don't know. Well, Shaka Smart's getting a new deal, not a new deal, but he's getting another year because of this. Thanks for reminding me. Well, man, I just had to bring it up. While his money's guaranteed, he's got three years left. I was going to be borderline if they're going to let him go anyway. I'm sure management is happy that they're not going to have to pay that whole buyout.

Yeah, because... It's not even a buyout. It's money just guaranteed. Yeah. Yeah, that's money they had already earmarked for him. Don't worry about it. You got Longhorn Network. What the hell's Longhorn Network doing right now? He made...

They gave him like a seven-year deal or eight-year deal, whatever it was, and then they re-uped him after one year of making the tournament and not winning a game. And you loved him for that. No. You loved the school for that. I was like, what are they doing? Ugh. Well, that's 6,000-seat.

arena will be full eventually. Hold on now. The new place is, I think it seats 8 to 10 or something like that. 8 to 10. So there's a wide, wide ranging variety. Somewhere that neighborhood. I got you. I mean, arenas vary. We'll be nearly as majestic as the Fertita Center, that's for sure. I don't know about that. Everybody loves. Majestic.

Less arm rodaries around? No, Fratita Center is part of excellence when it comes to college venues. When you think of the great venues in college basketball, you think of Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Smith Center, the Pellester in Philadelphia, and the Fertita Center. How lucky is you of H. Athletics that Fertita's affiliated? They would have nothing without him. Oh, is that right? Nothing. You're saying that nobody at the University of Texas puts money behind their program. I didn't say that. Darrell, what's his name, Joe Jamail? Yeah. He's dead.

Well, T. Boone Pickens. T. Boone Pickens is Oklahoma State. Go ahead. Every school has it. Every school. Every school has got. got money behind it. Not just, not just the University of Texas. They stopped letting Tillman run the place. They'll be a sad program. You're the worst. 214 on the Matt Thomas show. This is Sports Talk 790.

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218 on Sports Talk 790. There's a Matt Thomas show with Ross and Nick. I'm Matt. I want to once again go over what is being discussed according to a general manager that shall remain nameless. If we knew who it was, it would say it was, but we don't. This is coming from pro football talk.

Mike Flore? Yeah. Is that named, Mike Floreo's unnamed sources? Yeah, basically he's just cutting and pacing from something else. Oh, okay. He's aggregating. what they call it. Yeah.

That's the nice term for it. I like cut and pace better. One possibility for the 2020 season would be to find a place literally in the middle of nowhere and build enough football fields to play the various games on a given Sunday and Saturday if college football doesn't happen in 2020. And enough rooms to house the players, the coaches, the trainers, the broadcasters, etc. for 17 weeks of football and four weeks of the pre-season. season. Another possibility would be to add the football facility at the Green Bar in West Virginia,

which currently has 710 rooms. More rooms would have to be built and built quickly. More fields would have to be built and built quickly. Still, if and when the NFL decides that a normal season is an impossibility, this is the kind of approach that could preserve the TV money and potentially add to it if college football can't be played and that the NFL takes over each and every weekend from the weekend after Labor Day through the Super Bowl. Because, you know, Kirk Herb Street brought this up last week, and he didn't get a lot of flak, but kind of got a lot of, well, don't be doomsday guy. He doesn't believe that college football is going to play this season.

That it's going to be hard to put fans and stadiums, 75 to 80 football players in a locker room on a practice field, student athletes, hitting each other. And you know what? If you, today you can't argue that. Hopefully you believe he's wrong. Hopefully you believe that the war is yet to come and then we'll quickly pass. And then we'll get a vaccine.

We'll get this thing under control. But there's no way that anybody without a show can go to Kirk Kierb and say, you're nuts. It's not possible. It is within the realm of possibility. So would the NFL take that chance and go to a country club? or go to an area that's got multiple golf courses, because that's what I'm thinking you would do it, right? You could chalk up the fields rather easily.

I guess so. The land is already there. Put them on the fairway? 100 yards of fairway, yeah? I mean, the grass would be pristine. That's true. I'm not kidding. I'm being serious about this.

Taking the Broadmoor or any of the super high-end golf courses, country clubs that have hotels, add a few more and conduct a season that way. And basically, anybody that goes into the league gets quarantined for that area for, say, 22, 23 weeks. Wow. Isn't that the strangest thing you've ever heard of before? But you can't completely discount it. I don't know how you'd get the PA to agree with that.

The Players Association. I don't know. What if it's this? If they say this is the only way it can happen, I guess. If you want to get paid this year, here's how we're going to do it. That just sounds like a legal battle way didn't happen. They're going to have to come to agreement on some stuff like that. Now, you know, the new player association agreement with Major League Baseball this year said the only way we're coming back is if people can come to games.

Service time. Yeah. Oh, well. And that if there's no baseball played this year that Mookie Betts and George Springer among some of the heavy hitters and for agents, this will count as a service year and they'll be able to test for agency. There is a chance. and I don't mean to cross sports here, but there is a chance that George Springer will never play for the Houston Astros again.

If there is no baseball in 2020, he becomes a free agent. This counts a year of service time, and then he'll be able to go wherever he wants to go. I mean, he can't resign with the Astros and get a new deal, but there is a realm of possibility that says that he's never playing,

we'll never play again. Same thing could be said for Michael Brantley, who will be a free agent, Josh Renick will be a free agent, who also, the guys that would be in that group. But you get my drift. Those are the big names.

Let's go back to the NFL for a second. You're talking about, what do we talk about, 2,000 people? How do you quarantine 2,000 people, Ross? That's what I'm saying, and keep them away from their families and keep them away. Well, I mean, I don't mean to be crass, but the families is the least important thing. Because a lot of these guys don't live in the cities in which they work. So they're already accustomed to not being with their families. Not for 22 straight weeks.

It could happen. it would suck but people have taken jobs and gone to other places and not seeing their families for six, seven months at a time. It wouldn't be out of the order. It would be out on the oil field

or something like that or a rig, I guess. I mean, when I move from Salt Lake to Minneapolis, I did not live with my family for six months. You went home, though. I did go home, but that was under normal circumstances.

If I was in this situation, there would be no chance for me to see them if we were in this current coronavirus situation. I just, I don't think it's going to work out, but you would be astonished, maybe not astonished, at the number of meetings that these high-level organizations are having, these sports leagues are having, about what we can do. Because I know there's money on the table. They have antsy athletes.

They have very anti-television partners. I think there's a small race to get back on live television. And I think these are some of the things. that are being talked about. There was talk of college football starting their season early because the weather in the summertime doesn't necessarily promote the virus as much as it would be come fall when the weather gets cooler. I thought I saw that was a myth. I don't know if it was a myth or not, but college football is at least a sky. Again, nobody knows enough about this virus to tell you when it's going to come and who's going to like the new round of cities that are on the uptick. Like

New Orleans is a hot spot now, Detroit and Miami. Who's just said that Houston won't be a hot spot for the virus in two weeks? Just because there's not an outbreak, doesn't mean there can't be one. When we're thinking about where to have these types of things. Because there's a story about in Italy, they had one football game there, well, you know, soccer, football. And they went from like 1,000 cases to like 7,000 cases in a single city. Yeah.

No, I just don't know if putting 3,000 people in a community. Put them in a bubble. There's not a bubble big enough for that. I got an idea. Put them in the Astrodome. We've been looking for something to do with the Astrodome this long? No, I'm not, no. Can you imagine how gross the dome is right now?

Yeah, I don't know. It'll be interesting. But anything that happens, if it's whatever sport it is and their players association are going to have to make an agreement. They're going to have to both be on the same side. I guess if you're going to put the guys back in uniform and have them practice.

is really traveling to once, and maybe the answer is yes to this. Just traveling, playing the game and getting right back, is that going to really cause so much additional harm? Like, if you make the decision that it is safe for 90 players to be in a football facility and working out and eating together and staying together in a training camp, putting them on a plane, flying in the next city, landing, playing the game, getting back on the plane,

going back. I mean, I would feel like the risk would be a lot more by putting thousands of players in one area in a short period of time as compared to just having them jump on a plane, go play an empty stadium, play the game and come back.

I don't know. Probably the, okay, in a perfect world, a smart thing, it's just to spend everything for a year. Just let this thing play out. Yeah. But everybody's got salaries involved,

money involved, everybody wants to get all their money. So that's why all this is being forced. That's why all these crazy ideas are coming out of left field, only in two cities, quarantine everybody, or all these wack. We're getting like a wacky idea a day on what we can do to get this play. Listen to this again.

And it's all for money. This is what they're thinking about. They're trying to think about playing all the games and using the story that I'm reading here in the middle of nowhere and building enough fields to play the various games on Sundays and Saturdays if there's no college football. What if I told you two months ago, three months ago, that this is what football season was going to do? Hey, guess what's going to happen, Matt?

The NFL is going to build a temporary facility with multiple fields, and everybody's going to get quarantined in this area and play football in there. What the hell are you talking about? But what I want to know is if this was serious, if there's something to this, you're going to take 60 players times 32 teams. 1800-ish and coaches and equipment managers and trainers and doctors

and what if somebody gets hurt? Yeah, that's what I'm saying? Like, what if somebody tears their ACL and they need ACL surgery? You send them back into the population? What if it's something that's not

season ending? What if you need an arthroscopic knee surgery and it's only not for four weeks? And what if one of those players contracts the coronavirus while there? Are you testing them every week? Then you've potentially exposed 2,000 athletes to. What you're basically doing is you're making it a college return.

You're not a fraternity. You're making it a small community college. It's almost like that. Remember that movie Biodome? I never saw it. Well, do you know the concept? They had a bunch of people just live in a dome. Yeah.

And Pauly Shore got up to some shenanigans. But it's basically like that. They're all going to have to live in this dome or live in this one little quarantined area. What are they going to eat? Yeah. What are they going to? Yeah, who's going to cook for them? They're going to get healed.

What are they going to do for fun? What are you doing is you're building a college, what you're building. It's like a dorm. Well, 2,000 people? With a basketball court and a ping pong on a table on the third floor. And workout facilities? This is weird. This seems like a stretch.

You're going to have to have everyone that works there signing this extremely complex waivers to all of their medical rights. If you get sick, you can't sue us. Because here's the thing. I know why they're thinking about middle of nowhere stuff because guys, let's be real on this for a second. How can you play a professional sport in New York the rest of this year? You can't. New York is the epicenter of this. Yeah. They've got like almost half the cases in the entire country or New York City. I don't know. That's what I'm saying. I think these conversations are happening in all the league offices and they just don't know what to do because they want to get the games on the television sets. They can make their money. And also,

So frankly, and I know that money starts and ends, it begins and ends with money, but we as America need something. We can only watch so much Netflix. We can only watch so many classic games. We can only watch so much CNN and MSNBC and Fox.

We're looking for something to rally around. And I think there's a small part of each of these leagues that are like, we're going to bring you back to sports. And they also know it's going to be a huge cash flow to them too. Yeah. I mean, that's why the draft is going on. That's going to be, I That's the next thing we'll see, right?

It's not a game, but we are three and a half weeks away from the draft. It'll be the highest-recorded, highest watch draft in the history of draft. Probably. It'll be the least production-valued-wise draft of all time. It'll be the highest watch. It'll be the Skype draft. 2.30 on 7-100. Does that make any sense to any of you?

Taking 2,000, let's just say roughly 3,000 human beings, putting them at the Greenbrier in West Virginia and having a season. They do have a casino at the Green Bar. Well, that's not open right now. Oh, they should open it. My point, though, is what do you do? How do you keep 3,000 people in a confined area? It seems impossible.

That's why I said, if you really thought you could really play games, whether they have crowds or not, picking up 80 people and putting them on a plane, flying there, doing the game and coming right back, seems to be a lot, a much better. a logistical issue and not necessarily potentially putting thousands of people in danger. Those 80 people, I mean, a number of them can be infected. And then you're playing football against the other people and you're infecting all of them.

And then they go home and infect those people. I mean, it's just... Maybe Kirk Herb's right. Maybe we're not playing football this show. I don't know. 231 on Sports Talk 790. 713212-579 if you want to jump in. 713-212-5-790.

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Oh, isn't that all? The Houston Sports Talk continues on Sports Talk 790. 235 on Sports Talk 790 with Ross and Nick. I'm Matt. We are really appreciative you guys are with us. And ladies, too, 713, 2-1-2-5-790. 713212-570. Rockets on their Twitter account just put out

on this day. Doesn't say the year. You're a player, an agent. What is that? And you are a guy. It's on my computer, is it? No. Says that James Harden against the Kings

had it been last year, 119 to 108, 50 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 assist. And I'm dying for a 50-point triple. double. It's been a minute. Washington, Orlando an NBA game. I'll watch that.

I would. Could you imagine two NBA teams go, you know what? Screw this virus. We're playing the night. Come see us. Tickets are cheap. They should televise.

Well, I guess teams can't even hold practices or anything. No, not even work out. I would watch a Rockets practice. James Hardin just putting up threes, Eric Gordon, whatever. James Hardin versus Eric Gordon in a game of horse.

I would watch that. only two of them. They each have their own ball, so you don't have to share. And you just have to social distance. The game you wouldn't want to watch would be like Clint Capella versus Rudy Gobert. Everything would be dunks. The game would never end. Because neither one of them has got a shot outside five feet.

Apparently, Clinkin makes threes in practice. He never shoots him in game. I don't know. I know. I think the longest shot I've ever seen Clint Capella makes probably 10 to 11 feet, maybe. Maybe one. There was like, it was the laser last. Last year, maybe the year before,

where he started working a little mid-range, and then it was only for like a few games. And they were like, yeah, don't do that. The jump hook once in a while will drop, but not very often. And Rudy Gobert, for being as great a defensive player as he is, he is awkwardest at the very least on the offensive side. Rudy Gobert versus Clint Capella.

First, you take him outside of the free throw line? Oh, it's an international mystery at that point. I trust Clint to go a little more off the dribble. Then he can go a little off the dribble more than you think. More than Gobert. How about that? Why don't we find out what he does in Atlanta before we make that assessment? Okay. He didn't play a game there. Yeah, he has not played.

Let's go to Brian on 790. Hello, Brian. Hey, what's going on today, Matt? Hi. You took so long? I thought you might have traded me to Arizona or something. I don't know. Hey. We would definitely trade you for a ham sandwich.

I'm just kidding. All right. Hey, you know, I just saw the weirdest picture, Matt. They sent me a picture of the 405 freeway. I don't know how familiar you are with Southern California. But coming down out of it. Coringa Pass going right by capital. The whole freeway is empty,

which I don't think has ever happened before. But that was just a real strange, eerie picture, I'm feeling. But anyway... I think California is way more of the... You must stay at home than we are here in Texas, so that would make a little more sense. Yeah, but it just looks strange, boy, because that's always one of the most congested places there is, you know.

But anyway, man, I'm watching some of these replays. games. I don't know if you remember, but a couple of years ago, I had bet, I had thrown the $20 on the Vegas Golden Knights to win that Stanley Cup that year and just, they just missed it. And I watched that replay that game last night and I almost couldn't

watch the end. Because they were ahead three nothing going, or they were ahead by three going in the third period and he ended up losing in Game 7. And that was just a heartbreaker, man, because that was going to be a little chunk of money there on a $20 bed. That's $500 to 1. 5001 on the Las Vegas nights.

Wow. Yeah, I bet it at the beginning. I think you were the one that talked about it. It was one other guy that had called into your show that had done the same thing. Yeah, that was kind of a sexy pick for sure. I told you all the hedge. Yeah. It was just one of those things that sometimes I did.

Hey, what the hell, you know? There's never one. No team in any sport has ever won a championship the first year. But I just thought that was interesting watching that game again because it was as heartbreaking in the second time as it was the first. I understand. Thank you, Brian, for the phone call. I appreciate you listening. Aaron Wilson just put out on Twitter about less than an hour ago

that the Texan's initial contract proposal to Laramie Tunsell would average $18.5 million per year. His counteroffer, imagine this, is significantly higher. Fluid situation as talks continue. See, I'm bad about what somebody's worth. I can only go off of example. of what other players make in his position. So can you look up,

Roth, if you can do this right now, can you look up highest paid left tackles in the NFL? I can, Matthew. All right. Where would $18.5 million per year put Laramie Tunsell among offensive tackles in the NFL? I'm going to look.

What is this? I think it's interesting. The counteroffer is significantly higher, meaning, so what happens? if they don't come to an agreement, you're going to have Laramie Tunsell playing the last year of his contract. Is this right? Uh-oh, I hate when you do, is this right?

Anthony Costanzo, the Colts, makes $16.5 million a year. That's number one. For left tackles? Or is there just tackles in general? Is Anthony Costanzo even a left tackle? I don't know. Taylor Luan for the Titans is second. This is according to over-the-cap.com.

So we're just going to go with them. 16 million for Taylor Luan. Nate Solder, 15 and a half for the Giants. So he's getting 2 million a year more than the number one, and he's turning that down. Offered, yeah. That's a little scary. Hmm. Now, shouldn't there be a caveat to the contract that every time he gets called for an offensive false start,

he should get docked a million dollars? Maybe. Yeah, Costanzo was on a two-year, $33 million deal. The guy that's on the real big deal What you should be looking for is Taylor Luwan Who's making $16 million So the Texans are ready to offer him $2.5 million more than the average

The highest paid left tackle And at this point he said no Apparently Significantly more, says Aaron Wilson Yes, it says Laramie Tensel Now by the way, Laramie Tonsle does not have an agent Remember he fired his guy That's right. Is he doing his own negotiations?

Say listen here, pal. Connering with a significantly higher offer per sources. So either Laramie Townsill is speaking directly to Aaron Wilson about this or it's the Texans because there's no agent to jump in on this. Correct. How does that make y'all feel right at this exact second? We need to double, we'll double triple check the numbers here during the break to see where if that line, if that number is accurate.

Lane Johnson of the Eagles is a right tackle. He's making $18 million. Trent Brown of the Raiders, 16 and a half. Jack Cochland just signed a big deal with the Browns. He's making $14 million a year. Mitchell Schwartz of the Chiefs is making $11. He's better than what Laramie Tunsell was this year. Wow.

If he wants... Okay. You know what? We'll see when get Aaron Wilson to join us on the show tomorrow because this is very intriguing to me. That if that 18.5 million is accurate per year. Now, remember some of that can, we had, there could be guaranteed money that's an issue on this as well.

There's no guard or center making more. Most of the center is making those 11. Guards are making no more than 15. So Lane Johnson, the highest in a big deal that I see, and average annual value would be 18 a year from Lane Johnson with the Eagles at right tackle. What the heck? He wants even more than that? You know, he's probably thinking. I don't know what he's probably thinking.

The Andres gone. You think you're going to have a second player pissed about his contract in the same year? That's true. If they don't get something done, not saying he's going to get traded, but it's going to be 0 for two of Bill O'Brien's general manager. There you go. Now we know who leaked that information, Aaron.

Wouldn't it behoove the Texans have put out that, hey, we offered 18 and a half and he turned it down? Correct. 243 on Sports Talk 790. Major sports are canceled. But around here, uh-uh. Inside the 790 break room. Extreme social distancing. This is ridiculous.

Synchronized, hand washing. I love the sweat on my brow. Purell, distance squirting. Nailed it. Let's not forget, the Lugie Toss. Just filthy, filthy. The Houston Sports Talk continues on Sports Talk 790. Time is 247.

Final segment of a Monday edition of the show. I just reached out to Aaron and see if you'll join us tomorrow. I'll put a little more on this. We are out of time for the show today. But, man, it's very curious. Very, very curious why the tune. And Laren's going to join us at 1230 tomorrow to give us more on that. He must be thinking I've got one big contract left.

I've got the Texans right where they want them. They have been public insanely. They wanted to save money for him and Deshaun. So why not go get as much as possible? and just because you want 18 and a half or just because you want the Texans, I mean, they may have to give more but man, could you imagine

him being a $20 million a year offensive tackle? No. That seems like then you're going to have to pay Deshawn's going to get anywhere between 35 and 40 million a year. Yeesh. Well, these two guys are going to be,

that's why maybe Deshawn, even though he's going to Twitter every day putting up lyrics of songs, not every day, but how unhappy he is, maybe one good, fat contract over this offseason will fix that. Hey, I'm looking at SpotTrack now. It's all the same. They have it as just tackles.

They still have Lane Johnson, Trenton, Cassanza, Luan, Nate Soldra, top five. And he wants Lane Johnson number one at 18 million a year. He plays right tackle with your left tackle. He's a right tackle. Okay. So he'd be the highest. The top two are right tackles. Okay.

So it really only be, at this point, a $500,000 a year more than Lane Johnson. and Lane Johnson. And how much of that is guaranteed? How long is the contract? These are things that we'll get from Aaron Wilson when he joins us tomorrow at 1230. I mean, in Lentz, Larry Tunsell was good last year, but it's not like he was one of the best tackles in the game. See, it's hard for me.

That's just something I just can't say that I'm sitting there watching him going, wow, he made such a difference. Well, how about you just know that he went off sides of night or fall started nine times. See, that's part of it. That is a very small part of it. I don't want to be that shadow of a talker about football that I would go well. All he's known for is jumping off sides. That's not what I want to him.

Because clearly he has tremendous value. It wouldn't take very long for us to find four or five really good football experts to say that Laramie Tunsell is one of the best players at his position in the NFL. He was a very sought-after guy when the Miami Dolphins thought about training him. But because you're sought after and because you're sought after and because you're good doesn't necessarily mean you're supposed to be paid like the very best. Now, maybe it's just like quarterbacks. When it was his turn to get paid, he wanted to make sure he was taken care of because he was the next guy on the list.

We've seen quarterbacks get crazy money that they're not the best quarterbacks in the game. Look who Dak Prescott's going through right now. Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys are still trying to negotiate a contract that may make him the highest paid quarterback in the NFL. There's not a world guys that I would believe that Dak Prescott should be the highest pay in the NFL. but it was his turn to get paid.

How much do you like pro football focus in their player grades? I don't think none of them have had sex lately, but they're fine. But, I mean, they're not in NLBL. This is just one metric, right? They grade them on one to a hundred scale. And what do they use? They say what their parameters are? I think they look at run block.

They have a pass block grade, a run block grade, and then kind of go from there. So they have, I'll just run you, for some of the guys that we ran through, Mitchell Schwartz was up there is one of the highest paid. They have him at number two. Anthony Costanzo, they have is the seventh best tackle in football. Jack Conklin got a big deal.

They have him at 10, Taylor 1, they have him at 11. Okay. They have, Oh, Lane Johnson number three, by the way, and with a grade of 88.8. Laramie Tunsell, they have at 21st with a grade of 75.1.

But I could go. Not at all, y'all. They got Jake Matthews at 13th. These are some of the guys you've heard of as the best tackles, right? I just, I will not allow pro football focus to tell me everything. They're not going to tell you everything.

I'm just telling you one. But there are some people that will read them like they're the Bible. Correct. They're not. What did you say he was ranked again? 21st out of tackles. They have Lane Johnson number three. Like I said, Mitchell Schwartz of the Chiefs, number two.

Ryan Ramzick of the Saints, number one. So those stats and the Saturdays those players are making are aligned properly. For the most part. We talked about Anthony Costanzo being one of the best. He was seventh. We talked about Taylor Luan getting a big deal. He's 11th. Jake Matthews is making a lot of money.

He's 13th. Or is the guy like Jason Peters. Where is he in the list? Peters is 6th. And he's looking for work right now still. Okay. Something doesn't jive then. Something doesn't jive.

If pro football focus, it's pretty respected. They do their homework. Now again, not in all be all. But there's something they're seeing that puts him in the bottom third among offensive tackles in the NFL. Well, no, no, no, that's, he's about average. He's about a 75. They have, I mean, they're, there's two tackles per two.

They have 81 tackles listed, who got enough snaps to qualify. Okay. So they haven't been 21st. Okay, so it puts them in the upper third then. Upper quarter, almost. But upper quarter guys shouldn't be making $18.5 million. Shouldn't be one, number one, number one, and turning down money that's already more than somebody who is making $18 million.

He accepted the offer today. He'd be the highest paid tackle in the NFL, for sure, highest paid left tackle. And remember, this is a negotiating game. But here's the thing, if you've got to feel good about it, if you're Larry Tunsell. If you're an $18.5 million and that's the Texan starting offer, imagine how much wiggle room they might have to make his dreams come true and make him even a richer player and even a more highly compensated tackle than other people in his position. It would be interesting.

And you already know Bill O'Brien's a terrible negotiator. Not when it comes to paying out money, though. No, he overpays. Well, he overpaid for Randall Cobb because he had to. Well, what about the tackle for the safety from Cleveland? Eric Murray. Eric Murray. Versatility, Matt.

Overpaid. Box safety. Kimey Fairbairn. Kicker. Overpaid. Okay. He didn't give Kimey Fairbairn a contract. Why didn't he?

Well, I mean, he was, uh, wouldn't he have a, Drap pick or something? Well, he was a free. He was, he signed a new deal. Oh, okay. Where is Kami Fairbearing now going to be compensated wise? I think Kami Fairbairn's a top seven kicker being paid. I think we've got, we've got the Texans spending crazy money on players that would necessarily make you go, what?

Apparently they're down only about $20 million in Capspace. That's what Aaron Wilson said earlier today. Where is Kami Fairbair in terms of compensation? Highest paid kickers? He's got a brand new contract, I thought. I'd have to look that up. Yeah, he's on a new contract. It was huge for.

A kicker. I mean, now, granted, his second half of the year was outstanding. His first half made you want to, I mean, we were thinking there isn't going to get cut. Oh my gosh, he's third. Okay. Maybe you're right. Behind Robbie Gold and Justin Tucker. First of all, nobody should be making more money than Justin Tucker.

Nobody. He's literally Mr. Automatic. Well, they're both making 5.1. Robbie Golden and Justin Tucker are making the same amount of money. And what does Kami make? He's making, they're making 5-1. Unkimey Fairbren is making $4.75 million a year. So he's the third highest-paid kicker.

He's serious. I didn't know this, Matt, before you said it. I didn't know he was that high up there. My God. What are you doing, Bill O'Brien? He's spending crazy money. On Kimey Fairbair? On players that either are average at best.

And by the way, he's heroning David Johnson's contract. Yikes. Remember last year we spent half the year talking about how maybe Bill O'Brien was a better general manager than he was. as a head coach. We might have to back up on that. Now it's, we got blanking one hand, blanking the other, right?

So which one is he worse at? That's the question. All I know is that, he's the third highest paid kicker in the NFL? The Kimee Fairbearer loves Bill O'Brien, that Laramie Tunsell, apparently when he gets his deal done, is going to really, really love Bill O'Brien. Maybe not the coach.

And look, we tell you, Deshaunson. is like, you know, I can't wait to get my turn at the table. Because apparently I'm going to strike it rich. I do you know that Kimee Fairbren's first two names are John Christian? I did not. Can you spell Kymie? It's, the Kami is very short for Kami Noeloya Loma Mecca, Ike O Kumpa A, Fairbairn. How many syllables is that?

Several. Several. All right. The A team is setting up, ready to entertain you for the next three plus hours. I'm sure Adam Klan will have very nice things to say about Laramie Tensel's contract negotiations with Bill O'Brien? Yeah, at this point, he wants significantly more than $18.5 million. Which would already make him the highest pay tackle in football.

It's the Texans. That's right. Yeah, if you're in the... Professional football team in Houston, Texas. It's the beloved franchise. It's not loose. They get paid. Did you see beloved?

Beloved. Hey, there's a season ticket waiting list. Still huge. There's got to put a Twitter poll out there this weekend. If the Oilers dropped everything, thing came back, but the Texans also stay, where would your allegiance be? And I said it's the easiest answer for anybody. Oilers.

We go back to the Oilers like that. Yeah. There were people that were arguing. Who? Who was arguing? Texans Karen. There you go. A lot of Texans Karen. People with PSLs probably argued. That's about it. What if you can transfer your PSO? No, that wouldn't. All right. Aaron Wilson will join us tomorrow at 1230. Uh-oh. What, is he supposed to be on with you?

He's coming on at 3.30, but look, that's almost 24 hours. Well, why don't y'all tell me this stuff? Well, we just did it. You didn't check their promo, their pre-game sheet or whatever they call it? Run down? Yeah, let's tomorrow anyway. Don't throw your hands up. Wex.

Calm down. And Shay flees for the love of guys. Flex gave me the death stare. For what reason? Grizzly Adams did have a beard. Man, all right. A team is up next with Grumpy Wex. Bye.