Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Ted on one an ah chown A.
Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome to a Thursday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross here on Sports Talk seven
ninety where today four more hours of Texans preview because
no one else is doing in the marketplace. I'm really
frankly ashamed of our in our market because you got
a Texans team in the Division A round of the playoffs,
and yet there is so much conversation about buying La
Olympic tickets right now. It's just crazy. Ross, Thank god,
we're here for you. We're here to cuss and to
discuss the Texans game against the Patriots. Yeah. A lot
of World Cup talk firing up, I think too, a
lot of the World Cup. There's been a little conversation
about the college a lot of conversations about the college
football platform, which no one in Houston cares about. I
mean the final tonight Monday. Okay, I knew that. Yes,
I was testing you. No, okay, whatever. You name one
Indiana player not named Fernando Mendozo. Yes, it's that that
defensive end that's really good. Mm perfect. I would say
the exact same thing, is it even Fernando Fernando Mendoza,
the Heisman Trophy winner Man Cordy yesterday when that Oregon quarterbacks,
Like I'm staying it's like, man, the big news. I'm like, yeah,
he came in here. He was like I was programming,
k got shot. Yeah, he was like did you guys?
Speaker 3: Do you guys hear the news?
Speaker 2: Tybar? Can you believe it?
Speaker 1: Or like what I will give credit? And I was
like the the Longhorned, the Longhorn wide receiver. Oh that's
DeAndre More. Yeah. College football fan loses its mind over everything, yes,
like I lose my mind over the universe. Oh god?
Oh lord? Was that was that a drop? That was
cal Thompson locked on something? Goofy, No, he's unfiltered or whatever.
He's there. They got beef, they got rivals. Do they
have a fight. I think I think that's kind of
like an unspoken like rivalry. Yeah, like they're they're definitely
foils for each other. I mean they're they're competing SEC podcasts.
It's one of those things like yeah, yeah, you're doing great, sure,
why not? Yeah? Okay, so myt is like Kobe Bryant,
Lebron James, you know, but they're not calling each other out,
they're not fist fighting, but there's a little something there.
It's not like the Anchorman news teams meeting in the
middle of the town square. Yeah, there's exactly. They're not
throwing hand grenades and tridents, but there's like unspoken tention.
Where's that going with this? Oh?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: When the University of Houston does something, it's very important
to me. When the University of Texas does something like
went over Vanderbilt yesterday, I'll not discussed. Don't don't watch.
I know for I'm fighting horns. What one at Alabama
on Saturday's beat Vanderbilt on Wednesday? It's too one win.
Let's go also have a win over Rider? What and
fairly Dickinson? Are those teams any good? Are great? Shamanad
they be okay? When the University of Houston does well,
University Texas does well. We love our respective. If there's
like a game on, I'll watch it like you're talking
about SEC. No, I'm just in general, but I mean
Homeboys there, Cole and Gord. They lose their damn mind.
Oh my god. The linebacker from South Carolina is leaving
to go to the draft. What is he thinking. That's great, man,
they're passionate about it, about it. Yeah, that's they're They're
way more passionate. College football fans are more passionate about
their sports than member any other group. Congratulations, because look,
here's the reality of this. When the Astros suck, y'all
didn't give two blanks. When the Rockets suck, you didn't
give two blanks. When the Texans sucked, you made fun
of Cow for five years, We're still making fun of Cow.
That's true. Does a Texan how about this one for
a ridiculous tease? Does a Texans win help them get
a new facility? I don't know exactly if it would,
but it wouldn't hurt. Oh, it certainly wouldn't hurt. I
just don't know if you attached direct victories to how
tax money is being spent. I don't know what the
political pulses in Houston, Texas field. Okay, I haven't checked
the exit polls or the any polls. Are there any
polls out there? I don't know. We could do it one.
I bet you they're doing I bet you they're doing
their own kind of polling. Oh, let me tell you
they are. They're not stupid. They're going to and then
they hired a president a year ago that was has experienced,
so he not only knows about opening them, but he
also knows when to open the press conference with, Hey,
we really need a new facility. Yes, And for those
of you there's a generation out of you out there
and our younger audience that doesn't know what that's like.
I lived it for five years in Houston before. Like
I want to say, ninety three to two thousand was
nothing but that. I wouldn't say nothing but it, but
it was a large part of the show. Because the
Rockets got the arena, didn't pass the first time, they
got it a second time around, the Astros had to
wait and basically had to think about going elsewhere. The
Texans or the Orders did move when we didn't give him,
didn't give Bud his stadium. So, and this will be
your first guar on to that. H I ain't worried
about it. I wouldn't wory about it either. It's not
gonna but it will be much more of your conversation.
Never thought it would be to leave. I think you
keep bringing it up in your right where they're not no, no, no,
the NFL istan leave it's just gonna be your question.
What they're going to refurbish energy or they're going to
build a new stadium. My guess would be outside of
Harris County like Chicago Bears, Geary, Indiana. How weird is that? Yeah?
Gary is not a good area.
Speaker 2: Ooh.
Speaker 1: In Texans, let's go could be the Clear Lake Texans
could be? Is there a plot of land? I don't
even go south? The Fullsher Texans a little too far,
the Stafford Texans, the new Waverley Texans. There, the cut
and Shoot Texans. That's funny. Like Jacksonville they're getting a
new Uh, their new stadium is gonna be I guess
either rebuilt again or a new one. They're gonna play
a year with half the stadium not working. I mean
they're gonna dramatically reduce the facility of the capacity, and
then they're gonna go to Orlando for a year. Which
team the Jacksonville Jaguars. Really? Yeah, that wasn't that weird? Huh?
They finally took the tarps off their regular stadium. They
actual had a full crowd last week and then they
went off. They weren't rewarded with anything. They went home
sad Jaguars fan is a saddust fan in history because
there's no other professional teams in your city. That's true.
You when you are a one horse town, you are
gonna get one the town. And well this horse is
pretty beat up. Think about this. Arizona's gone to super Bowl,
the Saints have gone to the Super Bowl, and one
one who lines have never been, Lions have never been.
But there's other sports teams in there. I mean, yeah, well,
I guess the Pistons. Hey, we'll see the Pistons next seek.
As a matter of fact, pizza, pizza. Let's go great
media dining. I heard Lord, Lord second best media dining
in the league. All right, I said you were keeping
track of it. I wasn't. Okay, So here's what I
got going for today. Since again we're the only show
in town talking Texans preview, we'll continue to go over
some elements. We will continue to give you our regular
Thursday feature, which is I just don't get it at
eleven thirty. We're also going to do something that Instagram
has been doing and I got caught up to speed
with this today is a great friend of mine sent
me on Instagram. You know when you put a bunch
of pictures in one area. What do they call those?
Not a landscape? What is it called? Because I did
one today, it's a layout? Okay. And I was in
a picture of hers from twenty sixteen. Okay, everybody on
Instagram and social media is going back to twenty sixteen
today for some Okay, that's great. So I thought we'd
do that a little bit. Sure. What was it like?
And I kept looking for photos of you and I
from twenty sixteen? There was nothing there. Okay, I can
maybe find some. It'd be cool if you did. I
went at Facebook. I didn't. I don't know. Can can
Twitter go? We had short hair and no beer? Can
Twitter send me back to twenty sixteen? I mean I have,
but I can have to scroll like twenty thousand tweets?
Speaker 5: What I not?
Speaker 1: You can go? You can go look for tweets from
a specific date. Okay, leave, all right? Well we can
do that because I want to. You're going to be
astonished at how the sports landscape was in Houston in
twenty sixteen. Remember in twenty sixteen, Rossie, we did not
have two World championships. We had a young James Harden
that was the the astros were struggling after the big
twenty fifteen wild Cards. And I want to also say, Rossie,
did we not have brock oswater running the Texans? Is
that twenty sixteen? Uh? I'm trying. I have some photos
from twenty sixteen in my phone. Okay, and even with
you and me? No? No, well I got some barbecue.
I mean, barbecue is still good back then. Were the
lines as long in twenty sixteen as they were? It's
just from killing's good for you? Oh, I have my
when I went to when I went as Pablo Escobars Halloween,
I have my mustache. Okay, should I tweet that out? Yeah,
there's zero percent chance on tweeting I did I Did
you see my my collage? Or Jonathan? Well, it's not.
This camera and his cameras frozen. Frozen it again. Imagine
that he not moving. No, he's blinking. Oh there he is. Okay, good,
He's really alive. He's just locked in. Look at him now.
His eyes aren't moving there. Oh no, he is moving.
See for those who don't know, Jonathan's in a different
studio and we can't see him unless our camera's working,
and our cameras only work about forty percent of the time,
all the time. Okay, it's true, but yeah, photos of
me in twenty sixteen. I think I was at two
hundred and ten pounds. I think I want to say
give or take, okay, and I'm one now I'm now
at one eighty eight, which is fine.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a little worried about you. You're withering away. No,
I you know I do a game way on the road.
I mean I really game. I'm role scared now you
shouldn't be. We're fine. Uh okay. So that on the
agenda today, we'll talk a little bit bout twenty sixteen.
We'll also get into what's going on in twenty twenty
six when the Textans are going to go to New
England on Sunday. And have you now my first blush
guests on this team on Tuesday was I had it
fifty one forty nine in my mind, favoring the Texans
over the Patriots. Oh, this is when I went to Columbia. Sorry,
I'm looking at pictures twenty sixteen. Do you want to
take a break so you can look at some horror? Yeah,
go ahead. Rossica looked through his personal photos. The one
who brought it up. Yeah, but I didn't ask you
to look through photos during the show. You kind of did.
I did. I. I said look for stuff for you
and me. Yeah, that's true. It's you. I'm sorry you're
not involved. So that was your sixth of the show. Okay,
were we in the we're in the mornings during the
twenty sixteen maybe, yeah, I don't know what figure in
dark days. They weren't dark. It just was too literally
dark and it was literally dark.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say this, love your morning host, yes, whomever
it is. If you choose a morning show, just love
on it because those you just you don't get an
normal life. Not easy. I mean, especially if you're a
sports fan, because you can DVR and if you want to,
but more times than not, you don't want a DVR.
You want to know. You want to go to bed
knowing that a particular game ended. Now tonight, it's a
good night because the Rockets do play at six thirty
against beautiful Oklahoma City Thundery. Wow. Dan Matthews will be
on the postgame show. Really look at him putting the
hours in. Well, I did Sunday and Tuesday, I'm doing Friday.
So oh no, tomorrow night. It's a little different. Yeah,
we had Tim and that bad boy up to I
believe eleven thirty PM. Correct, it's take thirty. But you
get our drift. But would you see what Kevin Durant
said that we were a second half town, second quarter town.
It's on Twitter? Oh really, is he wrong? No, he's
not wrong. Okay, this is an indictment against anybody except
the people that go to the arena. I mean, you know,
not indictment against the city Houston. Just a rocket fan
shows up late. A little bit of an indictment. Well,
I mean it's indictment to eighteen thousand people and that's
a six million Oh look, uh no, never mind, all right,
Broster going to look through his photo album those pictures
with me and l twove in twenty sixteen. There was
always one to me a George Springer and aj Hinch. Okay,
I'm not worried about that. I'm talking about me and
al Twove. Oh that's fine. And Michael Manner, you put
your photos out there, all right? Seven one three two
one two five seven? Hoey, Look what's on esp and
U right now? Miami versus A and m first round
playoff game on hundred thousand people in Calefield. How'd that
turn out? Aggie? My poor son went to bonfire, went
clicked on this on accident. Let me find something else today.
Ain't m even scoring? And they had a field goal
in the game right now? They scored, Man, they scored.
They can get shut out. Congratulations by Miami team. By
the way, Notre Dame is Notre Dame has be pretty
quiet during all this Miami run. Have you heard that? Uh,
Marcus Freeman's been talking about how great Notre Dame is. Yeah,
and he's like, I commend my kids for not wanting
to go to the Pop Tards Bowl. Would be the
best bowl not named to see bowl. Right, it's good
the most. I got a ton of ratings even without
another Dame. Yeah, it's funny. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. We've got more on the Texas
to get too. We'll let you hear of what's going
on in the locker room. We'll also get you something
ready for the Rockets and the thunder. It's a time
for revenge. After Opening night's double overtime loss ten to fourteen,
Sports Talk seven ninety all right, So trying to figure
out all the little intangibles about the tensions and the
Patriots coming up on Sunday, Bros. Says to me, Hey,
there's a chance to snow in Foxborough. So I went
to the Weather Channel forecast Sunday during the day, mostly
cloudy with snow flurries and snow showers, especially in the afternoon. Yeah,
I uh, I follow. There's a fantasy website. I follow
Rodo Grinder's chief meteorologist, and he's always very good on
that stuff, just in for football purposes and how it
impacts football games. So yes, he said the same thing.
Snow flurry or even snow showers wouldn't shock me. I'm
not expecting impactful amounts of snow. Winds stay fairly light,
and that's the most important thing. Snow cold whatever, that's fine.
When there's a ton of wind, that's when the game
really starts to get affected. So under ten miles an
hour sustained, so not a whole lot. So he says,
all in all, it might not be perfect weather, but
it's not good enough to not cause any it's good
enough to not cause major issues. I don't care how many,
how often the Patriots practice in it. Bad weather is bad,
I mean less than idea. Weather is harmful for both sides.
There have been very few teams that I've watched in
my life now. The only time I've ever seen teams
really embrace it is when it gets ridiculously collect them.
You know, the Miami Dolphins have never haven't won a
game in decades when temperatures under forty degrees. I think
it's always been discussed. I know that if you are
like there was a game that I when I was
living in Minnesota when Green Bay played for the NFC
Championship where it was like was the Giants Packers when
it was like minus ten green Bay or something crazy
like that. I mean, I don't want to make something up,
but I felt like there was a year that recently, No,
this is when I was living in Minnesota. This has
had to go about that one. There was the Chiefs.
One was really bad recently, remember people got frostbite. Yes,
the last couple of years. Sometime now. I'm not not
that I'm not worry about the fans, but the players
are going to be properly. They're gonna have heaters, they're
gonna have these those full length coats. One. I mean
they're gonna be little helmet heaters. The equipment staff can
be ready. Jalen Petriet's gonna love his little beanie cap
that he's He's gonna have extra protection, yeah, extra patting.
His head will be warm. But uh, the only thing
to me would be if it's so ridiculously cold that
you can't keep your mind thinking on the game, that
then that would make a factor. Thirty five degrees for
the Texans. They've been they were in Pittsburgh last week,
they were in Kansas City last month. Steelers fans say
they're gonna get frozen out. Where are those Stealer fans?
I mentioned it's like you're calling them out and they're
not listening. But that's okay. May I tweet hey, Steeler Nation,
your guy Ross is waiting for you to respond to
last week. No, I quote tweeted myself and so I
said something. So you get responses when when they're they're
they're in morning, they lost their coach, their team sucks,
they need a quarterback. Yeah, but they should be happy
they're over there booing tom They're chanting fire fire Mike
Tomlin and booing them. Where's the Steeler delegation in Houston.
They're Steeler fans every time they come here. There's thousands
of them in the stadium. They're in every sitting in
this country. Can we reach out to the Steeler Fan
Club Houston chapter if you actually do that? No, why
you want to pour salt in our wounds? Because, like
I said, they might be happy. Okay, all right, because
a lot of Steeler fans hate Mike Tomlin. But it
feels like to me, the people that were attacking you
found you on for you. Tab he hadn't exactly I
got it somehow, I got the Pittsburgh for you, and
that's when that's when the anger really ram ratcheted up. Thanks,
thanks Elon. But you know what I do now, and
I've told just before, and maybe it's to my detriment.
When an out of town person attacks me, I go
back at them tenfold. Oh really, I mute him and
move on. That's five smarter. I Uh. But I just
I wonder what percentage of Steelers fans are happy that
Mike Tomlin is gone, because there were some and they
were he was getting mooed and they were chanting fire
Meg Mike Tomlin at multiple times in the season, which
Aaron Rodgers called them out for and said it was ridiculous. No,
I know, I understand that. No, you're you're not going
to appreciate Mike until he's gone. Oh yeah, especially you're
already on the back foot on this coaching search. Now
there's only been one higher now, right, John Harbaugh, has
that done? I think so pretty close.
Speaker 5: Sun.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it sounds like it's gonna happen. Yeah, so the
next dominoes will fall, but you're late in the game. Well,
the reality is you're gonna go get a coordinator. If
you are going for the number one agent, John Harball,
you're probably way too late on that, But everybody else
is gonna be probably frankly a coordinator somewhere. I would
get the brightest offensive, innovative offensive mine you can find
and get that guy. I would, Yeah, because Pittsburgh needs that.
I mean, I don't. You can't create a prolific offense overnight.
But if you have an offensive mining coach that understands
that goes to tell's the general manager. Hey, was it?
What's the gap game in the Pittsburgh GM. I can't
remember cons Cohn, isn't it of some sort. See that's
what I was trying to avoid. Yeah, Omar khn Omar,
I see I got happened, right, Cohn of some sort. Yeah,
I was in Omar's sort. I didn't say Omar. If
somebody Omar, I said, mister Kahan. So I actually Smar
coming Omar Khan. If you go, if you go hire
the coach, well, first we're gonna Omar. Cohn's making the
hire with obviously the Rudy's blessing on this, but you're
gonna want to align with what the Pittsburgh Sailers want
to do. And I think if you're the Pittsburgh Sewers,
this is the greatest opportunity for you to kind of
tell Aaron Rodgers thank you very much for your services.
And I don't know if you go after free agents
and quarterback train the door hit you on the way
to your darkness retreat. Yeah, those darkness retreats didn't turn
out to be so well for them, did they. Maybe
it's good for him. Actually, I think I would do
something like that. I'm thinking about doing something like that.
You mean you'd go into a dark hair room for
multiple days, no phone, nothing, Huh? Absolutely? How do he
get fined. When I go camping and I go to
the woods, I stay off my phone. That's nice and
I love it. It is a great way to refresh
your mind. Uh, I think I wouldn't mind it, but
I have a wife and children, so it's difficult for
me to do that. It'd be fine if you're away,
like if you're in like Washington for a week, there's
nothing you can do. But if a cell phone couldn't
change all that by you know, hey, something's going on.
I mean that my wife, my mom's battling cancer right now. Yeah,
it would not be the time to do it. Maybe
you're ten years from now. Okay, in ten years. Trying
to get you to relax, Matt one day, it's not good.
Happened to this Hawaii trip? Years to go on. We've canceled.
I need you to go on relaxing vacation. It's just
not gonna happen, you know what. In all, honestly, I
relax when I get to stay in like, uh, where
we're going, Yeah next week is not relaxing. We'll talk
about this offer. Yeah, not right to air your laundry
going on a different city and not having a show
and on a weekend. It's relaxing. Yeah, I need you
to go on a beach for a week and stare
at the stare at the waves and the sun properly
sunscreen of course, want burning I got I am the
pasty white guy. Yes, yeah, and just relax. You could
go with you well, with your wife and kids. Is
not going to be relaxing. No, they'd be fine. Yeah,
give them some money and send them on their way.
Go go on going all inclusive, go go to jet ski. Yeah. See,
just don't do parasailing. They don't have the regulations. That
doesn't feel like it's very relaxing. It looks dangerous. Arms
would all be tense, like, am I gonna fall? Don't
google parasailing accident. It's a mascot. I don't want to
do that, Okay, all right? Seven one ere two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. We're gonna run through some of
the audio we got from Texans practice yesterday. I let
you guys here a little sample of what's going on there. Uh,
there is some interesting baseball news we could very well
during the course of the show today. Have a Kyle
Tucker signing it sounds like it's down to two teams,
and it sounds like one team I win and one
team you win. I have not seen eight years anywhere.
The Toronto deal would be a long term, that's the thinking,
but nobody's ever mentioned eight right. Long term could be
five or six. He's not signing a five or six
year deal. Are you sure? You seem very confident? U Uh.
It would be four, it would be three or four,
or it's gonna be like nine or ten. I think
seven one three, two, one two five seven, ninety seven
to one three two, one two five seven. The Pittsburgh
Steeler Nation has weighed in as well, and they said,
what glad he's gone. Oh, I would probably say when
you look, when you lose a first round playoff game
again and you don't score any odd touchdowns, it's pretty
easy to say, don't hit atx hobo girl. Also, I
was going to bring this up leaning defense, because that's
what they do. I mean, Tomlin Cower, Chuck Nole defenses
back in the day. But I'm sorry, you gotta go.
You gotta evolve with the times. Steelers Nation, it's an
offensive league. Yeah, defense can win.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Texans are trying to disprove that, and
you can win with a defensive coach, but I would
say it's the exception more than the rule. So for
the third consecutive day, Ross, I get in my car
listen to uh the Warning wake Up Call with Dan
and the Dan or the Dan in which I thought
it was. This is the six am two ten am
show on Sports Talk seven ninety that's the name of it, right, Yeah,
that's it. And they're talking about something we've talked about
a lot this week that I don't think we can
ever get past. When we come back again and tell
me what that is ten thirty on seven ninety. So
I was listening to, uh, wake up Call with Colan Dan.
Why are you shaking your head? That was called we
should be supporting our fellow brethren the into this show
me the Morning Drive, right, you're not even sure? Not
even I said it with confidence though, The Morning Drive
with you going Colon Dan or Dan and Cole. I
don't think Cole ever gets top billing? Why not? Great question?
I mean alphabetically it's Colon Dan, Dan Dan. We do
on this show. It's matten than Ross. Okay, Uh, first
and ten this morning was talking about the issue that
will not be not this. It can't be not discussed
over and over and over again. And we're guilty as
charge of this as well. Okay, I listened for about
a half an hour this morning. People can't get past
the c J Stroud contract negotiations coming up with the
next year or so. I've been thinking about it. Well,
but you're not the only person who talks about sports.
I mean, I'm just saying I listened for a half hour.
It was CJ's loss, his confidence, CJ's loss his swagger.
How in the world can you put fifty five to
six million dollars in front of him? Is he? And
this is the one I heard. I don't know if I
heard it on this show or at their show or
another show during the last day or so. You know
the Airs on a Cardinals thought they had a quarterback
in Kyler Murray. Yeah, maybe that Ray was money. Even
when that deal was sign people are like Kyler Murray, well, hey,
what do you think of tomorrow day Stroud? Wait a minute,
if the announcement to can tomorrow the c J Stroud's
on long term contract, people are like sure about that?
New York Giants Daniel Jones. You don't mean to tell
me you don't think of his rules. Jones are good, Yeah,
ain't y'all. But I mean, that's what I'm telling I'm
telling you he's gonna get paid. I'm not telling you
he's gonna get paid. But we gotta get ready for
the really on top of our hands, Matt that really,
oh really, you're gonna go up there and go on
to Hannah's podcast there slapped the pin out of his hands.
Listen to me, Hannah, listen, Hannah'm very closely. You're gonna
need my support of a new stadium. I'm influential in
this town, are you. I'm gonna I can help. I
can make decisions for people, not really who yeah? What?
Uh yeah? What kind of pull you have with the
you don't know you. You don't know what value my
poll until I actually try to pull something. What Okay,
fifty five million dollars probably gonna be the low bar.
David uh what is his name? David? And uh Mulla
Gett is going to say, look, goot his numbers. He's
not getting a hometown discount. Hannah's like, we gotta pay well, Anderson,
I don't care your decision to take two guys in
the top five. I'll let you figure it out how
to pay him. Okay, David Mulla Getta by the way,
Longhorn alump, Well, then maybe you can love a phone
call to him, say one bro long horned or other
bro long horn Okay, I like the Texans. Now I
need I need my quarterback to be happy with a
very successful defense. I don't. I don't need Daniel Jones
version two or or Conner Murray version two. Now that
you brought it up, I'm trying to think of quarterbacks
who got paid that. People were like, oh, I don't
know if they should do that, and then it worked out. Mahomes,
Nobody was saying they shouldn't pay out. Oh you're saying,
got queasy about it, and then all of a sudden
it worked out. Oh that's a greybe Jared Goff at
the Lions, Jack Prescott, Nope, Jared has been great. He's
been great, but it's not but it at the expense
of other positions. Jared joneses well, Jerry Jones didn't know
how to run a team.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see if Mike held on, if Dak Prescott would
have taken seventh or eighth money, which what which is he?
He doesn't have to do that, that's not his that's
not his responsibility to be a cost cutter. Is Michael
Parsons still out Dallas Cowboy? Probably? The answer is yes,
Michael Parsons, Katie Lamb too. That's true. But they pay everyone,
but you can pay something. People were like eh on
the Jordan Love deal, and I think that's working out
even though they lost their playoff game. Maybe a Green
Bay Packers radio might know Packers radio. I'm just trying.
I'm looking at high as AA VS. People weren't sure. Well,
I guess Jayleen Hurts. How's Jalen Hurts doing financially? He's
doing great, but he also signed before well before he
had this potentiallyanchise. Yeah, people weren't sure about Jalen Hurts
and they won a Super Bowl and now they hate
Jalen Hurts and ye they do, they do hate him.
Uh I purty good quarterback? Oh big money because they
were thinking, well, if he doesn't want to come back,
you got to save money for Mac Jones. I'm just
looking at fifty plus million quarterbacks here. Josh Allen Obviously
nobody thought that was a bad deal. Noding Love is
fourth and AAV so maybe Jordan Love is the parallel.
How how is packernation feeling about George before it? Before
before they were like eh, and maybe he's been good?
And maybe that's the argument with every quarterback. No matter
how much you love a quarterback, you're gonna be a
little squeamish about paying. That's why there's so much conversation
about winning games. When your quarterback is on his rookie county.
You have my personal guarantee C. J. Stroud will not
fumble five times this weekend. Okay, we have that down.
Write that down and you put your name on it. Yeah,
I put my name on it. You know the weather's
gonna be than Pittsburgh, no way. Know how he fumbles
five times? No chance? And think about this, You just
you just gave you gifts, gave the most optimistic Texans fan.
Hope he fumbles five times and you win by four touchdowns?
Could happen he fumbled five times and they won thirty
to six. Now, the Steelers and the Patriots are two
different animals, but they're road games in cold weather. H
It gonna be all right? How Snico Collins doing?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Did you check the injury perpose yesterday as a DNP.
I believe he was. I believe he was in a
Tahitian hotel getting a rubdown. Really, Yes, that's good. I
guess I'm glad he's not in the neurology center. Funny
Joe Mixing didnt show up on their injury break. He
wasn't in brain surgery. That's true. Joe Mixon, what what
has Joe Mixon has? Has he tweeted since he tried
to dunk on Ian rapaport and say he was gonna
be fine? The insider may have information. Oh here we go.
You wait a minute, I said, I may information, but
sometimes you don't have to. You cannot give an information
just because you want it when you want it. I
gotta give it to you in due time. I'm doing
some investigating, okay, And when I'm done with my investigating,
I'll be happy to share it with the audience. All right,
But yeah, there's some time for Woodward and Bernstein had
to track down all their sources. That's exactly right. You
got to check your sources with three different people too,
That's true. I'm just telling you there is something uber
shady on this. Yeah, something bad happened. Yep, something off
the bingo board. No, yeah, a cler tear, upper left
hand corner, shoulder separation down on the bottom right, grade
two ankle sprain. It's right in the middle there. Yeah,
it's off the bingo board. Shot his own foot on
the board. That's as we were at the betting board.
It'd be the field. We'd be betting the field. Shut
his own funed. I mean it could happen again. Why
they Plexico did it twenty years ago? Why why are
they protecting him? If he was the dumb ass he
should he should be told the world, hey, we have
a running back. We want to pay Hi a lot
of money, and he shot himself. What's the point?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 1: What good will is? Are the Texans giving by not
telling us? Are they hoping he's back next year? They're
looking to avoid criminal charges, like you said, or somebody
said on Twitter, I think, hmmm, So now the Texans
are trying to are trying to hide potential police activity?
Is that what you're saying? No, this is Sean Watson
is like I didn't have me once. This is what
you lead yourself to that Texans, when you shroud everything
in mystery. Even if it's bad, just take your lumps.
Say it. In June, he's out for the season. He
discharged the firearm accidentally into his foot. Let's move on.
That's right, because guess who get to shade at that point?
Jooe makes it. Joe makes it, takes the hit, and
then we move on with our lives.
Speaker 2: We wouldn't be.
Speaker 1: Talking about it right now. Sario is like, I don't
even I told you you let the story grow when
you don't confront it. Matt. It really in the big
picture thing. It's not really growing. It's just kind of smart.
It's more let it take over your lives. I can sleep.
It's like any sort of issue with you in your
personal life, Matt, you've got to take You gotta confront it,
you gotta get on in front of it. You gotta
be honest. Would you like the most to not let
it grow? Speaking of that, you know you are something
I need to see therapist. I didn't tell you that. Well,
I think you've mentioned it before. Okay, you know how
weird dreams? Yes, you need to see there. I had
an all time disgusting one yesterday. No, I don't even
want to know when you and tub girl were doing. No,
it was not involving a woman. Okay, would like here,
would like some dreaming it. I need you to analyze
the dream on air next or off air? No, okay,
And you said it's disgusting, it's disgusting. Oh my god.
All right, let me get you know, the doctor is in.
Let me get my notepad out, Jonathan, we need some
cathartic therapy, you like if you're going to therapist, you're
laying on the couch. I need to know, all right,
a disgusting story in my dreams last night. And this
dream only lasted about two minutes, but it was two
minutes too long. Ten forty four on Sports Talk seven ninety,
ten fifty on Sports Chalk seven ninety. Rockets and the
Thunder are playing tonight at six thirty. The game tonight
is on Amazon, but of course right here on seven ninety,
I'll have the call with I think Adam Clinton's working
with me. Wax will have the launch pad at five thirty,
six thirty the start time, which means you need to
be in the building by six fifteen.
Speaker 5: Mm.
Speaker 1: Not likely six they're ah six fifteen start time, folks,
sicks fifteen tip and if you're not in your seat
by six sixteen, the seat goes open. Anybody that wants Yeah,
I like that. All right, I haven't looked. What do
you think the line is? I'll go five and a half.
I thought I heard four. Oh you heard four. But
I'm just making it cause I wanted to say four
and a half, but I was like, ah, maybe one
extra point okay, so kind of four and a half. Okay,
So I kind of stuck with my gut, kind of
taking my horrible nightmare. Okay, go ahead. So those are again,
I'm sure many people, some people can sleep straight through
the night. Are you straight through the night sleeper? Generally speaking?
Oh hey, hey a doctor villary. Now, I'm glad you
asked me that. First of all, I'm glad you're here.
You're welcome, you're trying to help yourself, and you're trying
to improve it. What's your cop by the way, it's
gonna be one fifty damn. Do you have an HSA?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, if you, if you can go ahead and give
me that card information right now, let me get my
story out of the way. Okay. Well all right, Well,
first of all, the first step to helping yourself is
starting with me, and that's very brave of you. And
I'm very glad that you're here, and I'm happy and
I'm proud of you. So I just wanted to thank
you for being here and landing my pockets. Okay, this dream,
which is a true nightmare. Yes, so I've been sleeping
at about ninety minute increments for the last week or so.
That's that's not healthy, man. I don't disagree with you.
I matter of fact, I told my wife last night,
I'm gonna start screenshoting every time I wake up. Well,
you could also get perhaps a fitbit or an Apple
watch and try to track your sleeping that way. It's
been helpful for me. I can only relate my own
personal experiences, and I would highly suggest doing that. It
can track your rim sleep, your high sleep cycles, your
low sleep cycles, and you can even set alarms smart
alarms with it to help you wake up better. Apparently,
when I looked at my phone and said, Matt, how'd
your sleep go, and my sleep said you sleep like
the pu emoji. So yeah, all right, here we go,
doctor Hillary out. So I'm in an arena and I'm
doing I'm sharing the PA duties for a game between
Denver and Oklahoma City. Okay, Denver and Oklahoma City. Yes,
you've only called PA for the Rockets in the Olympics
and the Olympics and the good Will Games and needs
to be around. But that's a different issue, and that's
you had to learn Mandain. You were the Beijing Olympics. Oh,
I worked in London games. I forgot about that, okay, okay.
So the guy that started the game, I don't know
who it was, had this big board of names on it. Okay.
And he says, so the guy said in the second quarter,
you're going to take over. So the game is moving
very quickly. He gets out of his chair. Yes, I
run to the PA spot because we didn't want a
basket to be scored. No one say anything, okay, So
I sat down. This is this is a gods on
his street. Folks and Jonathan jump and jump on this
as well. Second quarter of the game between Denver Oklambus
City and I'm calling the baskets like I would as
a P announcer. Huh. And there was a large plastic
cup to my left okay. And it wasn't my drink, okay,
but I was thirsty. Yes, so I took a swig
of it. It was a spit cup, as in like
a tobacco. Correct. I took a large swig of the
tobacco and then started hurling, hurling it all over the
scorer's table while still doing the PA of this game. Okay,
I was so horrified by this, this action of my nightmare,
that it woke me up for the fourth time that night.
I was gagging when you woke up. Not no, no, okay, no,
this is a this is a nightman. Never no literal gag.
Did you wake up your wife? No, she's to sleep, well,
she's have you sleeper. Let me ask you, why am
I dreaming about doing the PA of an Oklahoma City
Denver game with a plastic cup that's not mine? You
would never drink out of someone's cup that wasn't yours.
And then when you take the sweets chaw, it's chewed
up tobacco. Well, first of all, how could this have
entered your mind? Often, oftentimes, Matt, are dreams. Things that
appear in our dreams are things that we've been recently
thinking about, or have come across, or maybe even a
long time.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 1: Primacy and recency man, So perhaps recently you've come across
any any sort of tobacco spitting or have you done
have you seen any any what's the when's the last
time you can recall a tobacco spatoon being in your vicinity?
Last time I was in a tobaccos near a tobacco
spatoon would have to have been probably when Cameron was
playing youth baseball. Maybe, so we're talking ten years ten years? Okay,
that's interesting. So, uh, you were doing a job that
wasn't yours, correct for two teams that I don't work
in yours, and you grabbed a drink that wasn't yours, right,
and what happened? Your psyche rejected the things that weren't yours.
So maybe this is this is a message to stay
on your own path, Matt, stay in your own lane,
stay true to yourself, don't work jobs that you've moved past,
that you've grown from, in markets that aren't yours. And
maybe this is your your psyche rejecting you doing things
that you're not supposed to be doing, Jonathan, to thin
own self. To add to this is this is my apprentice, Jonathan, Jonathan,
what do you think about this?
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 4: Well about the very Hillary. It sounds like this is
an even deeper crisis than we think.
Speaker 1: What I think you could be right? I think I
think I was trying to be nice.
Speaker 4: Maybe our patient has you know, took something of others.
Speaker 1: Wow, oh interesting, Yes, I like this take.
Speaker 4: And maybe he just hasn't visualized exactly what he had
did that he's guilty about.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's repest, the repressed in there killing Well, people
are gonna first of all, they're gonna be thinking, don't take
your phone to bed. I listened to podcasts to fall asleep. Yes,
that's probably not a good idea. But if I just
I can't just go to sleep a moment, I need
a podcast to listen to. Okay, well, I would suggest
any number of techniques not involving listening to podcasts to
go to sleep, breathing. Breathing techniques melowtonin meditations have been helpful.
Sleep sounds se sounds all right. Listening to guys talking
about injecting steroids and wrestling each other's and getting tape worm,
they're not doing that. It's not really great stories or
not tapeworm ringworm. I should say, all right, I just
want to tell you all that, and again you're like, man,
you need more textans coverage. You're gonna get it three
more hours of Okay.
Speaker 9: But.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got some issues. I think my I think
mister Allen. You know, he's been graduated from a prentice,
he's full doctor now because he got a lot of
repressed issues. I just know from deep down in my
heart to y'all, because I do bear my soul to
you more than perhaps the other radio host do. I
have the strangest dreams in America. It absolutely makes no
sense what that was last night. I'm concerned about your
sleep habits. I would be concerned about my sleep habits too.
That's why I take naps between In this break, we're
gonna have a serious talk about sleep habits because it's
not right. That's why I'm sleeping between the show and
the Rockets game. Then getting little nap in.
Speaker 5: M hm.
Speaker 1: Okay. Hopefully no terrible dreams during that before the Rockets
gets thunder because I don't need shake Gilders Alexander nightmares
and I maybe I was thinking about today it's tonight's
game for some reason, I don't know. Maybe Denver, Oklahoma
City was the other team but you were in Denver.
I don't want to say I was in I was
just I was just in an arena. Okay, you're in
the Cloud City. All right. Back to more intensive Texans
coverage again. This is me a little part of me
telling you who I am now again. I couldn't make
up that sur if I tried to. But anybody that
ever used tobacco, just be careful with your with your
spit bucket or your spit cup, keep it far away
from anybody that would potentially be in a bad spot.
Speaker 5: I had.
Speaker 1: I saw a guy drink one at a college party
once he ACKed immediately. Is the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Love It O two Sports Talk seven nine. Here's
hour number two of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
You hungry, ROSSI am being a little hungry. I'm always hungry.
I woke up a little extra early, but I'm trying
to I try. Glycerides were up according to my doctor,
so I'm trying to cut out like high fatty foods
like cheeseburgers. Cheeseburgers are good, though I know I love cheeseburgers.
You know, Big City Wings serves great cheeseburger. Yes, Burger Mondays.
Now it used to be Burger Wednesdays, but cheese Burger's
on Monday, Monday. Yeah, that's a great deal. I was
there on Monday night football for the Texans family. I suggested,
I literally suggested it to everybody I was with. I
did not do a cheese I did a salad because,
as I said, my drug list rides are high. Okay,
trying to keep my fatty foods down. So no cheese
burgers for me. All right, let's get to what's going
on with the Texans. The injury report was out yesterday
and to no surprise, Nico Collins did not partake. It's
not a surprise, this is zero percent. He's not playing.
So we did have to ask C. J. Strout about
finding success for the Texans without Nico Collins.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, we're hoping, you know, Nico can play
and you know, be able to play this game. But
you know, if now you know, we we've had this
experience before, you know, played a couple of games this
year without him. Sadly, but you know, there's got all
our guys are talented and you have a lot of
death have room and you know, I'm the most confidence
and everybody in there, you know, to get the job done.
So you know, hopefully Nico is all right, but you know,
I think if not, you know, we gotta none else
we can do. Just go forward and you know, try
to you know, build with the guys we have.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine if he just said, oh man, we're
about Nico. We got no chance. Oh lordy, we're done.
We're gonna fold up shop. I don't even know we're
gonna go to the ball. He marks forty times, Nick
Kayley's not answering my calls. Yeah I cannot, Hey, I
cannot throw it to my tight end. Fifteen times a game?
Well you good? By the way, how many times did
I know athletes say you know a lot and we all,
you know, we all say it. We all have crutch phrases.
That was your point. That was a little excessive, but
that's neither here nor there. How many times did you
say you know? There was okay? And again, hold on, way,
get Jalen by the way, ready to go? Am I
good here? Let me let me test this out, all right,
all right, let's go.
Speaker 10: Yeah. You know we're hoping you know, Nico can play,
you know, be able to play.
Speaker 5: The game.
Speaker 10: But you know if now you know, we we've had
this experience before, you know, played a couple of games
this year without him, sadly, but you know he's got
all our guys are talented, and you have a lot
of death in that room, and you know the most
confidence in everybody in there, you know, to get the
job then, so you know, hopefully Nico is all right,
But you know, I think if not, you know, we
used to hot to none else we can do. Just
go forward and you know, try to you know, build
it with the guys we have.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even I can't even go fast enough. You
didn't notice. I didn't notice until now, Well what is
this way? He didn't say, Um, that's good. I say
too much. I say a lot of things too much,
but I I just I don't know. It just kind
of caught me off guard. Normally he doesn't do that.
I'll be brutally as with you. We all have crutch phrases.
That was that's a lot. I don't know why. I mean,
would you rather have had or you know, you know
what now I'm taking Patriots minus the points?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: He said, you know too many times? Oh stop, let's
get to the other side of things. Here's Demko on
the quarterback they will be throwing for the Patriots on Sunday.
His name is Drake May.
Speaker 11: I think Drake is doing a really good job of
making not making bad decisions with the football.
Speaker 1: He's doing a really good job of utilizing, you know,
where his playmakers are open.
Speaker 11: He's getting those guys to football and I think Josh
is calling it really well for him to give him,
you know, easy plays to make good decisions. And where
he's taking that next step is his ability to escape
the pocket. I think it's really doesn't get talked about much,
but he his athletic ability, his ability to escape the
pocket has been really clutch for them. He's made some
big runs to really hurt a lot of defenses, so
we have to be conscious of that. But he's making
good decisions. Good young player, has a really bright future.
Can throw the ball at all three levels of the
field very well.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's all accurate, good praise. So why playing sound
bites sometimes, I don't want to say waste of time,
but it's just it adds on what depends on what
the sound bite is. Some accents. What we've been talking
about giving a different perspectives. Demico does give you a
little something if you can want to read between the lines,
but not necessarily there and he's not going to do that.
Everything's going no, no, yeah, we got like five different
ways we're gonna exploit this guy. So the only way
we were ever able to read between the lines with
him is when he was cranky earlier in the year
when people were worried about his offense and time out year.
Remember last year into the year, and he was like,
we got to do this better offensive and we're like, oh,
Bobby Sloan's gone. Bobby put that four sales sign up
in front of your townhouse. There he was asked about
Balbi slowk and he like deflected the question or something
I can't remember. Yeah, he's not going to lie to you,
but he's not going to take you the complete truth
of course. And remember I always tell you this before.
It's okay to lie. It just is it makes it easier.
It depends on the situation. We had a situation last
week we were talking about where the oh it was about,
but uh oh, I remember it was about the Luca
Dante trade between the Mavericks and the Lakers. If you're
Nico Harrison and he's a general a general manager of
the Mavericks at the time. And someone says, I have
reports that you've been talking to five or six teams.
You just say no, I wasn't you gotta get the
market going going drummed up?
Speaker 5: Yeah? What a?
Speaker 1: And now there's talking about Anthony Davis being traded and
he's got a he's got Ligaman, Dana, Jen and Tay
and he's gonna be out multiple months. It wasn't Shams
tweeting about him being traded like he's on the market now.
I think he still could be traded because whoever wants
him wants him for a playoff run for the four
games that he might play in. What how old is
Luca twenty six or twenty seven? H they traded away
Luca freaking dunches? Is he he's back on the He's
back to Dewey. That's not good. Well, I think, uh,
you know, perhaps he needs to root out whatever issues
it is that causes him to overeat. Maybe he needs
to go on the ross villaryal diet. Let me get
my notepad out. What's happening is they're treating the symptom,
not the disease. They know, they're they're just going for there.
So what they're doing, we're opening up, they're not getting
they're not getting to the core of the issues. Because
when we go for too many things. You know, when
you're going for too much alcohol, too much drugs, too
much food, too much gaming, whatever it is, you're doing
too much. A lot of times you're you're trying to
escape from something. A lot of times that's something is yourself.
So what Luka Doncics needs to do is he needs
to get to the root of his issues and he
needs to figure all that out, and everything else is
going to fall into place because he is overeating and
he seems like he can't control it. Because a stretch.
So you can try to do it for a little bit,
it's not going to the workout, and an alcoholic cannot
drink for a day or a week or a month,
but eventually they fall back into old patterns on the road,
they're running away from something. I'm not talking about. You
look at Donchs. So what they're doing is they're they're
they're treating the symptoms. As I say, if you have
a running nose and a sore throat and you keep
taking medicine, but it turns out you have allergies because
there's literally an oak tree in your living room. Get
the tree out. Don't just keep taking medicine. Take care
of the roots. Get the roots that root out the issue,
root out the cause. Don't just treat the symptoms, treat
the disease. I don't want to go from here. We
were talking about Nico and Drake May, and we got
to a rando about Luca and then we went into
a two minute diatrame about his weight. I'm just trying
to help Luca dongeons. Yeah, you know what you do.
You are healthy people. If anybody needs any help, yeah,
doctor Hillarrial is here for you. I'm trying. It's seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero. JJ. Watt
had some high praise for who do you think Trick
May the team he used to play for? Mike Rabel,
Uh No, he didn't. He's not breaking down Cardinals. I
mean maybe maybe the Cardinals in the church, but not
the Cardinals he used to play for. Isn't it crazy
that he left with a double deck digit SAX season.
I went out on top kind of. I mean, he
had stoled down a little bit, but he was he
could have played more. I'm just happy he passed Sean Jones,
who tried to say he was a better pass rusher
than JJ Watt because he had more sex. Love you, Sean.
Sean also said he tried to say he said I'm
a radio career to actually he did, or he started
your say your career or something. He started it and
saved it all in the same month. Apparently everything is
owed to Sean Jones. I love that. Actually I believe it.
You shouldn't believe it. I think Sean's a liar, and
I love Sean. What a liar? Yes, Max, because you
know what your talent, the cream would have risen to
the top without Sean Jones. A good liar can also
spot a good liar and want to know what exactly
I got you exactly? All right? So we got some
high praise coming from JJ wabble. Let you hear from
that coming bank we got at bottom of the hour
we have I just don't get it. Okay. For those
who are new to the show, which, first of all,
where the hell have you been? Have you listen? You
listening to the cussing and discussion. Is that what you've
been doing? Come over here. We're going to entertain you
and give you a variety of things over four hours
every single day, ten o'clock. And should the c J
Stroud be signed long term? No, let's not do that. Well,
it'd be easier to do a show that way, but
that's not great radio. Yeah, we don't pick the low
hanging fruit, Matt. Well, I mean we can. We sometimes
do summertime, and we definitely do that. What's your favorite pizza? Dusky? Now,
so CJ's I should say JJ. We got these initials.
JJ is going to have seep some high praise. We'll
get to the rockets a little bit here as well.
And well, we have a Kyle Tucker signing between now
in the two o'clock witching hour of the Matt Thomas
Show with a ross. You just made my stomach foot flop.
I'm making your wallet flip flop. You better get that
same credit card out there. I deserve it. I I
can't even be mad. I will deserve it. Every every
bit you bring up, every scream, every tweet, everyone, every
every picture, I will deserve it. I can't even be
mad that is accurate seven one three two one two
five seven seven one three two one two five seven
all right, I love an eighteen here on sports talk
Sainnatti ross. Uh, I just told this a rassoman to go.
That Space City is coming today. They're doing a feature
on me U day in the Life of Me. You
don't seem too thrilled. I don't care. Ex Yeah, that's cool.
Middle of the season, obviously low on content. Playoff team,
get ready for the playoffs. You're looking for a ratings hit.
They're gonna get it today with me. Okay, great, So
they'll be in about one today. So if if Vanessa
comes back, I don't know. Vanessa worked ESPN last okay,
so I don't know if she's I gotta fix my hair.
I gonna be on TV. Yeah, you're definitely getting on TV.
Oh crud. When are they coming?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Should be between one and one thirty. All right, I'll
wet my hair about twelve forty five. Okay. I didn't
bring any hair oil today, do you are? Are you
a big hair oil guy? I normally in the mornings,
if I remember, like what kind of oil you're talking about,
it's a Moroccan sleek hmmm, I don't. It's good to comment. Yeah,
I guess it's better than sunflower oil. Yeah, I don't do.
You can put whatever you want in there. Coconut oil. Gross?
You ever cooked with coconut oil? Yeah? I guess no
avocado will have used. I got you a great seed guy.
All right, moving on my tears, my fault. This is here.
Oh by the way, great tweet from friend of the show,
Rich Southside Rich sixty four. Good morning to you, Matt.
Thirty plus years ago. Your nightmare actually happened to me.
I was in a bar shooting pool. Reached back behind
me and grab what I thought was my beer bottle,
took a swig, realized what happened, and right the restroom,
which is going to happen He went to the lady's room,
though no I went to recently went into the ladies
room one accident at a restaurant. I got the one
for you. How many times in your life, Jonathan, you
go first, How many times in your life have you
accidentally gone into the ladies room? Maybe like once? That's it.
That's pretty good. Nah, It's happened to me once this
year on the Rockets road trip going I think I've
done it twice in the last year. I was in
San Francisco at halftime of the Rocket's Warriors, and I
like to go to the bathroom right away so I
can beat the crowd. Did you use it? No, no, yeah,
you run it because once you see all stars. No no, no,
no no no. I've never gone to the rest. It's
not true situation. Urgent situation at a convenience store. So
I's wrong about that. You're at the stop and get, Yeah,
the come and go, you know what I mean? And
I had to go. Uh but yeah. I was in
the Rockets Warriors game in San Francisco and I ran
into the bathroom at halftime, realizing there was no stalls,
and I looked around and there was women walking in
and I was like, I'm out of town, and of
all cities, have probably let you go to bathroom in
a different ones' plaemption. That's why you're on that predator
watch list. That's probably so all right. J. J. Watt
was on a certain national television show we won't mention
which one it was. Okay, you guys can figure it out,
and he bragged about the local football team in town,
including the Texans defensive coordinator Matt Burke.
Speaker 12: He took over this defense after week three or four
of this year when it was when they were zering three,
and he turned them into the number one defense in
the NFL. Now, that's not to take anything away from Dimico,
who obviously has had the forty nine ers defense. He's
had this Texans defense playing well the whole time. So
Demico obviously has hands in all of this. But Matt
Burke has done an unbelievable job. And there's plenty of
people that when you bring him up in head coaching
conversations say well, can he bring Will Anderson and daneil
Hunter and Derek Stingley with him to the next job?
It's like, well, you could say that about literally any
coordinator ever that gets a job. Can can they bring
the Josh Allen with them? Can they bring this guy
with them?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 12: Yeah, if you have good players, you're not going to
do all this exotic stuff because you.
Speaker 5: Don't have to.
Speaker 12: You play to your team's strengths, and right now, their
team strengths are very strong.
Speaker 7: You don't need to do any exotic stuff. Matt's a great,
great dude.
Speaker 12: I think he absolutely should be getting head coaching calls, and.
Speaker 1: He is getting a head coaching calls. Is I believe
Tennessee was on the list to speak to you. Really,
they're talking to everybody, Well, why wouldn't you? I mean
you eventually, Amy Krunk. Strunk's got to get it right sometime.
How do you think he feels watching Mike Rabel doing
his thing in New England? How do you think Tennessee
Titan fan feels about Mike Ribbel being as successful as
he is. I think generally she probably is doing some
mental gymnastics to convince herself she still did the right thing.
She's probably still like, oh, well, you know what, we
don't have those players, Oh we don't have Drake May
and oh we don't have this. She's like doing all this.
Oh they had a soft schedule. You know who's probably
championing the Patriots had a soft schedule, Amy Strunk. Let
me tell you what Amy Strunk's thinking about it. She's
hate watching who is she rooting for this weekend? She
has a new stadium coming up. She got no complaints. No,
she's fine, but she's got she's hate watching this game.
She's rooting for the earthquake in Patriots Texans. Who is
She's Oh, she's rooting for the Patriots ever so slightly
because guess what, her dad never brought Houston super Bowl
a super Bowl. You're gonna let my vaybel getting one
step closer. Though, she can live with that lesser of
the two evils, That's what I'm saying. Neither like Vrabel
wins the super Bowl. Same thing. She can't deal with that. No, No,
she cannot handle the Texans going to the super Bowl.
She will lose her mind. This is actually, you know what,
I actually want to do a Twitter pool now, even
though I don't know how it's much, she's gonna resonate
with the people. Probably not much, but that's okay. No,
I I firmly believe she Again, both situations are less
than prime. Both she's grinning her teeth on are you kidding? No, waight?
The Adams family never brought a super Bowl to Houston,
and Hannah brought one. No way is she licking that
she hates the Texans and the Texans hate her. I
guarantee you. Hannah sent Amy a strunka krunka a text
and said, suck it, bitch. There's no you're guaranteeing me, yes,
suck it be there's zero.
Speaker 2: We got one.
Speaker 1: You didn't beides by, and then Amy says, look at
my new stadium. You don't have one yet. Bye. Oh yeah,
they're they're in a super Bowl. You might be getting easy.
They're catfighting right now. They win a super Bowl, the
resolution is gonna be on the ballot come fall. May
be the case. All right, back to board, JJ, he
thought of one player that should get more flowers and
he's getting Who is that? JJ?
Speaker 12: I've been saying this for many years that Danil Hunter
is the most underrated player in the league. He legitimately
is a Hall of Famer like he's he should be
a Hall of Famer. He is the least talked about
future Hall of Famer in the world in my mind,
especially if he continues to do what he's been doing.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, all right, I'm pulling up the all time sacklist,
Bob Way, would you also I'll look up his contract
stuff Danil Hunter? Yeah, because I got some terrible news
for going long term. You can't pay Will Anderson and C. J.
Stroud and Nico Collins and Daniel Hunter and he it's
easier to get rid of because he's thirty one, but
he looks like he's in the prime of his career.
So I understand he is under trek through the twenty
twenty sixth season, which is one more year. Yeah. If
you love Danielle Hunter, cherish the remaining games he has
in Houston, Texan, because I got news for you. The
Texas need a running back too, and I would think
you're gonna presume they're gonna be spending some money on
a running back, right they just can't can't draft capital
draft one and what round, second or third? Okay, offensive line,
first round, running back, second round, off line, third, fourth, fifth,
sixth round. Yeah, load upon lineman and running back. Yes, yeah,
don't miss on all o line Kenyon Green. All right,
So scro back to JJ is Blake Fisher. What is
Daneil Hunter's all time numbers?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: He has? Oh, I'm sorry that that sacks for everything? Yeah,
but I mean as far as Hall of Fame careers, yes,
it's hard to get those linemen in. He's thirty seventh
on the all time sack list with one one hundred
and fourteen and a half, tied with JJ Watt all time,
ahead of Khalil meck Aaron Donald was an inside guy,
but he had one hundred and eleven. I'm trying to
look at like Hall of Famers. He's ahead of Randy White,
head of Charles Haley, but those sack numbers. No, Charles
Haley had sack numbers. Charles Haley a guest on Radio
Row at some part of US. Warren Sapp also an
interior guy. I mean Danielle Hunter, it sounds like you.
I mean, if JJ has given an endorsements something, He's
very close to that. But it just it isn't roll
out the tongue when you're building your all time defensive line.
Daniel Hunter's not the first time you think of TJ
Watt has half a sack more than daneil Hunter all time,
but Daniel Hunter has two more years in the league.
He's tied with JJ Watt. He's ahead of Sean Jones.
Speaker 2: By one and a half.
Speaker 1: Oh don't tell Sean that. Oh lordy, while l Zato
with one hundred and twelve, but also most of his career.
I think they might have went back and Pro Football
Reference like went back and like watched tapers like that.
That's because you know they're not doing what JJ Watt says,
the Texans defense. You know, just how good is that defense? JJ?
Speaker 12: Two defensive touchdowns they get They had three turnovers on
offense the Texans did, and the Steelers still ended up
with six points on the night. Like, that's unbelievable to do.
The defense is just incredible. Will Anderson's insane. Miles Garrett
obviously very clearly the defensive player of the Year this year,
but Will Anderson's year is incredible and I could definitely
see defensive Player of the Year in the future for him.
Speaker 7: And then the back end, Like I don't know whose
sweet it was.
Speaker 12: I saw somebody quote it, but somebody said, the Texans
defense looks like a bunch of Veloci raptors holding machine guns,
eleven of them coming at you. That's exactly what it
looks like, dude. They are just hyenas out there just
flying and killing people. It moves different, it shakes different,
it hits different. They're unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And can they overcome oh below average offense. They've done
it once already, and they've done at about nine previous
times before that. They overcame it, well, they got four.
This is the thing too, though, The turnovers were bad.
The Texans gained four hundred yards in that game. That's
not nothing. Four hundred yards to like one seventy five.
I think for the Steelers, well again, Christian Kirk had
almost one hundred and fifty yards, yes, receiving him by himself.
I think we are with The turnovers were bad, the
fumbles were bad, but they were moving the ball with
Woody Marx. And as you said, Christian Kirk two hundred
and fifty yards of CJ. Stroud two hundred and fifty yards,
one touchdown, one interception isn't the worst line ever posted
by a quarterback, not even close. So they were moving
the ball. They just weren't punching enough sevens and they
turned the ball over in the in the red zone.
So be a little better, don't turn the ball over,
be a little better against a little better team, and
you're gonna win, which I'm sticking with nineteen to seventeen.
The Patriots are gonna score less than twenty points two
weeks in a row. Yeah, okay, I'll charge I'm better
Chargers defense or Texans Texans. Okay, Now, unfortunately, you know
one busted play or whatever. Whose defense is better, Patriots
or the uh uh Steelers Steelers com people know Steelers
comparable seven one three, Oh here we gotta we gotta
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there may be some sort of misunderstanding or you may
just something in life you just don't get. It is
a Matt Thomas show with Ross. Just make sure it's
still on seven one three, two one two five seven ninety.
This is where you calling with it. Literally anything could
be sports related, it can be life related. We are
here for you, because we will get back to the
Texans conversation throughout the course the next couple hours. We
do the Rockets game against the Oklahoma City thunder tonight
six thirty is a tip time, Well, cluck six forty
went you in your seats at six fifteen, So I'll
go there. And maybe the answer is, even if the
games are at seven or seven thirty, we are Why
are we a late arriving crowd for frankly all three
of the sports teams? Is it because of the venues?
Is it because of where they're located. Texans fans don't
get to energy until late first quarter? Is it tailgating?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 1: The club scene in the arena is really good, but
that's not eighteen thousand club seats. That's about two thousand
if you think about it. I mean most people in
the lower level canyon and getting the clubs upper or
lower unless you pay for it. Astro fans can get
their second inning. But that's a little bit different because
there's so many games. I think though all let me
just say, I just don't get it, Okay, I think
Astros fans are pretty good, especially playoff time, but it
took a while. It took a while. Yeah, maybe that's
part of why we get it. I mean, the Rockets
haven't won a championships. I mean, you tell me ninety
four to ninety five, was the crowd there early or no,
was it still late? I want to say they were
there early, Like, for instance, there's about four or five
places in the NBA that I go that they're there at,
Tip Times, Chicago, Toronto, Brooklyn, New York. Maybe it's just
the cult of the South. Maybe Atlanta doesn't get there
any faster. San Antonio does a pretty good job. I
think it's not any one answer, Okay, I think it
is a lack of team success overall. Long term. I
think it is Maybe you said maybe it's a cultural
or Southern thing or whatever. I think it is the
corporate crowd, especially with the Rockets, it feels like more
than the others.
Speaker 4: Well, if it's north for us as South, it could
be travel as well, getting to the stadiums.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, but I mean it's a decent location. Traffic's bad,
but I mean they have the garage, there's a lot
of parking around. I feel like, am I wrong because
I'm spoiled because I go to the garage as a
media member. Well, some people don't like the garage because
it's very congested around the garage. Yeah, but usually I
do postgame and it's cleared out. So I got no
problem with that personal spin on it.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 1: I'm no, that's what I'm saying. I'm spoiled. Yeah, yeah,
so I don't know. I can't speak to it, but
I think it's a team we're better, and that it
is the corporate. Like I said, I knew guy who
was not from Houston who worked with a bank downtown
and they had great seats, and he and his banker bros.
Would go to a happy hour and like, forget what
all the games? Oh it seven o'clock games starting, and
then they'd get there seven thirty eight. Like that's just that.
That's a lot of people do that. Or they also
just stay up in the in the club area. It sucks.
It has been an argument that sports teams in this
town have had internally for thirty years. I can't speak
to the Texans. Can we get WEX on the line?
West isn't am press by ten o'clock the morning? He
would building into this. Yeah, but he's he's in his
seat by noon, so he knows who I mean. Now,
how many times you look at people shooting videos or
a photos, it seems like a energy at noon at
kickoff and there's like fifteen twenty thousand MCCs. Again, we
can go back to the winning Well, never made a
freaking AFC championship game. They're back to back Super Bowl
champions There any people butts in seats at noon?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: But the Rockets have thought about seven seven thirty. They've
thought about the how the weekends go. You say seven thirty?
When did they switch that seven? Eight years ago something
like that? Longer than that? Yeah, long? I mean when
I was doing PA ten years ago, it was seven o'clock. Okay,
so it's been probably fifteen years probably since they were
seven thirties. I would say I would say the prevailing
number one reason would be just win baby. The Astros
are the best in this town as far as people
getting there on time.
Speaker 9: M hm.
Speaker 1: And it's not a coincidence those they're the most successful team. Well,
I also think it's astro fans. See this makes sense.
Astro fans purchase the tickets and actually are the ones
that buy the tickets. The corporate numbers are probably higher
for the text. It's also corporate higher. Our numbers are
higher for the rockets. Yeah, let's just say there's I
don't even know, let's random number, eight thousand corporate seats
in every stadium. Well, there's forty thousand in the astros,
there's sixty five or whatever thousand in NRG. So the
percentage is going to be higher in the in the
rockets overall, would you are I don't know, but it's
it's a tough it's entire percentage of corporate because also
corporate wants nicer seats. They're gonna want sweet they're gonna
want floors, they're gonna want lower bowls. Corporate corporations aren't
buying the four hundreds.
Speaker 5: But it is.
Speaker 1: It's a Kevin said it Durant down on this Twitter.
It's like, man, we're we're a second quarter sitting. We are,
and I don't know if maybe a championship or change
that absolutely and it probably would be right. Yeah, Jonathan Jonathan, Yeah,
what come with you? Jonathan Jonathan? Why don't you get
this week? My friend?
Speaker 4: All Right, mine might sound funny, but I swear this
is genuine, Okay, because earlier this week some car, some
toytal Corolla just cut me off and I'm looking right
at as bumper and it goes baby on board. Then
I started thinking about it. Why do people even do that.
Let's I don't get while are you putting the little
stick of baby on board? If I don't like student driver,
I don't understand that. I mean, if you're driving, you're
driving and I don't baby.
Speaker 1: On board to me, sounds like please be careful and
stay far away from us. Yes. So I actually read
this recently on Twitter or article like, uh, your people
Jonathan gen Zers. Yeah, are you know a lot of
times you know, they've grown up on their phones their
whole lives, so they have anxiety when they actually go
into the real world. So because they're so anxious and
they want people to be careful driving around them, they
have people who don't have children, people who are not
student drivers. Because I've been seeing student driver everywhere lately too.
People who they're putting student driver and or baby on
board stickers on their cars. In their minds, it's gonna
make people drive more cautiously around them. That's what I
can google this now because I literally saw this, Like
I said, it was there an article on it recently.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because that person cut me up and I was like, wait,
you don't have a baby in your car, and and
that's not like three more cars.
Speaker 1: I was like, dang, Yeah, So that's why that's why
they're doing it, because they're they want people to drive
more cautious. It's like it's like an unofficial stay a
little further away from me. Now they don't now, but
you don't expect the baby to be on board every
single time, right, You can't do the baby everywhere, That's
what I'm saying. Yeah, you're you're asking you want the
sticker to come off from the baby ain't on board,
So you want them to like hang a little sign
in there and take the sign down like moral when
the doctor is. You know what I'm gonna do. I'm
gonna start putting a baby on board in my car.
All people say away from me. I wonder if that
actually does work, you know, I just I don't know.
All right, Rossie would don't you get y'all are gonna
say you get it? But that's part of the show.
Why is everybody using AI for everything? Chat, gpt, uh whatever, Google,
Gemini grow and because no, but this is the thing
I get. I get the idea of it. It's easier,
I don't have to think about it. I asked AI.
But how many more times do you need to be
burned by AI being wrong and getting incorrect information? And
we've seen people who are publishing articles using AI and
it's misinformation and things that I I do believe it
or not every day and I ignore the Google AI.
I don't look at it anymore because it's been wrong
too many times. So when you get burned enough times
and then you continue to use it, I understand the
idea of using it, but at this point it's so
wrong so often. I don't understand why people are still
using it so much. I have a friend of mine
who will not name his name, gets an arguments with
Google AI, with the uh yeah because chat GPT they're
all wrong so much arguments though, Yeah, I personally people
get girlfriends. They can't girlfriends. This person says, if you
get this wrong chet each GPT, I want your He
says terrible things to this chat GPT. Really, it's like,
I'm gonna have a guess. I'm gonna have you, I'm
gonna have you shut down. I'm gonna have your computer
program restarted and chatty. It's really different. It's like it's
like a conversation, like what what are y'all doing? Walk
out of your house? Is people? Please go for a
walk amongst the trees the fresh air. Smell some fresh air,
touch some grass. And it doesn't help that everything. Look
up something. It's straight AI. It's not any it's rotten.
You know what I need to figure out, Like I
think you put I think you put Google search and
you put minus AI or something like that. I need
to use that because I'm gonna tie of this. All right.
We got folks that have questions for us on things
they don't get. We'll get to them next eleven forty
five here on Sports Talk seven ninety all right, well
we wouldn't, we would not. We don't like to have
dead air. Uh, the computers are frozen. It's been the
issue all week long. Yeah, it's okay, and it's been
really a problem when we moved to this building. But
that's a different issue for a different time. Life is hard.
It's fine. Uh, seven one three Doomed and doomed and doom, doom, Doom.
Let's go to our friend provide the phone's work, Larry
and spring on seven and Larry, good morning to you.
Speaker 5: Well, uh say, man, okay, this is just personal personal
experience of my wife. I don't get after over forty years,
we're playing on going somewhere the day before. I give
her time everything I get up to late morning in
time enough and we never leave on time. I don't
get it. Now. To correlate that with this, do you
notice how many women be at Texas not just football,
baseball and basketball Texas events.
Speaker 1: Huh So you're saying it's the women are holding is
the reason the crowds are Like, No.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it sounds like you yeah, yeah, So he doesn't
get why his wife's always late. You know it's funny.
Women are never late for their nail oppointments. What hair appointments? Right?
You know we can we cant just go hair appointments.
I'd stay out of this. They're not late when the
nutcracker market opens up, when they want new shoes or
new clothes of them all. They're not late when his
girls on out. They're not late when it's bridal party,
I mean a gager bridle shower. Baby, shower man. If
it's late, if you're going to meet some couples to
have dinner and drinks at a at a restaurant and
watch a big game, late for that? Yeah, women, let
me ask you all this. Why y'all late for stuff
that's important to us and you're not late for your
own personal stuff?
Speaker 2: Bros?
Speaker 1: Any thoughts. I mean, I'm pretty bad punctually in general.
I always overestimate. I should say underestimate. Like, if let's
say something's ten minutes, I'm like, oh, I'll be there
in ten minutes. Well, I have to brush my teeth,
I have to get ready, I have the shower or whatever.
So I'm not going to be there in ten minutes.
It takes me ten minutes to get there. But for
whatever reason, I can't make the I'm just bad. I'm
getting better or kind of trying to.
Speaker 2: Hey, I was here.
Speaker 1: A reasonable time today, and I was early yesterday because
I had to pre record something because you weren't here
just for the sake of the show. Here, I was here,
I was here before you. You're not even here half
the time, So that's true. I got the road next week,
kind of looking forward to it. I love getting up
late and just putting on the radio equipment and is
going four hours of greatness from my room. Yeah. The
things I can do in my bedroom while on there
is amazing, of course, providing great quality sports content and
other stuff. David and humble. David, what don't you get,
my man?
Speaker 6: I don't get where some people Matt Thomas, and we
look around Houston, the all the alls in Houston and
everywhere that we go that I go, that people do
the same thing over.
Speaker 5: And over again.
Speaker 6: It's the art of insanity. It's the art of insanity
is that people do things over and over and over
and over.
Speaker 1: Again, respecting expecting a different result.
Speaker 6: As that expecting the difference.
Speaker 1: What example are you looking looking at here, David.
Speaker 6: Well, eating disorder?
Speaker 1: Eating disorder.
Speaker 6: People, Uh, when they're fat, they eat cookies and cakes,
pies and things of that nature, and knowing that they
are eating too much of the cookies, cakes and pies
and candy and it's not good for them, and they
do it and it's insanity and they in their mindset
that they don't want to lose weight and become healthy.
Speaker 1: David, I got a problem. I got a quick solution
to you. David, cookies and pies and cakes taste good.
That's why you do it.
Speaker 6: Put too much of it.
Speaker 1: That we'll put too much of it.
Speaker 6: It's not good.
Speaker 1: Too much of a bad thing. It's actually what we
talked about with Luka Doncic David. These are generally deeply
rooted psychological issues. Not liking yourself. You need that little
hit of dopamine. You need that little joy, these little
because you're not you're not. Yes, here we go, oh yeah,
let me get oh here, Yes, this is great this bit. Yeah,
I'm gonna start charging on you. Because when you're not
happy with yourself and you're not happy with your life situations,
you look for happiness elsewhere, these little bits of happiness,
whether it be eating too many snickers and m and ms,
whether it be too many alcoholic drinks where you're trying
to escape reality and you're trying to bring yourself up.
You know, I've also often equated it to like a
hot air balloon, man. You know, along this life that
we're in, we're in a hot air balloon, okay, and
there's these bags of sand that drag us down in
this balloon, whether it be personal traumas, whether it be
unhappiness with our work or our lives or anything going on,
things stressing us down. Those are the bags of sand
that drag us down. And in order to find an equilibrium, often,
what do you do with that hot air balloon? Met
You fuel it up, You hit the fire, you try
to so you can rise above it. And a lot
of times that fuel for people is going to be food,
it's gonna be alcohol, it's gonna be drugs, it's going
to be just scrolling your phone endlessly. And what you
need to do rather than just fueling up with those things,
you need to cut those bags. You need to cut
those bags of sand. You need to figure out and
address those issues and fix those stresses and fix those traumas.
So those bags of sand aren't dragging you down anymore,
and you don't have to fuel up as much with
food or whatever other vices. So cut the bags of
sand and you'll live a happier life. We all say, amen, Uh,
can c J. Stroud have a fewer turnovers this Sunday
than he did this pass? Monday is the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross. A great week for college sports in Houston,
for that matter, pro sports in Houston especially tonight and Sunday.
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. Our time is
twelve ol one. Good afternoon, do you Ross? How the
hell are you doing? Great? Matthew, get your nice career
as an amateur therapist working beautifully. You're taking consults right now.
CO pays one hundred and fifty dollars and it's reasonable?
Speaker 9: Is it?
Speaker 1: Sure? Went out? Sounds good to me. Let's get to
what is most importantly the reason why we do pay
you the large amount of money that you make here
at the radio station, and that's to give us the
news at noon. Yes, Matthew, a number of things going
on in the world of sports. The Rockets will be
in action tonight. It is an early those of you
who have tickets, it's an early six thirty start. Starts
at three thirty eight, Actually starts at six fifteen six
fifteen start. Rockets taking on the Oklahoma City Thunder. They
are four and a half point dogs at home in
this one. Should be a cracker of a match. Also,
they'll be on a back to back Matt, no rest
for the weary. How are you feeling, by the way,
on the road all year long, all these road games
and doing okay, I look great. Have been two days
off and however long and they're not getting another one
for like what three more weeks or so. We have
a hlacious game scheduled games coming up. Yeah, it was
a lot of days off early this season. Three days out,
three games and four days coming up. Now they're getting
tightly compacted there on the back they're going this is
the first leg of a back to back. They'll be
taking on the Minnesota Timberwolves tomorrow as well. Also some
noodles in the NFL. According to Adam Schefter, John Harbaugh
expected to be the new York York Giants head coach.
Of course they've tossed in the barring a setback, So
barring a setback, John Harbaugh is going to be the
new New York Giants head coach. Your reaction, I didn't hear.
I'm Jean Harball. Oh Giants head coach was the chalk
pick all the way through? Right, Yes, it felt like
the best mix. Does he have the best quarterback of
any of the opening jobs? Unless you like cam Ward?
I would do you know what? Kim Moore played good,
played pretty well. Towards the end of the season. But
do you want to be with a Amy Adams Strunk? Also,
do you want to be the Marris The Mars have
a bad track record. We'll bring it this way. These
teams that are looking for coaches, they've been looking for
coaches for a long time. Tennessee and Arizona, the Giants'
organizationally as Steelers, are the best situation, like a stable,
good ownership situation. Well, if you go off with the
number of coaches they've had in the last forty years,
the answer would be right, Okay, just something to think about, Okay, Matt. Well,
we have the latest in a gambling scheme with the
NCAA and the FBI. These are coming every couple of
weeks now. But now, according to ESPN and this article
written by David Purdham, their gambling writer, twenty men have
been charged in a point shaving scheme involving thirty nine
college basketball players on seventeen different Division One teams, leading
to twenty nine different games being fixed, according to a
federal indictment unsealed today in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Now I saw the list of partial lists. I didn't
stare at it. It looked like to me a lot
of very very low Division I schools. Doesn't make it right,
but nothing that really sink our teeth into going, Oh
my gosh, the essence of the INCAA tournament could be impaired.
I would say the most RECOGNI deible of these programs
would probably be two lane Southern Miss Yeah. Sat Louis
had some recognition back in the day. Nothing lately de
Paul Alabama State Kennedy. Then it's like Fordham lasal. Oh,
we need to get Bill Raftery's thoughts on the LASU corruption.
You know, his last coaching spot was Seaton Hall. So
mean's LASAU alump that he is and beloved. I believe
there so apparently a pretty pervasive corruption scheme that is
being called historic. This scheme was focused on fixing games.
Also in the Chinese Basketball Association. Oh, we know somebody
used to play there. You know what, if you're if
you're betting on the CBA, if you're betting Chinese basketball,
please seek help. I mean, look, I don't mind getting
a little taste on the under over. I'm gonna throw
together twenty dollars teaser for the playoff game this weekend.
But if you're betting on the CBA, you need to
see help my god, you're sick. Tell me how you
really feel.
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Okay. Apparently they targeted college basketball teams as well, offering
bribes to college players ranging from ten thousand to thirty
thousand dollars to compromise these games. The defendancy frauded sports
books as well as individual sports better who are all
under aware that the unaware that the defendants had correctly
manipulated the outcome of these games. Is this going to
Is this, I guess you're saying, is how outraged are
we supposed to be? Not? How is this going to
keep on? Are we gonna hear? Am I gonna be
doing the news at noon in the next couple of
years and we're gonna heart this gambling scheme, that gambling scheme,
or is at some points the fire is gonna be
stamped out. Someone let me give you something that's really
gonna bother you, Okay, because gambling is so intertwined now
with college in pro sports. Somebody's gonna throw a game
that's going to be a star in involving a very
very no I said, a star. It's going to involve
a very important event, a college national championship, a Final four,
an NFL playoff game. I really hope I'm wrong about this.
But unless these sports organizations have these twenty four to
seven surveillance on these kids and these athletes, how are
you I don't know. I just I'm definitely afraid this
is going to only not say, give us more cases,
but the next time we hear about this, it could
be about something that's much more magnified because of the
importance of the game and the importance of the athlete
and who it is. I hope I'm wrong. Yeah, I can't.
I can't rule anything out. I have to be open
minded about everything because I didn't think that the gambling scheme.
I underestimated the greed of these gamblers and these schemers. Yeah,
because as what we talked about, like once once everybody's
going on, Matt, don't you think it's red flags of
the sports book when they're getting a flood of activity
on the LaSalle game. Yeah, it's a red flag. So
I want to say, are they going to wizen up
and not do this anymore? I want to say yes,
But the logic, the greed has defied the logic. So
I just to buy a product of a society. We
cheated our companies. We steal money from our company, embezz
the rs, we steal from. We try to get away
from stuff from the IRS. I know, we're always trying
to put more money in our checking account. We just
are by any means. And again, if you're an athlete,
and these athletes and I look, I live part of
this world, they think they're immune from stuff. And as
long as you said, you're also dealing with the twenty
at this point, these college kids nineteen twenty year old
very naive. When you put thirty thousand dollars in front
of a lasal player, that's a lot of money. Or
as in the case that you have got some gambling
and you need to make it up and you don't
have the cash to do so, I would throw this
show for thirty g's. You've been throwing the show for
sixteen years. Yeah, they paid me. It used to be great, dude,
Oh well, what else you got?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Elsewhere in the news at noon Man a recent news
on the World Baseball Classic front Clayton Kershaw going to
pitch for the United States of America and Alex Bretman
is going to play for Team USA, the newly minted
Chicago cub who, by the way, I think you did.
Speaker 2: Was that a good feeling?
Speaker 1: Did you put your name on it that no Astro
would play in the WBC. I did not say that either. No,
I didn't want an Astro to play. Did I even
say it? Maybe you rore it down, didn't you. I
gotta find check the files. Please tell me I'm right
about this. You know what. This is wrong. I shouldn't
be bringing up all your past errors and failures. It's
not right. I'm gonna try, you know, I'm gonna try
to better any You bring up the errors regularly. You
never bring up the U You know why, because you
really you launched a whole character off of one prediction.
So I was like, you know what, somebody's gotta bring
this guy down to earth. It was such an amazing prediction. Know,
listen to me now, I am not a great predictor.
I'm an analyst, and I'm most important an insider. Yes,
and very humble about all of the above. Yeah, okay,
So Breggy is going to play for the WBC and
Team USA, not Team Israel. Congratulations to him, we're a
number three for the Chicago Cubs. Yes, okay, let's keep
it with some baseball news, Matt, Now, this is a
believe him or not when it comes to John Hayman. Yes, Dush,
he still has air Arson Judge going to the San
Francisco Giants. I think that's not nice. Folks involved, Say
a deal for number one free agent Kyle Tucker. This
was posted at six point thirty this morning, could come
as soon as today. X teammates guess he'd prefer Toronto
over an even bigger market and like spring near Tampa.
So I guess Toronto springs near Tampa. No, spring training
is in Duneaton and it's a suburb of Tampa. Okay,
the Mets offered a fifty million dollars a year deal.
Dodgers are used to winning. Anyone else is a major upset.
So Mets, Dodgers, Toronto looking like the favorites for Kyle Tucker. Uh,
don't ask me to up the bet, but I also
don't want to lower the bet. I'm gonna tell you
right now. I don't think the years are as big
of a thing to him as it is to you.
I think it's about the per year money the AAV Yeah, yeah,
but I mean you also want long what's better four
hundred million dollars or two hundred million dollars. I think
if he wants to bet on him and so, he
could absolutely do a short term opt out deal. He
had the injuries last year. He had a great season,
like you had no shot when he was like ops
in two hundred and fifty ops plus. I mean then
he got hurt. Then he got hurt, and he was
playing hurt on his calf injury and had a mid postseason.
I'm sad, sad for you.
Speaker 5: Sad.
Speaker 1: That's okay. The about you meal is gonna taste good
no matter what sweeter when the check comes your way. Yeah,
when the chick comes back, you know what, I'm gonna
try to put that out of my mind. I'm trying
to enjoy the meal for what it is, and then
then when the yet comes, I'll be sad. You know,
we're going to do Jonathan during the entire meal. We're
going to we're going to live stream it, live stream
the entire dinner. What if I win? So that's fine,
but when people we continue to order, would you like
some more wine? Yes? Would you like to make that
a fried rice compared to a white rice. Absolutely, would
you like it to your stake to be a surn
no filet for you, sir, No, sir, we're tapping you
out of cube steak. Oh the rules certainly change in
your bank paying for it. Well, your piggy bang is
bigger than mine, that's true. I mean I can't knocket that.
It's probably close when you get the house payment in kids.
That's why I'm working these two jobs. Sure. H twelve
twelve on Sports Talk seven and we mentioned Rockets against
Oklahoma City tonight. What a great first game we had
that that was October twenty first. It feels forever and
a day ago. It was a long long time ago
and a must win game for the Houston Rocket. It
says who you, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I like it.
Speaker 1: Probably somebody is saying that, hey, I would love for
the Rockets. Just you know, by the way, Denver one
last night against Dallas and Denver didn't have Nicola Jokicic
that all you do is win. They're in the two
seed now with the Spurs losing a couple in a row.
Spurs are human And by the way, the Oklahoma City
Thunder are human these days. By the way, they're in
the two seat, you're only three games behind them. So oh,
that's easy make let's go make it up in days
twelve thirteen of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross if
you'd like to be a part of our show to
get into some Texans conversation seven one three two one
two five seven nine, if you want to get in
some rockets talk and Kyle Tucker where's he going? And
more important, how long is it going for? And you
know we have not done a while. We're not even
worried about Jake Myers. I have a quick question estak
Parade is either what's going on with Verizon? Is it
still down? I'm not seeing a lot of tweets about it.
I have a memi me account, so yeah, me too.
So all right, Well, I hope you guys are okay
with Andy, you Verise and people trying. Is that the
reason people can't call him today becausey're all Verizon subscribers?
It could be I've just figured it out. Seven one
three two five seven ninety. Hey, if you're an A
T and tier, come on in early. You're from Google Voice,
do we want that? Sure? Why not call us on
a zoom. We tried that with Kevin Harlan didn't work out.
Did we ever get him on the zoom, by the way, Jonathan,
or was it all strictly phone call? He was on
the zoom. We could hear, but he sounded his microphone
was it didn't sound good? By the way. Kevin Harley
was in the other room on the call tonight. As
a matter of fact. Oh, with prime video. Yes he's
in the building. Yeah, you gonna see him. Yes, maybe
I will come to the arena. We've only met him once, sweetheart. Yeah,
you should come to the game because they're gonna be
filming me doing my pregame activities too. No, I don't
want to take your shine, like you said, I'm actually
leaving when they get here. No, you're staying, You're it's
Matt Thomas Show, rosst Thomas Show. Yeah, he didn't put
a nice sweatsuit. Now it's good. I didn't even try to.
I am matching. You are matching. I do got the
fit on. It's it's not fitting that well. Uh. Twelve
fourteen on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven nine. If you want to chime
in seven one three, two, one two five, seven nine zero.
I want to that's one. We'll give another one. And
that feels about it, probably because it's not really breaking.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: Nico Collins of Texans practice today. Okay, yeah, he done,
he got he go, and I said, I got a
feeling we weren't going to see him a Super Bowl Sunday. Now,
whether he's in our house watching a game with us
or he's actually on the field playing, I hope you're
wrong about that. Did he haven't? He hadn't had a
king What was it? He missed a game or two
this year? Right, But it wasn't concussion, was it?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I don't believe. So he was a healthy scratch in
the last game. Oh yeah, it was one game in
one game maybe for something, and then a healthy scratch. Okay,
I'll be more with you, not more with you, because
we don't know we're right, we're not, and we're not
his neurologist. But when it's multiple, for sure, multiple weeks,
it's more likely. So hopefully one week missed for Colin,
the Nico Collins, they can sneak past the Patriots. Sneak
You can't say that. Why there's no sneaking around the Patriots.
You're gonna beat them. You're not gonna sneak around them.
You're not gonna catch them off guard. Oh, Stoppy, if
you've heard this before, Texans win ugly in New England.
That's not a sneak though, and ugly win is sneaking
by that's okay, Santa Samantas for two to six? Man,
come on, oh what are you talking about? Come on now, man,
come on man. I hate them. Okay, I hate them,
I hate them, I hate them, I hate them. Go ahead,
you put me at a loss. This isn't not normal?
What were we talking about? Nico Collins? Yes, so I
know some people counter argue that, hey, the now CJ.
Stroud doesn't have to lock into Nico and he can
distribute the ball everywhere and stuff like that, because there
are some fantasy not fantasy football, the NFL analysts who
chart and talk about CJ. Stroud relying too heavily on
his first read stuff like that. But when you're running
for your life, you're going to rely on your first read.
So that's the counter argument. But anyways, Nico Collins out,
does that mean? Could this maybe be a blessing in disguise,
some people like to argue because then he can spread
the ball around where it is Higgins and it is
Kirk and it is Schultz, and it is checking down
to the running backs and not getting locked in on Nko.
I think it's a blessing in disguise. I think it's
we're not used to it, but we've adapted to it.
Because again, yeah, he had a good season, did 'n ico.
He's still a wr one in this league. Eleven hundred
yards in fifteen games. Very good. But will you put
together the super highlight reel of the Houston Texans. First
of all, it's ninety percent defense. Yeah, and frankly, it's
five percent Kymie fairbrand. And that's five percent the rest
of the offense. It's Nole's progression, It's Higgins progression.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 1: What he marks his progression. It is I can't the
Titan's name. I'm dropping. I can't remember his name. Its
Overton Schultzdalton Schultz. It's Dalton. I was going to call
him Dallas. That's Dallas clarkas Clark, It's Dalton Schultz. Continued progression.
This boll me. Remember when remember when Dalton Schultz got
his deal three years ago, people were like, wigging the
f out, that's been money we'd spent. It really has been.
He's been durable. He plays, he catches, He had very
few drops, doesn't commit nearly as many penalties as he
used to. He's been the I want to say, the
unsung hero, but he's been the nice security blanket that
that CJ has been able to check. This really come
along in the second half of the season, especially in
the in the play action game. He's been especially effective.
Uh Nico Collins receiving yards per game. I have him
at eighth in football behind you know, all the top
names you would think of, Ceedee, Lamb, Drake, lynnon Monro, Jamar,
Chase Pickens, Jackson Smith and Jig buta Pukinakua. So he's
in the eighth. That's great. I had a Tree McBride
a lave rush. She rises eight flowers yep. So yeah,
he's important. Catches the ball, runs good routes. I don't
know what is run blocking is like, don't particularly care.
That's good enough. He's physical, yard to catch is good.
He's no Kevin Walter, but who isn't was the greatest,
the greatest blocking wide receiver of all time, all time.
You get you guys in Houston went nuts ro speaking
of twenty sixteen. You love Kevin Walter or Kevin Walter's
spending on which you want to add and ask to
his name or not? Good times. He's a good blocker,
that's what he's on the team. He probably wasn't there
in twenty sixteen. That probably was fast time. Probably. Yeah. Well,
I hope he's doing well wherever he is. But Nico
Collins being missed is significant for sure. Okay, somebody said
this isn't a goes it was a concussion. Okay, I
wasn't sure.
Speaker 7: Let me go.
Speaker 1: No, but no, if it's listeners a get it right.
I mean they're not gonna send us wrong if love
to jump it up, correct us. So it's good. Yeah,
that's fine. I mean, hey, I was wrong. I wasn't sure. No,
that's okay. Uh, you know we've had so much conversation.
And in the way that his head hit the ground
at well, he's behinds field twice, not in the sure
a for sure. Yeah, and that field looks nasty, right,
I don't care if it was an eighty three degree
day or it would have the field just doesn't look
like it's ever had real grass on that team. I
don't know why they do it, but that's a different issue.
That's that's their own issues. Did we just thirty years
ago just pretending concussions didn't exist in the NFL? Yeah,
you give some guys some smelling salts and send him
on his way. Did you see the smelling salt video
of Jalen Petrie? Do you remember when Brett Farv what
was like a Monday his dad died or whatever. It
was like a Monday night or something against a different stories. No, No,
he his dadad He played again and he got the
concussion and didn't remember throwing the pass that. I don't
know about that part, but I remember him playing. Is
that if I'm blending two stories or if it's one story.
Either way, I don't remember if the dad passed, let's
just throw that part out. He got a concussion and
like completely got knocked out, came back in the game,
and then after the game said he didn't remember throwing
the game winning touchdown. It's like against the Raiders or something. Now,
I told you this before. I mentioned a few times,
but the audience always changes the only time I've ever
remember covering the Texans and worrying about a concussion was
when Chris Brown made a special team's tackle and I
went to talk to Chris and the locker room after
the game, and he said, hey, did we win. Yeah,
I was against the Giants in two thousand and four.
He's like, yeah, I don't remember throwing that pass twenty
eight yard touchdown, game winning touchdown to Javon Walker. But
I mean, let's put this twenty years ago. It's not
that long ago. Our audience, which is, you know, between
twenty five and fifty four generally speaking, maybe a little
bit older in some aspects. I remember the olders of
the nineties. What I mean, it was thirty years ago,
but it wasn't fifty. I mean, we have a large
collection of our audience that remembers Heywood, Jefferies and Ernest
Givens and Drew Hill. We you tell me all those
guys didn't take nasty spills. I don't remember. I don't
remember Ernest Givens. Yeah, they missing serious periods of time
because his head hit the urf of the astronom, which
sucked at the time, and they would play through it.
They would literally go check back into the same game. Yeah,
it's nuts and this is good. It's now the on
field product. You know, it's God gonna be good about
Nico Collins. But for the health of these human beings.
Nico Hollins is a human being. He's not just here
for entertainment. He's a person. It's good for them, all right.
Twelve twenty nine, it is Matt and Ross with you
till two o'clock today. What is believe it or not?
At one fifty I'm about to ask you the same thing.
This show is blowing by two thousand and six. Oh okay,
it was a concussion against the Seahawks. Yes, multiple people
are telling me, okay, good So so yeah, you give
out the shoutouts to the to Brandon and j f Yeah,
appreciate both of you. So yeah, that leads me towards more.
You're gonna be right. If they make it to the
Super Bowl, it'd be that long until Nico Collins came back.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you're a Nico Collins fan, you're going to see
him on Super Sunday. Now, whether he's at a bar
doing an appearance, or he's playing in the game, you're
gonna be able to see him all right, believe it
or not, today is twenty sixteen, because black people on
Instagram are celebrating the year twenty sixteen. I posted some
photos of my sports life on Twitter in two thoy sixteen.
I'll put your Instagram put him on IG. I'm gonna
put them on IG. I'm on, I'm gonna put family
stuff on there too. We're trying to blow up the igs.
Let's go. I'm at thirty one ten good, that's low.
Come on, man, Wex has passed you.
Speaker 5: No way. Well.
Speaker 1: Wex also Instagram's like ninety five times a day, so
what he you know what he was doing there today?
He instagrammed his dessert at the Tota Center Media dining.
Good for him, No, it's not good for him. They
want to see everything in your life. Let's take a look. Here,
hone into Wex half. I see now, I got you
motivated to go to Instagram. This is great wall Who's
this guy you're twitter? This rend? This guy with the
red hat on your Twitter? Matt, the guy on the
red hat? What are you talking about? Adam Plans got
ninety five hundred. Let's get you.
Speaker 2: We need you.
Speaker 1: He's an I G whore though, Yeah, that's different. Yeah,
but we need to get you. Come on, let's go,
what do you come on on the red hat? Let
you get your numbers up. This black guy you got
into the picture with you in the blue shirt? Who's this? Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh that you know that is?
Speaker 1: That's that's what's his face? Okay, yeah, that's what's his face. Satayn,
a live comedian, does all impersonations. Mm hmm. He was
on with Adam and Adam at Night a few weeks back.
Jay Farrell, good job because I couldn't remember. Yeah, Jay Farrell,
that's my guy. He was Jay Farrell's my guy before
he was at him. Is he your guy? Of course?
He is very close. I can call him right now.
He's your guy. He remember who you are. He doesn't
remember who I am. How many lines the day you said?
Seven one three, two one two five, seven, eight thirty one,
it's a Matt Thomashield Ross. This is Sports Talk seven ninety,
Man and Ross with you, twelve thirty five on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Our friend Pedro said, Verizon is finally
back as of nine o'clock last night, eight hours of outage.
They offered you twenty dollars for compensation on our bill.
You know there'll be a class action lawsuit coming. I
missed a phone call that could have helped me with
a medication, B finding my wife, see my job. I'm
as suing you? Or can they do that? Probably legally?
Probably there's a user agreement that outages are gonna happen. Yeah,
whenever you agree to their services. Yeah, they always get
you in those terms of service. I think really, frankly,
the satellite TV providers that knock out channels for a
length of time, and the satellite and the and the
phone companies, they don't, they don't, they don't go overboard.
Give them fifth Let it make him feel good. But
my guess they're thinking of twenty hours and fifty hours.
But I make that big of a difference to the
average person. So all right, Madden ross with you on
Sports Today, believe it or not today nine twenty sixteen. Okay,
sure went on. Just verious events that happened that you
can't can't come up with anything else.
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 1: We never did John Harball, did we We don't have
that officially signed yet. Let's get that. Let's get him
officially this giant I was done done. It's done. Adam
Schefter is posting a picture with his hat on. Man,
I think he's the one right now with the Yeah,
I think this finalized. Oh maybe it's not. Look at
Adam Schefter is posting. Look, this is a bad photoshop. ESPN,
get a new photoshop guy. No, that's not it is
it weren't a real jersey, real hat. Yeah. I know
it's a fake hat. But Adam Shifter. Yeah, but Adam
Schefter posted it. Now we go except giants offered, so
it's done. Yeah, okay, Well if you want to do,
if you want to do John Harball, then let's go too.
Let's talk to the folks. Let's say hello to Richard
and pass it get down. Dina twelve thirty six high Richard, Hey.
Speaker 9: Man, thank you you and Rons for having me on.
You know, we need to get excited. We are three
games from a world championship in football, and you know
he's got the best defense and all we have to
do is hold it together on offense. We need to
get behind these guys and really talk it up in
this city, in this town. We're that close, can y'all?
Speaker 5: I know y'all do a great.
Speaker 9: Job that you's not want to pass it on the off.
If we can get this town fired up in some way,
we need to get fired up about these guys.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, Richard, I believe the city's pretty
fired up. I don't hear a lot of hesitancy now
as their concern. Yeah, but I think people, especially if
we get closer to this kickoff, which would be Sunday
at two o'clock, the city of Houston's gonna lose their minds.
You know how I can tell you that, Richard. I
want you to go to any Ta and watch a
bunch of dorks go to a sports bar and then
a reporter who's got Texans gear on going look where
I am, look at the man on the street. You'll
see those stories left and right. People are gonna start
to get more and more excited. There's there is a
certain level of excitement. It's gonna be ramped up by Sunday.
Trust me on this.
Speaker 13: I love it.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 9: Thank you, hey, thank you, thank you guys for reporting.
I love you.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you very nice here. I know you're a
great reporter, Matt, Thank you the Texans Insider. Yeah, I
was a big city wings as I said on Monday
place was packed. Yeah, I don't. I don't have to
put Texans fans. This is look, we are on Avenue
to talk about everything good and bad about a sports team.
We hell, when the outstar is winning a World Series,
we were worried about George Peerer, lee Off, you know
what I mean. This is what we do. We we
we break it down, not necessarily exce's and o's, but
we discuss layers to everything. So it's not gonna you
just can't come on the air and go you' all excited.
Segment two, you all excited, segment three, y'all excited. I mean,
you may find some spots to do that, but we're
gonna We're gonna try to halfway intelligent and talk about
the game and so there are issues to it, but no,
I absolutely believe people are excited. Yeah, I think so.
I think there's been a lot more buzzer around the city,
and I think, you know, I haven't felt or at
least as much on Twitter or wherever with callers as well,
like they're going up to New England in the divisional
round or usually only you say that Texans go to
New England for the divisional round. We would all be like, oh,
this is not Here we go again to hear what
playoff perfectly said, here we go again. I'm not feeling that.
I'm not feeling that at all. Look, this is it. Literally, No,
I don't care what Vegas is to me. This is
a coin flip game. If the Patriots and Texans played
ten times on a neutral field, I think both teams
can win five times. I really do believe that neutral field. Yeah,
that's probably right. I want to give the Texans somebody can't.
If you want to say six to four ys at
home is probably they generally three is three at home?
Is the neutral field is fifty to fifty? Yeah, if
you put it in the middle of a stack, and
whether it was a dome stadium or you put them
in the middle of Nebraska could be. I just think
it's I think there's there's too many elements. Let's do
this quickly. Quarterback vanished Patriots running backs vantage Patriots wide receiver,
offensive line vantage Patriots offensive line, probablytriot No, I don't know.
I don't think.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 1: You got rookies on the left up those final rankings
from the season. Okay, yeah, do this, I can do it.
Let's do it give me the New England to pay.
I think you're gonna be a little disappointed. Patriots eleventh,
Texans twenty seventh. Okay, maybe I'm disappointed so by the
PFF rankings. Remember their poonhounds and give us one data point. Yes,
but if it's eleven to twenty seven, they're not gonna
get that far off.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Special teams I would lean Texans, Sure, why not because
fair Baron has had an excellent season. Jalen Knowles the goat. Yeah,
Tommy Towns had booted one real bad. Yeah, I'm a
shaked one bad. Yeah yeah. Okay. Defensively, secondary tact Texans
linebackers probably Patriots, especially in coverage defensive line Texans coaching Patriots, Patriots. Okay,
fifty five forms of Josh McDaniels, and you're adding that
if you added the wholes YouTube and the whole staff,
the stats are your Patriots. I guess let's talk to
Rick on seven nine at twelve forty one, Rick, Good
afternoon to you.
Speaker 3: Hey man, Ross just got a question about CJ being
having max max protection or a rolling pocket form where
they roll them out to one side and give him
a little bit more room. But making him have the
availability to throw down the field with a longer period time,
and then also the option of him running because a
couple of times in the last game he could have
gotten the first down.
Speaker 13: Especially on that pass that he threw away in the
red zone.
Speaker 3: I'm just wondering whether or not that it's something that
they are probably training on well.
Speaker 13: This week, I think they're gonna blitz him a lot.
Speaker 1: Rick, did you watch the game against Pittsburgh. Yes, there
was at least three rollouts to the left for CJ.
Strouder in the game. So to answer your question, you
must you must have a line of communication between the
Texans and the and your thoughts because they rolled him out.
They had Blake Fisher as a sixth lineman. They do
a lot a lot this year. So that's around the
NFL is You're not getting any breaking news out there.
The things you want are things that are already implementing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think CJ just gets nervous in the
pocket for some reason, either doesn't like I gotta throw
the ball, or he doesn't take the option to run
and what probably can handle.
Speaker 1: You know what, Rick, I think he's been told not
to run. I really do I really, I mean, I can't.
No one would ever say that, because if if Demko
admitted that, they'd be giving up a huge component of
the game. I thought there was so much hesitation or
lack there of willing to run that I think CJ
has been told.
Speaker 6: Not to do it.
Speaker 1: That's how he got his concussion. Yeah, I really believe that,
thank you very much. Now. Doesn't mean that now if
if he gets a three yr game for a first down, yeah,
But I'm saying, as part of the offense, he is
looking through all of his progressions and he is going
to take off at the very very last second, or
if he's going to run, it's because he can go
to the weak side of the field, the short side
of the field, and get one yard and get out
of bounds. I don't think there's anything that is a
component of CJ's game that says, hey, if your first
look down the field is covered up and you can't
go to a safety valve, use your legs. I don't
think that's in the vernacular this week. I think that
it needs to be. I think if you want to say, yeah,
during the regular season, don't run as much, don't do
anything crazy. But when it's playoff time. It's time to
throw caution into win. It's time to just play and
be yourself and do whatever the defense is giving you.
Because I keep coming back to those couple of plays
he made against the Chargers last year that were huge,
where he was rolling out and running away from guys
and then also running down the field and getting chunks
of yardage. He can't It can be an element. It's
not something that needs to be He's not fast. I'm
not saying run a bunch of zone reads with him
tucking the ball and running, but something that he can
do when it is afforded to him by the defense.
Take what they're giving you. Take those yards. Yes, we
don't want you to get hurt, we don't want you
to get concussed. But it's the playoffs. You gotta do
whatever it takes. If he's not going to take those
yards against the Steelers, why would he do it against
He should have done it against the Steelers. I don't know, Ross,
I don't think it's I think it's it's it's either
in the hesitation in his brain or he's been told
don't do it. We don't know. We're not in the
meeting rooms. It does feel like it's something they're trying
to coach out of him, because that's does right, you
open yourself up to being hurt more. I'm not asking
him to be Josh Allen, Olamar Jackson, Pat Mahomes is
somebody who can run a little bit, but also probably
faster than c. J. Stroud. Unfortunately, where does CJ. Stroud
finish in a foot race among quarterbacks? Jamis back in
the end with Jamis Winston, it's not good. Well think
about it, is he? Uh, well, you can't do foot
speed quarterbacks. That's we'd be totally good. Go find the
Madden ratings speeding acceleration. We'll go back to their forty
times back in college. Yeah, I guess we could, all right,
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Figure out all right, we'll talk some rockets thunder when
come back as well. Plus more in the textans got
a lot to get to between now and two o'clock.
Gets some Matt Thamas show. Ross, we thank you for
listening to Sports Talk seven ninety. We'll get more into
the Texans or the final hour of the show. P
U's believe it or not, but we had a COVID
call on the Rockets. We'll mention it really quickly before
we go to that Rockets and thunder tonight six thirty.
Start time right here on seven ninety and five thirty
with our coverage with a launch pad six o'clock in
the network pre game show, and then we'll tip things
off a little past six thirty. We want you in
the seats at six fifteen. It'd be nice to show
the national audience that we can fill a building up
early and don't waste your breath. I'm trying. I'm not
gonna stop, that's true. I guess you know what. Not
gonna stop, don't stop believing. All you can do is try.
In times of Thursday night times, I'll get out night right.
Thursday's Ans are big night squad. Oh yeah, getting hammered.
I wouldn't say get hammerd if you want to have
a good time, Okay, I hit the hap hour, you
hit it? What did you say pre Friday? Yeah? And
then tomorrow, wake the strippers up. Tomorrow we'll be celebrating
a rocket went against Oklahoma City and getting ready for
Minnesota tomorrow night. Back to back, three games and four days.
I got four straight days of calling games. Next four
games rockets record?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Next four games? Four and of course, so I'm purely bias. Okay,
I've got one hundred dollars for you at the betting window.
I don't bet on sports, can't bet on the NBA.
It's illegal for our NBA players. Okay, you've don't. I
don't care. In Costa Rica, okay, nobody knows my name.
Nobody knows your name. They think your name is Matteo Thomas. Oh, yes,
I am a Columbian drug lord. Yes, sure, why not?
All right? Two? I would take three and one? Two
and two be okay. Three and one make me excited,
One and three makes me depressed? Is everyone four means
in a day off? By the way, can I just
say you to Oklahoma City has been human lately, mostly
against the Spurs since December December and obviously a little
bit of midway of January. By I happy payday for
those ten and ten I think, But go ahead, Uh,
Oklahoma City's fourteen and six. How many of those three
of those losses against the Spurs. They have seven losses
this year, three to San Antonio, one a piece to Portland, Charlotte,
Phoenix in Minnesota. Okay, four and a half point dogs,
that's nothing. Nothing do for overdue for a three point barrage.
I'm open for a little a lot of sets, fires,
fires and hits. Six straight games, not another nylons, six
straight games under thirty percent from three You know this
to appeal the curtain for the folks are highlights that
are made by producer Josh c when when it's nothing
but nylon, it gets it gets slugged in b in
for nothing but nilon.
Speaker 2: Did you know that?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: I did not?
Speaker 1: When you play one, I don't. I haven't been nothing
but damn a couple of weeks that hits the man.
I could try to find one. That's might take a minute.
That's because I don't do nothing but an isl on
two point shots. I know you don't do it for
free throws. That's about all even making you have to
go the Rocket archive for this. Yes, oh this is
so fine one anyway? Uh here this is from January
third shot o'clock at four, at three at two, bounce
pass out right baseline Tari for a three pointer. That's
nothing but down on. There's a three pointer for Taris
at his first shot at make that distance and the
Rockets are up sixty to forty four. Oh, sixty to
forty four sounds good? Yeah, none in the last game. Stop,
you know what I gotta do? It reminds, would you
text me? Remind me to know it's got to be organic,
because here's the thing. Nothing but an island means it
goes right through, doesn't rattle around. There's a lot of
November worlds, a lot of November, not a whole lot
in December, and only one in January. Rockets, by the way,
have won seven consecutive games at home across the time
line five forty five remaining of first quarter. We got
as straight on twenty six foot shot nets nothing but nylon,
and the Rockets have put together a great run now
leaving nineteen to fifteen. Nineteen fifteen, we played some early highlights,
don't we dropping that n B in early on? Well,
you know, let me tay. If it's three o nine,
I'll do it. I've never done three nothing, that's nylon.
I might have to do it tonight. All right, Rockets
again trying for their eighth consecutive winning home. Let's talk
to QESO on seventy Kso what's a good word?
Speaker 13: Hey Man, Hey Ross?
Speaker 1: Is that one drop all I had where Craig does
the pop popping the polyoparine or whatever that is, popping
the polypropylene. I have no idea what you're talking about. Yes,
So we talked about how popping in the polypropylene. What
is that popping propylene is? Really the is the texture, yes,
of of the of the net. We were talking about
nothing but nylon, and man was talking about the thing
and I was like, hey, the net's not even made
of nylon. It's what's it made of? And we looked
it up and it was polypropylene. And then we tried
to come up with what would work there. So I
said popping the polypropylene, and I said you should do that.
And then I think that day we happened to have
Craig Akerman on or something and we told him to
do it, and then he did it, and he did
it later I texted him because he did it late
in the season when were they really terrible. Like two
years ago he did it like with the last game
of the year. There's no chance I'm saying that case
so because I can't say that word properly without butchering
it fifteen times plus. Nothing but Nylon's my phrase. I
gotta keep keep with the phrase. But it's not nylon mad.
It's inaccurate. I think people understand what nothing but ilon? No,
I don't think they do. Oh, they're gonna learn the
night almost say it a bunch of times, say pop
in the polypropylene. I'm not doing it. That's ridiculous. Made
me so happy when I just randomly heard Craig say
it was like just I was doing the postgame show.
It was like Jay, Shaun Tait and Justin Patten and
the boys were on the floor. A pull for you,
thanks Jaseo. He was dropping the pole. It's great. Was
that when he was doing the home radio and I
was doing the PA or was that uh radio? At
the time we were in the old place, I know
for sure. How long have we been here? Two years? Yeah,
this is my tenth year. Ninth. In finishing up, I
was saying for you to do it on radio. I
don't know if you were a full time radio yet.
I did PA for five. This is my fifth year
of radio, so we'll see, all right, whatever, nothing of
an eye on if you like that phrase, I don't
care if you don't like it. By the way, I
got this jack hole who continues to brate me for
saying off the heel on a myss three point shot.
There is a heel in a basketball rim. There just is.
Speaker 2: Certainly popping the polypropyl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he found it. Good for you.
Speaker 2: Pop on the polypropyle.
Speaker 1: That's a radio call. He definitely he would have said
that on television. I don't think he has he did, okay, yeah,
I don't know if this was Does this sound like radio?
Speaker 2: The rockets are certainly POPPINGROPYLEA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. The mix of the crowd absolutely that's a
radio call. So he I must have been doing PA
at the time and doing radio on the road. Okay,
all right? What could be allowed? Swallow the crowd? What
time the night was it? Final hour? Matt Thomas showed
Ross Next twelve fifty eight here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
If you want to join us, we'd love to have you.
Seven one three two one two five seven. Nuntie is
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Talk seven Nuntie. A busy time for Houston sports fans.
Good times tonight, hopefully inside Tota Center as the Rockets
take on the Oklahoma City Thunder Sunday two o'clock AFC
Divisional Playoff, and for the first time, maybe ever, optimism
is at least good, if not great, for the Texans
to go to Foxborough and beat the Pats on Sunday
afternoon Division against the New England Patriots. And we're not
even talking about all the ghosts of years past for
the Texans. Yeah, we're not talking about Baltimore. We're not
talking about New England and Brady or Pat Mahomes and
Lamar Jackson never went to Buffalo for a playoff game.
That's probably still on the to do list. Although if
the Bills beat the Broncos on Sunday, they'll be coming
here the AFC Championship one week from Sunday. That's what
I'm predicting. That's what I'm going with. That's what I'm
sticking with. I said they were gonna make the AFC
Championship game. Yeah, and I think they're still gonna make
it all right. Rockets and Action tonight against the Oklahoma
City Thunder have won seven consecutive games at home of
Oklahoma City. Thunder has been human as of late. Still
a great basketball team, still the predicted favorite to win
the West. Rockets need to get their mojo back again.
Clearly have much better team at home than they are
on the road, and just the fact that they're home
for a few games has got to be a good
sign for the Rockets. Hey, you get home and then
you get to settle in for a game at home.
You do have the back to back with a couple
of difficult games, but just have those legs under you.
The three pointers haven't been going down. Feels like a
lot of them been short in your mind, do you
feel like that, Like it's just get your legs, get
some three pointers going in. They're due for a barrage.
Would be nice to get them tonight against the Oklahoma
City Thunder and then tomorrow against the Timberwolf. You know what,
the craziest part is, they still continue to rebound beautifully.
They're just taking a lot of second chance shots, second chance,
third chance, fourth chance. That's what's made this run so
frustrating is they continue to get the chances. Most of
the games, except for Sunday against Sacramento, were close, and
you the games have been right there if they would
have just convert on a couple of the chances. Kevin
Durant continues to put up huge numbers twenty plus game
points and fifteen consecutive games with the Rockets. Alp He's
got his feet under him a little bit, says the
ankles on one hundred percent may not be for a while.
That's life in the NBA, and I'm glad he's gotten
through it. Three games in four days. You're not getting
days off. You've had all these games on a road.
It just sometimes in the NBA at some points of
the year, the schedule works against you, and it feels
like there is an element of that. And the fact
of the matter is Denver one last night in Dallas,
no Nikolojokic, Anthony Edwards not a part of Minnesota's not
the last couple days. They'll be in town tomorrow. They won.
They destroyed the UH Milwaukee Bucks without him. Teams just
fight past this kind of stuff. Yeah, it can happen.
You can win games when things aren't going your way.
Rockets won two and oh when two and oh when
Durant was gone. You can win when Durant's gone. You
can win when Al prinching Gun's gone and coach you.
Doka will save that there. They can make excuses, and
there are some excuses, but you can still go out
there and win those games and play well. All right.
Seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety. If
you want to jump into the conversation seven one three
two one two five seven ninety, we are still a
waiting ward where Kyle Tucker is going to be playing.
I was hoping he'll be during the show because let
me tell you, if it happens between now and two
o'clock today, we are going to absolutely destroy you. Really
and the best part is we have Space City Home
Network here recording us, and they'll be able to see
the carn first hand. It's fun. I mean, Iver designed myself.
It'll be whatever will be will be, okay. I I
got excited. I definitely overplayed my hands. Overplayed it will
be an understatement. I thought there was no way the
Kyle Tucker was gonna sign for under seven and a
half years. I just didn't think it was gonna happen.
We'll see. And I have a nervous switch to check
my phone during the show. I might still be right.
Are you sure you don't want to hedge in what
way you want to? We can you want to? You
can pay for my meal now and downgrade the meal?
What do you mean from Habachi? Yeah? We upgraded? What
was the first bet we can go to? We can
go to realies, realise yes, and get you a two
for twenty and get a two for twenty. Okay, chips
and Salsta Chicken, cris Burst iced tea, and you pay
for it and we and we say the bets off.
I'm a gambler, baby, you are going to let the
chips fall where they may. I ain't scared. You should
be scared. I'm a little scared. Remember I'm a Rockets insider,
no Texans inside. I know what happened to what happened
to Joe Mixon, Texans insider. I'm still working on that. Yeah,
you don't even know. And I'm mister Texas, No, you're not.
At seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety.
Let's talk to Greg. Let's talk some Texans football. By
the way, Greg, Good afternoon, good after noons.
Speaker 13: I was just thinking, I said, well, we don't want
to be like the all of Slash Titans and get
to the one yard line, you know, uh mcnow resting
and resting thiefs and not win the Super Bowl. Then
we take on bum Phillip's old thing, that's just bust
the door down. And then the fact that we won
nine straight games before the season ended and we had
four more. That's a Baker's dozen, and so thirteen is
not a bad number after all. I think we can
get some T shirts made if Texas have won the
Super Bowl with the Bakers dozen victory in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Greg, I think if there was a T shirt made
for a Houston football fan, it would be finally and
everybody would.
Speaker 13: Know what it meant, right right, But thirteen is not
a bad number. After we won nine, now we was four.
We got three more to go. Again, that's the Baker's
does and we'll knock it on out of here.
Speaker 1: You don't need three more, no doubt, what's he talking about.
You don't need four more?
Speaker 6: Three?
Speaker 1: No, they get to sixty one nine, huh.
Speaker 13: No, we won, But I'm saying that we won nine three.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, see what you're saying makeing sense now? Yeah? Yeah, right?
Speaker 13: And so, uh, thirteen is not a bad number after all,
because it took us after that and three start well,
actually not going three, but when we won nine straight
and then four more. You can't ask it for no
better than that.
Speaker 1: You can't.
Speaker 13: And that's a Baker's dozen.
Speaker 5: Thirteen.
Speaker 1: It was a big parade downtown. I should get my
own fire engine. Why because you hate the Texans. I
don't hate the Texans. Hater Texans observer. No, no, you
should be nowhere near that fire engine. I will be
in the same downtown. I will be in the same
fire engine as C. J. Stritt and Will Anderson. Why
don't they just have the parade around the stadium. You
can go by the Timmy Chans and the Tauchos. This
is an Arlington, boss, can go by the Hooker Alley.
Oh my god, we're not letting you know. We're not
doing it planning the parade. I got it. No one's
going to your parade. If there's a parade, if there's
a parade on, no one's going. You don't want to
go to all three of those places. We'd go there
for lunch, but that'd be as far as you go. Thanks,
thanks Greg for the phone call. I appreciate it. No,
we're not. No, with the parade's downtown. The texts aren't
down there, they're on Kirby If Stella Lincoln Kirby. No,
no one wants to go to Stell Lincoln Kirby for
a parade. Nobody wants to be on os T. Yeah,
you'd be the old Spanish trail. No, you got a
pack key for the parade. I don't want to peine. No,
that's all right, be prepared. No, I think it's a
good idea. So you're telling me we started timmy chance? Yes,
what are we going after that? Chatchos there's got to
be a p I close. Absolutely, you started the pal
you go or a Scottish in somewhere over all. Yeah,
there's got to be relaxation in somewhere there over there
on Main. Yeah, there's a ship lead that's still over there. Sure,
why not don't say Houston Institution, get some kolachis and
hop on your fire engine you you know you do,
and handle leading the way. No, they're not. No, they
don't want to have a completely encloseding glass. They might
have to. I'm telling you, you get a Super Bowl
window with a Popemobile on it. People be writing kind
of like I want a stadium. Didn't you didn't get
hit by it didn't?
Speaker 9: Was it?
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz got hit by a beer can or somebody
at the downtown parade? It was not far from us.
Maybe we should not have a parade at all. Maybe
we shouldn't. What won't you do it inspite of a parade.
I don't think you can do any I mean a
celebration in the stadium or now you know when the
Rockets won the championship in the nineties, I was one
of the co host of the Astrodome celebration for the Rockets.
What do you mean they had all like inside the
outside the dome. Really they cleared the rats out and
all that. Stop you're Houston, Stop, you're right. I'm sorry.
There were no rats back then. May have been rats,
but they were hidden. Yeah, that's right. They were getting exterminated.
Now they're just running free. We had fifty thousand people.
I didn't know that. I went to the parades when
I was a kid. Yeah, we had a we had
a dome celebration. Yeah, my brother got Robert Reid's signature
on his shirt. Robert Ree wasn't in part of that
team though. Yeah, but he was at the parade. Oh,
he went to the alumni partial. Yeah, I think he was. Okay,
I mean you see hanging out, were you on were
you in the parades?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I know you know you're still bitter about it. Look,
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to uncover past the Rockets. Hey,
when the Rockets win the next championship, hopeful in the
next year or two, guy will be in the parade
doing what I don't know. Driving. Want to get you
in a Turbo costume, not dressing up like Turbo. That's
not happening. I'm busy enough as it is. All right,
I'm calling games. I'm as a mass I have to
like my ideas, but I have them in so far.
Your ideas are terrible. Ost parade and me dressing up
like Turbo. See at the Scottish in one thirteen the
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Speaker 9: You.
Speaker 1: Let's fine, they'll get you taken care of. I'm not
worried about it. You know, they'll give you a free
month of their on on their uh with resh straight
to phone access. Right, Oh really was it twenty bucks
a month? Is day? Bad? Not bad? Okay, it beats.
Let me tell you something. We were just talking about
this tech TV networks are going away. Be happy, be happy?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 1: It is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross one twenty is
our time seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero. I brought this up to very at the
very beginning of the show today, and I brought it
and also discussed it briefly yesterday. Is there as much
angst among the other NFL teams about the quarterback spot
that there is in Houston, Texas? Let's do this again, like, yes,
we did kind of did the whole team situations, which
nobody feels perfect because there's no perfect team in the NFL.
And that's how that's by design, right, most parody with
the hard cap. Okay, you wanted to strictly quarterbacks. Let's
talk about bo Nicks. If you're if we're doing Denver
Sports Radio right now, yes, is our confidence level one
to ten? What would it be? Uh five? But don't
sure we with CJ. Stroud, by the way, or are
we gonna get there? We'll get there, We'll get there.
Let me tell you this, if you're fourteen and three
and you're the number one seed in the AFC, you
know that they've they've not won fourteen games in spite
of bo Nicks. He's had to have made some plays, right,
just like c J. Stroud May twenty five touchdowns, eleven picks,
almost four thousand yards, completion percentage I do total QBR
fifty eight point four hold on sixty three percent, which
is low for the NFL. Yeah, that's a that's a
good season. I would assume he has five rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I hope we get to talk to
Denver next week or to Buffalo next week. We've got
contacts in both those cities. I would say that. And look,
the only person I talked to you about Denver Broncos
football is my engineer that does the Nuggets games with me.
He likes him a lot. He says, you're wonder year
to this guy. He wanted him to lose. Well, did
get him a still guy the number one overall seed? No,
he said. Progression Year one of year two was really good.
I mean, I don't think no quarterback progressed as much
as Drake may did from season one to two. But
Bnicks made a sick I mean Bonenicks let him in
the playoffs last year. That's a two year playoff team,
number one seed. You gotta get flowers. So I would
say not again. I guess we should have called the
Denver Sports part. I get the true indication we could have,
But it feels like to me that if a confidence
scale for the average Denver fan should be about a
seven on him on one of the ten scale. If
ten is Mahomes does anything in the playoffs, Mahomes, he's
a seven. Nah I'm going I'm sticking with Maybe you
can convince me to get to a six. Okay, all right,
let's go to Buffalo then, okay, ten, absolutely a ten.
Nine he can turn the ball over.
Speaker 2: Turn the ball over.
Speaker 1: Now we're not doing semantics. It's a tick going from
nine to ten. I bet you there are some Buffalo
Bills down. First of all, you're Buffalo Bill fan. You
get doubts in the back of your mind, no matter
what you have, doubts about the other side of the
football way more than about your offensive See right, Josh
Allen can occasionally be turnover proe. You get a top
two running back in the league. It's at least rushing
wise and yards wise. Occasionally he can turn the ball
over and make you say what the hell was that
he can also you know what I thought about him?
But he's dynamic. Yeah, you know how starting nine point five? Okay, whatever?
You know what I thought about when he played the Texans.
What he takes terrible sacks too? Yes, he does because
he tries to run out of him and a lot
of times it works, but a lot of times it does.
Speaker 9: Not.
Speaker 1: Like who is the who would you think, forgeting about
the teams that are on the playoffs, who is the
best sack taker in the NFL? I think Mahomes is
a good job. Mahomes like, yeah, I'll take the loss,
let's go, I'll get you know, he can run his
way into more sacks. Lamar Jack Rogerson somebody completely lacking
in mobility. Aaron's like, I'll go fetal position quick, Yes,
go straight down because he knows he's never making a
play some of this. Who else is a good quarterback
in the NFL? Good good, really good quarterback? Who knows
when to take the l I mean Lamar Jackson does
get I mean he makes incredible odd ways one still
in the playoffs. Matthew Stafford, Matthew knows when the pocket collapses.
I'm just gonna go down to be sure I don't
get hurt. I guess the question would be the least
the quarterbacks that are the least mobile? No when to
say all rights exactly? All right, so you have nine
and a half yes on Josh Allen, yes, six six
on Nicks. It's like a podcast sticking with that. All right,
Let's get to, uh, the AFC side of things. Drake
May eight for eight eight for Patriot fan confidence level.
Not a spectacular wee gets a child, That's what I'm saying.
God playoffs or a different animal. He's gonna finish second
in the MVP. You can't be a guy. You can't
be a Patriot fan who loves on a guy for
seventeen weeks and then he doesn't throw for three fifteen
four scores and think all of a sudden, the guy's
hot garbage thirty one touchdowns, eight picks for a few
as he does fumble the ball quite a bit. Hmmm.
First in the NFL in total QBR. You know what,
Eight's fine, It's fine. Now the difficult one. My answer
is going to be different than most. Give your answer.
This is going to be a wide ran. Then I'm
gonna give what I believe. The fan answer is six.
Fan answers five, one to ten. Confidence level on your quarterback. Now,
this is what we do average. We did an average.
It'd probably in a round five because there are people
who are like a one or two and want Davis
Mills in there, and then there's seven and eighths and say, hey,
get him a running game. Nico's not out there, and oh,
by the way, the offensive line, even though it's better,
is still average. It was so funny because I was
tweeting some on the game Monday, and I was getting
I was getting both sides. I was getting, you're being
too hard on CJ. Stroud and I was getting he
needs to be benched immediately, Davis Mills needs to be
in there. And here's a widespread Please, please, please do
not tell your friends, even if you're joking about how
you want to see Davis Mills on Sunday, it will
ruin what little football I qu have. What credibility. Yeah,
and your football street Craig goes very down down quickly.
If you want Davis Mills to start, oh, no questions starting,
which yeah, yeah I would. So you're saying your confidence
level is six, the average fan is five. I would
lean towards six because look, the fumbles I they weren't
a ring. They were not They were not a regular
habit of the team. There wasn't center quarterback exchanges.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Actually, you know what, in the more I think about that,
remember that ball that went through the lay arms of
him and then went right to what he marks for
a fumble recovery touchdown. That happened, Yes, And then there
was one that went to uh they they messed up
the snap with togy I. He didn't hand the ball off. Yeah, okay,
I can't use that. Then forget that there is a
chance for fumble issues. There just is. We have example.
We just gave examples plus marks. One was the I
think it was the center Jake Andrews or was it
he still him?
Speaker 13: Was here?
Speaker 5: Was he out?
Speaker 1: I can't remember whoever the center was thought they were
in shotgun and they weren't. So so the ball goes
on a fumble technically a fumble recovery to what he marks,
he scores when the NFL is like, that's not a
rushing touchdown, that's a that's a fumble recovery. Yeah, so
people on their famis, So let me ask you this
was that more on c J or Moore on the
center of the center. Yeah, that's to me. So, so
if you're gonna I don't think you, okay, go ahead,
five fumbles, Jesus, what's wrong with you? A lot? It's
gonna be better. CJ's gonna be better.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 1: I'm going up to a six point five? What's up?
I'm staying a six. Mike Rabel spoke today. We'll hear
him next Fire and Brimstone from Mike. Oh stop, how
much coach speak? Who's the better coach? Beak Vrabel or Dimiko.
We'll discuss that next one. Twenty eight. Matt Thomas shows
Sports Talk seven Nauty with Ross seven one three two
one two five seven anty Believe It or Not today
coming up in twenty minutes from now, and it's all
things about you were to you were to decide what
we're gonna go with Believe it or Not? We're doing
today yes, I figured out. All right, I try to
give you a promotion. Give you a chance to look
it up on Wikipedia. He's gonna help me out here,
all right, Rabel? Next one?
Speaker 9: Eight?
Speaker 1: All right, let's go let you hear what the coach
the Patriots had to say. My thought is this time
of the year, when you're down to four teams in
each conference, you're gonna hear a tremendous amount of coach speak.
Maybe Mike Rabel will prove us wrong. Let's hear from him.
We'll start first with he says something. Well, it's only
nine seconds. You want to do what you're talking about? Rabel? Okay,
what's that question? So he's gonna be like meat headed
coach guy. I don't know how. I don't know how
to approach these because I don't really know how he
does his press conferences, but I can guess he comes
across not meat headish but captain obvious. Okay, all right,
now here's the problem. Who slugged? This is a Dan
Matthews slug, which normally means he puts the entire quote
in there. I like this, Then go ahead, all right,
I'm gonna give you this first one because if this
slug matches exactly what he says, Dan, You're gonna get crushed. Okay,
you slug stuff to promote you don't slug The answer
nine seconds ross, Texans defense is for real. What do
you have to say about this? The Texans defense is
for real. They've been great all season long. They got
a lot of dogs and Miko Rans is a great coach.
Is nine seconds? Nine second? Stick with that.
Speaker 7: We're good, a great talent, great scheme.
Speaker 8: They play hard and respect how hard they play, and
they're just not only talented, but they have a play
demeanor that I can appreciate.
Speaker 1: I think I got it kind of close. Yeah, he said,
But do you say play demeanor play demeanor? Yes, as
a demeanor on the field, that's good. That's us.
Speaker 7: That's a vermeor that I can appreciate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, dogs, Yeah that's good. You got a terrible grade.
But whoever saw that? Nice job? I said. They play
hard and they're well coached. All right, that's what he
said twenty two seconds on which talking about Rabel. Okay,
Texans are improved on offense. What do you say, I
link if you look at where they were early in
the season into where they are now I've seen a
lot of improvement with the play calling, with the scheming. CJ.
Stroud is playing really well. The run game is doing good.
So we're going to have our hands full with an
offense that has much improved here.
Speaker 8: It is they're gaining confidence. They look like in a
run game and the physicality which they played with the
other night. And when you can do that, then Marrys
with you know, your play action opens up and your
space is over the middle, open up your boot game
and all Marry's together.
Speaker 7: So that to me looks like what they would want
to do, and a lot of success with it the
other night. But they they played physical, they ran a football.
Speaker 1: He's way more technical than I would have thought he
was going to be. Yeah, you lied to me. I
did lie to you. I didn't mean to put that
on the list. Last of the day from that time.
All right, and one more, Oh, this is going to
be good. Now? How many?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: How many lives we detected in this following statement? Twenty
seven seconds? Okay, CJ poses problems for them. Yeah. CJ.
Stroud is a you know, a great quarterback and he's
extremely accurate. He can make plays with his arm, he
can make plays off schedule with his feet as well
extend the pocket. He's got a great feel for where
his guys are at, and it really does a good
job of running their offense and getting the guys where
they need to be. You're get five stars and just
go for it.
Speaker 8: He's athletic enough to extend, but also the pocket presence
and that you want. You know, he can he can
turn his back to the defense and come out of
there and throw play action.
Speaker 7: Does a good job on a boot game. He keeps
his eyes downfield.
Speaker 8: He's accurate, so he kind of gives you a little
bit of both as far as you know, the ability
to extend plays, but always keeping his eyes down the field.
Speaker 1: Good job by you, all right, Nice, good job by you.
All right?
Speaker 5: Is that it?
Speaker 1: Well, there's some more. Let's see. Is there anything else
that's overly juicy? Oh uh, he's a let's go to
cut one, Jonathan, if you don't mind, he apparently is
a not not gonna let you get You don't have
to worry about guessing this. He is a huge Alsi's
al Shire fan. Oh it's a great, great great linebacker,
plays downhill, plays hard, and he plays fast, but he
also plays smart. He's a good job. He's a good job,
and it does a great job of diagnosing plays, figuring
out what's going on, having everybody in the right place,
and then just plays with a lot of energy and force.
Speaker 7: Great leader, I mean he starts there. He's got great
leadership in the middle, a good skill set.
Speaker 8: And we talk about a journey Today's National Football League
and to a career and haven't been undrafted and his
story which is really special.
Speaker 7: And you know, I'll always appreciate the year that Tennessee
spent with us.
Speaker 8: Still stay in contact with him, So he's done a
lot for me personally, my family.
Speaker 7: So I always appreciate that. Wish nothing but the best
for him. He knows that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that I forgot he played with Rabel.
By the way, don't you want to go to Rabel
and say you think you got any comments for Amy Kronk?
Why because he would like to playing the Titans. Yeah,
but wouldn't you like to say no, no, no, no,
no no. By the way, your your side is winning
the poll, not that I was against you. Who is
she rooting against hardest seventy Texans?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no? Or against Rabel? Rabel. She'll root against hard
next week if they win, which I don't think they are. Yeah,
she just she really hates the Texans. At least they
stopped wearing Oilers gear because they got embarrassed every time
they tried to wear it against the Texans. Because here's
the thing, you will there will be two generations of
Houston football fans that will come after her, the Texans
fans of that generation, yes, and the old school Order fans.
You did something that the Adams family never could do. Now,
there were a lot of good times. I mean, look,
I grew up with the Orders. We talked about that
at nauseum. Bury the Oilers. When Texans need to win
to help further bury the Oilers. They haven't played in
the game. What was the ninety six they left thirty years? Yeah,
I've long been I'm not telling you, Matty. There's a
lot of people hanging on and got mad at me
when I said they needed to let go. No, it's
it's actually frankly easy to let go because look, the
organization's a good hands. I mean, Hannah's running things, Demiko,
you get the football side. Nick's done a good enough
job as a general manager. Rick Asario, I think deserves
some a lot of praise. I think somebody I saw
within the last three twenty of the twenty two starters
have been added to the Texans within the last three years.
They're in the divisional round. Look you good. Yeah, And
there are some misses, of course that we can point to. Well,
you know, in fairness to Nick, nobody's gonna have shot
himself allegedly. It's not his fault. You know what the
best part is, you're coming around to that. It's just
funny to say, did you hear that? It's just ridiculous?
And you hear that he's coming around. He would even
utter that phrase five days ago, and now I was like, okay,
maybe a chance. It sounds so insane. You're starting to complete.
Have you been around the NFL?
Speaker 13: Yes, I have.
Speaker 1: You can only name me one player ever who shot
himself and it was Plexico Burst in a nightclub. Let
me tell you we got we got NFL players hanging
out with porn stars. We have people shooting that. Stay
with me in this how many other shooting Well, there
was some shooting incidents with Marvin Harrison, Lots of shooting incidents,
lots of robberies. Yeah, Tank Dale got shot. Yeah we
Jalen Reed got got a he he got car jack
robbed and Carjack was that in Houston? We got speeding incidents.
We have players that are always saying I can't believe
I ingested that when you know exactly what you did.
Stop be kind of crazy but certainly believable. I'm sorry.
I'm not saying it happened because Lord knowsy Texans haven't
told us anything about that. But I'm not discounting it now, Okay,
because why we're we're going back down this road again.
Why would you if you don't hide normally. Yeah, I'm
with you. That's something bad, something off the big board,
as we said, something in the field. Now, unless he
went in there and called him a Nicosi on m or,
I mean then you could also say conduct detrimental of
the team. Done. Bye see you. No, it's not yeah
n FI non football injury. And it's not like Joe
Mixon's a choir boy. Go go look at the video
back in the day, Hey just being reels. He also
had some other issues too, right well I can speak
of is that subway shot video that's not great? Are
you looking at the prior record of Joe Mixon. Yeah, legally,
he has a whole legal issues segment on his Wikipedia
for god twenty fourteen misdemeanor assault charge. That was when
well he broke that young woman's face two thousand and
three alleged aggravated menacing incident. He said, you should be
popped in the face. I should shoot you now, yikes,
in a as he pointed a woman a gun at
a woman before the Bengals and Bill's playoff game. And
then an injured child incident. Oh, that was when there
were shots fired at his home. He was not arrested.
I believe he wasn't there, right, all right, I'm just
saying this right now to wrap things up. The top
spin on the board of what the hell happened? Gunshot
to foot? Now, the favorite doesn't always win? Can I
take the field? Are we doing another bet? No, let's
do it. We'll do some bag of the ship. We
cannot bet on this. There is a clear field. You
said it's the favorite. It's a chalk. So I want
to take the field. Yes see, okay, small bet uh
DELI lunch? No change it up, bag of chips, no
change it up. Pay your tolls for two days. But
how about a coffee? A coffee? Yeah, I make my
own coffee. You're telling me how you wouldn't take a
free ice coffee from somewhere. Hey, I wanted to not
be marmocks. That's fine. We'll go somewhere else, my favorite.
We'll go somewhere else. Okay, two pm coffee, two pm
coffee and with a with a pastry like a slice
of lemon cake or whatever. We can go to Rocks
and get that. Yeah, we'll go there. Let me get it.
I gotta get to know final the file. I should say,
I have coffee? Do you have the field? Who's wrong
with us?
Speaker 2: We're great?
Speaker 1: It's terrible. Nobody else doing this bets on what side
do you like? Jonathan? If you're a batman, Jonathan, you
want to jump in on this. You know I hate these.
I'm one mass side.
Speaker 2: I just can't be that.
Speaker 1: Please. Okay, coffee plus pastry post show coffee plus pastry?
How why Joe bas my choice? Pastry of choice? And
I will I get you a I want I get
a vent I'll get a Grande. I want to go
you can get then though whatever event he's too much
coffee Yeah, that's for sickos too much. Give me one,
all right, Believe it or not, it is up next.
Category is oh g it's it's John Harball, John Harball.
Believe it or not, it's up next. It's one forty four.
If you want to play seven one three two one
two five seven nineties. All right, Tomorrow, I'm gonna try
to get something appro in Boston one more time to
give you a different perspective things you've been hearing us
talk at Nelson about this game. Good to get somebody
in from being town. Em Doak is gonna join us,
I believe for a few minutes tomorrow as well, hopefully
to celebrate a victory against Oklahoma City and get ready
for Minnesota tomorrow night. Rockets have three games in four
days coming up tonight. Oklahoma City is in town. They've
won four in a row. The Rockets have won seven
strated home Rockets ROSSI are under five hundred at home.
Excuse me, under five hundred against the West at twelve
and thirteen. Your concern level is one out of ten. Yes,
I get you, because you all of a sudden you
boot you, you boot yourself up when you have these
victories against the really good teams. It's just the losses.
Two to Sacramento hurts, two to Dallas, hurts New Orleans
giving up to twenty. I'm moving on it gonna be positive.
So that's when they call me, mister. I don't think
they oh, that's like to one day. No, they love me.
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Speaker 3: Believe it or not? Believe it.
Speaker 1: John Harball played his college football in Miami of Ohio,
where he was a defensive back. Believe it or not.
Believe it, Yes, believe it statement number two for the
way and John Harball spent two years working on a
law degree before quitting school and going to coach with
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Speaker 9: It's got to be Ross's extreme faith in his Houston,
Texas He has him in the championship game.
Speaker 1: While at Miami of Ohio, John Harball was roommates with
Rob Carpenter running back for the Orders the Giant into
the Rams. Believe it or not?
Speaker 4: Not not?
Speaker 1: First of all, that's a Hall of Fame question right there.
I remember Rob Carpenter as a kid. How did you
pull Rob carpentart of your ass? I've just looked for Miami.
OHI unbelievable. Statement number two. For the win. Outside of
the Ravens Super Bowl run, John Harball has won four
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it or not?
Speaker 5: Believe it.
Speaker 1: At no point in his coaching career has John Harbaugh
been either an offensive or defensive coordinator. Believe it or not? Uh,
that's a belief. Thank you for playing though? Seven one, three, two,
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Roger your favorite part of today's ten to two radio show,
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is also an athlete. She played lacrosse for Notre Dame.
Believe it or not? Believe it? Yeah, of course she did.
Statement number two for the when John Harbaugh and his
brother are Devalo Catholics and made a visit to the
Vatican in twenty eighteen to meet Pope Francis believe it
or not. Believe no, John didn't go. Come on now,
he's busy. Those are great questions. Again, you in the
last ten minutes. You must be the best five minute
worker in the world. Not the first time I've heard that, Matt,
Thank you. I'm not talking about believing or not. All right,
tomorrow is it? Anything goes Friday. We'll check in with
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