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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody. Welcome into the Matt Thomas Show with

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the Ross. Chris Gordy here with you. Ross. He will

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be in. He's finishing up something with a client right now.

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Matt Thomas is off today and probably for the better.

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He deserves a punishment after what the Rockets did last night,

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losing in overtime or should I say choking in the

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fourth quarter and then going on to loosen overtime to

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the Sacramento Kings, who stink it just had that vibe

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as they were starting to close the gap, Dennis Shrewders

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hitting shots. I'm going come on, man, we'll get into that.

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We'll get into the texans ugly performance yesterday against the

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two win Raiders. But a win is a win, survive

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in advance, you move on. You don't get any extra

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style points for for convincing wins. You just have to win,

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and the Texans did that yesterday. But it was ugly.

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As Ashton Genty said, you know what, all those fantasy

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owners right there, I Am going to help your ass

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today and run all over the Houston Texans and c

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J Stroud that one will not go to that performance,

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will not be sent to Canton as he was twenty

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three of thirty five for one hundred and eighty seven yards.

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Run game very inconsistent with no wooding barks, Jawar Jordan

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fifteen rushes for fifty three yards and Nick Chubb six

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carries for thirty three and again Texans do just enough.

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Defense played well overall. Derek Barnett with a sack, Wi

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Laterson Junior with a sack, and It'll Hunter with a sack.

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Those guys continue to do their thing, and to pick

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six for Derek Single Junior first of his career on

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Gino Smith. But you know the good thing is I

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believe and Ross is jumping in with us. I believe

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with a Colts lost tonight, the Texans would clinch a

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wild cart spot. But the problem is those danged old

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Jacksonville Jaguars just will not lose. As you were ten

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and five, they are eleven and four. You've won seven

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in a row. They've won six in a row. And

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the AFC South may just very well be Trevor Lawrence's

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to grab now Again, this thing could still play out

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differently over the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: But are the Jaguars really good? It feels like the

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Jaguars are really could I think? Why do?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Okay, besides all that of Liam Cohen, we all made

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fun of him, thought they were going to go over

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because the guy just looked like some kind of nerd

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who got a football job.

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Speaker 1: I will tell you this. Uh, Liam Cohen several years

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ago got hired by Kentucky as their offensive coinator and

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they brought in the backup quarterback for Penn State by

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the name of Will Levis. And that season, I want

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to say, what was that? A ten win season for Kentucky.

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It was really good and the offense was like, whoa

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look at this offense. Liam Cohen then went jumped to

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the NFL. Back to the NFL. Believe. He went to

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the Rams for a year and then came back to

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Kentucky and a different quarterback.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't the same, but then he was with Baker

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Baker Mayfix. Baker Mayfield looking like he's regressing this year

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Speaker 1: And so but regardless, the Liam Cohen's a good offensive

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line and he is getting the most out of Trevor

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Lawrence this year. It hasn't been all pretty, but man,

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this stretch they've been on these last six in a row,

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including yesterday their most impressive win of the season, beating

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the Broncos in Denver.

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Speaker 2: Four touchdowns for Trevor Lawrence on the road against that

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Denver defense which is.

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Speaker 1: Really good, and that and that Broncos defense loves the

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hold people under twenty points. I mean, that's what they do.

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So yeah, that was very impressive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I found myself like, as the weeks been going on, like, eh,

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Jaguars whatever. I mean, it's Trevor Lawrence not gonna be

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that big of a deal. But I mean, especially with

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the big statement win yesterday, it's like, Okay, maybe these

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Jaguars are for real. Because it's not only that they

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beat the Broncos at Mile High and as I said,

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Trevor Lawrence going four touchdowns against that defense, it's just

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it's how easy they made it look well, and they're

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going to win the AFC South now.

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Speaker 1: And for anybody you know saying why are they talking

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so much about the Jaguars, it's because it would be

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nutso for this Texans team to win say eleven or

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twelve games and have to go on the road as

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a wildcard team. I just think that's Yeah, you're crazy.

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Speaker 2: You've won seven games in a row and you're not

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ahead of your division. Of course that helps that you

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started zero to three. But the Jaguars keep winning. Not

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worried about the Colts at all. I mean, you know,

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ever since Daniel Jones snapped his leg in half and

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all that, and it's they're trotting out Philly Rivers and

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whatnot in company. But you win seven or you still

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can't gain ground. And then now you're down to just

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a couple of games left with it being the Colts

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and the Titans. For the Jaguars, they are winning the

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AFC South. Yeah, so how it sits right now?

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Speaker 1: At least in the standings you've got in the division,

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you've got the Jaguars sitting ahead of And now my

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in first years at eleven and four Texans out of

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ten and five. The Colts have slipped back now they

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have lost four in a row. They are eight and

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six and they will play the Niners, and I believe

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in Indy, right, I'd have to double check on that. Yeah,

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I mean they could pull it up here, but again

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Speaker 2: Be playing that on the moon. I'm gonna go with

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the Niners. He had nine Ers five and a half

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point favorites at the Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Colts Lucas Oil. But in the playoff picture, the Broncos

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and Patriots, they have both clunch playoff spots. They're both

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at twelve and three at the one and two seed,

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the Jaguars right behind them at eleven. For the stupid

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ass Pittsburgh Steelers find a way to win against the

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Lions yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of smoke and mirrors and the Pittsburgh Steelers, how

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they continuing to pull games out of it.

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Speaker 1: There was a fantasy owner of a Monroe Saint Brown

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who could not get in the damn end zone. Who

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got in the end zone, and then they oh was

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holding bree back. But anyway, they would be the four

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seed at nine and six. And then you got a

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couple of double digit win teams, the Chargers at eleven

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and four, the Bills at eleven and four, and the

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Texans sitting at ten and five. The Texans will play

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the Chargers this week, so this will decide a lot

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on you know, where these two teams go. The Chargers

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because of the I believe them playing the Broncos in

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the last week. The Chargers were in a spot where

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if they win these last two, if they went out,

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they could get the number one seed still. So really, yeah,

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I was reading out today they if they went out now,

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I don't know if that's I guess the Patriots are

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still a game ahead of them, so they would need

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some help there, but the Broncos being just one game

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ahead of them. If the Chargers win their last two,

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they win the tiebreaker with Denver.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you want to basically be the five seed

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or at very least the six. You definitely don't want

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to be seven at the moment. You're going on the

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road to New England then as the last seed if

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you advance it reseeds, so then you'd be going on

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the road to Denver, even though Jacksonville just took care

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of business there. You don't want to go two games

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straight on the road to the two and one seeds.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's it's not pretty man. As as excited

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as you want to get for the Texans and taking

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care of their business, and you know, win is a win,

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they've won seven in a row, it still is going

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to be a daunting task of and you talk about

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this team having to go on the road down, We'll say,

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uh Ross, the Chargers look pretty damn good. Justin Herbert

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looked awesome yesterday in Dallas. Amario Hampton's back healthy. Yeah,

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But if we're talking playoffs like Denver, Broncos and Bonnet,

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they scare you.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 1: Drake May and the Patriots, I mean they were lucky

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to got to Baltimore last night.

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Speaker 2: I'm more scared of the Patriots. But I'll put it

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this way. I don't think the Texans I will not

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be in my mind, the Texans have no chance in

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any game, in any game because of this defense and

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how good it is when they get a shareback.

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Speaker 1: Travon Henderson got hurt last night for New Right. We'll

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see what happens with him. But like and then the

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freaking Aaron Rodgers Steelers, they're not scaring anybody. I mean,

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the Bills are really If Josh Allen and that group

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puts it all together, they I put them probably as

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the favorite.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're in theory playoff pedigreg Yeah. If we just

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go look at the Vegas odds, I'm gonna guess it's

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probably Patriots and Bills and one to two in whatever order.

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Speaker 1: As far as the favorites to win the why and

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the Patriots though, I mean like regular season awesome, but

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like postseason Mike Rabel and Drake May.

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Speaker 2: I mean Rabels made Didn't he make an AFC championship

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game with the Titans like a decade ago?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: He did, still made it. I think it was like Blake,

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not Blake Portals. It was with some bad Tannehill. Was

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it Ryan Tannehill? I think? But Derek Henry running for

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like two hundred yards a game in those days. So

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I think Rabel's a good coach.

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Speaker 1: I do. The point being, this thing is wide open.

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I mean again, you want the best path for the Texans.

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You'd rather have home field, You'd rather be going that

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that path. But even if you got to go on

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the road, I don't. I'm not afraid. Like now, granted

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you got a stand, you got to get what he

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marks back health, he can get this run game back gone.

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But that's not a The AFC just appears to be

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wide open this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, And I think the Texans are in

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that mix. And I think this defense can keep them

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in any game that they're gonna play. I mean, they've

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lost five games, all five or by one score. That's

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thanks to this incredible defense. So as long as the

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offense can hold ups, it's into the bargain. This team's

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a super Bowl contender. But we've also been saying that

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for several weeks, and the offense look blair against the

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freaking Las Vegas Raiders yesterday.

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Speaker 1: So it certainly is a concern.

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Speaker 2: And you got a couple of weeks to kind of

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shore things up, and it is a week to week game,

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and guys can come alive and guys can hot at

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the right time.

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Speaker 1: We've seen great.

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Speaker 2: Playoff runs from teams who just get hot at the

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right time. The Texans have the tools to get hot

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at the right time. They have a dominant defense, They

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have c J. Stroud who has has shown flashes of

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being a franchise quarterback. Nico Collins is great. Hopefully you

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get what he marks back and you're okay there, But

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the potential is there to get hot at the right

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time and make a playoff run. It's almost though, like, hey,

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wake me up when it happens.

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Speaker 1: We said going into these two games, playing the crappy

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Cardinals and the crappy Raiders, you might have a letdown.

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They showed up in full force against the Cardinals. They

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had the letdown yesterday. Any concern there or is it

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just you know, it's the NFL. Sometimes you play a

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crappy team, you let your guard down.

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Speaker 2: I would towards more of the latter. But what if

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they don't get that pick six? What if I mean

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Gino Smith throws that ball into the dirt instead into

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Derek Stingleer's hand. It was an off target throw and

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you're losing that game. You only scored sixteen points against

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the loss Vegas freaking Raiders who are walking. The defense

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is giving up like forty points in every single week.

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to zero. Yeah, and they come into your town and

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if not for a pick six, you probably don't win

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Speaker 1: I was just more concerned about Ashton Genty running like

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a man possessed like that was the craziest because honestly,

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if you stuff him, you win that game going away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt Thomas's favorite Ashton Genty with a big game

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against the Houston Texans, And well, I guess at the

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end of the day, you won the game. You've won

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seven in a row. It's not all They're not going

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to all gonna be pretty. It's not all gonna be easy.

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You took care of business. Now you got a big

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one coming up against the Chargers on the road, which

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is I mean, two teams that are fighting to be

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Herbert, as much as I've not been a

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fan of him, I think I've come around on him.

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He's really good.

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Speaker 2: This has got that really hot girlfriend, Herne Madison, beer

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or whatever. You're taking the role of Matt Thomas. You're right, Well,

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I didn't do this. This is what I would have done.

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Now I'm doing it all right. Chargers only one and

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a half point favorites, hosting the Texans on Saturday on

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NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: So there you go.

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Speaker 2: Okay, how you feeling about the Texans? You got the

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game against the Raiders, didn't feel great, but they got

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the win. How concerned are we are they still AFC

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contenders or do you want to see something this week

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against the Chargers. Low total on that one, by the way,

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thirty nine and a half. You got college football playoff

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action to get to as well. Houston Rockets lose in

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overtime to the Sacramento Kings seven one three two one

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is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Matt Thomas out

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today traveling with the Houston Rockets. He will be back tomorrow.

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Highlights of the University of Miami versus Texas A and

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M football game over the weekend. No highlights, I don't

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see there's I haven't seen A and M score a

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touchdown yet. Yeah, they didn't fordy is there what they didn't?

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Speaker 1: Well they got a field goal? Oh really?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: Okay, well how many field goals they're showing? That clip

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to Mario Kraver was like a sixty yard pass. Like

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how they didn't score on that drive was crazy.

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Speaker 2: Dang, that's a darn shame. Well, I mean the Aggies

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are having the greatest season ever, and they were eleven

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and oh and they extended their coach and everything's all

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great in Agiland, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think the line I heard was they started eleven

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and oh and forget the twelfth man. They couldn't find

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that twelfth win.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well, they at least they got the

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conference championship or.

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Speaker 1: That's this, I mean, like, that's super disappointing. Did they

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accomplish anything this year? Pretty good? Pretty good? Okay, I'm

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just wondering. I'm just asking for a friend. But look,

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it's it's one thing to lose to Texas and mess

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out on the SEC championship. It is brutal to lose

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a home playoff game like them in Oklahoma. Now, Oklahoma,

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you played Alabama. I guess you know it is the

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seventeen that sevent Sooners. So it was funny. I mean

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I saw a lot of Longhorn fans got out Peacock

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and going, oh, sorry, Aggie's the Longhorns or so Sooners.

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And then they're going back, who the Longhorns doing this weekend?

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Speaker 2: You a weren't even playing. Hey still alive, baby, still living.

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The cheese at Bowl, I'm sorry, the cheese its are

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not citrus.

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Speaker 1: Why is it the cheese at citrus? That's really disgusting.

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If you've ever drank orange juice with cheese its, it

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is not.

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Speaker 2: A good picker. It's not advisable.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five to seven ninety

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is the phone number. Chris Gordy is graciously hanging out.

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We were talking some Texans there in the first segment.

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We also are going to talk some college football anything

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you guys want to get to seven one three two

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one two five seven ninety. Jonathan Allen is here. Hi, Jonathan,

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haven't seen you a week plus. How's everything is good?

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How'd it go last week with Matthew? You did you

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keep him in line?

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Speaker 4: For the most part?

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Speaker 2: It's kind of difficult. I know it's a difficult job. Okay,

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I'll to some pointers. I know what to do.

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Speaker 1: I would talk a lot, like every time I n

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that was leaning on Jonathan.

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Speaker 2: You gotta lean on. You gotta lean on your producer

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when you're hosted by yourself. That's why I'm thankful for Jonathan.

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Thankful for you hanging out, Gordy, and thank you for

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you guys on the phone. Soup's holding longest at seven

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one three, two, one two five seven ninety. What's up,

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soups man A a police.

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Speaker 5: I haven't called in a wall.

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Speaker 6: If I can get like maybe forty five or sixty

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seconds on this, I'll hit the highest real quick. First

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of all, I went to the Aggie's game. I'm not

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Aggie fan, but the atmosphere crazy. My first like experience

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with that. That was insane. But the team sucks. But

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moving on that brought do they have.

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Speaker 2: Like the biggest gap between quality of team and atmosphere

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because everyone's always like, oh my god, this unreal atmosphere.

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This is unbelievable a Kyle Field. And then I don't

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want to say they always lose, because they didn't always

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lose this year, but I mean they seem to lose

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a lot at Kyle Field for all this great atmosphere

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fans brought it though.

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Speaker 5: That's a good hey hey Ross, let me say like this.

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I've been to Tuscalusca in regular season.

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Speaker 6: I've been to Washington like where the Huskies played, and

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in terms of like decibels, like that was probably the

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loudest for a zero point scoring team I've ever seen

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in my life. If that's any compensation. Moving on to

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the NFL, if I can, so, here's something crazy I

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was reading and found out, and don't laugh at me

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about saying this. So hypothetically, if all seven teams finished

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twelve and five, which is about point zero three percent chance,

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the Texans would actually be a number one seed. How

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crazy is that that? In the AFC the talent is

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so tight between the teams that any one of those

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teams could be anywhere between one and seven. Well minus

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Broncos they would be at worse four. And then regarding

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the Raiders game right, one of the things I also

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looked up is the Raiders could easily be eight and

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seven if not for like three bone play calls by

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the coach and two questionable officials.

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Speaker 5: They lost games.

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Speaker 2: Three more wins, I don't know about eight and seven.

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Speaker 6: Well go ahead, no no, no, no, like if you not,

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like even the two score games, they were like right

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there at the end kind of like how the Texans

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could easily be fourteen and one and whatnot. So my

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take from all this is with the parody in the

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AFC this year and the way the Texans played at

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Kansas City and typically.

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Speaker 1: On the road.

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Speaker 5: I was there at the Rams game.

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Speaker 6: They remind me of that two thousands Giants defense where

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you have this insane defense.

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Speaker 5: I think they call it like the NASCAR packet that

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was straight handed all those guys.

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Speaker 6: And then you have the game manager at quarterback aka

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Eli aka CZ Like, are we okay if like the

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Texans win that way having the Eli Manning type quarterback?

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Speaker 5: Anyways, Happy Alla day.

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Speaker 6: See guys, hey be belated birthday.

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Speaker 1: Wrong, thank you forty.

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Speaker 5: If my Cougars beat the uh Tigers, I like to challenge.

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Speaker 6: You to a wing bet or a beer bet, just

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out of good nature and I love you guys. Happy

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holidays and uh go kooks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, assumes you got to give me l s U

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plus seven. We we've had more plus seven more opt

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outs yesterday. You are getting the B team, perhaps even

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the C team.

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Speaker 3: Lo.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm not I'm not complaining. I'm just

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saying little real about where it was.

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Speaker 2: That you're making excuses. That's what it feels like.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's be real about where we are. Uh,

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what's it?

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Speaker 2: What is the line? Latest? It was like three? Oh yeah,

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it's holding it three man? Let me asking for seven.

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Look at this guy, line's holding it three? You want

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four extra points?

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Speaker 1: Come on? I get squad over the kooks straight up?

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Come on, man, yeah, straight up. This game means way more.

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You know what they're talking about is your Super Bowl? Different?

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Like everybody wants to get ready to let for link there.

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They don't even want Frank Wilson. In fact, there l

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is rooting against Frank Well because he's about to go

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be the running backs coach at Old Miss. Why are

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we letting them coach? This is stupid. Our coaches are

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over at Old Miss.

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Speaker 2: Somebody's gotten played in the playoffs. Imagine he's getting some

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kind of paycheck. When we see is coaching the playoffs

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for the Old Miss? When when is that game?

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Speaker 1: Saturday night? Okay, Saturday night, let's Comber twenty seventh DA

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fifteen kickoff the look at this guy? Kinders, Texas Bowl Kinders,

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Texas ball dot Com.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for all your great seasonings and sauces.

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Speaker 1: Well I'm sure, I mean they'll have some maybe at

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the stadium, but it's really about the football.

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Speaker 3: All right. Really?

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Speaker 2: Uh So there you go. They're the the LSU, the

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weakest LSU. Smack talk I think I've ever heard of

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my life can give me seven points yesterday three. Literally

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every starter is opting on this game. Literally every starter's

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got to be one guy there. There might be one.

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I mean, you know what, maybe they need to start

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tying these nil deals in a bowl games.

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Speaker 1: There you go. There's the reality is the ESPNS have

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made it. It's it's playoff for bus player for bucks

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where you don't make the playoff for but I guess

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out of hell with it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're definitely cheapen though, I mean, it was always

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gonna happen, and I'm glad we do have the play

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the playoff, even though I'm not glad about Yeah. Great

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great showings by two Lane and James Madison. We'll get

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to that as well. All right, Thomas, you on whole.

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We'll get you in the next segment. We do have

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to take quick break. You guys want to get in.

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Speaker 1: I would appreciate that as well.

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Speaker 2: It is a Matt Thomas Show with Ross with you

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until two o'clock here on Sports Talk seven ninety All right, now,

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now you're out of control, Gordy. I gotta call you out.

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The actual Vegas line is three for LSU versus Houston LSU.

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Speaker 1: Minus three or he's Houston minus three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So Soubs comes back and he's tweeting Gordy asking

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for two and a half points. Now Subsi asked for

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a half point. However, I get is this the art

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of the deal? Are you negotiating? And now Gordy's asking

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for seven and a half Jonathan, Oh, the actual Vegas

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line is three. You gotta get like three to one

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for that line.

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you my vibe is you Houston by seven?

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Speaker 2: You not only asked for seven, then you asked for

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seven in the hook, Gordy's seven and seven and a

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half is a big hook.

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Speaker 1: Now come on, I'm don't even take Ellen. I might

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even take Houston by ten. WHOA head on over to

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Lake Charles.

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Speaker 4: Gordy, you can't go to whole season repping LSU and

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now just not.

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Speaker 1: You can't do that. You have to be a realist.

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Though they've their offense has been absolutely putrid, and especially

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since Michael van Buren's taken over. My god, this is

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what van Buren's done since he's taken over. He took over.

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Midway through the Alabama game. They scored nine against Arkansas.

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They were lucky to get twenty three Western Kentuck. They

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scored thirteen in Oklahoma, which got a great defense. But thirteen.

476
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So you've scored nine, twenty three, thirteen and thirteen. The

477
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Kooks are scoring at least twenty four. I'd say, all right,

478
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I like this, So twenty four to seventeen Cooks is

479
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what are ULSU fans gonna show up?

480
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Speaker 2: What do you think the crowd's gonna be?

481
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Speaker 3: Like?

482
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Speaker 1: There will be I mean, there's there's the diehards who

483
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will be there no matter what. But I think it's

484
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gonna be probably sixty five seventy percent Cooke fans. It's

485
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gonna be a lot more red again. Oh Shoe fans

486
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are just ready for the Kiffin error. They're they're if

487
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they could just skip over this game, a lot.

488
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Speaker 2: Of them would, right, they don't want to watch the

489
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seasoning ball. I get it all right, seven one three,

490
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two one two.

491
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Speaker 1: I will say the Texas Bowl always does a good

492
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job the presentation.

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Speaker 2: Yes, true, seven one three two one two. You can

494
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put that one in the trophy case. Seven one three

495
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two one two five seven ninety. His is the phone number.

496
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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Tom

497
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has been holding patiently. What's up, Tom?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 7: How's it got?

500
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Speaker 5: I was watching that Rockets game last night. Man's tragic.

501
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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 7: One thing Colin that I can see is that, you know,

503
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all these back to back games Adams is playing, and

504
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you know, maybe maybe Capella is not there backup you

505
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tout to health. It seems like his screens and his

506
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rebounding is too missing.

507
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not great when Adams has to miss the

508
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back to backs and the team hasn't been good on those.

509
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I mean, I mean, well, it's not like all season.

510
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They've only been having back to backs very recently within

511
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the last few weeks. But he liked to have Adams back, Honestly,

512
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I like Clincapella. He wasn't good last night, but overall

513
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he's been pretty solid as a rebounder, as a kind

514
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of the second backup to the backup to the backup

515
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whenever Steven Adams is out. But I don't think he's

516
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necessarily a problem with this team.

517
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Speaker 3: I'm not.

518
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Speaker 2: I'm not pointing to Clint Capella in theory. When you're

519
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fully healthy and in a playoff rotation, click Copela is

520
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not going to see the floor.

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Speaker 4: That's true.

522
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Speaker 7: But maybe I was thinking, you know, maybe I need

523
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to do more, to do some screening or get Shepherd

524
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more shots or something.

525
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Speaker 8: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks some sorry anything else?

527
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Speaker 7: Oh that's it, Thanks.

528
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you appreciate it. Yeah. Reed Sheppard continues

529
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to play well, and he's I mean, I guess you

530
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were even to call it a breakout season because now

531
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he's drying. He's not scoring twenty five a night, but

532
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he's certainly showing himself to be a capable backup slash

533
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bench score who's who can go for thirty points in

534
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a night, and he's getting a lot of He's been

535
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getting a lot of opportunities and he's been taking advantage

536
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of those. I don't know, it's like we need to

537
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run through more Reed Shepherd or anything like that. But

538
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for what he is right now, he played thirty four

539
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minutes last night. He was able to score a couple

540
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of nights ago, he had what the twenty four points. Yeah,

541
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he was amazing in that dim game. So I really

542
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love what Reed Shepherd is doing and I think he

543
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I think he's going at the right pace. I don't

544
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think it's time to like force feed more to re

545
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Shepherd or anything like that. He's been aggressive, he's been

546
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getting his shots up, and he's been scoring well and disappointing,

547
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especially when you pair it with the big win at

548
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the Denver Nuggets. To lose like that against the Sacramento

549
00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:24,319
Kings with Russell Westbrook jumping around and acting like it's

550
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Game seven of the NBA Finals, and it's like, come on, man,

551
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that's Russell. I'm not mad at Russ. That's kind of

552
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who he is. He's gonna do that. That's I mean,

553
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he's one of the I mean you've said this for years, like, oh,

554
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you take your son to the game, say hey, watch

555
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this guy. You want to play hard every minute you're

556
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on the floor, watch this guy. And that would be

557
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Russell Westbrook. He's been the prime of example of that

558
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his entire career. So, I mean, it just does it

559
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reel great?

560
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Speaker 1: Yeah?

561
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Speaker 3: I know?

562
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Speaker 2: God, well, you know we had he made a doke

563
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on when he'd made a couple of threes early in

564
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the game, and it's like, how long do you just

565
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continue to let him do that? And he's like, yeah,

566
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we like when he continues to jack up threes, but

567
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unfortunately burned them. Went five for twelve from three point

568
00:26:01,759 --> 00:26:04,920
land last night, and overall a few weeks ago, he's

569
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shooting thirty seven percent for three. I don't know where

570
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he is now. Yeah, he's come down, he's down to

571
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thirty five percent. So not likely that he's gonna wake

572
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up and be a great three point shooter after being

573
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a horrible one for like twenty years.

574
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Speaker 1: But it was the haunting of former Rockets. Yeah, Dennis Shrewder,

575
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,400
Dennis Shrewder game, every.

576
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Speaker 2: Rockets legend, Dennis Shrewder.

577
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, every big shot it felt like down the stretch

578
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he hit it. Just uh yeah, it was. It was

579
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a crappy, crappy game to what's the boy that that's

580
00:26:32,599 --> 00:26:34,519
the problem with the Rockets. Somebody said, I think what

581
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eight of their nine losses have all been in crunch time?

582
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Speaker 2: Is that true? In close games?

583
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Speaker 1: Close games?

584
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that sounds about right.

585
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Speaker 1: I mean it's good from a standpoint. Yeah, nobody's blowing

586
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him out. It's also, man, you got to figure this out.

587
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,200
And that's the whole point of you traded Jalen Green

588
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for Kevin Durant was to have a finisher.

589
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Speaker 2: Yeah, now you're down to sixth temporarily in the almost

590
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said americanly uh in the Western Conference.

591
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Speaker 1: And now you get almost a must win against the club.

592
00:27:06,759 --> 00:27:09,559
Come on, now, don't go with the must win the

593
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,000
Lakers December. I mean it's gonna be Christmas Night, naturally

594
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,279
televised audience and sold out Staples Center or whatever that

595
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:22,960
oh dot Co, whatever the hell it is, crypto Cryptostaple

596
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,200
to me. Still, but like they'll always be Staples to me,

597
00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:28,200
damn it. Like they're gonna want more than anything to

598
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,440
win that one. So it's like, God, if you slip

599
00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:33,079
up and lose tomorrow night and then you lose on Thursday,

600
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this thing really starts to get Harry. Uh.

601
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's it's a long season. They can

602
00:27:38,799 --> 00:27:41,920
have a December lull and then they can. They're gonna

603
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,440
close Straw. They're gonna be good. Obviously. The the glaring

604
00:27:44,519 --> 00:27:48,519
need of ball handling slash point guard is gonna continue

605
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to be there unless some sort of move gets made,

606
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which I just don't think they have the wiggle room

607
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,680
to do much of so we'll see how it goes.

608
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Guys are on the floor, are gonna have to get better. Reed,

609
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Shepherd has been getting better, and overalls, the season has

610
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,920
gone along a men. Thompson has been getting better. I

611
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,920
mean he had eight assists, just a couple of turnovers

612
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,799
last night. So the ball handling can improve and the

613
00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:11,759
play can improve, and you're just gonna have to look

614
00:28:11,799 --> 00:28:14,839
more for internal growth rather than external growth if you

615
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,799
are the Houston Rockets. Okay, let's go ahead and take

616
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another break here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross,

617
00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:24,880
Chris Gordy is hanging out. Jonathan Allen is here. Full

618
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lines are open for you at seven one three two

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one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

620
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two five seven ninety We have to.

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Speaker 1: Tell the truth.

622
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Speaker 2: Coming up at eleven to thirty. I will be taking

623
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the reins on that. We also, of course have the

624
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news at noon. We're here till two o'clock. You guys

625
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want to get in, you can. It is the Matt

626
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Thomas Show with Ross without Matt Thomas at seven one three,

627
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two one two five seven ninety all Right, Gordy continues

628
00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:58,000
to negotiate. You're calling LSU a Sunbelt level team at

629
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this point.

630
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Speaker 1: There's yeah. I mean the guys who are going to

631
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be playing in this sure, Look, this is a good

632
00:29:04,039 --> 00:29:06,519
thing for you of age, Like I think this is

633
00:29:06,519 --> 00:29:08,480
gonna be great for Willie Fritz to get a win

634
00:29:08,559 --> 00:29:11,799
over an SEC team and finish the season strong. I'm

635
00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:13,319
just telling you right now, like expectations.

636
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Speaker 2: You're going for ten wins, right, I forget what they finished.

637
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,359
I think they're nine and three, right, going for ten wins?

638
00:29:21,839 --> 00:29:23,799
Speaker 1: Be nice? Go will ten win season? Get a one

639
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,559
zero going up? Yes, these things and it's so easy

640
00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:28,759
to just hit the Google machine. Yes, they are nine

641
00:29:28,799 --> 00:29:32,000
and three. See I was right, Yeah, ten win season

642
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be huge. I'm just being realistic. I'm telling you right now.

643
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,960
I issue was I mean yesterday it was I got

644
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:45,720
the LS covering the point, went weeks out, West weeks out,

645
00:29:45,839 --> 00:29:50,400
I mean weeks it's the list goes on and on

646
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and on.

647
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Gordy, I'll let you soft play.

648
00:29:54,759 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: Well.

649
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Speaker 2: Speaking of that, I think basically a lot of guys

650
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,759
are transferring out of the hitting the portal for the

651
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:01,960
Texas Longhorns as well.

652
00:30:02,039 --> 00:30:05,079
Speaker 1: But DeAndre Moore, wide receiver to the portal.

653
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's kint of like eleven touchdowns almost a thousand

654
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yards in his career.

655
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Speaker 1: Why would you go? Hey, Arch Manning got better as

656
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,799
a year went along. Hey, I bet he's gonna be

657
00:30:13,839 --> 00:30:18,079
awesome next year in the Heisman favorite, I'm out straight cash, Huh, Like,

658
00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:20,119
why would you not? You know what I meant to do.

659
00:30:20,039 --> 00:30:23,519
Speaker 2: That I was at I was visiting our friends in

660
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Lake Charles to the east, and oh you know, I

661
00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:29,599
was just saying I was at the DraftKings sports book

662
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,599
and I forgot I was gonna look for the future

663
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,599
Heisman odds. But I imagine Arch is the favorite and

664
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the odds aren't that great.

665
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're not gonna get good value there now.

666
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If you want to get value on Texas as a

667
00:30:40,279 --> 00:30:42,720
national champ in twenty twenty six, maybe.

668
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Speaker 2: Schedule looks pretty tough, but you know you might as

669
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well parlay both. Right, one's gonna likely lead to the other.

670
00:30:50,079 --> 00:30:52,960
Arch wins the Heisman and Texas wins the championship. Oh,

671
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,519
you probably get some good sick.

672
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Speaker 1: Can you say that one more time? Now? Go come on,

673
00:30:58,799 --> 00:31:01,880
please for my birthday? What did Mike what did Mike

674
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,480
Elko say, We're the floor, We're the Floyd Ship.

675
00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:08,599
Speaker 2: And then when that got played at dk R, that

676
00:31:08,759 --> 00:31:11,480
was pretty funny. That was a great moment. And then

677
00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:13,359
they fell flat on their face in the playoff. That's

678
00:31:13,359 --> 00:31:15,839
a shame. Couldn't happened to a nicer program. Wishing them

679
00:31:15,839 --> 00:31:18,119
all the best? All right, seven one three two one

680
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,279
two five seven ninety is the phone number if you

681
00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:22,359
want to get in. Seven one three two one two

682
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:26,319
five seven ninety. James Incline, what's up, James?

683
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Speaker 8: Yeah, the colleagues playoffs were a joke and everybody knew

684
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,359
they were going to be a joke. To Lane didn't

685
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:35,359
show up, James Madsin didn't show up. They shouldn't have

686
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been in there.

687
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Speaker 5: They should have him didn't show up.

688
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Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I hate him.

689
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Speaker 3: Didn't show up, But that was ridiculous.

690
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Speaker 8: They said that his red guy was gonna be a

691
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Heisman Trophy candidate. Think I was horrible. I bet they

692
00:31:46,519 --> 00:31:47,680
wishing they had Carlin Weigman.

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Speaker 1: Now, he had a bad game, but he was good

694
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all year.

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Speaker 8: Ye had two bad games. Didn't bad game against Texas.

696
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Speaker 1: Okay, he's still finished. The year he was he was

697
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like twentieth in passing yards. He stow a great year,

698
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he had a great season.

699
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Speaker 8: He was Canada.

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Speaker 3: It was a joke.

701
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean how much you know what, I'm

702
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interested to get your opinion, Gordy. How much of this

703
00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:14,079
is just a one off? But normally there's not gonna

704
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be a two lane and a James Madison in correct.

705
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Speaker 1: All this is gonna course correct because they're changing. They

706
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already changed the rules next year that Notre Dame if

707
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they get the ten wins, they're automatically in uh the pendicular,

708
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,079
changing it that the conference champ is in no matter what,

709
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which I think is a mistake because Duke would have

710
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,119
been in this year had that been enacted. But they

711
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,000
want to know it's a stupid equality thing. Stop with

712
00:32:39,079 --> 00:32:42,440
the equality bull crap and just take one through twelve.

713
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:47,079
But it's just stupid where the ac ACC goes. We're

714
00:32:47,119 --> 00:32:48,799
not signed to that if we don't have an automatic

715
00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:51,400
season table like be good and you'll be in the

716
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,480
top twelve. Yes, that's but everybody's scared of their own

717
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,160
damn shadow. Everybody's going, oh, no, group of five, we're

718
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,920
not signing golf of that list. We get an auto

719
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:00,759
about seat.

720
00:33:01,039 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: Why do they have a shit? Why do they have

721
00:33:02,759 --> 00:33:05,039
a say? By the way, what is the well.

722
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,599
Speaker 1: That's the report. Last week was at the SEC in

723
00:33:07,599 --> 00:33:09,440
the Big ten. We're literally this close to going. You

724
00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:11,880
know what, guys, believe y'all, we don't need you. We're

725
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,160
gonna go do our own thing and way whoa wait

726
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,240
wait wait wait, no, we need the SEC. We need

727
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,279
the Big ten. How about we just give one seat

728
00:33:19,319 --> 00:33:21,559
for a group of five, Greg saying goes, if we

729
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,359
go to sixteen, I'll allow it. Fine. So that was

730
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,000
the agreement.

731
00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:28,079
Speaker 2: So do you think eventually? So it's what is it

732
00:33:28,119 --> 00:33:28,519
next year?

733
00:33:29,079 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: Twelve? We decided it sounds like it is trending towards

734
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,920
they will vote to go to sixteen next year.

735
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 2: Okay, well, and then can we stop there? I thought

736
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,240
we were gonna stop at twelve. I thought there was

737
00:33:40,279 --> 00:33:42,319
a push for twenty four. I knew we were gonna

738
00:33:42,359 --> 00:33:44,279
I knew we were not going to stop at two

739
00:33:44,359 --> 00:33:48,240
or four, but I didn't know it would be this

740
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,000
fast to stop twelve.

741
00:33:51,079 --> 00:33:53,279
Speaker 1: I will tell you the first round byes, I'll tell you.

742
00:33:53,319 --> 00:33:55,519
Just talking with some people who were in Norman on Friday,

743
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,359
I was in college station on Saturday. The college campuses

744
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,000
need to be The first two rounds need to be

745
00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:04,480
on college campuses. It's no offense to the Sugar Bowl

746
00:34:04,559 --> 00:34:08,039
and the Rose Bowl and the Orange Bowl, but I'm sorry,

747
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,719
it's college football. What makes college football fun the pageantry

748
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,239
of being on a college, on a campus where you

749
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,679
can see more people. Look, take your freaking corporate sponsors.

750
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,719
You know a good Year It's the Goodyear Cotton Bowl

751
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,920
at College Field. Like you could put the naming rights

752
00:34:26,119 --> 00:34:29,320
on the good Columbus, Ohio, but like play it on

753
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,280
the college campus. Stop bringing these the NFL stadium. I

754
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:32,559
don't know.

755
00:34:32,559 --> 00:34:34,519
Speaker 2: I mean, these sponsors want their money. At least the

756
00:34:34,519 --> 00:34:38,599
big bowl games are making some cash, and the cities

757
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,400
want these games as well. I mean, it's a whole

758
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,239
it's a whole thing. There's a whole lot of red

759
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:44,079
tape behind all of this.

760
00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:46,599
Speaker 1: Oh, look at Notre Dame. They failed to this is

761
00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:49,039
breaking news. They failed to reach an agreement with USC

762
00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:52,119
to extend their historic series. Wow, and they will not

763
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,519
play and they're not gonna play for the guilded why not?

764
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,920
The Irish are finalizing a two year series of BYU.

765
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well, I guess b Y is kind of good.

766
00:35:03,639 --> 00:35:06,159
Speaker 1: The two teams that were just on the outside looking.

767
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 2: At they're not trying to stay the game now right

768
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,199
Like Vanderbilt we want to do one quick showcase game.

769
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: I like that.

770
00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 3: I like that.

771
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,559
Speaker 1: Clark's like, hey, name the place, will play anywhere.

772
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 2: Anybody, oh man crazy. Well, the four matchups all should

773
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:25,000
be pretty good.

774
00:35:25,119 --> 00:35:27,559
Speaker 1: But like, here's the other thing to last year. You

775
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:30,199
remember the last batch of rankings going into last year.

776
00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:33,199
Do you remember where Boise was ranked like sixth? They

777
00:35:33,199 --> 00:35:35,920
were ninth. Okay, so Boise would have been in exactly.

778
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,800
And that's the thing. Like Tulane lost at UTSA this year,

779
00:35:41,119 --> 00:35:43,239
in any other year, that would have outsted down. Yeah,

780
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,880
James Mass, I don't even know who they lost to,

781
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,360
But like they should not have been in it. Should

782
00:35:47,519 --> 00:35:48,880
it would be if you're a group of five team,

783
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,880
you could get in and should you top to have

784
00:35:51,199 --> 00:35:52,880
just be to twelve twelve and oh or eleven to

785
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:53,559
one type season.

786
00:35:53,559 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 2: That's all that's I'm with you. I've been saying that

787
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,480
for years. Just take the top twelve. However, they are

788
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,599
no conference automatics, no champions or anything.

789
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,199
Speaker 1: See, but the power force pushing forward well, Conference ship

790
00:36:05,199 --> 00:36:06,159
should be no matter what.

791
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,599
Speaker 2: Well, that's ridiculous happens Duke Duke.

792
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,159
Speaker 1: Is seven to five and they win the ACC. They

793
00:36:10,159 --> 00:36:13,360
shouldn't be exactly, Duke's not good enough. Sorry, now they kicked.

794
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,280
They take your trophy and put it in your case.

795
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,599
They shot themselves in the foot though. They're stupid tie

796
00:36:17,599 --> 00:36:20,119
breakers because Miami should have played for an a SEC title.

797
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,440
It was the whole, like percentage and all that. So

798
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,840
I think the CYC's gonna try to fix that moving forward.

799
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I like all the matchups Ohio State, Miami,

800
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:33,880
Texas or Texas Tech, Oregon, Fredy and Slip Indiana, Alabama

801
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,079
and Georgia Ole Miss. So some good matchups left and

802
00:36:37,119 --> 00:36:40,599
then also a good matchup here in Houston is the

803
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:59,239
mac Thomas Show with Ross eleven o clock in the

804
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,159
am here on a Sports Talk seven ninety. It be

805
00:37:02,159 --> 00:37:07,960
beautiful Houston, Texas, rossby Arial, Chris Gordy with you Jonathan

806
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,199
Allen as well. We have to tell the truth. Coming

807
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,360
up at eleven to thirty. Phone lines open for he

808
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,360
had seven one three two one two five seven ninety

809
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,079
seven one three two one two five seven ninety We've

810
00:37:19,079 --> 00:37:22,000
been talking a lot of college football got the College

811
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,039
Football Playoff continuing as there were some good games so well,

812
00:37:26,039 --> 00:37:28,039
actually no, there wasn't. Really What was the best game

813
00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:30,159
over the weekend? I guess A and M in Miami

814
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:31,760
was ten a three game?

815
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well, what's funny is? I mean Oklahoma Alabama

816
00:37:36,039 --> 00:37:38,280
was entertaining, even though it ended up being a ten

817
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,639
point win for Alabama. But Oklahoma up seventeen. Nothing, that's

818
00:37:41,639 --> 00:37:44,119
a shame. Then they have the blocked punt, then the

819
00:37:44,159 --> 00:37:45,960
pick six right before halftime.

820
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 2: People thought the punter was point shaving. He just dropped

821
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:50,400
the ball.

822
00:37:50,519 --> 00:37:52,639
Speaker 1: I heard Darry Noka say he was at a he had,

823
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,639
you know, he's at Oklahoma grad and he was at

824
00:37:54,679 --> 00:37:56,880
a watch party with some friends and he said, at

825
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,960
seventeen seventeen, his friend was like, all right, man, we're

826
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,880
in this. Segoes. No, we're not losing. I know how

827
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:02,280
this plays.

828
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,519
Speaker 2: They're zero to five in playoff games, correct since the

829
00:38:06,519 --> 00:38:07,400
playoffs has started.

830
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was at first it was all

831
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,719
Lincoln Riley's fault. But I mean, you know what, Lincoln

832
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,800
Riley never did lost the home playoff game. Like you're

833
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:20,880
at home in Norman Friday night, sold out crowd. Unbelievable.

834
00:38:21,599 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, uh well, the congratulations to the A and

835
00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:26,760
M volleyball team. They won the national championship.

836
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: That's good. I tweeted out one of our.

837
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 2: Shelby Coppage on SEC network right now.

838
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, with Peter Burns. Oh wow, the I said, at

839
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,320
least Aggie's won something of consequence this week. Yeah, that's good.

840
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 2: National championship. That's counts. Maybe that plays.

841
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, Shelby's become like the preeminent voice in volleyball.

842
00:38:47,119 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know she played for somebody Texas A and

843
00:38:51,519 --> 00:38:54,760
M Corpus Christie or something. I can't crawl anyways, All right,

844
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,119
back to football stuff. You also have the Texans. We

845
00:38:57,119 --> 00:38:59,960
were talking about that in the first hour. They defeat.

846
00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:02,440
I almost said lose, because it just feels it almost

847
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,199
feels like a loss to the Las Vegas Raiders. They've

848
00:39:05,199 --> 00:39:08,679
won seven games in a row. It wasn't pretty, it

849
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,280
wasn't good in a pick six ended up being the

850
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,559
difference in the game. Offense not great. Ashton JENTI had,

851
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:17,239
I guess you gonna call that.

852
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: He had his.

853
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,119
Speaker 2: Second hundred yard game of the year, But as far

854
00:39:20,159 --> 00:39:22,000
as his total yards had to be his biggest game

855
00:39:22,039 --> 00:39:24,280
because he had that catch for sixty yards for a touchdown.

856
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,960
So he had a big breakout game against the Texans,

857
00:39:27,039 --> 00:39:30,159
unfortunately missing disease all sha ear and he broke a

858
00:39:30,199 --> 00:39:35,039
couple of big runs and c J. Stroud it was

859
00:39:35,079 --> 00:39:38,480
like a unfortunately a far too often c J. Stroud performance.

860
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,239
He didn't cost in the game. He wasn't terrible, but

861
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,000
there were too many throws where we were sitting there

862
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,039
saying c J. Stroud should make this throw and he

863
00:39:48,159 --> 00:39:50,880
didn't made the big one at the end, Nico Collins

864
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,440
with the big catch getting the elbow down. He finished

865
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,960
with four catches for fifty nine yards. But it just

866
00:39:56,159 --> 00:39:58,800
wasn't enough offense, and we keep saying when is this

867
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,039
offense going to get into You've seen some flashes here

868
00:40:02,039 --> 00:40:04,440
and there, some good games here and there. They have

869
00:40:04,559 --> 00:40:06,320
won seven games in a row, so it is hard

870
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,119
to complain, but it just it doesn't Are we just

871
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,880
being spoiled to say this seven game win streak? Does

872
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,039
it feel that great?

873
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I was feeling pretty good before before

874
00:40:20,079 --> 00:40:22,840
yesterday's game, like I thought, I thought they were starting

875
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,840
to play better. Yeah, you know, look, it had been

876
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,360
it had been a couple of weeks since before since

877
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,039
we threw Nick Kayley under the bus, like they found

878
00:40:32,039 --> 00:40:35,079
a way up in Indy, they they found a way

879
00:40:35,079 --> 00:40:38,480
out in Kansas City. Last week was just a beatdown

880
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,519
of Arizona. Everything clicked, and then this is the first

881
00:40:41,519 --> 00:40:45,360
week I thought since really the Tennessee game that.

882
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,079
Speaker 2: Time, that's the other game I would point to that

883
00:40:47,119 --> 00:40:49,280
gig case makes you just cringe.

884
00:40:49,559 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's been about a month since we criticizing

885
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,519
it Kaylee, but I think he deserves a lot of

886
00:40:53,519 --> 00:40:57,079
criticism for that game plan yesterday, like put this way,

887
00:40:57,119 --> 00:41:00,239
I didn't think. I didn't feel like cj went to

888
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,519
blame for the portal, like he didn't play great. I

889
00:41:04,519 --> 00:41:06,159
thought a lot of it was war on play calling

890
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,840
and look not having what he marks. Juar Jordan did

891
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,280
his best, but like that, the run game was not great.

892
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,000
Yesterday averaged three yards of carry.

893
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:19,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's something I can't put is now Juwar Jordan.

894
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,800
It's not like he's got stick legs, but something I

895
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:22,760
can't quit put.

896
00:41:22,599 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: My face like not fast.

897
00:41:24,119 --> 00:41:28,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just doesn't feel right, And I want to

898
00:41:28,599 --> 00:41:32,559
be nice to Juar Jordan, but it's almost like they

899
00:41:32,639 --> 00:41:35,639
let like a UFL running back in the NFL is what.

900
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,320
It kind of feels like he's not bad. It just

901
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,239
feels like he's in tryouts and it's like, I don't

902
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:41,840
know if this guy's in. That's all.

903
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 1: Well, the hope is what's what's the prognosis on Mark

904
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:47,840
should be back?

905
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 2: So hopefully, I mean he was. I think he got

906
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,760
in unlimited practice on Friday, so hopefully he doesn't miss

907
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,079
too much time. And Nick Chubb was there, but I mean,

908
00:41:57,119 --> 00:41:58,920
and he had that one big run, but other than that,

909
00:41:59,039 --> 00:42:02,920
he was just in effect. I mean, if you're Nick Chubb,

910
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,599
how are you feeling that you just got replaced by

911
00:42:05,639 --> 00:42:09,199
a dude off the practice squad. It was not even

912
00:42:09,199 --> 00:42:10,559
that good of a runner. He came in and he

913
00:42:10,599 --> 00:42:13,639
got fifteen carries to your son earlier in that he's

914
00:42:14,079 --> 00:42:17,039
Nick Chubb is washed. Yeah, he's washed. And I know

915
00:42:17,079 --> 00:42:19,920
there were remember preseason, there are people like thousand yard

916
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,639
season loading Nick Chubb. They got Nick Chubb and like guys,

917
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,239
he's been on the streets and this it was like

918
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,639
July or something when they signed him. I just read

919
00:42:28,679 --> 00:42:30,679
the tea leaves, folks. He's got no juice in the

920
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,599
legs and He's a good runner, hard runner and smart,

921
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,400
but just that's that's not gonna get it done in

922
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,440
the NFL these days. All right, seven one three five

923
00:42:41,519 --> 00:42:44,440
seven NINEY is the phone number kJ in Cyprus on

924
00:42:44,519 --> 00:42:46,840
the phone lines here on the Matt Tom Show with Ross.

925
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,400
What's up Kjell?

926
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 9: As you always listening in the background. Uh, A couple

927
00:42:54,280 --> 00:43:00,239
of quick takes as you guys, you clearly stated this

928
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,480
doesn't seem like a victory Monday in regard to the Texas.

929
00:43:03,639 --> 00:43:08,159
And I say that for a few reasons so far.

930
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:12,280
F CJ has been what he did is Ricky season,

931
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,000
when prior to the concussion, he was leading league in

932
00:43:16,079 --> 00:43:18,920
yards packing per game. He had three or four interceptions

933
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,159
at that time. I mean, he was a rock star,

934
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,079
not just in Houston but in the NFL in general.

935
00:43:24,559 --> 00:43:27,800
And you just haven't seen that. Again, I'm not saying

936
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,840
seeing it a time or two. You just CJ had

937
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,320
a swagger a confidence about him that you just don't

938
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:40,800
see anymore. And you couple that with the Aaron those

939
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,239
we've been seeing consistently. I look at some of the

940
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:47,079
younger quarterbacks in the league right now, the Trevor Lawrence,

941
00:43:47,119 --> 00:43:48,480
who by the way, has done it a couple of

942
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:53,280
times this year. The boat Nixon's the Jordan loves. I'll

943
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,719
even put Kayleb Williams in that category. You've seen these

944
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,760
guys at different points during this season consistent he carries

945
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,880
their team to victories. Whereas we're here in Houston, we're

946
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,920
just basically hoping that the offense in general CJ in particular,

947
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,920
just doesn't mess it up. And we can't have that

948
00:44:11,079 --> 00:44:13,360
line of thinking going into the off season, nor we're

949
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,400
gonna have to pay this man. I was hoping the

950
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,360
last five games of the season, we will laterally take

951
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,000
the top office, just open the office up and see

952
00:44:21,039 --> 00:44:23,039
what we have under the hood. But they haven't done that.

953
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,639
So now we're going into this office season with more

954
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:30,000
question marks about the the quarterback position, not in regard

955
00:44:30,079 --> 00:44:32,199
to getting rid of him, but exactly what we have.

956
00:44:32,639 --> 00:44:34,800
And I want to ask you guys a couple of questions.

957
00:44:35,599 --> 00:44:37,559
Who do you think is that fault for that? Is

958
00:44:37,599 --> 00:44:39,920
that j is that the play call in? I know

959
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,320
that the easy answer is the combination of both, but

960
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,719
I genuinely want to get you guys's perspective on that.

961
00:44:46,159 --> 00:44:49,039
And I also want to know what is Joe Mixon's

962
00:44:49,119 --> 00:44:52,960
contract status with the Texans moving forward after this season

963
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,559
because he's hurt now, he had injury issues in Cincinnati,

964
00:44:57,199 --> 00:44:59,679
And as much as I love Joe, you best have

965
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,119
been a availability. You can't help him from the hot

966
00:45:02,159 --> 00:45:04,159
to And I'm not just a fan of the collection

967
00:45:04,199 --> 00:45:06,480
and running back we have right now going into the

968
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,679
next season. So what do you what's the contract that

969
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,480
with Joe Mixon? And what do you think the thing

970
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,719
is if you had some points to something without sit

971
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,840
back and lift the Fellows letter.

972
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 2: So I think Joe's I mean, Joe's got a year left, right, Yeah,

973
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,400
they have an out, but I don't know how much

974
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,000
would cost him A cut him. I don't think very much.

975
00:45:24,079 --> 00:45:26,599
Speaker 1: His base is eight million next year, looks like two

976
00:45:26,679 --> 00:45:29,360
million in dead cap money. Okay, so he's the one

977
00:45:30,039 --> 00:45:32,599
they'll say ten point five million cap hit next year.

978
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:38,119
Speaker 2: So uh really, even if he's cut, it probably just

979
00:45:38,639 --> 00:45:41,719
I don't know, Earn Wilson question, All right, we'll get

980
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:43,760
Aaron Wilson on that. But I just doesn't feel like

981
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,599
he's going to be back. And I like Woody Marx.

982
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,840
I feel like Woody Marx is like a change of pace,

983
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,360
third down back I don't feel like he's a belt.

984
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,679
Speaker 1: I think he's better than that. I think so we'll

985
00:45:53,679 --> 00:45:56,559
put it this way. There are no bellcow backs anymore

986
00:45:56,559 --> 00:46:01,880
outside of was It's Derek Henry, Jonathan Taylor, Christian McCaffer

987
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,320
I guess when he's healthy. But like I mean, there's

988
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:08,119
there's about five. Everybody else is splitting duty, you know

989
00:46:08,119 --> 00:46:10,639
what I mean, Like even James von a Chan is

990
00:46:10,639 --> 00:46:13,239
probably the number one James Cook, James Cook and Ball

991
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,000
in Buffalo, though they play Ray Davis a lot, like.

992
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,559
Speaker 2: It's a fair amount, but nobody does ninety percent of

993
00:46:18,559 --> 00:46:20,159
the snaps. But I would say as much. Well, I

994
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,960
just say the lead back, like the lead dog role.

995
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,559
That not somebody who's splitting like a James Cook.

996
00:46:25,639 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I feel like you could get a good

997
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,639
compliment with him you draft another young.

998
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,159
Speaker 2: Guy or Sakwuon Barkley. I'm trying to say, I'm just

999
00:46:34,159 --> 00:46:35,559
looking up and down, but I'm just.

1000
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: Saying, like, more more now than ever, teams are very

1001
00:46:41,039 --> 00:46:44,239
much are closer to like sixty Fortyjon Robinson.

1002
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 2: I like Tyler Allergier plays a lot there, but Bjon's

1003
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,760
kind of like the lead dog. Like I don't feel

1004
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,079
like Woody Marks is a lead dog. Even I think

1005
00:46:52,119 --> 00:46:53,840
he's a fifty to fifty guy Max.

1006
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just but I don't think he's just like

1007
00:46:58,559 --> 00:47:01,719
third down change of pace back. I think I think

1008
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,639
he could be a fifty to fifty with another.

1009
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 2: Okay, i'd say fifty fifty backs definitely. What I'm saying

1010
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,559
is I think you need running back help. You need somebody,

1011
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,840
and Woody mars is gonna need somebody to help carry

1012
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,400
the load if you're gonna keep him. I mean, he's

1013
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,679
a fourth round rookie. He's cheap. That's fine, Joe Mix

1014
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,960
and whatever. Maybe draft another guy in the third or

1015
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,760
fourth round. You can get guys in the third or

1016
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,840
fourth round who was especially at running back.

1017
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,599
Speaker 1: I haven't guy at the scrap heap. Yes, I don't

1018
00:47:26,679 --> 00:47:27,679
understand why they don't.

1019
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 2: Jawar Jordan's not that bad.

1020
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,119
Speaker 1: They don't take a chance on these undrafted roots. Like

1021
00:47:32,119 --> 00:47:36,000
that's what's crazy with Nick Casario is why they haven't

1022
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,239
taken a chance more. And like I feel like every

1023
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,360
offseason you should sign at least one or two undrafted

1024
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:45,239
running backs and just see what what's there. Yeah, they

1025
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:46,440
don't do that for some reason.

1026
00:47:46,519 --> 00:47:49,519
Speaker 2: I guess we can look around for like names who

1027
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:55,840
uh names who are popping elsewhere that maybe Nick Cassario

1028
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,280
should have been interested in. But you know, I mean

1029
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,320
look and they're there's no guarantee even if you draft

1030
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,320
a guy Ashton Genty was was supposed to be this

1031
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:07,880
generational running back prospect and he's had a now yes yesterday,

1032
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:11,400
no yesterday not was standing. That's a crappy He's had

1033
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,320
a horrible year by any standard. I mean, he's only

1034
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,159
averaging three and a half yards of carry. He's got

1035
00:48:15,159 --> 00:48:17,000
like seven hundred or I think he's got eight hundred

1036
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:18,800
and twenty eight yards and left on the season. I

1037
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,159
need him to be by the way, can we get

1038
00:48:21,199 --> 00:48:23,280
Ashton genty like one hundred and sixty something yards in

1039
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:24,920
the next two weeks so he can get to a thousand.

1040
00:48:25,039 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: That's what I need. How about the guys who are

1041
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,119
basically kind of becoming the number two on their teams?

1042
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:33,000
J Cory krossky Merritt Washington, Well that's Chris Rodriguez her

1043
00:48:33,159 --> 00:48:35,360
but he's the he was picked number two forty five

1044
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:36,559
this year, seventh rounder.

1045
00:48:36,639 --> 00:48:39,360
Speaker 2: Okay, he's good, but he's not He's not a game

1046
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,320
changer though, what's the guy in Chicago? Kyle kyleman On

1047
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,880
guys really good. He was a seventh round pack. Okay,

1048
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:46,599
kyleman On guy has been good. But also he's been

1049
00:48:46,639 --> 00:48:48,440
splitting time with DeAndre Swift.

1050
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: Olie Gordon's sixth round pick for the Dolphins. How much

1051
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,920
is he He's not playing much? He was.

1052
00:48:55,159 --> 00:48:58,679
Speaker 2: What he marks, of course, was a rock. I'm just saying,

1053
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,719
like you're looking at guy from last year. Yeah, you

1054
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:01,679
can find some people.

1055
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:02,159
Speaker 1: That's the thing.

1056
00:49:02,159 --> 00:49:04,679
Speaker 2: Get another Woody Marks. Get get somebody with the I mean,

1057
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:06,920
who can run with a little bit more power. I

1058
00:49:07,039 --> 00:49:09,119
like Woody Marks. I just don't love what he marks.

1059
00:49:09,159 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: That's all. I think.

1060
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 2: You do need to address the running back the running

1061
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,480
back room in this offseason in some way, shape or form.

1062
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,519
You we don't even know what this is. This injury

1063
00:49:18,559 --> 00:49:21,400
from from Joe Mixon. We can't judge like how how much.

1064
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,320
If it was like an achilles or something like that,

1065
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,199
I don't want him back at all. But if it

1066
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,840
was just, oh, he broke his foot and he's gonna

1067
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,239
be fine next year, I would be more open to

1068
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,840
something like that, depending on you know what, if they

1069
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,199
were going to restructure a contract or something like that.

1070
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,920
But being so in the dark, it's really tough to

1071
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:39,440
have an opinion on whether or not I want Joe

1072
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:39,960
Mixon back.

1073
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,039
Speaker 1: How about this three guys that were undrafted in the

1074
00:49:43,079 --> 00:49:45,800
twenty twenty three draft that of all played roles this year.

1075
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,639
Uh De Marcato with Arizona Mary Demarcado is back up.

1076
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:54,559
Emmanuel Wilson good when Jones has been hurt at Sean

1077
00:49:54,599 --> 00:49:58,000
Tucker and Ty Jacobs say against Sean n. Tucker, he's

1078
00:49:58,039 --> 00:49:59,960
like a goal lineback, but he had that big week,

1079
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,159
like two hundred yards or something.

1080
00:50:02,159 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 2: So I mean you can find and yeah, for sure,

1081
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,079
but yeah, I mean Dario Guombalwallee has been a good,

1082
00:50:07,159 --> 00:50:09,760
good third down contributor and stuff like that. You can

1083
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:14,360
find guys, but I think, especially the way I think

1084
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,320
CD Shroud needs as much help as he can get

1085
00:50:16,559 --> 00:50:20,960
and a dynamic running game would be awesome. And things

1086
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,800
were a lot better for him in his rookie season

1087
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,559
when Joe Mixon was one of the best running backs

1088
00:50:25,559 --> 00:50:29,880
in football. That helps out so absolutely. Jalen Warren was

1089
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,920
undrafted good running backs. I like Jalen Warren, but he's

1090
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,119
been spending time with Kennick Gamewell too. So yeah, that

1091
00:50:35,159 --> 00:50:36,760
what I'm talking about. Fifty fifty backs, Yeah, I get

1092
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:38,719
a couple good fifty fifty backs, get a good running game,

1093
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,519
get some lightning and some thunder. Whatever you don't necessarily need,

1094
00:50:41,559 --> 00:50:45,719
David Montgomery, Jamior Gibbs, but something that where you can

1095
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:51,320
you can have a good, credible running game week after week.

1096
00:50:51,519 --> 00:50:53,360
All right, time for a quick break here on The

1097
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,440
Matt Thomas Show with Ross Without Matt Thomas, we got

1098
00:50:56,639 --> 00:50:59,119
to tell the truth coming up at eleven thirty. I've

1099
00:50:59,119 --> 00:51:01,639
written three opinions. I gotta write one more. Seven one

1100
00:51:01,679 --> 00:51:04,320
three two one two five seven ninety is the phone

1101
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,079
number if you want to get in seven one.

1102
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll put a running back thing in there.

1103
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,599
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety is

1104
00:51:10,599 --> 00:51:12,960
the phone number. We'll keep it going here with you

1105
00:51:13,119 --> 00:51:15,119
until two o'clock. We also got the news at noon

1106
00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:17,840
coming up and at eleven thirty to tell the truth

1107
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:22,880
here on Sports Talk seven ninety eleven twenty in the am.

1108
00:51:23,039 --> 00:51:26,039
Here on Sports Talk seven ninety, The Man Thomas Show

1109
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:32,320
with Ross Tom Matt Thomas. On a holiday week The

1110
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:36,199
Rocket's Back on Christmas Day. I missed it, but I

1111
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,559
kind of don't because I will be working pre postgame show.

1112
00:51:38,599 --> 00:51:41,199
But that comes with the territory when uh, I don't

1113
00:51:41,199 --> 00:51:42,840
want to go full Aaron Andrews on you.

1114
00:51:44,199 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 1: I'm missing all these holidays is the worst? No, it's

1115
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:47,360
a Nike game.

1116
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 2: I know you get all the Christmas even most of

1117
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,239
Christmas Day. I know I'll have a couple eggnogs and

1118
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:53,239
start the postgame show.

1119
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: Can't wait? Maybe when's the action happened on Christmas Day

1120
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:56,800
in the morning?

1121
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:57,119
Speaker 3: Right?

1122
00:51:57,559 --> 00:51:57,639
Speaker 1: No?

1123
00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 2: No, I don't know what kind of family you got.

1124
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:02,960
You don't open your gifts in the morning and do

1125
00:52:03,079 --> 00:52:07,159
no under the tree stuff. No Christmas And I'm just kidding. No,

1126
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:13,199
I think you normally just Christmas, but uh you do

1127
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,039
one morning Christmas somewhere and one afternoon Christmas. The other

1128
00:52:16,079 --> 00:52:19,559
come on, divorce a family. Let's go gotta be partying

1129
00:52:19,559 --> 00:52:19,960
all day.

1130
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:22,760
Speaker 1: See we used to always growing up, we always did

1131
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,480
Christmas Eve night. We did everything, so Christmas everything Christmas

1132
00:52:26,519 --> 00:52:30,519
Eve night. Yeah, that's what some people largely nothing. Some

1133
00:52:30,519 --> 00:52:33,880
people do one present Christmas Eve. Yeah, well we would

1134
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,079
do the opposite, maybe save one more gift on Christmas Day.

1135
00:52:37,639 --> 00:52:41,280
Speaker 2: M Oh you do so open all the presents Christmas

1136
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:45,360
Eve and then have one Christmas present. That's interesting. I

1137
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:46,280
haven't heard that one.

1138
00:52:47,519 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: Or we do the some some years we do midnight Mass. Oh,

1139
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,960
I've been to midnight Mass in my day. Little lip,

1140
00:52:56,599 --> 00:52:57,760
a lot of bloodshot eyes.

1141
00:52:58,039 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, get little sacrament wine, wet sacraminor twelve forty five.

1142
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:03,639
It's good for the soul. It's good for the soul,

1143
00:53:04,039 --> 00:53:07,559
all right. Seven three two two five seven ninety is

1144
00:53:07,599 --> 00:53:10,119
the phone number if you want to get in Rockets.

1145
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:14,039
That line is already posted. By the way, Rockets are

1146
00:53:14,079 --> 00:53:18,159
two and a half point favorites at the Los Angeles Lakers. Gosh,

1147
00:53:18,199 --> 00:53:19,800
how are we feeling about the state of the Rockets

1148
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,639
right now? By the way, seventeen and nine? Because when

1149
00:53:22,679 --> 00:53:25,280
I left before vacation last week, I talked about how

1150
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,920
there was just cloud over me and I was trying

1151
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,559
to get rid of it, but it was the Oklahoma

1152
00:53:30,559 --> 00:53:33,679
City thunder cloud. Like the Rockets kept on winning and

1153
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,199
winning and winning, but it's like, I can't even be

1154
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,199
excited about it because the Oklahoma City thunder are a

1155
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:44,599
death star. Now, since then, you've had the thunder lose

1156
00:53:44,639 --> 00:53:46,880
a couple of more games. So I'm feeling a little

1157
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,440
bit better about that. But also the Rockets have been

1158
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,280
losing to teams like the Pelicans and the Sacramento King

1159
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:53,599
So there's a cloud over me there.

1160
00:53:54,639 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I know the numbers say that they're

1161
00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:00,239
still top five in as a defensive team.

1162
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,079
Speaker 2: What's the I think there's still the point differential might

1163
00:54:03,119 --> 00:54:05,639
still be like number two in basketball.

1164
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're number three in scoring, they're number four in

1165
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:12,519
points allowed. Okay, so they're top five in both, but

1166
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,159
and there's still number one rebounding, number two point differential.

1167
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,159
I feel like when they don't have Steven Adams, they

1168
00:54:19,159 --> 00:54:23,360
are not The defense is not as stout.

1169
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 3: Yes, I.

1170
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,639
Speaker 2: Agree with that, and I mean that's just how it's

1171
00:54:30,639 --> 00:54:32,559
gonna be. Clinton Pel's gonna have to step up into

1172
00:54:32,599 --> 00:54:35,360
these back to backs, and he's not what he wants was,

1173
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:37,280
which is crazy to say.

1174
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:38,559
Speaker 1: Just Materiel old.

1175
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,519
Speaker 2: Because I remember him being like a young rookie and

1176
00:54:40,599 --> 00:54:45,679
developing and growing and becoming like a really good lob

1177
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:50,880
threat slash switchable five on those Rockets teams with James

1178
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,719
Hard and Chris Paul and being actually a very good

1179
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:55,760
key piece of those as far as a role player,

1180
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:57,639
not like he was dropping twenty a night or anything

1181
00:54:57,679 --> 00:55:00,800
like that. And now he's not what he once was.

1182
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:05,239
But it's just I need to see some more Rockets

1183
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:08,159
wins very soon. The Nuggets one was nice, for sure,

1184
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:09,840
but I mean it was just it was sandwiched in

1185
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:11,679
between a loss of the Pelicans.

1186
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: And the Kings. All on the road.

1187
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,159
Speaker 2: It's a very long road trip, second half of back

1188
00:55:15,199 --> 00:55:17,400
to back. You're on this man and six game trip

1189
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:20,880
and all that stuff. But it's just difficult, man, It's difficult.

1190
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should have won the loss in Denver, fun

1191
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:27,800
the blowout lost to Dallas, fine, but the New Orleans

1192
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,239
game of the Sacramento game, you should have finished. This

1193
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,320
is why you have a Kevin Durant to be able

1194
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:37,320
to finish, and he could not finish. And also Alpi,

1195
00:55:37,519 --> 00:55:41,199
oh my god. Like as good as he is, he

1196
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:45,559
has stretches where I mean just absolutely clueless with the

1197
00:55:45,599 --> 00:55:49,079
basketball and then turning to the refs and bitching and like, dude,

1198
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:51,480
play the get your head out of your ass and

1199
00:55:51,559 --> 00:55:53,840
in the game. And yeah, you turn the ball over,

1200
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,480
but get back how many times this team will turn

1201
00:55:57,519 --> 00:55:59,840
the ball over and there's no help defensive.

1202
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:03,599
Speaker 2: Leagus do a little bit of I mean extra as

1203
00:56:03,639 --> 00:56:06,679
far as complaining to the referees and throwing his hands

1204
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,559
up when I'm and yeah, there are just feels like

1205
00:56:09,559 --> 00:56:11,199
a couple of times every game you're like age, get

1206
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:13,360
back on defense. You didn't get the call. We got

1207
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,480
to move along, let's go. And he also I think

1208
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,199
he is the king of calling for challenges of things

1209
00:56:19,199 --> 00:56:21,599
where there's no chance they're gonna win a challenge.

1210
00:56:22,199 --> 00:56:22,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I am.

1211
00:56:23,079 --> 00:56:27,079
Speaker 2: Confidence outprunching good, but he's always he's always wearing his

1212
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,599
wrist in a circle, trying to get them to try

1213
00:56:29,639 --> 00:56:31,320
to challenge something that's not a challenge.

1214
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:35,639
Speaker 1: Well, how about yesterday they was a Sacramento had used

1215
00:56:35,679 --> 00:56:38,559
their challenges and then Russell Westbrook at the final minute

1216
00:56:38,639 --> 00:56:40,639
calling for a challenge, like, you don't have anymore, bro,

1217
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:41,280
you use them?

1218
00:56:41,519 --> 00:56:49,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just it's I don't want to save it.

1219
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:51,159
Maybe I'll say I mean, I don't want to say it.

1220
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:52,920
I'm gonna save it for the next segment.

1221
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: But okay, how about this?

1222
00:56:57,840 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 2: There were people who have said this team still needs

1223
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:03,880
to report card, yes, or do they need to go

1224
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:06,719
bigger game hunting? What's the latest? I was out of

1225
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:08,639
town for a week. What's the latest on you since

1226
00:57:08,679 --> 00:57:10,119
the Kompom possibly getting moved.

1227
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: Quiet. I haven't heard anything.

1228
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 2: All quiet on the Gianni's front.

1229
00:57:14,039 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything.

1230
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:17,519
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, let's get Larry in spring real quick ahead

1231
00:57:17,519 --> 00:57:19,559
of to tell the truth coming up in the next second.

1232
00:57:19,599 --> 00:57:20,199
Speaker 1: What's up, Larry?

1233
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 3: Hey? How you all doing, Row?

1234
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, Larry good good good man.

1235
00:57:26,679 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 3: Say man, okay, you watched your game yesterday, right, yes, okay?

1236
00:57:33,559 --> 00:57:38,320
The head referee number one? All right? You know the

1237
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,840
one that announces all.

1238
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,079
Speaker 1: The calls, you know, yeah, the crew chief.

1239
00:57:44,559 --> 00:57:48,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was number one, and he was the one

1240
00:57:48,239 --> 00:57:51,159
that would you know, speak over the mic whatever. The

1241
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,840
call was right, and I was looking at him. You

1242
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,039
remember Charlie Perulo.

1243
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 2: Yes, I do remember Charlie. You think it looked like Charlie.

1244
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,440
You had to look at it, man, I thought, I

1245
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,679
don't remember who the referee was, honestly.

1246
00:58:10,599 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 3: But oh just look. Replayed the game and I was

1247
00:58:15,039 --> 00:58:17,360
wanting to be again a referee in job.

1248
00:58:17,719 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 2: I didn't know you thought Charlie Polo was an NBA referee. No, oh,

1249
00:58:25,039 --> 00:58:26,760
NFL you're doing for the Texans.

1250
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 3: Check it out, well, check it out, man, You know

1251
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:35,159
I don't know why check it out.

1252
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,559
Speaker 2: Uh huh. I watched that game too, and I don't

1253
00:58:38,559 --> 00:58:41,039
remember thinking a guy looks like I'm trying to find

1254
00:58:41,079 --> 00:58:44,000
their numbers. All right, Larry, we'll do some investigating on that.

1255
00:58:44,159 --> 00:58:45,239
Speaker 1: I appreciate.

1256
00:58:47,679 --> 00:58:53,599
Speaker 2: Where's the referees listed by Jersey numbers? Scott Novak is anything?

1257
00:58:53,599 --> 00:58:54,320
He's trying to say?

1258
00:58:54,519 --> 00:58:55,119
Speaker 1: I guess, so.

1259
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 2: Let me look, I get you know, not really you

1260
00:59:03,599 --> 00:59:06,960
sure he doesn't really look like Charlie Plo. I guess

1261
00:59:07,039 --> 00:59:11,880
it looks like they could be cousins. That's freaking hilarious.

1262
00:59:12,199 --> 00:59:15,719
All right, not note, We're gonna take a break. Ray,

1263
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:17,039
we see you on hold. We do have to get

1264
00:59:17,079 --> 00:59:18,599
to tell the truth. We'll get to you though. You

1265
00:59:18,639 --> 00:59:20,480
guys want to get in you can seven one three, two,

1266
00:59:20,519 --> 00:59:23,000
one two five, seven ninety Coming up next, I will

1267
00:59:23,039 --> 00:59:27,920
have four opinions, but I will only believe one. That's

1268
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:30,559
coming up on to tell the Truth next on Sports

1269
00:59:30,599 --> 00:59:32,679
Talk seven ninety in the Matt tom Show with Ross.

1270
00:59:41,039 --> 00:59:57,119
Speaker 1: I never know why you don't know? Eleven to thirty four.

1271
00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:59,639
Here on a Sports Talk seven.

1272
00:59:59,519 --> 01:00:04,559
Speaker 2: Ninety The Matt Thomas Show with Ross a Monday staple segments.

1273
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:12,239
Speaker 1: I will give you, guys four opinions. I only believe.

1274
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 2: One of them, Chris Gordy, and you have to decide

1275
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,960
which one I believe, Jonathan, how many do I believe?

1276
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:20,519
Speaker 10: No?

1277
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:22,599
Speaker 2: All right, I get confused too, so I'm not gonna

1278
01:00:22,599 --> 01:00:23,840
get mad at y'all. When you'll get confused.

1279
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,239
Speaker 1: It makes sense when you when you remember it's called

1280
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,880
to tell the truth. Yes, there's only one truth will match,

1281
01:00:29,039 --> 01:00:30,519
which is it up every week? And that's how I

1282
01:00:30,599 --> 01:00:33,800
get confused every time I do it, because I understand

1283
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:34,239
why he does it.

1284
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:36,079
Speaker 2: It's hard to come up with like fake ones that

1285
01:00:36,159 --> 01:00:41,400
are believable, But I digress. Okay, folks, opinion the number

1286
01:00:41,559 --> 01:00:49,000
one this weekend has convinced me you felt like it

1287
01:00:49,199 --> 01:00:55,000
was coming. I'm talking about the Texas A and m Aggie's.

1288
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,960
Mike Elco has been a coach for as long as

1289
01:00:59,039 --> 01:01:02,800
he has. He wasn't that good at Duke fell apart

1290
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,920
his first season at A and m fell apart his

1291
01:01:06,519 --> 01:01:10,519
second season at A and M. The Texas A and

1292
01:01:10,679 --> 01:01:16,119
M fighting Aggies will not win a national championship with

1293
01:01:16,559 --> 01:01:18,840
Mike Elko as their head coach. They could do it

1294
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:21,360
with someone else, but it is not going to happen

1295
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:25,760
with Mike Elko doesn't have the track record, doesn't do

1296
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,280
well enough in close games. This year was a function

1297
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:30,280
of the schedule. I think it's going to be more

1298
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:34,000
like closer to what last year was going forward for

1299
01:01:34,159 --> 01:01:37,639
Mike Elko, and he will be fired disgracefully and probably

1300
01:01:37,679 --> 01:01:38,400
get a big payout.

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01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 1: Opinion number two.

1302
01:01:44,119 --> 01:01:46,400
Speaker 2: All Right, I know it looked bad for the Houston Texans,

1303
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:50,000
but I think you can get enough out of CJ. Stroud.

1304
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:53,639
They have beaten the Bills on this win streak they

1305
01:01:53,679 --> 01:01:56,320
have been on. They beat the Chiefs before Pat Mahomes

1306
01:01:56,760 --> 01:01:59,400
snapped his whole body in half. They have some really

1307
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,360
good wins on this seven game winning streak. I don't

1308
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:05,480
think they're gonna be Super Bowl good, but I think

1309
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:10,239
for the first time in Texans history, they're gonna make

1310
01:02:10,239 --> 01:02:13,519
an AFC Championship game. The defense is good enough, Woody

1311
01:02:13,599 --> 01:02:16,920
Marks is gonna come back. They're gonna be fine. Offensively

1312
01:02:17,159 --> 01:02:19,679
not good, but they're gonna basically win a bunch of

1313
01:02:19,719 --> 01:02:22,519
twenty one to nineteen games and make their first AFC

1314
01:02:22,679 --> 01:02:25,960
Championship game. But I don't think they go any further

1315
01:02:26,119 --> 01:02:29,000
than that first AFC Championship game.

1316
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:35,719
Speaker 1: For the Houston Texans number three. This is gonna be.

1317
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:38,840
Speaker 2: Something that hurts my heart to say out loud, but

1318
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:45,840
I believe it. Will must Champ, defensive coordinator for the

1319
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:49,920
Texas Longhorns. It's not gonna work out. I don't know

1320
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,679
why this move was made. I like Pete Kwatowski. I

1321
01:02:52,719 --> 01:02:55,400
think the defense has been very good the last two years. Yes,

1322
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:57,239
there was some slippitches this year, but that's because they

1323
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:02,239
were on the field so much. With this offense. The

1324
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:04,199
day and age for Will must Champ as a type

1325
01:03:04,239 --> 01:03:07,960
of coach that's gone. You can't have these fiery guys

1326
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:12,119
who are screaming at everyone and throwing chairs at eight

1327
01:03:12,199 --> 01:03:16,000
in the morning and punching the whiteboard and yelling. These

1328
01:03:16,079 --> 01:03:19,559
dudes are pulling up to the meeting rooms in Lamborghinis. Okay,

1329
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,760
Will must Champ, Ain't nobody got time to be hearing

1330
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:26,280
you screaming bloody murder at everyone and treating people like

1331
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:30,320
children anymore. Will must Champ is gonna get tuned out

1332
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:32,800
by these players who are making hundreds of thousands of dollars.

1333
01:03:33,039 --> 01:03:35,400
It's not gonna work out with him as a defensive

1334
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:41,239
coordinator at the University of Texas. That is opinion number three.

1335
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:45,519
Opinion number four, We're going deep into the archives, folks.

1336
01:03:45,559 --> 01:03:48,199
We're bringing up baseball, which we haven't talked about all

1337
01:03:49,519 --> 01:03:53,159
sho long. However, there was a trade made when I

1338
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:58,239
was out. Mike Burrows was traded for the Houston Astros,

1339
01:03:58,280 --> 01:03:59,800
and so I got to thinking, and I was pulling

1340
01:03:59,880 --> 01:04:03,239
up their rotation, and I'm like, this is according to

1341
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:11,159
Fangrass roster resource Hunter Brown nice, Christian Javier Lanso colors juner,

1342
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:15,920
Mike Burrows will see and Ryan Wise who came from

1343
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:19,920
the Korean League and is twenty nine years old. Then

1344
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,960
we're talking about jose Al two vea declining. Can Jeremy

1345
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:26,079
pain your replicate a breakout year? Carls Korea is a

1346
01:04:26,159 --> 01:04:29,840
year older house he suck Parade's leg, Christian Walker's older.

1347
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:36,039
It hurts me to say the Astros are not winning

1348
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:39,320
the American League West. Maybe they can make the playoffs.

1349
01:04:39,599 --> 01:04:43,239
I'm not gonna take that off the table just yet. Yeah,

1350
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:47,480
bullpen question marks as well. The Houston Astros will not

1351
01:04:48,199 --> 01:04:53,119
win the American League West in twenty twenty six.

1352
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: That is my opinion number four.

1353
01:04:57,360 --> 01:05:01,559
Speaker 2: So to recap Aggie's cannot win an Sational Championship under

1354
01:05:01,679 --> 01:05:05,440
Mike Elco. He doesn't have the track record Raiders. Notwithstanding,

1355
01:05:05,519 --> 01:05:10,239
the Texas will make their first AFC Championship game Will

1356
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:13,360
must Champ bad higher for the Texas Longhorns. That is

1357
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:16,760
not going to work out, and the Houston Astros will

1358
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:20,920
not win the American League West.

1359
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 4: Fellas discuss all right, Gordy, help me out here with

1360
01:05:26,519 --> 01:05:28,519
number three? Is Will must Tamp that bad?

1361
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: No, I'll tell you playing simple, So only one of

1362
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:36,639
these is true for the first time Texans will make

1363
01:05:36,679 --> 01:05:41,400
the AFC Championship. I believe Ross doesn't believe that, right,

1364
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:44,480
Will must Champ will not work out. I think he

1365
01:05:44,599 --> 01:05:46,480
does not believe that. I think he believes Will must

1366
01:05:46,519 --> 01:05:49,800
Champ will be a very good DC. Astros will not

1367
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:53,679
win the AL West. I think that's a fair assessment.

1368
01:05:56,159 --> 01:05:58,000
But A and M will not win a championship with

1369
01:05:58,079 --> 01:06:02,559
Mike Elco. Ross's Aggie Hay him self. That's gotta be

1370
01:06:02,679 --> 01:06:05,360
the true one. That's gotta be the true one. I'm

1371
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:05,960
gonna go with A.

1372
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 4: I'm that Astro is very I'm gonna I think Ross

1373
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:14,639
believe is not gonna win the West, so West is

1374
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:18,119
very good. But and man has kept everybody too. Yeah,

1375
01:06:18,119 --> 01:06:20,079
I'm gonna I'm gonna stay with the Astros.

1376
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:21,920
Speaker 3: Well, I am.

1377
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 2: Somewhat wary of the will muss Champ Higher. I do

1378
01:06:27,239 --> 01:06:30,199
think there are concerns with me of him getting tuned

1379
01:06:30,239 --> 01:06:33,440
out by the players, But they're still pretty young and

1380
01:06:33,599 --> 01:06:36,400
probably receptive to coaching. So I'm not saying it's not

1381
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:39,199
gonna work out. But I was puzzled by the Higher,

1382
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:42,880
So you guys were right to dismiss that one. Next one, yeah,

1383
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:44,559
I felt like it was the weakest one of the bunch.

1384
01:06:45,159 --> 01:06:48,000
I mean, the Texans can make the AFC Championship game,

1385
01:06:49,119 --> 01:06:54,320
but to declare they're making the championship game, I think

1386
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:56,639
is a little bit much. And then the last, but

1387
01:06:56,800 --> 01:07:02,760
not least, Mike Outco is a good enough coach, So

1388
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:04,599
as long as you continue to get him players, you

1389
01:07:04,679 --> 01:07:07,880
could probably win a national championship. They got close enough

1390
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:10,159
this year. You get him a couple more players, they

1391
01:07:10,199 --> 01:07:13,360
can do it. Yeah, I think you could as much

1392
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:15,400
as anybody, as much as sark or as much as

1393
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:17,960
Lane Kiffin, or as much as Kailn Debor you can't.

1394
01:07:18,079 --> 01:07:20,239
I'm not saying that it's gonna happen. I'm not saying

1395
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,360
he's national championship caliber. Is Joey Maguire the greatest coach

1396
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,760
on the planet. No, you get Texas Tech, a bunch

1397
01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:29,159
of players, and then he's gonna be fine. So I mean,

1398
01:07:29,239 --> 01:07:31,280
Ryan Day was on his way out at Ohio State

1399
01:07:31,599 --> 01:07:34,440
because he couldn't beat Michigan, and then he wins a

1400
01:07:34,519 --> 01:07:37,159
national championship. I think he's to the level of where

1401
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:39,880
the players are good enough, and you have good enough assistance,

1402
01:07:40,119 --> 01:07:42,480
you'll be fine. So it hurts me to say I

1403
01:07:42,559 --> 01:07:47,519
don't think the Astros are winning the American League West.

1404
01:07:47,519 --> 01:07:50,559
I don't think it's likely that Mike Ouko wins a championship,

1405
01:07:50,599 --> 01:07:53,840
But I don't think. My phrase was they cannot win

1406
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,880
a national championship with Mike Calco, which I don't believe.

1407
01:07:57,519 --> 01:08:01,639
Good job, Jonathan, you want it's the longest dry it's

1408
01:08:01,639 --> 01:08:03,800
in like five weeks. Oh really, I don't think this

1409
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:07,199
one counts though. It's like a it's like a substitute.

1410
01:08:09,159 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 1: For a spring game.

1411
01:08:11,039 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 3: I like that.

1412
01:08:11,679 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: I like that, all right. Still don't believe that Ross

1413
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:15,679
believes the Act can compete for a champion.

1414
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:17,239
Speaker 2: I think they can't. I mean, look, they were in

1415
01:08:17,319 --> 01:08:20,439
the playoff this year, it could happen. You just gotta

1416
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:22,520
get them a bunch of players, and you gotta get

1417
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:25,279
anybody a bunch of Yeah, exactly, but get everybody. I mean,

1418
01:08:25,359 --> 01:08:27,880
that's it's I just think it's so wide open for anyone.

1419
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:31,399
For me to completely dismiss him, to say they cannot

1420
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:34,439
win with him, I think is wrong. Thirteen years in

1421
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:37,279
the SEC, they still haven't even played for a conference champion. Yeah,

1422
01:08:37,279 --> 01:08:39,640
it's a shame. Couldn't happened to a nicer program. All Right,

1423
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:41,279
We're gonna have a nicer fan base too. It's not

1424
01:08:41,359 --> 01:08:44,159
like they gloat and prene all the time. I'd not

1425
01:08:44,279 --> 01:08:47,079
even winning and keep adding championships to a stadium. Anyways,

1426
01:08:47,079 --> 01:08:49,199
We're gonna take quick break here on The Man Tabas

1427
01:08:49,279 --> 01:08:51,560
Show with Ross Corny continues to hang out. We Got

1428
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:56,800
the News at Noon with Jonathan Allen. Wink wink, listen

1429
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:00,760
Listen News at Noon with Jonathan Allen. Make up Next

1430
01:09:01,279 --> 01:09:04,000
here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Ray will

1431
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:05,479
get to you as well. Anybody else want to get

1432
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:07,119
in and react to anything I had to say or

1433
01:09:07,279 --> 01:09:09,640
you have to say for what happened over the weekend

1434
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,319
in sports. Seven to one three two one two five

1435
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:15,800
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

1436
01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:30,039
ninety All right, go San Francisco forty nine ers Houston, Texas?

1437
01:09:30,039 --> 01:09:31,800
Is that correct? And clench a playoff spot?

1438
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:34,600
Speaker 1: Believe that's what I read?

1439
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:38,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but they'll still be fighting for seeding as

1440
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:40,399
they have a couple more games left. I mean, it's

1441
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:43,479
not gonna work out for them with the AFC South

1442
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:46,760
Jaguars are a game up, plus they're playing the Colts

1443
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:50,560
and then the Titans. I mean, that's probably gonna end

1444
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:56,359
up being a couple of gimmeas. But we'll see Chargers

1445
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:59,840
on the road Texans one and a half point dogs

1446
01:10:00,159 --> 01:10:02,399
that game, and then the Colts to end the season.

1447
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:05,479
The time is still TBD on that, but I don't

1448
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:07,079
think it's gonna end up being any sort of Sunday

1449
01:10:07,119 --> 01:10:08,520
night football thing or anything.

1450
01:10:08,239 --> 01:10:09,920
Speaker 1: Like that, So I gotta go ahead.

1451
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:12,760
Speaker 2: Guest twelve new for Texans Colts for the last week

1452
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:15,359
of the season, but that he has yet to be announced.

1453
01:10:15,399 --> 01:10:17,960
They beat the Raiders yesterday twenty three to twenty one.

1454
01:10:19,079 --> 01:10:21,760
Was it pretty ash and genty had a big game.

1455
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:23,640
He had the fifty yard run, he had the sixty

1456
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:27,600
yard catch touchdowns on both of those. Geno Smith did

1457
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:30,720
throw the pick six and it was enough for the

1458
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:33,079
Texans to get the twenty three to twenty one victory.

1459
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:35,039
You guys want to get in You can talk about

1460
01:10:35,039 --> 01:10:37,560
anything you'd like. Seven one three two one two five

1461
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:40,920
seven ninety seven to one three two one two five

1462
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:42,960
seven ninety. We have the news at noon with Jonathan

1463
01:10:43,039 --> 01:10:45,439
Allen coming up at twelve. But right now, Ray in

1464
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:50,279
Miami has been holding patiently. Ray, the floor is yours.

1465
01:10:52,079 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 11: Hi, how you doing.

1466
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:55,279
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Ross, Thank you, it's good to be back.

1467
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:58,319
Speaker 11: You remember you remember I was the tag back here

1468
01:10:58,439 --> 01:11:01,680
from the spring. He attacking again this morning.

1469
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:02,600
Speaker 1: Oh what happened?

1470
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:08,039
Speaker 11: Gary doesn't like me saying anything negative.

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01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:08,560
Speaker 9: About the Texans.

1472
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:11,520
Speaker 3: And I said that before I even got on.

1473
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 11: The call, Ross, I was behind him and he was

1474
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:16,960
then was trying to stay on the phone, and he

1475
01:11:17,399 --> 01:11:20,119
hung up the phone. He doesn't want to hear my tape.

1476
01:11:20,159 --> 01:11:22,880
But Gary, let me tell you something. If you can't

1477
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:27,560
score until the fourth quarter, legitimately against the Raiders, we're

1478
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:30,600
not gonna win. Gary. And once again, like I said

1479
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:34,640
to Coldingham, they were getting boom, Gary, they were getting boomed,

1480
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:38,000
not the defense, but the offense, I don't know what's

1481
01:11:38,079 --> 01:11:41,000
up with. Isn't Brad from Spring? What's up with these

1482
01:11:41,079 --> 01:11:44,399
weirdos in Spring Texas? You have to be able to

1483
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:48,279
be a good fan, Gary, not a cry baby. I

1484
01:11:48,399 --> 01:11:51,279
know the mcmars love people like you because you're gonna

1485
01:11:51,359 --> 01:11:53,960
sell sixty five thousand out because you're just gonna go.

1486
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:56,600
But you have to call out what's wrong?

1487
01:11:57,239 --> 01:11:57,520
Speaker 3: CJ.

1488
01:11:57,760 --> 01:11:58,720
Speaker 11: I don't know what's going on.

1489
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 3: But it's the throws bad that the well he.

1490
01:12:02,039 --> 01:12:05,600
Speaker 11: Had like twelve yards, it was horrible. I don't like

1491
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:09,159
the offense gameplay. That's all I'm trying to explain to myself.

1492
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:10,680
Speaker 3: That's to Gary.

1493
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:14,239
Speaker 11: I mean, that's it is nothing. And let me tell

1494
01:12:14,239 --> 01:12:17,600
you something, Brothers. If Dan open those two phone lines

1495
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,399
like he said he would do, I'll eat you up

1496
01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:22,560
in a debate about the Texans, Gary, and it's gonna

1497
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:25,560
only be about the offense. You better hope and praise

1498
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:28,520
that Dan and Cole don't open both phone lines and

1499
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:31,199
let us get on. I'll eat you a lit bro

1500
01:12:31,319 --> 01:12:34,279
because you just called me name and I dropped from Wow.

1501
01:12:35,359 --> 01:12:37,119
Speaker 2: Oh maybe we'll get this scheduled ray.

1502
01:12:37,159 --> 01:12:41,800
Speaker 11: You got to you gotta Twitter, Yeah, I'll send you

1503
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:42,359
to you right now.

1504
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:45,000
Speaker 2: Boy, Gary probably didn't have a Twitter. I don't know

1505
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:45,800
if he has a computer.

1506
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:51,119
Speaker 11: Garys sitting in a case complaining about people. Who's complaining? Gary?

1507
01:12:52,159 --> 01:12:55,039
We're complaining because we're upset about it. We want a

1508
01:12:55,159 --> 01:12:58,439
Super Bowl Gary. I don't want them to go to

1509
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:03,079
New England and get him Harris. But CJ cannot keep

1510
01:13:03,199 --> 01:13:06,279
up with running up and down the field touchdown for

1511
01:13:06,399 --> 01:13:10,039
touchdown with probably both Nicks. Look you look at Trevor

1512
01:13:10,079 --> 01:13:12,439
Lawrence beat the Broncos. We should have beat the Broncos.

1513
01:13:13,279 --> 01:13:16,760
You know, it seems just a small thing. And CJ,

1514
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:18,720
you keep saying, I just gotta do this.

1515
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:20,279
Speaker 9: I just got When are you gonna do it?

1516
01:13:21,159 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 3: I just gotta do this. I just have to do that.

1517
01:13:23,119 --> 01:13:26,319
Speaker 11: Those are excused. You didn't ready to get paid a

1518
01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:29,720
lot of money. I need production come out.

1519
01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:33,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks a lot, Ray, It's yeah.

1520
01:13:33,119 --> 01:13:36,079
Speaker 2: If you look yesterday, they got they won the turnover

1521
01:13:36,199 --> 01:13:41,119
battle one to zero, and that one turned into seven

1522
01:13:41,239 --> 01:13:44,079
points and you won the game by two. They got

1523
01:13:44,159 --> 01:13:47,199
out gained by the Raiders in total yards three fifteen

1524
01:13:47,239 --> 01:13:50,119
to two seventy. They did have more first downs, but

1525
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,840
it just felt like a very even game against a

1526
01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:56,840
team that's had two wins all season. They have no

1527
01:13:57,079 --> 01:13:59,920
reason to really play for anything, and they just lost

1528
01:14:00,119 --> 01:14:03,159
thirty one to zero the previous week. Maybe you could

1529
01:14:03,239 --> 01:14:06,479
argue that's what they had to fight for, is to

1530
01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:08,720
not get embarrassed that bad and come out and show

1531
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:10,239
some pride and do that on the road.

1532
01:14:11,079 --> 01:14:13,279
Speaker 3: But it just.

1533
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:17,600
Speaker 2: It just didn't look good out there for the Texans.

1534
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:19,600
But as you said earlier, Gordy, I mean, they looked

1535
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:21,840
a lot better against the Cardinals the week before before that,

1536
01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:23,399
you beat the Chiefs, Colts.

1537
01:14:23,119 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 1: And Bills.

1538
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:25,079
Speaker 2: I mean that was a run of games where we

1539
01:14:25,159 --> 01:14:27,840
were saying, hopefully they can go two and one, even

1540
01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:29,720
one and two is okay, and they went three and

1541
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,520
oho in those games. Like, yeah, they've all been close.

1542
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,600
But this is still a really good Texans team. But

1543
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:38,479
it just yesterday didn't inspire a whole lot of confidence.

1544
01:14:39,039 --> 01:14:42,039
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you right now, I mean, going to

1545
01:14:42,119 --> 01:14:45,119
outel Lay to play the Chargers, you gotta bring your

1546
01:14:45,199 --> 01:14:48,039
you gotta bring your a game. With the offense, it's

1547
01:14:48,199 --> 01:14:50,960
gonna have look you hope the defense can hold their own.

1548
01:14:51,039 --> 01:14:55,159
I'm just telling you right now, Chargers, justin Herbert's been

1549
01:14:55,199 --> 01:14:57,760
awesome this year, and that run game has been very good.

1550
01:14:58,920 --> 01:15:00,680
They just got Omar and I emptied back.

1551
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:03,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was running very well.

1552
01:15:03,119 --> 01:15:06,199
Speaker 1: He was running very well yesterday. I mean, Keenan Allen

1553
01:15:06,319 --> 01:15:08,640
still is like the fountain of Youth. He just keeps

1554
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:09,319
catching balls.

1555
01:15:09,359 --> 01:15:09,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1556
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 2: Quentin Johnson's good, and they got Lad McConkie, who's given

1557
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:18,359
the Texans issues before. So yeah, it's and you're going

1558
01:15:18,399 --> 01:15:20,079
on the road to play them, even though I mean

1559
01:15:20,159 --> 01:15:22,319
it is a Los Angeles Chargers, so it's not like

1560
01:15:22,399 --> 01:15:25,800
it's the most rabid home environments that you're gonna face

1561
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:27,319
or anything like that. But you're one and a half

1562
01:15:27,319 --> 01:15:29,399
point Dogs'll be a good test. I'm looking forward to

1563
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:31,399
this one so totally. Your defense could hold them to

1564
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:34,880
twenty four. Do you think the Texans offense can score well?

1565
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:36,880
Vegas will tell you no because the total is thirty

1566
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:40,720
nine and a half, so that would be squeezed. That

1567
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:43,960
means the implied totals are around like twenty one or

1568
01:15:44,039 --> 01:15:48,479
twenty two for the Chargers. I will say, if you

1569
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:51,960
can hold them, a twenty four might not be enough.

1570
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:54,880
I'm just being honest. I mean, they scored forty against

1571
01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:58,119
the Cardinals. But before that, they've had twenty three this week,

1572
01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:02,720
twenty twenty, twenty three, sixteen, and then thirty six with

1573
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:06,760
Davis Mills against Jaguars. So, I mean, history tells me

1574
01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:08,560
five of the last six weeks they have not been

1575
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:11,199
able to score more than twenty four points. So yeah,

1576
01:16:11,359 --> 01:16:14,680
it's a concern. If you say twenty four, I'm gonna

1577
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:17,039
say the Texans lose. I wish I didn't say that

1578
01:16:17,079 --> 01:16:19,239
out loud. If you say twenty, I'm saying we got

1579
01:16:19,279 --> 01:16:22,720
a shot. Yeah, that's just that's a tough ass that

1580
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:26,439
you're gonna hold. You're gonna hold that offense to Yeah, twenty. Uh,

1581
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:28,560
look at what they've done. Well, I guess.

1582
01:16:30,359 --> 01:16:35,520
Speaker 1: Jaguars did beat them thirty five to six, but they

1583
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:37,239
scored thirty one against the Raiders.

1584
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:39,760
Speaker 2: Wars are scared. I'm starting to get scared of the Jaguars.

1585
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:41,359
And I didn't think I was gonna say that this year.

1586
01:16:43,399 --> 01:16:46,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, maybe maybe I'm just living in having watched

1587
01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:50,600
that whole Cowboys Chargers game yesterday, because the Chiefs did

1588
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:54,479
hold them to sixteen, Eagles held them to twenty two.

1589
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:56,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cowboys have the worst defense on the planet, So

1590
01:16:57,159 --> 01:16:58,880
maybe that could that make me feel little better? Al Right,

1591
01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:01,359
Renfro in most ahead of the top of the r

1592
01:17:01,399 --> 01:17:01,680
what's up?

1593
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:02,079
Speaker 1: Rent fro.

1594
01:17:04,039 --> 01:17:07,479
Speaker 9: All right, we got guys, hey GUARDI hey man, Guardy

1595
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,960
you know football so guardian, you know, and you just

1596
01:17:11,039 --> 01:17:14,039
don't want to see it. But you know, our offensive

1597
01:17:14,279 --> 01:17:17,800
scheme and offensive play calling is horrible. I mean, come on,

1598
01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:22,800
guarded uh CJ knitting throws and everything, especially when you're

1599
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:26,680
missing clothes. But there's no pressure, you know, so uh

1600
01:17:27,079 --> 01:17:31,039
I just don't I grief the other calling. The play

1601
01:17:31,199 --> 01:17:35,359
calling is horrible, and until we get that sewed up,

1602
01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:39,000
the defense is definitely gonna do just what we did yesterday.

1603
01:17:39,039 --> 01:17:41,439
They gonna they're gonna be in and break because you're

1604
01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:42,960
on the field. As long as they've been on the

1605
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:46,920
field with these drives, we got problems. So I'm I'm

1606
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:49,359
in good with what the last call is there. Our

1607
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:52,680
problem is our defense is gonna get broken down if

1608
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:56,680
we can't at least on our offensive scheme sustained drives.

1609
01:17:56,920 --> 01:17:59,840
All right, Guardon, check it out and thank you, Gordy.

1610
01:18:00,399 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 1: You want to react to that, Gordy, Well, yeah, the

1611
01:18:03,319 --> 01:18:07,880
the the play calling has certainly been an issue, you know,

1612
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:12,279
I still Nickklee has not bought any buy in for

1613
01:18:12,439 --> 01:18:17,079
me this this year. But again, it's a combination of everything.

1614
01:18:17,319 --> 01:18:22,199
You gotta crap run game and you can't be one dimensional.

1615
01:18:22,319 --> 01:18:24,279
You gotta be able to I.

1616
01:18:24,279 --> 01:18:27,279
Speaker 2: Mean, you're also trotting out Jawar Jordan and Nick Chubb.

1617
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:30,159
I mean that's and oh, by the way, both your

1618
01:18:30,199 --> 01:18:32,560
tackles got hurt yesterday. I know what's the latest on

1619
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:36,159
everybody is there as far as Ursery and Trent Brown

1620
01:18:36,239 --> 01:18:40,279
going down, So that that's something certainly to monitor and

1621
01:18:40,319 --> 01:18:41,960
another reason why I wouldn't call for them to go

1622
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:43,960
to the AFC Championship game. I know what's going on

1623
01:18:44,039 --> 01:18:45,960
with this tackle play, Like you start to get a

1624
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:49,439
little bit more continuity on the offensive line, and then

1625
01:18:49,439 --> 01:18:51,840
both your guys go down yesterday. So that has definitely

1626
01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:54,199
something a monitor for the Texans as they hit the

1627
01:18:54,279 --> 01:18:57,039
road to take on the Los Angeles Chargers. All Right, quick,

1628
01:18:57,079 --> 01:18:58,760
top of the hour break here on the Matt Thomas

1629
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:02,199
Show with Ross Chris Gordy has been hanging out. Appreciate him.

1630
01:19:02,279 --> 01:19:04,439
Jonathan Allen here as well. He's gonna bring you the

1631
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:07,439
news at noon coming up next here on Sports Talk seven.

1632
01:19:07,359 --> 01:19:11,319
Speaker 1: Ninety's The Mat Thomas Show with Ross.

1633
01:19:14,159 --> 01:19:18,640
Speaker 2: Our number three of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

1634
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:22,359
Without Matt Thomas. He is out traveling with the Houston Rockets.

1635
01:19:22,399 --> 01:19:26,119
He will be back tomorrow in Los Angeles.

1636
01:19:26,279 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: I believe.

1637
01:19:28,319 --> 01:19:33,119
Speaker 2: Rockets in Sacramento last night today traveling to Los Angeles.

1638
01:19:33,239 --> 01:19:37,039
They will have the Clippers on Tuesday. Some are calling

1639
01:19:37,079 --> 01:19:40,319
it a must win game against the Clippers. And then

1640
01:19:40,520 --> 01:19:45,760
on Thursday night on ABC Slash ESPN, it's the Rockets

1641
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:50,039
and the Lakers NBA action on Christmas Day. It's good

1642
01:19:50,079 --> 01:19:52,920
to be back on Christmas to have a big Rockets game.

1643
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:54,439
We'll have it, of course for you here on Sports

1644
01:19:54,479 --> 01:19:57,920
Talk seven ninety and yours truly will be on the

1645
01:19:58,039 --> 01:20:01,399
pre and postgame coverage there. But right now we have

1646
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,399
to get to all the top sports news items of

1647
01:20:04,399 --> 01:20:06,439
the day. It is a segment we simply call the

1648
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:12,880
News at noon with Jonathan Allen. Hey, Jonathan, how are you?

1649
01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:14,479
I haven't talked to you much?

1650
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 1: Are you still?

1651
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:18,479
Speaker 2: Are you still glowing from your victory? On to tell

1652
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:18,920
the truth?

1653
01:20:19,199 --> 01:20:21,520
Speaker 4: You know, over Chris Gordy, my voice fels that, you know,

1654
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:23,079
I feel like a new man, you know what I mean?

1655
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:25,119
Speaker 3: Well you do.

1656
01:20:25,319 --> 01:20:26,920
Speaker 1: That's good. I'll tell you it's been a long drow.

1657
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:27,600
It was like six weeks.

1658
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:29,720
Speaker 2: Hey, by the way, can I make a request? Okay,

1659
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:31,479
Christmas music the rest of the way. I meant to

1660
01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:32,399
tell you before, all.

1661
01:20:32,359 --> 01:20:36,880
Speaker 1: Right, because Christmas music gonna do it. I don't know what,

1662
01:20:37,039 --> 01:20:37,279
you know what.

1663
01:20:37,359 --> 01:20:40,880
Speaker 2: Actually, I'm making all the picks. I'm picking my favorites, Okay.

1664
01:20:42,399 --> 01:20:44,760
I love Christmas music. I was driving to Dallas because

1665
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:47,119
I went to last week. Last week, I was all

1666
01:20:47,159 --> 01:20:48,920
over the place. I went to Lake Charles to the

1667
01:20:49,439 --> 01:20:51,439
Golden Nugget for a little bit. Shout out to Jared

1668
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:55,199
cart Uh taking care of us over there, and things

1669
01:20:55,239 --> 01:20:56,920
went quite well for me. I'm just gonna put it

1670
01:20:56,960 --> 01:20:57,279
that way.

1671
01:20:59,239 --> 01:20:59,399
Speaker 12: Yeah.

1672
01:20:59,399 --> 01:21:02,720
Speaker 2: I went to the seventy millimeter imax. I've seen one

1673
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:05,800
battle after another and sinners. So are you do you

1674
01:21:05,840 --> 01:21:07,359
know what's seventy millimeter imaxes?

1675
01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:07,640
Speaker 1: Yes?

1676
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:10,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So those are like the those are the big,

1677
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:14,479
the big, big imaxes. It's like five stories high and

1678
01:21:14,560 --> 01:21:17,319
they have to get like the projection. It's actually on film,

1679
01:21:17,399 --> 01:21:21,079
it's not digital. So and they had the five minute

1680
01:21:21,319 --> 01:21:24,119
prologue of the Odyssey, which was awesome. That's coming out

1681
01:21:24,159 --> 01:21:28,239
next year. The Christopher Nolan film Dude, like in the

1682
01:21:28,359 --> 01:21:32,279
music Dude, that's what I like. First of all, like film.

1683
01:21:33,199 --> 01:21:36,479
I'm a film enthusiast. Second of all, you can't beat

1684
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:39,359
going to the movies and you get the five story high,

1685
01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:44,359
seventy millimeter imax, which there's only two I think in Texas.

1686
01:21:44,359 --> 01:21:46,680
There's one in San Antonio, there's one in Dallas, and

1687
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:48,800
Dallas was the only one that had the really release

1688
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:53,039
of One Battle after Another and Sinners. So I watch

1689
01:21:53,159 --> 01:21:55,399
both in one day and it was like, it's like

1690
01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:59,439
bone rattling music. It's five story high, it's sawsome.

1691
01:21:59,479 --> 01:21:59,600
Speaker 1: Man.

1692
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:01,319
Speaker 2: I just it's a great experience.

1693
01:22:01,720 --> 01:22:02,359
Speaker 1: They did well.

1694
01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:04,560
Speaker 2: Mine was kind of broken it the decline. They were

1695
01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:06,840
reclined too far, like I was on the feet of

1696
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:08,359
the people behind me. I felt bad.

1697
01:22:08,439 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 4: I'm not going to start off that I got my

1698
01:22:10,119 --> 01:22:11,279
I got my reclient share on.

1699
01:22:11,399 --> 01:22:11,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1700
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:14,880
Speaker 2: No, they're like older. It's an older theater. That's why normally,

1701
01:22:15,039 --> 01:22:17,079
normally it's an older theater. They have these giant imax

1702
01:22:17,159 --> 01:22:18,680
so they don't build them anymore in the new theaters

1703
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:21,159
because they're just too big and they don't make it

1704
01:22:21,239 --> 01:22:24,119
doesn't make any sense to them. So it is rare

1705
01:22:24,199 --> 01:22:26,479
to find a theater that's actually showing these things. So

1706
01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:28,520
that's why there's only two of them in all of Texas.

1707
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:32,079
But Christopher Nolan makes the big Imax. Paul Thomas anders

1708
01:22:32,159 --> 01:22:33,920
And made the big Imax, and then The Sinners was

1709
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:37,439
also It wasn't all Imax, but the one battle after

1710
01:22:37,479 --> 01:22:40,119
another was one hundred percent in like the full screen Imax,

1711
01:22:40,159 --> 01:22:41,439
which is awesome. It was a great experience.

1712
01:22:41,479 --> 01:22:43,159
Speaker 4: It sounds like a great experience. I'm not gonna lie.

1713
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:44,479
I'm all right.

1714
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:45,119
Speaker 3: What's so?

1715
01:22:45,279 --> 01:22:48,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, good to be back. Vacation was nice. You know

1716
01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:50,319
I normally say really good to be back, and I'm

1717
01:22:50,319 --> 01:22:51,560
happy to be back and I missed work.

1718
01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:52,119
Speaker 1: But I don't know.

1719
01:22:52,159 --> 01:22:53,520
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm in holiday moode already.

1720
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:54,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's okay.

1721
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:55,079
Speaker 9: Though.

1722
01:22:55,359 --> 01:22:57,479
Speaker 2: At the Wednesday we got to talk about appreciate Chris

1723
01:22:57,560 --> 01:23:01,279
Gordy hanging out anyway. You know what, what should we

1724
01:23:01,399 --> 01:23:03,720
be talking about, Jonathan? What's on the news.

1725
01:23:05,359 --> 01:23:09,520
Speaker 4: Let's recap. Texans takedown the Raiders in a very ugly win,

1726
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:12,279
twenty three to twenty one, making them ten and five

1727
01:23:12,359 --> 01:23:12,840
for the season.

1728
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:13,239
Speaker 3: C J.

1729
01:23:13,359 --> 01:23:15,840
Speaker 4: Stroud going for twenty three thirty five for one eighty

1730
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:19,399
seven yards and a TV jah Warrd Jordan first start, right,

1731
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:21,439
I believe just got signed.

1732
01:23:21,520 --> 01:23:23,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, first start, Yes, Jawar Jordan.

1733
01:23:23,359 --> 01:23:25,600
Speaker 4: He was on rough game, fifteen carries and you know,

1734
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:27,880
fifty three yards. It's not terrible how he feel about

1735
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:29,319
how he feel about the game. In gener we haven't

1736
01:23:29,359 --> 01:23:29,760
got to like.

1737
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:35,520
Speaker 2: I know, we hear ray, but it wasn't pretty and

1738
01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:39,720
and it feels like we keep it in the in

1739
01:23:39,800 --> 01:23:42,720
the NFL. I said this earlier with Chris Gordon. In

1740
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:44,920
the NFL, you can catch lighting in a bottle at

1741
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:47,520
any point. And the Texans do have that capability, Like

1742
01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:50,159
they have the tools. They have an all time dominant

1743
01:23:50,199 --> 01:23:52,520
defense at least all time for their organization. I mean

1744
01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:54,239
it's it's the best defense that they've ever had.

1745
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:56,319
Speaker 1: Then you have CJ.

1746
01:23:56,439 --> 01:23:58,760
Speaker 2: Stroud, Nico Collins, you get what he marks back. You

1747
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:00,399
have some similance of a run game. And we'll see

1748
01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:03,159
what happens with these offensive line injuries. Like they can

1749
01:24:03,279 --> 01:24:05,359
make a run. They can make a run to the

1750
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:09,920
super Bowl. It is possible, is it probable? Not exactly

1751
01:24:10,079 --> 01:24:12,560
right now, but you've got a big game coming up

1752
01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:15,760
against the Chargers, and you can kind of wash this

1753
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:18,279
one of this taste out of your mouth, because that's

1754
01:24:18,359 --> 01:24:20,640
they were able to do with the last time where

1755
01:24:20,680 --> 01:24:22,680
we felt this bad about the team was they went

1756
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:25,079
on a road and they looked horrible against Titans. Then

1757
01:24:25,079 --> 01:24:28,079
they beat the Bills, beat the Colts with Daniel Jones

1758
01:24:28,159 --> 01:24:30,560
still healthy in that game, and then also beat the

1759
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:35,560
Chiefs before before Pat Mahomes went down for good. Like

1760
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:38,960
Pat Mahomes was the only Chief to throw a pass

1761
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:41,880
in that game. It was before Gardner Minshew started playing,

1762
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:44,760
and he had his worst game of his entire career.

1763
01:24:45,319 --> 01:24:50,720
So this defense win fully healthy kit like had Josh

1764
01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:52,439
Allen would to look like a rookie and had Pat

1765
01:24:52,479 --> 01:24:54,680
Mahomes with the worst game of his career, that tells

1766
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:58,600
me they can beat anybody. But also, if let's say

1767
01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:01,239
a ball bounced their way in a way last week

1768
01:25:01,319 --> 01:25:03,720
where they got the pick six against Derek Singling, what

1769
01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:05,720
if a ball doesn't pass your way and C. J.

1770
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:07,600
Stroud gives up a pick six or they get a

1771
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:09,199
couple of short fields and you got to hold them there.

1772
01:25:09,199 --> 01:25:10,800
If you're getting field goals and touchdowns off of that,

1773
01:25:11,159 --> 01:25:13,880
that's the only thing that happens. If everything stays equal,

1774
01:25:14,159 --> 01:25:17,159
the Texans can beat anyone. But what about winning when

1775
01:25:17,239 --> 01:25:19,520
things don't go your way? What about winning when you

1776
01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:21,439
lose the turnover battle and you have a couple of

1777
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:25,119
bad penalties and still coming through The Texans can win

1778
01:25:25,239 --> 01:25:28,239
on script? Can they win off script? Do they have

1779
01:25:28,319 --> 01:25:30,680
the offense to do that? Where either a the defense

1780
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:32,960
is having an off day or b they're giving up

1781
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:36,079
some turnovers and gifting points the other way, or you

1782
01:25:36,159 --> 01:25:40,000
know a big return where the special teams is giving

1783
01:25:40,079 --> 01:25:42,399
up a touchdown or something like that. That's the question.

1784
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:47,239
Can you be a win through those battles when it's

1785
01:25:47,359 --> 01:25:50,439
not your day? And I don't feel super confident about

1786
01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:51,359
that about the Texans right now.

1787
01:25:51,479 --> 01:25:53,760
Speaker 4: Shroud's gotta do a little better than one A seven's.

1788
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:57,159
But not to the next topic. Another kind of ugly

1789
01:25:57,319 --> 01:26:01,720
rockets fail to capitalize over the exact recamento Kings leading

1790
01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:04,680
seventy three percent of the game and falling in ot

1791
01:26:04,920 --> 01:26:10,880
to one twenty five. Yeah this not if you, as

1792
01:26:11,039 --> 01:26:13,079
asked my personal on paying about these rockets. We need

1793
01:26:13,119 --> 01:26:15,199
a ball handy man, we need we need someone coming

1794
01:26:15,239 --> 01:26:17,520
down the court to help this out, because this is

1795
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:19,640
what I think I just saw it's the fourth overtime

1796
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:23,880
in five games something like that. We can't close out

1797
01:26:23,880 --> 01:26:24,359
games anymore.

1798
01:26:24,399 --> 01:26:26,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, not great. I actually wanted to hear see what

1799
01:26:26,399 --> 01:26:29,079
uh listen to this of how how this sounded.

1800
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:31,800
Speaker 9: Or not?

1801
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:33,439
Speaker 1: Computer not working?

1802
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:35,159
Speaker 2: That's fine, shrewder.

1803
01:26:35,319 --> 01:26:37,359
Speaker 1: It was right for the Roses.

1804
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:40,520
Speaker 10: Top of the key, right elbow layup coming.

1805
01:26:40,399 --> 01:26:42,439
Speaker 1: Up, No, shrewder, left side three.

1806
01:26:42,319 --> 01:26:46,359
Speaker 10: It is up it god quick, two point two seconds left.

1807
01:26:47,399 --> 01:26:50,520
The Rosy eave up to two for the long three

1808
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:53,000
and it's a king lead.

1809
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: Of one one twenty five, one, twenty four. Wow.

1810
01:26:57,920 --> 01:26:59,399
Speaker 2: You know what, I gotta get mad at props there

1811
01:26:59,520 --> 01:27:02,920
you you call the games. But he wasn't like he

1812
01:27:03,039 --> 01:27:05,720
made the call. This sucks. This is the worst he

1813
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:08,319
was his own. Okay, yeah, okah, very nice, very good

1814
01:27:08,399 --> 01:27:12,239
professional call from Matthew Thomas, who just texted, actually he

1815
01:27:12,279 --> 01:27:13,640
wants to join the show at twelve thirty.

1816
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:15,520
Speaker 1: You know what, Okay, we can go ahead and do that.

1817
01:27:15,680 --> 01:27:20,079
Speaker 2: Twelve thirty you'll hear from Matt Thomas in Los Angeles

1818
01:27:20,159 --> 01:27:22,720
as the Rockets take on the Clippers. All right, what

1819
01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:25,680
else is on the news at noon? Mister Allen?

1820
01:27:26,159 --> 01:27:28,199
Speaker 1: Justin? I know Gordy brought this up earlier.

1821
01:27:28,359 --> 01:27:32,840
Speaker 4: Notre Dame ends their longtime annual series with USC for

1822
01:27:33,159 --> 01:27:36,920
BYU their precious rivally ends and it's been going on

1823
01:27:37,039 --> 01:27:38,159
since nineteen twenty six.

1824
01:27:38,199 --> 01:27:39,159
Speaker 1: I did not know that. I don't know.

1825
01:27:39,279 --> 01:27:42,239
Speaker 2: I was they played every single year since then.

1826
01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:43,319
Speaker 1: I believe so.

1827
01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:46,520
Speaker 4: Yes, it's been every single year since nineteen twenty six.

1828
01:27:47,319 --> 01:27:50,560
Speaker 2: Wow, I keep calling it the gilded Chilele. I guess

1829
01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:51,840
it's the jeweled Chilely.

1830
01:27:52,279 --> 01:27:56,399
Speaker 1: It's the jewel Chilely. They played for USC and Notre Dame.

1831
01:27:57,199 --> 01:27:59,800
Speaker 4: Do you think this comes from not making the playoffs?

1832
01:28:00,079 --> 01:28:00,640
Speaker 1: I don't.

1833
01:28:01,119 --> 01:28:03,399
Speaker 2: Well, they need to keep USC because USC was one

1834
01:28:03,439 --> 01:28:07,600
of their top twenty five wins, Notre Dame's and beating

1835
01:28:07,600 --> 01:28:11,000
them down. Notre Dame has won seven of the last

1836
01:28:11,079 --> 01:28:16,319
eight games. Wow, let's see. Let me try to find

1837
01:28:16,319 --> 01:28:18,920
the overall overall, Notre Dame leads fifty one to thirty

1838
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:20,920
seven and five. That's a beatdown.

1839
01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:22,880
Speaker 1: I like how.

1840
01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:24,920
Speaker 2: By the way I pulled it up on the Wikipedia page,

1841
01:28:25,319 --> 01:28:29,399
there's two footnotes in this. There's footnotes about vacated wins

1842
01:28:29,479 --> 01:28:32,880
by USC, and then footnotes about vacated wins from Notre Dame.

1843
01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:35,479
Speaker 1: So both schools.

1844
01:28:36,039 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 2: Look, if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying in the

1845
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:41,079
college football, that's just how it goes. Vacated win from

1846
01:28:41,199 --> 01:28:44,199
USC in two thousand and five, two vacated wins from

1847
01:28:44,239 --> 01:28:47,439
Notre Dame in twenty twelve and twenty and thirteen.

1848
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:50,560
Speaker 1: It's the vacated Wow.

1849
01:28:51,279 --> 01:28:54,640
Speaker 2: So, I mean, it's a storied rivalry. It's two once

1850
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:58,119
great programs. Then I think are both hampered by kind

1851
01:28:58,159 --> 01:28:58,760
of the same thing.

1852
01:28:58,920 --> 01:28:59,439
Speaker 1: Notre Dame.

1853
01:29:00,159 --> 01:29:03,279
Speaker 2: I mean, USC is a great location in LA well,

1854
01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:06,000
not great in town. Actually it's a rough part of town.

1855
01:29:06,079 --> 01:29:08,960
I think it was who's the interview I saw recently

1856
01:29:09,039 --> 01:29:11,640
where they said they would take some people around USC

1857
01:29:11,760 --> 01:29:13,640
and they would take them to everywhere in LA But

1858
01:29:13,880 --> 01:29:17,079
actually USC like take them to take them to Beverly Hills,

1859
01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:20,239
take them to the Hollywood Hills, and then not take

1860
01:29:20,279 --> 01:29:22,079
them on campus when they would take them on visits

1861
01:29:22,119 --> 01:29:25,239
to USC. But it's not a nice take. But it's

1862
01:29:25,279 --> 01:29:30,159
a private school with very difficult entrance requirements. Same thing

1863
01:29:30,239 --> 01:29:32,840
for Notre Dame. And I mean, and then I don't

1864
01:29:32,840 --> 01:29:35,239
think it's an accident. USC has it factored into and

1865
01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:38,479
to the national championship in a long time, even though

1866
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Lincoln Riley's a good coach and they've been getting some

1867
01:29:40,199 --> 01:29:43,199
good players and had some good quarterbacks. Of course, we

1868
01:29:43,279 --> 01:29:45,399
know the struggles that Notre Dame has had, all right,

1869
01:29:45,399 --> 01:29:47,800
anything else on the news last thing at.

1870
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:51,039
Speaker 4: Noon Picksborg Steelers wide receiver DK metcalf. I don't know

1871
01:29:51,039 --> 01:29:53,039
if you guys saw was an altercation with a fan

1872
01:29:53,359 --> 01:29:55,640
at Yes during the second quarter of the Steelers versus

1873
01:29:55,680 --> 01:30:02,399
Allion's game last night. Basically almost kind of pips and

1874
01:30:03,000 --> 01:30:05,760
there's no uh. The NFL is reviewing the incident for

1875
01:30:05,880 --> 01:30:08,680
potential discipline, but I mean, what are you think.

1876
01:30:08,800 --> 01:30:11,239
Speaker 2: Probably gonna be a one game suspension. My opinion is

1877
01:30:11,800 --> 01:30:14,039
the dude was leaned over the thing like he was

1878
01:30:14,119 --> 01:30:17,079
leaned over talking to Dk, and he probably wasn't asking

1879
01:30:17,159 --> 01:30:20,000
him about his Christmas plans. So I mean, if you're

1880
01:30:20,039 --> 01:30:24,239
a Lions fan, honestly my opinion, and we'll talk about

1881
01:30:24,239 --> 01:30:25,920
this more in the next segment, the fans are doing

1882
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:28,560
too much. You're over there leaning and yelling. This show

1883
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:30,600
isn't about you. You're here to watch the game and

1884
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:32,239
cheer on your team. And if you want to scream

1885
01:30:32,279 --> 01:30:35,079
in heckle, I think a that's that's a little bit

1886
01:30:35,119 --> 01:30:37,119
too much. And if you want to try to single

1887
01:30:37,239 --> 01:30:39,640
out a guy and you want all this attention, and

1888
01:30:39,760 --> 01:30:41,680
guess what you want to get the attention, You're gonna

1889
01:30:41,680 --> 01:30:43,920
get a punch in your face. I want to know

1890
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:46,359
the details because I know you need to know both

1891
01:30:46,359 --> 01:30:47,159
sides of the story.

1892
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Speaker 1: What happened.

1893
01:30:48,159 --> 01:30:51,000
Speaker 2: Did DK Metcalf just lose his mind or was this

1894
01:30:51,079 --> 01:30:53,319
guy saying something. If this guy was saying something he

1895
01:30:53,359 --> 01:30:56,760
shouldn't have said, I'm on team DK Metcalf, he's leaned

1896
01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:59,720
over the railing while DK maat seven. I mean he's

1897
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:02,000
trying to get in his face. If you want to

1898
01:31:02,000 --> 01:31:03,600
start saying the stuff to somebody and you wanna try

1899
01:31:03,600 --> 01:31:05,800
to get in their face, I mean, Jonathan, I don't

1900
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:08,000
know about how way, how how you grew up. That's

1901
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:08,800
how you get punched.

1902
01:31:10,560 --> 01:31:12,399
Speaker 4: I've told you before, I'm a conversation with a person

1903
01:31:13,279 --> 01:31:14,159
like that. To me, I'm a mom.

1904
01:31:14,239 --> 01:31:17,159
Speaker 1: Dude, No, you can't do that to me, you know, yeah, exactly. So,

1905
01:31:17,439 --> 01:31:17,760
I don't know.

1906
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Speaker 2: We need more details on it before I have a

1907
01:31:19,680 --> 01:31:22,600
full opinion. But my initial reaction is you're leaned over

1908
01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:27,600
into the playing space, You're liable to get hit, especially

1909
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:29,840
if you're talking trash. All right, quick break here on

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01:31:29,960 --> 01:31:32,239
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Those you and hold,

1911
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we will get to you. Anybody want to get in

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seven one three two one two five seven ninety is

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a phone number seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety. You can also send tweets to ad sports RV.

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Looks like Matt Thomas wants to join the show. Coming

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up at twelve thirty. It is the Matt Thomas Show

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without Matt Thomas, but some Matt Thomas. You know, I'm

1918
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gonna say, with some Matt Thomas coming up at twelve

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thirty here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Coming up in

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a few minutes here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross,

1921
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:09,520
We'll be joined by Matt Thomas. I guess he is

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all set up and ready to go in Beverly Hills.

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01:32:14,720 --> 01:32:17,960
I think Los Angeles in a very nice part of town.

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And they have where they have forty dollars pancakes. Jonathan,

1925
01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:22,159
what's the most you ever paid for pancakes?

1926
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Speaker 1: Oh? Not forty dollars? First?

1927
01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:25,760
Speaker 4: First?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

1929
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Speaker 1: Worst?

1930
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Speaker 4: Watch was the breakfast place? I guess I got kind

1931
01:32:29,239 --> 01:32:31,880
of expensive pancocks. Oh okay, all right, twenty dollars, babe.

1932
01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:33,920
All right, So we'll catch up on the pancake prices

1933
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and how that's going. With Matt Thomas coming up in

1934
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the next segment. Chris Gordy hung out for the first

1935
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couple hours. Appreciate him. You guys can get in if

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you'd like.

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Speaker 2: Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety seven

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one three, two, one two five seven ninety So Texans

1939
01:32:49,159 --> 01:32:53,600
get to win, albeit in ugly fashion. How much do

1940
01:32:53,680 --> 01:32:55,800
you say, Hey, you know what, it's week to week

1941
01:32:55,880 --> 01:32:57,960
in the NFL. They're not all going to be pretty.

1942
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:00,279
We can point to any number of ugly wins for

1943
01:33:00,399 --> 01:33:03,640
any other top contending teams. At least you're able to

1944
01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:06,760
get the victory and win. You're seventh in a row.

1945
01:33:07,119 --> 01:33:09,920
I mean they're they're ten and five. They've won seven

1946
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:12,319
in a row. So when you look at the entire forest,

1947
01:33:12,640 --> 01:33:15,760
it's been pretty good. Couple of trees aren't so pretty

1948
01:33:16,239 --> 01:33:19,680
last week's tree, or I should say, yesterday's two point

1949
01:33:19,800 --> 01:33:22,159
victory where if you don't get that pick six from

1950
01:33:22,199 --> 01:33:25,119
Derek Stingley, if Gino Smith throws it not even on target,

1951
01:33:25,199 --> 01:33:27,399
into the dirt or whatever, who knows. If you're able

1952
01:33:27,399 --> 01:33:30,079
to win that game. You got out gained by the

1953
01:33:30,159 --> 01:33:32,880
Las Vegas Raiders and of course two big plays from

1954
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:37,640
Ashton genty superstar running back, and it could have been

1955
01:33:37,840 --> 01:33:40,960
a completely different game. It felt almost like at some

1956
01:33:41,159 --> 01:33:44,079
point they might collapse at the end of that game.

1957
01:33:44,479 --> 01:33:47,640
It was just trending in that direction. Credit to them,

1958
01:33:48,359 --> 01:33:52,000
they held on. They got it done. But it was

1959
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:54,760
an ugly win. Here's what CJ. Shroud had to say

1960
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about that.

1961
01:33:56,640 --> 01:33:58,359
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know it was ugly, but you know the

1962
01:33:58,439 --> 01:34:00,960
way you want you want to in December is winning,

1963
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:02,880
you know, whatever it looks like, however it looks. So,

1964
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:05,159
you know, I'm proud of gods who finished a strong.

1965
01:34:05,199 --> 01:34:08,560
You know, we sought off, you know, kind of bad

1966
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:10,439
in the first quarter and they're from there kind of roll.

1967
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:11,960
But you know it starts with me. You know, I

1968
01:34:12,079 --> 01:34:14,479
just missing some throws here and there. But I think,

1969
01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:16,159
you know, we can get all these things could be fixed,

1970
01:34:16,199 --> 01:34:17,880
you know, and just got to just keep rolling it,

1971
01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:18,960
you know, keep continue to get better.

1972
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:20,680
Speaker 2: All right, hold on, was this from last week or

1973
01:34:20,880 --> 01:34:22,479
was this like the last seven weeks in a row.

1974
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All these things can be fixed. I gotta be better,

1975
01:34:26,399 --> 01:34:28,439
and that's maybe the thing where it's kind of wearing

1976
01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:31,199
thin on people who were Houston Texans fans as we

1977
01:34:31,359 --> 01:34:34,399
keep hearing the same thing week after week after week

1978
01:34:34,520 --> 01:34:38,199
after week. But as it goes with sports teams and

1979
01:34:38,279 --> 01:34:40,319
in general, I mean, you're you're always gonna find something

1980
01:34:40,359 --> 01:34:41,079
to complain about.

1981
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Speaker 1: That just is how it is.

1982
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Speaker 2: So the team's not perfect, but they're ten and five.

1983
01:34:46,119 --> 01:34:50,239
They're not gonna win the the AFC South because the Jaguars.

1984
01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:52,680
I mean, I'm more scared of the Jaguars than I

1985
01:34:52,720 --> 01:34:54,439
have been all season long. I mean, that was that

1986
01:34:54,560 --> 01:34:57,159
was a statement game, and they've had a big win

1987
01:34:57,239 --> 01:35:00,760
against Jets a couple of weeks ago. Daniel Ownes wasn't

1988
01:35:00,760 --> 01:35:02,680
there when they beat the Colts before that. Then they

1989
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:05,760
beat the Titans and the Cardinals, like yeah, big win

1990
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:08,880
against the Chargers six five, six weeks ago, and then

1991
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:14,640
yesterday against the Denver Broncos in their house, dominating them.

1992
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I mean, Trevor Lawrence was running all over them, rushing

1993
01:35:18,159 --> 01:35:21,279
for a touchdown, throwing for three more. I think in

1994
01:35:22,039 --> 01:35:24,239
a game where they it just it felt like they

1995
01:35:24,359 --> 01:35:29,600
controlled that game. So I'm definitely worried about the Jaguars.

1996
01:35:29,720 --> 01:35:32,199
We'll see what when it comes to the Broncos and

1997
01:35:32,279 --> 01:35:35,039
the Patriots and how the playoffs are going to line up,

1998
01:35:35,039 --> 01:35:37,039
because the Texans are going to be in the playoffs.

1999
01:35:38,039 --> 01:35:42,039
But it's a good team. Can they be great? Can

2000
01:35:42,119 --> 01:35:47,079
they make their first AFC championship ever? Yes, they can.

2001
01:35:48,000 --> 01:35:50,039
The offense has to play better. They have to clean

2002
01:35:50,119 --> 01:35:52,319
some things up. CJ. Stroud said it. He's been saying

2003
01:35:52,359 --> 01:35:54,880
for weeks. They have to be better. And then we

2004
01:35:54,920 --> 01:35:57,079
also have to figure out what's going on with that

2005
01:35:57,279 --> 01:36:01,000
offensive line. All right, Seven five, seven ninety is the

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phone number if you want to get in. Seven one

2007
01:36:03,399 --> 01:36:06,199
three two one two five seven ninety. It is the

2008
01:36:06,199 --> 01:36:09,479
Matt Thomas Show with Ross with you until two o'clock

2009
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:12,359
and we will be joined by the one and only

2010
01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:15,239
Matt Thomas coming up next year on Sports Talk seven ninety,

2011
01:36:15,279 --> 01:36:19,279
So don't go anywhere, twelve thirty three pm here on

2012
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Sports Talk seven ninety The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

2013
01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:29,920
I think Matt is Matt ready, we have Matthew. Good morning,

2014
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:32,720
Hey Matt, you all right? You said a little sleepy

2015
01:36:33,359 --> 01:36:36,840
A little bit you okay, a little bit.

2016
01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:38,600
Speaker 1: I just want a long time, no talk.

2017
01:36:39,199 --> 01:36:40,439
Speaker 2: I want to come on the show. I had not

2018
01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:43,159
heard a Wolf Ferrell commercial while so I wanted to hear. Okay,

2019
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:46,319
that's good. Yeah, you know you can pay your own way. Apparently,

2020
01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:48,600
I don't know if you knew the pay and pay

2021
01:36:48,760 --> 01:36:49,319
and pay.

2022
01:36:51,479 --> 01:36:53,119
Speaker 1: All right? As a vacation.

2023
01:36:53,479 --> 01:36:56,680
Speaker 2: Vacation was great, went to Lake Charles. Things were very successful.

2024
01:36:57,000 --> 01:36:57,159
Speaker 3: Love.

2025
01:36:57,399 --> 01:36:59,000
Speaker 2: I heard you were dry snitch you know, on me

2026
01:36:59,159 --> 01:37:02,760
about how the are going in Lake Charles from a listener.

2027
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:06,079
Speaker 10: Yeah, dry cinching movie the term you Yeah, okay, Well

2028
01:37:06,119 --> 01:37:08,399
that's the last time I ever if you're throwing Hondi's around.

2029
01:37:08,800 --> 01:37:10,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the last time I ever sent you a

2030
01:37:10,119 --> 01:37:11,399
picture from a trip. But that's okay.

2031
01:37:11,720 --> 01:37:14,479
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, that's it. You're off. You're off

2032
01:37:14,520 --> 01:37:15,960
the early off the list. Yeah.

2033
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:17,840
Speaker 2: You can't be talking on air about all that stuff.

2034
01:37:17,960 --> 01:37:18,880
That's nobody's business.

2035
01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:19,600
Speaker 1: It's exciting.

2036
01:37:19,840 --> 01:37:24,840
Speaker 10: No, you're trying to get me followed home? All right, people, Louis,

2037
01:37:24,840 --> 01:37:26,520
you don't have vehicles, so what are you worried about it?

2038
01:37:26,720 --> 01:37:26,920
Speaker 9: They do?

2039
01:37:27,319 --> 01:37:29,079
Speaker 2: They don't have shoes, they have vehicles.

2040
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:33,039
Speaker 10: Right, I was called us how much you talked about

2041
01:37:33,079 --> 01:37:35,640
A and M's national championship they won yesterday?

2042
01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:38,000
Speaker 2: Uh? Well, I believe no but at least they want

2043
01:37:38,039 --> 01:37:41,479
a conference championship, right, Oh, you're talking about the volleyball.

2044
01:37:41,720 --> 01:37:43,920
Volleyball that was they went on some kind of miracle

2045
01:37:44,039 --> 01:37:45,000
Cinderella run right.

2046
01:37:45,039 --> 01:37:46,920
Speaker 1: Good for that. I did, actually did bring it up.

2047
01:37:47,439 --> 01:37:49,600
Speaker 10: Yeah, not only did they win a national championship, they

2048
01:37:49,640 --> 01:37:54,840
were beating I mean, one powerhouse landmark team after they're

2049
01:37:54,840 --> 01:37:57,000
there in straight sets. I mean they were just beating

2050
01:37:57,039 --> 01:38:00,720
them to a pulp. Yeah, a dominant brack performance.

2051
01:38:01,199 --> 01:38:03,039
Speaker 1: As everyone says, Texas A and M is certainly a

2052
01:38:03,159 --> 01:38:08,199
volleyball school. So yeah, who knocked Texas out? Wisconsin?

2053
01:38:08,279 --> 01:38:12,199
Speaker 2: I don't Oh, Wisconsin beat them in the semis mm

2054
01:38:13,199 --> 01:38:15,560
that's a shame. Yeah, but oh well it was a

2055
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:18,000
five setter over Nebrak. Nebraska was like the death star,

2056
01:38:18,079 --> 01:38:19,439
weren't they They didn't lost all year?

2057
01:38:19,880 --> 01:38:22,720
Speaker 10: Yeah, Nebraska hadn't on their home floor too. That was

2058
01:38:22,760 --> 01:38:24,079
even the biggest part of it all.

2059
01:38:24,319 --> 01:38:26,039
Speaker 2: Oh wow, did you watch the match?

2060
01:38:26,720 --> 01:38:27,159
Speaker 1: Of course?

2061
01:38:27,399 --> 01:38:27,560
Speaker 3: Oh?

2062
01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:27,880
Speaker 2: Really?

2063
01:38:28,520 --> 01:38:31,159
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh, good for you. I watched them on the plane.

2064
01:38:31,279 --> 01:38:33,880
Speaker 10: I've watched I watched a lot of football yesterday and

2065
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:36,319
I was listening to you in the iheartradiop which everybody

2066
01:38:36,319 --> 01:38:38,199
should do when they travel and We'll talk more about

2067
01:38:38,199 --> 01:38:39,800
this tomorrow when I'm with you for the full four.

2068
01:38:42,000 --> 01:38:46,600
The Chargers are really good. The Jaguars, and I can't

2069
01:38:46,640 --> 01:38:49,840
put I feel like I need to vomit. The Jaguars

2070
01:38:49,880 --> 01:38:52,199
are really good. You went to Denver and beat them

2071
01:38:52,319 --> 01:38:53,920
and it wasn't even really that close.

2072
01:38:54,600 --> 01:38:56,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a little bit worried. I'm more worried about

2073
01:38:56,600 --> 01:38:58,880
the Jaguars and the Chargers than I was even a

2074
01:38:58,960 --> 01:38:59,560
few weeks ago.

2075
01:39:00,039 --> 01:39:00,199
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2076
01:39:00,199 --> 01:39:01,920
Speaker 10: The only thing that saving grace you have is that

2077
01:39:02,760 --> 01:39:05,920
neither one of those teams has any prolonged playoffs success.

2078
01:39:06,079 --> 01:39:08,159
Denver was one and out and Jacksonville just doesn't ever

2079
01:39:08,239 --> 01:39:10,640
go to the playoffs. But Trevor Lawrence, I was watching

2080
01:39:10,960 --> 01:39:14,960
at least on the red zone app and I mean

2081
01:39:15,439 --> 01:39:18,359
throwing darts Bay and there. I mean that was a

2082
01:39:18,439 --> 01:39:21,399
team that the Texans only scored fifteen points out at home.

2083
01:39:22,199 --> 01:39:25,439
Jacksonville went to Denver eighty thousand crazy people, and I

2084
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:27,479
mean they were just moving the ball around like they

2085
01:39:27,520 --> 01:39:31,319
were the Joe Montana Jerry Rice lad Niners offense.

2086
01:39:32,039 --> 01:39:35,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's concerning. It's a concerned as I've been by

2087
01:39:35,079 --> 01:39:37,640
the Jaguars. We kind of thought the last couple of weeks,

2088
01:39:37,720 --> 01:39:39,359
maybe you were going to be able to come up

2089
01:39:39,399 --> 01:39:41,560
and win the AFC SUT but now it's yeah, they

2090
01:39:41,680 --> 01:39:44,159
have what is it, the Colts and then the Titans

2091
01:39:44,199 --> 01:39:45,000
the last two games.

2092
01:39:45,359 --> 01:39:49,119
Speaker 10: That's done. Yeah, it's so yeah. I mean the seventh seed.

2093
01:39:49,640 --> 01:39:51,760
The problem is going to be which who's going to

2094
01:39:51,760 --> 01:39:53,640
be in that number two spot. I mean it could

2095
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:55,319
be Jacksonville, it could be New and by the way,

2096
01:39:55,399 --> 01:39:57,279
New England. Do you watch the Sunday Night game last night?

2097
01:39:57,319 --> 01:40:00,880
I mean, my god, Drake May was throwing BB's all

2098
01:40:00,880 --> 01:40:01,439
over the place.

2099
01:40:01,600 --> 01:40:03,560
Speaker 2: Drake May, I think it was his first three hundred

2100
01:40:03,600 --> 01:40:05,279
yard passing game of his career and he had.

2101
01:40:05,239 --> 01:40:07,760
Speaker 1: Three eighty and it could not have come in any

2102
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:09,520
better time. Says the Houston Toros.

2103
01:40:10,239 --> 01:40:13,439
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, okay, yeah, the Toros are gonna win

2104
01:40:13,479 --> 01:40:16,600
the championship. I don't know, the fourth seed upset the

2105
01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:18,760
one seed in our No, you got the best roster.

2106
01:40:18,840 --> 01:40:21,520
You're gonna win the championship. I'm probably you know what, congratulations,

2107
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:24,720
I'm already giving you the crown. The Houston Toros are

2108
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:28,880
twenty twenty five. I heeart Houston League champions I'll take

2109
01:40:29,000 --> 01:40:31,520
I'll probably a belt when I earn it. No, you've

2110
01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:33,199
already a champ, and you know what this is. This

2111
01:40:33,319 --> 01:40:35,399
is a great result for a great team and a

2112
01:40:35,479 --> 01:40:38,159
great commissioner in this league or former.

2113
01:40:38,399 --> 01:40:40,680
Speaker 1: I should say. Yeah, I was gonna say I'm a GM. Yeah.

2114
01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:45,840
Speaker 10: Well, thankfully we've been on the air, what five minutes

2115
01:40:45,880 --> 01:40:47,560
of you You've not brought up the game in Sacramento

2116
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:48,039
last nights.

2117
01:40:48,079 --> 01:40:50,960
Speaker 1: For that, I thank you. You know what I did, dude?

2118
01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:52,359
You were you listening when I was giving you your

2119
01:40:52,359 --> 01:40:53,159
proper respects?

2120
01:40:53,640 --> 01:40:53,680
Speaker 3: No?

2121
01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:54,560
Speaker 1: I did what you say.

2122
01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:57,720
Speaker 2: Oh, we played the game winning shot from Dennis Shrewder

2123
01:40:58,560 --> 01:41:00,479
and you didn't call it like someone got your dog,

2124
01:41:00,520 --> 01:41:01,720
which I know you probably wanted to.

2125
01:41:02,840 --> 01:41:05,359
Speaker 10: Oh god, yes you did it. I thought the Rosen

2126
01:41:05,439 --> 01:41:07,199
was gonna go for the layup and then he throws this.

2127
01:41:08,359 --> 01:41:10,079
He goes to the lane. I thought, okay, because the

2128
01:41:10,119 --> 01:41:11,640
Rosen's the king of the mid range. I mean, he

2129
01:41:12,039 --> 01:41:14,239
he doesn't like shooting threes. He penetrates the lane. He

2130
01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:16,159
had about with five or six top of the key

2131
01:41:16,239 --> 01:41:18,760
jumpers last time. I mean, he likes everything about eighteen

2132
01:41:18,800 --> 01:41:20,079
feet in And I thought he's gonna go for the

2133
01:41:20,159 --> 01:41:20,600
layup whatever.

2134
01:41:20,720 --> 01:41:23,199
Speaker 1: And then he kicks out the Dennis Shrewder, who I

2135
01:41:23,319 --> 01:41:23,640
do not.

2136
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:28,680
Speaker 2: Like Rockets legend, Dennis Shrewder, the Dennis Shrewder revenge game.

2137
01:41:29,479 --> 01:41:30,800
Speaker 10: I'm gonna ask you this question because you and I

2138
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:32,800
organically not even talked about this and will spend more

2139
01:41:32,840 --> 01:41:33,680
time about this tomorrow.

2140
01:41:35,439 --> 01:41:36,199
Speaker 1: What happened.

2141
01:41:36,319 --> 01:41:38,760
Speaker 10: I don't even know what happened. I mean, it wasn't

2142
01:41:38,800 --> 01:41:41,920
like there was a large amount of mishots. It was

2143
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:44,319
I thought it felt like to me, Sacramento just didn't

2144
01:41:44,319 --> 01:41:46,560
miss in the lot because they were Wacketts through one

2145
01:41:46,640 --> 01:41:48,680
hundred and eighty six, well except ten minutes left to go.

2146
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:50,319
I don't think the King's missed a shot in the

2147
01:41:50,399 --> 01:41:50,880
last quarter.

2148
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:53,199
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think it was just Kings shot making

2149
01:41:53,319 --> 01:41:55,960
is the way that I would go with, and not

2150
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:58,680
only it was just a bunch of bad defense. I mean,

2151
01:41:58,720 --> 01:42:01,720
we've kind of talked about this mat like even the

2152
01:42:01,960 --> 01:42:05,800
bad teams in the NBA have good players, Like the

2153
01:42:06,119 --> 01:42:09,000
Kings are terrible, but I mean Russell Westbrook couldn't miss

2154
01:42:09,119 --> 01:42:11,640
from three, not couldn't miss, but he made five threes.

2155
01:42:12,119 --> 01:42:14,399
Keegan Murray's a good young player. DeMar DeRozan, we we

2156
01:42:14,560 --> 01:42:18,319
know what he is it's a Dennis Shrewder is an

2157
01:42:18,439 --> 01:42:21,840
NBA vet. Even the horrible teams in the NBA have

2158
01:42:22,039 --> 01:42:24,880
like four or five dangerous players. I know I'll get

2159
01:42:24,880 --> 01:42:26,800
pushed back from some but this is like the most

2160
01:42:26,880 --> 01:42:29,359
talented the NBA has been ever where even the bad

2161
01:42:29,439 --> 01:42:31,239
teams have really good players.

2162
01:42:31,880 --> 01:42:34,439
Speaker 10: Well, I mean case in point, the Rockets have lost

2163
01:42:34,479 --> 01:42:36,680
to a five win team and a six wing team

2164
01:42:36,720 --> 01:42:38,279
in one week, right.

2165
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:42,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sandwich in between. That's a nice win against the Nuggets.

2166
01:42:42,199 --> 01:42:44,079
But losing to the Pelicans and losing to the Kings,

2167
01:42:44,359 --> 01:42:44,880
it hurts.

2168
01:42:45,800 --> 01:42:50,079
Speaker 10: Yeah, so yeah, I was very Look, the New Orleans

2169
01:42:50,159 --> 01:42:54,199
game was really hurtful, but I felt like maybe that

2170
01:42:54,279 --> 01:42:57,159
was a one off. The Kings was only scored ninety

2171
01:42:57,239 --> 01:42:59,640
three points the ninth four we got to the we

2172
01:42:59,720 --> 01:43:01,800
got to Sacramento as they were finishing up their game

2173
01:43:01,840 --> 01:43:03,600
with Portland. I was like, wait a minute, ninety eight

2174
01:43:03,720 --> 01:43:05,720
ninety three what was this a nineteen ninety nine game

2175
01:43:05,760 --> 01:43:06,960
with beating played or something like that.

2176
01:43:07,720 --> 01:43:11,199
Speaker 2: And now you're sixth in the West. Yeah, okay, that's fine.

2177
01:43:12,239 --> 01:43:14,640
How we feed Denver in Denver? That was nice, Yeah,

2178
01:43:14,720 --> 01:43:17,119
but you're six in the West. The Spurs of one

2179
01:43:17,199 --> 01:43:19,279
six in a row. Denver's really good. We'll see what

2180
01:43:19,319 --> 01:43:21,319
the Lakers your. I think two and a half point

2181
01:43:21,359 --> 01:43:24,960
favorites in that game coming up on Christmas. H schmis

2182
01:43:25,000 --> 01:43:27,840
sch Morty was calling it a must win game, almost

2183
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:29,359
a must win game against the Clippers.

2184
01:43:29,399 --> 01:43:31,000
Speaker 10: I don't know how you feel about that. You've bit

2185
01:43:31,039 --> 01:43:34,000
to subots. It's gonna be out, so you know what, Hey,

2186
01:43:34,199 --> 01:43:34,960
finally Opron.

2187
01:43:35,279 --> 01:43:37,359
Speaker 2: Look, I love Alprin Shingoun, but when he goes up

2188
01:43:37,359 --> 01:43:39,520
against guys who were in his weight class, like the

2189
01:43:39,640 --> 01:43:42,960
thin wiry guys like Wimby and go Bear and right

2190
01:43:43,439 --> 01:43:46,960
whoever like Evan Mobley, he can he can move those guys.

2191
01:43:47,239 --> 01:43:49,600
But when someone's in his weight class, he struggles. And

2192
01:43:49,640 --> 01:43:51,439
if he's zubats Is in his weight class.

2193
01:43:51,439 --> 01:43:52,439
Speaker 1: Well there won't be an issue.

2194
01:43:52,439 --> 01:43:55,399
Speaker 10: And it sounds like uh Luca had a thigh contusions

2195
01:43:55,399 --> 01:43:58,680
on all about Thursday's game. So okay, here's here's the

2196
01:43:58,760 --> 01:44:00,520
thing is that you know, I don't know and again

2197
01:44:00,680 --> 01:44:02,479
not that he may and I break bright after games.

2198
01:44:02,680 --> 01:44:03,840
We just got on the plane and trying to get

2199
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:05,680
you know, he's probably breaking something after that game. I

2200
01:44:05,720 --> 01:44:08,760
don't know if it was Britt. I've never been around

2201
01:44:08,800 --> 01:44:11,159
a coach in my entire life, with all the college

2202
01:44:11,159 --> 01:44:14,560
and pro basketball that I've called that b lions for

2203
01:44:14,640 --> 01:44:17,680
the middle of the court to call out players after timeouts.

2204
01:44:17,760 --> 01:44:20,159
Speaker 1: I mean it's like usually coaches.

2205
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:25,560
Speaker 2: It's usually in college. It's usually like, uh yeah, some

2206
01:44:25,720 --> 01:44:27,399
college coach screaming after people.

2207
01:44:27,800 --> 01:44:29,800
Speaker 10: But it's not and it's not falling on deaf fears.

2208
01:44:29,840 --> 01:44:31,640
It's not like the guys are like, stop calling us out.

2209
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:33,920
I mean they they you know, if he may Dook

2210
01:44:34,039 --> 01:44:36,239
is coaching, he gonna come after you if he needs to.

2211
01:44:36,399 --> 01:44:40,199
But it's it just was a games the Kings just

2212
01:44:40,239 --> 01:44:42,720
couldn't miss in the fourth quarter, and then Jabbari gets

2213
01:44:42,720 --> 01:44:45,239
fouled in three point shot, Like first one goes in good,

2214
01:44:45,319 --> 01:44:47,520
second one goes in good, and I'm like, please police me,

2215
01:44:47,800 --> 01:44:49,720
don't get me drama, and then he misses the third one.

2216
01:44:49,880 --> 01:44:52,479
Speaker 2: So yeah, well at least he hadn't thrown a chair

2217
01:44:52,600 --> 01:44:56,439
choked anyone out. Are you a little uh sick or anything.

2218
01:44:56,199 --> 01:44:57,399
Speaker 1: That you are? You just tired?

2219
01:44:57,439 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 2: You gotta tell quiet storm, Jonathan play this song Joonvian

2220
01:45:01,079 --> 01:45:03,079
here if you give us a little quiet storm.

2221
01:45:03,119 --> 01:45:05,439
Speaker 1: Now, man, hey, do you like this new microphone? Amazing

2222
01:45:05,520 --> 01:45:07,640
by the way, Yeah, is that what it is? Yeah,

2223
01:45:08,000 --> 01:45:10,640
it sounds like it is like studio quality. We tried, Yeah,

2224
01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:12,439
we tried it last week while you were gone.

2225
01:45:12,520 --> 01:45:14,520
Speaker 10: And I'm like, you know what, because I usually wear

2226
01:45:14,560 --> 01:45:16,199
a headset, and I know I've been listening to some

2227
01:45:16,319 --> 01:45:17,039
of our podcasts.

2228
01:45:17,079 --> 01:45:18,720
Speaker 1: I don't love some of the pops I hear about it,

2229
01:45:18,800 --> 01:45:21,760
but this one is the quiet store.

2230
01:45:23,359 --> 01:45:28,640
Speaker 14: Speaking of that age town, there's rain coming to California.

2231
01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:34,159
Oh yeah, and we're awesome not lying me about this.

2232
01:45:34,359 --> 01:45:38,880
They're expecting seven inches the ring between now and Fridays.

2233
01:45:39,800 --> 01:45:46,560
Speaker 1: They're expecting seven inches in La of rain. People are

2234
01:45:46,640 --> 01:45:49,359
flipping the f out here in southern California.

2235
01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:52,800
Speaker 3: Wow.

2236
01:45:53,760 --> 01:45:55,640
Speaker 10: Now, granted, I didn't go to bed at four o'clock

2237
01:45:56,600 --> 01:45:59,680
or three point thirty Pacific time, which is five thirty

2238
01:46:00,800 --> 01:46:02,800
Houston time, So I'm gonna I'm gonna take a nap

2239
01:46:02,840 --> 01:46:06,000
here shortly, but okay, I get some Yeah, but yeah,

2240
01:46:06,039 --> 01:46:08,159
this new microphone music I'm very happy with. I've listened

2241
01:46:08,159 --> 01:46:10,600
to the show and even a friend of the show

2242
01:46:10,640 --> 01:46:14,039
and Ramona robolist since oh really, studio and I'm like, Raman,

2243
01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:16,039
you ever had a good microphone when you're on the

2244
01:46:16,079 --> 01:46:18,039
rod because you know Michael travels part at two and

2245
01:46:18,039 --> 01:46:19,640
he's trying to find better Yeah.

2246
01:46:19,600 --> 01:46:23,920
Speaker 2: So do you prefer the sure sm seven? You know what,

2247
01:46:24,119 --> 01:46:29,239
I've got a sure smight Oh wow?

2248
01:46:29,800 --> 01:46:32,359
Speaker 10: Yeah, oh wow. Do you write that off or what? No,

2249
01:46:32,600 --> 01:46:34,800
this is a gift from David Obert, one of our engineers.

2250
01:46:34,880 --> 01:46:38,479
Speaker 1: Oh okay, oh SM fifty eight. Yeah, and those are fine?

2251
01:46:39,720 --> 01:46:40,880
You do think should get a better one?

2252
01:46:40,920 --> 01:46:40,960
Speaker 3: No?

2253
01:46:41,079 --> 01:46:41,600
Speaker 1: That sounds good.

2254
01:46:42,239 --> 01:46:44,880
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, so tomorrow you and I will work

2255
01:46:44,960 --> 01:46:47,960
four hours and then we'll do four more hours on Wednesday,

2256
01:46:48,199 --> 01:46:50,000
and we're gonna play Christmas music.

2257
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:51,439
Speaker 1: On the twenty fourth, the one. Who oh, we're.

2258
01:46:51,279 --> 01:46:53,840
Speaker 2: Supposed to be playing Christmas music today. Somebody's been dropping

2259
01:46:53,880 --> 01:46:55,479
the ball and then I don't want to name any names.

2260
01:46:55,439 --> 01:46:56,920
Speaker 4: But you said you were gonna get your pigs.

2261
01:46:57,039 --> 01:46:57,479
Speaker 1: Oh you're right.

2262
01:46:58,119 --> 01:46:58,479
Speaker 9: It was me.

2263
01:46:58,640 --> 01:47:01,840
Speaker 1: See, it was me dropping the ball. And I listened

2264
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:05,000
to tell the truth. Yeah, yeah, that was an easy one.

2265
01:47:05,079 --> 01:47:07,560
This was it, GORDI got. It's hard to come up before,

2266
01:47:07,680 --> 01:47:07,920
isn't it.

2267
01:47:08,319 --> 01:47:11,399
Speaker 2: Mm hmm yeah you say that now, Yes, you're it's

2268
01:47:11,439 --> 01:47:12,560
easy to say that from your couch.

2269
01:47:13,760 --> 01:47:14,359
Speaker 1: I listened.

2270
01:47:14,520 --> 01:47:19,560
Speaker 10: Don't worry I listened. Okay, so, well, a good time tomorrow.

2271
01:47:19,600 --> 01:47:20,960
We've got a lot of catching up to do. But

2272
01:47:21,039 --> 01:47:22,399
I just want to say good morning. I hope you

2273
01:47:22,439 --> 01:47:24,920
had a nice trip. How was the big movie theater

2274
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:25,560
thing in Dallas?

2275
01:47:25,680 --> 01:47:28,439
Speaker 2: Oh it was great. Seventy millimeters. I'm ax, Matt doesn't

2276
01:47:28,439 --> 01:47:30,840
get any better. How much was it to get in

2277
01:47:30,880 --> 01:47:34,359
for them to watch? Which was twenty five? Okay, yeah, normal,

2278
01:47:34,479 --> 01:47:38,560
i'm ax. Here at the megal Minima Marmee is like

2279
01:47:39,039 --> 01:47:41,800
thirty dollars, so it was only twenty five up there.

2280
01:47:42,119 --> 01:47:43,199
Speaker 1: So what movie did you see?

2281
01:47:43,520 --> 01:47:46,359
Speaker 2: I saw one battle after another, the Paul Thomas Anderson

2282
01:47:46,399 --> 01:47:49,359
and Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle and then Sinners they were both

2283
01:47:49,439 --> 01:47:51,640
re releasing in Seventy Milimeters was a limited one week

2284
01:47:51,720 --> 01:47:55,520
release and it also had the Christopher Nolan Odyssey prologue.

2285
01:47:56,439 --> 01:47:57,800
Speaker 10: All right, I'm going to leave you this as a

2286
01:47:57,880 --> 01:47:59,880
talking point for the part of your show, just one

2287
01:48:00,039 --> 01:48:02,840
one little segment. You know, NBC and Pete Cock are

2288
01:48:02,880 --> 01:48:05,840
always trying to do different things to add their game presentation.

2289
01:48:07,439 --> 01:48:09,800
They announced for a game in mid January, there's gonna

2290
01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:12,000
be a special guest analyst for the second half of

2291
01:48:12,039 --> 01:48:13,479
the Clippers Warriors game.

2292
01:48:15,359 --> 01:48:21,000
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan Snoop Dogg. Oh sounds quite the drop off.

2293
01:48:22,079 --> 01:48:23,720
Speaker 1: For Michael Jordan's Snoop Probably so.

2294
01:48:24,520 --> 01:48:26,800
Speaker 2: So Jordan did Snoop did a really good job. He

2295
01:48:26,880 --> 01:48:29,479
watched hot it was a hockey or something like that. Yeah,

2296
01:48:29,720 --> 01:48:31,680
and they started fighting. He was like, get it cuz

2297
01:48:32,039 --> 01:48:33,399
it was pretty. It was entertaining.

2298
01:48:33,720 --> 01:48:36,800
Speaker 1: So he's going to apparently go to shoot around watch film.

2299
01:48:36,960 --> 01:48:39,359
Oh really? Oh yeah, they're gonna They're gonna milk this

2300
01:48:39,479 --> 01:48:41,279
for all its words? Is there is there a call

2301
01:48:41,359 --> 01:48:42,560
that Snoop Dogg won't take.

2302
01:48:44,960 --> 01:48:45,359
Speaker 2: Everything?

2303
01:48:45,560 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 10: It's like Kevin Hart saying no to a movie exact

2304
01:48:48,319 --> 01:48:51,640
or Nick Cage. Yeah, that's true. All right, boys, have

2305
01:48:51,720 --> 01:48:53,079
a great rest of your show. I'll be listening on

2306
01:48:53,159 --> 01:48:55,680
the iHeartRadio app because that's what we do when we

2307
01:48:55,920 --> 01:48:57,039
miss our Houston sports.

2308
01:48:57,439 --> 01:48:59,119
Speaker 2: Looking forward to putting you to sleep mat on the

2309
01:48:59,199 --> 01:49:00,319
iHeartRadio app.

2310
01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:03,520
Speaker 10: That's the next show, not this one. Okay, thanks, talk

2311
01:49:03,520 --> 01:49:05,079
to you boys, all right, bye, there you go.

2312
01:49:05,199 --> 01:49:08,640
Speaker 2: Matt Thomas on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross with

2313
01:49:08,720 --> 01:49:10,840
that nice new microphone. Sounds good. All Right, We're gonna

2314
01:49:10,840 --> 01:49:12,199
take a quick break. We've got a lot of stuff

2315
01:49:12,199 --> 01:49:14,479
to get too. Still, we've been talking about the Houston Texans.

2316
01:49:14,800 --> 01:49:18,000
How are you feeling about them after yesterday's win? I

2317
01:49:18,039 --> 01:49:21,760
mean it's seven straight wins, they're ten and five. When

2318
01:49:21,760 --> 01:49:24,560
you look at the forest, it's pretty damn good. Well,

2319
01:49:24,560 --> 01:49:27,319
what about that tree yesterday? Seven one three two one

2320
01:49:27,399 --> 01:49:29,439
two five seven ninty the phone number if you want

2321
01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:31,880
to get in seven one three two one two five

2322
01:49:32,000 --> 01:49:33,920
seven ninety. How are we feeling about the Rockets now

2323
01:49:34,079 --> 01:49:37,239
seventeen and nine, down to the sixth spot in the

2324
01:49:37,279 --> 01:49:41,199
Western Conference. Something we have to talk about is is

2325
01:49:41,279 --> 01:49:43,920
it a little too early just to talk about possibly

2326
01:49:44,039 --> 01:49:46,680
wanting a move for Giannis Attintacoumpo or is that a

2327
01:49:46,720 --> 01:49:48,960
panic move? We can talk about that anything. You guys

2328
01:49:49,000 --> 01:49:51,520
want to get to college football playoff action over the weekend.

2329
01:49:51,760 --> 01:49:54,039
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Is

2330
01:49:54,079 --> 01:49:57,039
your phone number? Seven one three two one two five

2331
01:49:57,159 --> 01:49:57,680
seven ninety.

2332
01:50:03,399 --> 01:50:03,800
Speaker 1: All right?

2333
01:50:04,119 --> 01:50:04,479
Speaker 3: So the.

2334
01:50:07,319 --> 01:50:12,640
Speaker 2: He said, he said, has already begun and the DK

2335
01:50:13,000 --> 01:50:17,159
metcalf dust up. If you have not seen it, Uh,

2336
01:50:17,239 --> 01:50:21,399
you saw it, correct, mister Allen. Yes, he was all

2337
01:50:21,479 --> 01:50:24,359
over the place. And my first reaction was, what did

2338
01:50:24,439 --> 01:50:28,079
the fans say? My first reaction wasn't was, Oh, DK Metfancalf,

2339
01:50:28,119 --> 01:50:30,960
you must conduct yourself in a much better man or

2340
01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:32,600
why would you do this? You were supposed to be

2341
01:50:32,640 --> 01:50:35,479
a professional. My first reaction was what did that dude

2342
01:50:35,600 --> 01:50:40,000
say to get him so angry? Cause, I mean, DK Metcalf,

2343
01:50:40,239 --> 01:50:43,000
as far as I know, hasn't had any run ins

2344
01:50:43,039 --> 01:50:45,680
with any fans or gone in the stands or causing

2345
01:50:45,680 --> 01:50:47,920
a bunch of trouble or anything like that. But people

2346
01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:49,920
were it was funny. People were saying, Oh, he's taking

2347
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:52,960
up the George Pickens role, Like if George Pickens did it,

2348
01:50:53,199 --> 01:50:55,520
it would make a lot more sense. But I was like,

2349
01:50:55,640 --> 01:50:59,920
what happened to DK Metcalf in this scenario to get

2350
01:51:00,199 --> 01:51:05,279
him angry? And well, now, apparently the Detroit Free Press

2351
01:51:06,520 --> 01:51:10,920
interviewed the man who said all that he did was

2352
01:51:11,399 --> 01:51:17,000
call DK Metcalf by his full name, And if you're

2353
01:51:17,600 --> 01:51:23,840
not familiar, DK Metcalf's full name is de Kaylin Zakarius Metcalf,

2354
01:51:24,560 --> 01:51:28,439
also known as DK Metcalf. So the fan says that

2355
01:51:28,600 --> 01:51:32,079
all he did was call him by his full name.

2356
01:51:32,119 --> 01:51:33,800
I'm not gonna say it because I'm gonna mess it up.

2357
01:51:34,439 --> 01:51:38,439
And then that Metcalf pulled him by his shirt and

2358
01:51:38,640 --> 01:51:43,279
then punched him. I'm calling BS on that.

2359
01:51:43,399 --> 01:51:44,600
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't, I don't.

2360
01:51:45,479 --> 01:51:51,119
Speaker 2: I just feel like no, I just don't feel like

2361
01:51:51,159 --> 01:51:53,560
that's gonna I mean, we'll hear DK metcalf story of

2362
01:51:54,000 --> 01:51:55,920
Mike Tomlin saying after the game he heard about it,

2363
01:51:55,960 --> 01:51:58,039
but he didn't see it. And then the fan just

2364
01:51:58,119 --> 01:52:00,520
says he I called him by his full name, and

2365
01:52:00,600 --> 01:52:03,399
then he and then he pulled me by my shirt

2366
01:52:03,760 --> 01:52:06,600
apparently ripped his shirt. And then he punched him. Because

2367
01:52:06,920 --> 01:52:08,760
if he pulled him by his shirt because the video

2368
01:52:08,840 --> 01:52:12,960
I saw he he had his fist up, but he

2369
01:52:13,119 --> 01:52:17,680
wasn't holding the guy's shirt right, and then he punches.

2370
01:52:17,800 --> 01:52:20,840
He punches upward. The dude is leaning over the railing

2371
01:52:22,439 --> 01:52:26,319
like that's like, uh, I don't like if you don't

2372
01:52:26,439 --> 01:52:28,560
don't lean over the railing of like a boxing match,

2373
01:52:28,600 --> 01:52:29,640
or if you don't want to get hurt.

2374
01:52:31,119 --> 01:52:32,159
Speaker 1: So I don't know.

2375
01:52:32,680 --> 01:52:34,640
Speaker 2: This disc doesn't seem like it's a name. He did

2376
01:52:34,640 --> 01:52:36,439
grab the shirt I'm looking at right here. Okay, so

2377
01:52:36,520 --> 01:52:38,880
he did grab him by the shirt. But the guy

2378
01:52:38,960 --> 01:52:41,199
doesn't pull back, he doesn't run away or anything. He

2379
01:52:41,439 --> 01:52:44,159
looks like he's it looks like he's taunting him. And

2380
01:52:44,239 --> 01:52:46,720
then when he gets punched, he puts his two fists

2381
01:52:46,800 --> 01:52:49,960
up in the air in celebration, like that's what he

2382
01:52:50,159 --> 01:52:51,800
was going for, that's what he wanted to do.

2383
01:52:53,039 --> 01:52:55,319
Speaker 1: He doesn't sound horrified, he doesn't sound like.

2384
01:52:55,359 --> 01:52:57,760
Speaker 2: Oh, this is I just called him by his name

2385
01:52:57,840 --> 01:52:59,800
and I was just trying to say hello to him,

2386
01:52:59,840 --> 01:53:02,039
and oh, I wanted him to sign my shirt and

2387
01:53:02,119 --> 01:53:04,199
then he punched me. I don't know about that.

2388
01:53:05,159 --> 01:53:06,279
Speaker 1: Oh before I forget.

2389
01:53:06,479 --> 01:53:09,399
Speaker 4: By the way, we had a color from New Zealand

2390
01:53:09,439 --> 01:53:12,960
that wanted to really know about your opinion about Will

2391
01:53:13,039 --> 01:53:14,439
Muschamp with the hiring at Texas.

2392
01:53:14,680 --> 01:53:17,159
Speaker 2: Oh, Will muss Champ, it was surprising. I thought Pete

2393
01:53:17,199 --> 01:53:20,399
Kwatowski was a good defensive coordinator. I thought they'd done

2394
01:53:20,399 --> 01:53:24,840
a good job. I mean, Will Musschamp has I mean

2395
01:53:25,239 --> 01:53:28,079
a long standing pedigree. We mentioned this on to tell

2396
01:53:28,159 --> 01:53:33,079
the truth, I am concerned about players tuning out Will

2397
01:53:33,199 --> 01:53:36,279
Muschamp because his style is to at least younger in

2398
01:53:36,359 --> 01:53:39,239
his Career's just crazy that he's only fifty four years old.

2399
01:53:39,319 --> 01:53:41,640
Feels like he's been around forever, but early in his

2400
01:53:41,760 --> 01:53:44,399
career when he was at Texas and then they made

2401
01:53:44,479 --> 01:53:48,039
him the coach in waiting under Mac Brown. And then

2402
01:53:48,039 --> 01:53:50,520
he stopped waiting because Florida came along, and that's fine.

2403
01:53:50,520 --> 01:53:53,600
I mean, Florida's is an excellent job. Then he washed

2404
01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:56,159
out there, washed out of South Carolina. Since then, he's

2405
01:53:56,199 --> 01:54:01,359
been back at Georgia and he was co defensive coordinator

2406
01:54:01,399 --> 01:54:04,399
and then got downgraded to defensive analysts. So I am

2407
01:54:04,520 --> 01:54:07,279
a little worried about it long term. I mean, he

2408
01:54:07,439 --> 01:54:10,079
knows defense, he can coach defense. But I found it

2409
01:54:10,199 --> 01:54:12,760
a curious move. I'll just put it that way.

2410
01:54:13,840 --> 01:54:14,960
Speaker 1: Can it work out? Yes?

2411
01:54:15,359 --> 01:54:17,640
Speaker 2: If you get Will must Champ a bunch of good

2412
01:54:17,680 --> 01:54:20,760
players all over the field, then he's gonna be fine.

2413
01:54:21,920 --> 01:54:24,399
And I think, and I kind of keep talking about

2414
01:54:24,399 --> 01:54:28,880
this with college coaches, if they're to some level of effectiveness,

2415
01:54:30,119 --> 01:54:33,159
get them good players and they're gonna be good. Jimmy's

2416
01:54:33,199 --> 01:54:35,640
and Joe's over x'es and o's. At the end of

2417
01:54:35,680 --> 01:54:38,239
the day, if you put me a defensive coordinator, we're

2418
01:54:38,239 --> 01:54:40,960
gonna have some issues. I'm not a defensive coach. I

2419
01:54:41,039 --> 01:54:43,800
haven't been around football for forty years. But if you

2420
01:54:43,840 --> 01:54:46,279
put Will must Champion there, who as I said, has

2421
01:54:46,359 --> 01:54:49,880
been helpful or been a defensive analyst at Georgia and

2422
01:54:50,159 --> 01:54:52,720
was co DC, and of course has been a defensive

2423
01:54:52,760 --> 01:54:57,159
coordinator under under Nick Saban and Lsu. Of course under

2424
01:54:57,199 --> 01:55:03,720
Mac Brown in Texas. Be fine should be being the

2425
01:55:03,800 --> 01:55:04,279
key word.

2426
01:55:05,079 --> 01:55:05,600
Speaker 1: But we'll see.

2427
01:55:06,359 --> 01:55:08,840
Speaker 2: Curious higher. I'm not over the moon about it. I

2428
01:55:08,920 --> 01:55:13,680
remember being super stoked, actually funny enough, when he was

2429
01:55:13,720 --> 01:55:17,039
first hired in two thousand and seven or eight, or

2430
01:55:17,039 --> 01:55:19,000
whenever it was, when he first came to be the

2431
01:55:19,079 --> 01:55:24,000
Texas defensive coordinator. I was over the moon, super excited

2432
01:55:24,079 --> 01:55:27,239
to have him. It was like a major coup. And

2433
01:55:27,359 --> 01:55:28,880
then they were good in two thousand and eight, but

2434
01:55:28,920 --> 01:55:31,239
then lost to Texas Tech, and then didn't make the

2435
01:55:31,319 --> 01:55:33,680
National championship game, and then lost the championship game the

2436
01:55:33,760 --> 01:55:37,039
next year against Alabama because col mccoik got his arm

2437
01:55:37,079 --> 01:55:43,479
ripped off by Marcel Darius. So we'll see. It's basically

2438
01:55:43,560 --> 01:55:45,840
my attitude. Somebody who knows a little bit more than

2439
01:55:45,920 --> 01:55:47,800
me can tell me if this is something to be

2440
01:55:47,880 --> 01:55:52,079
super excited about. I'm more curious than anything, especially because

2441
01:55:52,079 --> 01:55:54,479
I thought Pete Watowski was a good defensive coordinator for

2442
01:55:54,520 --> 01:55:56,439
the Texas Longhorns. The last couple of years they had

2443
01:55:56,479 --> 01:56:01,079
really good defenses. They did they did out late in games,

2444
01:56:01,079 --> 01:56:02,880
but that's because the offense is going three and out

2445
01:56:02,920 --> 01:56:05,000
every time. I mean, I didn't feel like that was

2446
01:56:05,079 --> 01:56:08,600
a defensive issue or defensive coaching issue.

2447
01:56:08,600 --> 01:56:09,840
Speaker 1: I should say, all.

2448
01:56:09,800 --> 01:56:12,159
Speaker 2: Right, seven one three two one two five seveninety is

2449
01:56:12,159 --> 01:56:14,199
the phone number you want to get in seven one

2450
01:56:14,319 --> 01:56:16,359
three two one two five seven one. You can get

2451
01:56:16,359 --> 01:56:18,239
in from New Zealand or wherever you want to call.

2452
01:56:18,319 --> 01:56:20,520
We got Beverly on hold. We'll get to her anything

2453
01:56:20,560 --> 01:56:22,159
you guys want to get to. We've been talking about

2454
01:56:22,159 --> 01:56:24,600
the Texans. We've been talking some Rockets, We've been talking

2455
01:56:24,640 --> 01:56:28,319
some college football. It is a big sports Monday here

2456
01:56:28,399 --> 01:56:30,840
on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross with you until

2457
01:56:30,920 --> 01:56:31,680
two o'clock hour.

2458
01:56:31,760 --> 01:56:37,159
Speaker 1: Number four starts. Next is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

2459
01:56:51,119 --> 01:56:53,359
What a jam I think?

2460
01:56:53,399 --> 01:56:54,800
Speaker 4: I when it came out on Medicine?

2461
01:56:55,640 --> 01:56:59,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, club, Yes, going to the club. You're wearing your

2462
01:56:59,600 --> 01:57:02,680
sequence shirt or your silk shirt. You got the tight

2463
01:57:02,760 --> 01:57:06,680
bell bottoms on, got the long hair, or you only

2464
01:57:06,680 --> 01:57:08,319
got to do about two buttons. You know, it saves

2465
01:57:08,319 --> 01:57:10,159
time when you only got to do like two buttons.

2466
01:57:09,920 --> 01:57:10,319
Speaker 1: Or your shirt.

2467
01:57:11,720 --> 01:57:18,359
Speaker 2: Keep keep the chest hanging out, looking good, making moves.

2468
01:57:19,880 --> 01:57:20,039
Speaker 1: MM.

2469
01:57:20,279 --> 01:57:22,359
Speaker 2: It was a different time, my friend. It was a

2470
01:57:22,439 --> 01:57:27,479
different time, all right. The Texans survive against the Oakland

2471
01:57:27,600 --> 01:57:30,560
excuse me, oh, boh, buzz me the loss of Vegas.

2472
01:57:30,560 --> 01:57:32,920
I was calling them Oakland Raiders yesterday too. My goodness,

2473
01:57:32,960 --> 01:57:34,640
I can't get this out of my head. The loss

2474
01:57:35,039 --> 01:57:39,920
Vegas Raiders twenty three to twenty one. You got the late,

2475
01:57:40,119 --> 01:57:42,640
big first down from Nico Collins.

2476
01:57:43,199 --> 01:57:43,479
Speaker 1: CJ.

2477
01:57:43,680 --> 01:57:47,880
Speaker 2: Stroud was okay, thirty five attempts for one hundred and

2478
01:57:47,880 --> 01:57:51,000
eighty seven yards not ideal, but one touchdown, no picks,

2479
01:57:51,319 --> 01:57:53,680
couple of misthrows, but didn't turn the ball over, didn't

2480
01:57:53,680 --> 01:57:55,720
cost them the game. That's what you should do with

2481
01:57:55,800 --> 01:57:58,399
this defense, even though they got out gained in this game,

2482
01:57:59,359 --> 01:58:02,079
especially with Ashton genty with his two big plays. He

2483
01:58:02,119 --> 01:58:04,000
had the fifty one yard run for a touchdown that

2484
01:58:04,079 --> 01:58:07,239
you heard there, the sixty yard catch for a touchdown

2485
01:58:07,279 --> 01:58:11,199
you heard as well. And the Texans hold on and

2486
01:58:11,399 --> 01:58:15,479
they survive and they win their seventh straight. I mean,

2487
01:58:15,560 --> 01:58:17,800
you add the balance of it. You're ten and five.

2488
01:58:18,359 --> 01:58:21,439
All five of your losses were by one score. Any

2489
01:58:21,560 --> 01:58:24,720
win counts in the NFL, even if the Las Vegas

2490
01:58:24,800 --> 01:58:26,760
Raiders aren't a very good team and they got beat

2491
01:58:26,840 --> 01:58:29,439
thirty one to zero against the Eagles the week before.

2492
01:58:29,760 --> 01:58:32,079
You're feeling good and now you got a real big

2493
01:58:32,159 --> 01:58:36,920
one coming up Saturday three thirty on NFL Network against

2494
01:58:37,079 --> 01:58:40,600
the Los Angeles Chargers, as the Texans will be taking

2495
01:58:40,680 --> 01:58:45,520
them on in La as one and a half point dogs.

2496
01:58:45,680 --> 01:58:47,760
Ross v Real with you here on the Matt Tom Show,

2497
01:58:47,800 --> 01:58:49,960
with Ross's phone lines open at seven to one three

2498
01:58:50,279 --> 01:58:53,640
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

2499
01:58:53,720 --> 01:58:55,960
one two five seven ninety if you would like to

2500
01:58:56,039 --> 01:58:59,520
get in. So what do you think, ugly win? They

2501
01:58:59,560 --> 01:59:03,640
all can out or are we still worried about this offense?

2502
01:59:03,920 --> 01:59:06,439
You got forty points a week ago against the Cardinals,

2503
01:59:06,840 --> 01:59:11,800
but before that twenty twenty twenty three sixteen against a

2504
01:59:12,000 --> 01:59:14,760
bad Titans team, and then before that there was a

2505
01:59:14,880 --> 01:59:17,000
thirty six point explosion. But there was a pick six

2506
01:59:17,039 --> 01:59:19,159
at the end of that game, I believe, or a

2507
01:59:19,399 --> 01:59:24,359
fumble six maybe it was, so, I don't know. Feels

2508
01:59:24,760 --> 01:59:30,119
like the AFC is wide open. There's a lot of parody. Patriots.

2509
01:59:30,199 --> 01:59:33,039
Don't scare me. A ton Broncos don't scare me a ton.

2510
01:59:33,159 --> 01:59:35,319
Jaguars are starting to scare me a little bit, oddly enough.

2511
01:59:35,359 --> 01:59:36,960
They've won six in a row, and they looked really

2512
01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:40,199
good beating down the Broncos in their houses past weekend.

2513
01:59:40,800 --> 01:59:43,039
But the Texans are right there in that mix. You

2514
01:59:43,079 --> 01:59:44,680
want to say you're scared of the Bills, they beat

2515
01:59:44,720 --> 01:59:48,079
the Bills. And while the Colts, of course are going

2516
01:59:48,159 --> 01:59:49,760
to be a non factor. Same thing for the Chiefs now,

2517
01:59:49,760 --> 01:59:51,760
who are six and nine, have lost four in a row.

2518
01:59:51,800 --> 01:59:54,079
You know what, By the way, quick kudos to Jonathan

2519
01:59:54,119 --> 01:59:56,680
you called this week's ago. I know Pat Mahomes went

2520
01:59:56,840 --> 02:00:00,119
down and tore his ACL, but I mean eve and

2521
02:00:00,239 --> 02:00:02,399
when even if he didn't tear his ACL, they were

2522
02:00:02,439 --> 02:00:04,119
not going to make the playoffs because they were losing

2523
02:00:04,199 --> 02:00:06,239
that game when he did tear it against the What

2524
02:00:06,359 --> 02:00:07,760
was it the ego of the Chargers a couple of

2525
02:00:07,800 --> 02:00:13,840
weeks ago, whatever it was, So yeah, Pat Mahomes not

2526
02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:17,439
good enough. Chiefs not good enough. They're going to completely

2527
02:00:17,600 --> 02:00:21,640
miss the playoffs. It's hard man, Andy Reid and Pat

2528
02:00:21,720 --> 02:00:26,439
Mahomes and Travis Kelsey's fell farewell tour. You're not even

2529
02:00:26,439 --> 02:00:28,960
gonna make the playoffs. You got to come to Kelly Chiefs. Yeah,

2530
02:00:29,000 --> 02:00:31,800
you're right, you were right, you were correct. I love

2531
02:00:31,840 --> 02:00:34,520
that you were vindictive about it, to tell the truth opinion,

2532
02:00:34,600 --> 02:00:36,319
because that's you know, what you're learning from me, and

2533
02:00:36,359 --> 02:00:38,880
that's actually probably not a good thing, gentlemen. But you're

2534
02:00:38,880 --> 02:00:40,880
holding a grudge from to tell the truth opinions, and

2535
02:00:40,920 --> 02:00:44,640
you're keeping it going. I appreciate that from me. Okay, good,

2536
02:00:44,680 --> 02:00:46,840
well it's every week for me. But but I digress.

2537
02:00:47,039 --> 02:00:49,720
All right, seven one three seven Iety is the phone

2538
02:00:49,760 --> 02:00:51,560
number you want to get in a couple on holds.

2539
02:00:51,560 --> 02:00:53,119
So let's go ahead and get after Dave on the

2540
02:00:53,159 --> 02:00:54,239
north side, holding alongest.

2541
02:00:54,239 --> 02:00:59,760
Speaker 1: What's up, Dave ah Ros Ross Ross Ross, Dave, Dave,

2542
02:01:00,960 --> 02:01:01,359
I love you.

2543
02:01:02,880 --> 02:01:03,800
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, sir.

2544
02:01:04,439 --> 02:01:09,039
Speaker 12: Uh, Gloria Gainer, I will survive, perfect, perfect. And so

2545
02:01:09,399 --> 02:01:15,039
for the Texans here, uh, the Texans, Uh, there's nothing

2546
02:01:15,159 --> 02:01:17,840
nothing wrong with the Texans the step except people are

2547
02:01:17,920 --> 02:01:22,720
getting like too anti just two squeaming show up. They're

2548
02:01:22,840 --> 02:01:27,359
just scared that the Texans, you know, uh are going

2549
02:01:27,439 --> 02:01:32,039
to losing the playoffs. I mean, uh, all the Texans

2550
02:01:32,039 --> 02:01:36,560
fans just to just relax, just relax and just enjoy

2551
02:01:36,680 --> 02:01:41,640
the riding and the scared. The only scariest thing about

2552
02:01:41,680 --> 02:01:47,840
the Houston Texans is that if they turn over the

2553
02:01:47,920 --> 02:01:52,479
football on offense. If they don't turn over the football offense,

2554
02:01:52,760 --> 02:01:56,920
they're They're okay. The only scariest team that I'm afraid

2555
02:01:57,000 --> 02:01:58,520
of is Jacksonville.

2556
02:01:58,640 --> 02:02:02,159
Speaker 3: But but here's my bolt prediction.

2557
02:02:02,279 --> 02:02:06,399
Speaker 12: My Bolt prediction is Jacksonville and Houston in the AFC

2558
02:02:06,640 --> 02:02:10,920
Championship game. That's my bold prediction. I'm not gonna pick

2559
02:02:10,960 --> 02:02:15,159
a winner, but if Jacksonville gets to the AFT Championship game,

2560
02:02:15,199 --> 02:02:18,840
you'll be Houston and Jacksonville to play for the Super Bowl.

2561
02:02:19,680 --> 02:02:19,960
Speaker 1: Wow.

2562
02:02:20,680 --> 02:02:23,520
Speaker 2: All right, Dave, Thanks lot. I appreciate you getting in.

2563
02:02:25,760 --> 02:02:29,359
It feels that I have to temper this because it

2564
02:02:29,439 --> 02:02:31,640
feels like every time I sit here and I talk

2565
02:02:31,680 --> 02:02:34,840
about a Houston team, or really any sports team, and

2566
02:02:34,960 --> 02:02:36,840
I say, you know, I could see them making a

2567
02:02:36,920 --> 02:02:38,680
deep run, or I could see them out in the

2568
02:02:38,760 --> 02:02:39,399
first round.

2569
02:02:40,039 --> 02:02:41,960
Speaker 1: You know what that generally means.

2570
02:02:42,680 --> 02:02:45,720
Speaker 2: That generally means you have a team that is not dominant,

2571
02:02:46,560 --> 02:02:50,760
and that means you have a team that will probably

2572
02:02:50,920 --> 02:02:54,159
falter and stumble at some point. I mean, that's just

2573
02:02:54,279 --> 02:02:56,800
how it goes. And maybe we could argue that it's

2574
02:02:56,800 --> 02:02:59,640
a little bit different because it's the NFL and it's

2575
02:02:59,680 --> 02:03:02,880
weak week no matter what. But don't you feel like

2576
02:03:02,960 --> 02:03:05,279
normally when you're like, oh, I could see them going far,

2577
02:03:05,359 --> 02:03:07,720
I could see them losing early. Like, yeah, they'll lose early,

2578
02:03:08,359 --> 02:03:09,600
or they lose in the middle. They won't make a

2579
02:03:09,640 --> 02:03:12,399
deep run generally on teams, we just say that that

2580
02:03:12,520 --> 02:03:14,720
we that we feel that way, and we wait for

2581
02:03:14,800 --> 02:03:17,720
the flip, the switch to flip at some point, which

2582
02:03:17,760 --> 02:03:19,680
we've been waiting, and we played We played the audio

2583
02:03:19,800 --> 02:03:22,159
earlier today of c J Shroud. Yeah, we gotta clean

2584
02:03:22,239 --> 02:03:24,319
some things up. I gotta make some better throws. I

2585
02:03:24,359 --> 02:03:26,840
could have played that from from the last several weeks,

2586
02:03:27,079 --> 02:03:31,159
pres even he played from back to preseason. You got

2587
02:03:31,279 --> 02:03:32,880
to clean some things up and I gotta make some

2588
02:03:32,960 --> 02:03:37,520
better throws. Yeah, when's it gonna happen? When when are

2589
02:03:37,520 --> 02:03:40,239
we gonna get the more consistent play that we've been

2590
02:03:40,319 --> 02:03:43,840
asking for. I mean, the San Francisco forty nine Ers

2591
02:03:43,880 --> 02:03:46,000
game was really good. I'm trying to think of like

2592
02:03:46,079 --> 02:03:52,039
the really good, clean, great wow game from CJ Shroud. Wait,

2593
02:03:52,159 --> 02:03:53,479
I had a good game. Maybe it was a couple

2594
02:03:53,560 --> 02:03:56,960
of weeks ago. I'm pulling up his game logs right now. Yeah,

2595
02:03:57,000 --> 02:03:59,720
the Arizona game a week ago was good. Nine yards

2596
02:03:59,760 --> 02:04:01,840
of two, three touchdowns, no picks.

2597
02:04:02,760 --> 02:04:04,119
Speaker 1: But I don't know.

2598
02:04:06,199 --> 02:04:09,239
Speaker 2: It just doesn't feel like it's been consistent enough before that.

2599
02:04:10,479 --> 02:04:13,800
One touchdown, no touchdowns. Of course, the Denver game he

2600
02:04:13,840 --> 02:04:17,079
got hurt. We won't count that. Yeah, the Baltimore game

2601
02:04:17,199 --> 02:04:20,479
was great. The San Francisco game was good. He had

2602
02:04:20,520 --> 02:04:22,520
three hundred yards, a couple of touchdowns. He did throw

2603
02:04:22,560 --> 02:04:24,880
one pick in that game. So we're looking at the

2604
02:04:24,960 --> 02:04:28,359
Baltimore game. The Niners game will give him because he

2605
02:04:28,399 --> 02:04:31,159
went over three hundred yards. By the way, the only

2606
02:04:31,279 --> 02:04:33,920
time he's gone over three hundred yards all season long

2607
02:04:34,640 --> 02:04:37,920
was in that game and in the Arizona game, which

2608
02:04:37,960 --> 02:04:43,159
is a blowoup. Talking about three solid performances. No wow games, No,

2609
02:04:43,279 --> 02:04:46,399
oh my god, this is a franchise guy game. Remember

2610
02:04:46,479 --> 02:04:48,680
like the Buccaneers game his rookie season, something like that.

2611
02:04:49,319 --> 02:04:52,560
No crazy, out of control. This guy has no doubt

2612
02:04:52,560 --> 02:04:56,479
about it. The franchise quarterback games, of course, it's been

2613
02:04:56,760 --> 02:04:59,800
hampered by the running game has been bad all year long.

2614
02:05:00,640 --> 02:05:02,640
It was either Nick Chobb or Woody Mark. So now

2615
02:05:02,680 --> 02:05:05,600
it's been Jawir Jordan. You just have not had a

2616
02:05:05,640 --> 02:05:08,119
good consistent run game. You have not had a good

2617
02:05:08,479 --> 02:05:13,479
consistent offensive line, and Ariante Arsery got hurt and Trent

2618
02:05:13,520 --> 02:05:15,680
Brown got hurt. Hersary apparently has a broken hand, a

2619
02:05:15,720 --> 02:05:18,159
broken bone in his hand as the report, which offensive

2620
02:05:18,199 --> 02:05:22,520
linemen do normally play through. So we'll see what happens there.

2621
02:05:25,560 --> 02:05:28,479
But it is the offense and not consistently putting it

2622
02:05:28,600 --> 02:05:32,880
together that makes me almost I want to scold myself

2623
02:05:32,920 --> 02:05:34,600
because I don't sound like I'm talking about a team

2624
02:05:34,640 --> 02:05:39,000
that's won seven straight games. They've been good, they've been great.

2625
02:05:39,239 --> 02:05:42,079
They've outperformed all expectations from the zero to three start,

2626
02:05:43,359 --> 02:05:46,159
and then they're ten and two since then, and even then,

2627
02:05:46,479 --> 02:05:49,319
even still, all their five losses are by one score,

2628
02:05:50,319 --> 02:05:53,720
and the losses are to the Rams, super Bowl contender.

2629
02:05:53,960 --> 02:05:56,239
Buccaneers were looking good, but Baker Mayfield's been playing hurt.

2630
02:05:56,239 --> 02:05:59,800
They haven't been good since Jaguars got eleven wins. See,

2631
02:05:59,800 --> 02:06:02,199
how are also Super Bowl contenders. You lost to them

2632
02:06:02,239 --> 02:06:05,119
on the road, and you lost to the Broncos at

2633
02:06:05,199 --> 02:06:07,319
home when Davis Mills had to play half the game,

2634
02:06:08,800 --> 02:06:12,600
all by one score. So yeah, add it all up.

2635
02:06:12,640 --> 02:06:14,199
This is a really good football team. This is an

2636
02:06:14,239 --> 02:06:18,319
AFC contender. Just wish the Jaguars would faulted a little bit.

2637
02:06:18,359 --> 02:06:19,960
You can get that home game in the first round

2638
02:06:20,000 --> 02:06:22,039
and then kind of go from there to where you're

2639
02:06:22,079 --> 02:06:25,279
able to avoid with the re seeding, you're able to

2640
02:06:25,439 --> 02:06:28,479
likely to avoid going on the road in a tough environment,

2641
02:06:28,880 --> 02:06:31,199
especially if you end up as the seventh seed, which

2642
02:06:31,239 --> 02:06:34,560
I believe they are right now where it would be

2643
02:06:34,680 --> 02:06:38,840
at New England at this moment, you're at New England.

2644
02:06:40,800 --> 02:06:43,119
I think they're probably the toast of the AFC if

2645
02:06:43,119 --> 02:06:45,800
you ask me at the moment, and then you would

2646
02:06:45,840 --> 02:06:48,039
be the seventh seed if you win that game at Denver,

2647
02:06:48,640 --> 02:06:51,159
that's tough. It'd be a tough road to make, and

2648
02:06:51,239 --> 02:06:53,600
then you'd be on the road for whatever other playoff

2649
02:06:53,640 --> 02:06:55,479
game you went to because you'd be the seventh seed.

2650
02:06:55,840 --> 02:06:57,600
So you'd have to go win three road games to

2651
02:06:57,640 --> 02:06:58,359
make a Super Bowl.

2652
02:07:00,840 --> 02:07:01,399
Speaker 1: That'd be tough.

2653
02:07:01,840 --> 02:07:03,840
Speaker 2: All right, Quick break here on the Matt Thomas Show

2654
02:07:03,960 --> 02:07:07,159
with Ross. We're talking from Houston, Texans football. They survive

2655
02:07:07,439 --> 02:07:10,319
yesterday against the Las Vegas Raiders. How you feel it?

2656
02:07:10,520 --> 02:07:14,279
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

2657
02:07:14,319 --> 02:07:16,520
one three, two one two five, seven ninety We'll take

2658
02:07:16,560 --> 02:07:18,880
that break. We're here from Jamaico, Ryans and C J.

2659
02:07:19,039 --> 02:07:21,960
Stroud and more and your phone calls anything you guys

2660
02:07:22,000 --> 02:07:24,279
want to get to at seven one three two one

2661
02:07:24,399 --> 02:07:25,920
two five seven ninety.

2662
02:07:33,439 --> 02:07:36,520
Speaker 1: S three Hi, Yes.

2663
02:07:37,920 --> 02:07:38,399
Speaker 3: In the.

2664
02:07:40,079 --> 02:07:51,800
Speaker 1: SNS, listening a beautifuluestion. We're happening to night an Orange Wonderland. Come.

2665
02:07:53,560 --> 02:07:59,119
Speaker 2: The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin holds up you all.

2666
02:07:59,119 --> 02:08:02,720
Welcome back Matt Thomas Show with Ross without Matt Thomas

2667
02:08:02,880 --> 02:08:06,600
with you until two o'clock. When Matt is away, the

2668
02:08:06,760 --> 02:08:11,439
Christmas music will play traditionally on this show, which now

2669
02:08:11,479 --> 02:08:14,119
I've been with him. I'm gonna throw up since two

2670
02:08:14,199 --> 02:08:19,640
thy ten. We're going into our sixteenth year or is

2671
02:08:19,720 --> 02:08:20,560
this the sixteenth year?

2672
02:08:20,640 --> 02:08:21,079
Speaker 3: Next to this?

2673
02:08:22,279 --> 02:08:25,520
Speaker 2: Make sure we'll be our seventeenth whatever we're going into. Wow,

2674
02:08:26,000 --> 02:08:28,399
I think I can't remember. Matt knows the exact day

2675
02:08:28,399 --> 02:08:30,520
they started me. It was like January fourth or something

2676
02:08:30,640 --> 02:08:33,560
like that, or somewhere like that. The first day of THO.

2677
02:08:33,640 --> 02:08:35,720
We should have an anniversary partner or this is probably

2678
02:08:35,760 --> 02:08:38,600
something I should know, but I don't. But anyways, he

2679
02:08:39,039 --> 02:08:42,800
he only likes to have Christmas music on Christmas Eve.

2680
02:08:43,159 --> 02:08:45,359
I would like to play it like basically all December.

2681
02:08:45,960 --> 02:08:47,760
I've been listening to it for the last couple of weeks.

2682
02:08:47,800 --> 02:08:49,600
I'retha Franklin Winter Wonderland one.

2683
02:08:49,560 --> 02:08:53,039
Speaker 1: Of my faves. But I digress. Phone lines open if

2684
02:08:53,039 --> 02:08:53,600
you want to get in.

2685
02:08:54,840 --> 02:08:57,479
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety is

2686
02:08:57,560 --> 02:09:01,199
the phone number seven one three two five seven ninety.

2687
02:09:01,199 --> 02:09:05,079
So we're talking about the Texans in the last segment,

2688
02:09:05,279 --> 02:09:07,119
and I mean, really, when you get to like, like

2689
02:09:07,199 --> 02:09:08,800
I said, you look at the big picture. The big

2690
02:09:08,840 --> 02:09:11,760
picture is they have won ten games. They have won

2691
02:09:11,960 --> 02:09:14,079
seven of them in a row. They were three and

2692
02:09:14,239 --> 02:09:17,079
five or yeah, two and.

2693
02:09:17,640 --> 02:09:18,560
Speaker 1: Four, is that right you?

2694
02:09:18,680 --> 02:09:22,239
Speaker 2: After the Seahawks loss the Seahawks game, some said was

2695
02:09:22,319 --> 02:09:24,560
a must win game and if they lose this one,

2696
02:09:24,560 --> 02:09:25,720
they're out of the playoffs.

2697
02:09:26,720 --> 02:09:28,520
Speaker 1: Well they lost it. Jaguar.

2698
02:09:28,600 --> 02:09:30,960
Speaker 2: I remember the Jaguars game, people saying that was a

2699
02:09:31,039 --> 02:09:33,960
must win game. It's a must win game against the

2700
02:09:34,119 --> 02:09:36,760
Jaguars in Week three, Well they lost and now they're

2701
02:09:36,800 --> 02:09:39,840
ten and five. This is again a reason why I

2702
02:09:40,039 --> 02:09:43,640
just don't subscribe to the must win Every game is

2703
02:09:43,720 --> 02:09:46,079
a must win game type of theory. You can, well,

2704
02:09:46,119 --> 02:09:48,520
you can lose some games, you'll be all right. There's

2705
02:09:48,560 --> 02:09:50,439
no must win games left for the Texans. In all

2706
02:09:50,520 --> 02:09:54,079
likelihood they're gonna be They're gonna get a playoff seed

2707
02:09:54,880 --> 02:09:57,800
starting tonight with the Colts in all likelihood losing to

2708
02:09:57,840 --> 02:10:00,399
the San Francisco forty nine ers. You want to win

2709
02:10:00,439 --> 02:10:02,119
against the Chargers. You want to win against the Colts.

2710
02:10:02,439 --> 02:10:04,760
You want to improve your seting. You don't want to

2711
02:10:04,800 --> 02:10:06,800
be the seventh seed. That would guarantee you would have

2712
02:10:06,880 --> 02:10:09,800
to go on the road for three straight games to

2713
02:10:10,239 --> 02:10:13,640
make it to a Super Bowl, which the Texans can

2714
02:10:14,199 --> 02:10:19,239
and could do. I know, the six seed New York

2715
02:10:19,479 --> 02:10:23,520
Giants the second time they beat I think it was

2716
02:10:23,560 --> 02:10:25,560
the second time they beat the Patriots in like twenty

2717
02:10:25,600 --> 02:10:28,079
twelve or whatever, it was pretty sure they were a

2718
02:10:28,159 --> 02:10:29,680
six seed and went on the road the whole way.

2719
02:10:30,119 --> 02:10:32,960
But it's rare and it's difficult, and it's not like

2720
02:10:32,960 --> 02:10:34,159
the Texans are going to be able to get a

2721
02:10:34,199 --> 02:10:36,760
home game anyways. Maybe if they get nestled up into

2722
02:10:36,800 --> 02:10:38,960
a five seed and some things break their way, who knows.

2723
02:10:40,319 --> 02:10:45,600
But you also would have the less difficult path in theory,

2724
02:10:45,840 --> 02:10:47,399
depending on the way things shake out. I mean, no

2725
02:10:47,479 --> 02:10:49,520
guarantee the Patriots are going to be the two seed,

2726
02:10:49,600 --> 02:10:51,760
no guarantee the Broncos are going to be the one seed.

2727
02:10:52,159 --> 02:10:55,319
All this could get flip flopped around, and our caller

2728
02:10:55,359 --> 02:10:57,840
Shops I didn't confirm this, but our caller Shoops earlier

2729
02:10:57,880 --> 02:11:00,279
said the Texans could still be the one seed, but

2730
02:11:00,479 --> 02:11:05,880
you would need to win out with the Broncos and

2731
02:11:05,960 --> 02:11:08,399
Patriots losing out, and now that's not gonna happen. That's

2732
02:11:08,439 --> 02:11:10,840
not gonna happen. And the same thing for the Jaguars

2733
02:11:10,920 --> 02:11:12,840
only winning one of their last two games, but they're

2734
02:11:12,880 --> 02:11:16,399
gonna probably sweep. So I'm gonna say that is not likely.

2735
02:11:17,239 --> 02:11:22,680
But get up there, try to win your last two games.

2736
02:11:23,319 --> 02:11:27,319
Pray somehow, some way the Jaguars could drop a game

2737
02:11:27,399 --> 02:11:29,520
on the road against the Colts or at home against

2738
02:11:29,520 --> 02:11:31,520
the Titans, and then go from there. Just win the

2739
02:11:31,600 --> 02:11:33,600
games in front of you and see how the chips

2740
02:11:33,640 --> 02:11:35,479
fall in the AFC, because right now the AFC is

2741
02:11:35,520 --> 02:11:37,039
very difficult. There's a lot of good teams. There are

2742
02:11:37,039 --> 02:11:40,760
a lot of eleven ten win teams, and you're in

2743
02:11:40,800 --> 02:11:42,960
the mix, though, and you can beat any one of them.

2744
02:11:43,920 --> 02:11:46,840
Your thought of is on par with everyone, because I mean,

2745
02:11:46,880 --> 02:11:50,920
you're on the road taking on the Chargers, the eleven

2746
02:11:51,000 --> 02:11:53,239
win Chargers team, and you're only one and a half

2747
02:11:53,640 --> 02:11:56,880
games back. But you look at the team, still concerns

2748
02:11:56,880 --> 02:11:59,000
about the offensive line, especially with the injuries that have

2749
02:11:59,079 --> 02:12:01,479
cropped up over the weekend, and still concerns about the

2750
02:12:01,560 --> 02:12:03,359
running game, still concerns about CJ.

2751
02:12:03,479 --> 02:12:03,880
Speaker 1: Stroud.

2752
02:12:04,159 --> 02:12:06,199
Speaker 2: Kind of where we've been for the last several weeks,

2753
02:12:06,920 --> 02:12:08,840
Which is why I understand some people being a little

2754
02:12:08,880 --> 02:12:11,760
bit lukeworm on a team that has ten wins and

2755
02:12:11,800 --> 02:12:13,920
they're ten and five. To me, I see both arguments.

2756
02:12:14,640 --> 02:12:16,560
Hey they're ten and five, they won seven in a row.

2757
02:12:16,680 --> 02:12:18,600
Quitch your whining. It's hard to win in the NFL,

2758
02:12:18,680 --> 02:12:20,960
no matter what week it is. Yeah, but have you

2759
02:12:21,079 --> 02:12:23,960
seen the offense. They don't move the ball a whole lot.

2760
02:12:24,119 --> 02:12:24,399
Speaker 1: CJ.

2761
02:12:24,479 --> 02:12:27,920
Speaker 2: Stroud missus throws. They got a practice squad guy leading

2762
02:12:27,960 --> 02:12:31,920
the running back room, and you've got some offensive line injuries.

2763
02:12:32,640 --> 02:12:35,439
It's problematic. See how it shakes out in the next

2764
02:12:35,479 --> 02:12:38,760
couple of weeks. Who keep waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for

2765
02:12:38,880 --> 02:12:42,399
that switch to flip. Generally, that means in my experience.

2766
02:12:43,000 --> 02:12:46,640
It's never gonna happen, but you don't even need it

2767
02:12:46,760 --> 02:12:49,199
to happen to that extent of where you're talking about

2768
02:12:49,239 --> 02:12:52,039
a dominant offense. If you're this Texans team to where

2769
02:12:52,079 --> 02:12:55,439
they can lose or I'm sorry, they can win with

2770
02:12:55,560 --> 02:12:59,479
the defense and just enough offense. All we're asking for

2771
02:12:59,640 --> 02:13:03,119
is just enough CJ strout slash, run game, slash offensive line.

2772
02:13:03,600 --> 02:13:05,800
Don't blow the game, don't turn the ball over, let

2773
02:13:05,840 --> 02:13:08,199
the defense do its work. I think that's the Demico

2774
02:13:08,319 --> 02:13:13,399
Ryans formula for success. That's the Houston Texans formula for success.

2775
02:13:13,720 --> 02:13:16,479
Beverly in friend ones has been holding patiently. What's up, Beverly,

2776
02:13:17,479 --> 02:13:17,880
I have a.

2777
02:13:18,000 --> 02:13:18,560
Speaker 5: Question for.

2778
02:13:20,920 --> 02:13:22,840
Speaker 15: I know you'd have to use the bump her music.

2779
02:13:23,600 --> 02:13:27,239
Why does it continue on and on and on or

2780
02:13:27,359 --> 02:13:31,279
either the noise level is so high? Well, like last night,

2781
02:13:31,319 --> 02:13:34,439
I was listening to the game after the Rockets game,

2782
02:13:34,520 --> 02:13:37,560
I was listening to You with the talk show and

2783
02:13:37,680 --> 02:13:39,920
the noise was so loud I could hardly hear you.

2784
02:13:40,720 --> 02:13:42,319
Why and who controls that?

2785
02:13:43,000 --> 02:13:46,239
Speaker 2: That normally would be the producer maybe not fading it

2786
02:13:46,319 --> 02:13:50,560
off in time or something like that. And it happened

2787
02:13:50,640 --> 02:13:52,800
last night that this is the postgame show.

2788
02:13:52,880 --> 02:13:54,399
Speaker 1: The Rockets rest game show.

2789
02:13:54,520 --> 02:13:55,279
Speaker 15: Yes, Rockets.

2790
02:13:55,800 --> 02:13:56,520
Speaker 1: I don't think there was.

2791
02:13:56,520 --> 02:13:58,720
Speaker 2: A postgame Rockets wrap calling show because it was a

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late start.

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02:14:00,399 --> 02:14:02,880
Speaker 1: Well, maybe it was the pre game. Maybe it was

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02:14:02,920 --> 02:14:03,439
the pregame.

2795
02:14:04,239 --> 02:14:08,760
Speaker 15: No, it was after the game when they were talking

2796
02:14:08,840 --> 02:14:10,119
about the game, you know.

2797
02:14:10,239 --> 02:14:12,000
Speaker 1: A call in show. I don't think we.

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02:14:13,680 --> 02:14:14,359
Speaker 13: Okay, maybe it.

2799
02:14:14,479 --> 02:14:18,760
Speaker 15: Was recorded, but oh I noticed that the noise level

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02:14:19,000 --> 02:14:22,159
and I don't even call it music. It's clicking and noising.

2801
02:14:22,800 --> 02:14:26,119
It's so the producer controls that.

2802
02:14:26,479 --> 02:14:29,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, normally, unless it was pre recorded, which I'm going

2803
02:14:29,640 --> 02:14:31,600
to guess it might have been with Chris Cordy doing

2804
02:14:31,640 --> 02:14:33,840
the pregame. Normally, if it's a late night game, I'm

2805
02:14:33,880 --> 02:14:34,560
not calling him out.

2806
02:14:34,600 --> 02:14:35,079
Speaker 1: I do it too.

2807
02:14:35,119 --> 02:14:37,319
Speaker 2: When it's when it's a pregame and it's very late night,

2808
02:14:37,479 --> 02:14:39,359
you just record the pregame and then you wrote and

2809
02:14:39,399 --> 02:14:42,000
you roll at it like usually eight o'clock. Was it

2810
02:14:42,039 --> 02:14:43,600
around what time? Was it around eight o'clock or was

2811
02:14:43,640 --> 02:14:44,159
it around past?

2812
02:14:44,600 --> 02:14:48,600
Speaker 15: This was late because the game last night was was

2813
02:14:48,920 --> 02:14:50,800
didn't start till lates.

2814
02:14:51,039 --> 02:14:53,279
Speaker 2: Unless I'm mistaken, Beverly, we did not have a postgame

2815
02:14:53,359 --> 02:14:55,760
call in show. It might have been was it the

2816
02:14:56,399 --> 02:14:58,079
was it the post game where they they were just

2817
02:14:58,159 --> 02:14:59,640
running through the highlights and stuff.

2818
02:15:01,800 --> 02:15:04,840
Speaker 15: But it went on for an hour after the game

2819
02:15:06,239 --> 02:15:08,800
because I listened to the game because we lost by

2820
02:15:08,880 --> 02:15:09,359
one point.

2821
02:15:10,439 --> 02:15:14,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I appreciate you, Beverly. I'm not sure we're

2822
02:15:14,399 --> 02:15:16,399
kind of going in circles here. I just don't know, because,

2823
02:15:16,840 --> 02:15:19,479
like I said, we don't normally games we have a

2824
02:15:19,520 --> 02:15:23,399
cutoff here behind the curtains. Some would say we have

2825
02:15:23,479 --> 02:15:26,840
a cutoff here that if the game is after nine o'clock,

2826
02:15:26,880 --> 02:15:29,359
we don't do a postgame show because generally that means

2827
02:15:30,079 --> 02:15:33,319
the game's not ning till eleven thirty, and then the

2828
02:15:33,399 --> 02:15:36,119
postgame show is probably not even with the highlights with

2829
02:15:36,159 --> 02:15:39,840
Adam playting is midnight if it's Adam Wexler, might not

2830
02:15:39,920 --> 02:15:44,039
intill twelve thirty or one, and then then the call

2831
02:15:44,159 --> 02:15:48,760
in show would start super late. So I'm not sure.

2832
02:15:49,239 --> 02:15:51,079
I don't think we had a postgame call in show,

2833
02:15:51,159 --> 02:15:53,520
but thank you. If it was the pregame, maybe it

2834
02:15:53,600 --> 02:15:57,920
was pre recorded and the bed didn't get faded off.

2835
02:15:58,000 --> 02:16:01,800
That's all I can tell you, Beverly. I was not

2836
02:16:03,279 --> 02:16:05,760
a fault of mine. I don't tune into the station

2837
02:16:05,800 --> 02:16:07,239
a whole lot when I'm not working, I try to

2838
02:16:07,279 --> 02:16:08,319
keep a fresh mind.

2839
02:16:08,399 --> 02:16:10,439
Speaker 1: That's what I that's the excuse that I use.

2840
02:16:10,800 --> 02:16:13,520
Speaker 2: All right, quick break here on the Matt Thomas Show

2841
02:16:13,640 --> 02:16:15,319
with Ross. Those you on hold, we will get to

2842
02:16:15,319 --> 02:16:17,079
you next. We've been talking some text and you want

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to get in on that. Seven one three two one

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as well. Back in a minute on The Matt Thomas

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Show with Ross.

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Speaker 17: City side walks, busy side walks, insted Holiday stole in

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the aves.

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Speaker 1: Feeling of Christmas.

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Speaker 17: Children, laughing, people passing meet me, smile, laugh to smile

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and on every steet.

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Speaker 2: Car as I go along with these years of mine Jonathan,

2862
02:17:17,200 --> 02:17:27,719
I have to ask myself, Stevie Wonder the goat this influence, innovation, longevity,

2863
02:17:28,399 --> 02:17:33,479
singing voice, songwriting. But he was instrumentation. No, he wasn't

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02:17:33,520 --> 02:17:36,079
the first to do with Charles two Ray. Charles is

2865
02:17:36,159 --> 02:17:39,760
honestly on the short list, checking all the boxes. Incredible

2866
02:17:39,799 --> 02:17:42,280
singing voice, incredible influence.

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02:17:44,600 --> 02:17:47,639
Speaker 1: H I'm just saying he's on the shortlist. Put him

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02:17:47,639 --> 02:17:48,200
on the shortlist.

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02:17:48,200 --> 02:17:50,719
Speaker 2: Stevie Wonder, one of the all time great with some

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02:17:50,840 --> 02:17:53,360
silver bells here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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02:17:53,440 --> 02:17:56,639
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety is

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the phone number if you want to get in. Seven

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02:17:58,440 --> 02:18:03,479
one three two one two five seven ninety. Former Texans

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02:18:03,600 --> 02:18:10,719
legend Denzel Perriman suspended for two games after a dirty

2875
02:18:10,879 --> 02:18:14,399
hit he was flagged for yesterday in the Cowboys game.

2876
02:18:15,200 --> 02:18:18,879
I was trying to find the exact exact language. I

2877
02:18:19,000 --> 02:18:21,879
just had the tweet, but I lost it. Yes, according

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02:18:21,959 --> 02:18:27,319
to the NFL, it is quote repeated violations of playing

2879
02:18:27,440 --> 02:18:30,959
rules intended to protect the health and safety of the players,

2880
02:18:32,239 --> 02:18:35,920
including during Sunday's game against the Dallas Cowboys. So I

2881
02:18:36,000 --> 02:18:38,479
mean that big news for the Texans coming up this weekend.

2882
02:18:39,040 --> 02:18:41,840
Texans legend Denzel Perryman, who was kind of what Alziz

2883
02:18:41,840 --> 02:18:45,559
al Shaier is that that enforcer sideline to sideline middle

2884
02:18:45,600 --> 02:18:52,879
linebacker for the Chargers and not going to play. Suspended

2885
02:18:53,399 --> 02:18:57,840
for two games, yeah, second quarter, he was penalized for

2886
02:18:57,920 --> 02:19:00,799
unnecessary roughness for a give a blow to the head

2887
02:19:00,840 --> 02:19:03,319
of receiver Ryan floor Noy. I mean it was kind

2888
02:19:03,319 --> 02:19:06,600
of all these plays and like slow motion, they look

2889
02:19:06,639 --> 02:19:09,159
dirtier than they are, Like it's it's very difficult to

2890
02:19:09,200 --> 02:19:11,040
have these guys slow down and stuff like that. But

2891
02:19:11,680 --> 02:19:13,799
it was a dirty hit by Denzel Perriman. Now he's

2892
02:19:13,799 --> 02:19:15,920
been suspended for two games. Who knows what's gonna happen

2893
02:19:15,920 --> 02:19:17,600
as far as an appeal or if that's going to

2894
02:19:17,680 --> 02:19:20,040
go down one game or or what, but something to

2895
02:19:20,120 --> 02:19:21,719
keep an eye on. I'm gonna guess he's not going

2896
02:19:21,760 --> 02:19:25,920
to be available this Saturday against the Houston Texans. Seven

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02:19:25,959 --> 02:19:28,040
one three two one two five seven ninety is a

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02:19:28,079 --> 02:19:30,399
phone number you want to get in seven one three

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02:19:30,559 --> 02:19:34,559
two one two five seven ninety Morgan on the sunny side,

2900
02:19:34,680 --> 02:19:35,760
next up? What's up? Morgan?

2901
02:19:37,319 --> 02:19:40,399
Speaker 7: Hey Ross, Hey Man, I didn't know you guys, so

2902
02:19:40,520 --> 02:19:42,600
you went back to other that long man, it's a

2903
02:19:42,719 --> 02:19:43,280
long time.

2904
02:19:43,559 --> 02:19:44,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I was there.

2905
02:19:44,440 --> 02:19:46,280
Speaker 2: I started off as the producer and then I've been

2906
02:19:46,360 --> 02:19:48,879
full time in the booth uh as a co host

2907
02:19:48,879 --> 02:19:51,639
since two thousand now March of twenty nineteen. So we're

2908
02:19:51,680 --> 02:19:53,680
coming up on it'll be seven years of that.

2909
02:19:54,440 --> 02:19:58,399
Speaker 5: Oh god, oh steal man, that's awesome.

2910
02:19:58,600 --> 02:19:58,799
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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02:20:00,840 --> 02:20:03,680
Speaker 5: And then the other thing is when you're got this

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02:20:04,159 --> 02:20:05,280
de assiable.

2913
02:20:04,840 --> 02:20:07,639
Speaker 9: Bails that reminded me man of a shirt that Q

2914
02:20:07,799 --> 02:20:11,000
liquor what happened to surely Q lickor Man, I do

2915
02:20:11,479 --> 02:20:12,399
not know.

2916
02:20:12,920 --> 02:20:14,639
Speaker 2: That was a person that did bits on the Michael

2917
02:20:14,680 --> 02:20:19,719
Berry Show, right, Oh my bad. Yeah, we didn't have sir,

2918
02:20:20,559 --> 02:20:22,879
wasn't us So I'm not I'm not sure about that.

2919
02:20:23,040 --> 02:20:24,760
That's that's not a question I can answer.

2920
02:20:24,959 --> 02:20:27,840
Speaker 3: No, no, okay, No, that's my bad.

2921
02:20:27,920 --> 02:20:28,159
Speaker 1: Okay.

2922
02:20:28,200 --> 02:20:34,079
Speaker 5: But anyway, talk about compare these Texans to the Texans

2923
02:20:34,159 --> 02:20:35,319
that the QBA.

2924
02:20:35,559 --> 02:20:39,000
Speaker 3: Shop area Fallster era and I hang up and listen.

2925
02:20:39,440 --> 02:20:42,719
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, I'll go straight into it. Then those

2926
02:20:42,799 --> 02:20:47,360
teams had dominant defenses and better. I would say this

2927
02:20:48,559 --> 02:20:51,239
just off the top of my head. I can pull

2928
02:20:51,360 --> 02:20:54,159
up like the rankings and stuff like that. I would

2929
02:20:54,239 --> 02:21:00,479
say those offenses were better and those defenses were good,

2930
02:21:00,680 --> 02:21:03,239
but this defense is more elite. Like I'm just gonna

2931
02:21:03,239 --> 02:21:05,959
get like this, this defense is number one, number one, right,

2932
02:21:06,520 --> 02:21:09,239
I'm gonna guess those were about top ten to top

2933
02:21:09,440 --> 02:21:14,680
five ish defenses with maybe a top ten offense. This

2934
02:21:14,879 --> 02:21:18,479
is a top one defense. They're still number one in yards,

2935
02:21:18,799 --> 02:21:21,600
still number one in points, which no football team in

2936
02:21:21,680 --> 02:21:24,239
the history of professional football in Houston has ever done

2937
02:21:24,799 --> 02:21:26,520
both in a single season.

2938
02:21:27,440 --> 02:21:28,719
Speaker 1: And this offense is just like.

2939
02:21:30,840 --> 02:21:35,799
Speaker 2: Fair to Midland, fifteen to twenty ish. Oh yeah, the

2940
02:21:36,200 --> 02:21:40,920
nineteenth in points, nineteenth in yards, so not fifteenth to twentieth,

2941
02:21:41,120 --> 02:21:45,440
just more twenty ish. Yeah, I'm just looking at these

2942
02:21:45,520 --> 02:21:49,159
Kubiak the twenty twelve Yeah, they were top ten in

2943
02:21:49,200 --> 02:21:51,360
both in twenty twelve. That was their best season ever.

2944
02:21:51,479 --> 02:21:53,879
They the only twelve win season in the history of

2945
02:21:53,959 --> 02:21:57,639
the franchise. They were twelve and four. Their offense was

2946
02:21:57,719 --> 02:22:00,879
eighth and seventh in points in yards, and their defense

2947
02:22:01,000 --> 02:22:03,520
was ninth and seventh in points in yards, So to

2948
02:22:03,719 --> 02:22:06,760
top ten. A top ten offense and a top ten defense,

2949
02:22:08,000 --> 02:22:11,600
but this is a top one defense and then not

2950
02:22:11,760 --> 02:22:15,840
so a more balanced team back then, and this is

2951
02:22:15,959 --> 02:22:21,360
more carried by the defense all time elite. As far

2952
02:22:21,440 --> 02:22:24,000
as finishing number one in anything in Texans history, as

2953
02:22:24,040 --> 02:22:27,440
I have it pulled up, they finished first in yards

2954
02:22:27,479 --> 02:22:31,399
in twenty sixteen, and that's the only time they finished

2955
02:22:31,479 --> 02:22:36,280
first in anything. Also thirty yards and fifteen second in

2956
02:22:36,360 --> 02:22:42,680
yards in eleven. Never finished first in points, and a

2957
02:22:42,760 --> 02:22:46,040
couple of weeks to go still, but we'll see against

2958
02:22:46,040 --> 02:22:50,120
the Chargers, they could give up some points. Probably whoever's

2959
02:22:50,159 --> 02:22:53,120
quarterbacking the Colts at the time they play them probably

2960
02:22:53,200 --> 02:22:56,159
not going to be too much of a problem holding

2961
02:22:56,239 --> 02:22:59,120
them down points wise, Can you score some points? That'd

2962
02:22:59,159 --> 02:23:01,120
be nice if this team could get into like the

2963
02:23:01,159 --> 02:23:04,479
top fifteen ten to fifteen ish in points and yards. Now,

2964
02:23:04,479 --> 02:23:05,920
it was only two weeks left, so it's probably not

2965
02:23:05,959 --> 02:23:09,159
gonna happen. Yeah, you could argue for the best Texans

2966
02:23:09,200 --> 02:23:11,280
team of all time right now. I guess I would

2967
02:23:11,280 --> 02:23:13,440
still stick with that twelve and four team, even though

2968
02:23:13,479 --> 02:23:16,639
they faltered down the stretch. They lost like three of

2969
02:23:16,680 --> 02:23:19,239
the last games, and then they lost in the division round.

2970
02:23:19,239 --> 02:23:22,040
I think they got crushed. Did they get crushed by

2971
02:23:22,079 --> 02:23:27,040
the Patriots or something like that, or was that? Yeah,

2972
02:23:27,040 --> 02:23:30,280
I'm pulling this up yeah, but they beat the Bengals

2973
02:23:31,879 --> 02:23:36,719
in the wild card round and then they lost to

2974
02:23:36,799 --> 02:23:40,520
the Patriots forty one to twenty eight. I don't think

2975
02:23:40,559 --> 02:23:42,680
it was even that close. I think it was like

2976
02:23:42,760 --> 02:23:47,280
a straight up boat racing. Yeah, they got down thirty

2977
02:23:47,319 --> 02:23:49,040
eight to twenty in that game and then scored a

2978
02:23:49,079 --> 02:23:51,239
couple of late touchdowns to make it forty one to

2979
02:23:51,280 --> 02:23:54,840
twenty eight look better than it was. That's the best

2980
02:23:54,879 --> 02:23:58,920
team in Texans history, and this one's vying for that.

2981
02:23:59,200 --> 02:24:02,680
If they gets something going on offense, they would be

2982
02:24:02,760 --> 02:24:05,000
the best team in Texans history.

2983
02:24:05,760 --> 02:24:11,000
Speaker 1: But so far not to be all right.

2984
02:24:11,079 --> 02:24:12,959
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety is

2985
02:24:12,959 --> 02:24:14,360
a phone number if you want to get in. Seven

2986
02:24:14,399 --> 02:24:17,000
one three two one two five seven ninety final segment

2987
02:24:17,159 --> 02:24:20,239
of The Man Thomas Show with Ross is coming up

2988
02:24:20,319 --> 02:24:25,600
next with what I call the definitive number one all

2989
02:24:25,799 --> 02:24:27,399
time Christmas song.

2990
02:24:28,000 --> 02:24:30,799
Speaker 1: That is next here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

2991
02:24:31,239 --> 02:24:39,719
Speaker 12: Chess lots roasting on an open file, Jack Fross nipping

2992
02:24:40,079 --> 02:24:49,840
at your nose, You toide cows being sung by who.

2993
02:24:51,719 --> 02:24:58,479
Speaker 1: And folks dressed up like guess schemo agree, lets this

2994
02:24:58,520 --> 02:25:00,639
holding play? I don't think.

2995
02:25:03,159 --> 02:25:05,760
Speaker 2: That's Sonny my mind and Dan and Tys is gonna

2996
02:25:05,760 --> 02:25:08,440
come beat the door down. Hey you're still in our

2997
02:25:08,520 --> 02:25:10,079
bed all right?

2998
02:25:10,319 --> 02:25:10,639
Speaker 12: Sorry?

2999
02:25:13,200 --> 02:25:19,440
Speaker 2: Oh the to me the number one quintessential. I'm not

3000
02:25:19,520 --> 02:25:22,040
saying it's my favorite Christmas song. It might be, actually,

3001
02:25:22,479 --> 02:25:26,000
but like the Christmas song of all Christmas songs, gotta

3002
02:25:26,079 --> 02:25:29,760
be the Christmas song. Bye, Nat King Cole. Welcome back

3003
02:25:29,799 --> 02:25:32,639
to the final segment of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

3004
02:25:32,879 --> 02:25:35,639
Ross view real with you for just a couple of

3005
02:25:35,719 --> 02:25:38,600
more minutes before handing it off to Adam Clanton and

3006
02:25:39,239 --> 02:25:42,559
Adam Wexler. I believe they're both in. I'm just gonna

3007
02:25:42,600 --> 02:25:44,559
assume or I think one of them. And now it's

3008
02:25:45,399 --> 02:25:47,879
it's that time of year. Matt's out today. I will

3009
02:25:47,959 --> 02:25:52,120
be out for I was out all last week and

3010
02:25:52,200 --> 02:25:54,360
I'm gonna be out for two days next week.

3011
02:25:56,319 --> 02:25:58,840
Speaker 1: That'd be nice. It's gonna be real nice. And then

3012
02:25:58,879 --> 02:26:00,920
I'm gonna be I think on in the back.

3013
02:26:01,000 --> 02:26:01,120
Speaker 3: You know.

3014
02:26:01,200 --> 02:26:03,120
Speaker 2: He went the ground running January. I'm not gonna have

3015
02:26:03,159 --> 02:26:06,680
any time off at least maybe until February March.

3016
02:26:06,719 --> 02:26:07,040
Speaker 1: We'll see.

3017
02:26:07,079 --> 02:26:09,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I gotta dose my time off a little

3018
02:26:09,079 --> 02:26:10,920
bit better next year. This year, I didn't take a

3019
02:26:10,959 --> 02:26:13,840
vacation until like the middle of August. Yeah, I was like, yeah,

3020
02:26:14,120 --> 02:26:16,120
so Johnath is like Ross never works here.

3021
02:26:17,520 --> 02:26:18,440
Speaker 1: I never see you.

3022
02:26:20,079 --> 02:26:21,360
Speaker 2: So I'll try to do you know, I should do

3023
02:26:21,440 --> 02:26:22,440
like one week a quarter.

3024
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do.

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02:26:23,879 --> 02:26:25,719
Speaker 2: And the goal is to hit at least two new

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02:26:25,799 --> 02:26:27,840
national parks next year. That's what I'm gonna try to

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02:26:27,879 --> 02:26:31,639
do as well. Great Basin and probably Yosemite, I think

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02:26:31,760 --> 02:26:34,440
is what I'm gonna go for. Any who, So you

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02:26:34,600 --> 02:26:37,520
have Matt out today. He will be back tomorrow. In

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Los Angeles. Rockets are playing the Clippers tomorrow on Tuesday

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02:26:41,639 --> 02:26:43,920
and then Thursday it is a tilt with the Los

3032
02:26:44,000 --> 02:26:49,639
Angeles Lakers on ABC slash, ESPN National nationally televised game

3033
02:26:49,680 --> 02:26:51,600
against the Lakers. So that should be a good one,

3034
02:26:52,600 --> 02:26:57,920
and yeah, Matt will be back tomorrow. Rockets unfortunately disappointing

3035
02:26:58,000 --> 02:26:58,319
right now.

3036
02:26:58,799 --> 02:27:04,120
Speaker 4: Not what's gonna happen if they say they keep losing

3037
02:27:04,239 --> 02:27:06,959
like this and it's they're seventeen, they they don't win

3038
02:27:07,079 --> 02:27:08,559
from now they're seventeen, and.

3039
02:27:10,360 --> 02:27:12,040
Speaker 2: You said lose there in their next two games, like

3040
02:27:12,079 --> 02:27:12,600
they lose like.

3041
02:27:12,639 --> 02:27:15,079
Speaker 4: Four in a row, Like say that seventeen thirteen. Did't

3042
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you gut feeling they were going to go undefeated.

3043
02:27:16,680 --> 02:27:17,319
Speaker 1: On this road trip?

3044
02:27:17,600 --> 02:27:17,639
Speaker 16: No?

3045
02:27:17,680 --> 02:27:20,159
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that was mad. I think it was mad.

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02:27:20,280 --> 02:27:23,639
Speaker 2: Okay, good, How are the gut feelings last week?

3047
02:27:24,360 --> 02:27:24,479
Speaker 3: Oh?

3048
02:27:24,920 --> 02:27:26,239
Speaker 2: Were you able to get into that document?

3049
02:27:26,440 --> 02:27:26,719
Speaker 1: I was?

3050
02:27:26,799 --> 02:27:27,000
Speaker 3: I was?

3051
02:27:27,040 --> 02:27:30,399
Speaker 1: I was, okay, go aheadte it down? Okay, good? All right?

3052
02:27:30,479 --> 02:27:33,479
Speaker 2: Anyways, Uh, you know what I guess and now I'm curious.

3053
02:27:33,520 --> 02:27:36,120
We can check him tomorrow on the show. He said, uh, yeah,

3054
02:27:36,319 --> 02:27:38,399
we can go real quick, A and m beats Miami.

3055
02:27:38,520 --> 02:27:39,479
This is Matt wrong.

3056
02:27:39,799 --> 02:27:45,079
Speaker 4: Oregon over James Madison of course read Alabama over uh

3057
02:27:45,360 --> 02:27:51,079
and almost over to Lane direct fifteen plus Repelicans over Repelicans.

3058
02:27:52,719 --> 02:27:53,280
Speaker 1: They lost.

3059
02:27:53,360 --> 02:27:57,079
Speaker 4: They lost that. I was just put Buffalo down. I

3060
02:27:57,079 --> 02:27:59,559
don't know what he put in Buffalo. I think he

3061
02:27:59,559 --> 02:27:59,879
said but.

3062
02:28:00,280 --> 02:28:03,479
Speaker 2: Around probably Buffalo would win or something. He's a Buffalo lover.

3063
02:28:04,399 --> 02:28:08,799
He's a Buffalo Bill's lover. And of course Aggie Matt

3064
02:28:08,840 --> 02:28:11,120
all right, so you got the game tomorrow. That, by

3065
02:28:11,200 --> 02:28:14,399
the way, game is on NBC Slash Peacock for the

3066
02:28:14,520 --> 02:28:17,040
Rockets tomorrow against the Clippers, and then ESPN man a

3067
02:28:17,079 --> 02:28:19,360
lot of national exposure games. So it's good to have

3068
02:28:19,479 --> 02:28:22,520
them back, but they have lost three of their last four.

3069
02:28:23,360 --> 02:28:26,319
Look okay, one against Denver and overtime that happens, but

3070
02:28:26,440 --> 02:28:30,000
then two overtime games against New Orleans Pelicans and the

3071
02:28:30,079 --> 02:28:32,760
Sacramento Kings. And I was talking about this earlier with

3072
02:28:33,159 --> 02:28:37,120
Matthew Thomas himself, like even the bad teams have talented players,

3073
02:28:37,200 --> 02:28:40,000
like the Pelicans have. Herb Jones is good. He was like,

3074
02:28:40,079 --> 02:28:41,440
did he win Rookie of the Year. He was a

3075
02:28:41,520 --> 02:28:44,600
Rookie of the Year candidate, Like cidiqe Bay can drop thirty,

3076
02:28:44,959 --> 02:28:47,680
Zion Williamson is a good player. Jose Alvarado is a

3077
02:28:47,719 --> 02:28:51,159
good role player. Jordan Poole dropped fifteen and he can

3078
02:28:51,239 --> 02:28:54,239
do that on any given time. They have good players,

3079
02:28:54,399 --> 02:28:59,479
but it still doesn't make the hurt any lessoned. And

3080
02:28:59,559 --> 02:29:02,159
again like with the Kings, like Keegan Murray is a

3081
02:29:02,200 --> 02:29:04,959
good young player who's dropping twenty plus points at this point.

3082
02:29:05,520 --> 02:29:07,239
Russell Westbrook, we know what he can do, and he

3083
02:29:07,319 --> 02:29:09,399
was knocking down Three's. Demart de Rozan is an all

3084
02:29:09,479 --> 02:29:14,319
time bucket getter. Dennis Shrewder Rockets legend, another Rockets legend.

3085
02:29:15,079 --> 02:29:17,319
It was a revenge game for Westbrook and Dennis Shrewder.

3086
02:29:17,360 --> 02:29:19,200
Oh they could they could really lose. Yeah, they could

3087
02:29:19,200 --> 02:29:21,879
really lose his next four c Okay, what come on, man,

3088
02:29:22,200 --> 02:29:24,600
because we're not losing to the Clippers, realistic, because they

3089
02:29:24,600 --> 02:29:27,639
can go to La Lakers, then Cleveland and then the

3090
02:29:27,799 --> 02:29:28,760
guy who win against the Pacers.

3091
02:29:28,799 --> 02:29:29,920
Speaker 4: The Pacers are non existent.

3092
02:29:29,959 --> 02:29:30,959
Speaker 1: They just blew up the whole team.

3093
02:29:31,799 --> 02:29:33,920
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, their achilles is blew up too.

3094
02:29:35,399 --> 02:29:35,600
Speaker 8: Yeah.

3095
02:29:35,639 --> 02:29:37,360
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna be fine. I still think they're

3096
02:29:37,399 --> 02:29:41,280
gonna I have stood strong on this. I am going

3097
02:29:41,360 --> 02:29:44,200
to continue to stand strong on this. The Rockets you

3098
02:29:44,280 --> 02:29:45,879
heard it here first, you heard it here lest they're

3099
02:29:45,920 --> 02:29:48,760
finishing top three in the West. Now the Spurs are

3100
02:29:48,799 --> 02:29:50,559
making a charge. I thought it was going to be

3101
02:29:50,639 --> 02:29:54,280
Thunder and then probably Rockets, Nuggets and whatever order. Now

3102
02:29:54,319 --> 02:29:56,360
the Spurs are in that mix for top four, Lakers

3103
02:29:56,399 --> 02:29:58,440
are in that mix for top four. I still think

3104
02:29:58,479 --> 02:30:02,600
the Rockets are going to finish top three. But yeah,

3105
02:30:02,719 --> 02:30:05,120
my confidence is a little bit shaken. And I was

3106
02:30:05,200 --> 02:30:07,280
worried a lot about the Oklahoma City Thunder. Turned out

3107
02:30:07,319 --> 02:30:09,079
I need to be worried about the Houston Rockets because

3108
02:30:09,079 --> 02:30:12,600
they've lost three of the last four and it's been disappointing.

3109
02:30:12,600 --> 02:30:13,520
Speaker 1: They're going to write the ship.

3110
02:30:14,520 --> 02:30:18,440
Speaker 2: But you see the warts defensive, defensively and for a

3111
02:30:18,479 --> 02:30:22,280
couple of games, not consistent ball handling and turnovers have

3112
02:30:22,399 --> 02:30:26,920
been an issue all season long, and it's difficult to

3113
02:30:26,959 --> 02:30:29,639
see the light at the end of that tunnel. So

3114
02:30:29,639 --> 02:30:33,920
they just don't have a whole lot of elite ball handlers. So, yeah,

3115
02:30:34,040 --> 02:30:39,399
fourteen turnovers last night, which isn't crazy, but it's not ideal.

3116
02:30:40,319 --> 02:30:43,040
They were what did they even average? I had to

3117
02:30:43,079 --> 02:30:45,200
go look that up, but they even average in turnovers

3118
02:30:45,280 --> 02:30:47,799
last year. I know it's around sixteen this year before

3119
02:30:47,799 --> 02:30:50,239
I've been on vacation. You always got to refresh the

3120
02:30:50,319 --> 02:30:52,520
numbers when you go on vacation and come back. I

3121
02:30:52,600 --> 02:30:56,239
know it's around sixteen turnovers a game before I went

3122
02:30:56,280 --> 02:30:58,360
on vacation. I'm not exactly sure what it is now,

3123
02:30:58,440 --> 02:31:00,760
but it's not acceptable. It's not good number. It's one

3124
02:31:00,760 --> 02:31:02,520
of the worst. Yeah, here we go, sixteen point three,

3125
02:31:02,600 --> 02:31:06,399
that's twenty ninth in basketball. That ain't gonna cut it.

3126
02:31:06,760 --> 02:31:09,639
This is not gonna be good enough. Last year it

3127
02:31:09,879 --> 02:31:12,479
was eleven a game. I'm sorry, thirteen point nine a game,

3128
02:31:12,479 --> 02:31:14,879
which is eleventh was eleventh in basketball. So three fewer

3129
02:31:14,920 --> 02:31:16,879
turnovers a game. That doesn't sound a whole lot light,

3130
02:31:17,040 --> 02:31:19,319
But when you lose a game by one point, I

3131
02:31:19,360 --> 02:31:22,760
think three turnovers matter. You're losing games by even four,

3132
02:31:22,920 --> 02:31:25,959
five six points every game in the NBA for the

3133
02:31:26,120 --> 02:31:27,760
for the most part, not every game, but you know

3134
02:31:28,079 --> 02:31:30,000
a lot of these close games the Rockets have had

3135
02:31:30,479 --> 02:31:33,799
lost by one point. They lost by five to the Pelicans,

3136
02:31:33,799 --> 02:31:37,280
they lost by three to the Nuggets. You're in these

3137
02:31:37,319 --> 02:31:40,719
close games night and night out. Two three turnovers matter

3138
02:31:41,360 --> 02:31:43,479
because a lot of times those convert to buckets on

3139
02:31:43,520 --> 02:31:46,840
the other end for the other team. So certainly something

3140
02:31:46,879 --> 02:31:47,239
to keep.

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02:31:47,120 --> 02:31:52,760
Speaker 1: An eye on. Not a huge worry, but something to

3142
02:31:53,079 --> 02:31:55,360
monitor for your Houston Rockets.

3143
02:31:55,360 --> 02:31:56,920
Speaker 2: All Right, that's gonna do it for The Matt Thomas

3144
02:31:56,959 --> 02:32:00,760
Show with Ross without Matt Thomas, except for one segment

3145
02:32:00,799 --> 02:32:03,159
he did drop by. So thanks to Matt Thomas. Thanks

3146
02:32:03,200 --> 02:32:05,120
to Chris Gordy for hanging out for the first couple

3147
02:32:05,239 --> 02:32:09,079
hours this program. Thanks to Jonathan Allen for producing all

3148
02:32:09,200 --> 02:32:12,040
four hours. Thanks to you for listening. Beveryone's gonna get

3149
02:32:12,040 --> 02:32:13,120
Matt Dude music stoo loud.

3150
02:32:13,159 --> 02:32:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.

3151
02:32:14,280 --> 02:32:17,040
Speaker 2: Thanks to all of you for listening, calling, tweeting, getting

3152
02:32:17,040 --> 02:32:18,959
involved in the show. I'll talk to youmorrow at ten am.

3153
02:32:19,079 --> 02:32:21,680
Is part of The Matt Toms Show with Ross. Until then,

3154
02:32:22,000 --> 02:32:24,319
stick around listen to Adam and Adam. They call themselves

3155
02:32:24,360 --> 02:32:26,360
the A Team and they are up next