Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show ten to two
in h Town.
Speaker 2: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Dan Matthews filling in.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Texans aren't spending a lot of time at the line
of scrimmage once they get up there.
Speaker 1: And the Mixing cut back Joe Mixon.
Speaker 3: Goodbye, touchdown Texans. You can see the center, Jared Patterson
making his second start there at center. He gets Mozzie
Smith on skates, and you've got Joe Mixon who he
cuts back a nice crease there on the backside. Excellent
job up front by the offensive line. Mixon are walking
touchdown Texans. He wants to run the ball right at
the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt.
Speaker 3: They come in feeling like they can get it going
with the issues Dallas's had stopping the run. Josh Butler,
who I'd mentioned making the start tonight, he gave up
contained and Mixing bounces it from store second and six.
Rush bol knocked out of.
Speaker 4: His hand and.
Speaker 1: Ends up in the arms of Geyon.
Speaker 3: He gets it knocked out by Petrie and the return
for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: By Derek Barnett's.
Speaker 3: Barnett with the defensive score of one on one with
Derek Barnett, and he comes in, makes the play and
then he's also able to get it after it bounces.
Speaker 1: Around and run it in.
Speaker 3: So Barnett forced the first fumble. Then Geiden gets it.
Here's Barnett's play who he ends up with a touchdown.
Giten gets it and Petree knocks it out of his arm,
and there's Barnett staying with it, and he gets the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Mix in touchdown sense, and the second half drought is.
Speaker 4: Over for here.
Speaker 5: Scun I'm gonna go Texans thirty four, Cowboys ten.
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute.
Speaker 4: That wasn't a part of the highlight package from last night?
Was it that happened?
Speaker 5: No, they threw it. They threw it in there at
the end. Dan, I'm talking with Joe and Troy. I
sent that to their production team and they said, Dan,
we got you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: As soon as it went final, they were like, hey,
shout out to uh Dan Matthews on Sports Talk seven
ninety in Houston. Come on, man, tell me you didn't
hear it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: A blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
But I'm going to give you, you know what, I'm
going to give you more prompts than that. Honestly, it's
hard to get the score right on the nose, and
you did, and I'm I'm actually proud of you.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 5: You know, like you said, gambling is a complete inexact science,
and it wasn't even necessarily a gamble.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: Not even going the prices right route right there, because
I could have very easily just gone thirty one because
I think you had thirty to seventeen from my.
Speaker 4: Mistake like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, yeah, so you know I wasn't going to
completely do that to you. I mean, nobody is worse
than that or the one dollar wager person. I mean,
those two people are the absolute worst contestants on the
price is right, somebody's going to swing on somebody one
day when but you know what, they're half stage for
doing that.
Speaker 4: You have to I'm going to tell you this right now.
Speaker 2: If y'all don't know Dann Matthews personally, I would call
his cell number and text him about a variety of
things in your life right now, like, yeah, how many
kids are you going to have? Are you going to
stay with your current spouse forever? What is your economic
future at your radio station?
Speaker 4: Because you.
Speaker 2: Are the great Dan Matthews, and you will get that
name the entire show today, no matter how bad your
takes are, and some of your takes are awful, but
I'm telling you today will be a day that Dan
should brag. There is only one person in the marketplace,
and I'm talking legit media that people that actually work
for media companies and I create their silly ass YouTube
pages that got the score right, and that was you, Dan,
And for that I applaud you.
Speaker 5: It's probably best that I have the recorded message. I
don't think walking bets works for me.
Speaker 4: Well, you do have a rack. I don't know if
it's a good rack, but no, no it's not.
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 2: By the way, Taylor's got a competition. Now, how about
that girl from the U from the fight on Friday Night?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the Alabama girl? Is that who you're talking about?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, she's strong. Tuscal Lewis has got some talent.
Speaker 2: Oh, the entire sec does. Could you imagine being a
twenty two year old guy Vanderbilt Misissippi State? Maybe not,
but we don't even count those asraelly SEC schools.
Speaker 4: Do you know better than for sure?
Speaker 5: For sure you know who deserves more credit. And I've
even told Connor McGovern this. I was pleasantly surprised when
I went up to Columbia, Missouri.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: I was very pleasantly surprised. I was like, I was
walking with a buddy of mine as we were leaving
our car to head into the stadium to cover the game,
and I was just like, where are all these hot
girls from? Like, I was like seriously, I was like,
this is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, we've done it in the past.
Here Dan, by the way, that's Dan Matthews filling for Ross.
I'm matt good morning or Ross two point oh. Remember,
Oh that's right, you are Ross two point oh today.
Because you know what, battle Red would not even have
said thirty four to ten.
Speaker 5: No, no, he would have said like twenty one to
seventeen or something like, ma'am, some.
Speaker 4: Man be pamby close prediction.
Speaker 5: Come on, put yourself out there, let's go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you went on a lemon. You did it. We've
done a polling of Texas Division I schools and the
once around talent, I gotta say, and I know it's
not the academic institution of perhaps other places are, but
if you're gonna do it once around, I'm going Texas
State for the win.
Speaker 5: Oh, Texas State, definitely. I mean a silver medal goes
probably to Texas Tech.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: And then third on that list is TCU. It's the
rich kids who didn't get into A and M or Texas.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you right now, at me, if you're
angry about it.
Speaker 4: No you're not.
Speaker 2: They're not mad at you can proba way, folks. You
cannot get mad with Dan under any circumstance. He predicted
the score on the nose. Damn if you were. There's
a bolt projection out that has Texas Tech playing Texas
State in a bowl game that's basically nothing but hot
women and booze.
Speaker 4: Oh easily easy, and forget about the game. I mean
it didn't even matter about the game.
Speaker 5: No, I mean, it's just an added bonus that they're
somewhat good at football now, so yeah, and nobody cares
about that. Everybody cares about the river that runs right
through campus there in San Marcos or yep. Going to
Don's fish camp right there. If you know about Don's
fish camp on the San Marcos River, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just told Carly you're not going to Texas day.
It's it's just not I mean, there's other places I
don't mind you going. That's not one of them.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, along with the good looking women,
there's you know, with guys that are that age, we're
never really that smart, but we're especially not smart at
that age.
Speaker 4: No, I don't want Herrick to fight that off. That's ridiculous.
All right.
Speaker 2: It is the matt Thommys Show with the Ross and
two point oh Dann Matthews phone in today. Gordy's going
to be in this Gordy three point oh? Or is
what we determine what he is yet day?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm trying to remember what caller dubbed me.
Is that yesterday? I'm just assuming that probably the caller
didn't remember my name at the moment, which is fine,
But when you get you know, score predictions right the
way I did call her, you better come correct and
you better know my damn name. So there we go.
So maybe he will be at least two point five.
I think maybe like a you know, like iPhone will
come out with like the half new version of like
the old phone. So there we go.
Speaker 4: Yep, all right, So let me tell you what we've
got going today.
Speaker 2: We've got gut feelings at eleven thirty this morning, where
we will make our predictions and hopefully Connor is going
to write them down because there's no way I'm.
Speaker 4: Going to be able to do that.
Speaker 2: We have the news at noon. We have at twelve
thirty Connor's nfl rewind He's going to fill in for
Ross on that I'll handle, believe it or not today
at one point fifty. And there's a simple question I
asked on Twitter yesterday and got a lot of responses,
and we'll certainly put it to the show here for
those of you that do not participate in social media,
how satisfying I'm going to leave this statement here open ended.
How satisfying was the Texans victory? Now, Dan, don't give
your answer yet. We'll do coming out of the next
time out. But I want to throw that out there,
and I want you just to be real and raw
and tell me the truth because here are the things
I want you to think about. And by the way,
if you want to join us seven one three two
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Speaker 4: How satisfying.
Speaker 2: From beating Dallas in anything that's got to be a factor,
to beating Cooper Rush despite the fact you threw for
three hundred to seeing Joe Mixon own that field once
on Monday night, to the Texans finally scoring a touchdown
in the second half, to the defense continuing to play
very impressive football, to the fact that Laramie Tunzel continues
to commit penalties. Oh sorry, didn't me to put that
in there, but I did.
Speaker 4: What a waste.
Speaker 2: Seriously, one of the most overrated Texans players of all time. Sorry,
I don't mean to be I'm a little sleep deprived.
Put that big blunt.
Speaker 5: So maybe you're angry too. That happens to me sometimes.
Speaker 4: Oh, no question.
Speaker 2: We didn't get home till three to twenty this morning
because there was a terrible headwind and rain in the
Milwaukee area, so it tooksed almost three.
Speaker 4: Hours to get home, so it was long trip. That's
notither here nor there. But yeah, I want to know
how satisfied?
Speaker 2: If you're satisfied with the Texans performance seven to one three,
two one two five seven ninety. Let me hear from
you guys right this second, and ladies too. At seven
one three two one two five seven, Auntie, Rockets almost
steal one in Milwaukee last night. We'll get to that,
but a lot of it is about the Texans game
last night, and poor Dan was handling both Rockets duties
and watching the game at the same Texans in the
game at the same time, so he'll have a lot
more details about some of the things. But I was
able to do as much recapping as I could. Plus
I would watch the game during halftime and whatnot. Joe
Mixon is incredible, he really is, and he has saved
this team as Bacon. But we'll get to all layers
of the game and talk it out with you. Seven
one three two one two five seven. Auntie, how satisfied
were you with the Texans performance? Seven one three two
one two five seven NINTI with Dan, I'm Matt. This
is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. As you listened
to Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 6: Ninety lunchtimers, lunchtimes, this is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 7: The game start, so our offense line. I asked him
to challenge them to play fast, play aggressive. Thought they
did a really nice job. And Joe, you know, when
he's when he's on, he's a he's a force for us.
Over one hundred yards, three touchdowns. Just really like the
way we just kept turning it in a run game
and proud of the guys were stepping up to the challenge.
Speaker 2: The reality is this, You needed the victory, You needed
a dominant performance. You took on a Dallas team that
was awful, that looked checked out. Yeah, you give up
too many yards. Yeah, there were some silly penalties. Yeah,
the offense still had a difficult time moving the football
in the second half. I mean short of Dan the
Texas winning forty nine to seven and throwing and CJ
throwing for five hundred and twenty five yards. You know
you were you were setting yourselup for up for It's
a win, but it's not making me feel any better
about where this future of this team is going to
go long term. You know, I can see this from
a variety of different angles.
Speaker 4: It was a get better game. But are there still
concerns going into this Tuesday, going in this week's game
against Tennessee?
Speaker 5: Of course there is, Well, I mean not necessarily because
the opponent. I mean, I think it's more of ruggy
Texans don't do. But there was never a point in
that game last night where I said, oh man, this
is starting to get a little shaky. I mean, you
could have maybe kind of nudged that direction in the
second quarter. But I mean, imagine if you're Trey Lance
and they showed him on the sidelines like he had
a look on his face like I must really suck
if they're not putting me in over this guy, Like
there was never any remote possibility of Cooper rush that.
I was like, man, this guy actually might start to
get a little bit of a groove and find something.
Once they went up by ten, I knew this game
was over. It was just a matter of the time
running out.
Speaker 4: And Joe makes it.
Speaker 2: I mean, Casara, look, it deserves some criticism for a
variety of things, like any general manager does, but to
fleece the Bengals of him for a low ped draft
pick is I mean, it's the move of the year
for him.
Speaker 5: No, one hundred percent, it is. I mean, because yes,
you're exactly right. I mean, when it comes to the
offensive line, then we can have that conversation about Nick Cassio.
I mean, not only him, Deniko Autry has been a
fantastic find, as hes Al Shaier has been a fantastic find.
And in terms of the draft, I mean it's hard
to argue with his defensive backfins. I mean, we didn't
get to see Kamari Laster last night because of the concussion,
but he and Kaylen Bullock have been pretty good for
this team.
Speaker 4: But I've asked it numerous times.
Speaker 5: I mean, every single executive seems to have a blind spot.
I almost wonder if Nick Cassio's is the blind spot
that you absolutely don't want to have with the franchise quarterback.
Speaker 4: Offensive line is a mess. Juice Gruggs isn't good. He
just not. Patterson played better.
Speaker 2: Clearly you heard treiit inan a minute ago talk about
the open Laney gave four for for Joe Laramie Tuenseil
remains overrated. Who else am I forgetting about Titus?
Speaker 4: But I mean they were given Titus as flowers after
the game, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2: So just throwing it out there, this team's going to
fall in the playoffs because of the offensive lines and not.
Speaker 4: Gonna protect the quarterback.
Speaker 5: You're in the story, you would think right now, But
I mean I think it also too lends to wonder
what about teams that have been able to get on
a roll in the late stages of November and the
December and seemingly find their identity as a team. I mean,
we'll only know when they play against the Ravens and
the Chiefs. That's when we'll know really how good this
team is. And there's still time before you get to
that point. I mean, you can be able to gain
a little bit more confidence this week, definitely gain more
confidence next week against Jacksonville. But you go into that
Kansas City game at nine to four, I mean, all
of a sudden, you start to wonder if maybe a
second seed is a possibility.
Speaker 4: No, no chance, you say that right, You're zero chance?
All right?
Speaker 5: Without seeing what I mean, because it does look like
Pittsburgh's gonna hold on and win that division.
Speaker 2: Which is crazy. Who in the world, how does Mike
Tomlin do this every year?
Speaker 5: Because he's the best coach in the NFL?
Speaker 2: I mean, my god, Dan, you can't name. Look wat's amazing.
The quarterback situation has been in flaw. I mean, justin
Fields and Russell Wilson, two guys left for dead, are running.
Speaker 4: That ship and doing it pretty well. Honestly, absolutely so.
Speaker 5: I mean, for all of the criticism that Arthur Smith
got as a head coach, which lord knows, he deserved
a ton of that, and he's been able to kind
of make chicken salad out of you know what. And yeah,
George Pickens has definitely helped. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: He's catching a ball now he looks like he's more
invested it. I don't know what happened, because I remember
watching him last year going, this guy's got speed, he's
able to run good routes, he's being and then he
just looks like he checks out. But man, Mike Tomlin
may be one of the five greatest coaches we never
talk about.
Speaker 4: Now. I'm not saying he may.
Speaker 2: He might be one of the five greatest coaches of
all time. But when you think of that short list
of amazing people that simply win year after year after
year and are competitive, that cat is on the list.
Speaker 4: You know who he is.
Speaker 5: He's Eric Spolstra.
Speaker 4: Cause the same thing happens Caul, the same thing happens
with Eric Spolstra.
Speaker 5: Is everybody. When you had Lebron and everybody there, it was, oh,
it's about the heatles, it's these guys, and then okay
they all left and went away, and then he got
them back to the NBA Finals with Jimmy Butler and crew. No,
that's that's who he is. He's Eric Spulstra.
Speaker 2: Let's get on the phone. Seven one three two one
two five seven. Aintie, I have an open ended question
for you guys this morning, and Lyddy's how satisfying was
the Texans win last night? Seven one three two one
two five seven Anti Josh by minute May Park at
ten twenty five. Josh, good morning, you're on seven ninty.
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 8: Good morning and tea a uh.
Speaker 9: I want to tell you man, love the show, love
love the energy that you bring, the passion for for
Houston Sports. So it's nice to get an extra hour
of you. But I do miss mister stand and wish
him all the best. But yeah, good people, Yes, sir,
so jumping into the Texans man, I just got a
lead off, man, exactly with what you said. Getting Joe
Mixon for a seventh round pick is amazing because it
wasn't that that long ago where we had a general
manager whose name you know runs with Shmilla wine, but he,
you know, trading off start Star talent for literally bags
of potato chips. And now we have a GM who
literally trades back to the potato chips and gets start
Star copper players.
Speaker 4: Back in return.
Speaker 9: It's just such a such a stark comparison from where
we were to where we are now, and.
Speaker 4: You just you just love it.
Speaker 9: Obviously, with the offense, I think the second half still
wasn't really up to par. Obviously, Joe Mixon was Joe Mixon.
He's an absolute beast. Over one hundred and fifty plus
total yards, three touchdowns on the night, like finally at
prime time. Dub only took three weeks, but the Texans
got the job done. Stroud missed those two passes that
would have been touchdowns that were just you know, the
passes wasn't quite as accurate as well as, you know,
as what it needed to be.
Speaker 4: But I mean it was nice, nice to.
Speaker 9: Win, but I mean when you beat up, you know,
backup QB there towards the end. I know Dallas had
a lot of offensive lineman injuries, but it was nice
to see you know, Hunter get a sack and just
the Texans win finally for the first time in Arlington.
Speaker 8: So it was still fun to watch.
Speaker 9: Always great to get a w I know that that.
You know, coach Ryan's always says, you know, it's hard
to win in the NFL, right, so it's you know,
it's nice to get that victory. But just love the
show man, love what you guys do, and you know,
keep with the great work man.
Speaker 2: Thanks Josh very much, appreciate it. You know, it's funny
you don't hear these sports cliches.
Speaker 4: Dan about it. It's hard to win in the NFL. Well,
really it's not. Because two teams meet in the field
and one of them leaves with a win.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you would think it's that easy. And
especially last night too, I mean, had the Texans had
and I brought this up on the A team when
we did good, bad and ugly yesterday, I said, avoid
December twenty second, twenty eleven, do you remember what happened
on December second two or December twenty second, twenty eleven.
Speaker 4: Matt Schopp got hurt, got his footstepped on.
Speaker 5: That was I believe a couple of weeks before it
was a Thursday night up in Indianapolis, and you lost
to a hapless Colts team that had dian Orlowski as
their back and they beat you. Yeah, and that was
pretty much when the Texans were out of getting either
of the top spots to avoid Wildcard weekend because of
that loss. Yeah, and that's what last night would have
been if you had I'd been just absolutely milk toast
in that game and just gone through the motions and
possibly lost that game. But again, like I said, when
they went up by ten, I had zero belief that
they were going to lose that game, not not a
shred of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seveninety I've said this
for a couple of weeks now, and I think.
Speaker 4: Most of you would agree with this.
Speaker 2: There's only two ways this team before the start of
the playoffs is going to really reach ultimate satisfaction. And
we'll tell you about that what it is, and I
think you guys can figure it out here.
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Speaker 4: We did?
Speaker 10: Play four quarters? We ain't really change nothing change changed
in philosophy. Just went came out here and played four
quarter football. You know, so you take we look back
at some other games we did that, you know, uh
we we would have came up on top of you
know what it should have could it?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 10: We got to learn from those things. That's a that's
a good lesson to learn, you know, being where we're at,
you know, our futures in front of us, and you know,
we want to put ourselves in the right position, you know,
playing good ball in December, you know, going to January
and into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: I agree with you, ce Jay, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: Uh ten thirty four Matt Thomas show with Ross and
Damn Matthews filling in today seven one three two seven
ninety seven three two two five seven ninety. My simple
question for you, folks, who's how satisfied are you with
the performance of your football team last night. We'll get
to the Rockets coming up in the next segment, but
right now, let's talk to David and Cyprus at ten
thirty five. David, good morning, Hey, what's going on man?
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 8: Sure, Hey, you asked the question, how happy are you are?
Speaker 11: Are you with the win? I'm absolutely unhappy. I think
it was a horrible game. Uh yeah, they should have
won about about they should have won about like fifty
some points. I'm so sick and tired of them throwing
on every down. You got a running back that that's
averaging five yards of carry and Mike bust one for
fifty yards and they throw on every down. It makes
no sense to me, and not to mention they're going
to get the quarterback killed when they're off as the line.
Speaker 2: Well, uh, I'm looking at this the game book from
me yesterday. Thirty four passes twenty five runs. I that's
a decent balance to me.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I mean, I don't, I don't necessarily think that's
the Okay.
Speaker 11: What about when we started an engines, what about Matt
what about when it was starting in inches and and
they Mixon just had a five yard run and they'd
throw the ball so stupid outpass that, you know, out
of bounds or whatever. I mean, they could have done
a quarterback sneak. Hey got the first down. Yeah, I
mean agains.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Can't speak to that in playing particular. I'm gonna let
Dan jumping down that if you can. But look, I
will be honest with you. I got on the plane
yesterday before heading back to Houston and the Bobby Slowick stuff.
I mean, once that ball got rolling, in terms of
he sucks, he's the worst person on earth, got to
be fired. It's pretty hard to stop that train unless
the Texans were just come out and just click on
all cylinders offensively.
Speaker 5: I mean the third inches play. I'm trying to remember
because I thought he was talking about their second possession
where they went forward on fourth down and CJ got picked.
He just threw that ball behind Nico Collins. But I mean,
I will agree a little bit with David on some
of the calls Bobby is still overthinking himself. I mean,
you know, the run game part of it. I get
that maybe you could have seen more of Joe Mixon. Sure,
why not. You also found out during the game that
Nico was probably on a play count, and I'm sure
tomorrow when Demiko meets with the media he's going to
say as much. He even did allude to it after
the game. But I mean, for example, case in point,
with my point, the shovel pass to Teak in Quatoriano,
Like I almost think that if there is still a
paper based playbook inside that building, Dimiko should tell Bobby, Hey,
what page is that?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: Pull it out, where's the wastebasket, where's the lighter light
that on fire? Don't ever call that again? Like ever,
there should never be a play that is a shovel
pass with this interior offensive line to Teak Equatoriano to
Dalton Schultz to Kate's Stover, any of the tight ends.
Don't ever run that play again.
Speaker 4: And that was about way people asking about tight ends involved.
Schultz got targeted seven times.
Speaker 5: Yesterday, got him involved. Even saw Kate Stover's name called,
and also too, like I just said, Tea Inquatoriano even
having that shovel pass throwing the hem but I mean,
it's just it's stuff like that, man, like where I'm
just like, like, why are you overthinking yourself this much?
You see what Joe Mixon is doing, Like, stick to
the basics. I almost feel like Bud Kilmer in Varsity
Blues right here where he's hitting mocks with the whistle
on his helmet.
Speaker 4: Stick to the basics. Stick to the basics, Like.
Speaker 5: That's seriously for Bobby right now, honestly, just stick to
that and when you could get a little bit more success,
then get a little bit more exotic. But when you're
not even doing the basics stuff, right, why are we
doing shovel passes to teach Equatoriano?
Speaker 2: Was that considered a run because he's not he's not
on the receiving sheet here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that too.
Speaker 2: I couldn't remember if it was a penalty or if
maybe they did consider it a run, but it did
go forward, so it should have been a pass.
Speaker 5: It might have been incomplete too.
Speaker 4: But nobody even targets are right, you would have that
on there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I just remember seeing that just I mean,
like you said, I had you know, one eye on
the game and one eye on the final two minutes
where you have a six point lead in the Rockets
scheme and it doesn't go the way that you would hope.
Speaker 4: But like you said, we'll talk about that next segment. Yeah.
Speaker 2: By the way, for those of you keeping account, Dan
has made one movie reference today.
Speaker 4: My guess is the overender on that is four. So
I will definitely, definitely probably push it up to the line.
If I go over, it could be a stretch, but
they're gonna come genuinely, They're not going to be forced.
If the situation dictates for me to drop one, then
I definitely will trust me that quotes.
Speaker 5: You always know you can count on me for that, Maddie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, Dan tell Connor that anytime
there's a movie reference he needs to play the jal
En Rose ding so we can keep track. So one
is in Varsity. Was it Varsity Blues?
Speaker 5: You say, yeah, it was Varsity Blues movie Love Box.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Mox tried to run the up to oop in practice,
and yeah, that coach Kilmore wanted him to do was
just run a simple draw dummy O with DUMMYO scrimmage
right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and appreciated uh shaving cream two uh in that
movie as well. Allie Lawter's back by the way on
land Man. How old is she now? Got me in
her forties?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: I think so?
Speaker 5: Yeah? But yeah she plays. How is it that Billy
Bob Thornton always has a hot wife on shows or
movies like, I don't get.
Speaker 4: You don't think he's a naturally attractive man.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. I think he's I think he's
an awesome dude, and he's fantastic in this show. He's amazing.
Speaker 4: All right? All that right, there was just one reference.
Speaker 2: So we'll we'll see what happens over the next three
hours and twenty minutes. Seven two payoff one I said
a minute ago, Dan, and I think everybody would agree
with me on this. You're about to reach a stretch
of games. You've got Tennessee this Sunday, You've got a
road trip to Jacksonville. You're going to become what you
are ultimately by what you do against Baltimore in Kansas City.
I think if the Texans can split those two games,
I think there will be a renewed energy base for
this team. Now, there are obviously hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 4: Of people that love this team, and we're very happy
about beating Dallas. And you have to hear from Cowboy
fan and how many Texans fans went up to the
game yesterday. Blah blah blah blah blah. But Dallas is
a wounded animal. Dallas looks like they have done the one,
two three can coon bit really early on.
Speaker 2: They're just not very good. They can't stop anybody. The
run defense was putrid. The attempt for the stripsack offensive
line grabbing the ball and trying to move down the
football field was one of the most comical things I've
seen in quite some time. But you can beat up
anybody you want to. You got Miami to which might
be maybe better than we think they are.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be an improved football team. That's gonna be
a tough game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, You're not gonna really be able to beat your
chest until you either go to Kansas sitting and win
or beat Baltimore on Christmas Day. There's just no other
way around it.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, because it's also too even though at
the time, I mean, it'd be interesting to see how
the Texans would do against Buffalo this time around. But
seemingly you got them at a good time because the
receiver corps was not what it is right now, and
they didn't have Amari Cooper at the time, so that helped.
But no, I mean you're right. You win either one
of those games, then all of a sudden, you get
the national talking heads saying, hey, maybe we wrote off
the Texans too early. That'll happen. Trust me, we do
that every single week in this league and.
Speaker 2: Now in Look, you'd love for them to win both.
But a split with those two heavyweights, that will probably one.
And I don't know Baltimore's gonna be able to supplant Pittsburgh.
I mean, Baltimore didn't help themselves by losing at Pittsburgh
this past week, so but there'll be the number one
Walt Card put it that way, and probably at least
from a national perspective, considered a scarier opponent than maybe
the Texans.
Speaker 5: I mean, I would even say that Baltimore, especially with
Lamar Jackson and his perceived struggles in the playoffs, Yep,
he needs it more. They need it more. I mean absolutely,
Dereck Henry's not there by mistake, Deontay Johnson wasn't traded
for by mistake. They did it because they're like, hey,
we've gotten so close up to the line, Like last year,
what was everybody saying heading into that AFC championship. Yeah,
it's cute what you did up in Buffalo, Kansas City,
but you're not going to go to Baltimore and did it.
And then they did.
Speaker 2: Yep seven one three two, one two five seven ninety
seven to one three two one two five seven nine
zero rockets last night almost got one. And then I
wake up this morning to find out that Yanni's foot
was in a spot it shouldn't have been in last
night on the final stretch of the game. We'll talk
about that in a moment. Seven three two point two
five Sevenati, we have got feelings. At eleven thirty today,
that's where you make your sports predictions. I mean, you
need to get on these phones and make those predictions.
Speaker 4: That's at eleven thirty. It is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross Dan filling in on seven ninety lunchtimers.
Speaker 1: Lunchtimes. This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 3: Blower with Brooks in front of him, Damien left side turns,
spins the window lamp.
Speaker 1: Got it, Bucks up by.
Speaker 3: One three point nine seconds remaining.
Speaker 1: Time out Houston and.
Speaker 3: Down by one lower with the right hand floater.
Speaker 4: Off the window. Oh Dan Damian Lillo did it again,
not nearly as dramatic as he did as a Portland
trail Blazer, but God, the guys had some success against
the Rockets.
Speaker 5: He's almost kind of reaching the level of Stockton Horne
second Malone, Like he really is that close.
Speaker 2: He was six of eighteen last night, I think, did
not make a three pointer.
Speaker 5: And doing with those stupid short shorts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the thing, and I applaud the Rockets for
their defensive switching. I mean they you know, look, Dylan
Brooks and Fred van Vliet are not scared of go
about going against anybody.
Speaker 4: But Yannis is a special beast. He's so incredibly skilled,
and he's such a great down hill score, especially from
the top of the key. Like Victor Winmanyama doesn't have
the athletic skills yet that Yannis has. So you can
kind of get away with a little bit because what
Janis will do, well, what Victor will do that Yannis
won't do is he will Victor will pull up for
those three pointers, and you kind of feel like the
victory there last night. I thought the defensive switch probably
hurt a little bit because when Jannis got going in
the second half, he was able to go against any
buddy defensively and not score at ease. But it wasn't
nearly as as.
Speaker 2: Troublesome as it was when you've got bigger guys going
against him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, speaking of the downhill comment, I
heard you have that call as I was driving to
pick up dinner, and you're not wrong. And how about
Tari Easton after the game too, of saying, you know,
we weren't really worried about a shot like that, that
wasn't an issue. I wonder if somebody kind of pulled
Tari aside after that and said, hey, we kind of
want that guy on our team, so hopefully they.
Speaker 4: Keep whoa whoa, whoa whoa set it down. Now.
Speaker 5: We don't know that you don't want Giannis Antikoopo here.
Speaker 2: I do, well, I mean, I would take you honest,
but I mean I don't think there's open courting at
this point.
Speaker 5: So no, that's true, that's true. I mean, I know
we're not talking about, you know, any type of tampering
by any means, but no.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, the rumors are out there for
a reason. Man, I know, I know rumors are crazy.
I don't know what to believe.
Speaker 2: I don't want to ask because I don't want to know.
I like, you know, it's funny, you know, people in
life like surprises and like drama and not knowing things
ahead of time. I'm one of those people. Tell me,
just tell me, tell me later, tell me after it happens.
Speaker 4: Hmmm.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know. I mean I was always
a kid that when it came to a Christmas I
would have a Christmas list and would definitely hope that
it was on there. So if you had the anticipation
and then it was met by the unwrapping right there
and you got exactly what you wanted, which for me
was Master Splinter's Underground Layer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Once I got that Christmas was.
Speaker 4: Made, what what did you just say? You now you
confused the hell out of me, dude.
Speaker 5: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toys were a hit when I
was like five or six. And you know how you
used to have the old home movies of the Camquorder
everything like that, and my parents broke it out a
few years ago of me losing my mind. When I
got Master Splinter's Underground Layer along with the Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles, it was a great Christmas.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's another radio show in the marketplace. It's going
to give you Dame Lillard Jansent the Goupo and Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles in the same conversation. I dare another
station in the marketplace to do that.
Speaker 5: Four PM, Channel twenty every day, got home from school,
afternoon snack, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, book it.
Speaker 2: Let's go seven one, three, two, two, five, seven ninety
Jason and Kingwood of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 4: Good Morning, Jason.
Speaker 13: Hey, so yeah, I would be interested in Jannis too,
but it depends on what we give up. That's kind
of my my thing in regards to Jannis.
Speaker 12: But I wanted to say so.
Speaker 13: I went to I went to the Toyota Center for
the first time since.
Speaker 12: Kobe's last game.
Speaker 13: Wow for yeah, for the since the the last Cup
game that we had, which I believe was last Friday.
And let me tell you something, guys, if you haven't
been to the Toyota Center.
Speaker 8: Go.
Speaker 12: I had such a fantastic time there.
Speaker 13: And and the thing that surprised me the most about
the Toyota Center is the food there is delicious.
Speaker 12: Like if you if you haven't been to the Toyota
Center for a while.
Speaker 13: This is for all my my Rockets fans that haven't
been out to a lot to a game.
Speaker 12: Go go take.
Speaker 13: Take take the initiative, get your butt up, go go
to a Rockets game. It's fantastic. You know you got
you got to get visuals everywhere. I will tell you,
take the take the take the opportunity and and go
to a Rockets gamet.
Speaker 4: You selling. Look at you selling the rock You must
be a team employed. Do I know you? No?
Speaker 13: No, no, I do not work for the Rockets. Okay,
I'm just saying I'm a lifelong Rockets fan.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 12: I went to the parades when I was a kid,
So he's been a lifelong Rockets fan.
Speaker 13: Uh So, the last thing before I hang up, Hey,
how far are we from Liberty White?
Speaker 4: Matt? Are we close?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, it's gonna be a Super Bowl win the a
f C.
Speaker 12: That's it. That's the only way that we're getting Liberty
White Matt.
Speaker 14: There is no.
Speaker 12: There's nothing less than the no.
Speaker 2: Because Jason, let me, Jason, you and I are tight, right, Okay, Well,
let's just be honest. I've had a lot of the
disappointedment in my life. We talked about this last week.
Sports has meant for disappointment. I've been disappointed with my
Cougars for a long period of time. I've been disappointed
with the Rockets. It's been on it's been thirty years,
and they want a championship. I don't need any more.
My life is pretty good.
Speaker 4: I've got a beautiful family, got two Craig careers. I'm
kind of good.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of tapped out on my sports fandom now,
Liberty White, Matt will be there.
Speaker 4: When they hoist the AFC to the Lamar. I believe
it's the Lamar Hunt tropey Am.
Speaker 5: I right about the AFT.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when that happens, I will be Liberty. You can
call me a Liberty White ass man if you want to, Jason,
because my wife, my ass may be Liberty White, and
that's fine, but it's got to happen.
Speaker 2: I am. I'm I'm fandom now. I cannot be any
more of a fan of anything else. I'm I'm pretty good.
Speaker 12: That's fair man. Well, enjoy your day. It is beautiful
outside and get out there.
Speaker 4: Rank you very much for the phone call. Good to
hear your voice. How about that Jason giving a food
review of Toyter Center.
Speaker 2: Hey, but he goes to the Rockets game. It's fun,
the food is great. I mean I didn't that's not
one of those calls you normally get. But I appreciate
the enthusiasm that Jason brought to the show.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, we do know that the pretzels are
really good according to Adam Clanton and Adrian Chavaria. Yeah, yeah,
which really would not share the pretzel with you?
Speaker 2: No, I said, tear me a piece off, and he goes,
no problem, and then he ate the whole thing. And
by the way, Schmanton eats it with a fork and knife.
What the hell is the pritzepal pretzel with a fork
and knife? Forking knife? Food is not allowed at ball games.
It's not well, I mean, I don't look. If you're
getting a hot dog with like nineteen toppings on it,
I kind of get it.
Speaker 4: But come seriously, no, just get look like a grown
ass man and eat it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's a forkin knife for a He's gonna
hear about that later. It's good, especially especially to you
know how we'll go ahead and take people behind the
car and here, because as I say on Space City Saturday,
it's a show of honesty. So we're the show of
honesty here is. Yesterday, I had texted Clanton much like
you do with me with coffee at times. He claned,
he didn't get it. That's a lie, yeah, And I
was like, dude, I mean been here since like eight thirty.
You know, A nice little pick me up for the
two to six would have been nice. It just it
would have been nice. So we're over two in that category.
We got to remember that we have to have a
long memory when it comes to Clant and I'm guessing yeah.
Speaker 2: He Let me tell you, if there's somebody that's addicted
to his phone more than Adam Clinton, I want to
meet that person.
Speaker 4: There's no chance, no way, no how, you didn't see that.
Speaker 5: I just want to know when he's going to be
in the next influencer video with the wife, you know,
with the shirts and the purses and everything.
Speaker 4: That's creepy. I wouldn't bring that up now, okay, all right, Well,
let Teresa live her life. She's the best. No, that's
not a slight whatsoever. Yeah, but I don't need him
in there. It just hers. Fine.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean they're an influencer couple.
Speaker 4: No they're not. I don't. I don't get I get
zero influence, no matter.
Speaker 5: Are Are they the Houston version of what's the Georgia couple?
Pooky and I can't remember the other one, but they're
like all over in Georgia.
Speaker 4: And so you just call Teresa a Pooky.
Speaker 5: No, that's what Actually, I think the guy's name is
that in Georgia. But they're like TikTok stars.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna let a man named Pooky ever influence
me on anything. I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: I would expect nothing less from you.
Speaker 4: I hope.
Speaker 2: Go all right, second hour of The Bat Thomas Show starts.
We'll get back on the Texans Conversation by the way
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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas show.
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 2: It is the Matt Thomas Show of Ross. Dan Matthews
is Ross two point zero filling in today. Gordy will
be with me tomorrow and Thursday. Brian mctaggard makes an
appearance on the show on Friday. Looking forward to having
him with this tomorrow on the radio program, we will
have Imaadoka. Robert Ori is in town for the thirtieth
anniversary of the ninety four to ninety five or yeah,
ninety four ninety five championship team.
Speaker 4: Uh. And what else we got let's see, oh, shut
your ball mass up tomorrow. So I got a busy
show tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But our first things first, we've got gut feelings coming
up at the bottom of the hour here on Sports
Talk seven, Monty is if you want to jump in
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety So I've
been asking the audience all morning, Dan, and I really
haven't gotten.
Speaker 4: It from you. Are we satisfied with.
Speaker 2: Last night with the Texans went over the Cowboys dominant.
You called it right on the nuts nose thirty four
to ten.
Speaker 4: Good for you on that.
Speaker 2: Where are we on the satisfaction factor after a game
that I mean, there were some clunky parts the past.
De Nico Collins got a race with a touchdown because
Laramie Tunsel was in an e a man downfield, which.
Speaker 4: Why are you chuckling?
Speaker 5: Because the antennas are raised by Texans fans that whenever
you see a flag near the line of scrimmage, like
it's almost like Texans fans are like gearing up at
games at NRG four. If he says the referee, that is,
if he says number seventy eight, I'm going to lose
my mind. And sure enough number seventy eight in the
booze start raining down. So as soon as that happened,
Oh man, Texans, Twitter was all blaze by the way
to traveling Texans showing up last night.
Speaker 4: They made you proud, Matt. Yeah, I'm I'm happy for that.
Speaker 2: Uh seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety what
we were motioned? So answer my question, do not dodge it,
my friend? Oh satisfied, Let me let me give you
some I'll give you some food parameters.
Speaker 4: Are you ready? Yeah, because you'd like to eat?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, taco bell at two am after having a
couple of cocktails, you go get a couple of gorditas
and you're like, oh, this is not good for me,
but you know what it fit it.
Speaker 4: It's a little indulgence, is good, okay?
Speaker 2: Number two a home cook lasagna my mom, Yes, okay.
Or a night out with the lady at a nice
steak restaurant, good wine, good appetizers, a nice piece of steak,
and a delightful dessert shared with two spoons, one plate,
and you left the building going, this was a perfect
date night. Where are you on that Texans performance last night?
Speaker 5: I would say that I'm the lasagna. I mean, don't
tell the fiance because the last one was very tempting.
But I first wanted to steal a line from Brett
Bielima a few years ago when he was the coach
at Arkansas and when they were kneeling down to beat Texas.
He said that it was borderline erotic, which was pretty
off putting to a lot of people. But as I
start to think about it, because for the reasons that
I wanted to say, the Beilama answer, it was the
shots of Jerry Jones in his owner's box leaning over
to Steven basically staying, I don't know how much more
I can put up with this, which, Jerry, it is
your fault. It's the sad shots of the fans leaving,
it's Micah Parsons, it's Ceedee Lamb, all of that. And
that led me to conflicted, because you would have liked
for the Cowboys to be more competitive in this like
there was never, like I said, a moment in that
game where I said, uh oh maybe like it was
one of those the Texans will pull away and they're
going to win this game handedly like it just that's
a non competitive football team over there. So I settle
on conflicted.
Speaker 4: Conflicting it would be to me, excuse me, twenty to seventeen?
I mean, was the Gibbert was the game?
Speaker 2: And again I wasn't watching every moment because I was
calling the Rockets. But was the game ever seriously in doubt?
Speaker 5: No, like I said, it was never in doubt like that. Yeah,
as soon as they went up by ten points with
Cooper Rush. I mean, and again, how bad do you
feel if you're Trey Lance and they're building us falling aparts?
Speaker 4: I mean, and I love Eli.
Speaker 5: They tried to say, oh well, nobody was really in
the area and in danger. It landed right next to
a guy.
Speaker 4: They were like technical people running around for their lives.
I mean like it landed literally like two feet to
the left of a guy.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear about Energy's panels when I
have to hear about this on the Monday night football
broadcast last night at eighteen.
Speaker 4: And T Park or whatever they're calling it.
Speaker 5: Do you like the Did you like the Texans creative
team going to work on their l that they had
where they put together two pieces of sheet metal to
form an L for In the caption of it said
look out and the L in below was in caps.
Speaker 4: It was very nice.
Speaker 5: It was It was very well done.
Speaker 4: Is that on their social media kit?
Speaker 5: It is? It is Twitter and all of it. They
did a great job.
Speaker 4: I did not see it. So it's funny. Everybody is
these team social accounts.
Speaker 2: Try to push the envelope a little bit until they
get scolded by their bosses and they will all of
a sudden take five steps back.
Speaker 5: You just be careful with the emojis. I think we
can agree on that. You've got to be very careful
with the emojis.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Let's talk.
Speaker 4: To some people.
Speaker 2: We'll start with the Randall and sugar Land at eleven
ten on seven ninety Randall, good morning.
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning.
Speaker 15: I'm very satisfied because I believe that the development of
this football team has exceeded in expectations based on starting
from last year. You know, you have a lot of
fans calling in whining that are never satisfied, and you know,
let's give the offensive coordinator opportunity because he's developing also
and he's growing. So I'm very happy because what if
we woke up this morning with a three and seven
record like the Dallas Cowboys, you maybe not have any
callers called it in.
Speaker 4: So I'm very happy.
Speaker 15: I'm very satisfied in a Texas fan, let's be grateful
and and just ride the ship.
Speaker 4: I'll hang up with this. Thank you. Randall.
Speaker 2: By the way, if the Texas were three and seven,
out have five times as many callers.
Speaker 4: So let's not get ourselves here.
Speaker 5: It's I mean, that's the thing. It's it's better to
be either really good, which I think even when you're
really good, people are exactly like Randall, They're satisfied, so
they're like, I don't really have any hot takes. Things
are good, Demiko's doing his work when you're three and seven. Yeah,
it's everybody is dumb. The quarterback sucks, the offensive coordinator
is a moron, Demiko is in over his head. Nick Caseio,
I really thought this guy was much better than he
really is. Turns out he's just Jackie Easter be two
point zero. They would be all those takes.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What I don't understand, and maybe I have a simplistic
answer to it, is Bobby Sloak was considered this offensive
genius and all of the city Houston was like, please, Bobby,
don't go take a job, stay here, help out CJ's
second year, and now.
Speaker 4: He's public enemy Number one?
Speaker 2: Is that because Bobby Slowek all of a sudden has
changed his tune of how he calls games.
Speaker 4: Is it? People, our defense is now catching up to
Bobby Slowk's play calling strategies. I don't have the answer
to that, honestly. I just think that.
Speaker 2: In sports there are low hanging fruits, and one of
them is, well, if the pitching staff all of a
sudden sucks. In baseball, it's the pitching coach's fault.
Speaker 4: If the hitting.
Speaker 2: If the Astros or any team score doesn't score six
runs a game for like seven straight games, it's the
hitting coaches fault. I mean, are we if we had
an opportunity to really put some truth serum down the
body of Demiko Ryans.
Speaker 4: Is he exasperated? Is he disappointed?
Speaker 2: Is he understandable the situation of what is presented to him?
And that's a Texans offense that doesn't have you know,
Stefan Digg. It's got a makeshift offensive line for the
second executive year. You've just missed Nico Collins for five games.
And by the way, Nico was out there, but you can,
as you mentioned before, he's on a snap count.
Speaker 4: It's not a full throttle offense right now. Brutally honest, it's.
Speaker 5: Just not well, it's also too I mean, I'll start
with the last point. I mean, Nico Collins definitely covers
up for a lot of the issues that you have.
You did that last year, Yeah, and he did it
for the first three or four games, however many he
played before he got hurt. So that's on you know,
the Nico fronts in terms of Slowk He's a victim
of his own success. Nobody had any expectations of this
team last year, the fact that the team was even
in position to make the playoffs, Like, I think we
would have been disappointed had they gone to Indian lost
and missed out on winning the AFC South. But I
think once the emotions subsided, people would have been like, hey,
you know what, that's a hell of a jumping off point,
Like the team is far and away in a much
better position than they were the year before. But that's
just it. I mean, he's doing a lot of the
same things offensively that he did last year, and now
it's just we have expectations. It's kind of like, you know,
the saying doing your job is not enough, Like doing
the bare minimum is a C grade in terms of
you know, ABC all of that. Like that's what it is.
And I think people kind of perceive Bobby Slowik as
he's just doing his job and there's supposed to be
so much more growth in year one to year two,
and he's seemingly, at least in a lot of people's eyes,
has taken a step back, when really, in reality, he's
pretty much done the same things that he did last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seven one three two one two five. I just
think it's one of those situations like quarterbacks. If the offense,
if the team is moving, its offensive play calling is amazing.
If the team is struggling and can't put up enough
points and second half struggles, it must because the Bobby
Slok uses a playbook in the second half that he
doesn't use in the first half. Eleven thirteen is our time.
The raw emotions of beating the Cowboys and not Wally.
We've not discussed that enough. Lot of faces at Arlington yesterday,
a lot of empty seats in Arlington yesterday. And any
of you that were at the game last night, any
of you that went to Rookies on the way there?
On the way back, was it Texanville, USA? At your
local watering stop to get a nuggets and what else? Uh,
jerky and a pull pork sandwich and form of those
great potato chips. And he's got any recon on what
happened at the rookies either direction. Let us know seven
one three, two one two five, seven ninety it's eleven fourteen.
We got gut feelings at the bottom of the hour,
this Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 6: Ninety lunchtimers, lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 7: It was awesome seeing all our Texans fans show up, right,
that was that was really cool to see on the road,
to see all the Texans jerseys, to see how fired
up our fans were. Created some crowd noise, and that's cool.
Anytime you can come in in a waste stadium and
feel your fans, hear your fans all right, being loud,
being disruptive.
Speaker 4: That was really cool for our guys. You know, it's funny.
I have never been to a game. I've been inside
eight and TCDAM, but I've never never been to a
game there before. But everyone that tells me that goes
says you spent about eighty percent of the time looking
at the Jembo tron.
Speaker 5: Pretty accurate. I mean, I've been to a couple of
games there, and uh, it's a lot of fun. I'll
tell you what too. Here's the other part of it is,
I saw last night behind Scott van Pelt they had
a time clock going. They kick you out of there
like as soon as the game's over, Like I had
to use the bathroom like nobody's business. After a Thanksgiving
Day game, and they were like, no bathrooms, will clothes,
you gotta leave.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh way, they're not gonna let
you know. They're not gonna let you urin in on yourself.
They're gonna let you go.
Speaker 4: To the bathroom.
Speaker 5: I sprinted to the nearest porta john that was out
there that I guess was rented by a tailgate, and
I was prepared to be like, I will give you
twenty dollars if you let me use the bathroom really quick.
Speaker 2: They're like, just go ahead. They saved my life. This
story doesn't jive, No, it's.
Speaker 5: One hundred percent trure. You can ask the fiance. She
was with me. It was the Cowboys and Raiders game
a couple of years ago. Raiders walked it off with
a field goal, so she was happy, and uh yeah,
I was about to burst at the seams. And it
was a one, so we were good. But I appreciate
the tailgate for letting me hop in there.
Speaker 4: Well least it was a one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh dude, I mean I never allow the other
to get to that point, Like I plan ahead for that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean I'm curious, how do you plan
ahead for such things?
Speaker 5: Well, like I never knock on wood ever have any
of those issues. So just take care of it in
the morning and you're good.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well then then don't eat a lot of heavy
foods at the game.
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean usually by that time the process plays
out where you're in a place where you're in a
good place.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, that seems fair. Eleven twenty one.
Speaker 2: It is the matt Thomas Show with Ross Dan Matthews
is in filling in and we will have a Gordian
with us the next couple of days Brian mctaggard on Friday,
and we look forward to talking with you. It's seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Now is goof
this up? Is this Nigel or Nigel? I'm gonna go
ahead and guess Connor, which one is it? Nigel? We
have a Nigel on Nigel. We're going to Nigel on
seven ninety eleven twenty two. Nigel, how are you good?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 16: Thank you for taking my phone call. Nigel is English.
I'm assuming that's why it's Nigel not Nigel. I mean
I I The takeaway for me is like to think
that our defense did what they did without lasted without
Anderson playing last night. I thought they could have had
more takeaways. Is a really good thing, but just there's
not You have to go back to your food analogy.
We're missing the icing on the cake, the salsa on
the taco. Like it's obvious that the team in its
current state is not going to beat a Kansas City
or Baltimore coming up. There's no way we beat Buffalo again.
And that's what's a little bit concerning because you see that,
you see some of these plays, the stupid penalties, the
anemic offense, and then you start to remember, like, oh, yes,
I'm a Houston Texans fan, and that's that's that's what
I'm worried about. There's just there's something completely missing from
this team, and I fear that we could go down
in flames pretty quick. I'll hang up, thank you very.
Speaker 4: Much, thank you.
Speaker 2: So he says missing, Dan, did we whatever that is,
It's an intangible It could be whether it's solid offensive
line play, whether it's aggressive play calling. The second half
isn't missing and we need to and the Texas need
to get.
Speaker 4: It back or do they never have it to begin with?
Speaker 5: I mean, I do agree with them that it does
seem like it's if the offense is playing really well,
then the defense gives up a crucial drive for a touchdown.
If you know, the defense is playing pretty decently, then
Kymie Fairbairn misses a crucial field goal. And then obviously
the penalty aspect of it all. I mean, you know,
we can talk about the Jalen Petrie hit, whether that
was a penalty or not. Obviously we've already covered the
Laramie Tunsel part of it. It ended up not mattering
because then they went down the field thanks to Joe
Mixon and scored a touchdown. But I mean, yeah, there
are things like that. But in terms of you know,
he brought up about beating Kansas City and you know, Baltimore,
here's a thing. When it gets to the playoffs, I
only need you to beat him once. That's all I
need from you. We're not talking about a four or
five game series right here, like I'm talking about, you
just need to beat them once. You just have to
survive that one day and move on. And numerous teams
in the NFL have done that throughout the years. I mean,
let's just take the first year that Brady was in
Tampa Bay. Nobody thought that Tampa Bay was gonna go
all the way to win the Super Bowl that season.
So I mean, that's just it. You just have to
beat that team once. It doesn't matter, do.
Speaker 2: You know how Honestly, and I don't mean to get
well ahead of here on this situation, but I'm not. Look,
if anybody is really getting into a deep dive over Tennessee,
Jacksonville and Miami in the next handful of weeks, you don't.
Speaker 4: You have no idea. What you're looking at.
Speaker 2: The big picture is frankly, playing well against Kansas City,
playing well against Baltimore, and then doing something in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: I don't even mean.
Speaker 2: Look, life will not end if they don't beat Kansas
City or Baltimore. It's just gonna give you zero confidence
going in to use your train of thought on this.
Speaker 4: They win playoff games by their defense, forcing turnovers and
giving the Texans short field. That's how they win.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, that's the thing is everybody does it
pit this way, but especially a team that has at
times spotted offense. Give CJ the ball at the thirty
yard line after a stripsack or a Petrie interception or
a stingling interception. That's how I envision if I was
to close my eyes right now, which I can't because
I'm not driving, if I was to close my eyes
Dan and say, here's how I envisioned the Texans going
on the road and beating somebody they're not supposed to beat.
And that's forcing Pat Mahomes to throw an interception or
Lamar Jackson a fumble of balls. He's trying to rush
for a first down. And given the Texans shortfield short
of that, you do not want to get out in
shootouts with either one of those two teams because you
will fail miserably trying to do so well.
Speaker 5: It's also too I mean, you're gonna fail miserably because
you don't necessarily have the utmost confidence that you're gonna
get into the end zone in those situations.
Speaker 4: I mean, we saw it last night.
Speaker 5: They had short yardage at least a couple of different times,
and one of them you turned it over, well you
literally turned it over, but it would have been a
turnover on downs. And the other one was a field goal,
I mean where you have that huge catch and run
yep by uh mix in after the chop block by
a Dallas defender and you get down there and again
that's where you threw that ridiculous shovel pass to Tea Inquittoriana.
We've covered that, but you ended up settling for a
field goal. And I mean it's to a point when
you play those teams, you can't settle for three. You've
got to be able to get into the end zone,
especially when you have those advantageous UH yardage situations.
Speaker 2: All right, time for us now to get your sports predictions. Now, Connor,
do we have last week's from Ross or did he
just put on a file and leave it and ticket
with him?
Speaker 4: Eight thousand? Go all the way? Okay? Good? How do
we do by the way, we're gonna get the file? Okay?
Good good.
Speaker 2: We're going to give the flowers early to Dan Matthews
for predicting this or right on the nose yesterday. So
why don't you go ahead and play it sound bite
again like five times so Dan can brag about it because.
Speaker 4: He deserves it.
Speaker 2: Seven one three, two one two five seven nineties. How
you reach the show if you've got any predictions about
what is going to happen the week of sports this week?
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 4: Nine eighty gut feelings. You calling. You make your predictions.
If you get them right, you get to brag on
them later.
Speaker 2: If you get them wrong, ain't no blip, no worries.
We'll forgive you unless it's a completely absurd prediction. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety's eleven twenty seven.
It is the Matt Thomas shild Ross. Our buddy Dan
is filling in today here on seven ninty.
Speaker 4: Listen Up Guy segment. So appeals that tommas Yo, they
got a gut dealing.
Speaker 1: This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven nine zero
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Time
for you to call in with your sports predictions. Whether
it be about the future of Alex Sprigman, whether it
be about the future of the Texans game against the
Tennessee Titans this week, whether it be about the future
of the Houston Rockets, whether it be about the future
of your favorite college football team, and your case, Dan,
the future of your two favorite college football teams. One
of our listeners, Dees, Good morning, do you want the
one of the predictions about one of your nineteen favorites?
Speaker 5: See, it could be worse.
Speaker 4: That's true, you've only got it down to two.
Speaker 5: And I've got valid reasons too, by the way, you.
Speaker 2: Know what, Look, I was I enjoyed the Twins in
Minnesota when I was working there, but I never the
Astros are always still my team.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's no Infanta button.
Speaker 5: It was the same deal with me and the Braves
and the Astros. I mean I even just mentioned it
to the sales staff this morning that twenty twenty one
legitimately sucked for me in Atlanta because professionally I was happy.
Speaker 4: Personally it sucked. Did you get a ring?
Speaker 5: Did not get a ring?
Speaker 4: And it's gonna happen seven one.
Speaker 5: People were very upset about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't. Look, I'm unemployed the team.
I didn't deserve one, but I was just I mean,
there were just a.
Speaker 2: Lot of people who got rings that I was like,
I think I've been better promoter of the Astros than others,
but that's a different issue.
Speaker 4: For a different time. I'm not better though.
Speaker 2: Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety seven
to one three two, one, two, five, seven ninety. You
have predictions, I'll tear them from you right now as
we take you to Gut Feelings at the top of
the hour here on Sports Talk seven running before we
get to this.
Speaker 4: Week's predictions, Connor, how do we do last week? All right, Matt?
Speaker 17: You had a Dalton Schultz touchdown that didn't happen, Rockets
win two out of three, they won three out of three. Yes,
so it's positive, but you got the prediction wrong. Texans
win by double digits. You got that correct, Thank you.
Alex Bregman signs by December fifteenth, yet to be seen,
and Juan Soto is a Met also yet to be
a scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think I think I bitched all off a lot
of what Ross was saying, honestly.
Speaker 17: Yeah, you guys have some similarities. Rockets said two out
rock Ross said Rockets win two out of three. That
didn't happen. They won three for three. Good, Uh, tanked
ol touchdown didn't happen. Texans win by under ten and happen.
Speaker 4: Nope.
Speaker 17: Alex Bragman signed by the time he gets back on
December third, so still yet to v seene. Yeah, and
so it was a Mets Texans. Texans go three and
oh in their next three so also yet to have
be seen.
Speaker 4: That was also that's kind of a weak one.
Speaker 2: I mean, God, they're playing like Division two football teams
here coming up.
Speaker 5: It's the FCS slate of their schedule, that's right.
Speaker 17: And I had Nico Collins and a Joe Mixon touchdown
only half that was correct mix and had three uh
Texans win by under ten that didn't happen. And the Rockets,
I said they'd lose Wednesday against the Clippers, and then
when Friday they beat the Clippers twice.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you did have Nico Collins run
until the ineligible receiver downfield.
Speaker 5: Call was made at David Jeremy Tunsel, I can't really
claim that.
Speaker 4: I suppose, No, you cannot.
Speaker 2: Seven one, three, two five, seven, Nini. I'm gonna give
you a Rockets one.
Speaker 4: Rockets are going to the next to the knockout round
of the Ncason Tournament. You heard me. Now, do I
want them to go to Vegas? Yes? Is it purely selfish, yes,
but they're gonna They're gonna at least have a chance
to advance, or they didn't advance.
Speaker 5: Last year, so I mean, you're privy to a lot
of inside information. Have you already found out where, if
indeed a Vegas trip did happen, where the team would
be staying.
Speaker 2: No, But I don't want to be too nosy about
that because that was a good move. Fross is man,
you are putting the cart well before cart, well before
the horse.
Speaker 5: So it's also too I mean you're kind of sticking
your nose where it doesn't belong. I mean, you know,
maybe that is one. Like we were talking about being
pleasantly surprised. Be pleasantly surprised. You can't go wrong.
Speaker 4: It's Vegas. Let me tell you something. If they wanted
to put me in a palace in in Vegas, i'd go.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say. It's not like they're gonna put
you at what is it Ellis Island, which is like
a messed Western.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I look, who stays in their room. There's
something about Vegas. And I know, I know you both
have gone.
Speaker 4: Before you can go.
Speaker 2: You can be dog ass tired and go get three
hours or four hours of sleep like you slept for
fifteen straight hours in Vegas.
Speaker 4: That don't want to be in your room, period.
Speaker 5: That's true. I mean that's I mean, that's also part
of the reason why rooms are so cheap is because
they're like, hey, we can we can take the front
end right here, because we know you're gonna lose it
back to us downstairs.
Speaker 2: You know what, though the rooms are not cheap anymore,
Vegas is no longer cheap. Period into story.
Speaker 5: I always thought that the price has never really changed
because they always knew that people would be there.
Speaker 4: Uh No, they're more expensive.
Speaker 2: And now the biggest game going on in Vegas is
adding these resort fees to it.
Speaker 4: See, you might get a room for like one thirty
nine and go, oh, that's.
Speaker 2: Good value, and then you have to pay thirty seven
dollars so you can get towels and water and internet.
Speaker 5: Oh gotcha? Internet?
Speaker 1: Who the hell?
Speaker 2: I mean, I understand that it's a huge convention town,
but who the hell's using the Internet in their room
in Vegas?
Speaker 5: Well, you're doing it wrong if that's the case.
Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, if you're not having much success with
the ladies downstairs, you're yeah, forget it.
Speaker 2: You want to ladies and gentlemen. Dan had the Texans
score right on the nose. So if you ever took
notes during this segment of the show, this will be
the time. What other gut feelings do you have, Dan
Mathews in the world.
Speaker 4: Of sports this week?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we had thirty four to ten Texans beating
the Cowboys last night. That was the final. I'm gonna
go a couple of quickies that will pay off here
before the next time that I'm on with you. Rock
As sweep this next homestand Pacers are a little banged up.
Blazers are not good, so I like my chances there. Okay,
Texans are an eight and a half point favorite against
the Titans on Sunday. I know that Will Levis made
some nice throws against Minnesota, but come on, you need
to beat this team by more than nine points, which
is what would cover that. So the Texans will cover
the eight and a half against the Titans on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like that one. I'm gonna go one step further.
Thirty four ten was the score on Monday. Huh, that's correct.
Speaker 4: Texans beat the Titans by three touchdowns on Sunday. But
I like it because I think they want to piggyback
off what they did yesterday.
Speaker 2: I think they want to have as a complete of
offensive game they've had in quite some time. Tennessee is
already trying to figure out their future. Titans have zero
to play for. They're a miserable failure. They've been close
in some games. They're due for a good old fashioned
ass kicking, and that's the Texans will provide.
Speaker 4: Texans by three. Write this down, Connor Knights.
Speaker 2: I'm not stuttering Texans by three touchdowns this week against
the Titans.
Speaker 5: And no more shovel passes to Tea Quatoriano or any
other Titan got you.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever had a keen Toriano that.
Speaker 5: Had to be amissed by the stats. I swore I
saw that happen, because at first I was like, who
the hell is number eighty five? And then I had
to look it up and I was like, you really
did a shovel past to Tea Inquittriano.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's not showing up in a stature. I
think I think you're making this up. Did you have
a dream about him or something you don't want to
tell the audience about.
Speaker 5: H I mean, you know, my good buddy Aaron Rodgers
came to visit, so you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so I got the Rockets in the
in season semi final knockout round, I've got the Texans
by three touchdowns. I don't necessarily have an Astros prediction
because again, there's nothing really juicy going on, except that
I'm holding on that it's going to be probably until
the at least December the fifteenth, if not later, for
Bringhi to make up his mind one of the league
meetings soon, right, They're always, They're always before the start
of the year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's like a week after Thanksgiving. Because
I have one on the Astros on that, all.
Speaker 4: Right, I got one for you, the tech. The Astros
will make no significant moves at the winter meetings. It
will be nothing that you'll go, oh wow. By the way,
I got author one in for you. Astros. Do not
re sign Justin Ferlander.
Speaker 5: I'm on the other side on that one. I mean,
I think the fact that it's even being remotely entertained
shows you that Jim is in Danazier of Hey, let's
give him another run here, let's get let's give him
a healthy off season, a healthy start in spring training.
Speaker 4: Is that gonna happen?
Speaker 5: He's not that guy.
Speaker 4: This is happening for two straight years.
Speaker 5: I don't disagree with you, but I'm just saying the
fact that it was even remotely entertained shows me that
there's at least legs to it.
Speaker 4: All. Right, Connor, what do you got this week?
Speaker 17: I'll say the Rockets win their next three straight, and
I'll be gets a triple double in one of those games. Okay,
Texans beat Times by at least fifteen, so I mean
not three touchdowns, but by at least fifteen and Nico
Collins touchdown.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nico's touchdowns. Sounds like a good prediction on that one.
Speaker 2: About way Cougar's beat Baylor at TDSU Stadium on Saturday,
I like it.
Speaker 4: Well, the Cougar's red zone offense, we got to work
on that. My goodness.
Speaker 5: I had a buddy of mine who's a Tulane guy, go,
you think Willie regrets leaving Tulana? Said no, no, no,
he's zero chance. He knew what this season was. I mean,
you know, the previous captain said that ship had sailed.
I still remember back to Dana's press conference after they
lost to TCU last year and was like, it takes
time to build this up. It's like you knew you
were coming to the Big twelve? Like the hell you
been doing, dude.
Speaker 4: That's exactly right. No, he got the pay grade, he
got the talent bump.
Speaker 5: Oh he told you he got the pay up grade too,
remember that. Yeah, they can just pay me my buyout
and they did.
Speaker 4: Yeah. How did how did Nebraska do? Did they play
last week?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: They played USC and sc won the game? How did
Nebraska's offense due?
Speaker 5: I don't know actual stats, but the fact that they
lost to USC, who's not very good this year, well,
hell they lsu seemingly everybody has. They lost twenty eight
to twenty.
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean I like Dana. I just Dana put
a can of quid out there towards the end that
I was not overly happy about that.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna ice my dad out really quick. Remember the
West Virginia game last year? Yeah, so remember the touchdown
that West Virginia scored to take the lead late, and
you're just thinking, great, they just blew another one. My
dad lost his mind yelling at Dana Holgerson on the sidelines,
and I nudge my dad, I go, look, who's a
couple of rows behind us.
Speaker 4: It was Tillman.
Speaker 5: So maybe my dad got the ball rolling Matt.
Speaker 4: Oh, you're gonna your dad is taking credit for ultimately
Dana being fired. I I'm not.
Speaker 5: He's not taking credit. I'm giving him credit. There's a Okay,
it's kind of like you know a person that says, hey,
call me t bone. Now, it's like, whoever called you that? Well,
I just want you to start calling me that. No, no, no,
that's that's not how this works. Has to be organic,
it has to be genuine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got it, I got it, all right.
Speaker 2: So if you guys get any predictions, let us know
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety If you've
got any sports predictions, let your voice be heard right
now here on these airwaves that we call Sports Talk
seven nunty.
Speaker 4: We have the news at noon coming up.
Speaker 2: We've got the first ever Connor McGovern hosted edition of
the NFL rewind And I have not worked on believing
or not yet.
Speaker 4: What is the most pressing thing going on in sports today?
Pressing thing going die? Either? I mean, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 5: The Jets GM got fired, but that's not really you know. Yeah,
it's not really region specific.
Speaker 4: Nope.
Speaker 5: I mean you've probably done a Dallas Fort Worth one before,
haven't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't think I've done a Joe
Mixon one and battle. If I was to do a
Joe Mixon, it would not be involving him hitting a
woman at a subway.
Speaker 5: Let's not do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
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Speaker 4: All right, before we go to the phones eleven fifty one,
Apparently we had ross make some predictions on Friday, so
Connor would put into old sports Horver. You have to
say that.
Speaker 17: Before he left us, he said the Texans. He reiterated
the fact tizn'ts go three and on the next three games,
but two of those wins are gonna be by double digits.
Speaker 4: He said.
Speaker 17: The Texans be the Cowboys twenty three to thirteen, So
not bad.
Speaker 4: Not bad.
Speaker 17: He said, Jay Paul wins by decision, and then Mike
Tyson's fight. He got that correct, he said, when I
get when I come back, the Rockets starting five will
be the same, barring injury. Mike McCarthy will be the
coach of the Cowboys. Still, yeah, Alex Bregman will not
be signed. Soto signs first with the Mets. Okay, we're
not giving him as flowers. He's six thousand miles away
from us. We can'tive him any flowers. By the way,
I just I'm just irritating. He just Hey, I'm here
overseas having a good time. Better Red Rosses here, he's enjoying.
Speaker 2: Himself in the far East, and I'm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
By the way, underrated city.
Speaker 4: Is just gotta tell you that.
Speaker 5: I've heard that about Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: I've never been. Yeah, I met these women that were there,
really cool.
Speaker 2: Okay, they worked at a brewery ironically enough, that's Wisconsin.
Speaker 4: That's par for the course.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they had and they had They lived in
an apartment complex and they're dad and their dad were
in a bowling alley.
Speaker 4: And pizza joints.
Speaker 5: This is getting more and more Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: And they had two really strange friends that would just interrupt,
that would have come in their house unwelcomed.
Speaker 5: Like while they were you at their house?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean we went over there and they it
was strange. They these two dudes just knocked didn't even
knock on the door, they just walked in and went hello.
I was like, who are these people? They had strange names.
I don't forgot what they were. And perhaps the strangest
part of it all in this time that I was
in Milwaukee yesterday, you won't believe this.
Speaker 1: One of the girls.
Speaker 4: Liked to mix pepsi and milk together and drink it.
Speaker 5: I would have left immediately.
Speaker 2: And she called it, she called it milk a pepsi
and it was really gross. She asked me to try
and it was uninterested.
Speaker 14: No.
Speaker 2: And the other girl, she didn't she was probably in
her thirties and she seemed okay, but.
Speaker 4: She loved this pet cat of hers, and she'd hold
it for like hours while we were sitting there trying
to have a conversation. It was really odd.
Speaker 5: You know, people at a certain point in their life
are single for a reason. Matt I learned that a
long time ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she kept calling the cat boo boo boo boo kitty.
It was really weird. I was like, what's wrong with
you both?
Speaker 5: I mean, like, I love my dog, I love Pixie,
but like you know, if nobody's around, then yeah, I'll
do the dog talk and all of that. But if
like I have company around, like yeah, pet my dog,
but like yeah, it's just it. It kind of gets
uncomfortable because not everybody loves their pets, Like, not everybody loves.
Speaker 2: Pets, right right, But this, this this booboo kitty was
like a fake was obviously a stuffed catage she was
holding in and massaging. I was like, this is really
I mean, I just met you guys in a bar
the night before, invited me over to your place. You
had two strange friends come in the apartment unwelcomed, and
then you're sitting there petting this kiddy.
Speaker 4: It was just really odd.
Speaker 5: This just seems like this ends as the plot of
a horror film, like almost like an episode of tailstand
crypt like that. What was it when Joe PESHI met
the two twins?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, Oh one more thing I met. I met
the girl, the girl that has booboo kitty is that
this cat has a boyfriend. And he is like, oh,
they all do, yeah, and she wouldn't give it up.
It was like, you clearly tell that he wanted to
get romantic with her.
Speaker 16: Hmm.
Speaker 4: And it was the weirdest part was he had this
really bizarre name and I was like, what are they
calling you? And his name is Carmid. He's a good dude,
really good dude. I enjoyed visiting with him.
Speaker 5: That's that's a true Italian guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they kept calling him the big Ragou. I
was like, this is really who would call you that?
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'd want to be known as that.
Carmine is a cool enough name, as is.
Speaker 4: I like Carmi. It was a good guy. He's a dancer.
Carmi and Lupertazzi on this side. I don't know what
his last name was, but they kept calling him the
big regue.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's Johnny talked to you about me, right, Johnny
who Sack. That's when Paulie realized that Johnny Sack was
playing him.
Speaker 2: So let me get this a recap again. We go
from Chicago to Milwaukee. I go to a bar, the
sir Pizza and bowl. These two women said, come back
to our apartment. I'm like, you know, it's kind of late, okay,
I'll come and have one drink. I would think it
was gonna be an alcohol beer or something, and it
wound up being milk a PEPSI.
Speaker 4: Then the girl brings up the stuff cat. Then these
two strange neighbors walk in and go hello, and then
the girl and then the Booboo Kitties girl. Guy comes
in and he's like, come on, let's go. Let's go.
Speaker 2: And he's like She's like, no, I don't give it
up up And I'm like this is I left really quick.
The the two neighbors just showing up. That's a really
Midwest thing, is it really? I didn't know that it's
called visits. Yeah, but you but you go to somebody's.
Speaker 4: House in somebody's apartment complex unwelcomed.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean because you're all very friendly, very you know,
familiar with each other. That there's that trust factor. Yeah,
you can just show up.
Speaker 4: That's fine, Okay, I just want to give you that story.
I don't we don't.
Speaker 2: I don't do a lot of socializing with strangers. But
they were such nice girls and the pizza was good.
Apparently it was the dad owned the the the pizza
pub in the in the in the bowling alley.
Speaker 4: Let's go to the phones. They worked, I totally they worked.
Speaker 5: At a brewery, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was the
first part.
Speaker 4: Okay, Bill and port Arthur on seven nine high Bill,
how you doing, man good?
Speaker 14: I have a gut feeling and it's not going to
be popular.
Speaker 18: Uh oh, but my gut feeling is Willie Adamas will
be the third basement for the after next year.
Speaker 4: I mean, is that is that a Why is he
gonna think it's popular?
Speaker 2: I mean, Adamis would be a good backup plan if
Bragman goes somewhere else.
Speaker 8: I think, and I hate to say it, but I
think Bregman's gone.
Speaker 14: Well.
Speaker 4: I mean I've said that as much too. I just
I think he's gonna he's.
Speaker 5: Gonna take spicy hot take. I mean, I think a
lot of people agree with you on that.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me look at one of your domads was
thanks for the phone call, Bill. I think you're actually
in the minority. Two point fifty one.
Speaker 4: The batting average thirty two home runs, one hundred and
twelve RBIs ops of seven ninety four. What's the one
metric that Ross always likes to throw out? BA plus
obs plus That's right, that's that's what it is, and
it's one hundred is average. More than a hundred is
considered good. One eighteen.
Speaker 5: He's one oh nine for his career.
Speaker 4: He just and I don't know much about him except
I'm thinking that defensively, there's nothing close to what Bregman
would write.
Speaker 5: A little younger than Bregman, he's twenty nine, so he'll
turn thirty in September, Hey, the day before I do. Well,
I'm not turning thirty, but you get my point.
Speaker 4: I get you. Let's go to James Incline at eleven
fifty eight on seven. Hello James.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Well, there's two women, Laverne and Shirley.
Speaker 4: How do you know their names?
Speaker 12: Because I know Lenny and Squeaky too.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, how do you know?
Speaker 1: I don't know?
Speaker 5: How do you know their names? I knew that you
didn't just go over to someone's random house. Kimberly would
absolutely murder you.
Speaker 12: I'm old enough to know that, Matt.
Speaker 4: So all right, all right, did you not know? Honestly?
Hold on, Dan, did you not know who what I
was talking about? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I had zero club. I mean I knew, Oh my god,
it's so good, so good. I knew that Lavernon Shirley
was in Milwaukee just because of Yesterday's Milwaukee mentioned of
Wayne's World when they did kind of the montage. But
I never once watched an episode. I mean, it's kind
of like one of those old shows. You heard about it,
But yeah, I never once watching.
Speaker 4: So happy that I was able to fool you for
as long as I did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just I figured you going over to some
random person's house. I was like, no married man either
A would do that or B admit to it into
a live microphone anywhere, because then that story gets back
to the wife. Wait, what why were you at some
random person's house?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the two strange guys just walk th and go, hello,
you got me? You got me? That was good.
Speaker 5: It's very good by you.
Speaker 2: I'm very happy, James. I got to run at the
top of the hour. Thank you very much. I'm very
very happy with myself. I'm gonna try that again at
least one more time. You'll be with Monday and Tuesday
next week to try it again.
Speaker 5: I mean, I am less gullible than I used to be,
but I'm still susceptible.
Speaker 2: Goodbye you, good job. And Connor had no clues that that.
That was the easiest part was trying to fool Connor
on that.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, if I didn't know, he definitely wouldn't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, the News at noon, it's next on
seven lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. This is
the Texans theme song for two twenty twenty twenty four.
Turn it Up kind of fits under damn great.
Speaker 5: See that's part of the reason why new shows don't
really have a lot of charm. They don't do theme
songs anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sing it. I actually know the words of this song.
It's troubling. I mean, like I said, I've heard it before,
just from Wayne's World, But I say I know the words.
Listen to these words and how it fits the twenty
twenty four tech Let's go for it, settle for few goals,
in short yardage. Oh what a great show in the
seventies and early eighties. Great theme song, and it really
is the theme of the twenty twenty four Houston, Texas
twelve o six. It is The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Dan Matthews, and today we are happy to have
you with us. It's time now for the news at noon.
Speaker 14: Do I just go?
Speaker 4: No, you don't just go. You gotta wait for the music.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. Do the anchors on the
local TV stations do they just go? They have to
wait for the big news drop? Nice fair?
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, if they're on location live, I mean
there might be like a second or two of them
just staring into the camera and you're like, yes, what's
happening here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was just the delay.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: By the way, when I was a kid, I used
to know all the news anchors. I was going to
drop a news anchor reference on you. I don't know
any of the news anchors in town.
Speaker 4: I know, muh.
Speaker 5: I mean, let's see Mia Gradney and Lynn Cannon on
a leven See.
Speaker 4: You don't know. You can't even sell it that hard.
I know that.
Speaker 2: Eric barajas is on thirteen. Okay, all right, there goes
your obliged turque. Who the TV anchors in town update.
Let's get to the news at noon, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Sexon's sake over eight D and T Stadium beat
the Cowboys thirty four to ten. The fans showed up,
they were loud, and their stadium was falling apart.
Speaker 4: That's the news at noon, right there.
Speaker 8: That was it.
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, I just I didn't know if you wanted to react.
All right, Well, no, I was thought we're gonna play
a hoghlt or something. No, no fancy hotlight or anything. No, okay,
that's good.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's just that's the crux of it right there.
Speaker 4: You're the news anchor, not me, all right, uh oh
go ahead please Now, I was just gonna say, uh,
I mean, good win could have been a great win.
Put a good win.
Speaker 2: You beat Dallas, You shut them up. You did not
give them any real hope of making a game out
of it. You sacked to Cooper Rush a bunch of times.
I think what see, Jonen was only sacked one time
in the game. Offense finally scored a touchdown on the
second half. Granted, I think they were trying to force it, right,
don't you think they was like, we got to get
this off our chest.
Speaker 5: Oh that's one hundred. They would have gone for it
on fourth down.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. And Joe Mixon was amazing. Joe Mixon was
absolutely amazing.
Speaker 5: He was huge. How about that sack that Tim Settle had.
I don't know if you saw it because I think, actually,
I know the Rockets game was over with by then,
so you probably could have been watching it on your phone.
He seriously was face to face with Cooper Rush like
in the post game. I would have wanted to ask him, like,
did you say anything to him? As like y'all are
going to the ground, because that's what it kind of
looked like. It was like I was like, I'm wondering
if you said something. But anyway, all right, Rockets lose
a heartbreaker in Milwaukee, won on one one hundred to
the Bucks. They snapped their five game win streak. Fred
Van Vliet continuing his hot waist coming into the game
last night, Matt He was averaging nineteen points a game
his last three games, well twenty six last night, right.
Jalen Green strong fourth quarter finishes with twenty one wasn't enough.
They're off tonight before the Pacers get to town tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rockets had a chance two seconds left to go
in the game and freddie Vee throws the ball I
think a little bit too tall for Alpron. He had
to go to the baseline to go grab him by
the time he did to try to keep the ball
in bounds, he threw it. Yiannis was there. Even if
he had got it to Tari it probably would have
been a little too little, too late. There was only
two seconds left to.
Speaker 4: Go in the game.
Speaker 5: That's what I said too on Rockets rap. It was
that if that pass is a foot lower, then that's
an easy right off the glass. Rockets win the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Jalen was great in the fourth quarter. Fred
was great in the third quarter. And people have really
started to ask me, and I'll just be honest about it.
They're like, what does his team need do to do
to maintain what they've been able to do so far?
And that is again, crash the boards, play good defense,
force turnovers, get second chance opportunities, get on the break
when applicable. But I think last night was a good case.
And you disagree with me, if you want to the
spot shooting the perimeter. Knockdown, drag knockdown, no doubt about it.
Three point shot just needed to fall a couple of
times in the fourth quarter, and it did not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you had Dylan right there in the corner.
He had a good look at it. I'm surprised, Fred
I don't know who was on him defensively. He should
have been whistled for an offensive foul but wasn't. And
then he has the spacing and he misses the three
right there. Albie gets blocked at the rim. Yeah, the
final under a minute fifty eight last night was not
great for the Rockets, but we first all right. Major
League Baseball Yankees right hander Louis Heel and Pirates starter
Paul Skeens Rookies of the Year. By the way, somebody
did a rundown, like there's nobody that's dominating life right now,
sports entertainment wherever it is, Like Paul Skans.
Speaker 2: Right, Can I be brutally honest with you for one
second on this, please be There's a video of Paul
Skins on I guess an interview or a conference call
or something, and his hot girlfriend was right next to him.
Speaker 4: The whole time. I could give two blanks what he
was saying. She's stunning. Oh Livy is that what her
nickname is or what? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Livy done?
Speaker 4: So you know it well enough to call her Livy?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean that's what she goes by on I mean,
she gained notoriety while as a gymnast at LSU on
social media, and I mean that's where a lot of
the name, image and likeness came in, all of that
kind of stuff, right, And yeah, I mean she's incredibly
good looking too, so that helped.
Speaker 4: So let's put it this way. He's got an electric fastball,
great off speed stuff.
Speaker 2: Yes, he made an All Star Game after being on
a team for two months, started the All Star Game.
And he's got one of the hottest women as his
side piece.
Speaker 5: Or his piece, and won a college World Series title
eleven months before.
Speaker 4: Okay, I guess it's big for college. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean yeah, I mean you reached the highest
level right there and then. So his life does not suck, No,
not at all, not even close.
Speaker 4: Is he a Pittsburgh pirate in six years? No?
Speaker 5: No, he's a Chicago Cub. He's a Los Angeles Dodger.
He's any of those.
Speaker 4: Okay, got you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I mean the Pirates have pretty much shown
you that they're willing to get up to the line
and then hey, you can pay him some money. Yeah,
we don't want to do that. I mean, they did
it with Garrett Cole, So who knows. Maybe the Astros
could have the second coming of Garrett Cole. You put
together a nice enough trade package and Paul Skenes is
here in Houston.
Speaker 4: Don't put that out there? Why not? Because that's crazy.
It's not crazy. You know where this team is gonna
be in six years.
Speaker 2: On top of the baseball world. Okay, all right, Well
then maybe he'd want to be a part of that. Okay,
I'm in I'll buy all right. One final one for you.
Speaker 5: Thirst Traps a mini the viral ring girl from the
Jake Paul Mike Tyson Fight. Her name is Sidney Thomas.
She has related by the way, yes, she has gained
over five hundred thousand followers in just a few.
Speaker 4: Days on what platform? Instagram or Twitter?
Speaker 5: I believe Instagram.
Speaker 4: By the way. I'm gonna stay with Twitter. I know
it's maybe not the most popular thing, but it's still
the most.
Speaker 2: Most popular form of social media interaction, you know, at
least with information.
Speaker 5: I need less social media. I don't need more like
that's like these people who are I'm going to, you know,
Red Sky or whatever the hell it's called a one.
Speaker 4: I don't he tell checks.
Speaker 2: I tried Threads for like a day and a half
and realized no one was there, and then Blue Sky.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But what I do want is I want less political
people following me on Twitter, because I don't ever talk
about politics, especially on Twitter. Yeah, so it's all I'm
coming across to me is there's just a bunch of bots,
and I'm.
Speaker 4: I just want you, don't I want?
Speaker 2: I want nice people who like sports and like la
Verne and Shirley and like yacht Rock to follow me
in game shows?
Speaker 4: Is that too much for me to ask? Man Taylor mathis?
Who's that? You tell me? Matt?
Speaker 2: I think Taylor's in trouble, But that's a different issue
for a different time. What I just want some nice
people with pop culturey type things. I don't want political
Like the last five people that have follow me on
Twitter are all heavy politics. I don't care about politics.
I don't want to know about your politics and.
Speaker 4: You sure as hell don't care about me, because I'm
not telling you. How much do you like your politics?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean we were supposed to be done with
it after another term of the fifths, but that we
knew that wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Oh well, all right, and that's the news at noon. Right,
that's correct? All right, nicely done, Dan, Thanks buddy, all right.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 4: Ninety So when are the Texans going to lose again?
Guess what? It won't be for a while.
Speaker 2: We'll discuss that next twelve fifteen of the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross dan Is filling in today believe it
or not. Today is at one point fifty and Connor
has the NFL rewind at the bottom of the hour.
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Speaker 1: Lunch Timers, lunch Timers, This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Time is twelve twenty one.
Speaker 4: It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Ross's uh
in some foreign country. I will I don't want to
guess because I always mess it up.
Speaker 2: Dan is with us in Houston as well as I am,
and we look forward to hanging out with you between
now and two o'clock this afternoon. Believe it or not,
it is coming up at one fifty. I'm working on
Joe Mixon, Okay, Dan, Joe Mixon's had some issues off
the field.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's why I almost wondered if I
should suggest a pivots to maybe, like I said, Dallas
Fort Worth, which I'm sure has probably been done.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, maybe at and T Stadium. I'm working on it.
I got Joe Mixon going, but I'm just it's Oklahoma possibly.
Speaker 2: I mean, there there aren't many different ways you could
go with this, you could go with you know, his
time at Oklahoma, I got, I got it of him.
I'm just saying it just was just there's just too
much legal stuff in here that pleasure which it will
not be a part of the believer or not No.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: Seven one, three, two, five, seven ninety Connor has the
NFL rewind.
Speaker 4: At the bottom of the hour here on seven ninety.
Speaker 2: By the way, you know Connor, we uh and know
Connor knows is we use the hustle as another fifth
of Beethoven as the bump music name another radio show
in the marketplace, Dan, it gives you a fifth of
Beethoven when the NFL recap of the weekend.
Speaker 5: Or even the Hustle, I mean the Hustle would be fantastic.
Speaker 4: That's that. That's a song.
Speaker 5: You know, It's one of those that you could put
together a list of, like songs that come on and
no matter your mood, you're immediately in at least no better.
Speaker 4: It's a white person's dancing song.
Speaker 2: Dude, easily, No, that's that's one of those that you
go to the party at the yacht club. That's that's
being that that's being played like like I have a
theory that white people weddings, they have two songs always
somewhere on the playlist, or if you have a live band,
the live band plays it, and you know what those
two songs are, right, the Chicken No Shout and don't
stop Believing. Oh yeah, I got a hot take for you,
Don't stop believing. Journey's most overrated song. I would agree
with you on that. It's it's the one that everybody
goes to. I mean, you know, just because when it
takes four minutes to get to your core. It's not
a great song.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean it was long enough too for Meadow to
try to park the car and then Tony to probably
get whacked.
Speaker 4: Now that's not a movie reference, that's a TV reference.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was the end of the Sopranos.
Speaker 4: Yeah, got you. Alex and Conro at twelve twenty four
high Alex, Hey.
Speaker 8: What's going on, guys? Just a couple of things I
wanted to hit on real quick.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 8: First of all, the Texans. Obviously they're having a lot
of success in the first half, and then they're coming
out like just not flat, but just not inspired in
the second half. And I'm wondering if maybe they should
just try thinking about baseball for the first half and
saving it and then whenever the second half comes, just
really you know, getting at it, because that seems to
work for me. But secondly, is I don't know anything
about basketball? Man, I'm a complete casual when it comes
to basketball. If y'all E stepped out last night and
we have all this video of it and blah blah blah,
is it not possible to protest that?
Speaker 4: I have no, Because the only way you can the
only way you protest something is if a rules interpretation
was incorrect. That is a judge foot out of bounds
of a judgment call, which seems silly, but it is.
Speaker 8: Wow, that's semantics at its basketball.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no question it is. But that is a
normal course of play. If they would have, for instance,
if they would have given a team a three point
basket when you had both feed inside the arc or
you had a guy in the layer.
Speaker 2: I mean, if there was a if there was a
massive rules violation that would have altered the game. That's
when you can protest something. And by the way, protesters
don't work in sports. In basketball, I can't think of
anything that happened in a long, long, long time.
Speaker 5: And your words came back to bite you, Matt where
you had talked about how how they need to do
something about the replay reviews and the Rockets had lost
theirs earlier in the game. Yeah, I mean could have
possibly come into play right there.
Speaker 4: But how But see, I don't know how you could
have done that, because what you can't backtrack and say, hey,
go back ten seconds ago. You have to you have
to only challenge it's a whistle, yeah, at the whistle,
that's the problem.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, okay, And I got one last question. I
know you loved yacht rock and I was on Instagram
the other day and I found an account of this
guy who's doing remixes of uh like traditional, not traditional
but like alternative rock songs, and he's turning them into
yacht rock. And I sent you on on Instagram. I
don't know if you've seen it, but this guy did
uh the Nine Inch Nails song I don't I don't
animal or I want to love you like an animal.
That was one of the words he says, but he
rehashed it into a yacht rock song, and Matt it killed.
Speaker 4: It was about it's a banger. Just say what it is.
Speaker 8: It's an absolute banger, and I really want you to
hear it because I think she loved it, to be honest.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, watch you do is do me a favorite.
I'm looking at my Instagram right now.
Speaker 8: Message messages like uh, people trying to contact you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, do me a favorite, send it back again
and and if I find it and I like it,
we'll play it before the show's over today.
Speaker 5: Oh, you're gonna love it, Matt.
Speaker 8: It's absolutely clo.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, do me a fair get back, get out
of your car and don't don't drive and send send
me a message, but do it that way.
Speaker 4: Send to me and we'll see we can play it
before them in the show.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I got you met.
Speaker 4: I will see the phone callbody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I honestly, And you remember I've only got two
eyes here, so I and I'm watching the ball and
I'm watching trying to watch ten things. Did you see
it clearly him step on the baseline when Nice was
throwing the ball to uh Lillard.
Speaker 4: No, I did not see it.
Speaker 5: So I mean I actually didn't even know about it
until you'd brought it up today. I'm like, nobody had
said anything during the broadcast that I could hear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody sent by the way, if you're out there
to do right now, and you know what we're talking about.
Apparently his I think it was his left foot was
on the left base line.
Speaker 1: Send send Dan and.
Speaker 2: I a tweet with the photo because I want Danielle
want you to see it because it looks like to me,
it's pretty apparent that Giannis's foot is on the baseline.
Speaker 5: So it was NBA justice. They got screwed over. What
was it Saturday night? Against Charlotte and then the NBA
probably comes back and says, hey see we got you back.
Speaker 4: You're good. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Hey, By the way, you know U of H's band
likes to play how long has this been going on?
That's a yacht rock song, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Ab Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Because I mean I figure, I guess, like you know,
easy on the other instruments, a little bit of a
high hat that that's that's considered to be strong yacht rock.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, look, let me tell you something. There
is a documentary coming out. I want to say the
next ten days. Help me out with that either way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I still haven't watched the Elvis one.
Speaker 4: I need to do that. You will not be able
to find me for multiple days. While that is on
a matter of fact, and you know yacht rock. Usually
the review comes to Houston once a year, and I
think I think they go to the House of Blues
or something. If they do, we'll do a night where
we can invite the audience come out and hang out
with us and listen to the yat rock.
Speaker 5: Only if there's Captain Hats involved. If there's Captain Hats involved,
h okay, and.
Speaker 4: I will wear a shirt and only have three buttons buttoned, don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go. You gotta let the letters show.
That's that's part of it.
Speaker 4: I don't have a lot of lotus, but I have
for you. Good for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah right yeah.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Connor, you are invited to because
I want to see you dance to some yacht rock.
Speaker 4: You will get that.
Speaker 2: You will get every Connor's been to plenty of white
people weddings. He has heard tons of yacht rock in
his life. I guarantee it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, we as white people, have to have as
much yacht rock at our weddings. It's just three.
Speaker 5: And you know those like neon glowsticks, Like that's a
big thing at weddings. Yeah, it's like the Halo's kind
of deal. Like, yeah, they're huge at weddings now, especially
like I said, white people weddings. That's another staple of
white people weddings. Gotta break out the neon glow sticks.
Speaker 4: We could do a fantasy five of things that happen
in a white person's wedding.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'd have like at least fantasy ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd have father in law blank faced, the long
rambling speech, the chicken dance, you'd have four different groomsmen
who are blitzed up there making inappropriate sexual references to
the bride.
Speaker 5: Don't you love when the best man speech bombs?
Speaker 4: It's so good? Really, Hey, I didn't think you guys
are going to be together forever. Man, girl, you are fine.
Speaker 5: It's like comedians who love going to see their comedian
friends and they love when they start to bomb. Yeah,
that's that's one hundred percent what it is.
Speaker 2: White weddings are the best chicken, fried steak, mashed potatoes,
nothing spicy green beans. Green green beans are an absolute
mustard a white wedding.
Speaker 4: Yep. All right, NFL rewind with Connerdy up next eleven,
twelve thirty one on Sports Talk seven ninety lunchtimers.
Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 4: A lot of pressure right now, Connor Dan McGovern filling
in for Ross on the NFL Rewind.
Speaker 17: All right, So Ross usually starts with Monday Night Football.
I know we've been talking about the Texans, so but
we'll do that here. The Texans defeated the Cowboys thirty
four to ten, As accurately predicted by Dan Matthews, Houston
finally got a prime time win after losing to the
Jets and Lions, and they got it by with their
biggest margin of victory so far this season, led by
Joe Mixon. In the run game, Mixing had three touchdowns
to record his sixth one hundred yard rushing performance of
the season. Defense also played well, sacking Cooper Rush five times,
getting an interception and scoring a thick six by Derek Barnett.
Speaker 3: Second and six Rush pro knocked out of his hand
and ends up in the arms of Geiton. He gets
it knocked out by Patree and the return for the
touchdown by Derek Barnett. Barnett with the defensive score one
on one with Derek Barnett and he comes in makes
the play and then he's also able to get it
after it bounces around and run it in.
Speaker 4: Who is this Giton JERBRONI what the hell was he doing?
Speaker 5: Tyler Goeydon.
Speaker 4: Not an athlete. Usually are on the offensive line for
a reason, and he showed that reason last night. Unbelievable.
He played at TCU in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: I mean, is he considered a plus offensive lineman because
he's not a plus running receiver or running back.
Speaker 5: He was their first round draft pick this year. He's
six ' eight three, twenty two, twenty ninth pick overall.
Speaker 4: All right, that was embarrassing, absolutely.
Speaker 5: And then I love the shot on the sideline too,
where he did you know the universal side for my
bad guys? You know, the tapping your chest? Oh, I
think that has to make it feel better. It's it's
one of those that's you know, there's no response even needed.
It's already a tacit agreement of we know.
Speaker 4: Yep, for sure.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Dallas for embarrassing yourself. And I
can't believe that they're staying with Mike McCarthy. I mean,
I know that nothing was going to change, but you
might as well kick the tires on Diana right now.
Speaker 4: Say hey, bro, let's go. Why don't you get him
higher before the bowl game? So Dion doesn't have the
quarterback coach in that game.
Speaker 5: Oh oh, so it is a former player, but it's
not Dion. Did you hear what Jerry said? No, he
thinks that Jason Witten will be a really good NFL
head coach one day. As a matter of fact, he
reminds him of a former Cowboys tied end that's doing
good work in doubt in Detroit. Dan Campbell really no
that yeah that He says that Jason Witten reminds him
of Dan Campbell.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, you know we're stealing Connor shine here. Let's
go back for yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry Connor.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, this is a good conversation.
Speaker 17: But anyway, we'll move on to a game that was
all about defense, with the Pittsburgh Steelers taking down the
Baltimore Ravens eighteen to sixteen. Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, who
many think is the greatest kicker of all time, miss
two kicks. Continuing his season long struggles, Lamar Jackson was
sixteen of thirty three for two hundred and seven yards
in a touchdown as well as an interception. As Lamar
continues to struggle against the Steelers, holding a one to
four career record against them. Lamar is still a front
runner for MVP, but he had his worst forms of
the season on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Now a first and fifteen with Hill and record in
there checkson deep drop, timing route, drops.
Speaker 1: It in the bucket, caught by Hill. Steelers funding for
the football.
Speaker 12: They come away with it.
Speaker 1: Play is whistle dead. The question who's got it?
Speaker 17: The Player of the game has to be Steelers kicker
Chris Boswell, who scored six field goals, with three of
them being from fifty or more yards out. The Steelers
are now one and a half games ahead in the
NFC North or the AFC North.
Speaker 4: All right, Connor tribute question for ten thousand empty bucks
where Chris Boswell plays college football? No clue, Rice University?
Speaker 5: Yes, segment's over.
Speaker 4: Why. I mean, come on, man, if he doesn't know
a man who's right around the corner from us, he's
right in front of his face. Oh, come on, you
can't name five Rice owls, period. Don't.
Speaker 5: Don't crush the cad Jared Bates. I mean we were
talking in baseball, boy, I could name some baseball players.
Speaker 2: No, that wasn't the question I asked you. All right,
can I just tell you I don't know how Pittsburgh's
doing it?
Speaker 4: Dan? Honestly, how is Pittsburgh doing it? Ferocious defense?
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson has found the fountain of youth, But they're
not a high I mean, the game wolves to score
fifteen to ten, something.
Speaker 4: Crazy like that, eighteen sixteen, I believe eighteen sixty. It
was a low scoring game. It one like they were
prolific offensive work. Yeah, they just beat you up defensively.
Speaker 5: Like you said, Najee Harris is a good compliment to
that team, so he's a huge help as well.
Speaker 4: Right, boy, Steeler fan, you just have not much to
bitch about. You really don't.
Speaker 2: If you ever got a franchise quarterback there, imagine how
prolific that team would be.
Speaker 4: Well, they had one.
Speaker 5: His name was Ben Roethlisbergern, But I mean that was
like five years ago.
Speaker 4: That's true, all right, we move on.
Speaker 17: Probably the most highly anticipated game of the week was
the Buffalo Bills handing the Kid City Chiefs their first
loss of the season.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 17: The Bills put up thirty points against the defending Super
Bowl champions, while the defense forced two interceptions from Patrick
Mahomes to win thirty twenty one. The biggest play of
the game came from MVB candidate Josh Allen, who scored
a twenty six yard touchdown on a fourth and two
with less than three minutes remaining.
Speaker 5: That killed any chances for a Chiefs come back.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Slacks.
Speaker 4: Banks Lap now taken off, gonna run party, got it?
Speaker 1: And there he goes inside the ten to five. The
player of the year in the NFL.
Speaker 17: Buffalo, who sits at nine and two, have kept their
hopes alive of getting the AFC's top seed.
Speaker 2: Buffalo scares me as much as Kansas City does. Honestly,
they got it going right now. And by the way,
shout out to CBS or putting their pregame show in Buffalo.
Speaker 4: That was that had every bit of the feel of
a college game day. Now, you can't do that at
thirty two stadiums, but you send that pregame show there
where they were all jumping on tables and breaking them
in half. That was hot. That was the best part
of a pregame show I've seen in years.
Speaker 5: See the younger guys on the team, on the broadcast
team there, they can do it like I think, did
Matt Ryan do it?
Speaker 4: Or Jay did? Yeah, Bill Coward did. He almost broke
his back.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, you don't want to have guys
like Cower, you know, jb anybody like that doing it.
We can be getting some broken backs, some broken hibs.
You just don't heal up as fast as you used to.
Speaker 4: Matt. The only problem with those on site pregame shows
that sometimes the fans are so rowdy it kind of
gets in the way of the content.
Speaker 2: But I'll say this, I never watch the NFL today.
I never watched Fox's pregame show. I was riveted by
watching the NFL today from Buffalo. Yeah, I had never
been to Buffalo before. But and I'm sure as hell
I'm not going this late in the year, but I
would like to see a game in that city because
those fans that Bill's Mafia is there unplugged.
Speaker 5: Literally, that was my regret. I told Connor this that
I wanted to go around in the tailgate lots for
the Texans and see if I could find any of
Bill's Mafia just to see a table jump. Like I
do want to see a table jump. I don't want
to do it, but I just want to see one.
Speaker 4: I just want to see somebody get caught on fire.
I mean that's part of the joy.
Speaker 5: Well, there's that, and then they are also like a
part of like one of their tailgates where like you
get sprayed with like ketchup and mustard like a hot dog. Yeah,
Like you you walk up to somebody that's like on
top of a truck with bottles of ketchup and mustard
to like put ketchup and mustard on your hot dog,
and chances are you are head to toe and ketchup
and mustard.
Speaker 4: Quick question for you, Dan, which conniment would you not
mind being lathered? Man?
Speaker 2: Not mind being lathered in? Let's see, Ketchup's got a
lot of sugar, so stickiness.
Speaker 4: Yep, maybe, I don't know. Butter feels like you'd be
slipping around a bunch.
Speaker 5: Butter would be tough.
Speaker 4: I mean, sour cream could be cool, especially if you
have sunburn.
Speaker 5: Then that's real. And that's that's like you know, eggs
and mayonnaise. It starts to you know, the stink factor.
All right, No, no, no, no, I love sour cream.
Speaker 4: Okay, answer my question quickly before we get to wrap
up this segment.
Speaker 5: We'll say mustard.
Speaker 4: You know I'm gonna go with stone ground mustard? Is
the comment I like to be lather he there you go.
Speaker 2: It feels like it's it's got a good smell to it,
it's got a little texture to it. You won't slip,
easy to scrub off, Yeah, I would think so. All right, lastly,
is anything else? Are we totally butchered this segment?
Speaker 17: No, We'll do one more GAMREAMCP because it was an
exciting ending. We'll go to Chicago, where the Green Bay
Packers defeated the Bears twenty to nineteen into classic showdown.
Jordan Love and the Packers were trailing nineteen to fourteen
and to Love hit receiver Christian Watson for a sixty
yard catch and run that's out of the go ahead
score less than three minutes left in the game. Caleb
Williams looks better in his first start since firing offensive
coordinators Shane Waldron and was this close to leading the
Bears to victory. But Packers' special teams came up big
when blocking a forty six yardfield goal attempt on the
final play of the game.
Speaker 1: Here we go forty six yards for the win.
Speaker 3: It is bo oh my goodness, the Packers blocking and
they're gonna win.
Speaker 1: Green Bay survives.
Speaker 3: And heartbreak for Caleb Williams.
Speaker 17: The Bears are now four and six, with their playoff
hopes looking pretty bleak. The Packers are now third in
the NFC North.
Speaker 2: All right, and by the way, what a bad day
for Chicago sports fans. They lose the on the final
play to the Packers, and then the Rockets kick the
crap out of the Bulls a United Center later that
night that my friends, excellent job, Connedy McGovern.
Speaker 4: That was the NFL rewind from.
Speaker 2: This weekend seven two five, seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety We are open lining
the rest of the way we have believe it or not.
Speaker 4: Coming up today at eleven at twelve fifty, the category.
Speaker 2: Things all about Joe Mixon seven one three two one
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two five seven ninety twelve forty five.
Speaker 4: This is Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk seven ninety Baseball, football,
basketball in is all for your home teams.
Speaker 4: The Jets fired their general manager today. Joe Davis, excuse me,
Joe Douglas, excuse me. Well that's a mess boy.
Speaker 2: Those New York franchise Daniel Jones yesterday finds out he's
going to the third team. You know, I'm never gonna
cry for New York Sports franchise. I mean, they they did,
they by default win something every once in a while, Right,
there's somebody pro teams up there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean, your chances of
being able, I mean, you know they're huge hockey people
up there too, So all the Rangers, all the Islanders.
Speaker 4: I'm just like, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Yankees and Mets both made it to
the playoffs. Mets Nationally Championship Series, Yankees to the World Series.
Speaker 5: I mean the Mets, I kind of. I mean, that's
the funny thing is we probably should never somewhat root
for the Mets, but I found myself rooting for the
Mets this year because they actually were an enjoyable team.
Speaker 4: Let's not go that far now, Mets Dodgers. I'm rooting
for the Mets.
Speaker 2: But no, I you know, no, I you know, I'm
just not gonna root for other teams just for the sake,
unless there's like two or three of my favorite players
of all time. Like, for instance, if Bragman goes to
a nationallygue team, I could, I'll root for him personally,
but I won't like, oh, let's go.
Speaker 4: Nationals or something like that. I don't. I don't see
myself doing that.
Speaker 5: What's like, I mean, you just mentioned the Nationals, Like,
let's just say that that does come to fruition. Like
what's the one team that you're kind of like okay,
like for Korea when he went to the Twins, it
wasn't like.
Speaker 2: You know, indifferent, it was just like, yeah, you know,
good for him. He money, yep, yep, let me give you.
Let me give you who it's easier to give you
the flip side. The teams that will piss me off?
Speaker 4: Are you ready?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tigers, anybody in the American League West, the Yankees,
the Dodgers, Red Sox. No, I don't, they're not.
Speaker 2: They're maybe the Red Sox, but I would say that's
a tiered group down. It's all narrowed down to about
six teams. Anybody in the American League West, especially if
it's Texas. The Yankees would really irritate me.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I think it's about it. Maybe I don't know.
I think he'd be great. I think people in Chicago
would love him.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, a little birdie told me to
look out for the Cubs.
Speaker 4: Who's this little birdie? Announce to this person?
Speaker 5: I can't give out my sources. Come on, you've been
in this business long enough, you know, but.
Speaker 4: Come on, it's probably just a bud of years that
called you in Texas or something. It's just again, you know,
I can't divulge. I'm not under oath.
Speaker 2: Oh tigers would irritate me. Yeah, he said that at
the beginning. Yeah, okay, I just want to make sure
AJ coming in here after he just had one go
off the foul pole. It's much better to be on
this side of the fountain. By the way, came in
and beat the Astros two straight games, and the walk
carts here exactly.
Speaker 5: You know what I was at one time thinking, if
I ever ran into AJ in the woodlands, you know,
whut a place that serves the fermented grapes, that I
would possibly send over a glass.
Speaker 4: But now, no, no, it's not no, no, no, Jay, no,
no no. I know how much money you make, he
needs to buy you a beverage. That's true, that's true.
Speaker 5: But you know it's usually one of those things like
I mean, remember that in the movie Funny People, Adam
Sandler talked about it's funny how you get rich and
you get everything for free.
Speaker 4: Connor, dang, thank you. That's two's too you got you
got two more left in you. We're down on an
hour and seven minutes left.
Speaker 5: For the show, So just being I'm being judicious with them, Okay,
I got you. I just I don't don't want to
go to the well too often go to I will
say this, and this is uh, this is a completely
personal take.
Speaker 2: I've had a really good time in my broadcast career
working with a lot of coaches that I've had tremendous
respect for, and general managers, a couple of owners. But
if I was to put together a list of my
five favorite people that I've had to deal with, Ages
on my list. I've heard that they were like personal
friends now that we go break bread. But he's just
as thoughtful as it gets. He's a super smart guy,
clearly by his Stanford ties m he clearly matured after
his time in Arizona, where he would be the first
admitting he was overwhelmed by the being a manager at
his age, I can flat out manage you took He
took a dormant Detroit franchise.
Speaker 4: First of all, he made sure the general managers that
was there before got out of there because he's like,
I can't work with this Jiboni. It was a villa, right,
I think him it was a villa. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And he treats, he is patient, he's stern when he
has to be and and look I like Joe Espata
a lot. I liked Dusty for a variety of reasons
as well. But if you just said give me, give
me a j hinch on a new ten year contract
to come finish out his career as a manager of
the Astros, I would take on a heartbeat.
Speaker 5: I think most of the fan base would too.
Speaker 4: Nothing.
Speaker 5: And it's again, it's no disrespect to Joe Aspata, it's.
Speaker 4: Just whatsoever, because a really good dude too. He was.
Speaker 5: He was here for camelots. He was camelot. I mean,
he was everything of what we think of this current
incarnation of Astros baseball being. By the way, you mentioned
Dusty and I know that Dusty is a huge music guy.
Did you ever ask him about his love of yacht rock?
Speaker 4: I gotta believe that rock. But he would definitely bring
up some music.
Speaker 2: We would play bump music, and he always thought our
bump music choices were good. So that's how we used
to ice break until we'd ask someone difficult question than
Dusty be like hey man, yeah, or he'd drop a
damn dude on us.
Speaker 5: Yeah about injuries. You ask about injuries, But no, Dusty
is an easy going guy with the wine and everything
like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's a West Coast guy.
Speaker 2: Now, so I may see Dusty in a couple of weeks.
As a matter of fact, Rockets put the Kings in
sacramentoal he lives in Sacramento areas.
Speaker 4: So come by on the broadcast.
Speaker 5: But maybe you ask him then, Hey, you know, are
you much for yacht rock? I guarantee you on his playlist.
He's got some Christopher Cross, some Michael McDonald. I guarantee
you he don't.
Speaker 4: He doesn't. I mean, if you don't have Michael McDonald,
Christopher Cross and who else would be a good band? Toto,
you're just not You're not living life the right way.
Toto is a great one.
Speaker 5: And and Weezer did a great of Africa two. They
did a cover of it. It was fantastic.
Speaker 4: We don't we don't say Wheezering does great with any
conversation piece.
Speaker 5: They did a really good job on that.
Speaker 4: Are you sure yes? By the way, Connor, did you
see the song that got sent to me? Uh for
the yacht Rock remix? I gotta I gotta send it
to you. I gotta send it to me. We'll play
it at one twenty. How about they so well? You
know what we're gonna do. We're gonna play. You know
what you can't do. You can't play enough cool in
the gang? Right, what are you laughing for? You can't?
Speaker 5: You can't. I was agreeing with you because it put
me in a good mood.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you're gonna hear, you're gonna hear some cool
in the Gang.
Speaker 2: To open up the final hour of the show, a
little ode to what was the excellence that was Joe
Mixon and he is today's topic on believe it or
not that it's coming up in about fifty minutes from now.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Come on
in join us.
Speaker 4: We are open line the next hour of the show.
Speaker 2: It is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Dan filling
in today and we want you to come hang out
with us at seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety The Cougar's final football home game is this Saturday,
six o'clock against the Baylor Bears.
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Speaker 1: Be there, lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 3: Texans aren't spending a lot of time at the line
of scrimmage.
Speaker 5: Once they get up there.
Speaker 3: Hand the mixing cutback Joe Mixon, Goodbye touchdown Texans. You
can see the center Jared Patterson making his second start
there at center.
Speaker 1: He gets Mozzie Smith on skates and you've got.
Speaker 3: Joe Mixon who he cuts back a nice crease there
on the backside. Excellent job up front by the offensive line. Mixing,
I'll walk in touchdown Texans.
Speaker 1: He wants to run the ball right at the Dallas Cowboys.
There's no doubt.
Speaker 3: They come in feeling like they can get it going
with the issues that Dallas has had stopping the run.
Josh Butler, who I mentioned making the start tonight, he
gave up contained.
Speaker 1: And Mixing bounces it for the score.
Speaker 3: Second and six, rush All knocked out of.
Speaker 1: His hand and ends up in the arms of Giton.
He gets it knocked out by Patree.
Speaker 3: And the return for the touchdown by Derek Barnett. Barnett
with the defensive score one on one with Derek Barnett,
and he comes in, makes the play and then he's
also able to get it after it bounces around and
run it in. Mixing, touchdown Texans, and the second half
drought is over for Houston.
Speaker 5: Betta go Texans thirty four Cowboys ten.
Speaker 4: Frankly, I'll give you credit, and you've not bright about
this enough.
Speaker 2: So far final Hour, the Matt Tomasjoe with Ross congratulations
in your heads.
Speaker 5: Hey, let others heap the praise. Brother, that's the way
it is. No no self promotion here.
Speaker 4: All right, very good? I like it seven one seven hot.
You know, if I had hit on the head, i'd
been talking about every ten minutes.
Speaker 5: Of course, I know that.
Speaker 4: You know they call me mister modesty.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say.
Speaker 4: I mean, in addition to that, in your strong work ethic,
I mean, you know, God, God, God forbid, there is
an Astros afternoon game. Ever, God forbid. I'll say this.
I have two amazing careers going at the same time.
Speaker 2: But it's these uh, these games in milliwalk a that
take three hours to fly home because of a terrible
headwing you when you get to the house at three twenty.
It doesn't necessarily the ten o'clock timeslot doesn't necessarily give
you a lot of time to get that extra rest,
so to speak.
Speaker 5: No, I mean that's why you know, you're kind of
venturing into the morning show territory where when you do
morning radio, you know the lifeblood of morning radio is
the post show naps. Like if you don't do the
post show, nap, You're You're done.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love Adam and Adam more than life itself,
but I'm gonna be asleep by two o one.
Speaker 4: Just gonna be brutally honest with you, all.
Speaker 5: Right, So after two on one we can have endless
shots at MT got it? Oh yeah to in the notes.
I put it in the show doc.
Speaker 4: Okay, going good? Yeah? All right? Well you put some
hours in yesterday too. You produce their show? You did
the Rockets? Did you getny calls? Last Center? Was it hard?
Because of the rock text? Brother?
Speaker 5: It is just like, all right, here's number three, Connor.
Just like in the movie History of the World. Not
a one, nay, nay nay, not a one ding.
Speaker 2: For those of you that don't know, we are counting
the number of movie references that Dan Matthews brings into
the sports commentary spectrum that is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross and he's at three so far.
Speaker 1: So we're working towards a push.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 2: The thing about you is I don't have that memory
of movies like you do. Granted you probably have seen
more than I have. For sure, I can now I
can refer to television shows like anybody's business, but movies
is a hard one for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's a blessing in occurs. I mean
it's a blessing whereas you know, in terms of being
able to fill four hours of content, sometimes it comes
into play. But I've often told my mom that I
wish that I was able to retain, say, like financial
information a little bit better, Like if I knew like
everything about the stock market like that, that would I
would trade that for that in heartbeat, Absolutely, Yeah, do
a little day trading in addition to doing this every day.
Speaker 2: The worst part is for me is that I can
tell you the eighty six Rockets five starting lineup, or
I can give you the Astros ninety eight lineup for
the most part, but I can't tell you what Cameron had.
Speaker 4: For his fifth birthday party, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: That sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then that gets the wife Madden that whatnot
so well.
Speaker 5: I mean it's also too because obviously where I was
this was when the Astros started to rise to prominence again,
so I would wear my Astros hat a lot. Of course.
Then you get the people who you've always been an
Astros fan and that was my thing. Give me a year,
Give me a year. Nineteen ninety eight, Sean Berry, a
third base platuning with Bill Spiers go all the way
around and I'd be like, yeah, brother, I go all
the way back to the dome. Don't try that with me.
You thought you knew you came correct.
Speaker 4: That's right. That ninety eight team still hurts. And look
we've got two World championships. I should get pass it.
But it's almost like that first girlfriend you had that
you thought you were going to marry.
Speaker 2: That's ninety eight. To me, eighty six was just a
nice I was too young to be in a relationship.
That was the first girlfriend. But ninety eight hurt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean because eighty six I wasn't even one
years old yet. My parents actually left the deciding game
because they had to come home and take care of me.
The sitter was gonna have to leave soon. What Yeah,
so they had to come home and make sure that
their less than one year old son was okay.
Speaker 4: Now, granted that game did go a bunch of extra innings.
I understand that, but still.
Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, you got to get a better If
your babysitter is not has to understand that if you
are if if your clients, if your customers are going
to a supporting.
Speaker 4: Event, they're not going to be done in two hours
and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5: Sorry, yeah you would think not, but I mean I
was a game two in ninety eight when Wagner gave
up the game tying home run to Layerts right in
front of us, and then Billy Spiers with the broken
bat walk off single to write.
Speaker 2: Okay, well there was some good times then seven one
three two, one two five seven ninety If you want
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seven nine zero headlines Texans win against the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: I've been asking this question all morning long, and certainly
want to do that for the one o'clockers that are
with us.
Speaker 2: Let's you know, and we've never done it in a
on a numerical scale one to ten, I'll say this,
and you go and and then you go, Dan satisfaction.
Speaker 5: Seven Now that was gonna be mine, so were unanimous.
Speaker 2: Ten would have been like what the Detroit Lions of
the Jacksonville on Sunday. Yes, absolutely, one would have been
a field goal at the very a fifty eight yard field.
Speaker 4: Goal by Kimmy Fairbarn at the buzzer.
Speaker 5: I'd agree with that. I mean especially too, like you
just made with the Detroit Jacksonville reference, because I think
that's what people want. They want like beginning to end domination.
Like remember last year against the Steelers, like that was fun.
Like you were like, I didn't know that this team
was capable of this, like especially right now, Like no way,
and they did that because I mean the way the
season started last year, you were kind of like, all right,
I get it. I mean, rookie quarterback, you know, just
young guys across the way, right, young head coach, year
as offensive coordinator. And then they went to Jacksonville and
you were kind of like, all right, that's cool. And
then they beat the hell out of the Steelers and
you're like maybe, actually, and.
Speaker 2: I got news for you. Detroit's gonna have a really
good year in sports. Michigan won the National Championship. Now,
of course their coach got disgraced and had to leave.
But the Lions, and not that we're gonna do a
deep dive on Lion football, but I watch a lot
of that game because the Green Bay Chicago game kind
of bored me when I was in Chicago.
Speaker 4: How the hell are is anybody going to try to
outscore the Lions in a football game?
Speaker 2: Because Baltimore can't do it, the Texans can't do it,
Kansas City might be able to do it, Buffalo might
be able to do it. Not that I'm trying to
put Super Sunday on the map this early, but we
got to deal in realities here.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, like I said, though, it only takes
one either Saturday or Sunday in the postseason and it's
all over. I mean, that's kind of you know, you
can play your best football all the way up to
that point and it's not gonna matter. So that's the
one thing that they have to guard against. But this
seems like it's a team that's well coached and well
prepared every single week. So I don't necessarily see the
hype not being met. But I mean, again, there's there's that.
I mean, I'm trying to think who in the NFC
you could possibly look at and say, yeah, they they
could get them with with a good game. I mean,
I guess the only other team that's really good in
the NFC is the Eagles, and I don't see that happening.
Speaker 4: I really realistic unless Jared Goff throws well, I was
gonna say throws five interceptions, but that doesn't matter because
he's still wins games that way.
Speaker 5: Well, then they're gonna stop doing the chance at regular
grocery stores there in Detroit Pistons and red wing games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right? Seven one three, two, one two five
seven Nini one to ten. How satisfied were you about
the performance from your Texans yesterday? And more importantly, how.
Speaker 2: Excited about you? Are excited to you about them winning
the next three games in a row, because it's happening.
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Speaker 4: Not be yacht rock to me.
Speaker 5: Though I was gonna say this, almost like could have
like convinced me this was a justin Timberlake song. But
they just like play this when I was hosting a
quiet Storm help me in the beginning of it was
quite graphic. Quiet Stone is the yacht rock channel up
on the setle Oh.
Speaker 4: It's always up. It's on three eleven now. It used
to be on Channel fourteen, but they moved down. The
only played during the summer time.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, yeah, you got to bring that
back dur in the warm weather months.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm serious.
Speaker 2: I might have to take a day off just to
watch that documentary about yeah rock over and over.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if somebody were to put you to it, your
favorite all time yacht rock song, I have mine.
Speaker 4: Oh, you know, that's a great question. We've talked about
this sport. I'm gonna go with Sweet Freedom by Michael McDonald.
Speaker 5: Okay, thunder Island is mine.
Speaker 4: Hmmm. It's a good, well, not one of my favorites,
but definitely a very much a yacht rock jam.
Speaker 5: It's gonna say you're the the full sail is up.
Speaker 4: Jib Ross hates and we talked yacht rock usually then
made up genre. It's real and it's spectacular. Yeah it is.
Speaker 5: I mean, especially to our caller. Was it Alex from
Conro Yeah, oh, Alex definitely listens to some yacht rock.
I mean if you're right there near the water or
on the water. Yeah, it's it's with.
Speaker 4: Some wine coolers, orma with a Johnny Rancher in the bottom.
Speaker 5: I mean I think back in the day when those
were in vogue.
Speaker 2: Yes, although Seltzer's have kind of made their return as
being pseudo those things that you just mentioned. Yeah, but yeah,
I mean I would say that the Seltzers are really big,
you know, Like the one that's a direction and a
time of the day is a really popular one right
now with the different fruit flavors.
Speaker 4: High Noon.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I never had one really good.
Speaker 4: I'm not a Seltzer guy.
Speaker 5: I am for like high New like the other ones,
the ones that aren't with vodka, I'm I'm not as
much for them.
Speaker 2: Okay seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
Speaker 4: Let's talk to uh Dave.
Speaker 2: In Spring at one twenty four The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross featuring Dan It's a lot of work, Hi.
Speaker 12: Dave, Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 14: Guys? How about anything by? Anything by Christopher Cross would
probably sit in your game.
Speaker 4: But amen, But uh.
Speaker 14: Hey, listen, I've was telling your screen call screener. I've
been listening to a lot of talk radio today, so
maybe this has been covered at nauseum, but I'm just
starting to wonder a little bit about Demiko's judgment in
some of these games. And just last night early in
the game. I mean, you guys saw that backward pass
by the Cowboys, uh that we just let it go,
you know, didn't challenge it, and it was clearly a
backward pass that was not caught, so it was a
it was a free ball. I think we recovered it
and the rest didn't call it and ended up going
right back to the you know, the Cowboys just ran
another play and it was all done, and then the
other one A question was going for you know, it's
like fourth and two and a half when you have
a seven tough in the lead early in the game
and we pass on three points, you know what should
have been an easy three points, don't get the first down.
I mean, it's just sort of I don't know, I mean,
what do you guys think. I think he's in a
bit of a second year slump, sort of like CJ
is in a little bit of a second year slump,
both of them. So anyway, that's my comment.
Speaker 4: Okay, thanks for the phone call, Dave.
Speaker 2: Again, pardon my inability to give you this the deep
dive into the game because I was calling rockets last night,
but I did see enough to go over.
Speaker 4: I've said enough of Demiko, I would.
Speaker 2: Say, as a in game play caller, risk taker judgment,
I would say he's probably about a sea. Would that
be fair or is that too harsh?
Speaker 4: Too little?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 5: I mean last year was fantastic, as you know Dave referenced,
and this year he's still been good. I think that
the only thing that Demiko necessarily gets in trouble with
is he trusts his players as a whole a lot,
and sometimes that trust can kind of cloud his judgment
a little bit. Like I got what he was doing
last night when he let them go forward on fourth down.
It was, hey, we're doing this because I trust you,
like your CJ. Stroud, I trust that you're gonna make
the play. And it didn't work where you're like, come on, man,
kick the field goal. But I mean, aside from that,
I don't really have any complaints about the job that
Demiko has done. Like I can't look at any of
the four losses this year and say, actually, no, that's
not true. The Detroit one when he sent Kaymi fairbearn
out for that fifty eight yarder. I was like no, man,
like no, especially you know what you Yeah, that play
he should have on Foard on fourth down because the
same result would have happened. If you don't get it,
at least you backed up the Lions a little bit.
But because he went for the field goal, moving the
ball back, it made it a shorter feel for Detroit. Well,
it's and that's exactly it is. I was even gonna say,
punt the football, I mean because Townsend had actually had
a good game that night, So it's like, give him
a chance to be able to pen them deep. Your
defense has already forced five turnovers in this game. They've played,
all in all, a really good game. The only time
that they started to falter a little bit was when
your offense was going three and out and having them
out there too much.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Again, there isn't any massive malpractice, but I would probably, Man,
it's just tough because again my feeling is and Dan,
I've talked about this a lot with Ross. I think
the average coach just does a very poor job in
general and generally making decisions. I mean, I've just never
run through an sister run an NFL coaches saying, man,
that was a great.
Speaker 4: Savvy move by this guy.
Speaker 2: I've seen guys as good as Belichick and as good
as Andy Reid screw up two minute drills and timeouts. Remember,
football coaches always think they're the smartest guys in a room,
trust to make tactical mistakes over and over.
Speaker 4: And over again.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean there was you know, a football coach
that he used to be here, who may or may
not have been baled and had a buttch in that
would let you know that pretty much on a regular.
Speaker 4: Basis, you're an idiot. Yeah. Yeah, Like I really.
Speaker 5: Honestly am thankful to God that I was not here
while he was here. I cannot stand people like him.
I would say that there's you coach a game where
people run around in helmets and pads and hit each other.
A genius.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say there's nothing directly that makes me
think a decision made by the head coach cost this team.
Speaker 4: Could you have put games away? Could you have given
yourself a little more breathing room, a conservative plip pulling,
or the conservative decision making given other teams a chance
to hang around? Yeah? I think all those are fair,
and I'm not saying I'm not trying to overdefend Demico.
But I don't think there's been something so egregious, Like there.
Speaker 2: Have been times where I've watched the Jaguars or the
Colts make bone headed decisions. What was the game we
had a few weeks ago where oh it was Detroit
in the first half that ran the ball three times
in a minute fifteen left to go and then gave
the Texans all that film. I mean, that was Dan
Campbell be completely boneheaded coaching decision.
Speaker 4: We've seen a lot. I mean, I feel like we've
seen a lot of that this year with the posing
Texans coaches.
Speaker 5: I thought you were going with Buffalo with McDermott trying
to throw the ball.
Speaker 2: Uh oh yeah, yeah, the two straight passes, one was
almost intercepted, the next one was intercepted right about right
about that.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, so there was that one too where I
mean you set up Baron to win the game, kick
the field goal and win the game.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 5: I mean I think that it's obviously the shortcomings of
the ones that we look at the most because it's
never going to be oh man, hey, the coaches put
together a really really good game plan for this. I mean,
Demiko is not wrong Yeah, it's execution. I mean more
often than not the coach is going to get the
blame for it. But when he says the truth of
the matter is we have to just go out there
and we have to do it, he's not wrong.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 5: I mean right, CJ's got to play better. The offensive
line has to be better. I mean, yeah, he's not wrong.
Speaker 4: All right. One thirty is our time. We got believe
it or not?
Speaker 2: Coming up in twenty minutes here on the radio program
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Did any
of you peek in on the Texans the Rockets game
last night?
Speaker 4: As the Texans game.
Speaker 2: Was pretty much out of hand by the end of
the third quarter, close game for the Rockets. Rockets still
playing some excellent basketball, and uh have a chance to
get fat happy this week, I think, with some very
winnable games against the Indiana Pacers tomorrow and then two
games with the Portland Trailblazers coming up on Friday and Saturday.
Rockets in the fourth spot in the West. But there's
sixty seven games still left to who played I know
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
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Speaker 4: It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk
SEVENINNI Fred all over the top of his head, longed
to shangun.
Speaker 9: He can't gather hands it off, try to to Japari.
Speaker 4: He knocked it away and it's gonna be a ball
game and a win for the Bucks.
Speaker 3: Alpi was wide open underneath, but could not hold out
of the basketball.
Speaker 4: He tries to tap it back in bounds of Tarreason,
but by then it was too late and the Rockets
five game winning.
Speaker 1: Streak is gone.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That pass, I think Fred admitted was too far, about
a foot too far.
Speaker 2: At first, I was upset with Alp. I was like,
come on, man, you got to bring in that ball. Yeah, yea,
the same thing, the little too much, the long court view.
I was like, man, that's not on Alp. Yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah.
I looked at on the second replan, I thought the
exact same thing.
Speaker 4: But many honest is good. He really is. Dame has
taking a step back.
Speaker 2: I mean, I gotta be and now granted he used
to be missed the previous games with a concussion protocol,
but he can still take over games when he wants to.
But freaking Brook Lopez knocking down three pointers like they
were layups, And.
Speaker 5: That was one of my keys at the game. I said, hey, look,
you know, uh Jannis and Dame, we'll get there, so
limit everyone else. It wasn't only him, Gary Krint, Gary
Trent Junior in the first half. The hell to Bobby
portis jeez, yeah.
Speaker 2: I still want one more dead I shoot, I don't
know if Reid's gonna be Shepherd's gonna be able to
crack that shooter rotation nineteen twenty minutes a game. Guy,
I don't think that's gonna be in his cards this year.
Speaker 4: Don't know. That could certainly change. But this team, if
it wants to take that super leaps, gonna have to
get a I'm not necessarily even saying a star, but
just a dead eye shooter. Does that make sense to you? No?
Speaker 5: And I've said as much to you as well that
I mean you definitely need at least one. I mean
maybe even two as well. I mean, does one crack
the starting lineup and then another one is off the
bench for you, But yeah, at least one that can
come in and you know that you can dial up
a couple of three threes and they're able to Yeah.
Speaker 4: Kind of be that is it?
Speaker 5: Vinnie Johnson was he the was he the Microwave?
Speaker 4: Yes? He was the Trampissons. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: So I'll give you a little more of a recent example.
JJ reddick him on the Florida matter what team he
played for, and just shut jumpers.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 5: And then he was a pompus jerk.
Speaker 4: That's true. But he went to because what else are
you expecting?
Speaker 5: What is it about those duke guys?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 5: Like they seemingly are that way? Like I dealt with
Danny Ferry at my previous spot. I mean, just insufferable,
even as an executive. You want, yes, really the worst huh,
smartest guy in the room. Like when they hired Mike Budenholzer,
somebody asked a fairly innocuous question and Danny was like,
he's not going to answer that. You don't have to
answer that. It's like it's his introductory press conference, Danny,
that's when he does it.
Speaker 4: Huh. The things you learn, haven't Dan Matthews on your
on your stande?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean if I ever found out Oh yeah,
the Rockets have added Danny Ferry to the front office.
Speaker 4: I'd be like, no, there it goes all right.
Speaker 2: Keith in the Woodlands at one thirty nine of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross Hello.
Speaker 4: Keith, Well, hello, folks.
Speaker 1: I was calling this as a teacher.
Speaker 4: I was listening yesterday.
Speaker 18: So there's a name change at a minute made I
think y'all were talking.
Speaker 4: About dik In Park.
Speaker 18: Yeah, diyk In Park, okay, And so I had to
go in a meeting, so I couldn't hold I wanted
to call and throw in my two cents and maybe
it's already been y'all asking about nickname. So Diking is
an air conditioning company, Is that.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, HVAC.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: So anyway, so I.
Speaker 18: Was thinking maybe for the ballpark it could be called
the Big Chill something like that, the one I.
Speaker 4: Keep seeing more thanything else. Keith is the ice box.
I hear that, But we have juice box.
Speaker 18: That's that's so that's so uh what I want to say, obvious.
Speaker 8: I guess juice box, ice box, big kills cool.
Speaker 4: And the field could be called the Killing Field. Okay.
Speaker 18: So we got the field and the stadium.
Speaker 4: So that's just my two cents. Thanks, gith Uh. You know,
I'm not a big nickname of ballpark guy. I call
it what it is. I mean, it's it's not something
that I'm going to lose sleepover. No, right, it's just
more often than not, I'm going to the park. That's it. Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 2: I've you could air check me dan over the last
twenty years and I pipes the juice box less than
five times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we had to call our Josh, was
it earlier? And you've said from a minute made park
And I didn't want to. I didn't want to correct you.
Speaker 4: But what did I was I supposed to say? Oh,
dik in park?
Speaker 5: Right, diyk in park.
Speaker 4: Oh dang. It's gonna take a while, you know, we
had to do. We ought to have like a tip jar,
like a what do they call it when players find themselves? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we should have a kangaroo court. And every
time we catch one of our on air hosts calling
at the wrong stadium, then we got to put a
dollar in there.
Speaker 5: That's gonna be a pretty nice little haul for whoever
you know is deemed the winner at that point. Is
that like almost like the past the hat game at
at baseball games, Like I had a dollar pass.
Speaker 4: The hat since I was at a game at Wrigley
Field about fifteen years ago.
Speaker 5: I even forget the rules too of how to play it,
but I mean it looked fun the group in front
of us that my parents' astro season seats used to
do it all the time.
Speaker 2: By the way, real quick on that, I was talking
about being in a game in Chicago. You know, Regular
Field had Ohio State versus Northwestern on Saturday?
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 4: Are you all ready to see a football game at
Minute Dyke in Park?
Speaker 5: I mean we're in Texas. I feel like we don't
really have a shortage of good facilities to be able
to add football game at But you don't think.
Speaker 2: It's I see, I'm I'm always into the atypical places
to watch games. For instance, I love when basketball games
are played on on ships, you know, when the military
hose has games played on there on you.
Speaker 4: Know whatever aircraft carrier, aircraft carriers.
Speaker 2: I love when NHL hockey goes to sports stadiums and
plays outside.
Speaker 4: I think that's really cool.
Speaker 5: I feel like the NHL one is a little bit
more because I mean still, the sitelines are pretty decent and.
Speaker 18: All of that.
Speaker 2: Now, I remember when Wrigley Field had an NFL game
or a college game years ago, they only went one
direction because they were worried about the wall.
Speaker 4: Did they do that again this past week?
Speaker 1: No, they didn't.
Speaker 5: They actually put padding because their whole thing was, well,
we're playing at Wrigley Field. The ivy is what makes
Wriggley Field what it is. And of course there's a
brick wall behind the ivy, so you don't want somebody
going full speed into a brick wall. But they did
have padding behind the end zone at the right field
fence area of wrigley Field this time.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna go ahead and say it. I
want to see a football game at Dyk and Piking Park.
Speaker 5: Yeah, as long as it's not the one sideline thing
like that's always so goofy. I never understand that.
Speaker 2: I got another one for you. I want to see
a basketball game at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York.
Speaker 5: See now that one, because it does look like gets
configured where you could do it.
Speaker 4: Sure, Yeah, it's a stadium setting with on a tennis
care plenty.
Speaker 5: Or yeah, I think that could work. You know, you're
actually going to get a college football game on a
major league baseball field again this weekend. Notre Dame and
Army from Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2: Okay, but they have a bowl game there, so that's
not of the ordinary. And Fenway has a bowl game
every year too.
Speaker 5: Fenway does, I think, doesn't the Diamondbacks Stadium.
Speaker 4: Whatever it's called now Chase Field, right?
Speaker 5: Then Seattle used to right, And I want to say
that maybe even one of the lower tier San Diego Bowls.
Speaker 2: Is now played at Pecco Park. I did call a
Utah versus Georgia Tech football game. This was Calvin Johnson's
last year at Georgia Tech.
Speaker 5: Okay, so Shogia Holla was CPJ. Coach Paul Johnson love CPJ.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you have forred that because nobody know what
you're talking about. So we played it at the Giants
Ball baseball Park. They put the media, the broadcasters, the
broadcast crew, which was me in the Giants Baseball press box.
I had to call the game length wise. It was horrific.
Speaker 5: So length wise you mean like all twenty two yes.
Speaker 2: Meaning that once the ball got past the fifty yard
line on the other side.
Speaker 4: I had my silent reporter whisper in my ear what
yard line it was. Yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 5: And it's also too, it's becoming more and more that way.
I mean full straight on press boxes that are in
like the premium possible seating areas, those are gone.
Speaker 4: Like VanderMeer had to call the Texas game yesterday was terrible.
It's like in the corner of the end zone.
Speaker 5: I think I said there about like the thirty five
is where I think they were. And I know that
Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. I think it's the same
way too. They're about the twenty five to thirty is
where they're at.
Speaker 2: Okay, but as long as you're high up at something
big of a deal, I'm just sure. And again, the
general audience listening to us doesn't care what the broadcaster
is called the game. I just think having a game
at Dykin Park would be interesting. It may be a
complete disaster, but why don't you.
Speaker 1: Try it once?
Speaker 4: See how would go.
Speaker 5: Well, it's also too, I mean, what do we run
into with a lot of these Bowl games. We run
into these huge NFL stadiums that are not even halfway full,
like for example, maybe I'm letting too much out of
the bag, but what the hell the Texas Bowl. I
do know that whatever the team that they believe will
have the most, they have that fan base on the
opposite side, away from the cameras, so it looks like
it's more of a filled up stadium.
Speaker 2: Right all right, let's play Believe it or not? Next
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Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna play Believe It or Not here
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Speaker 19: Hey, DNN, sorry for calling towards the end of the
show my my points quick. You know, tough loss for
the Rockets last night, but you know last year they
probably lose that game by twenty points being back to back,
So you know, overall, everything's seems to be encouraging so
far what I've seen this season. I think you said
you put the satisfaction level at a seven for last
night's game. I would agree with that. I still think,
you know, they offensively, they're leaving a lot of meat
on the bone, but you know, I'm not going to
dismiss scoring thirty four points on the road, especially where
they've been struggling. And last night was it. Last night
was a get right game. The next two weeks are
our get right part of the schedules. As long as
we can keep everything everybody healthy, let's get it right.
Speaker 4: Thanks guys, Thanks damn for the phone call. Appreciate you
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Speaker 4: Ninty Nick, You're ready to play. Believe it or not?
Believe it? Nick. Joe Mixon's middle name is Tyler. Believe
it or not believe it? That's right. Statement number two
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Speaker 2: Joe played his college football at OU, but originally committed
to UCLA.
Speaker 4: Believe it or not, flat, that's right. He was owe
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Speaker 4: Believe it or not? Yes?
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Joe Mixon remains close to the former teammate Joe Burrow
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this past summer.
Speaker 4: Believe it or not? Believe it?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, you're such a nice man. I
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what was your favorite part of today's radio show?
Speaker 11: The beginning?
Speaker 4: Joe Mixon's Twitter.
Speaker 2: Account is Joe Underscoring Maine Mixon and he has over
one hundred and eighty six thousand followers.
Speaker 4: Believe it or not.
Speaker 2: Many, Yeah, he was doing his homework at the beginning
of class, right there at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 4: What part I should have tested him?
Speaker 1: Sure he should have.
Speaker 5: We had so many great moments today.
Speaker 4: The movie references. We had your thirty four to ten prediction,
we had you.
Speaker 5: You tricking me on Laverne and Shirley I know.
Speaker 4: I mean, so much entertainment in so little time.
Speaker 5: We're giving you. We're giving you gyms here, this is
what you give us.
Speaker 4: Come on, we got Bronni on the line. Line What
is Bronni? This is like in Bronnie James?
Speaker 5: Only one way to find out Bronni.
Speaker 4: On seven? Are you ready to play Believe it or not?
Speaker 12: I'm ready.
Speaker 2: Joe's pregame ritual food wise, a strawberry smoothie, two scrambled eggs,
and a chicken breast before every pregame.
Speaker 4: Believe it or not?
Speaker 10: I don't believe it.
Speaker 4: No, I made that up. That sounds good, though it
does sound good.
Speaker 5: A lot of protein in that bad boy, A lot
of protein.
Speaker 4: Not heavy stuff in there either, so you can still
be light on your feet. Correct. I thought it was
a great question. Yeah, Marcus on SEVENINTI Marcus, you're ready
to play Believe it or not? Ye?
Speaker 2: Joe has four one thousand yard rushing seasons in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Believe it or not? You don't believe it? That's a
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Speaker 2: While in Oklahoma, Joe was an African American studies major
Believe it or not? Believe it that's right, Stament number
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