Speaker 1: He's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety It is a Matt Thomas
Show with Ross. Tweet came in uh fifteen hours ago.
Ross kudos the Houston Texans on advancing to the second
round of the playoffs. This team showed real determination, playing
with hard and discipline despite major offensive injuries. That kind
of resilience matters. Jack Easterby Nope, Michael, I mean Magic
Johnson out of sports, out of sports. Mm hmm, Dom Deluiz, No,
he's dead. Oh, I don't know. Lena Hildago, who Leana Hildago, Elena,
He'll that'll go, He'll that'll go. Lea hilde Shut your
bumb ass up. Nobody wants to see that. How those
corruption cases going, She's funneling funds and whatnot? I don't know.
I don't want to hear teflon from politics, political people
or TV news anchors wearing gear. Your team gets your asking.
The last thing you want to hear about is how
resilient the team was. Shut your bumb ass up? Seriously?
Ah you all right, man? Yes, a good weekend. I
had a great weekend. Come on, I'm ninety nine percent
sure I have her muted. So well I didn't. I
got it sent to me, and I'm like, are you
kidding me? I don't follow any politicians there. She's muted.
Good for you. I'm gonna hit they see that. So seriously,
just just take care of our county. Be a judge
whatever judges do. I don't even know what judges. I
don't know she's I don't know. I'm not worried about it. Well,
I just had to saying, come on, and by the way,
they did a wave and energy stadium yesterday, you should
get your ass kicked by doing the way it did well.
The watch party thing. Yeah, they had enough people for
a wave. Yeah, people were there. I don't know, but
they did the lower level and doing the wave. McNair's
are cashing in a little because they charged full prices,
don't they. That was free to get in, but everything
else is probably That's what I'm say. Yeah, yeah, yah,
don't know who it was. They make enough of those
twenty dollars beers. So I'm a flight aware geek. What's
flight away? That is a wide website you can track planes.
There were three PJS private jets leaving a suburban Boston airport. Okay,
headed to Houston, and then the big one, that's the
Texans plane did not leave until the middle of the night,
like a two o'clock in the morning. They had icing
issues and other sort of delays. Okay, So I just was, so,
what are the three that left? I don't know who
they're owned by. One of them's got to be the
McNair family, right, Okay, the other two I can't tell you,
but I'm just gonna be by was of the game? Yeah?
Was he throwing up his h It? Probably we're gonna
take a little highus and thrown hes up. No, then
we're not mad. Yes, we literally know one. But you
is mad about that. You're the only person I've ever
heard complain about I'm not an anxious fan. I know
because you know what. People throwing their ages up put
them down. That's what your team did. Either way you
throw it, that's true. I'm gonna throw you an h
right now, Matt, you h doesn't use your middle finger? Man? Oh,
sorry about that. ROSSI all right, we have to tell
the truth at the bottom of the hour, Okay, I
have Oh, this could get spicy. It's a spicy one.
Three three truths and one line? Okay? Three truths, yes,
one line? Okay? How many lies? Jonathan seven?
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 1: No one? I just said three truths one lie? You
said three truths? Three truths? I said, how many lies?
How one lie? No? You said, wait? How many truths? Yeah?
Press truths? How many truths? Three? Okay? Alright? Eleven? Three truths?
One lie? Can't wait? All right, Let's go to the phones.
Manual eleven eight on the Matt Thomas Show, A Ross Manuel,
thank you for holding a good morning, very good morning.
Speaker 2: Tell us.
Speaker 1: How are you good? Great? Good good good?
Speaker 2: You know, man, I've I've got a good night's rest
as best as I could get.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: You know that that loss was probably about his worst
as Game seven the Rockets face twenty eighteen. That's about
as hurd as I felt in a long time. But
I just want to ask this one, what has CJ earned?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: We keep feel like as a fan base, maybe we're
fifty to fifty in this What is he earned? He
hasn't earned. In my opinion, he hasn't anything. He doesn't
earned anything. He's not an all pro, he's not a
pro bowler. He's not an elite at any one thing.
Maybe he had an elite, elite moments his rookie year,
but he's not elite. I don't even think he's good.
He's teetering on averages at best some days. But I
just want to know what is he earned. And I
really believe and I don't think this is a debate.
I really think we've got a Sam Darnell situation on
our hands here. I think he's lost, and I think
he's gone. I think he's up there. It's obvious that
he's seeing ghost and I really don't believe that there
is anyone on our staff. I don't think there's anyone
that Demiko will hire that can fix him. I do
not think this is a Demiko problem. He was drafted
the second overall for Christ's sakes, you know, like at
the end of the day, there has to be some
accountability within himself.
Speaker 1: To get better and to be better.
Speaker 2: And I think Demico and Nick are perfectly safe.
Speaker 1: Hell, even Nick Chiley.
Speaker 2: I mean I blasted him for four months, and for
christ sakes, he got better. I'll be damned, he got better.
But for some reason CJ has regressed, and I think
that he's broken. I don't think he's fixable here. I
just want to know what he's earned. And why do
we need to give him another year?
Speaker 1: You don't have a backup play? No, no, you're yeah,
you're giving him. Thank you manyel for the call. You
are giving him another year? This this, this, Okay. There
are two things we're not going to discuss. CJ is
the quarterback next year? And number two Joe Burrow. Ain't
it Joe Burrow makes about fifty million dollars. You got
to send fifty million dollars back. You don't have fifty
million dollars to send back. Let me make sure I'm
very clear in this. Joe Burrow will not be a
Houston Texan period and a story. I'm putting my name
on it. Joe Burrow not a Houston Texans. You're gonna
be right, but I'll still write it down. Just you
need to write it down. Because the guy I was
working with somebody, I want to bring up a name.
She managed Manton. Like you can just three fifty million back?
What are you going to trade him back? Yeah? No,
you need to send a bunch of picks. You gotta
send picks and money and no no chance, no way,
no house. Yeah, go ahead, but I'm just gonna say
c J. Stroud is your quarterback in twenty twenty six.
After that, I cannot guarantee. Yeah. And you're saying what
he's earned, I mean what he's earned was was his
I mean his rookie year. He was insane, he was
he was every bit of the franchise quarterback that you
thought you were gonna get. And these it's tough to
say out loud, but these last two games they're not.
They're a typical of c J. Stroud performances, but they're
also under the bright lights in the playoffs. That's you
know what, you pay franchise quarterbacks to fifty million dollars
a year to beat playoff teams. You don't do it
to beat Carolina. Yeah, that's just the truth. So you
can find somebody to give you nineteen touchdowns and eight interceptions.
That's what Jack Prescott has crushed. Even though he's had
a really good year. That's a lot of money spent
for a guy that, again not through any a lot
of fault of his own, but that his contract, in
part with Ceedee Lamb's contract, hamstrings year. I'd rather have
Dak Prescott than c J. Stroud. That's not even close
right now. But what CJ. Stroud is earned, he's asking
what he's done to earn it. He was a pro
bowler his rookie year. I don't know if he was
named to it or or an injury replacement, a Matt
Schaub pro bowler or a real ride. I don't know.
I think it probably was the last the former. But
he has been a Pro Bowl. He hasn't been all pro.
He was the he was the offensive Rookie of the Year.
He's earned that. All right, I got one for you.
Let's port into our comps. You're ready twenty four years old?
Sam Donald or c J. Stroud right now? Right this second? Okay,
but with assuming Sam Donald, who's not been healthy, is
healthy Sam Donald? Sam Donald? But he brought up that name,
which we is gonna be a part of what we
need to fold into the conversation because what Sam Donald
has around him is better than what c J. Stroud
has around him. That's fair. Oh, CJ's got a few
things going against him, for sure. CJ. Stroud. Could I
you envision a scenario where c J. Stroud ends up
with like this the Pittsburgh Steelers or something, and he
plays well and he's successful. Yes, But what's gonna happen
here is if you want to keep c. J. Stroud,
you're gonna have to pay him fifty to sixty million dollars.
If he goes somewhere else, he's probably making like thirty
and you can build a better roster around him. That's
the thing. You need a better offensive line. You need
a legit RB one. You probably need a legit WR two,
although maybe the two young guys may be coming into that.
Maybe Higgins can be that. So you're gonna have to
pay all those things that we just said, and you
gotta pay him, and you're gonna try to retain your
entire defense. That ain't happening. It's not happening. So I'm
saying there is a cap for a reason. Yes, And
that's why I was saying this yesterday to you know,
the family and people. We were talking about the game.
You need a podcast on this. No, I didn't do
a podcast. I should have. There's a world where we
just witnessed the best Texans offensive all time, also healthy
into the playoffs, Lassiter, Petrie Anderson, and Daniel Hunter everybody's healthy.
Everybody was healthy in the playoffs in the divisional round. YEP,
if I say out loud, that was the best and
healthy at the Texans defense will ever be during this
Demiko Ryan's run, that's not crazy. Even with lass are
in and out of practices for the last month, even
with Petrie were in that soft shell on his head,
that's fine. He played, was out there playing, flying around,
making plays, and you squandered it. The best defense in
the history of this franchise, which goes now twenty four years,
still can't compete in the championship game. Let that's soakin.
I don't want to too bad to throw it out.
We had this, We had this all off season long.
Do you understand this? All off season long? Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven to one
three two one two five seven ninety Does Demiko treat
cj differently than his other players? The answer to that,
no doubt in my mind is yes. But in relation
to the other quarterbacks, I'm a dermom crush Josh Allen.
Probably not on Sunday, I think Saturday, I'm thinking did
Ben Johnson crush Caleb Williams with throwing the interception light
in the game yesterday. Probably not so I know what
you're going to say, Well, you know, Dimiko's gotta be
harder on him, of course, but knowing that the fraternity
between a quarterback and his coach in the podium are
two very similar things