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Speaker 1: I had the Texans like going eleven and six, losing

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all the games they should lose to, which is Baltimore

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and Kansas City, and winning all the games they should

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which put them at five and two.

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Speaker 2: The rest of the way.

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Speaker 1: You think four and three, you're think in one of

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those five could be a slip ups. That seems fair.

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I mean, I'm being a little presumptuous by saying that

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they're gonna win every one of the games they should win.

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Ce NFL Jaguars were a stupid penalty away from possibly

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beating the vikings of all teams.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Titans weren't really close to the Chargers and

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they got destroyed by the Lions.

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Speaker 2: They did beat the Patriots. Eh.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like this team, this team is not

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good enough to the level where I can say I

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can guarantee wins against bad teams because they've been be

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squeaking it out against bad teams.

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Speaker 2: Take your first sentence and stop right there. They're not

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good enough.

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you is how do you, in

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the towards the back half of the season become good enough.

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You become good enough by protecting better, getting more This

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offensive line you've got one game. But with him, is

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it schematics or is it physicality? It's getting beat I

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think it's mostly schematics. It was a lot of physicality

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with Kenyon Green unfortunately, I mean in Shaq Mason unfortunately,

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what's the name of that defensive tackle for the Lions

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is really really good.

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Speaker 2: He was beating up on them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he can get beat by tough uh Campbell to

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the linebacker Allen McNeil.

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Speaker 2: Aleen McNeil was, I mean, Lee McNeil is a monster.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's one of the better defensive interior players

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and all football.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, he was playing d line for them too.

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Speaker 1: You gonna give a lot of problem, yeah, DJ Reader,

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a little bit Texan great, Texan's legend. DJ Reader, you've

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also gotten beat up by DeForest Buckner.

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Speaker 2: I mean you're you're But you're.

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Speaker 1: Also going to play teams with good interior players in

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the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: So it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: So they do have to get better, I would say,

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the communication and the schematics, and without like looking back

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and watching the whole game over again or anything, it

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seemed better yesterday certainly than it was. I mean, the

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bar was extremely low, right with a Jets game. They

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were all over the place. There was constant pressure and

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just blowing blocks and bad communication and unfortunately Kenyon Green

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getting destroyed. I think that can get better. I think

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getting Nico Collins back makes you better, makes you better.

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But also this team is teetering on an edge to me,

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where if you do lose Nico Collins again, if you

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do lose Joe Mixon at any point. Obviously CJ Stroud

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is a given, we don't even need to talk about that.

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But I think those two players this team falls apart

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to where you just cannot afford those losses because you've

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already lost digs, You've already lost too much. Pro Football

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Focus thoes are grades for Tuesday, correct typically generally Yes.

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I wonder how Patterson and Scruggs did in their new

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respective position.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious as well.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Arlington and talk to Roger on The

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Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Our time is twelve fifty

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three seven one three two one two five seven nine.

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If you want to jump in seven one three two

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one two five seven ninety Roger, Good afternoon, you're on seven.

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Speaker 3: How you doing, guys? Love your show, Matt thank you. Hey,

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you know, I'm a big Texan Diehart fan. I'm gonna

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be in Dallas watching that game out there. I think

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we're gonna feast on the team. And it's true, we're

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gonna see McCarty get fired after that beatdown.

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Speaker 2: But here's my question.

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Speaker 3: I saw you know, does all this go on the

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players as far as as far as you know CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud and all this Because it's a scheme game.

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Speaker 3: You have to build a scheme to win games, correct,

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which are your coaches?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that makes sense. Yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So yesterday I saw a play. I don't know

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who made the decision. I'm pretty sure that it had

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to do with our coach. It was a fourth and

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nine or a fourth and four which was laid into

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the game, and then they put.

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Speaker 2: Our fairborne out there to make the field goal.

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Speaker 1: Correct, well, it was it was too yeah to get

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the lead on a long field goal attempt that probably

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the Texans, not probably the Texans went conservative offensively, knowing

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that our guy can kick sixty yard field goals or

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thereabouts pretty easily.

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Speaker 3: Exactly exactly. But I'm not a coach, thank god, Because

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there's a lot of pressure right now.

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Speaker 2: But as as I.

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Speaker 3: Was looking into the game, uh, we were throwing a

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lot of short outlets and they had the defense stacked.

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Speaker 2: So my thing is, I think they should have.

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Speaker 3: Gone knowing that Fairborne had already missed a field goal.

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Try that one more time, fairburn

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had already missed a field goal.

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Speaker 3: Correct, Yes, I think they should have gone for it

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there and then.

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Speaker 2: And stealed the game.

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Speaker 1: The only kick he missed was the last one. No, no, no, yeah,

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he made everything else he made. Plus, he made a

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fifty yarder before the earlier in the game six yarder. Yeah,

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ron No, you're you're you knew that Kami has made

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those before in the past. I mean he's had a

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plethora of fifty yard field goals. Matter of fact, he's bailed.

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The text is not on multiple cages because he hit plus.

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So I understand I know how they set it up.

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They set it up for him to kick the long one.

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He's eleven of fourteen this year fifty plus pretty good.

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Unfortunately he missed that one. It's a fifty eight yarder.

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Their guy made the fifty eight yarder and a fifty

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two yarder.

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Speaker 2: To win the game. Your guy missed his fifty eight yarder.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, It's obviously more complicated than that, but that that's

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one of the ways to look at it, and why

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you took the l Yeah. To me, anything beyond fifty

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five placing a tremendous amount of blaming the kicker is

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fool's gold on that. I think in the NFL world today,

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fifty five in should be made. Sounds crazy to say that,

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because when I was growing up, fifty was like, oh

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my god, no. But today's kickers are bigger, stronger, they're

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more athletic. They don't have beer guts except for Randy

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Bullock obviously, but they're supposed to make those. But fifty

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five plus, I don't know the how weather was conducive

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for it, but that doesn't really matter. That that's a

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that's a kick that he that he's made a lot

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so far in his Texans career, but to assume that

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he can make it every single time is tough. But

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then that damn Tomball storyline kicked in?

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Speaker 2: Did it not? Late in the game. I don't want

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to talk about it. You want to hear about it? No,

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I don't want to do it.

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Speaker 1: Next seven one three, two one two five seven ninety

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seven one three two, one two five seven nine zero

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final hour of The Matt Thomas Show, would believe it

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or not at one fifty.

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Speaker 2: I want to hear from you guys. I need to

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hear and you Lenny's as well. Tell me.

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Speaker 1: Expectations, have you finally tempered them? And if somebody texted

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me earlier today? A very simple question, sports Harvey. Is

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the Texans honeymoon over? Honeymoon still on the thought of

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a long vacation in perhaps New Orleans on Super Sunday

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or you on one two three CanCon in early January?

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Or are we bickering about who forgot to bring the

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sunscreen seven one three two one two five seven Hunty?

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Speaker 2: Is the Texans honeymoon over?