Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: One an h Town.
Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome to a Monday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show. At Ross this his Sports Talk seven
ninety oh Battle Round. All you wanted was a touchdown.
I don't feel like I'm getting what I need. All
you wanted, I'm upset. All you wanted was a time
consuming driving and me send the game to overtime instead,
pass pass completion that set the receiver out of bounds.
Pass stop at your clock, and you gave Bo Nicks
a chance to run down the football field literally as
the Broncos Texas.
Speaker 3: You get watching me. No, it's not what you need.
Speaker 1: You got watching iSER. You need a victory. No, that's
not what you deserve. You don't deserve your your quarterback
to get his brain slammed into the turf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm taking out of the game.
Speaker 1: Legal hit.
Speaker 3: By the way, it was illegal hit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Davis Mills, I guess this is a typical backup
as he's al here, doesn't think it was a legal hit. Yeah,
he's like, can I get thirteen thousand dollars fine for
just looking at the play? That man gets nickled and
dimed to death with all his penalties and not penalties.
But fine, Sam, thank you very much to the Rolling Stones,
appreciate you. Terrible. No Elations are one of the greatest
rock bands of all time. I'm not talking about that, okay,
all right, Yes, they're one of the greatest rock bands
of all time. Someone say even better than maybe the best.
Someone said, someone say they're the best rock band. Those
would be idiots, it would say that. But that's a
different issue. I'm saying some would say that's right, and
those people, those some are idiots. ROSSI hall do it, Okay,
I guess. Yeah, it's weird, a weird sports weekend. You
can't be mad. I guess in theory when the quarterback
gets hurt and the backup comes in. But still I'm
still mad. I think, Yeah, your defense gave up eighteen points. Yes,
now granted a lot of that with came in the
fourth quarter, and eleven of that. Yeah. The TV broadcasts
are like, man, this Bronco team, this Bronco You know,
some teams are built for the second half.
Speaker 3: Some may be just built for the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: I e.
Speaker 1: The Broncos scoring thirty three against the Giants a few
weeks ago in the fourth quarter. It was only eleven
against the Texans, but whatever. No, this look, if I've
given up eighteen points, I'm supposed to win football games. This,
this very well may be the best defense in Texans history.
And they're three and five. They cannot score points. Yeah,
it is extremely frustrating. Yeah, what's the comp on this?
Having a forty home run one hundred and fifteen RBI
guy in your lineup and the rest of the guys
in front of behind him? Can that be the two
thousand and five Astros. Yeah, pitching is elite, and they know.
Then you got Adam Evert Bett and cleanup. Okay, he
wasn't batting cleanup? Yees again, Brian awesomus not hitting awesomest hits?
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: I have a partner. You always call them awesome, miss,
and I'm like, bro, it's awesomeoss. Yeah, I know, that's
that's pretty lame. I would say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, Jason Lane and the boys weren't getting it done.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, Morgan Ensburg's bat not nearly as powerful as
in previous years for whatever reason. That's the We'll cut
off the two thousand and mid two thousand Astros.
Speaker 3: That's where we are.
Speaker 1: It's it's extremely, extremely great defense and its own way
fun to watch, but when you add it up, like
eighteen to fifteen games aren't very fun to watch, fourteen
to nine. What if?
Speaker 3: What has been some of the other final scores this year? Well,
you know, it's.
Speaker 1: Twenty to nineteen, seventeen to ten, it's been ugly. It's
a it's also easy for all of us to, you know,
to say, man, I wish we would have fired on
that game, meaning putting some money down on because when
you think you've got an absolute unbelievable line that you
think you're gonna win on, either you're not in Vegas
or you're not in Lake Charles, or you just say
you just you just full of bs. You're like, oh,
I'm gonna bet that game, and you wind up not
betting it. This was the one on we probably should
have gone in together. You wanted the Broncos, now I
wanted the under.
Speaker 3: Oh the under. Yeah, that's that seemed fairly obvious.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm with you. But thirty nine and a
half is a very low total. It was so low,
but yet we should have known. Yeah, the Broncos don't
score until late the Texans just don't score at all.
And by the way, a couple of those field goals
at fairbarn Hitt were I mean, we firstly missed his
first one and then they were just sliding at the
very last second.
Speaker 3: No, they do count.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was like he was playing closest to the pin,
but he was closest to the upright.
Speaker 3: Well, it was like he was playing darts at He's
getting bored.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I don't want to split the uprights.
That's boring. You seems like anik One. Let's let's add
some drama to this. He was calling glass every time
he was doing it. It's like, what's going on over here?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: That felt like to me, just getting the vibe off
the television. And again, the crowd is going to feed
off of what's on the field. Ninety nine percent of
the time, the crowd couldn't really get into it. It
was a bad crowd, A lot of bad football crowds
this weekend in this town. Oh my god, don't get
me started. It was a bad crowd and it was
a lot of orange. But more come every week. We're
like the team X playing the Texans travels. Well, it's Broncos. Oh,
the Niners, Oh yeah, they travel well. Oh, let's seems
that everybody travels well. Well, okay, we can't go to
that excuse every week. At some time, at some point
in time, you've got to have a good crowd that
is loud. It never got the juice and a granted,
when you're kicking field goals for your offense, you're not
gonna have much juice. Terrible and then and then CJ.
Stroud goes down. They would have won that game if c. J.
Stroud stayed healthy exactly, but he didn't. That's the overriding sentiment.
Is that the difference. I mean, you you're going from
a really nice tenderloin. I wouldn't say a filet mignon,
but if you're going to a nice center land with
some with some barrenets or perhaps the Chimmytury sauce.
Speaker 3: Going to uh you know, uh chop state.
Speaker 1: No, you're going to the Barry Checkers to get the
two burgers for two dollars. Hey, now, man, don't you'll
lead it those season fries. You'll lead it, all right,
but it's not gonna do you very well. First, gonna
be half of your health and they still could have won.
Though two things will be two statements are true. They
would have won if C. D. Stroud were healthy. They
also could have won with Davis Mills in the game. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, the play calling was once again horrendous.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: The Lake game execution was horrendous. And you know what, Look,
Nick Kayley is going to be losing his job at
the end of the year. I hope you didn't get
any real estate here in town, because lord knows it's
probably gonna lose value on it. Can that happen? Are
they gonna do that? Yeah? Absolutely they're going to They
must do it. I mean, don't you look like an
in at franchise. Okay, stop me, I'm not gonna stop you.
As saying Jane general general manager slash coaches. I mean,
they do come to a point, but they don't like
to admit their mistakes. They'll they'll kind of dig in. Yes,
like like how how Demiko Ryans was last week when
they won. Yeah, all this noise, all this outside noise,
we believe in Nick Kelly. This offense is great. This
offense is awesome. One week later, this offense not looking
so awesome. No, No, it went from low against Seattle,
to Super High against San Francisco, to being back to
what it has typically been this year. And it's a
team that doesn't have offensive line protection that gets its
quarterback hurt. And again CJ was running, so it wasn't
like it was he was in the pocket and gun down.
I mean the but the protection was fine on that
on that play, but generally speaking wasn't great. The offensive
line can't can't help the running game at all. They
got knocked up. They got a couple of injuries on
the offensive line, and you're going up against one of
the most ferocious pass rushes in football, which is going
to happen again. I mean yeah, I mean teams build defenses,
other teams. The other guys are good too. This is
the NFL. This is the highest level possible football, right yeah, Well,
other things to cover, but uh yeah, it's time for breakman.
But I think we do have a quick public service announcement.
We can drafted breaking right now. Don't click on anything
posted by sports empt Oh no, is it really bad
they're posting. They're posting, uh crypto stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got hacked. Matt got hacked at sports mt.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: Gee, it's there.
Speaker 1: They've locked it, so I can't reply or quote tweet it.
They're very smart. They locked your account so they don't
allow retweets or or quote, so people can't say it's hacked,
but Matt's been hacked. Don't click anything at sports empt
you know what. Actually in the meantime, just go ahead
and unfollow him. That's not okay. I'm just kidding. You
don't have to do that. God, this is your third
time getting hacked or fourth third, Okay, you don't get
too author mistakes. I know he doesn't do the two factor,
even though he's so he's so famous, we're gonna say,
I'm gonna set him up on Google authenticate enemy. No,
he's not a hack.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: So don't click anything at sports empty. Just quick public
service announcement. Okay, Now back to your regular schedule sports
uh sports radio program. All right, I'm gonna work on
this during the break UH seven one. I just got
a response from and they say that, uh, we've investigated
your report and it seems like you still have control
of your account. No, I don't. I don't have it again.
I don't think I've got to control my account. You know,
I'm thinking about this. Can we just get rid of
If I just said, you know, enough of Twitter, goodbye?
I mean, would that would that be the worst thing?
I mean, I don't know. You tell me, I would say,
guess because all I do now is I block people
that are either offensive lineman that play in Chiliwathe, Ohio,
or crypto accounts or porn account I don't get fresh
on people that listen to the show. I think people
and people are leaving Twitter left and right. So to you,
I just I don't know. I think it. I mean,
just because we lived from it, it's good for us
to have them. But I'm with you.
Speaker 3: If I didn't have this job, I wouldn't have a
Twitter or on Instagram.
Speaker 1: But I mean there there are sports follow me at
sports RV.
Speaker 3: I would appreciate it. I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I gotta get you don't get
to get the messages out with my partners you can
find at sports RV. And then what was the one
people are getting mad at me about the the Michael
Jordan one. People are upset at sports RV. But people
agree with me as well. Okay, and I don't get hacked. Yeah,
I'll both I'm hacked. I'm going to all set up
Google authenticator when all this blow, will you please do it?
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, I'm so thankful. But let me
say I have.
Speaker 1: One text I wanted this. I wonder if this person
I'm going to hit the text right now is going
to say you've been hacked. Let's take a look, let's
do it. Oh no, it's just four hours of Nick
Kayley talk. Oh well, we're one segment and you do
know me. Eleven fourteen, I'm Sports Talk seven euty seven
one three two one two five seven. They will hear
from uh Dimaico. Ryan's a press conference at eleven fifteen today.
I wonder if any of the water carriers will be
there to ask simplistic questions, and if they do, we'll
call them out. We'll say that was a stupid question.
How many stupid questions will we get during the the
press available three and a half. I'm not saying like probing,
make you know, get at him. I'm just saying, like
stupid questions like you know, dommy towns did a great yesterday,
you know, stuff like that Townsend is busy. He was
certainly his foot is like he's getting a rub down
right now? Uh seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero three. All right, So.
Speaker 3: We're with you today until two o'clock. We've got to
get together with.
Speaker 1: To make go at eleven fifteen to tell the truth
at eleven thirty, wonderful news at noon, believe it or not.
Today at one fifty, category is I don't know. We
gotta I gotta tell you right now. In Townsend, eight
eight punts, four hundred and twenty yards of punts. I mean,
if anybody should sit in the front row of the
bus or like in the good first class scene in
the on the next road game, it would be him.
I mean, guy's working his own. Denver punter Jeremy Crosshaw
had eight punts. He had four and twenty eight yards
of punts. Oh okay, by the way, have you noticed,
and we brought this up maybe once or twice before,
we are seeing this in college football. We saw it
yesterday in the Jaguars. Are kickers on steroids? Yes, because
yesterday the Jaguars kicker kicked a sick a six the
eight yard field. He looks like he's about five six,
one hundred and ten pounds. Now I know they're using
special kicking football. Yes, I didn't realize they had bottle
rockets under they're using broken in footballs. Okay, Actually I
look him up. He's sixty one.
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 1: Well, he's surrounded by lineman. I guess he looked small. True,
he looks like they let Rudy on the field. He's
six one sixty. The pads wear him listed at one
seventy two point being is that first of all, you
can never treat you can never trust college kickers, but
now you can trust some of them, and then you
can certainly trust NFL kickers from sixty three yards out
hashtag chip shafts sixty eight yards yeah. Cam Little is
the one that made the seventy year arder in preseason. Yeah,
and now he has the record at sixty eight. They
put up the list of like the all time longest
kicks basically all of them, I think, like eight out
of ten of them.
Speaker 3: But in the last three years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jason Elam had like a sixty one yarder back
when he had sixty three.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was in Denver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it was that guy with the with
like his wasn't a guy like his toes were amputated
or something. So it was like he had a It's
like he had a hammer for a foot making that up.
I mean, that is it sounds good. I don't know
if I completely believe it. But it was the guy
who had the record the sixty three yard back in
the day, and it was the ever Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. That guy's got like a club foot. I mean,
I'm sure he's fine now, or he's alive. It's not
Lou Groza. It's Tom Tom Demse. It wasn't something wrong
with his toes or something. I think he was born
with no toes on his right foot. So he went, okay,
we'll you know what, he just kicked a big ball,
that's it. So it's like he was swinging a hammer. Yeah,
so he had the biggest foot in nineteen seventy. But
the bottom line is that and he probably kicked it.
He kicked it straight too. He didn't kick it soccer style,
I guess not, But yeah, Brandon, these are the longest kicker.
Kickers kicks longer than sixty three Brandon Aubrey last year.
Matt Prater thirteen twenty five. This is Chake mccloth and
twenty five, Your Boy four, Justin Tucker in twenty one,
and then Cam Little on twenty five. It's all within
the last five years. Jason Hanson for the lionss to
kick a bunch of long ones too. I want to say,
I think there's two real reasons for it. First of
all three reasons. One, you're being able to choose the
football you want to kick with. Number two, I think
today's kickers are better athletes than they were back in
the day when Tony Fritz was kicking for the Olders
again it was five seven and two sixty and number three.
More games are being played indoors where you don't have
weather elements to worry about anymore. Now in Denver you
could probably do it, But these are kicks that are
being made the game in Jacksonville between the ends in
Las Vegas, which is a closed store stadium. So yeah,
did the training is better, the technique is better, it's
more refined. Yeah, you have all these kickers they have
like they're kicking coaches like the dude. All they do
is teach kicking that wasn't happening like nineteen sixty three
used to find the guy who kicked the longest and
he that's your kicker. Now, you and I have never
kicked field goals for living before. No, uh, I tried
out for kicker. But my son has as a as
a little league kicker, My big boy, my big twenty
five year old. Yeah, kick field goals for his pop
Warner Ty. Yeah, that's probably what happened. They just said, hey,
who can kick the What the heck is that? You're
probably getting hacked too, Yeah, no, no, better check your
two factor authentication over that thing is called I don't
know why that alarms coming on. It's sound like a
ring ring camera alarm. Somebody get trying to get in
your apartment. Good luck, nothing of value in there. Yeah,
but it is. But it's crazy that we're seeing this,
and I guess the question will be, will we ever
see a seventy five yard kick? I mean, these are
athletes and and the ball unless you're putting doing something
with the ball that is just crazy. Like they're putting
again a rock. They're breaking a min apparently, so they're
a little softer. But even but even the the object
that is the pig skin can only go a certain distance.
It doesn't have a generation it is finite. Yeah, so
I but yeah, sixty eight yard ers like friends. As
I thought, maybe Denver late in the game yesterday was
setting up for a sixty yard field goal try. And
another thing, Yeah, with the kickers getting better in years past,
you wouldn't even attempt these, right, A lot of these kicks.
And at the end of the half, and by the way,
now I'm talking about the end of it. This is
the fourth quarter when Denver got stopped, they punted to
the Texans and that's when they do those hard to
fathom three straight plays that allow of the text. The
Broncos have time left for the flock if if any
of those, if they were getting first downs on those plays,
we wouldn't say anything, right, they were trying to win
the game. Yeah, and it just was the absolute worst
possible result. Yikes, horrible, it's it's These are not fun
games to watch, even when they win for the most part. Well,
I mean, think about the Niner victory was very good. Yeah,
is a quality win. You cannot take that away from them.
The rest of them are garbage games. They just are,
and everybody has to have garbage wins life that you
can't play thirty you can't play seventeen contenders every week.
You have to beat what's out in front of you.
But if you lose, the teams you have no business
losing to you to make that one back. And I
think yesterday would have been a huge game because A
to win another game at home, it's important. B. You
have a congested AFC right now with and I don't
know if Denver is gonna win the Western out, but
Kansas City wants a playoff spot, the LA Chargers want
a playoff spot. I mean that that you know you're
looking at wald card situations now. The Bengals losing yesterday
helped the Colts, And yesterday it was really hertful because
the Colts looked human for the first time in a while,
and the Colts were gonna be human. They were not
gonna go sixteen and one. You had a chance to
make up some ground if you thought about a chance
of going to the AFC South winning the AFC South.
But then Jacksonville has to go to overtime scores the touchdown,
the Raiders come right back, and then they don't get
the two point conversion and Jacksonville gets out of Vegas
with a one point victory. I mean it just overall
was not a good day on the field, and it
wasn't a good day for me standing Skuy Sorry, Matt,
I don't care different to it. He said it wasn't
a good day for you. Well, I mean I was.
I mean, I'm watching Standing and see where it's going
to be. It's it's yeah, they're they're pretty much done.
We'll see how much time. Hopefully it's one week maximum
mixed by missed by c J. Stroud. It could be zero,
you know you could. I mean, you can beat the
Jaguars at home with Davis Mills. You can't, Yeah, because
Trevor Lawrence is still not very good. He's yeah, he's
never gonna be more than mid. I don't think no.
I agree with you, all right. Seven one three two
one two five seven nine if you want to chime
in on the conversation. Seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. We've got Texans to get to.
A very rough weekend for me college football wise, on
many it haunts the Cougar's lost to a very poor
West Virginia football team. I know they were two and
six and zero to five, and then the top twenty
five I know, well they're not anymore. What happened a
loss to the Mountaineers. Weren't they fourteen and a half
point favorites. Yes, but Vegas isn't know everything ROSSI. They
just don't.
Speaker 3: Vegas is going to turn the ball over every possession.
Speaker 1: And look, I like Connor Wigman, but the interception he
threw in the second half of that game was one
of the worst iron ties I've ever seen in my
entire life. I mean it was I thought it because
I was I was eating lunch with some people with
the Rockets, and I thought the ball was tipped choked
on your food. Yeah, I mean, I'm sitting there knocking
back to the shrip cocktail. I'm like, yeah, I mean,
you can't. You don't you know, you don't want to
lose your steak bites in your in your in your
prime rib and your shrimp when you have that happening
to you. That's a shame.
Speaker 3: And then the crowd sucked.
Speaker 1: They did.
Speaker 3: Oh it was awful. I mean what I mean, what
do you mean sucks?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: The rabbit u of h fans talking about how great
their program is. Last couple of weeks. We don't have it. No, no, no,
how many people were there? They said twenty five thousand.
I don't believe them. I wasn't there because that's it
announced M. Interesting, It's not you of H's fault, it's
the fans fault. I know, we could. You know what
it is. It's kook fans, y'all, dumbass, is your fault.
All you do on TOW is going on your board.
We feel about twenty five thousand people came after me
last couple of weeks, so I don't care about them anymore.
They all go to hell because they're not even real
Cougar fans. Interesting, well, lady, go after you. You should
have if you're rude. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety one eleven thirty five. We will hear from
Dimiko coming up in about to forty minutes from now.
I guess the first question will be is how is
c J If he's in concussion protocol? My guess is
there gonna be no definitive answer. There was an Instagram
photo put out of him saying he's fine. I guess
what was his mom in the locker? Ramffle aingam I
couldn't figure who that was. I'm not sure. I don't
know who it was to say that. Yeah, but it's
out there, so hopefully he is. Okay, I don't you know. Again,
we're not doctor Solters, don't need to guess. We'll let
I don't know how forth coming, frankly, uh Dimiko will be,
but my guest will be we'll get the obligatory. We
don't know just yet. We'll let you know later than that. Yeah,
we're gonna get that. There's not gonna be no, no, no,
that's how they're gonna roll. By the way, did you
say I think you said eleven thirty five? Our clock
needs to get fixed. Oh you know what, I'm looking
at the wrong clock. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: By the way, we fell back.
Speaker 1: So we fell back here and in our prep room
where Ross and I sit before the show, there is
food trash all over the ground, like people like spilled
rice and everything over there. Were you going there and
look and see them?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: This is a gross Yeah, So who changes the cl
that we have to go to engineering with that or somebody? Yeah,
and put it in trouble ticket. I think I was
just tell this text time. So if I do that,
multiple times. I apologize, but I do stare at the
clock quite a bit. So ten thirty six in Sports
Talk seven ninety get that extra hour arrests over the weekend,
youre feeling good. It was weird because we played the
Celtics on Saturday and the game was an hour later
because they had a hockey game earlier in the day.
That's the reasonhy were late. It was because of the
hockey and they had to have a certain number of
hours of transition it over. So we didn't leave Boston
to probably twelve thirty forty five Eastern Time. You know,
it's a three and a half hour flight really from Boston. Yeah,
it's Boston on back. I guess you got to fight
the get stream a little bit. Well you don't, you
fight the stream, but you don't have to.
Speaker 3: There's not a lot of traffic out there, so we were.
Speaker 1: It was a smooth flight, thankfully, and so I got
a little bit of sleep in and then you lost
the hour because you went back to the Central time zone,
and then you lost another hour because the time change.
My bed, I hit my uh, I went to the
got to the house, and my head at the pillow.
At three point fifteen, which was really four fifteen. No, no,
you fall back it was two to fifteen. No, no, no, no, yes, no, no, no,
it was supposed to I hit the bed at three
fifteen with the time change. Trust me in this, okay,
because by the time we landed it was three and
a half hour flight by the time we got our bags. No,
IM not saying what time, but the clock runs back.
There was four fifteen easterns. What you're saying, I'm confused. No,
it was supposed to be four fifteen Central. Yeah, really
three fifteen? Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 3: Okay, fall back by way? Can we just keep it consistent?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 1: I thought there was an Act of Congress to get
rid of it. I don't know, but I just I
think think we're confusing America. And then you got to
figure out that Phoenix, Phoenix is bougie. Phoenix doesn't do
it correct. You used to be Phoenix the state? Is
it the whole state of Arizona? I don't know. I
don't know, but I know Phoenix is the biggest city there.
But I just remember growing up Indianapolis also didn't do
it either, Arizona and Hawaii apparently. Yeah, boy, he's like
your team changing out here anyways, nobody cared. It's worth
four thousand miles away from you go away. I do
like the longer, the longer sunlight in the summers. Yeah, tonight,
when it's five thirty and it's pitch black, it's not fun.
I don't like that.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, like this doesn't bother me that
much as much as others.
Speaker 5: I guess.
Speaker 1: I like getting dark early. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3: I love the telling it depressing. Hum uh good, Well
you're in the minority.
Speaker 7: So is it is it?
Speaker 3: Are we in daylight savings time now?
Speaker 1: Or are we were previously in I was gonta confused
that we're in standard time now right in? Daylight is
the summer? No, I think the other way.
Speaker 3: Are you sharing?
Speaker 1: I know I'm not. I think we're saving daylight because
it gets darker quick. Yeah. For instance, this morning, when
I woke up at seven o'clock, it was bright, sunshiny outside. Like,
I don't even know, I'm right, Jonathan, I didn't know.
I was you know, No, you were sounding off confident,
wasn't He made.
Speaker 8: Up?
Speaker 1: Daylight savings is from March to November, so we're in
standard time right now? Now we're in standard. You know,
the reason why they say that they don't want to
make it a twelve month thing is because they're afraid
kids are out at the school buses at six o'clock
in the morning and it's supposed to save as far
as energy or something. I don't know. She don't have to.
It just adds to my confusion. By the way, shout
out to any of you trying to travel in the
next handful of days to the government reopens. When I
got the email from Intercountmental Airport that they are closing
down multiple TSA checkpoints, I was like, this is not
going to end well.
Speaker 3: People, it's taking hours and hours and hours.
Speaker 1: Apparently you're going to California on Friday, so yeah, I'm
gonna have to leave you early. What time is your
flight six thirty? I think I got out there too.
People getting I saw someone on Twitter saying somebody got
there at one thirty for a six thirty flight and
they missed it. I'm a little worried. Well, hopefully got it.
You duck out early on me all the time. I mean,
I'll do it tomorrow. I mean, if you do it tomorrow, yeah,
I mean, that's my look, hey, Jonathan, can we handle
non Florida stories and believe it or not on products
absolutely that you call you from the TSA line are leaving,
that you leave ten forty five. I don't hope you
leave that early. I mean you could leave them if
you need to. But you're gonna be on GOE all
next week. Well I'm gonna miss you. Yes you are.
You're getting pay for this vacation.
Speaker 9: Good for you.
Speaker 1: It'd be a nice little change of pace you have
nearly you thought you were going to pick up any
shifts at the at rellies slangon's kill it caseo. By
the way, so you know, I came home Thursday to
see Carly's volleyball game and then left, then went to
the airport Friday. My flight was ninety minutes delayed, and
I knew ahead of time at least United and said, hey,
we're slowing down flights. There was some wind in Boston,
so it kind of made a perfect combination. So we
left on time at eight o'clock when we were supposedly
been six thirty. So I appreciate Schminding for giving me
the heads up on that. But so they said you're
flying out a Terminal D. I've never been to D
before my entire life. I don't even really know what
international some of it is, yeah, okay, primarily it is.
Speaker 5: So I go to D.
Speaker 1: Terminal, Yes, And as soon as I get there, they
say you have to go to checkpoint Terminal E.
Speaker 5: I walk all the way.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 3: So I walk all the way to E to check in.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And by the way, I'm not carrying
I'm carrying my bag on I'm not even checking a bag.
So then I have to go back to D. And
D is a long ass terminal. I went to gate
D four A. I got like six thousand steps in
just an intercountinental airport. Look at my number like he
was like my phone's like, man, you got a good word,
got it. I'm like, I'm just at the airport. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like that when you're watches like are you working
out right now? Like, no, I'm actually just walking.
Speaker 1: But actually, if you have some time to kill, getting
your steps into the airport's not bad because you can
first fading people watch yeah, second ball, you can always
figure out what you're gonna go eat and uh third
and it killed about the sometimes find the bar that
best suits you. I went to I went to Rob Rise,
find the bar with the best prospects. I got the
three piece spicy and the biscuit Rise. Yeah, and then
and the biscuit didn't taste like hockey pucket was. Actually,
I told you they can if they make them, right,
if you go to the right Popeyes. The biscuits are
go to Popeyes at Terminal D and you'll get yourself
a good biscuit. And also you can always always ask
for honey. So if it's if you do get a
dry batch, then you can just put the honey on it.
Red beads and rice to kick. Only people on the
plane that them the large the largest about six ounces.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, that's true. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: All right. We just basically didn't talk sports there, and
I apologize that. Hold on, hello, we got listeners, we do,
I think. So I can't tell him my Twitter like,
don't tweet at sports MT because he has been hacked.
It's they're promoting some crypto account. Yeah, sorry, maybe maybe
I need this break. Maybe I'll I'll get when I
get it my account back, or get it account, because
I'm not getting any new followers. I don't know why.
I mean I'm just getting you need to tweet more.
I didn't know. I don't want to overtweet so much.
Yesterday watching the Texans game when everybody and I look,
I love Adam Weser like he's my best friend and
he's one of my close friends. That's good. But he
tweets fifty times an hour I'm watching the game WEX.
I don't want to mute wex because he does provide
a good nomation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you mean? But he can get the
whole game recap just reading his tweets.
Speaker 1: Nice. But if I'm trying to find out what's going
on sports, I don't need six yard carry there.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Yeah, if you slept in, you
need to catch it. It's all good.
Speaker 1: Who's sleeping in Sunday? It's noon. You gonna watch the games?
Speaker 3: Is what you're here for.
Speaker 1: Oh, I might talking the wrong person. Oops, I'm sorry
about that. What do you mean? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 1: PSHA airport tweeting an hour ago. By the way, ts
wait times may exceed three hours. So let me ask
you this are planes leaving without people? Because I mean,
I'm gonna presume so right, absolutely, absolutely, this is gonna
be This is a whole mess, thankfully. I mean, I'm
just because I'm blessed I don't have to go through
that and flying with the rockets. It's kind of nice,
I do. Any How, if I sign up for pre check, now,
can I get it? Can I have it by Friday? No,
because you don't get your fingerpints on. I guess you can.
If you can get your appointment this week, you probably could.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't normally do check because I don't fly that
off to No, you're you're too late. It's you don't
have enough time. You're playing a couple of weeks. I'm sorry.
I can do clear. I can do a clear trial.
Clear can do it. Yeah, but I don't know. Again,
I don't know how much faster it's going to be
for you, honestly. Okay, So if anybody asks three to
five days now, I frank, Now, I'll say this. I
did not have any issues on Friday, so that I
just lucky. I guess the intern just said that I
had to close it down and I'm assuming hobby on
the same flying My flight was supposed to be at
six thirty night left left to day o'clock PM. Yeah,
huh yeah. Usually i'd be prime on a Saturday or
a Sunday. It was on a Friday, Friday even worse. Yeah,
So just saying I don't know you got lucky. I
did get lucky.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We're getting a lot of you guys tweeting in the
Ross's account because it's legit right now. Uh, apparently Clear
I'm buying a way to text me. It says Clear
is not taking any new customers. So you're I think
your all on that. Okay, that makes sense. And then
I was thinking about that too. TSA might be backlog
because everybody's thinking what I'm thinking. You know, just sign
up for that and I'll be okay, all right. I
might not have to leave you early on Friday, Maddy.
That's fine. I mean it's I don't I don't want
to miss a flight, did you either. I'll be real
cranky shooting video at the airport. I'm sitting here.
Speaker 3: I've been here and a hobby forty So when.
Speaker 1: You leave in one thirty, you know we got we
got Rode all why don't you live at one o'clock
on Friday? Oh, rodo, Yeah, I'll call in my question.
That's fine. But but see the thing is I would
actually if you leave it one, can you get you
go to Hobby. Yeah, we'll get you to Hobby by one.
The park there, you're gonna park at the high Airport.
What are you gonna do? There's no change. You get
on before the end of the show. I want to say,
how the lines are uber from here? Okay? If you
get so, yeah, you're living at one o'clock on Friday,
just to be safe and then uh, and then you're
gonna try to call us from Hobby with THEA on
the TSA line, tell us how bad it is?
Speaker 3: Three hours of TSA. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. If you get past it,
then you're getting in the airport, you'll have plenty of time.
And you know, I just take a nap, right. They
have food there apparently, so you'll be fine. Yeah, granted
the rap this company got screwed out of Hobby, but
that's the Oh yeah, all those are gone now, all
of them, all of them they lost the contract.
Speaker 10: What.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you not watch the news ever? I get
the answers.
Speaker 3: No, you don't know.
Speaker 1: You have you seen the news?
Speaker 3: I know, but My point is that six murders and
then our government is broken.
Speaker 1: But then that's a fantastic I go to story and yeah, okay,
I get past the kitting mitten's competition. I want to
watch that story. Yeah, that's the only Fireman rescues Dog from.
We don't have enough of that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the story about Carly was nice too, on two
different So that was nice. That was the cutest thing
I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, so adorable.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the bottom line is that if you are
a Rappers fan, you are s o l because they
get lost the contract on Hobby, so there's now a
bunch of similar time restaurants. They get there overpriced breakfast burritos,
is what you're saying. Well, I mean you'd be there
at lunchtime tod rins ritza there. Uh, I don't know.
I don't I don't go to Hobby very often. They
do an intercuningental. They still have it.
Speaker 3: So dog on seven ninety, thank you for holding in
good morning.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your Monday therapy sessions with us. Yes, before
I get to my point, Like most fans, after watching
that game, yeah, I swear I'm never going to watch
them again, but then Sunday will be fun of the
TV watching them again. What I wanted to talk about
the three of our five losses. The offense is pathetic,
but it's been the defense, and it's the same mistakes.
You know, against Tampa Bay, fourth and ten, you know,
the defensive line doesn't hold their gap, the quarterback scrambles
for a long game, they score, they win. Jacksonville, our
cornerback is not guarding the wide receiver. I think he's
got safety help, unmolested, long touch, they score or they win. Yesterday,
they did the same two mistakes in the game. You know,
at the end of the first half, for some reason,
Stingley stops guarding his man, thinking he's got safety help.
The guy goes untouched. And then in the end of
the game, once again, third down and long, nobody holds
their gaps, quarterback runs for forty yard dash and they
score and they win. And it's the same mistakes. And
I keep hearing how we've got a top three defense
and they do play well most of the game, but
it seems like when the game's on the line is
when kind of they I don't know, I don't want
to say fall apart but you know, it just seems
to go to hell on a handbasket at the end.
So yeah, I'm curious what you guys.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 2: As always, I appreciate your show.
Speaker 1: Thank you very you know, that's a fair conversation to have.
I mean, the big moments in this game yesterday, the
defense did not come up. There was a touchdown, There
was the two point conversion Rossie. There was the long
run that allowed Bonnicks, who I thought was generally speaking
awful during the game, to get those I mean that
made that that twenty five yard run he had untouched.
Not only did he get out of bounds, he wasn't touched.
It put him in prime field goal position. I mean,
you sometimes you have to overcome your offens's weaknesses and
sometimes you got to be able to step up and help.
And again it's a it's an excellent defense, top three defense,
but it fourth quarter, it lets you down a little bit. Yes, however,
they they are not going to execute properly one hundred
percent of the time.
Speaker 3: Correct, that is true.
Speaker 1: But and also we have to remember this as the
NFL in twenty twenty five, the rules are set up
for offenses to score. It's all about offenses. But if
you hold the Denver Broncos to eighteen points, you're supposed
to win.
Speaker 3: You need to win that game.
Speaker 1: If you hold the he brought the Jaguars game up,
you held the Broncos to seventeen points, you need to
win that game. Yes. Absolutely. The other guys are paid too.
They have all these wonderful, great players, and they have
a great offensive line. They have Bonnicks, they have Courtland Sudden,
they have a pretty good one two punch at running back.
They're gonna score some points. If you hold all that
to eighteen points, they have done their job. Yes, they
they didn't execute properly or perfectly on every single play.
But you're you're like, I think, still tops in the
NFL and points per game, you're still one of the
top five, and you know DVOA and EPA and yards
per plays.
Speaker 2: And all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are how numbers because it's end result. And also,
by the way, no, they need better offense. Yeah, and
in your defense is gonna be tired at the end
of the game. If you're if you're punting and going
three and out every time, and your defense is on
the field every game, you are gonna be gas at
the end of games and have these slip ups where
you're giving up scrambles to Baker Mayfield or you give
it up you know, touchdowns to other teams. They need
to score more points. Bottom line. Yeah, no, the the
macro picture of it is, Doug and it's your point
is very fair. Yeah, macros, you got to score more points.
You you you give me a defense that surrenders eighteen points.
You're going at home, at home, You're going to You're
not You're going you should win the game. You're supposed
to win the game. I mean, it's yes, there's just
it's an eptitude on the offensive side. It's been that way,
and it's largely because of the offensive line. It certainly
did not help that CJ got hurt. The ground game
had a few little spurts here and there, and oh,
by the way, ross penalties, illegal motions, holding calls. It's
a D minus off It's a D minus offense. It's
a C offense with CJ stround on the field because
he can make some plays, but short of him not
putting together some heroic performance, it's a D minus offense.
How many how many penalties have they committed? Like at
the one or two yard line. It feels like a bunch,
feels like it's happened to me. Yeah, you give it
a four thoud goal situation which they probably wouldn't have
scored on because I didn't score on first second a
third down, but you had to give you had to
go set up on the field goal because it's five
RAR penalty.
Speaker 3: Oh so frustrating. And the play calling again, uh even.
Speaker 1: Who was it? Was it Rapaport?
Speaker 3: No, it was noted the NBA analyst and I I
think i'd Magic Johnson.
Speaker 1: No, it was uh even manje Johnson Will probably tweeted
out Bill Simms's need some help. Oh what did Bill
Simmons say? Bill Simmons, And I'll look at my old
account because I think I can still go to it.
I'm you're locked out. I don't know I retweeted it. Okay,
let's see here. That's oh yeah, here it is Bill Simmons.
Still not over this first and ten, one fourteen left
to go in the game. Davis Mills incomplete past to
Christian Kirk. Okay, stop the clock. Yes, second down, Davis
Mills passed to Jayden Higgins to the left side for
four yards that pass was so poor that his Higgins
couldn't even stay in bounds if he wanted to. He
was falling out of bounds and he was trying to
make the catch. That's difference between Mabe c. J. Stride
and Davis Mills. Third down and six one oh five remaining.
Davis Mills incomplete pass to the right stops the clock.
Tommy Townsend punts the ball fifty five yards. Michael Bandy, who,
by the way, loss of football early in the game,
returns it for eight. You give them first and ten
with a minute left to goal in the contest, and
you saw what happened. Couldn't make a stop, couldn't make
a stop, could not make a stop. Frustrating. I mean,
these losses have been so frustrating. And by way, if
I hear one more time about this being a one
score game, which it was, we're gonna lose our minds
and I want you better, Red Ross to lose your
mind over it, because you don't want you're tired of
hearing about it.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, but he was tired of hearing about it
since Tinny bingals.
Speaker 1: That game yesterday. Holy smokes, is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross all right, gory uh has a great argument
for Halloween trigger treating, but we can't do it today
because we're gonna do it probably what.
Speaker 3: You going to commission's scort on that.
Speaker 5: Later this week?
Speaker 1: Okay, what are we to call that? I mean, it's
not really a fantasy league question. No, I think we
should do Commissioner's court period. We're like there's a there's
a judge show that has like judges. You come to
us and say you need a ruling on stuff all
the time. Yeah, I do that to you, So we
it needs to be sports harve'st commissioners scored. Okay, I'm
going to mission. Yeah, you have the commission our league.
You're we're gonna put you on on the marquee. Now,
the commission needs to do some score corrections for the
last five weeks or so of our league going bad.
Like I said, all I need is Dak Prescott on
to throw for three hundred and eighty four yards in
five touchdowns. He might by wait, can I get a
little bit of credit that I'd not say with with
roto on Farney that that Indianapolis Colts game was gonna
be a trap game for Pittsburgh. I wasn't listening. Thank
you all right, by the way, happy opening night of
college basketball for everybody.
Speaker 3: That's true. Wait is it tonight or tomorrow? The Longhorns
open with Duke in Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Good for you? No, not good?
Speaker 3: Why they're not gonna get their ass kicked?
Speaker 1: You don't know that.
Speaker 3: I mean I that.
Speaker 1: Hey we got a tough matchup with Lee High. Oh
my god, Hey, it's better than playing Lee Low. All right,
you should go ahead give him he needs to be digging.
I'm sorry so that that was terrible, and he sounded
like me on that one. Terrible. I apologize.
Speaker 3: Lease the bad puns to me exactly.
Speaker 1: H Speaking of basketball, Rockets tonight tanking on the Dallas
Mavericks Cooper flag in town for the very first time.
Tomorrow Texas at not at Duke. It's a neutral sight
game in Charlotte for the Dicky v Invitational. Seven and
a half point favorites are the Duke Blue Devils. Really,
you don't know how much of a favorite the Houston
Cougars are. Boy, you know what they have covered in
these games? You see my jaw dropping at this line. Okay,
can I go thirty four and a half you're closed
it thirty six and a half.
Speaker 3: Lehigh mascot is no clue, that's tough. Mountain Hawks. Yeah,
I didn't know. By the way, know Anthony Davis tonight
for the Mavericks, he's out again.
Speaker 1: I know that was a surprise you. Oh my god,
Street closes out again. Left left cast guy. Yeah, what's
the Nico? What's his name? Collins the Mavericks O fire Nico,
Nico whatever it is. I don't know. It's not Matthew's,
is it Harrison Harrison? Yeah, that's not Yeah. And by
the way, Cooper Flag has been okay, not great. I
mean he's a rookie. He's yeah, he's a rookie. Way,
thank you.
Speaker 3: Finally for the Spurs, I finally lose a game over
the weekend, Thank god.
Speaker 6: On that.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I think when he didn't have a good game.
Speaker 1: Yes, he had a single, he had a single, double,
we had two double points and I think double the
lesson double the ball in the rebounds. Did you watching
the Rocket Celtics on Saturday night? They kicked the crap
out of the season. Now, the Celtics are not very good.
When you lose Jason Tatum, you lose your franchise. I mean,
Jalen Brown's nice, but he ain't that kind of You
can't carry it by himself when you're having Peyton Pritchard
being one of your main go to scores. Hey, hey,
Peyton Pritrick could ball a little bit, little bit, a
little bit to Meskita excuse me, yes, bless you. That's
eighty eight. If those are playing on home Chris Boche,
come on, not a Pelican, not Bobby, not Bobby Bouche.
But yeah, it was fun. Rockets go up to Boston
and beat the crap out, I mean literally beat the
crap out of them. Rockets are I believe the number
one three point shooting team in the NBA. Call me stunned.
And then Thompson in his first three of the season,
but I saw that. Yeah, good for him. Yeah, had
two players almost with a triple double in one game.
Until that, we just called the dogs off and so
we gotta get out of here. Rockets and Celtics. Tonight
will have it for you beginning at six o'clock right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety. We will also have
in about seven minutes from now, Demiko Ryan's gonna speak
to the media let's talk to quickly James on seven
ninety before we get to Dimico.
Speaker 11: Hello, James, Yeah, the Longhorns were ranked number twentieth or
twenty second, then they jumped the twentieth and now they're
at thirteen. They're setting this team up for the playoffs.
I'm totally convinced.
Speaker 3: They beat two top ten teams in that span.
Speaker 11: Well, I understand that, but they got to get him
in the top ten for the playoffs. That's what they're
gonna do if they be.
Speaker 3: Most eight people.
Speaker 1: It's completely different from the College Football Committee rankings.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. The AP and the coaches poll are irrelevant.
Speaker 11: Well, I still think their Longhorn Nation's got some involvement
in this because they know there's.
Speaker 3: Absoluely nothing involved. That's that's not true at all whatsoever.
Speaker 1: They've won four games in a row, two of them
against top ten competition. Yeah, that's not that's not accurate
at all, and that well, good for them. It's gonna
it's gonna take care of itself. They lose at Georgia,
not this week, but next week or at home against
A and M, they're not going to make the playoff.
I don't think. Yeah, By the way, the first announcement
of the top twelve will being on ESPN tonight before
I believe that by the night game. So James's Cougar's
fans seegar. Yes, yes, y'all, are you know? I'm sorry.
They're the best, the greatest fan base in the country
shows up big for their guys, not obsessed with the
long Horns at all, twenty five thousand strong on Saturday
for their ranked squad. That's the worst part is that
not only did we not show up, but the team
didn't show up. I mean it was a terrible and
terribly defense played football game. Hey and and uh Willi's
first one to say, and again, I think Willy is
a coach that falls for on the sword of first team.
That's good. He said we didn't prepare well, didn't show up.
I mean, all the good coach cliches all over. Five
was it five times or six? I lost track after
a while. When that Wigman interception was thrown, I was like,
this is not going to be the dayt full. They
scored at ease early on, and the Cougar's got back
woman did want up. I think he had five touchdowns
in the day for passing one rushing, but damn the
defense was I mean just not to be found.
Speaker 3: Could have used a strong, loud crowd.
Speaker 1: It would have been a difference, maybe a little difference
follency officials effect. Because here's the thing. If we'd have
won the game, then we would then all the onus
would have been on. Well this the city doesn't support
the team, the school doesn't support the thing. It has
been twenty five thousand people. But now you got well,
since the Cougar's lost, why would I want to go
watch that trash while they lost to West Virgina. I mean,
it just was a bad narrative that got worse as
it could have gone. Yeah, sorry, sorry, Matt. You know
I blame West Virginia. Actually you should. They should have
brought through John thousand fans blame John Denver could have
needed you there.
Speaker 3: Look, Uh is trying. It's just not good. It's just
we just don't draw. We just we just we never have.
We never draw. I mean, what do you want me
to say? I can lie.
Speaker 1: We just don't draw. We're not you know, we have
there's too many colleges with too many affiliations of other
people that live in this city. You would think of
six million people, with all the people that I that
I talked to and hang out with and proudly are
proud Cougar's. When I go to the airport, they put
up the co Cougar's hand sign and scream at me
and say hello and all that kind of thing. We
just don't show up. We didn't show up at Astronome,
We didn't sho up at Roberts the City, we didn't
show up at I mean, it was a struggle just
to get that the building filled for on the on
the Peach Bowl season just was I'm kind of enrollment
of fifty one thousand student section was pathetic.
Speaker 3: Fifty one thousand enrollment the student section wasn't good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I get the excuse was, well, it
was eleven o'clock start, the kids were on Halloween the
night before.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I put you've ajored enrollment. That was Hawaii.
Speaker 1: You've a Hawaii has fifty one thousand students. I guess,
So I guess in all their campuses. Oh yeah, there's
there's multiple campuses. All right, let's hear from juston. Oh, well,
Houston's close. It's forty eight thousand, nine seventy two forty nine.
About two thousand students of those showed up claiming the
free tickets they don't cost them a penny to meet
Go us up Next eleven twelve, and Sports Talk seven ninety.
All right, Dimiko has been pushed back fifteen minutes, probably
just to make sure that the proper media is assembled
so he can get to people questions that'll be nice
to him. No, it's not true. I mean, Demiko, Look,
it's tough. He's got to answer questions. And it's easier
when you win, and you can be a little more
salty when you can say told you so. But if
you have to be a little more introspective and see
when you lose, you have to, you know, kind of
take the lumps, come with it. This is I am
interested to hear how this goes, because last week he
was getting contentious and combative, and a lot of times
you want to do that after a win, and in
the media if you attack them, guess what they'll come
back at you.
Speaker 3: Generally, that's how it goes.
Speaker 1: If you want to be somebody saying, oh, all this
noise and all this negative you guys all this negativity,
and then you want to complain about it after you
get one win, because you're riding high after beating the numbers,
and then next week you get your ass beat. When
when the Broncos coming to town, you're gonna people are
gonna be frothing at the mouth.
Speaker 3: That's just natural.
Speaker 1: The reality is he's nature. Here's reality. It's it is
human nature. But it's also not Houston. I mean, Aaron
Wilson is not going to go up there and be antagonistic. No,
Randy McElvoy and Greg Bailey and Jason Bristol, they're not combative.
Speaker 3: I told you so.
Speaker 1: There's not a columnist in town, there's no The Chronicle
doesn't even have a columnist anymore.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then there's you know, water carrier people that pretend
they're media that are gonna be there. I mean I
don't again, I don't. I don't know who would be
up there, But I don't think anybody's gonna sit in
that room and it's gonna sit there and go what
can I do on I got your moment? Here are
things you have to know. How is to meet?
Speaker 5: How is?
Speaker 1: How is the quarterback? And we're not gonnat much of
an answer on that.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 3: Number two. Uh, when you go back and review things.
Speaker 1: The run selection, the red zone offense is as bad
as ever been. Do you think there's a team in
a This would take intense PFF research. I mean, these
guys would not have sex for months. Do you think
the Texans are the worst red zone team in the
last twenty five years?
Speaker 3: No, that that wouldn't take that long. They could find that.
As far as touchdown.
Speaker 1: Percentage, I mean, I'm telling you there's a reason why
Andre Johnson didn't score ten touchdowns in a single season. Yeah.
When we when you had a good red zone offense here, well,
I mean I'm I'm a presuming when Aaron Foster was
the lead dog. Yeah, because remember remember Bill O'Brien getting
mad at the media. Yeah, hey, hey guys, it's hard,
all right, you get in the red zone, it's hard
to score. They're like, yeah, you're still thirty second in
touchdown percentage, So it's hard for everyone. Bill O'Brien, we
get it, you're still thirty second. Would have Hey, guys,
this is hard to score touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we understand. That's also your job.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about Chris Literally the name of the game,
Chris Brown made a blankload of money kicking field goals.
Speaker 3: Van Buren's gonna get his name in the Ring of
Honor next to Jannis.
Speaker 1: I mean even he's the best fantasy kicker in the game, right, Fat.
Speaker 3: Randy had a few over the days and when he
was not pulling things.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what I mean. I mean, this
team has had franchise wide coach and it's purely coincidental.
It's not because I mean, look, Demiko Ryan's had nothing
to do with the red zone offense in two thousand
and seven. I mean, I'm just saying, this is a
franchise that just has never had a prolific red zone offense. Yeah,
it's been crazy. So you get the batter, you get
the questionable running plays, and then the questionable handling of
the clock. Now let me ask you this. Now, you
and I don't approve of this. I'm just throwing this
out there. Clearly, Demiko Ryans, says Nick Keyley. You call
the plays? Does Nick Kley not understand what has to happen?
If you don't think you can go down and score,
especially after that first down play goes incomplete, don't you
run the ball at second and third punt the ball
deep to not give and drain as much clock time
as possible to make that. The Broncos when they get
the ball back in fourth quarter, they have like twelve
seconds and one time out left.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 1: They were trying to go out there and win the game,
and I appreciate that. But if you throw an incomplete pass,
there are negative consequences that come with that. I think
you take that one grandiose shot to get the first
and then you do it again. If you don't get
that first down completion of a first down, Rossie, that's
when you have to say, I gotta by the way,
I gotta trust my defense that I've been trusting for
basically three hours here. I mean, maybe you could that
could be the other side of it, say, hey, we
do trust our defense, so we are gonna go out
there and we're gonna look at the see the looks
we get, and we're gonna try to go out there
and win the game like they're playing to win the game.
So I get it. The result looks horrible. You run
twenty four seconds off and they don't have to burn
a time out. That's the worst possible. And the crazy
part was you had with Davis Mills you had it
hudcheson to caught the bass, right, Well, no, it wasn't huge.
Some who was in that last draft on that last dart,
the one that went out of bounds, It was going
to Higgins.
Speaker 3: It may have been Higgins. He ran out of bounce, so.
Speaker 1: He catches the ball, he falls out of bounds. The
Denver secondary guy's like, oh no, the clock stop. Meanwhile,
you had Moose Johnson the booth going. That's a big benefit.
Then they didn't have to burn a time out. Yeah,
it went from bad to worse. It just did horrible,
just horrible. Dead last in red zone touchdown percentage? Wait
is this true? Philadelphia's is this real?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 1: Texan's red zone touchdown percentage is thirty six point thirty
six percent this year alone, right, yes, okay, go ahead.
Philadelphia Eagles is eighty five percent. Wait a minute. How
they have lost? How they ever lost a game?
Speaker 7: Then?
Speaker 3: Because they're not getting the red zone much, because they
got a lot of big plays.
Speaker 1: That hasn't Metfante Smith got big play, I mean Sae
Kwon Barkley's running caught a couple of big runs. Washington
seventy seven percent. Pittsburgh seventy three percent. You're the only
team under forty percent. Oh, this is embarrassing. Oh my god.
Do you know why? Because you can't you can't run
the ball within a five yard line. You don't have
enough play action pass protect. You can't pass. You can't
pass protect. You've got a smaller field to go from.
You need for CJ to go through his progressions. Well
in red zone. You don't have those progressions. You don't
have time. You gotta make split second decisions. I don't
believe what I'm reading, Like, I have to go to
a so this is from teamerankings dot com. We're very reliable.
I gotta go to another website. Wow, Oh my god,
is it you're trying to You're trying to not have
to believe. It's so bad. I don't believe it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow. And maybe Nick Kayley is saying about this ross.
Maybe Nick Kle's gone, like, what am I supposed to
do you? I don't have an offensive line. I've got
two nice running backs, but nobody that's gonna put the
fear in got anybody. I can't continue to throw the
ball exclusively to Dalton Schultz, and every time I want
to take a.
Speaker 3: Seven step drop.
Speaker 1: I got pressure coming from the two outside pass rushers
with the Broncos. If you're you know what, let me
ask you this, can you go if our hands are
tired or they're tired. If I don't, if I don't
have the bullets and the gun, I can't fire them off. Yeah,
I don't know what they Yeah, they can't run, they
can't pass, and they can't pass protect and they can't
the run blocking is questionable. And then you had I
mean Howard and who else got hurt in that game?
Ingram got hurt for a bit. Yeah, you got urseries
just being just a guy. You get the rotation of
the guard spot. I mean, new offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel
next year of the Miami Dolphins will be here. He's
not gonna be able to solve everything. If you're running
back Chubb and Marx and and I mean they're gonna
have to be They're gonna have to go get a
decent running back. Let me ask you this, Do you
go go get Breese Hall if you want to make
the playoffs, Hall the difference maker, or do you go
you know what? We got so many teams in front
of us. We've got so many bigger issues that if
Breese Hall comes here from the Jets, that he still
can't find the holes because the offensive line doesn't offer them. Yeah.
I don't know enough about Breese Hall and the Jets
running game to know how much of it is Breese
Hall and how much of it is the Jet. How
many of the Jets offensive lines have been horrible throughout
the year, So I mean, it wouldn't be that much different.
Let's see who else. I'm trying to well, Tony Pollard,
but they probably don't Titans probably don't want to trade
in division. I think people have mentioned him as a
possible trade target. Put a bigger question if h do
you even try going after anybody? I've devon Han I
would go after. I think he is a difference maker. Yeah,
I think he is too. I think he doesn't have
to have the holes because he's just he's a guy
that gets yard for you after contact.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that's the one thing that.
Speaker 1: What he marks can't do and Nick Chubb physically can't
do it. Any chance a game breaker if he if
he can, you get him out in open space, he
can run by everybody. Yeah, all right, let's hear from
Dimiico Ryans, he is up next. It's eleven twenty six.
I can get this clock fixed. This is really seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety two.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna push back to tell the truth.
Speaker 1: For another hour. Uh As we'd wait to hear whether
we have the feed from NERG or not. One off
the Texans conveniently. I'm like, yeah, you guys were unavailable
to get it to you. They wouldn't do that, would they.
You wouldn't have quote unquote technical issues. I don't think
they would do that. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero. If you want to chime in, it
is uh happy opening to at college basketball. I see
that our friends from Duke women's basketball and Better women's
basketball playing a game in Paris right now. Man, it's
a nice trip for the girls. But my goodness, who's
paying for that? I don't know. By the way, speaking
a kind of sponsor, speaking of paying Auburn looking to
pay out. He had another coach fired, Hugh Freeze over
the weekend. So funny, man, everybody says we need to
win we need to win. We need to win. Oh yeah,
they're they're absolutely saying we need to win because we're
gonna fire you really quick, really quick.
Speaker 3: This is gonna be like, uh, like European soccer managers.
Speaker 6: Matt.
Speaker 3: I know you don't know this, but they they sometimes.
Speaker 1: I think Nottingham Forest is into the They date started
the season in August. They're on their third manager already.
I don't know what that means, but it cras me out.
They change them out every it's been three months of
the season. They're on their third manager. We're gonna be
like that in the NFL eventually. I mean, I don't
have to tell you, uh, to me, this is what
comes down to it. You've got pressure on money that
you're spending on your coach. You got pressure on the
money if you're spending on the kids, and none of this.
I guess, Rossie, nobody could go eight and four anymore
if you have any if you have a lot of
money invested with a power program, eight and four ain't
going to cut it. Man, It's crazy how quick the honeymoons.
The honey moons can be gone in weeks. James Franklin
six weeks after making the semi final. Yeah, of course
he'd been there for years, right, is the counter argument.
But he literally was six weeks from making this at
the semis crazy again, I will I will submit Ryan
day if they don't win, If they if it's the
regular playoff and only the top four make it and
they're out, he would have been fired because they kept
on getting close and not getting there. So we're always
looking for the end game. And when this is going
to eventually slow down. The only way it's going to
slow down is when you eventually say to the big donors,
I can't be paid out these coaches anymore. Hey, yeah,
I can't pay fifty million dollars. I can't pay forty
million dollars. And oh, by the way, you want me
to pay that out? And you also need to help
you get more money and pay for that new head
coach who wants an additional staff who makes a lot
of money. I mean, somebody's got a blink, whether it
be the agents of the coaches or the schools where
they have to kind of put their foot down and say,
we are not going to negotiate these big time, long
term contracts. And if you want to go and get
hired off. You got it, you have to stand your ground. Well,
it's going to take nobody forced A and M to
sign Jimbo to that that extra. We're all like, what,
he didn't even win a championship and he got a
one hundred extra one hundred million dollars or whatever it was.
Nobody forced Nobody forced the Longhorns to resign stecar Keys
into his big deal in January. If you're making the
semifinal twice, yep, where's he going to get higher off to?
That's what I'm saying is going to take a school
to say, we're going to give you what you think
your fair market value is. But I can't give you
a seven year deal. I can give you three years
in an option at fourteen maybe maybe front end pay,
maybe pay more than you would on an average. But
you are saddling these schools. LSU is saddling. It's alumni base,
it's corporate sponsors, it's entire state. Governor Landry is still
losing his mind over this. It's absolutely crazy, wild, all
in the name of championship. So here's what you got
available to you, Florida Auburn. It's it's not me when
I was UCLA, Penn State, Virginia Tech, Virginia. No. I
think James Franklin is gonna go there. Oh James, is
that dundee. I don't know if it's a done deal,
but everything I've seen is towards that Florida State, probably
Baylor probably. I mean, this is this is crazy that
not only the number of jobs that are out there,
but the number of quality jobs we're talking about. You
want to take a job at Florida State, that's a
great job. The funny thing is, oh, did you mention Arkansas? Arkansas?
Good job?
Speaker 12: Not?
Speaker 1: I mean good job if it's in the Big twelve,
great job. It's a good job at the beginning in
the SEC because you got better jobs in front of me.
Speaker 3: Florida job is better, Auburn job is better.
Speaker 1: Auburn, LSU, Florida, Penn State. All four of those fan
bases and boosters are gonna win a championship within like
five years. And that's four teams right there. That's yeah,
I mean expectations or something. You don't you don't know
the heavy hits to go. All right, here we go,
let's go to here. Tomiko feels like that.
Speaker 13: Tomko midway roughly through the season here, the defense has
had a lot of success.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been that went offense.
Speaker 13: It's been an outside and has an organizations of how
you build the roster, how you put all together, how
you kind of get that where it's so not so
one sided from one side of them all.
Speaker 12: Well, we have to play team, but it's a team game,
and we have to play complimentary football, all three phases,
helping each other out. However that looks every week to me,
it really doesn't matter. It's about finishing the game in
the winning fashion. That's scoring more points than the other team.
That's stopping them, not allowing them to score points.
Speaker 1: You know, m.
Speaker 14: Have you allays, But do you have any new information
on c J Stroud And if Davis Mills does have
to play, what are your expectations of him?
Speaker 12: Yeah, CJ's and the concussion Protocols spoke to him last night.
He's he's feeling a little bit better. We'll see how
the week goes and how he has progresses throughout the week.
And oh Davis has to step in and play. We
just expect him to go out and do his best.
I just play the offense in the proper way, UH
make great decisions.
Speaker 1: With the football struggles you guys have.
Speaker 13: Had on some of the short yardage plays, Is there
an adjustment a change in the future with.
Speaker 5: How you guys approach those so that you can maybe mitigate.
Speaker 1: Some of those issues. I hope.
Speaker 12: So which trying to get We're trying to convert 'em,
so we have to do something different. Obviously what we're
doing it hasn't worked U, So we just got to
find a different way.
Speaker 14: What you look at the play that called CJ to
be and you know major or concussive, how do you
balance looking at it from the coaching standpoint, you know,
former player standpoint, and then with the way that a
Zez was penalized last year and it was basically almost.
Speaker 1: Like the same to hit. He wasn't the the head area.
Speaker 12: But how do you balance you know, being able to
judge that, Yeah, that's a who look it, it's a
it's a tough play, right.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: Quarterback is sliding.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 12: I thought the quarterbacks are protecting when they slide. But
what I'm learning is if you hit 'em, don't hit
him in the head or neck area they slide. You
hit him in the chest.
Speaker 5: And that's just fine. So that's what I That's what
I learned.
Speaker 13: Because do you expect to be you and Nick expect
to be aggressive at the trade deadline.
Speaker 12: We'll see what happens throughout the trade dead line. Not
involved in that right now is finishing up here. We'll
see what happens. You know later throughout the afternoon.
Speaker 1: You your last possession, I mean, regrets doing what you did.
They's think it was the right decision or.
Speaker 5: No, no regrets. Look, we're trying to get in position
and score.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 12: We tried to throw the ball, which you had a
couple quick options to throw the football, which and then
get the clock moving, get our two minute drive started.
Speaker 5: It didn't happen.
Speaker 9: A lot of focus obviously on what changed when CJ
left the game, but you also weren't able to pretty
much go jumbo package the rest of the games. Blake's
on the field for Titus. Did that change a little
bit of offensive football that you might have wanted to
play otherwise?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 12: Really didn't change much for us. Not going jumbo package
is not a huge deal for us. Still had opportunities
to run the football. Just got to make sure we're
targeting the right way, you got to make sure we're
blocking and make sure we're finishing our blocks. If we
wanna be greater in the run game, it's gonna take
more finished in the in our blocking, which we got
to improve a couple.
Speaker 4: Of years ago.
Speaker 1: You got hurt in simmer position like this, seechin gets hurt.
It's a couple of games. If you guys are able
to play up very pivotal game against the Titans. Obviously
much different ass different quotes and things of that nature.
But how much can you draw.
Speaker 5: Back from that experience, how you be able to rally
the team and be able to get key wins?
Speaker 1: How much can you draw back from that experience to
apply to.
Speaker 12: This extent situations and every every experience everyone, it's uh,
it's new it's.
Speaker 5: A new team, new year.
Speaker 12: So we'll do what we have to do, put ourselves
in the best position to go out and and play
a great game, to play winning football.
Speaker 5: So that's how we'll approach it this week. It's a response.
Speaker 15: I know, when you get inside the one yard line,
you think we supposed to be score, you switch your
to be able to lock and knock folks off the
line of scrimmage. However, if it comes to a point
that sometime you can play action, maybe you can do
be an option they suppose, Okay, line 'em up, let
them not then go play action on them. The pass
for one touchdowns touchdown, Like you say you want to
win the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a lot of right. What is right?
Speaker 12: We we throw the ball, hold on on the goal line,
we don't get in. Hey, you guys should run the ball.
More we run the ball, we don't get in. Hey,
you should throw. So there's always a which I would
have what I would have done different, look back at it,
do a different look.
Speaker 5: I approach the game from a physical mindset of.
Speaker 12: Hey, if you're on the one yard line and we
got to knock somebody back to get in the end zone,
that's how I approach it like and that's how I
always approach it. And then when we do get in
the end zone on the fourth down, we got a
false start. So it's like we got in the end
zo CJ got in. And but let's take points from
taking off the board because we have a false start.
We're not locked in on the snap. So it's just
so many things there that goes in. Yeah, there's a
physical mindset. That's what this game is built on. You
have to have that mindset and you should want to
be in those situations where hey, we gotta knock somebody
out the ball to go get one yard. If you
don't have that mindset that, yeah, you probably not gonna
get in.
Speaker 1: Jalen and Kamari had good games yesterday. Y you immediately
trusted them and they've They've been consistently impacting the game.
Speaker 9: What's what's stopping Jalen, Nolan, Jayden and Higgins from.
Speaker 1: Doing that early in their career?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 12: They talking about I mean four completely different guys. I
don't think you can come. It's not apples to apples
as you compare those guys. But all our young guys
have done a really good job. They're all growing, developing,
doing the things that we asked them to do. Think
Jay Nole and Jay Higgins have done a b a
really good job of the things we asked them to do.
Speaker 14: Coach of two weeks and to the to the season,
what would you say that your team's offensive identity is?
Speaker 12: Oh, for us right now offensively like we gotta be better,
Like the we have to be better. And that's from
all standpoints of just putting guys in position that's executing
all all the way across the or we just have
to be better offensive.
Speaker 8: Thanks.
Speaker 13: I word in uh concussion protocol as well. Uh how
does he do what yet? Did you have a chance
to also talk with him? And also where any of
those injuries for Christian or Taro Taylor are those long
term injuries?
Speaker 12: Yeah, Titus is in a concussion protocol as well. Again,
you'll see how those guys progress. As you guys know,
concussions are. You know, it's very sensitive to each guy.
It's all you wanna make sure they come back and
they're okay when they come back. We don't wanna rush
guys back from concussions. It's all about you know, players
health and safety. That's the first and foremost thing that
I'm concerned about. Tightus is feeling better. They speak with
him as well. Now with Christian and uh DT, Christian
had a leg injury and DT had a uh ankle injury.
Speaker 5: So we're still you know.
Speaker 12: Evaluating those guys and we have to see what that
looks like against the wegos along as well.
Speaker 9: Cause but it is I guess I'm saying, Yeah, what
went into some of the the struggles and you get
Eco the ball and say, have you have the great
first happen?
Speaker 2: And most game would to go.
Speaker 9: It.
Speaker 12: Look, we we trying to get the ball to him,
that it didn't it didn't work out. Of course, we
all like to see the ball go to Nico, right
twenty times put the ball up to Nico. That's everybody's
first you know, first thought, like get the ball and Niko.
Of course we want to get the ball and Nico.
We gotta do a better job of game planning and
putting them in a position and get the ball more.
Speaker 6: Miko.
Speaker 5: And obviously you don't want to be at this point,
but you know how much does three and five concern you?
And and how do you navigate it when every game matters.
Speaker 8: Here from here on out?
Speaker 12: And for me, every game mattered from the start of
the season. So it doesn't change my mindset. Every game
is important, every game is it's on the line, So
that doesn't change where we are is we just gotta
go play better football. And look, man, for all the
miscues for everybody like we again, you're right there and
had opportunities to to close it out, multiple opportunities there
to convert on third down and make plays where we
got to make the throw, make the cats. We had
guys in position defensively, we got to find a way
to get a stop, you know, to get off the
field there.
Speaker 5: So we we had our chances. We we just we
came up short.
Speaker 14: And you look around the AFC and you look at
your record, do you feel like the playoffs are still
attainable and they're so high?
Speaker 1: Do you go to get to their door?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 12: We can't talk about playoffs until we played football better.
Speaker 1: All right, Thank you, Thank you to Miko. No surprise Rossi.
He said he didn't have an answer on the percussion protocol,
so no surprise on that.
Speaker 8: He was playing.
Speaker 1: It was just like, you know what, we can't ask
you better. And I don't think he did anything that
was yeah, flammatory or causing noise or it was just
like he's up there like he's got to answer the
questions when things don't go well, team can execute penalties,
and it was a storyline of the game. Clearly he
what he really wants to say is my offensive line
sucks and I can't move and I got Davis Mills. Yeah,
when Nick Kayley, Now we can question the play calling
all that type stuff. He's not well, some people might
agree and disagree, but he's not completely lacking in football
knowledge and an idiot. Whatever play he has drawn up,
there's a way it can be executed to where it
can work. It's just about also having the players and
then maybe he needs to kind of build around the
players that he have does have and Hank can be
effective and then go from there and do a better
job of that. But the players out there, I mean,
you've got no running game, no offensive line, and well,
the past catchers have been okay, I guess Nico Collins
has been the best among them. Well, it was a
difference when having him on the field. It's basically Nico
Collins and Dalton Schultz and a smattering of everything else. Yeah,
that's someone. I mean, Dalton Schultz had a good few
weeks now, you know, he's re emerged. He has had
a bounce back season. Yeah, all of the criticism that
he's taken in the past, he has been the go
to guy for him and I and I do a
plot him for that, for sure. I'm trying. Here's the
guy was banged up all week long too, and was
able to scut out there and playing and be a
part of the offense. Yeah. I led the team with
seventy seven rushing yard I'm excuse me, receiving yards six catches. Yeah,
he's he's been very good the last five six weeks.
All right, seven one three two one two five, seven ninety.
You've heard from Demiko. What do you think? Seven one
three two one two five seven hounty. We're gonna move
to tell the truth of twelve thirty. We have the
news at noon coming up. We have you guys between
now and to two o'clock this say, afternoon. It is
eleven forty six ross. What is today's edition of Believe
It or Not? West Virginia Mountaineers.
Speaker 3: We already did that. Oh oh, you went to a
celebratory edition. This person scored this week.
Speaker 1: Believe it? I see this guy got it? Turn over. Oh,
don't look at me like that. I can and I
will shooting lasers that'd be over there. It's only a
term of endearment. At least your squad. One, yes, middle,
little nervous down the stretch right, got a little close
diego Pavia carrying people out of bounds, and it's a
penalty on Texas. That's fine. Whatever two point conversion ball
didn't cross the pylon, but whatever, it's two points sure,
whatever covers the three and a half. Unreal that a
so called Houston reporter gets to ask an NFL head
coach two questions in a press conference and he wasted
one of them on what's your offensive identity? Who said that?
Who said this to me?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Is that a tweeter text? I don't have tweets. I've
been hacked. Sorry, I didn't mean I forgot. Hey, coach, I'm.
Speaker 1: Your official water handler.
Speaker 3: I can carry your what is your offensive identity?
Speaker 1: Please? Coach? What do you say to you? Guys? Can
you used to make the playoffs?
Speaker 3: To make off?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 1: Man, we ain't got jack crap chance of making the playoffs? Broab,
we don't know what you're talking about. Get out of here.
I think the last time I saw it's like a
two percent chance. So you're saying there is a chance,
it's non zero. Texans should be ashamed the incredential as
many people as I do. I'm just gonna say it
right now, and I like the people over there, but man,
that's embarrassing. It's just embarrassing. I just learned that I
don't want to live Ross's life three sixty five. But
it feels like ten days a year wouldn't be too terrible.
No comment, Sure you was man, what I brought lunch?
I know Matt's over here heating up food and bringing
it in here, making me super hungry. I'm so sorry.
We just I know it to eating at nine thirty
lunch and eating it two fifteen or just not in
the realm of Posit's not mad at you.
Speaker 3: I'm just mad at you. You know what I'm saying.
I'm not mad at you, but i'm.
Speaker 5: Mad at you.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like we were just talking about it.
Speaker 3: I'm not mad at you, but I'm mad at you.
Speaker 1: Uh, Texans, I am mad at you? Line? Is it
for the Texans? But that could fluctuate depending on that's
one and a half. Well, I mean it could have
fluctuated since I first saw it.
Speaker 5: Can we stopped?
Speaker 1: Does this have to Does the Texans total have.
Speaker 3: To be under forty every week?
Speaker 1: This is so annoying. Well, not gonna be any points
in this one. It's thirty seven and a half. Well,
how about this, let's discuss do this, Let's do some
let's do some Texans marketing phrase.
Speaker 3: Ain't nobody had time for that?
Speaker 1: Texans Texans home games, you'll be out in three hours
or left play the under Yeah, Texans home games.
Speaker 3: Yeah form tackling, no points.
Speaker 1: Uh, Kimi Fairbaron jerseys are going up in bed exactly,
He's he's MVP of the team to this point. Correct.
I mean, seriously, if you wanted to you know what
you're talking about, bubble wrapping. CJ. Stroud, you get a
bubble wrap Tommy Townsend and Kimi Fairbaron's feet. That's true
because if half of those two guys, look, you got left,
he's probably got a bruised up foot. Yeah, Texans minus
one and a half total is thirty seven and a
half in NFL game. Come on, guys, didn't to see
Hawks have been in the first half alone last night
pretty much? By the way those blue they were in,
I mean, my goodness, so those perfect. I love those retros.
I love everything retro. We were in Boston the other day. Uh.
And when the other teams come in, they have rooms
set aside. They have a room for the coach, assistant coaches.
They got a room for the trainers. They used the
rockets catch them and Mustard logo hmm, And I was like,
oh God, bring it back, man. I don't know how
much you can do dripping paint ones. It's been enough.
I don't know if you can do go back super
super old school to the original. But like, the Pistons
are pretty close to what the Pistons have been. Yeah,
the Pistons went back because remember they had that weird
horse and it was teel. It was terrible. They just
they whoever it was like it was it was like
their version of the the uh Pajama's rocket with the teeth. Yeah,
it wasn't great. It was like, uh was it like
Jerry Stackhouse and whoever else? And the Boys who else?
Has made a concerted effort to go back to what
it used to be. Oh, Magic did it well? The
Commanders did it for a game. Yeah, I'm just something
about in the NBA that does the Sixers Sixers do
it more now? It's not, it's it's kind of an
up if they did kind of what the Astros did.
The Astros went back the two kind of a yeah,
updated version of the old school give me the you know,
but the I'm asking for more, I'm asking for a
complete conversion back to nineteen eighty three. Yeah, I know,
I don't mean to be old school guy, but even
the young'ins love the old school stuff.
Speaker 2: They just do.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the news at noon. Scott
and Barokes wants to talk some Texans football. If you
guys want to talk some textants, let's get to you
as well.
Speaker 3: Wizards.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of I'm trying to look through
other teams. Oh yeah, Wizards, kind of the bullets where
they used to wear. Trying to think who Mavericks have
got a Dallas green uniform. Now they have, but they
still have that primary Dallas blue seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
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We got calls to get who want to talk to you,
to tell the truth, and the news at noon, all
straight ahead, as our number three of The Matt Thomas
Show with Ross begins at a matter of moments here
on Sports Talk.
Speaker 5: Is the Matt Thomas Show with.
Speaker 1: Ross Today at the with the winner next the end
of the game. Amazed, didn't know where it is? Oh battle, Rag,
you can't get what you want sometimes we're leave being
getting quite a bit of what you want lately. Of course,
the Texas win, I'm not getting much houckum Horns. Big
game coming up in Georgia game. They would mull be
there for that this week. It'll be the next week. Yeah,
maybe they will be there for that. You don't know,
I don't know. Whatever.
Speaker 3: Oh man, it's an agenda.
Speaker 1: They're trying to keep the long get the Long Horns
in the playoffs, according to James, and James takes her
questionable quite Yeah, he and I have made up over
the years. He's fine, he's nice. We appreciates okay, but
they're not. It takes a little minute to best, you know.
I love James. Nobody's perfect. Nobody, nobody wish we were
perfect on this show. We're back from it. Rops is
barely Bubby. Oh yeah, we haven't even mentioned the World Series.
We will right now. It's time for the news at noon.
Can we start with that? I don't care. What's start with?
Doners Wean the wound chemill Debbie?
Speaker 3: Was it not Debbie down? It was a droopy dog?
Speaker 1: Dumdjis ween Yoshinobu Yamamoto three hundred and twelve million dollar
contract We're so happy for you Dodgers. Show Hal Tani
seven hundred million dollar contract. Yeah, we're so happy for
you Dodgers. Roki Sasaki whatever, millions and millions they signed
him to at Freeman and Bett's, Max Munci whatever. Miguil
freaking Rojas. Do you know that all of America, for
that matter, all of North America, except for a small
portion of Southern California, not even all Southern California was
rooting for the Blue Jays. Yeah, I do. Sant Ago
wasn't even rooting for him. I don't know how Palm
Desert felt, but it was just La Metro. Everybody else
wanted the Blue Jays to win. Mcguil. Rojas had not
hit double digit home runs in a season since twenty eighteen,
has not hit seven this year for the Dodgers in
one hundred and fourteen games, and Harley played in the
World Series. He hits a freaking home run. Uh who
was it off of at that point? Was it Chane Bieber?
I can't even remember. Doesn't matter, It doesn't matter whatever.
They went with a guy whose arm fell off on Friday,
and he said, we need to give you two innings
on Saturday, too crazy in credit to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, independent
of the uniformity wears unreal performing MVP of the World Series.
And that's just exactly is the definition of MVP. Absolutely
insane and the Dodgers are back to back World champishoosh,
that's fine, all right? Uh Texans? Would h Demico have
to say about c J Stroud? Ross Demiico Ryans No
substantive updates on c J Stroud. He is in concussion protocol. Generally,
the in these things when it's the first one of
the season, you missed one week. When it's more than that,
generally it's going to be a multiple weeks. I think
his last concussion was twenty twenty three, so he didn't
get the same the concussion on the hit he had,
I think it was it headed the ground, maybe his
head hit they hit right. His head slammed in the turf.
That's how arch Mannon got his concussion. His head slammed
into the turf, and they looked at and then replay
looked at it, and they got the booth review and
it was a correct call. They picked up the flag. Look,
these defenders are in very difficult spots. You don't know
when to you when guys are going to.
Speaker 5: Slide.
Speaker 1: You don't know when guys are gonna go out of bounds.
I think it was was it Bryce Young this weekend
that got hit out of bounds and then there was
a flag throne even though he was kind of still
in play. I can't remember. It was somebody in the
NFL Pat Mahomes rule. Basically, Yeah, that's what I'm saying, though.
It's like when you got Pat Mahomes. He's acting like, oh, hey,
guys going to the and then he cuts up field.
These defenders are in a tough spot. There needs to
be a penalty for that. Yes, I don't what you
agree call it, but you well, it's an unsportsman like conduct.
You're not conducting yourself and a sportsman like meta.
Speaker 3: Why is Dylan Green officiating?
Speaker 1: Oh but Dylan, you're not being sportsmanlike. I mean, doesn't
it sound like a stupid thing? Uh, you're not conducting
yourself in a sportsman like manner. We're gonna call fifteen
yards for unsportsmen like this way, you can be penalized
for calling for a fake calling of a fair catch.
If you're fake giving yourself up right. It's bad sportsmanship. Yeah,
it's an unsportsman like conduct. Nobody should fake anything and
if you do, you should be penalized for it. Yes, interesting,
all right, Matt. Elsewhere in the news at noon, unfortunate
news for the Green Bay Packers, and three of my
fantasy teams say. This would not normally make the news
at noon in Houston, but it's always got a missus
Short's RV to this big NFL news people at Tucker
Craft is number one points per game tight end in
football drafted, is the eleventh tight end. A genius pick
on some people's part. And well he's torn as acl
he is out for the year. Injuries piling up everywhere.
I didn't even mention Jayden Daniels dislocate it. Did you
see that?
Speaker 8: I did not? Whoo?
Speaker 1: Do you like to watch gruesome injuries or no? I
do not like violent movies. How do you think I
feel about injuries? Gonna be no, But you're so weird,
I don't know. You get in a weird stuff. Adam
Clinton has probably watched one hundred and ten times in
between watching John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer of documentaries.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's gruesome. If you don't like gruesome injuries,
don't watch it.
Speaker 8: Watch it.
Speaker 1: His elbow snaps in half and now I got the
hebgb's already thank you. So it's his non throwing shoulders,
so I mean a throwing elbow. So it is possible
he could come back, but there's gonna be some time
missed by Jayde Daniels.
Speaker 3: Unfortunate, and there has been some debate, Matt.
Speaker 1: It was thirty eight to seven in the game, Seattle
Seahawks trouncing the Commanders seven minutes left in the game,
many people saying, why was Jade Daniels even out there?
I guess the question would be would there be blowback
if he did if he was not in the game, thinking,
wait a minute, what he's getting paid all this money,
He should be out there trying, right. It's especially the
I think a lot of time coaches they know they're
gonna lose, but they're trying to see a little something positive.
You can call it building momentum, building momentum the next
week in the film rooms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like put some positive tape on whatever you want.
Speaker 1: It was a disaster, So Jade Daniels out could be
back by the end of the season, but as of
right now, dislocated elbow for Jade Daniels and also a
small trade but just trade deadline coming up.
Speaker 3: I think it's Tuesday at four pm or something like that.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips traded from the Dolphins. So Dolphins are selling players.
I was an outside linebacker, defensive player. There has been
some talk about Devon a Chan and others being available,
and of course before he went down for the season,
Tyreek Hill for the Miami Dolphins to possibly be making
some trades fire sale in Miami. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Anything else, that's it.
Speaker 7: See.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to your editor. Why oh what
did I miss your dufist tight end? Dufus You got
number one tight end? Okay, you have the Rockets the
University of Houston Cougar has. You have the rock rock
playing the Maverickson and that's fine. And Mauricio do I
got another at a time. It's time to for a break.
Speaker 7: You know what you do?
Speaker 1: You do not put the tight end question there. Nobody cares. No,
it's time for a break. No, no, no, I was
gonna get to it to bully selfish, bully want a glove.
Good job, he's gonna be non tendered. You don't even
know that.
Speaker 5: I don't know that.
Speaker 1: Can you not tender a guy who's won two gold gloves? Well,
we can't talk about it now. You didn't bring up
in the news at noon. Thank god it came. That's
not true.
Speaker 3: I thought you're gonna be a good host to make
a segment out of it.
Speaker 1: Well, all right on, it was it Friday Show. ROSSI are, uh,
we got we gotta get to Yankees Keith in a
couple of minutes. We got our buddy. Scott's been very
patiently waiting. He's gonna get to him first. But Yankees
Keith called the show whatever and predicted that c J
starw was gonna get hurt. It's ridiculous. And he did
get hurt. So is that a gut feeling, I guess?
And he also said the Yankees were gonna win the win.
When were they out of the playoffs? H wild card round? Oh,
and he said they were gonna win that. He said
they were gonna win the World Series all season long.
So so take all of his broken clock. Squirrel, Yeah,
it's a he's a blind squirrel with a b how
do you how does a squirrel, I mean, does a
doctor go that squirrels blind? You don't do a seeing
eye test with the squirrel. No, I don't think vets
are checking out doctors, but I mean, yeah, I would
imagine via via scent, the blind squirrel can smell the nuts.
How do you scoop a squirrel up, go to a
vet and say, hey, can you check to see if
the squirrel's got sight? I don't think you do that.
You try to punch it in the face and see
if it'll flint. Oh, is that what you're gonna do.
You're gonna try to punch a squirrel, So you're talking
about animals.
Speaker 3: You don't punch, you fake? You like a jab, a
fake jab.
Speaker 1: Okay. I don't know if i'd go that way, but
that's fine Scott's doing to Steve. Stevie Wonder can really see? Really,
you're awful. You're a way meaner. Just kidding. Joan, my
great friend Joan Ross is way meaner example of the
five thousand.
Speaker 3: Nobody's making Stevie Wonder flinch?
Speaker 10: Hi, Scott, what's what's going on?
Speaker 5: Guys?
Speaker 10: Guys? You guys are ridiculous?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 10: I was calling in to talk about the game yesterday.
I've called in many times before this season. I think
this is the third time, and I think I can
give a good example of what I've been talking about,
and I've said we are not It's very obvious what
this team's strengths and weaknesses are. So and with that known,
we are not very good at assessing what's going on
with in game situations and making decisions accordingly. An example
I gave earlier in the season when we were playing
Tampa Bay.
Speaker 6: Tampa Bay didn't like didn't they.
Speaker 10: Had backup offensive tackles in against us, and so what
do they do? They ran screen passes, quick hitch routs, draws.
They didn't let Anderson and Hunter make impact the game,
even though we played decently on defense. So that is
assessing where your team is in making decisions accordingly. You
go to this week against Denver when we got the
ball back with a minute and thirty left in the game.
If two timeouts at the ten yard line, we were
sitting there for like, well, you know what the Chiefs
would do in this situation. They have Patrick Mahomes, so
they would go down the field and try and kick
a field goal. What would the Bills do. They would
go down the field and try and get a field goal.
We have Davis Mills at the ten yard line, who
has two first downs in the entire game. The Broncos
have two timeouts. We need to run the ball three
times and make them use all of their timeouts, run
the clock down to thirty seconds, and then we get
a first down. Great, and if not, we're punting the
ball back with them not having any time to get
anything done, we have a better chance of going into overtime,
switching the field position, creating a turnover, getting good field
position and winning that way. Then Davis Mills taking us
from the ten yard line into field goal range against
the Broncos defense. I was screaming at the TV to
run the ball and my buddy who I was with,
you know, he's a football fan, but he was like, no,
this is where you go win. And as soon as
we threw the first in completion, I was like, you
realize we're going to give them the ball back, and
he was like.
Speaker 2: Oh, shoot.
Speaker 1: The only thing the only thing I put back on
is got is I would have I don't have the
problem with him throwing on first down because you do
want to have a thought in your mind we can
go win this game, because all you needed was a
field goal. If you throw that first down play and
you incompleted, that's when you run on second down and
third down and dream clarke. I I don't have an
issue with them thrown on first It was the attempts
at second and third, especially when both of them plays
wind up going out of bounds, not having Denver burn
a timeout, which was just an atrocity of play calling.
Speaker 10: No, yeah, it was. But the only thing I would
the reason I would say that you needed to make
you maybe needed to run all three plays because they
had two timeouts. You could have made them burn both timeouts.
And then on the third play you're running the clock
all the way down.
Speaker 7: I get it.
Speaker 10: You do want to try and win, but you're at
the ten yard line.
Speaker 6: With Davis Mills.
Speaker 10: He's not gonna get you into field goal range, like,
let's go on over.
Speaker 1: But I at least want to Yeah, I look, look,
I am I am the king of the second guessing
play call guy. I do want to go see if
I can go win a football game. I do think
even though you're the ten yard line, you make sure,
it's a pass that is safe. You get the first
do you get out of bounds, you get to the
twenty five. Remember, all you gotta do is get to
the forty, which would be fifty yards. Not impossible with
seventy seconds left and going the game to get fifty
yards and seventy seconds, Especially as you talked about before,
offenses have this ability to put together large amounts of
yards in short period of time. Scott, Yeah, I understand.
I would I think the curtison would have been just
as much.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: If they would have given up on that, knowing there
was a minute ten left, having you know they've got
Kymie fairbarn as a possibility, they would have been bowed.
If you'd have went there and just rented up the
middle three straight times and punted, I mean, you've been
bowed and you should be. You have to now whether
or not we think that they can move the ball
with Davis Mills and go and score a field goal,
which clearly they couldn't in that drive. You have to
believe that you can. You have to say to yourself,
we are not going to just crawl in a hole
and try to die. Now, obviously some sort of compromise
between three straight passes where no time is taken off,
and between three straight runs where you're just laying in
crawling and dying and praying for the best, and overtime.
You need some kind of happy medium between that. But
I like that the Texans went and tried to go
and do something. They tried to make it happen. Obviously
it didn't work, And if the results were gonna sit
here with hindsight and say that was the stupidest thing
they could have possibly done because they only took twenty
four seconds off of the clock. Yep, kind of Dan.
If you do Dan, if you don't, it comes on execution.
The bottom line is their offense is bad. Yeah, I mean,
if they had to play for overtime, you're saying, well,
how are they gonna score an overtime if they can't
score with one minute to level. If you say I
have the ball with one minute left and I need
a field goal to go win a game, you go
try to win that game. But I would have changed
my tune after first down. Yeah, that's that's I totally
get that.
Speaker 11: Just me.
Speaker 1: That's just me, all right now, As promised Keith, who
likes to predict injuries. Is where this here on the show?
Keith good Off Good Keith, I think that was an.
Speaker 6: Intellectual thinking on my part, considering that, uh, that team
that they played had the most sacks of the A team. Yeah,
I know he wasn't sacked. I didn't I expected him
to get h uh and heard on a sack. I
didn't expect him to get to go down in the
way that he went down. But by the Saint Tops,
I still predicted he he'd go down and that the
Chexans would lose.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, all right?
Speaker 3: What do you want?
Speaker 6: No, I'm not true.
Speaker 5: I'm not true.
Speaker 6: I got something. I want to say something.
Speaker 3: Oh what about when you predicted the Yankees We're gonna
win the World Series all season?
Speaker 6: Well, they will win it next year.
Speaker 3: There's always next year.
Speaker 6: We know we know who won't win it next year.
Speaker 1: WHOA what does that mean?
Speaker 3: Who are you talking about?
Speaker 6: The team that plays downtown.
Speaker 3: The Blue Jays downtown Toronto?
Speaker 6: No downtown and he was in Texas. But let me
say let me say this. I bet I was an
Oilers fan way back before I even moved to Houston Daily.
I remember when they had George Bland it was the
kicker and and a quarterback, and then then when they
dragged the Warren Moon, I've been I was an Oilers
fan before I was a Titans fan.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, all right, Keith, I'm sorry. There were other
quarterbacks in between George Bland and war and Moon. I know.
Speaker 3: We don't need your life story, Keith. What's what's your point?
Speaker 6: I'm trying. I'm trying to get to a point. So
I know what Matt Thomas said. I've heard Matt Thomas
say this repeatedly, that the that the Texans. I know
the Oilers never want nothing. That Texans haven't won nothing.
Matt Thomas said, They're never gonna win up until they
get no new ownership. The Texans had a chance to
get Derrick Henry, who who had ran two hundred yards
on him four or five different times, and they chose
not to pick him, so he went to the Ravens.
That's how it became a Ravens fan, because I was
a Texas Titan fan with.
Speaker 1: Derek break Yea, every everybody. But no, I'm gonna say
this again, and I ain't stuttering. You're not Texas Vans.
You're not going to the Super Bowl with Hannaye and
col running things. You're just not and people forget Derek Henry.
I'm not gonna say he was looking washed, but his
yards per cary had been down significantly for several years.
And one of the reasons he's been so successful because
the threat of Lamar Jackson. When Lamar Jackson goes off
that team, his yards per carry go down. It's not
and it's not a coincidence. So it's I think it's
fair to say. We can't say it would be Apple's
and apple if if Derrick Henry were here, he'd just
be running amok on everybody. And the Ravens also have
a better offensive line and a better quarterback and better receivers.
Now Rashad Bateman and Zay Flowers and the boys, I'm
team say Mark Mark fumbling fumbling away the AFC Championship Andrews,
who I'm sorry, Division round. I bet you I could
get thirty. There's thirty one other general manager. I can
get get twenty three of them to take Mark Andrews
over doubt over Dalton Schultzdalton Schultz probably, So that's my
right that Flowers is just a guy. Nico Collins is
the best of the lot. Xavier Hudson is a baller.
Matt no'll be hating on Hutch. Hutch, sorry much. Christian
Kirk is good when he plays. Attendance is part of
the grade here, Rossie, I know I said he was
gonna go over six forty nine and a half. By
the way, I was watching the end of that Jacksonville,
Vegas came. He know what he didn't see on the field?
Estra two gut feeling hint for me, there's no good feeling.
You said he would never run for a thou NFL.
I know you are not the NFL inside and I'm
mister Texas. So why are you talking like that? I
don't know. It sounds very like I'm very smart. To
give me none of those things. How did the ask
you to do yesterday? He had forty yards? Okay, all right? Nick?
And Nigel or is it Nigel always butchered? Oh jeez,
this is Nigel. The one from Vancouver is Nigel? Nigel
so spelled fanatic on the screen. NI know this is
not fanatically. I'm sorry, but the other one is Nigel.
And Nick. We'll get to you after we play to
tell the truth next. This is a This is gonna
be a gimme on the tell the truth. Yes, if
you guys don't get this right, I'm gonna be really
disappointed in both of you. Twelve thirty one on Sports
Talk seven ninety. But actually I do know how to
tell the truth, all right, kind of this is kind
of easier for y'all. Two, Okay, I have force takes
of mine, four takes. How many do you believe? I
believe three of them? Okay, all right, one, I don't believe.
Time for you to figure out which one I don't believe.
I think it's actually easier for y'all to figure out
which one I if we flip it. But three of
the four I believe one I do. It's hard to
come up with fake ones. That sounds I understand. Yeah,
all right, here we got number one excuse. Don't have
to worry about that three thirty Saturday game for the Texans. Okay, Chronicle,
you can put up that uh uh tombstone a little
graphic there. Your Texans rossy, I'm sorry to say, are
not making the playoffs.
Speaker 6: That was it.
Speaker 1: That was it yesterday. That was a fad of complete Okay, Okay,
Number two, I will stay with the Texans. If Davis
Mills winds up starting this week against Jacksonville, they can
still win this game. In fact, I would still make
them a favor in this contest. They are so I mean,
I know Davis Mills is not good. He wasn't great yesterday.
You don't have to be great against Jacksonville. He can
win this game. So my Jacksonville is weird. My uh,
and they didn't win yesterday, and they do have some
nice road wins this year, but they can you know,
I'm just saying. They gave up thirty to the Raiders
twenty yeah, twenty nine nine. Yeah, but my portly Jensey
did have forty seven receiving yards and a touchdown. He
it didn't count because I was talking about rushing rant
NFL very in effective hashtag in NFL sider, hashtag production
count hashtag got it right? All right, here we go
number three. If I'm Dion Sanders, I'm going to go
to the old my health is not great card and
I'm going to resign at the end of the year.
Speaker 3: He's had some issues. Why do they lose again?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: They got humbled by what era is it?
Speaker 1: Arizona State of Arizona Arizona like like by thirty plus
points fifty two to seventeen. Yeah, thirty five. Wasn't that
the final score on one of the Buffalo and Cowboys
Super Bowls? So Dion Sanders' last coaching job will be
at the University of Colorado, and it probably will be
at the end of this year. Okay, Taking number four,
the Dodgers bought their title. Yes, I have zero respect
for them. It takes no talent whatsoever when you simply
just outpay everybody. So Dodgers, you do not get my
respect for winning Game seven World Series. Sorry, you just
bought the title. You get nothing from me? And like it.
Which one of the four am I lying about? Which
other three? Am I telling you the truth? I'll recap.
Don't worry about the three thirty Saturday Wildcard weekend. The
Texans won't be in it. We're not making the playoffs
at all. If Davis, if Davis Mill starts at quarterback,
the Texans can still beat the Jaguars this Sunday. Okay.
If I'm Dean Sanders, I'll resign in Colorado because I
can go to the quote unquote health issue card and
number four, the Dodgers bought their title, and I have
zero respect for them winning on Saturday against the Blue Jays.
Which one am I lying about?
Speaker 3: Gentlemen, this is actually difficult, i'd say. Yeah, let me
say you said this is a game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think about this one.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: Your first statement is the Texans are not making the plays.
No way they make it, no way they make it,
no way, no chance, no how, no way, no chance,
no how. Now see, I mean he could be right
about that. It's only about a two percent odds right now.
Are not facts, he's just my takes, my opinions. They
are favored against Jacksonville, so they could win. Coach Prime
probably should resign, and Matt hates coach Prime. Well, then
I think that coach for.
Speaker 8: What's for?
Speaker 1: What are you going for?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 1: But I don't even think he believes that. But I
just don't know which one to go with. This is
actually one of your better lists, man, Oh thank you?
I think really dope. I knew.
Speaker 3: Usually there's a caveat to it.
Speaker 1: I like this one. Most of them.
Speaker 3: Usually you have suck.
Speaker 1: I know, I get it.
Speaker 3: You just can't I give a hundred.
Speaker 1: Percent positive you know what, I'm just kidding with you.
Speaker 3: I'll just I'll just take the Mills.
Speaker 1: I don't think he believes that Texans have a chance
with else destrout.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, let's.
Speaker 1: Go here we go. I do believe Davis Mills can
give the Texans a chance to win. And it's not
because I think Davis Mills is great. Trevor Lawrence just sucks.
I don't know how they won against the Raiders last week.
I can't imagine going cross country twice in a row
and trying to do a game like that. I'm never
I continue to try to buy into any sort of
this Travor Trevor Lawrence hype. Their defense is mid Texans
need to win and get the get the rebound game
after losing that Jackson early this week, I think Davis
Mills can win that game. Number two, If I'm Deon Sanders,
I do resign at Colorado.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: There's not money at collet Ross. His kids aren't there anymore.
It's the Big twelve. He's got health issues. The recruiting
base is non existent, and if you don't have cash,
you can't bring kids to Colorado. Not a great place
to play college football. Not a college football hotbed to play.
His last job should be a Colorado And the Texans
aren't making the playoffs. Oh so, yes, I don't. I
hate the Dodgers, you know what, but I respect them.
The World Series came down to extra innings of a flight.
You're saying the Texans aren't they're not making the playoffs.
That's right, I believe.
Speaker 7: Yah.
Speaker 1: So my lie was number four the Dodgers, And would
you say an umber four before? I have no zero respect.
I respect them? Yeah, okay, yeah, I respect the Dodgers.
I hate, I don't want to respect them, but I
just do. It's a game seven, you have, It's a
Blue Jays. It was innings. It was a completely even series,
even though the payrolls were completely out of whack. Money
money will get you to the playoffs. Ross talent will
help you win the World Series.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yankees are a great example of that. Yankees can buy
their way into the playoffs every year. But it takes
more than it takes being great in a three game
or a five game or a seven game series. But
nobody has the amount of deferrals the Dodgers do, and
nobody has the built in well unless you want to
count like Seattle and I don't know San Francisco. As
far as the built in advantages of the combining of
signing massive checks and the advantage with Japanese players who
want to play there because a it's geographically closer and
b they can offer the most money, well it's probably
a first the most money then be geographically closer. See
there's a large Asian fan base and already Japanese players there.
They had these they have too many built in advantages.
It's ridiculous, It is ridiculous. But I so respect what
they did. I mean it was respect them. They're playing
a different ball game than everybody else when you add
in all of that. So if that's the case, then
they should win every World Series for the first few
baseball well, I would say that. I would say luck
factor is biggest in baseball. Well, probably no NFL because
it's one game, but as far as seven game series go,
there's a huge luck factor in factor in baseball. Look
at the best team doesn't always win twenty nineteen Washington Nationals.
I mean it's arguably the twenty seventeen Ashros weren't as
good as the twenty seventeen Dodgers, and we can go
through up and down the list.
Speaker 5: All right, there you go.
Speaker 1: That's the Diamondbacks making the World Series in twenty three.
They beat some teams that they weren't better than. It's baseball, Yeah,
it's baseball. It's just baseball. So still, the Dodgers have
the best shot. Are going to have the best shot
every year. Right now, it's three World Series and six years.
That's what I'm saying, Jerks, I don't respect them. I mean,
I don't respect them, but I don't like him. And again,
can you tell me? And I was talking to my
wife about this last night. I literally mean this. I
believe everybody outside of the what is lost is LA
two to one three area code?
Speaker 9: Is that?
Speaker 10: What that is?
Speaker 5: Two and sure one?
Speaker 1: Up outside of about fifty miles around Dodger Stadium, everybody
was rooting for the Blue Jays. I was on a
bus full of Rockets employees and staff. Did you say
two one three?
Speaker 7: Is that right?
Speaker 3: Those three on five? There's no two three or five
three three?
Speaker 1: One?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah?
Speaker 3: Come on mister three oh five, mister worldwide.
Speaker 1: Oh how did I know that?
Speaker 5: You didn't know that?
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about because I'm thinking, I.
Speaker 1: Forget about me calling myself mister text, I should be
mister worldwide.
Speaker 3: The second you and Pitbull? Yeah, whoever?
Speaker 1: That is one forty two to the phone's next seven
one three two, one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero with a floor.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you about something and just really
weird popped up on my wave Buster's h o U
timeline because my my account is down, so iry to
go to the beach. It's still hacked. Haven't helped you out?
Setl on on the phone. No, I'll worry about it
tonight or tomorrow. I don't If I had a couple
of days off from Twitter, I'm gonna be okay. Actually,
well you have it, you're on your burner. Well, but
I want to say again, it's for sports right now,
I know there is two different sporting events. It's called
actually it's one event over two differ venues called the
Field of sixty eight. Have you heard about this? Oh?
Speaker 3: Wow, this person is I can't they blocked me?
Speaker 1: Who's they? The person that hacked you?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Huh? I want to these blocked everybody that followed that.
I followed, they blocked me because I tweeted, Hey, sports
MT has been hacked. I tweeted at sports MT has
been hacked. Don't click any of the links, and now
this person has blocked me. Okay, So this field of
sixty eight is six games, all day event featuring three
games in two different venues. One is in rock Hill,
South Carolina, and one is in Sue Falls, South Dakota.
These are all very low division one teams. Okay. Case
in Point Queen's versus Winthrop Bradley versus Saint Bonaventure, High
Point versus Firmanis tonight, and Sue Falls it's Murray State
versus Omaha Drake versus Northern Arizona and South Dakasta State
versus Merrimack. I mean, obviously the lowest of low one
Division one schools. Now, there is one school in that
group of twelve that is probably famous, not for any
of the players, but who their general manager is. Do
you know who I'm speaking of? Uh, you're talking about
the Bonnies and woj This happened two hours ago because
the game didn't start till it started at ten o'clock
this morning. After a heated verbal altercation with the officiating crew.
Saint Bonaventure General Manager Adrian woldron A Houseki was just
ejected from the venue. WOJ was berating the officials from
the stands and was forcibly removed by security. My god,
he's got a screw loose. Yes, he went after people
off for political stuff a couple of years ago. Yes,
and had to apologize and I believe was suspended by
ESPN for such and the And now as a general
manager and this is I think it's his second year
as a GM of Saint Bonama, just his alma mater.
By the way, he goes to rock Hills, South Carolina
at this opening weekend event, opening day event, and he
loses his mind with the official. Obviously there's nobody there
in the crowd, So if WOJ is screaming something, my
guess is they can hear it. I mean, I'm gonna
assume that there isn't a huge crowd for Bradley versus
Saint Bonaventure and rock Hill, South Carolina at ten o'clock
in the morning.
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 1: It's forcibly removed, forcibly removed. He loves Bonnie's basketball. Well,
I my guess is he probably went to the do
you know who I am? Card?
Speaker 5: Maybe?
Speaker 1: And you know who doesn't care about who woj is is?
Anybody that's a prince officer in rock Hill, South Carolina.
Did you know he went from making seven point three
million a year to seventy five thousand a year as
the GM of that program. Well, let me put it
this way. That doesn't surprise me, that the discrepancy. But
if he's I don't know if he's married with kids
or has a lot of investments. Yeah, but if you
have that, if you've got twenty million dollars in the
bank and you're in your mid sixties or however old
he is, and you've been doing this for a long
time as a twenty four hour job, and that's a
twenty four hour job because ESPN makes it a twenty
four hour job, he probably didn't knowing he's got enough
money to be very secure the rest of his life. Yeah,
he's supposed to be. Hes supposed to be doing this
for peace of mind. That's agreement at REPS. And getting
removed from the stadium or the arena. I've never heard
of a college administrator being kicked out of the arena.
Now I was there. I mentioned this before when Dave
South got kicked out for throat slashing the officials during
a Southwest Conference tournament back in the early nine I
remember that.
Speaker 3: Didn't something that didn't less Alexander get fined. He get fined.
Speaker 1: He was screaming at the refs. Yes, okay, Yes he
didn't get forcibly removed. No, he didn't get forceably to remove.
But he's got out of his seat and walked towards
the officials when we were sitting there going what is
he doing? He don't and told the official exactly what
he thought of him. So yeah, Woji is probably at
a I'm guessing rock Hill probably has a bunch of rappleries.
I guess would be within three miles, he retweeted with
the Bonnies win the final score. Was he one there
to see it though? I just sounds crazy. It is crazy.
Let's talk to Nick on seven ninety at twelve fifty three, Nick,
good afternoon to you.
Speaker 7: Hey, good afternoon, guys. It's what to get talks take
man I. Now you've all been talking about the Houston Texans,
his little brother over there. Let's talk about the Dons,
Cowboys Man America's team.
Speaker 5: Wasn't think.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna give up about thirty eight points.
I think your defense sucks.
Speaker 7: Oh no, it's terrible. At the moment. We're gonna give
up thirty eight, but we're gonna put up forty one.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's fine as long as as long as it
doesn't involve Dak Prescott throwing for three and fifty yards.
I don't care how you get your forty one.
Speaker 7: Well, I can't promise anything on that one. Brother with
George Tickens and ceedee lamb, you know, three fifty is
pretty easy. But you know, after we win this game,
they were in the playoff fight. So now we got
to make some trades. Happy. I was looking at the Sextons,
I was look at the Cowboys. What y'all needa to
do is trade Will Anderson? Oh my god, hey, look
y'all not no, you need a receiver, you need a spark.
Speaker 1: Do you think they're going to trade one of the
best pass rushers on the planet and Will Anderson to
the Cowboy? Maybe they should have signed you know, best
pass rusher, one of the best pass rushers on the planet.
The Cowboys had one of those, didn't they.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean Michael Parkson's he was overrated. Every time
we got the playoffs, he let us down. Okay, we
need a good pass rusher now, Will Anderson. I'm not
gonna say the great pass rusher. That's why we would
only give up to us Pickings.
Speaker 1: Do you think George Pickens for Will and Ers? Do
you think the Texans say yes to that?
Speaker 7: Look at the numbers?
Speaker 1: Numbers you think you think the Texans would say yes
to that?
Speaker 7: You have a top three receiver?
Speaker 1: Answer my question, answer ross question. Would the Texans say
yes to that trade?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 7: Or no? Probably?
Speaker 11: Probably not?
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, then why are we having this conversation?
Speaker 7: Why they're in the situation they're in?
Speaker 1: God, this is your way. You waited all that time
to talk about that. I don't mind waiting, but I
mean we get like a boisterous Cowboys fans. Yeah, you
know three, the three, four and one. You forget the tie. Yeah.
By the way, our friend Grace listen to show. She
also got blocked by the spammer too. So apparently anybody
follows me is getting blocked as well, or they're either
getting blocked or maybe unfollowing people. I don't know, because
how many accounts. Did you followed it's at three eighty one,
now that's what it was. Okay, then I'm probably blocked,
I guess. I mean, I'm gonna I'm gonna give Twitter
twenty fours figured out, okay, and if not, and then
we'll get you on the two factor. We'll get you
for sure. We're definitely two factory for sure whatever that means.
By the way, somebody sent me a tweet that that
Wold was at the game in Fine. I don't know
if this Scott huge guy that you got that report from,
or maybe he was let back in the game. I'm
not sure you getting a team's call. Yeah, I'm got
my number is spam to something for some reason. Okay.
I've been answering him all the time. They don't answer back.
I'm sorry, Matt, So is that is that an erroneous report?
Why would why would that guy do that? There's a
picture of WOJ at the game, so I don't know,
or maybe that was that picture could have been from
the first half.
Speaker 5: Who knows.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening. Well, and if it's if
and if it was erroneous, I apologize. I just I
looked at the guy's report look credible to me. I
mean again, why would you have all things tweet that out?
This picture looks like it could be AI. Now, I
don't know what to think. The guy's the guy's profile picture. No,
he's posting pictures from rock Hill, South Carolina. Well he
made it O was he was in the arena at
some point. What does Woge have to say? I won
if Woge is saying anything on his Twitter again, I
don't have my access to it. So all right, Uh,
Nigel is going to join us to start the final
hour of the show. Ross.
Speaker 3: Well, just today's edition to believe it or not, coming
up in fifty minutes from now.
Speaker 1: I don't know, okay, Adrian ocean Rowski, No, Saint Bonavicher, No,
ain't anything wrong. Uh, Rookie Sasaki, the Dodgers, Dodger we
can do Dodger stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw up vomit.
Speaker 1: I know, I get it. One twelve fifty seven on
Sports Talk seven ninety's The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
All Right, it's been a bad day for the old
Twitter verse for sports empty. Apparently I wasn't the only
one who's duped on it. The guy was a fake
account or interaccurate report. Even Drew Goodman was kind of
a snarky kind of basketball reporter Jeff Jeff and Drew
Gimmer is an announcer for the What about Drew Gooden
rockets for the Iraqis that report is erroneous?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm mute to that guy. Yeah, I said that.
It said his profile picture look kind of like AI.
Speaker 5: He was fake.
Speaker 1: So let me tell you something, elon elon his money.
Please get my account back active again, and please let's
see if people are putting stuff out there, let's get
them eliminating. Get those accounts long gone. Fake news. So
I would block the guy, but I can't block him up.
I mean, I don't need wave Busters to block him
because wave Busters doesn't only follows one person. So by way,
if you are anti wave wavebusters Hou's account, you must
follow on a slow, steady climb towards eleven hundred. There
wasn't enough people for a wave. I don't think it
energy the Broncos wave. So that's two straight weeks we've
seen Texans fans either give up their tickets or just
not go, and the other teams are scooping them up.
The crowd looked pretty pathetic. Quite frankly, maybe we're just
a crappy sports town. We don't fill up energy, We
don't get to the Toyota Center until second quarter. We
don't fill up the Cougar Stadium. Rice Stadium look like
you could have played it in a small junior varsity
high school game and put that crowd in there. Well,
I'll give you the other side of the coin. It
do you think they're Texans fans sitting on their couch
saying I wish I was at that game?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Probably not that. We We definitely can can be a
front running town. We saw the stadiums when when when
the Houston Astros are bad, what happened when they got good?
They filled up and the people come and to me
as a consumer, and how much tickets costs and parking
and all that stuff, and in these headaches, and especially
in the NFL, if if you're a team that and
this team has never really gotten a foothold on this
city which is which is hungry for football success, its
directly their fault. It's their fault yep, Okay, so let's
run through it. Rocket tickets are sold, It's true, but
that's they're handing them off to their friends, who's all
downtown corporate partners, Downtown corporate partners, and those people don't
have the vested interests in it because they didn't spend
a dollar to get in the building. When you spend
eighty nine one hundred nine hundred and forty hand dollars ticket,
you're probably gonna be their closer to tip time if
you didn't, if you were handed the tickets for free.
I had a friend of several years ago who worked
with a high level corporation downtown and they had they
had four tickets to the game. And what they would
do is they'd get the tickets from work. It'd be
a it was a bank, and everybody they worked with
was from Minnesota or California or whatever. They get the
tickets from work, they go to happy hour, they forget
oh games starting okay, So they show up late to
the game and then they leave.
Speaker 3: Early because they're just free corporate tickets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you don't have a vested interest in the
team or the debit card which you paid for them,
you don't there's no responsibility to get there. I feel
like the pressure to get there early ub H is
just a class example of a team that just doesn't
have a big enough fan base that wants ago. We
have lived lots of Cougar fans. I mean I see
people all the time, all the time. We have thousands
and thousands of lums. We have one of the biggest
campus sizes in the cut enrollments in the entire our country,
much less of state. We just don't care. It could
be beguloge because it's commuter school a lot of us
because maybe they're just you haven't been taught from the
day you walked down U of H campus. You have
to love your Houston Cougars. You have to love your
sports teams. But I guarantee you tonight now, granted, if
UCLA or Duke or Kansas was in the building, it
wouldn't be an issue. But tonight the Cougar's played Lehigh.
We see seventy five hundred in the building tonight for
Cougar basketball. Will there be seventy five hundred people sitting
in their seats? Probably not. Now there is a no
show factor with every sport I have not been to.
I've been a very few sporting events in my entire
life Rossy that literally I've counted less than ten empty seats.
There's just a show because of whether you can't go,
you get sick, you get a flat tire, you have
to work late. There's gonna be a no show factor
with everything. But there wasn't a no show, no show factor.
There was no show. I didn't want to go. Yeah,
but I don't know. You go around, you go to
thirty you know I all thirty arenas throughout the year? Correct? Yeah?
Would you say Houston's more the rules in the exception, right,
it is more than I see Dallas. They don't. I
see Dallas empty seats in Dallas, I say aunty season,
San Antonio like basically almost everywhere but Oklahoma City, I
would say it's Golden State.
Speaker 3: It's a one third two third split.
Speaker 1: One third of the NBA, which is ten cities are
there at tip time, loud, noisy, let's go. Two thirds
are kind of what Houston goes through. Okay, But as
far as the Cougar football program is concerned, now grant again,
it didn't. It's just it really hurt. They just laid
an egg against West Virginia. It really really hurt. But
we didn't know. You didn't know that all throughout the week,
I've been telling you get tickets for twenty hours and
fifteen cents. You get twenty hours and fifteen cents to
get in the building. First of all, they're not a
bad seat in TDC. You've even been there several times.
You know they're not a bad seat in the police.
It's very conducive. You're watching the game, it's eleven o'clock,
the weather was good, beautiful. Now parking may be a
pan of the ass and ticket, but that's everywhere. I mean,
I can imagine you. You can't get decent parking around
uh where's Alabama's football city.
Speaker 3: The light rail goes right off of there, right light
rail goes, But people don't know the how to the
light rail.
Speaker 5: We don't.
Speaker 1: There's not enough people that know how too. It's not
that easy. Reality is this? We just have enough fans.
That's crazy. Forty nine thousand. What's I'm trying to find
the highest enrollment? It's friends top ten. I think I
don't even know ross if we are. If we gave
the building for free, it would make it that big
of a difference. We said, we give you the tickets,
so I could just pay for the parking. I think
people would be detracted by the parking, and parking is greed.
So if I but Ross, if I came to you
and said, okay, parking now instead of sitting in that
fifty hour a lot to park your cards and now
we're twenty five, was that going to all of a
sudden add five thousand to the list. Are people saying
no to Cougar football because parking is expensive? We got
to win? Can I guess the state consistently? And when
you were there in ninety four to ninety five in
the Rockets, I mean, were people there tip off time? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know I'm trying to I don't mean we're not
trying to confuse Rockets and Cougars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry, there's there's just no I mean, least figures.
Speaker 1: Have had some flashes. But you know we've had four
wins of the previous two years. Man, Sorry, Matt, go
Cooog's seven and one. That was you doing, Dana, not Willie.
That was data. That was Dana Holgerson. Yeah, you know what,
I'd like to apologize with Holger some family. He's fine,
he said, oh see, Nebraski's doing just fine. Matt, ruhle
just got rehab and reapp which means the problem. I
guess the Dana got reapt of some sort, so you're
doing just fit for him. All right, let's go the
phones talk to some people. UH Needel calling us from Vancouver,
British Columbia, the Matt Thomas Show, Ross Needel.
Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Good afternoon, gentlemen. Thank you for taking my
phone call. It certainly was a gutting week uh weekend
at my house. The I'm admittedly I'm not the biggest
baseball fan, but to see the Blue Jays lose it,
it was pretty gut wrenching. I really, I sincerely hope
they try to sign Bobashett and do it again next year.
It was fun to watch. Regarding to Texans, Like to
your point a minute ago, I think I'm just too
I'm at the point now or I'm tuning out like
I'm not. I'm not as interested and engaged in the
outcome of the games as I have been in the past,
because I think that when you see a good team,
when they lose, you can feel like they left it
all on the field. Why is it when the Texans
play I feel like I could be making coaching decisions
in my living room by yelling at the TV, like
if I yell louder, they're gonna do like you know,
run the ball or have a better red zone, have
a better red zone offense. The Texans, to your point
before the break, are not making the playoffs. It's it's
it's a lost season.
Speaker 11: It's sad.
Speaker 8: I really had better, better hopes for the outcome this year.
Have a great show, guys, and thanks for doing what
you do.
Speaker 1: You appreciate listening well the iHeartRadio. I had a bank
of Nigel. He's right, like these these games are so
you don't you don't leave the game saying, man, they
were close, go ahead and get him next week. It's
like what and what did I just watch? It's like
I just watched this sloppy bleep show where they're committing penalties,
they're looking inept in the red zone, they can't score points,
the coach is being conservative, they're doing all the little
things wrong and then they barely lose. It just leaves
you frustrated to where if they could, if they could
score a red zone touchdown, how many more games if
they would they have won this year? At least two
or three again this. I brought this up a couple
hours ago. The Texans might be the worst red zone
team in history based off a number of games. Oh bad,
because Ross, you and I have been I mean, you
and I have been talking about the teams together since
twenty ten. There was this before you joined me and
I was here before the first go rounder. There it
was Conservaac. We called them Gary Conservac. I mean then
Bill O'Brien. It's hard to score, guys. Yeah, you guys
have the worst red zone percentage in football. It is
hard to score.
Speaker 8: But you can do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the team can do. Other teams are somehow doing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, somehow can plain the two version?
Speaker 4: Yes, do Nicks? Who was midt the one yard line?
It does literally does not get easier than that. We
are giving you the ball on the one yard line,
get us one yard one.
Speaker 1: They can't do it, Oh they can, but they're gonna
get a fall star penalty move back in the six
yard line. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: It's so frustrating.
Speaker 1: Ugh, it's and you know, I do tease a little
bit because when I said what I said about McNair's
it was during the whole Jack uster Be stuff. So
there's really no, there's no direct correlation. Now the easter
is out, so they can win. They can win. But
how about that, I'll give you one of this. How
about I could I could change my men my kind
of prediction. You should have minute because hand it took
over now, so I will officially hear it, which is
now I believe one twelve Central time? Well, then we
have to change clock, all right? An hour in a
mountain times?
Speaker 3: Jon't come on, Tom one o'clock? Can I amend by
the following sting?
Speaker 1: Sure, the Texans will not win a Super Bowl as
long as Nick Cassario is the general menagure, not as
long as he keeps whipping on offensive lineman. And I
got news for you, Demiko is going from a wow.
I can't wait to see what he does as a
head coach too. I got a pretty good sample size
to who he is as a head coach. Who is
he average?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 3: Not terrible? Guys fight for him, Guys love him.
Speaker 1: People we're gonna say, I'm going to just hold on
to it. Hold on to it, you come back and okay,
states your case. One thirteen of the mat Tom one
thirteen on Sports Talk seven ninety one nineteen on Sports
Talk seven Hot You Believe it or not coming up
in thirty minutes from now. I believe that Jamaico Ryans
regrets to being just an average coach. I don't think
he's winning the play calls. I don't think he's winning
the meeting of the minds the I do believe coordinators
are an extension of who you are, whether it's their
fault or not. I do believe you have to wear
the crown the entire that represents the entire organization. Even
if Mick Kayla is calling the terrible offensive off swing
running off left tackle plays, even if he the one
with a minute left to go, is throwing asking for
three passes to be thrown, that's that's on the head coach,
that's on the central administration. I think this year Dimiko
goes from being pursued to be an up and comer
to an average NFL hip foot book coach. Well, I'm
only slightly disagreeing with you, okay, because I think he's
slightly above average. So it's a we might be splitting
hair here. But the thing that I do Dimico Ryans
does some things good. Obviously, he's a good defensive coach. Now,
I believe Matt Burke has taken over the play calling duties,
so he is the defensive play caller for them, So
it's not like he's doing that. But as a guy
who is a leader of men and a former player
and a player's coach, I think he does excel in
that facet of the game. Certainly the fourth down decisions,
which have gotten somewhat better, Like they went down they
went for a fourth and short early in this game
that I think normally he he might have kicked in
the past. He's getting better at that. So I would
say he's kind of average there and a good overall
CEO football CEO and then a players coach. So I mean,
I'm not gonna say he's setting the world on fire,
but I would disagree to say he's just average. I
think he's better than that because I judge the biggest
feather in his cab being that his players love him
and they play hard for him, and his defense is
really he's they've had the best defense in football. But
as you say that, now, there may be coaches ross
in the NFL that aren't gonna go out and have
beers with their team. M hmm. But if you if
you're an a hole to your players, they will. This
is twenty twenty five. Check out the Bill Parcells world
is done. Yes, my way of the highway thought is gonzo.
So I do believe that if you're going to be
an NFL coach in twenty twenty five, you better Dan
will be a players coach or you're not gonna survive. Yes,
so I'm not gonna get that. So he checks that box. Okay,
he checks a box, but it doesn't mean I'm gonna
take he is. You can't be such a good players
coach that it affects how I assess what your work
is with the headset on on game day. I think
he commands the players respect, and I think that is important.
We can't put our fingers on that or why that
is important, or or how important it is. Certainly it's
an intangible. I mean, if they had a better offensive
line out of his control and played better offensively, Joe Mixon,
we're healthy.
Speaker 3: Out of his control. I mean that Nick Keyley's out
of control.
Speaker 1: Nick I think Nick Keyley was a dick Cassario pick
I do, but I mean when you want to when
you he could have put his foot down and said,
I believe that Bobby Slowik is a good offensive coordinator
because two years ago when the was hustling, nobody was
complaining about it.
Speaker 3: I don't think he did, and I don't think CJ.
Shaud did.
Speaker 1: I think that was a collective that's a collective loss
on board guy, for sure. But I mean when you
hired the guy who gets hired was with the Patriots
and as a John Carroll graduate, that doesn't that screams
Nick Cassario. I mean, oh, we weren't hearing that. We
were hearing always the rams asciples is a Sean McVay guy,
he'll be great here. Yeah, well somebody should have and
we all said this today he got hired. Why are
you hiring somebody when you're looking for experience and had
never been a play call in the NFL? Again, right,
you're going back to back, never been a play caller.
But Bobby Slock was a genius when the pass protection
was better, and then Joe Mixon was covering up other teams,
and Demico Ryans seemed a lot smarter too. I mean
he was Coach of the Year candidate. It's ultimately about
your players, yes, but again, I've said this for several
weeks in a row. Now when are we gonna go?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 1: Did you see the sly move that Demiko made as
a coach that made the difference in the game.
Speaker 3: Him said that No, now they can beat Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I told you about this earlier, even if Davis mill
starts at QUARTERBA because Jacksonville is a very average team
at best.
Speaker 3: You're in the home field.
Speaker 1: You need it. It's a revenge game. If you want
to save your season, you at you cannot lose this game.
I said that the Texans are done. They'll be really
really done if they don't beat Jacksonville. I mean there's
still a sliver of a hope, but I mean, I mean,
I don't need percentage to tell me what's happen. That
will be Yeah, pretty much, but pretty much a nail
and coffee. I fit a complete if they don't beat Jacksonville,
because then you'll have two teams significantly in front of
you for the AFC South race, and then you're gonna
lose every divisional tipebreaker. You're gonna lose all the conference tiebreakers.
If you have any thought of maybe making the playoff
run and jumping over two teams, not just yourself, but
getting up above it. You have to beat Jacksonville this week. Yeah,
I was just looking up these head coach rankings, just
random one. CBS Sports in the offseason had Demiico Ryans fifteenth, so.
Speaker 3: He was average going in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's ESPN Ben Sol like had had. Well, they
had the whole coaching staff. They put Demiico Ryans and
the Texans at twelve. So I mean, yeah, it's not
like I, like I said, I'm not gonna fight you
too hard if you want to just say their average
and I'm gonna say slightly above. Yeah, again it's they.
I would like him to be more aggressive on fourth downs,
more aggressive, you know, in those types of decisions and
playing not to lose. I definitely think he does that
a little bit too much. But I really that's my
biggest complaint. But everybody that was watching the game, we
had the caller Scott from River Roakes said this last
hour he wanted to go three shirt running plays. I
was against that. I am for what he did in
terms of throwing the ball on first down. See even
get a first down, get down the field, get into
field goal range. Because you have agree you have an
asset in your team in Kymie Fairberry, but the light
bulbs should have gone off and been really lit. When
you don't complete the pass, you're then looking at second down,
looking at the number of timeouts Denver has, looking how
much clocks left. The best thing you could have done
is at your own ten airline because you did not
complete the pass, run the ball twice, and get ready
for overtime. That's where a good coach becomes a savvy
game day coach. And I don't think if you were
to separate Dimko from all the positive things we have
said about him strictly as a game day coach, game
manager's below average the worst, but by no means would
be in the upper half that there. There are people
who combine, who comb through the analytics and decisions and
stuff like that. He has been not The absolute worst
is apparently Mike Tomlin. He's extremely conservative when it comes
to had better teams pound for pound over the years
than what the Texans have had. Right all these decisions,
I mean, they matter less when you have players who
go out there and get it done if you want to,
if you want to rely on your defense, and your
defense gets get it done. Then you made the right decision.
The reason why I put the FATA can play in
the Texan season. You still have to go to Kansas City.
You have Buffalo in a short week now they have
to travel here, so that's even a shorter week for them.
You have a game at the LA Chargers, and you
got two lieutenant with Indianapolis, which yeah, you need minimum.
You gotta go four to lose to the Steelers. Steelers
yes year, which was horrible. Yeah, but that's normal. They're
not the Coats that were not supposed to be sixteen
and one this year. The Coasts look like to me
to be maybe a twelve or thirteen win team, which
would be way higher than any of us thought it
would be. But they were due for a day for
a day like that. Yeah, Jaguars and Titans. Very important
to win these next two because then you're sitting at
five and five. You've got CJ's troud back and you're
home for the Bills, and you got to help the
teams in front of you start slipping up. Who beat who?
The Bills who you beat at home last year? And
the Chiefs are out of the playoff picture right now,
but on they're not gonna stay there. I'm not underssariing.
And guess what, there are a lot of people that
believe that at the end of the day. And I
don't know if I don't know if I believe this
because I think I think the lead is too big
right now. But a lot of people think that the
Ravens can come back and win the AFSC North because
their schedules second half of the year is yeah, very soft.
It was the first half. Yeah, they won two. No,
we went through the schedule. Remember they just beat the
Dolphins at the Vikings. I mean Vikings won this week, right,
Vikings won at Detroit. Yeah, I couldn't remember that. I
know the game got close to the end, couldn't rember
if they pulled it off. So they did, so that's
looking a little more difficult. But then Brown at the
Browns home for the Jets, Bengals, Steelers, and at the
Bengals again, So there is a shot. What are they
two in it at the rip? The margin friars thin, right,
but there is. But there are people that do believe
the Ravens are gonna They're three and five, the Steelers
are leading it a five and three, So then you
you would need the Steelers at that point then to
go on some sort of massive losing street because somebody's
guaranteed a playoff spot on out of the division. Now
two of those games, they they still have two left
versus the Steelers, So in that way they would control
their own destiny. But yeah, I don't know. We'll see
one twenty eight of the Matt Thomas Show Ross seven
one three two one two five seven niney if you
want to chime in seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero Rockets played tonight. We'll get to
that a little bit. Also, free agency is underway in baseball.
Another list is out there, another player, Oh, the number
one free agents for the twenty twenty six offseason. I'll
give you one guess and one guess who it is.
It doesn't rhyme with Bomber Balvez. You hear that sizzle, Manning,
I hear the sizzle. We're gonna go eat it for.
Speaker 3: Can I can I hedge my bet right now and
just buy you something right now and be done with it.
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: You you gonna buy out?
Speaker 1: Hmm. I'll let you throw it up out there.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 1: One nine on Sports Talk seven ninety one thirty four
Sports Talk seven I we Believe or not? Coming up
at about fifteen minutes from now. Rockets tonight against Cooper Flight.
You're excited about seeing Cooper flag in person. It is
an indifferent to you. I mean usually one dash ones
are stupendous, amazing. Can't believe it, guys. A couple of
years ago was Zachary Rishah and the Atlanta Fahawks. It
didn't do much for people. Victor Woman Yama being a
one dash one was a huge bit, all right.
Speaker 3: Cooper flag kind of in between, yes, in between running point.
Speaker 1: Interesting to see how the young lad plays, I suppose, yeah, No,
Anthony Davis, who's out tonight?
Speaker 3: Okay, so the flag show, Cooper Flag show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got beat up pretty bad by the Pistons
down in Mexico City a couple of days back. So
here tonight for the Rockets are going to try to
make it four wins in a row. Jabari Smith questionable
for tonight's game with a bad ankle. Oh no, and
so we'll see Alvin chin Gun's getting the Defensive Player
of the Year campaign for Jabarry Smith Junior going oh
is he be on a social tweet to that out yeah, yeah,
I couldn't see it. It's fine. Oh but what I'm
gonna give you two days you've been hacked. That's fine.
I'm st ketch up on things on wait busters.
Speaker 2: Ho.
Speaker 1: You follow that, by the way, if you if you
don't want to wave wavebusters, h ou not my burner accounts.
It's a lowkey sloan.
Speaker 3: But ye loky, low key yeah, low key burner low
key sixty seven.
Speaker 1: Hey listen, So the Athletic has a list of the
free agents of available. Yes, number one of their lists
is Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 9: Hm.
Speaker 1: I mean, is somebody just cheating off each other now?
And they're all writing the same story saying the same thing.
Sounds like the guys that this is the consensus top
free agent Matt And you know what, if he wants
to get a seven year deal worth three hundred and
fifty seven million dollars, I'm all for it. I don't
care about him not getting paid. We weren't talking about
a dollar amount, ROSSI okay, we're talking about years. And
I need him to sign a seven year deal or
a six year deal or a five year deal. Well,
do you want the Baseball America projections? There's some interesting
ones as well. From er Valdez on this list, please
do Kyle Tucker the number one free agents. They project
a contract of eleven years, three hundred and sixty million
dollars now from our ABOCHI bet I just need over
seven and a half.
Speaker 3: That's correct. Can I buy a year from you?
Speaker 1: Ooh to upgrade it? Yeah? Now I'm kind of com
kind of set on hibachi. Me and Jonathan talking about
this like fried rice and shrimp and KARAOKEI steak.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think I remember your sounds good.
Speaker 1: Your stomach is bigger than I mean, you're not bigger
because you get the vegetables you get, the the mushrooms
you get, the the soup, you get, the salad. Well,
I'm skipping lunch, but I just want you to overorder.
Is it cheaper before a certain amount of time we
can go get we can go early. I don't know,
but I mean, well, you're picking the place. I already
know what you should be. Well, Ryan and I always go, okay,
it's in bel Air. As a matter of fact, I'm
saying is that the lunch is probably cheaper than the dinner.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go two thirty. Now hopefully that's the lunch
is till three. I don't care. I just want you
to enjoy it. Oh I'm gonna enjoy it. Oh yes,
So you're telling me I can't buy a year and
I can't. No, I can't hedge my bet to get
like a like pay you now for a regular meal?
And what was the year bet we had on Alex
Bregman that I lost, uh.
Speaker 5: Six and a half?
Speaker 3: I think it was sixty, Yeah, it was years on
the contract. Okay, so he is on this list.
Speaker 1: Well, the number two they have as Boba Shett eight
years to forty they say for bo. The number three
free agent according to Baseball America is from Ervaldez.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you that reporters can be wrong?
Speaker 1: Yes? Can I tell you that all the all the
Bregman projections were bigger than what he got. But also
he did a short term, forty million opt out deal
just because the numbers say it doesn't mean you don't
kick the tires on what twenty nine or thirty general
managers are thinking? You take that dollar amount to those
general managers and you're like, we know who rom Ber
Valdez is. You can't hide the reputation that Fromber Valdez has.
And yes he's a very good left handed pitcher, and
yes he's been for the most part, remarkably durable, and
yes he is pitching the biggest games. But he's on
the wrong side of thirty right now, correct, he'd be
they had they're putting it as their age on April first,
basically at the start of the season, he will be
thirty two point four years old.
Speaker 3: Okay, so almost from halfway to thirty three.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: People are going longer in their careers, clearly, yes, But
when great Fromber pitches, it's a joy to see. When
you get bad from Ber, ROSSI or you get grumpy Fromber,
or you get I'm gonna throw the ball at says
our Salazar's chest, and him not be ready for Fromber.
The word travels fast. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that that
sounds like to me. Now again, I could be If
I'm wrong on this, I'll be ready to say it.
But I can't imagine getting a super big deal because
the word about him and his reputation, it's not necessarily private,
it's not a secret among the other baseball teams. Now
we already have a bet. Now it's just a gentleman's bet.
There's nothing on the line. Five and a half was
our years. And also we made this bet before he
threw a fit, before he threw at his catcher. We
made this bet. So I'm still not feeling great about it.
But they have Baseball America, and I'm with you. I'm
listening to everything you're saying. I agree with they have
it seven years to twenty. If he's twenty eight, I
do it. He's thirty thirty, I don't think I do
it at thirty two and a half. And I will
tell you this though, where a lot of the value
comes in on Farmer Valdez and why he will be
somewhat of a hot commodity is the history of him
racking up a ton of innings. He threw one hundred
and ninety two innings for the Astros this year. That
is unheard of these days. Yeah, guys, we were growing
up with pitching two innings and took me like August fifteenth, right,
isn't our a part of me? You know, the partment
that also says he's due to get hurt? Is that
just terrible to say you could say that. I mean, yeah,
we we can't predict injury. We've tried. He can't predict injury.
The last four years two hundred one innings, one hundred
ninety eight. I mean, he's been a workhorse, and that
in itself is an attribute something you'd put on the resume.
But you also think thirty two and a half years
of agees like, for instance, wasn't for the most correct
me if I'm wrong, for the most part until except
for Justin's last year in Detroit, wasn't Justin fairly durable
as a picture with the Tigers? With the Tigers? Yet
with the Tigers, remember that last season he missed some
time I think before he came to the Astros. But
I want to say, and again, I didn't follow every
one of his starts or every one of his disabled
list trips, but it felt like to me that Justin
Verland are part of his charm. Not only was he
one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball at the time,
but he's also a guy that gave you a start
every fifth day.
Speaker 3: He had missed time in fifteen, he only got twenty
starts that year.
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know what the injury was.
The twenties. An average picture came twenty six starts in
a year, so that's pretty close. But his years were
thirty two, thirty four, thirty four, thirty three, and then
that one year he only started twenty games, okay, and
then as an astro thirty four starts, thirty four starts,
and then we know he missed all of twenty twenty
and twenty one. I'm missed. In the back of my mind,
if I'm gonna put that kind of cash into somebody's pocket,
I don't know if I'm a huge fan of doing
it for somebody that I'm kind of waiting for him
to get injured. And oh, by the way, he's going
to be thirty three years old close to opening. Erlander
was thirty four and he got hurt. When he got hurt,
he was thirty seven. Okay, so maybe there's three years
that But again, if Farmer's looking for seven years, the
investment on Justin Verlander here in Houston was really saw
him to seven, I just wouldn't. Yeah, Okay, I'm just
throwing it out there. That's a Baseball America said, mat
Me talk to Baseball America about it. By the way,
other astro freedoms that you would care about. Go ahead,
Victor Carratini, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Is he on the top fifty list? No, I'm Alex
Pragman is the four.
Speaker 1: It's funny there's former three former astros are top four.
Kyle Tucker won fromer Valdez three, Alex Bragman four. They're
predicting six point eighty for him, which would be what
he was looking for to begin with. Last year. Wasn't
like six one seventy something like that, yep, and he
attack on one to forty that would be seven to twenty. Yeah,
so he got what he wanted close to it now,
But if he gets what they project, who knows. They're
really projecting seven years for from Bervaldez. That's crazy too,
seems high as because he's thirty two. If he was
thirty yet by it And again, look if he wants
to go back here in a one year deal except
the qualifying offer, I kind of get it.
Speaker 3: Victor Kartini.
Speaker 1: Not in the top fifty free agents seventy five. I
don't know it, don't go as it. Fifty ninety six
they have Verlander with a one year, fifteen million dollar deal,
which is I think that's what he was on, right, Yeah,
same with the jig. Isn't predicta where he's gonna go?
Speaker 3: Or does it?
Speaker 1: They should say predict the contract, not not the uh.
And he was actually pretty good second half of the year.
But I don't know if i'll I want to pay
fifteen million dollars a year. Ten start great second half
of the year. I don't need no gravy trainer. Ben
coming in back? Come on?
Speaker 3: Well, am I gonna bring him up?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You gotta get my brother Ben two million dollars a year.
He needs it his fledgling media career. Ben's trying to
get his two. Ben's last name was Miller. He would
be doing Jack tweets coming in. When I think mister Texas,
I think crypto. Oh that's rude. Yeah, I don't know
what's going on on your Twitter because I've been blocked. Yeah,
apparently if I follow you, you better follow me back
when you get when I get you back, Oh, y'all
follow you for sureans. So, how many followers I have
right now? Does it say, uh, thirty one point seven?
K okay, that's right. How many follow people are my following?
So says three eighty one. Huh. That's interesting because if
I blocked you, I would thus lose somebody. I could
see your tweets, but I can't anymore. No, I have
no tweets. Oh they deleted all the time. I think
they're all gone. I don't know. Well it says forty
eight point eight thousand posts, so so I don't know.
I don't know what's going on with you. But even
if I watch you, you can still see my you
can still see my tweets. Not if you. They've locked
the account. Account has been locked. What a mess, what
an absolute mess. Let's sports empt. No, don't follow me.
Okay at sports r V, now I would follow Go
to my Instagram. At sports that I took pictures of
my trip to Boston, the arena that was, the nice
scoreboard and the ass kicking in there by the Rockets
over the Celtics. Okay, at Sports MT if you love me,
if you even if you hate me, sports empty on Instagram,
show that you care. Your blood pressure will go down
and the Rockets wise, use the Bluejays. We're gonna win
the World Series. If I followed you, well I get
some bad officia inkles I can't control to unfollow you
now sports empty on Instagram follow me and I'll now
don't do that, and I'll consider following you back. No
false promises at sports. I just gave you the truth,
false promises, and I will follow you back on until
two fifteen if sports works. Russell follow you and then
he'll you at I've seen it done, person, You're a liar.
Seven one three all things about the Dodgers winning the
World Series yet again worse believe it or not? Seven
one three, two one two five seven ninety hope. I
hit a few good graciouses tonight against the Dallas Mavericks.
Rockets are the top shooting three point team at the NBA.
I mean, who would have funk it? That's what the men,
Thompson being one for eleven, one for eleven. There you go,
Thank you, Matt, Josh Kogi the corner three King, Yes, PJ.
Teckers like home my beer more like Josh goat Kogi. Yeah,
thank you, Jonathan, thank you very much. God, I did
that on purpose, Jonathan. You don't believe that they Oh
my god, you're trying for things. The Commissioner's court is
gonna stick. We won't do it every week, but there'll
be something that we need the rulings on.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: And I think when we do a ruling, we just
go right to community. Well, we need people to come
to us with their fantasy football questions. You, I think
we should open up to more than fantasy fo Yeah,
like in life. Okay, So, but I think whatever we'll do,
it is when I'll say handing to ruling, because I'm
the one that kind of always needs a ruling because
I was for some reason, I value your opinion. I
don't know why you're always Yeah, you're crossing lines a lot. No,
I'm hesitant to go for things without getting reassured. Habitual
line stepper. Nope, not at all.
Speaker 3: All right, mister Texas gonna be in San Antonio this week?
Speaker 1: Who's that me? You're not mister Texas. Oh yeah, no
you're not. I'll be there in San Antonio. You're the
You're the worst possible candidate for mister Texas. You don't
go outside, well you never forget it.
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Speaker 3: What is your favorite sting song?
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