The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday, Rockets Take Down The Clippers! Texans Facing a Trap Game?

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

Anything Goes Friday, Rockets Take Down The Clippers! Texans Facing a Trap Game?

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This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 10-0-2 and H-town. Good morning, and welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Our man, Yankees Keith, that sauce got to those sports RV. Be careful kind of sauce you use. You know, I got to give Keith a little credit. He's kind of funny. Keith, hey, not bad.

I mean, some of his sports takes are absurd. And his line... They're absolutely horrible. And his love for the Yankees is atrocious, but that's not here nor there. Yeah, and he became Texans Keith last year for like a few weeks, and now he's off the bandwagon. I believe he's now Jaguar, Keith, which is really odd. It is odd. Did they even have fans of Jaguars?

It's got to be the smallest fan base in the NFL, yes? Oh, for sure. Like, even Carolina's got like a... of the region. Jackson was got a split time with Miami and Tampa Bay, although Tampa Bay fan probably not in a particularly good mood. Their coach wasn't. Ooh, Todd Bowles.

Oh, my God. Highest meth smokers per capita in the NFL. Oh, Jacksonville? I have never been there before. It's one of the few metropolitan cities in this country have never been to. You know what? I'm stereotyping. We don't believe in stereotyping here on the show.

We do it daily. We do it, actually. We may not believe in it, but we do it. So Todd Bowles is the coach of the Buccaneers, and he just went. in off in the post game. I sent it to Ross. We'd like to play it for you, but it's got so many cuss words where we would get probably a

six-figure fine by the Federal Communications Commission. So if you can possibly clean it up in the next couple hours. Yeah, I'll see what I can do, Matt. I'll get right on it for you. Yeah. My guess we'll get it on before like 1230, somewhere in that range. We'll see. I'm in vacay mode, baby. I'm off all next week. I need you. I'm off all next week.

Okay, that's what I'm saying. You're off all next next week. You still have to work today. Nah, and I can't hear you at all. I'm just hearing Luwow music I'm here I'm working What?

Yeah Hi who are you I'm Matt Oh hey what's up I'll be I'll be Doing double duty hosting the show Doing the Rockets next week

Looking forward to that Wow I'm proud of you Speaking of the Rockets What an odd game last night Oh my God Odd game Odd I mean ugly than early loss game

I was calling for them To trade for Yannis In the middle of the third quarter I saw that I think I think I mean saw that tweet in the middle of the game. He's like, shut your bum ass out. And he scored 12 or 13 or whatever it was in the fourth quarter. He

and he can dish the ball a beautiful I'll tell you what, this is a great passing team. Now it does turn the ball over way too much, but it's a great passing team too. Yeah. Sometimes the pass ends up in the second row they turn it over, but that's okay. It is what it is. Shangoon did have one steal. Was it against but two? You know what? They're gunslingers. They're like prime

Brett Farrf. Yeah. Well, maybe actually they're more like Prime James Winston. They're 30 for 30. No, no, no, no. They're younger than that. Crazy passes. Yeah.

And a lot of turnovers. But Alpi had a steal when, was it Batum that just was like holding the ball and just sitting there at the top of the key? He had like three steals in the first half. Yeah. It was good in a dunk. Yeah. It's, look, it was a, it was a rewarding victory.

It got everybody a little more nervous and probably it should have been because it was the clippers. But the clippers do what clippers do at the very end and that suck. Yes. I think, oh my God, by the way. When they just completely didn't inbound the ball. So Nick Batum. Nick Batum is running the baseline, which you're allowed to do after a made basket.

Because nobody's coming to him. He's running the baseline because nobody's coming. And as soon as he did it, I was thinking in my mind, he's going to cross the line. I mean, Nick Batum has probably played basketball. How old is Nick in his early to mid-30, somewhere in that range? He's probably played basketball for 25, 26, 27 years of his life. He has French. Yeah.

Been the NBA long time. made a nice living for himself. Yeah, punched a guy in the nuts in the Olympics. I'm glad you remember that. That is a elementary, literally a third grade rule. You cannot cross the line. Basically, tip-off is how you start to play basketball. From there, it's inbound.

It's like rule one of basketball. Tip-off or inbound. Or you can't dribble the ball with two hands. Yes. It's one of those day one things. It's before even that, yeah. James Naismith was laying this out to the kids. He got there in the first 30 seconds.

There is a line. Yes. When you end bat it, you may not cross it. And if you do, you'll be turning the ball over. So he's running the baseline. No one is coming. I'm like, and I'm thinking about the back of my mind, I'm going to call a back court violation.

And it was actually what it was. And when the referee blew the whistle, I knew exactly what happened. He turned his body. The referee turned the body around and pointed out of the direction. Uh-huh. And the rockets were able to not have to worry about a three-point defense. Because it was Rex and I were calling the game.

We were talking about the fact that you needed to probably foul to not allow the Clippers did put up a three-point shot. Just get two free throws and said. It was like it was like 8.7 seconds left or something like that. Yeah, 8.7 was what it was. What a Clippers collapse. Brain dead. And then there's controversy after the game yesterday because apparently Tyron Lue did not speak to the media.

And now there's an argument as to, well, was there any media to speak to? Yes. The Clippers PR department said that there was nobody there so they didn't do the interview. but Kelly Eco, now of Yahoo, says, not so fast, my friend. I was there. There was a Rockets PR person there as well, and they told us he wasn't speaking.

So there is a serious amount of somebody's lying. Clippers! Sorry. Well, the clippers, and we're seeing this, and look, everything is changing in our world, including media. Apparently the two papers in Los Angeles that primarily cover the clippers are not traveling. to every game, and I think one paper is not even traveling at all.

Yeah, I mean, so if there's nobody there, you can turn around pretty quick and get go here in Houston. It's happening, it happens in Minnesota, and there's a lot of teams. Now, we play those audio and post games, and it's Vanessa Richardson getting one-on-ones with the coach. Good for Vanessa to do that. It's good for her, but that's, nobody's there. Yeah.

It happens. Traveling media is dying. It just is. You can get the report off of a, you can hire a, what they call a stringer, and pay them $50 who live in that town or $100. to write the story. Cheaper than a plane ticket. Cheaper than a plane ticket, hotels.

I mean, everybody, again, this world of equity. By the way, that's stringer fee hadn't changed. And it'd been about 50 bucks for about 20 years now. It's not, you don't get rich off of it. It's like being a substitute teacher.

You get to the go. You're like, oh, you get to go to the game. Yeah. But these papers are being owned by private equity firms and they're like, you know what, trim the fat when you can. Yes.

And if you don't, and look, newspapers is a dying business. Now, the internet allows some of these things on a digital platform to go in, but, you know, you're just going to make pennies in the dollar. But that's more of an issue for another time. But, yeah, the Rockets won the game and are now back to 10 games above 500. And we'll have another set of days off before they travel to Denver on Sunday to take on the Nuggets. And then we'll put the Monday Nuggets game and then go to New Orleans on a Thursday. So it's a long trip coming up. It's 13 days, 12 nights.

And we'll include six road games. And I'll be celebrating Christmas with my family. via Zoom. But then it's the breaks. Again, nobody in my family is like, oh, Ted, please. All right, Aaron Andrews, relax, because you're complaining. Please, Dad, please don't go. They're like, Dad, you get the gifts.

You're fine. Wow. We'll talk to you on video. I'm sure they miss you or somebody is. Well, we're still having our Christmas on the 28th. Oh, that's good. Yeah. I mean, yeah, Jesus wasn't born on the 25th anyways.

Was he 24th? 26th? I don't know. 11th? I thought it was around the equinox. I believe it was October 14th. I send him a card. Yeah.

No, look, the gifts are purchased. They don't need me there. They can hug me. I mean, when I get home, that's fine. But I, you know, as I was telling my family the other day, it's an honor to playing Christmas Day. It just is that you are, and you're in the, would you say the 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock Eastern times the prime game of the day, right?

When you say, or? Of course. So, we're not only, were you playing on Christmas Day, but we're not, you know, we're playing also the primetime game that night. So it's against the Lakers and LeBron and company, who are very, very good. Should be an excellent day of football and basketball. And unfortunately for the NBA, they're going to... Austin Reeves and company.

He is bawling. You know, he doesn't wear a headband or is he a headband guy? I don't think he's wearing a headband that I've seen recently. Okay, I just know there's a lot of white guys in the... Wait, no, he might have because he and Caruso had one on when they played the cover. Oh, Caruso definitely does. I can't recall. Yeah.

I've never won a headband in my entire life. Oh, really? No. Granted, that would also... require me sweating i mean i did because i mean i just thought it was funny but you didn't do wear i used to wear i yeah i had uh well i have a longhorn headband that i used to wear to games and then i have a headband that i would wear in pickup ball just because i thought it looked i would wear like high socks and in a headbanded pickup so you basically stereotyped unathletic

basketball player uh i would say fairly unathletic but a little bit skilled do you wear elbow knee pants no i didn't go that far you should have on full board i guess i could have you know all right on the show today here's what we got uh we have uh we have have, I'm sorry, is at 1130? It feels like that should be called the Ross Villarreal sponsored. I'm sorry, because you feel like you, because you're probably due five to six a week. That's not true. You always feel like you say, oh, I'm sorry, I've got to save it for Friday.

That's because, yeah, sometimes I say rude things. You know, my filter isn't as good as it should be sometimes. Yeah, I'm guilty of that as well. I'm sorry, he's at 1130. We'll have the news at noon, wake the strippers up then. We've got EMAID DOC at 1230 today. Dr. Roto's at 1 o'clock and a non-floor stories at 1.30. Plus, a hell yeah or not.

And I have a Houston sports cloud over my head that I can't, I'm having difficulty shaking. I need your help. All right. We'll do that coming back. Plus, I hate to use a word that is used often in sports, but I think it's applicable here in Houston for the Texans. What is that word?

We'll tell you next. Plus your, what are you calling it now? It's a cloud. It's a cloud. It's a cloud? Yeah, it's a cloud over my head. Houston Sports cloud. Is it foggy like today's weather was?

I could have said something, but I can't say it. Okay. I'll hold mind us after you're going first. 1014, Sports Talk 790. As you heard a couple minutes ago, it is our St. Jude's Radiothon, presented by Gattlery Furniture. And today, we need you to go to your piggy bank and see if you can spare some money for some families, kids that are fighting cancer. $19 a month will help those kids facing cancer. dollars a month that's like 65 cents a day

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Couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you. All right. So there's a cloud hanging over you. And you and I, just to be honest here, we have not talked about this. We have not talked about this. So I'm going to sit in the back of my chair. What were we talking about the first segment?

Houston sports-wise, for the most part. Okay. What do we talk the most of? What team? The Astros? Houston Rockets. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What do you think the cloud is? I'm not even going to guess. I don't know. You've got me intrigued yet a little scared as well. There might be some thunder coming from this cloud. Okay, we talked about that yesterday. I literally was watching them lose to the Clippers, and I'm like, they can't beat the, like, I can't stop thinking about the thunder.

No matter what the rockets are doing, they're winning, they're losing, I'm watching these games, I cannot, it's like the thunder are living rent free in my brain every time I'm watching the rockets now. It's bad. I need help. I'm asking you for help. Okay. How do I stop this? That's fine.

Because they're 24 and 1. They've won 16 games in a row. They set the all-time record for point differential last year with 12.9. They have a 17 point. They're five points better than that right now. This is not good for my mental health. Well. Because the rockets are exciting and good.

Well, I'm glad you asked. I'm glad you asked. First and foremost, I despise the term rent-free. Me too. There are terms in life that I hate, or words. Let me run through them. I hate the word moist.

I just despise the word. Okay. I'm with you. I think that is an overused term. It's ridiculous. You talk about something and people say rent-free. But I am using it because it is apt. It is what is happening.

All right. I'm with you. That term sucks and it's overused, but I had to describe it the way that it's happening. Because it's true in this case. Okay. So it's like when some people say built different. Not everybody's built different, okay?

Don't even finish myth, ain't built different. Here's the terms I hate. Moist, I hate built different. Rent free, built different. You do you, be better. I hate all those. Sounds like you're hearing some of those a lot more than others. On Twitter especially.

But here I'm here to help you. Yes. They've gone 24 and 1. Oh, dear. But I'm going to give you not every one of the 24 victories. but I'm going to give you quite a few of them. Okay. Okay, you're going to strength the schedule.

Houston. That's great win. Double overtime could have just as easy to lost that one. Other wins would include Indiana, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington, the Kings, the Pelicans, the Clippers, the Hornets, the Grizzlies, the Pelicans, again. the Kings again, the Jazz, the Portland

Trailblazers. They beat the Lakers by 30. They beat the Warriors by 24 before that. Phoenix, which is low end. I mean, they beat Phoenix by 50, though. I'm not done, though. Hold on, let me go to December here. They're beating them by 30, though.

Doesn't matter. It's the same matters a little bit. No, it doesn't. It matters a little bit. Dallas, more Utah, more Golden State. They're not beating game. No, they're number one and they are the heavy, heavy, heavy

favorite. So that's no wins over the Nuggets. One went over the Rockets? Yes. Coming up post Christmas Okay. Two of San Antonio. Yes. Philadelphia's playing better than expected.

Okay. In January, you have. January? Yeah, I'm looking. Oh, this is not helping. This is not helping. Phoenix, Charlotte, Utah, Memphis.

Okay. Hold on, hold on. Another San Antonio game. Okay. There is Cleveland on there. Toronto, which has been a huge surprise. Minnesota. And you have a Rockets game.

So you're telling me they're not going 75 and 7. I'm saying that... Come check with you in a month? Let's talk in 30 days. Okay. All right. You know what? I can live with that.

I can let it go for 30 days. And I was ill prepared for this. Until, and I will give credit what credits do. A lot of the A team is exhausting, but Wex brought this up yesterday. Good. About how they have not played a overly vicious schedule. Okay. Now, still, look, in the NBA, you can play down to your competition.

They are NBA players, and look, the Rockets, two of their losses this year are to sub-playoff teams, the Dallas Mavericks and the Utah Jazz. It can happen. You're not supposed to beat everybody that's below the game. you and you're not supposed to play average everybody that's above you. To that end. Yes. I just checked. Strongest strength of schedule left in the NBA.

Please. Oklahoma City. The hardest schedule yet. Yes. Thank Wex. You just made me feel so much better. I'm gravy training off here. Oh my goodness.

Yeah, I get that. But at least I admitted it. Yeah, me too. You got to listen to people who are smarter than you. I listen to Wex. Yeah. Wex helped. Mm-hmm.

So, there you go. Thank you, Wex. Because I'll be honest with you, Rossi, I thought the exact same thing. I'm like, yeah, are they ever going to lose again? And until I realize that they were an only play. I think Wax brought up yesterday on the show. I think they've only played two or four games. I can't remember what it was against top six or above teams.

Okay. So they have the, I have even better news for you. Oh, I love when you give me good news. Oklahoma City. Toughest strength of schedule in terms of opponent win percentage. Number two, Denver. Even better. The three San Antonio.

Oh, let's go. You soft-ass first. And who are those teams fighting in the Western Conference with? Your beloved Houston Rockets. Who are 27th. I'm feeling better now. This is great. And it took you six.

This has been wonderful. You had angst for six minutes. You know what? Bill me for an hour. I got you. Well, actually, what I'm going to do is you're going to, what I'm going to do is I'm going to charge you and then I'm going to give half the money to wax. Okay.

Because he's the one that's good, the heavy lifting. All right. I'm feeling a lot. better right now. So, not only did we give you good news on that, but we also gave you a bunch of terms you can't use. Can't say moist? I can't say moist. No. Why not? Well, I love moist brisket. Not a good word. I don't understand the problem with moist. It's, it's just an awful word. It just means there's moisture. Does moisture bother you? No? No, it does not. Okay. Moister's in the That's fine.

But, man, do you ever go, man, this, my wife made these brownies that were so moist. Absolutely. What?

What's wrong with that? It's a terrible word. Who doesn't like a good moist cake? I do, but don't have to say it. You know, you love some moist cake? Jonathan,

how do you feel about the word moist cake? Jonathan, you like moist cake? You know, every time Ross says that, I cringe a little bit. Thank you. I can't,

you know what? What about moist brisket? No. No. What about moist pie? Mm, no. You're making it worse.

Yeah. Do you know what? I don't see what the problem is. It's not a good word. I don't get it. It's a negative. Oh, I totally get it. What do you want?

Wet pie? No, I don't want the word of using use at all. Stay out of that whole vernacular. How else you, okay, so your wife bakes you a cake. She spent hours on it and it's delicious and it's moist. How are you going to describe it? It's delicious. Honey, I want you to give me two sentences on what you like about this cake.

Tasty, delicious. That's, that's, that's, that's, it? Yeah. Flavorful. Flavorful. I can go on. But when you make a cake, you want it to be moist. That goes without saying. Right. Not dry. Let's not imply. Oh, you're going to say not dry. You're not going to go, hey, honey,

this cake is not dry. Good job. I'm not going to go. No, you're a bunch of liars. I got a friend of mine who's known for making dry ass brisket. I don't tell him about it. You should tell him and you need it more moist. No. That's not going to happen. Tell me you need more moisture. No, I'm never going to go, hey, would you please moisture. No, no. If somebody's

giving you brick brisket that you have to choke down that you have to lubricate with barbecue sauce to get it down your trot. Do not bring up lubrication in barbecue sauce. What is wrong with you today? What do you mean? I just gave you amazing information about Oklahoma City. If you're lacking in moisture, you need lubrication.

Read a book, Matt. Come on, man. This is 101. So yeah, you need some brisket lube, also known as barbecue sauce. email text coming in what about astro legend moistice aloo yeah moistice aloo what's wrong with that i was ill prepared for that um moistice aloo that's that's funny yet troubling i don't see what the issue is was saying the word moist i just don't get it okay well i'm

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this is what the first half hours already brought to you Houston all I say is you're welcome a great friend of mine I've been friends with him for 20 plus years sent me a text he says Matt I need your help I just pulled up to a Starbucks and I can't decide if I want a really good moist piece of lemon loaf

or should I have coffee cake or I don't know if coffee cake has been living rent-free in my head you know the lady said you do you and it's like well but i love moist lemon love but man coffee cake really does sound good can you help me with that and i said no and i'm built different and i said nope lose my number so the poll did you put a twitter poll out what is it poll the poll question is the word moist a use it all the time b just occasionally or c find a different word 71% have it just occasionally. So it's obviously a word that it can be used.

Okay, so only 12% of people are on your side? 15 is according to this point. I got 12.5 because I just voted. Oh, did you? Oh, look at you trying to alter the vote. I'm not altering. I voted. I voted my answer. You're not allowed to vote. Why not? Why am I not allowed to vote? I don't know. I'm just kidding. This is suppression. Voter suppression. You don't have your voters card. You don't know allowed. Yes, I do. That's crazy. All right. Um, so. So I'm going to, we're going to play a call from last night's game that maybe starts to signal the end of one of America's greatest sportscasters. Starts, do. Go ahead.

But my point is, yeah. By the way, 56% now just occasionally using the word moist. All right. So there's a term in sports that you use quite often in all different sports. Rossi, simple answer this question for me. Okay. Are the next two weeks for the Texans potentially trap games? Oh, dear.

You knew I was going to go to that. You had to have known. No, I actually thought you might go must win. Oh, God, no. Yeah, because they're 8 and 5 and they need to stay up, and this is such an easy game and they're big favorites, so they can't, see, see, you can spend everything into a must win. This is why I hate must win.

All right. This week is a must win game because it's the easiest game remaining on the schedule. You cannot afford to lose this game. You're going to put yourself on the back foot if you don't win this one. That's why this week is a must win game. game for the Texans. I'm team must win. This week, to me, it's not a must win.

But I want to also be honest, let's put things in scenario here for just a second. Let's say that the Texans do lose this game. Okay. Could it be so bad they get bounced out? Let's go to it. Yeah, I think so, right? They're the seventh seed. Indianapolis is eight and five.

Right now, the Texans have the tiebreaker. So in theory, if Indianapolis wins at Seattle, With Philly River, that ain't happening. What's the line on that game, by the way? We don't even know if he's playing. I'll give you my lock of the week. Moneyline the Seahawks. They're going to obliterate the Colts and old man Philip Rivers.

Assuming he's playing. Literally old man rivers. Okay. So the only way this is a must win is if the Texans lose this game. Well, I mean, I guess it would be then. The only way it would be a bad weekend is that the Texans lose and Indianapolis wins at Seattle. Seattle needs this.

right now they're the 5C they're competing with the Rams for supremacy in the NFC West San Francisco's only game behind that. They're a 5 seat? Yeah, they're 10 and 3. They're 10 and 3. They lose the tiebreaker to the Rams. Oh, that's tough. They'd be the number one wild card in the NFC

at this point. Oh, they have a better record Wait, is this true? The Panthers are leading the NFC South? That's 7 and 6? Yeah, because of what happened last night. They have a better record than every division winner and they'd be the 5C, that's rough. Okay, so put it this way. If the Texans lose this week to Arizona And you're 50%

Oh, is it a must win game now? And here we go. Indianapolis wins at Seattle. Uh-oh. This is not happening. They're 13.5 point dogs. They're wheeling out Philip Rivers in a wheelchair. Yeah, they've lost three in a row of the Colts.

They're not winning. You have my personal guarantee. Now, Baltimore, who has Baltimore had this week? I will pull that up Kansas City this week is home Baltimore has the bingles on the road

Joe Burroughs back Bengals has been playing a little better and Joe Burroughs sounded basically like he wanted to go into a therapy because he's so disappointed how things are turned out this year he was dark as what I was told has somebody pulled up the pressure rate

for the bingles every year he's been there it's been like 28 or more I mean he's lucky that he doesn't have multiple fractures throughout his body He has had, I mean, you talk about C.J. Straught having a run for his life. He only got one concussion. Joe Burroughs had multiple injuries. So, if Baltimore beat Cincinnati, that game is in Cincinnati, correct?

Yes. Okay. And the Texans would lose. That would put the Ravens a game behind, but the Texans would have the tiebreaker over the Ravens. Kansas City this week is home for what? Does I home for? Are you home for Tennessee? Is that who they're home for?

Who's Kansas City home for? I don't have scheduled for him because I'm looking at the standing, so hold on. Charges. Ooh, they're five and a half point favorites over the nine and four chargers. Vegas loves the Chiefs. You know, Vegas loves the Chiefs at home, and they also don't have any faith in the Chargers. And the analytics have loved the Chiefs, too. Yeah.

I guess they just had a bunch of bad one-game score luck or something. Let's just make this a nice, grandiose, easy statement. They're almost wins the rest of the year. You can't take a week off. For the Texans? Sure, why not? Okay, sure. why not? Yeah, you know what? Just say, yeah, they're almost wins. Why not?

Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, if we're going to be totally truthful, if you're going to end the season, let's say they have four games left, they go three and one, this would be the week to lose. Okay. Because you would have, as long as you keep being AFC teams, it's going to help you with your tiebreakers. and it could be a big old mess at 10 and 7 or 11 and 6 even look 11 get you in for sure or your seating's going to be you know who you're really rooting hard for

10 will get you in I think I think 10 with all the time burgers I think who you're really rooting for this week is the Denver Broncos are you not because you need Denver to be Jacksonville in the worst way Yes Getting a top 4 seed would be good

but also the five seed right now is the bills right so you want to be the three seed even though I mean hosting the bills you could win that game by the way that Jacksonville game is not this week it's thanks week this week you got Green Bay at Denver so here's the real I can't here's what I don't understand or I don't think it's going to happen

Jacksonville's home for the Jets oh damn then they're at the Broncos that's a loser one yeah then they're at the Colts win home for the Titans to end the season So that's three and one for them. Yeah.

But you know what? They lost some dog games early on, right? Do you want the Texans who won't end in the year and with the nine-game winning streak? I mean, do we have any evidence of super long winning streaks winding up hurting teams come postseason time? I mean, I'd have to, no, I don't know.

No, I don't think. Why would it hurt them? You want them to lose? I don't know, no, no, I don't want that. Because people would be losing their minds if they lost, especially if it's the next two weeks. But do you, like, for instance, if you're New England and Denver, do you want to go into the playoffs on a 14-game winning streak? Because both those teams have won 10 straight games.

Yes. I guess so. Why not? I guess, yeah, I don't know. I mean, you wouldn't say, oh, well, here's the thing. Let's see, the 98 Broncos won 18 games in a row, including a Super Bowl. Okay. And, well, see, a lot of the longest streaks did end in the playoffs.

The Colts lost, of course, we know the New England Patriots lost to the, Giants in the Super Bowl. Right, after their perfect season. Yeah, you would never go, hey, well, put it this way. The easiest way to do it is to have your playoff spot locked up by the end of week 17. So week 18, you're playing all your second teamers, and you don't care if you want to lose that game. Okay. I don't know.

I just, it doesn't make any sense for me to even say that, but I just wanted to say, I mean, is there, I guess the argument would. They're due for a loss? Are you peaking too early? That may be a tough December loss gets you. get you you're gritty and you're ready to go for that January run saying I don't want to know I don't want to feel this again we're not going to feel this again because hell if you're a Denver fan or you're a New England fan you haven't tasted a defeat since what early October come that's a that's a hard crash because somebody's not going to win the EFC of that too good in that group man's wide open though all right 1044 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross 713 212 5790 All right, last night, Ross and I were working the Rockets game against the Clippers and various functions. And I was enjoying listening to the postgame show coming home. It was a thriller.

It was a thriller. I enjoyed the good commentary and Woody Rip Artee. Yes. The Insight. Dozens of calls was great. It was good. So you and I did not watch, and you know, you were not at the arena. So maybe you were watching a little bit of-

I was watching both, Atlanta, Tampa Bay. And the Falcons won the game, scoring a bunch of points late. They committed like 41 penalties, I think, in one game. Yes. But Atlanta went to Tampa in a potential trap game because the Falcons suck and the Buccaneers are trying to win the NFC North. Or maybe the bucks just aren't very good. They lost the Saints last week. They did.

So it's a double trap. At home. You hate to get caught up in a double trap. I don't know if it's a trap or they're just not very good. That's probably the case. They lost five of their last six. Ooh, they're starting to get a little rotten five worthy. No, they're seven and seven.

you can't make a rotten five team out of a team that may win the division they're the rotten mid yeah they're the mid five we'll do the mid five so the game was on Amazon Prime last night and Al Michaels I believe is

north of 80 I want to say that sounds right am I right about that he sounds north of 80 he's 81 okay pound for pound one of the five best play by play callers in the history of sports

okay from Give me the list real quick. All timers? Now, let me ask you this. Does multi-sport gain more leverage

over a guy that's just known for one sport? I would say yes. Versatility counts. So you're putting Nance in there? All right, here's the list without any going in any particular order. Nance.

Buck. Which one? Joe. Not Jack. I love Jack. I loved Jack, but I love. think the jack had enough national cachet and it's been a long time michael's um you could go you could go summer all because he did do tennis and golf harlan harlan scully did multiple even though

he was known for baseball he was known for baseball but scully did both for a long time until he got dissed by uh cbs and or by mc or no who was a disby oh it was by cbs he wanted to do he wanted to be John Madden's partner and they said, we're letting Pat Summerall be his partner and Vince like, I'm getting the hell out of here. Goes to NBC and does a long run of World Series Games. So, I mean, there's your short list, right? Okay. He's on it. But he's on it. From Do you believe in miracles?

To college football, to the NFL, to Major League Baseball. The Earthquake Series in itself was probably one of the legendary ones. Did basketball for a long time. He's just done everything. Anchored Olympic shows. But he's 81 years old. He sounds sleepy.

And unfortunately, this is how he calls the end of the game, which literally ended on a field goal kick between Atlanta and Tampa Bay last night. Gonzalez brought the pinion to hold it. And the kick is just inside the left, upright. And there's a little celebrating. What's going on in Charlotte, North Carolina, right now. This puts the Panthers in the driver's seat for a moment in the NFC South. All right, that's good.

Now, I don't want Al Michaels to faux fake excitement. I don't think I need Gus Johnson. But that was the kick that ended. That was literally the last play of the game. crazy comeback, too. It was. Fourth quarter was nuts for the Falcons, even though they were committing penalties every five seconds. Now, I will say I was expecting worse the way it was set up, and I saw a lot of posts on social media about it, too. So I was expecting it to be a little even more sleepy than that. So maybe my expectations levels were low so low that I didn't think it was that bad. No, it wasn't good though.

Fundamentally, it was accurate. He did tie it into Charlotte being happy. He did tie it into the fact that the NFC South is a hot mess right now. Twitter says you'd think it was a preseason extra point. Al Michaels is done. I just literally put Al Michaels in a Twitter. Al Michaels leave the game before the game leaves you. Now, the worst part would have been is if he would have said the kick is no good and it was good.

That would have probably ended his career. He didn't do that. That's good. And the number one thing for those of you that are young play by play callers is when you're calling field goals, wait for the hand signs. The hand signs Rossi will set you free. Al Michaels just announced the field goal like it was a 30-yard field goal with three minutes left in the first. Now, again, social media can be mean. Not Camby, it is.

Either he had money on the bucks or thought there was time left. He's so insanely talented. Prime Al Michaels could do everything. Didn't screw up calls. Was funny, conversational, interesting, led his partner well,

called the big moments. Just prime. I forgot to mention Bob Costas in that all time. timeless, too. And look, Bob Koss has lost his fastball last year. Oh, yeah. And basically retired or was told you're going to retire. He was very, he was doing sleepy calls

too. Was he confused and thought it was the second quarter? Oof. It just, it had zero pizzazz. And I think even on the final calls of any sport in which you call, you have to have some pizzazz.

So, in some respects, it is sad to see him make a call like that because 1994 Al Michaels would have been not over the top but he would have called it a little more zest he's 81

and maybe he thought again you know like I said before the officials on the two officials that are at the goalpost are your best friend if you can't see it which could be an issue as well wait for the officials to put their hand signs out no good or sliding you know no good either way so that's what I do with field goal kicks

but even if you did some see it. And you've got 19 television monitors. I mean, the Amazon Prime folks have TV. I mean, if you ever go see a studio or not a studio, but a game set at the stadium, they've got, I mean, they've got every angle covered. They're going to be able to see it. So there's no reason why he would not be able to see

it was going to sneak in. Sell it a little bit more. That's, I think that's what people are generally saying. It was a big kick. I mean, Tampa Bay's playoff hopes are on the ropes. It was a big comeback. It was not Atlanta versus Tennessee. There was also controversy because

the Atlanta was going for all these two-point conversions late and they were missing them. I mean, it was an intriguing game. And that it did have a bit of a preseason game winner feel. Well, it had second quarter 3-3 score. Yeah. So it's

I'm sorry. It's sad to me because he's one of the people that I looked up. I still look up to him. Yeah, this is making me sad. Just like when LeBron scored eight points, this is making me sad. Wait a minute. They're all getting old. You're putting LeBron's eight points with 81 year old Al Michaels in the same conversation? Isn't it, don't that you don't

see the parallels? All the time grades are fading. I don't think, I mean, LeBron is, I wouldn't say fading. I just said that it was a long streak that came to an end. Yeah, all time grades are fading in front of our eyes. And it makes me sad because it makes Could LeBron score 31 points tomorrow night? Absolutely could. He could.

Well, Al Michaels ain't dropping 40 no more. I don't know if Al Michaels is going to, can he, does he have the gusto to make, I mean, it was a 60-yard bomb? He's getting that big, he's getting that big check from Jeff Bezos. but this should be his last year. Yeah. A lot of times, like, he was sleepwalking,

and they were giving them dog games. And, okay, Falcons, Bucks isn't, you know. Correct. Prime time number one stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It was a good game. All right.

I just want to see what your thoughts were on there. Okay. Yeah, again, he's one of the, he is one of, it is indisputable. Yeah. What kind of career he has had. The Mount Rushmore. There's only four spots, though,

the Mount Rushmore. Can we, can we, you find another monument we can that's got five to it five people on it like yeah i don't know like if you were if it was the temptations of sports broadcasters oh really that's what you're going to go with i don't know i'm thinking people that are like the beetles were four the four tops were four see the temptations were five okay uh led zeppel was four greatest rock band at all time how many please how many people uh were in the uh on the rolling stones i don't know keith richards uh charlie watts uh make jagger it's three jagger of course yeah and they had another guy in

there somewhere who yeah we need we need to find a national monument of five hmm why we'd go earthwind and fire there's like 17 people there's true none of the original members are still alive that's on the here and or there all right final hour the matt thomas and final hour we've got three more to go look at i'm not even vacation man i'm not taking any vacation this is the matt thomas show Our number two of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on a sports talk 790. Ross, Rosh Vareal, Matt Thomas, with you until 2 o'clock. We have a lot of stuff coming up. We have Rockets Head Coach Ime Udoka later on the show.

He's coming up at 1230. We got Friday. I'm sorry. He's coming up at 1130. Roto at 1 o'clock. It is a jam-packed Friday edition of the program. You can also get in on the phone lines. If you'd like, 7-13-5-790 is the phone number 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. So, yeah, playing the Al-Michaels audio in that last segment. It just, it just makes me sad to watch a once proud play-by-play man falling by the wayside. And no, I'm not talking about you, Matt. I'm talking about Al-Micha. I was going to say, if you want to have that conversation, we can. inhabit. You're doing great. All right. We're all proud of you. Oh, we got Indiana and Texas playing in volleyball.

Oh, we got a regional semi-final. Big matchup, baby. Let's go. Did you see, by the way, that Texas is building a volleyball-only facility? 6,000 seats. I think it was 6,500 or 6,000, something like that, yeah. And they're going to try to build some residential dorms around that area as well. So they're asking for you to donate, and since you are a proud Texas alone. I get those emails and I delete those emails. That's not very nice.

Why? You know what? I'm glad you delete it because you're spending all your money on University of Rhode Island volleyball. And for that makes me happy. Well, I don't know. You know, once I become a donor, man, I'm going to want some results. I'm going to call for that coach to get fired whoever they are. Let's go, Sally.

It's Ryan. Oh, let's go Ryan. Yeah. All right. So then we've got the pressure's already on, Carly. You haven't even graduated high school yet. And your NIL sponsor is getting that. Hey, you want to take that cash.

You've got to be in the pressure. Let's go. Can't stand the heat. Get out of the kitchen. That feels fair. All right. Let's get to it. Rockets,

one last line over the Los Angeles Clippers by two points in a game that was, frankly, if I'm a Clipper fan, I am beside myself for the 19th time. They're now six and 19 on the season. A massive disappointment there. Texans on the practice field. It's like the warm up, not the warm day, but it's the walk-through day, so to speak, light workout over at NRG Stadium. Camarie Lasseter is on the field with the boys, which is a good sign for Sunday.

Texans depending on if you are a better either a nine and a half or a ten point favorite depending on where you're looking and the Texans it is a need to win one game No go ahead to say it No don't worry about me go ahead

No no no no no They're all must wins down the stretch No because I want to I want to feed into the accuracy of the term must win And it's not a must win game Because here's the thing If the Texans lose And Indianapolis wins at Seattle

they would be out of the playoffs. But that doesn't mean the season ends. It's not week 18 of the season. There is time with three more games left to go. Just doing those last three. Get yourself to what, 10 and 7 and be good. It would be just fine. Okay.

It's an important game, though. It is an important game, but not a must win. I will say this. If you and I were in a betting venue, yes. I wouldn't put a lot of money on this game, period. But if I was, I'd probably put it on a cardinal cover. because the Cardinals

with the exceptional last week stayed competitive with most of their teams. Brissette obviously has had some success against the Texans in the past. That should mean anything. Not really.

And again, I do believe there is a natural letdown. Think about this Rossian, during this winning streak. You've had some emotionally charged games against Buffalo, against Indianapolis, Tennessee.

I didn't say that. And Kansas City. What was a close game against Tennessee? Human nature would tell you that there is just due for a we can't treat every game like where our backs are against the wall. That's why I think the Texans will win the game

but I wouldn't be surprised if it's closer than say the nine and a half points. But for me, largely it would be a stayaway game. Yeah, I mean, I think the line's good. And remember, as far as the most important thing in the world is, they win. Must win, baby. Because you're one step closer to the playoffs.

Yeah. As Lady Al Davis would once tell you. what else going on uh sharon more is still in custody supposed to be a rain today yeah yeah uh it feels like we're getting a little more consistency on the storyline okay and i don't want to paraphrase but for the sake of this being a short a show we have to paraphrase uh there was initial conversations months ago about the two of them having a relationship they denied it then time moves along other people finding out and apparently the girl was telling other people so that's how

the rumors became more and more fluent in terms of people knowing more about it's because you know friends tell friends who tells the friends she then goes to the University of Michigan and says here's the evidence of the things that you asked us that we didn't do that we did do I have the evidence of it okay he gets called to the office

gets fired immediately he runs over to her house and threatens his life and threatens her life and that's the reason one of the police were called and that's the reason why he stands right now still in a local Detroit area jail 39 years old meanwhile we are adding a

third candidate for D of the year oh that's true Shroom Moore who are the other two well you know what we're going to add maybe two the four candidates

the three candidates the two for sure one is Lane Kiffin for just the way he handled the entire situation. That may not win. It may not win because LSU fan may come in. Gordy's on.

I didn't look at my contract. Right, right, right. Number two is anybody involved in Notre Dame Athletics? Okay, people of aqua. Yep, people of aqua in particular. Sharon Moore would be maybe

a day of the year three. Adam Schaefter maybe getting in the list at number four. He went out out there and said, hey there's two sides of this let's let everything now what you folks don't know is that he is a huge supporter of michigan athletics and not that social media is fair and balanced but go look up

adam shepter in the word michigan in the same sentence and it's not a kind look at how the way he has handled his commentary i was just going to say like who is charon moore's agent that's what i was curious for here's what i'm thinking and if i'm adam shepter not that he would ever listen to me as a midday host in Houston, Texas that I handle your career. But you're either going to be a reporter or you're going to be a commentator. I don't think you can accurately do both.

If you're a reporter, it's just the facts, ma'am. Yeah. And that's what he is. Now, is he a shill for agents? Yes. But that's how he gets his news. That's how today's quote-unquote journalists, whether be in politics and business or in sports, get there. You have to build relationships. He's a shill for the league, too.

He's a show for the league, too. chill for ESPN. Remember, oh, it's only going to be one minute of commercials on Red Zone. Now there's eight. So now he, and again, I understand waiting for the facts to present itself. But it got really fast and really furious as to, oh, I've known about this for months. Oh, this is no surprise. And I guess the number one argument out there is that did Michigan hold on to this to fire him with cause to save them some money because I just knew at the end of the day that Sherylmore would not. be the long-term solution. Now, if that's the case, that's a little dastardly. Feels like that's what happened. And if that's the case, more should have been fired, which he was. But you have to fire the athletic director at Michigan as well.

If there's any sort of let's hold this till it's time or it's convenient for us, like recruiting, signing day. And I mean, that happens. Like how many stories come out about somebody or something or a coach after they get fired. Happens all the time. Happened with Bill O'Brien here. This was so salacious, though. Like a bunch of stories came out about Bill O'Brien what was going on and him to yelling at people and players and stuff.

You and I are not intimate to this story, but I will say this, it felt like this could have been announced two months ago. That if there were enough people, that if this woman was whispering enough of this, that it got a hold by members of the media that were holding on to it, I'll put it, yeah, I'll put it this way.

They could have done more digging. They probably wanted it to go away. So they, apparently the story goes that they interviewed both of them and they're like, no, we're not doing anything. And they're like, okay, good. And you ask somebody, you don't want to know that, you don't want to know the truth. You want to do enough for plausible deniability. You want to do enough to say, hey, we asked them, we launched an investigation.

Could they have dug deeper? Absolutely. But they had no choice. She had the goods about phone records, email. I'm guessing details of where they met and how they did it and whatnot. And then obviously there was, again, unconfirmed conversations about abortion and plan B pills and all that kind of stuff that. I don't know about any of that.

You really got, uh, tough. By the way, AI having a good time with this, by the way. I imagine. Would you let me send you the one I got? No, please stop sending me AI Bob Barker and stuff. Okay. I can send you AI Sharon Moore. I mean, I'm good.

Let me send you one. All right, go ahead. 1113. You already did. You sent me the one with the CEO. The CEO sidepiece. Or the director of HR, whatever she was. I got one more.

Jim and Roger, Hank Taip, we'll get to you in a manner in a moment. 713, 212, 790. You know, I'm going to tell you this right now in 17 minutes. I'm sorry for sending you all the AI videos. Okay, you should. Jim wants to talk about the winner in baseball meetings. We'll get to that. Roger wants to get into the Texas and the Rockets.

But first things first, Gordy is here to give us a complete rundown of who got the softest SEC schedule for next year, because that was announced yesterday. I think Oklahoma actually got a pretty good draw for next year. You look at their schedule. They got to go to Michigan in week two or three. All right. But after that, I think their SEC schedule actually sets up pretty well. I think Texas isn't bad.

I think if Texas beats Ohio State. What? On the road to LSU and A&M? Those are your two toughest games. On the road, Missou? Mizzu's losing a bunch. Drinkwich is there. They're usually top 25. Okay. If you can't beat

Missou with Archmanning, then... Well, we'll see. Maybe Diabelle will be starting by then. Who has it most difficult? I mean, like your Auburns and Florida, those teams with new coaches that I think make good hires, but it's going to be... Ole Miss. I mean, go luck, Pete Golding. You lose late given? Good luck.

ESPN's already got their schedule in locked out. They're going to carry A&M, Texas, and prime time. they're going to carry LSU at Ole Miss for sure I'm glad that's week three But they better I mean he's gonna have to They're gonna have to have every security group in the world with him out there They're like they're like they're fine They're like but like he got right off the row apparently

How rude was that? There's there's there's There's venomous portate and then there's like psychotic behavior And I think there will be psychotic behavior That's you and the SEC are psychotic Poisoning trees I listen to Fibomb I know is how crazy they are Well, I mean, poison trees is one thing.

But, like, I'm afraid someone may try to shoot Lane Giffin. Nah, I don't know that crazy. They're crazy. Try to shoot him? There's nothing to do in Oxford, Mississippi. Has a coach ever been shot to death? I have been to Oxford, Mississippi one time. It's an absolutely beautiful campus.

And there's nothing to do. Oh, like that ruins and a trifles of excitement. Yeah, you got golf course, you got bunch of stuff to do. Oh, there's no golf course in Oxford, Mississippi. I find it to be startling. I hear they're going to get a movie theater I hear you got seven waffle houses in Baton Rouge Stop

49 Raising Cain We've got a top golf I love that box room I've been to You have chimes and that's it No you have a chimes Delicious When your number one spot to go look for

In terms of fun is to see Mike the Tiger Seating in his vehicle bed What is it called Tigerville, Tiger Town? Tiger Land You do it like a casino there I like the casino there Tiger Land You got casinos

You got Tiger Land I think Kevin can have a good time. What's the last big concert that went through Oxford, Mississippi? Robert O'Kee doesn't count. Okay, come on. Baton Rouge always got stuff going on. It's more a cosmopolitan and Oxford. Yeah, but come on. Yeah, I mean, Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana.

And you're an hour from New Orleans with all that stuff going on. What's the closest airport in Oxford? Got to drive over to Jackson. Now, when I did a game at Ole Miss, I flew to Memphis. and drove. Yeah. Wow. You can fly to Jackson, too, if you wanted to.

That's where a lot of people... A lot of people stay in Memphis and drive in, because there's nothing to do and know where to stay in Oxford. More Miss America's per capita at Ole Miss than any other school in the country, by the way. Who cares? I do. How many do they got?

Like three per capita? Makes the walk once around a little easier. Their student... Who's better looking at Oxford girls or Baton Rouge girls? They're close. Who's easier? They actually did a thing on this. Who has their teeth?

Oh, come on. Arkansas is the only one missing teeth. Georgia per capita has always been the number one in terms of best looking student body. I'll say pound-intended. Really pound for pound, the entire SEC is okay. I'll move on. You know what would add?

Well, congratulations to the Aggies scheduling Citadel for non-conference games. That's a huge matchup. It is huge. They would be the Citadel. That's true. I heard, what is it, Texas State, that's like the biggest one in the state of Texas. Oh, absolutely. At Texas State, it's a big, yeah, it's a big matchup.

No, no, not the football. Oh, Gordon and I have our own conversation going here. I'm sorry. I'm actually paying attention to this volleyball game. Yeah, I know you are. Checked out. Let's see what else. Is this the only sport that plays their playoff games in the middle of a Friday afternoon?

They've got a full crowd there. Yeah, the Gregory Gym is full. Couldn't put this on a prime time. It's full at the Greg, maybe. The national championship is going to be on ABC. What are you talking about? Volleyball is big in Texas. Oh, excuse me.

The NCAA tournament plays at 11 o'clock in the morning during the tournament. Yeah, all the time. But that's a national holiday. I'll take off to watch this volleyball. But I'm working here 10 to 2. I mean, Ross already checked out. He's gone next week. I'm on vacation.

We've already lost him. Sorry. What else are going to bring up to you? Oh, by the way, the Cougars sold their allotment of tickets for LSU. I mean, this is their Super Bowl. This is huge. Not really. No, we're just going to be able to do it.

Be able to play a prime team like the LSU Tigers. But you're not going to have anybody there because y'all are a scaredy catch. In the Kinsers, Texas, I mean, this is a huge deal. It's an honor for you of age to get to play LSU. An honor. You know what, I need this weekly. I need this three times a week actually because the game's starting quarterback for the game. It's probably going to be our backup, Michael Van Buren.

What about that Nussmire doing? What's that stiff that you guys were selling as a Heisman hopeful out here? What's what happened to him? He is preparing for the NFL draft. To do what? Me in the stands? Get a couple camp invites as an undrafted free agent? I'm going to say, what's, you mean the CFL draft you're talking about?

He was a huge disappointment this year. The LSU offensive line was a big disappointment. So look, Coop's got a great chance. Y'all is favorites. Every LSU quarterback not named Joe Burroughs been a disappointment. Oh, come on. Did Jaden Daniels ever heard of him? One of Heisman?

Yeah, a sophomore slump. And hurt all the time. And they lost like four games. Can't help that his offensive lines getting murdered out there. Laramie Tonsil. trying to protect his blind side. That's your guy, not mine. I told you Larryman was a bum.

Larry Tussle's been one of the best pass blockers in football. Kinders, Texas Bowl.com, by the way, if you want to get tickets. All right, get the promotion in. And then we're going to talk to Jim and Roger, and then we're going to do it. I'm sorry's. December 27th.

I love this a Saturday this year, by the way. 8.15 kickoff. It's a little bit of a later kickoff. Kinder's Texas Bowl over there at NRG Stadium. It's Matt's Houston Cougars against my LSU Tigers. We'll have to make a bet on it and see who can win this one. Kinders, Texas Bowl.com for tickets, suites, group opportunities, and more tickets going fast.

And they got some great events going around as well with concerts and all kinds of stuff building up to the bowl game. So I heard Willie Fritz talk yesterday. He's super excited. Make sure you guys get your tickets. Kinders, Texas Bowl.com. What's going to be the bet? I don't know.

What do you think we should have? Matt had to paint his face like a tiger. We did a bet where I had to put a longhorn helmet on his head. I remember that. I was awesome. And then you painted his head, too. We painted his head. We went to Lucky's, Edo, R-I-P-Luckies,

and we painted a longhorn helmet on his head. I remember that. It was awesome. And then we made him sing the fight song. Yeah, he had to sing the fight song. He's lost a lot of bets to me over the years, and we got some Habachi coming for Kyle Tucker. All right, Gordy, thank you for that.

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moist just occasionally 24% use it all the time and 22% find a different word huh i'm surprised that 24% is so high there you go Interesting. I hate the word. I ain't afraid to say it. I hate it. I'm going to see what the big deal is. Clearly. I'm in the minority. Stuff is moist all the time. All right. We're going to apologize for you saying the word moist as much as you have so far shortly. Let's talk to some people here.

Jim in the Heights, can you put them up on line one, Rossi? My computer system is a little bit down. Oh, there we go. Jim, you're on 7.90. Thank you very much for waiting and good morning to you. Yeah, thanks, guys. We listen all the time. Thank you. Hey, I want to tell you something I'm not sorry for. Every time I run into somebody like Gordy, who's over the top LSU fans,

I look them straight in the face. And I look, I mean, just the straightest face I muster up. And I said, you know what? I've seen that logo before that purple, that gold, that LSU. What is that? I see that's pretty common. And they'll say with complete indignity, that's LSU State University. that's Louisiana State University

and I just stone face go are you kidding me there's a there's a university in Louisiana now man that's way to go guys that's great and I do that two or three times a month when I see the logo and I'm never freaking sorry

so there's my ain't sorry wow that's sorry Jim but he's not not really no question though is what what I called for is man, the winter meetings have been so silent. Have you guys heard anything? Anything about the strode?

Yes, they're close. That's all we've heard. They're close. Okay, I've been hearing that on social media. I know. I wish I could give you more information, but I don't have anything for you. It's probably going to happen during the A team,

which is going to make me mad, but that's a different issue for a different time. It happens. Yeah, it's going to happen. Getting close. Good. Nobody, Jim, thank you for the phone call. Appreciate the nice words, and thank you for listening.

Everybody, very few deals are made directly. at the meetings. They usually go back, listen to everything, have more texting, more phone calls. They get with their other lieutenants within the organization, and then they make those decisions. So I wasn't expecting it to be unbelievable one big move after the other. But there's certainly, there's a lot of things I talk about. I know Jake Myers was talked about. I'm sure ESAC Predits was talked about. I'm sure

Christian Walker was talked about. Those are things that are not any surprises. But the reality is, Ross, they were talked about before the winter meetings in Orlando even began with. so I know something will happen my gut feeling is multiple trades yes and I gut feeling did I gut feeling the ESAC Paredes move yes you did because you can't move Walker I think the contract is terrible what are you gonna do just hope that he's good yeah you paid him for three years 20 million dollars Eastock's one of your best hitters how's they hand me by the way do we even know it's fine he's gonna be ready to Joe Spottis said he's ready to go for spring training full go

Ian Yordon in his sore hand. Well, did he say that because he wants to make sure that he's got trade value? Oh, he's going to have to pass a physical anywhere he gets traded. That is true. I'm just saying, throwing it out there. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. I'm sorry that Texas is up one set to none on Indiana.

Suck it, Hoosiers. Why are you anti-Husiers? I'm not anti-Husers. I'm pro Longhorns. You've actually spent more time talking about number 23 than anybody else. Yeah, she seems very talented. There's a lot of talent on the floor here. Can you knee the ball?

Yeah, you can knee it, you can kick it. Really? Yeah, as long as it gets over the net. You can booty bump it up. Booty bump it? Yeah, why not? I mean, I guess there you do. You don't have to use your hands.

Okay. Now, I've called a fair number of volleyball matches, and I've watched thousands of matches. I've never seen a booty bump. Yeah. Just asking. It's technically legal. Okay, good.

That's all I'm asking. I've seen a lot of bicycle kicks. No way. Absolutely. You've seen bicycle kicks? Absolutely. That's actually awesome. Yeah, it's really good.

All right, let's go to Koso on 70. Koso, what are you sorry for this week, my friend? I want to apologize to Ross for what I'm about to say. You do. Just know that it's, I'm sorry Ross, Matt I had a McRib

and it was delicious I didn't feel good eating it and I felt a little guilty Did you sob afterwards? I could not deny how good it was and to Ross I apologize I just thought

you know you should know that it was good Here's the thing I forgive you Casso, Ross should be apologizing to you. What are you talking about? Why? Because you rip on this.

You rip on it. Caseo, you should be apologizing to your arteries. It's America sandwich. I got news for you, Rossi, and I didn't want to admit this yet, but I'm going to do it right now. I was listening to the Rockets Rap call-in show last night. Yes? And I told my wife, I said, look, I'm not going to bed hungry anymore. So I picked up a McRab on the way home last night.

Are you serious? Listen to you. Listen to you. Are you? Are you? Oh, my God. Because I thought, if I wait until I get home, the wafting of the McRib sauce will get everybody mad. Ah, yeah.

Now your car smells like McRib. And then I thought to myself, well, I can't eat the McRib because the delicious sauce and the onions are followed over. So I sat in the parking line and listened to you and ate my McRibb. You went and got your pork gunk sandwich. Good job. I'm proud of you. It's pork. Oh, I'm sorry.

It's pork deliciousness. It is America sandwich. Yeah. Apologize to your heart and your arteries. Yeah. That's what we got, we got better stuff here and now. We got the payway here. hell yeah we're gonna cleanse our bodies properly i will eat that with a smile on my face

you maybe eat that macrib and we did a taste test for social media you didn't hate it i'm still recovering i'm sorry i didn't mean that jonathan what do you got sorry for you know i've been thinking about this whole time i've been pretty good this week i don't know oh really i got a couple things to apologize i'm pretty good i got apologize to matt good go earlier this week i'm not going to bite take your time i was just trying to make you mad I said Neil Diamond sucks And you know what? I only said that to incite your anger And you know what? That's rude. That's selfish. And it works. It's not nice.

Neil Diamond is not suck. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, Neil Diamond does suck. But I only said it to make you mad. And I'm sorry for that. He is an American treasure. You know what else I'm sorry for? Forgive me. I'm sorry to the Houston Rockets. They're having a great season. They're one of the best teams in the West.

They are amazing to watch, fun to watch. They got a big three. They're 16 and 6. And when I watch their games, I can only think of another. What did I tell you earlier? I know. I'm apologizing. I'm getting better.

This is how you heal, Matt. You've got to confront these things. I told Ross. You got to confront them. You've got to stare them in the face. And you got to say, I'm not afraid of you anymore. Thunder. I told Ross that Oklahoma City has not played anybody yet, and they have the hardest schedule to go here.

They played the rockets and they beat them. That was opening night. I'm just saying. He said they hadn't played anybody. I'm not true. I'm sorry. So I'm going to embrace and enjoy what's in front of me in the rockets. I'm not going to worry about the hotter woman at the office.

I'm sorry. They're sorry. But she's Oklahoma hot. She's 24 and 1, Maddie. Yeah, but she's Oklahoma hot. She's 17 point different. You know what Texas is. I don't know.

I'm going to worry about, you know what, if I can't be with the one I love, I'm going to love the one I'm with. And I'm with the Houston Rockets. The Rockets are Texas 8. And Oklahoma City is like a Texas 5. Let me see that point differential says otherwise. No, no, no, not looking at it. Okay, so I'm apologizing the Rockets.

I'm going to focus on how good you are. Yeah. I'm not going to focus on how better the Thunder are at the moment. Only by the standing and net rating. And point differential. I swear to God, when you come back next week, I don't want to hear any of this Oklahoma City slamming. Yeah, I'm going to wash it from my brain.

You're right. Cleanse. Cleanse. Cleanse. I'm going to go ahead and relax. I'm going to meditate on it. I'm going to think about it. I'm going to be ready.

It would be all in on Rockets Red. I'm wearing Rockets. They're gear right now. Good. I'm wearing a rocket jackets right now. Yeah, you got that for free, I'm sure. You got the same exact jacket that I got. I paid for this.

Yeah, but this jacket you could wear if you wanted to. Yeah, I got it something. All right, they gave me actually at large. I haven't been a large since eighth grade. Or seventh grade, actually. that's not my fault I'm an ex-sail boy I'm an extra large

well you're about to get double except to eat this payway oh I can't wait all right 713 212 5790 713 212 5790 I want to apologize to SFA fans

and SFA football about to get the beating your life tomorrow on Montana State God you were such a hater I'm pretty sure we're favorite in this too looks like I see SFA plus 14 see as in dogs

No you're under dogs 14 We don't look at the metric Oh yeah Oh if the line was You look at the metrics I think it's so disrespectful That SFA's got to fly

Spirit to Montana State With six change of planes Is that true Six change the planes I thought they were on the right brother's plane Four buses A helicopter Maybe two charter buses

Orville and Wilbur And I believe they're also Taking a wagon wheel What are they called What's the wagon train A wagon trail You all left yesterday to go to that game And the game's not until Saturday night

LSU You know, I'm sorry Because LSU is going to whip the mess Oh, whatever By 30-0-0-0-0-0-1 in your prediction Let's go! Let's go! Get them! Get them! I love this.

I love this a lot. Oh, I'm sorry. No, you're not sorry. Seriously, I will be posting hourly updates on Montana State versus S-O-Based. You know, like, you're just a hater. You should. You should.

You're a hater. SFA is a lovely school here in Texas and you're going to root for Montana State over SFA just because of Jonathan. It was the last independent school in the state too. Yeah, whatever that means. U.T. by the month. The Hateration. Unbelievable, Matthew.

It's in the UT system? Just now. Definitely now I got a room. They're 400 years independent only by alumni. If SFA beats Montana State, I will buy a SFA shirt to wear on the show. Oh, yeah. You're just doing that because you heard the spread. And then say axom jacks.

I'll do all of that. Axom jacks. Let's go, baby. Ax them up. And if Montana State wins, you have to tell the audience that SFA's open enrollment. Fair.

You know what? I'll take the deal. Oh, my gosh. That's how confident I am in my boys. They're going to get a day. Why are you taking advantage of poor young naive, Jonathan? SFA's going to beat Montana State.

Clearly overestimates the SFA's footballing prowess. They have never been as good. That's why I'm trusting the way now. Oh my God. They're 14 point dogs, Jonathan. I don't know what's going to happen. 14. Again, you got there by Greyhound Bus.

Do you really think they're going to be rested for the game? Nacadoches to where is Montana State? I don't even know, but it's got to be 15 hundred miles. Bozeman, Montana. Will they even get there in time for the game? It'll be late. All right. I'm going to have to skip stretching.

Hopefully it works out. Good luck for that pre-game meal at the rookie's buck stop, the truck stop. Roger, what are you apologizing for, Roger? Yeah, I apologize to the Texans. Sorry, I didn't think CJ South can get up up at their after three missed start and actually be a good quarterback. I thought he would be more rest here, and hopefully he gets a lot better against the Cardinals this Sunday.

Yeah, I apologize for a date of ground About what he thought he was a better GM than this And hasn't done anything sent So, yeah, I apologize. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. All right, have a good one. Thank you, Roger. Sorry, you can't call during the prize segment

Because you've won once in the last 30 days. I don't know, he probably got a couple aliases he can use. Oh, I'm sure. His cousins. All right. James and Klein, James 1153. James, what are you apologizing for? I kind of pulled a Matt Thomas, Matt.

my nephew invited me over for barbecue and I went over there and they spent all this money on barbecue and they asked me if I wanted a beer I said sure you know we're watching the game sure I want a beer and he hands me this pumpkin spice beer oh no and I said do you have you don't have anything but gay beer and he just looked at him now that that's not nice come on be nice all right which beer was it sorry is a pumpkinator saint Arnold that's good stuff No. Will you stop? You know what? You need to apologize right now. Matt Thomas is scarfing food mid-segment.

That is a huge radio faux pa. It's fine. I mean, no, no, it's not. You need to apologize right now because you know you're committing crimes against radio. I've heard worse things on the 7-90. I'm fine. Go ahead and you might want to wipe this the whole microphone's set up now. I'm not sick. Just enjoying the great food here at Payway.

Yeah, it's great. But you wait three minutes. You're doing a segment. We have, we bring in the folks. Radio greatness. When? At some point, you're going to try at least. Yeah, that's going to say.

It might not, you know. By the way, the SFA Montanza game is tonight, by the way. Woo! Where's the watch party? Some broom closet. Some broom closet? Why would it be in a broom closet? You can get a TV in there?

You don't need that many people for an SFA watch party. Oh, but that seems uncomfortable, no matter what. All right. Last call for you to get a kid. on if you're sorry for something. I'll be watching Texas and Yukon. Ooh, I just shall spread on that one. It's meaty.

What is it? Texas is 14.5 point dogs at Yukon. Okay, so who covers tonight? SFA, Texas, or none of the above? You know what? You got my personal guarantee that the longhorns might cover, hopefully. SFA will cover, you know, you might just take me out of grain of salt, but I think y'all should drop a list of the dollars. They're both covering. Let's support each other, Jonathan.

And then when you guys win, I want you to tweet at SportsMT. How about your winnings? I just make it feel bad. Yes. Go Jacks. Go Jacks. May you at some point teach and they win that coach

get hired away. I mean, I hope you get something beyond fifth grade elementary math and the programs there at SFA. That's not true. That's rude. SFA is,

I think, provides our state with more teachers anybody else. That's good. That is true. Remember right about that? I appreciate it. All right.

Well, our education's like ranked 43th, but let's get that. That's what we need more university. You're right. We need more SFA grads. Sure. Jonathan on 7.9. What are you apologizing for, Jonathan?

Man, I'm sorry that I won, believe it or not yesterday. And yikes, after looking at the prize and I talked to my wife about it, I'm going to look to kind of scalp those tickets because that was, it's kind of a tough lineup, and I don't know if it's worth going. So you're going to scalp. free tickets. That feels dirty. Yeah, the ticket.

Hey, don't call in. No, don't take the tickets. No, that's a deep move. I'm not driving all the way to Sugar Land. Well, don't take the tickets. Wait, man, you live in Fulcher. That's like 20 minutes. We got nothing to give away today because of you.

Don't just say I'm not going to use the tickets. Don't try to profit off of us. You're sick, Jonathan. You make me sick. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. By the way, I got to find out what are you going to get The value of a 90s cover, 90s band's ticket sales there.

He's like a hot $20, you know. Whatever. We're calling Uncle Sam. I hope you get taxed for that. We're actually stealing prizes from the 18 today. It's ridiculous. Yeah, we got no prizes left. If you don't want the prize, don't take the prize.

Yeah. We got to hold on for next week. You know what he called in? He did. He did. All right. And he apologized. So I accept your apology, Jonathan.

I'll get over my anger. Yeah, it's fine. It's fine. All right. 713, 212, 577. 7132-1-2-1-2-5-7-90 I didn't get my voice ready for the strippers

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Two sets to nil lead for the Texas Longhorns over the Indiana Hoosiers in the regional semi-final of the National Championship. I cannot wait to see how that turns out. I know. Volleyball, the fastest growing sport in America. Is that true? Yep. Big television deals.

Huge arena is being built. It's entertaining. They're going to refurbish Nebraska's gym. That's 10,000 seats. They're going to try to build a volleyball only facility for the volleyball team at UT at 6,000. URI got an amazing recruit out of Houston. Yes. It's all good.

All part of the plan. All right. E. Mae Doca coming up at 25 minutes here on Sports Talks. Oh, really? Right now we present to you the news at noon. And we will go to the Rich Eisen of Houston Sports Journalism. It's Ross Fielder, yeah. Thank you, Matt.

Well, a couple of interesting things in the world of sports. we will start with your Houston Rockets last night. Pulling off the victory against the Los Angeles Clippers. Things got a little weird at the end of the game. Things were close, but the Clippers thankfully collapsed. Rockets able to get the 115 to 113 victory over the clips to improve to 16 and 6 on the season. How about Amin Thompson?

Not leading the way scoring-wise. He did have 20. Alperin had 22, but Amin Thompson also with nine rebounds. assists and only one turnover for a men thompson despite the team having 18 overall i think it was 20 actually enough to look at the other box score that i had but anyways five turnovers from durant four from jubari five from alper and shingoon manny this turnover problem not going away it is a bit of a concern no reality is this it's just going to be a part of who they are uh when you know how much did would you say alpern brought the ball last night 40% of the time fair amount yeah

It was a lot. And he turned the ball over five times. Yeah, but he also makes these incredible whirling dervish 360 moves. He does, but I would like if he did it without the turnovers. I know, we can't have everything. I know we can't have our cake and eat it too, but it's a concern. All right, elsewhere, in the sports world, you also had last night. Matt, you stall.

You talked for like 20 seconds. I thought I saved this. Sorry. We had NFL football last night The Atlanta Falcons? I'm trying to get the piece of audio. Oh, do you? See, it's not working. It's not. We were going to let you hear from the coach of the Buccaneers,

but the problem is, after their loss yesterday, he went in front of the podium and used, I want to say, 80% of his 30 seconds were swear words? It was a lot of F-bombs for him. It was. I'd be mad, too. The Atlanta Falcons have mailed it in, and they beat the Buccaneers in Tampa last night 29 to 28. Now that do

they win, but the Buconians years wearing those amazing creamsicle swash buckling uniforms with the bright orange Those are nice. Oh my God, they're so good. And Al Michaels was asleep in the final call. You can play that call one more time

Jonathan can do that for us? Let's get the Al Michael's call. Just start firing off when it's ready. This is how he ended the call. Those others bear the pinion to hold it. And the kick is just inside the left, upright.

And there's a little celebrating going on in Charlotte, North Carolina, right now. This puts the Panthers in the driver's seat for a moment. Thank you very much. We'll go to the second quarter with the score 3-3. Oh, that was the final call of the game last night. Is that you or is that the sound effect? It's not even you, is it? It's me.

Your mouth didn't move. It's quite impressive. Yeah, we'll hear that next week. Yeah, go ahead and save it for next week. That's fine. You won't be here. You're getting on the show. Oh, my gosh.

Okay, here is Todd Bowles. Are you ready for this? I didn't actually give this the once over after I finish it, but I think I caught everything. Let's see. Here we go. If not, we'll dump it. It's inexcusable. You don't make excuses.

You got to care enough where the shit hurts. You got to fucking care enough where the shit hurts. It got to fucking mean something to you. It's more than a job. It's your fucking livelihood. How well do you know your job? How well can you do your job? Well, you can't sugarcoat that.

It was in the fucking excusable, and there's no fucking answer for it. That's for no excuse for it. That's what you tell them in a lot. I'm looking in the fucking mirror. Okay. Okay, so do you appreciate his honesty? Do you say, why are you dropping up bombs in front of us where there's media? Or is that the first sign?

I think he's trying to send a message. Do you send a message with the microphone in front of you? Or do you do it with the door is closed? He probably did it with the door that's closed, too. You probably did. So do you think the today's NFL player tunes in or tunes out of something like that? I think it depends. Depends on the players and the group you have.

I think for, well, I'll give you two examples of coaches who are kind of like that, or especially here in Houston, Eme Adoka's like that. And I think the players respond well to it, but it has to be the right type of player. Yes. That respects him and knows that when EME does it, it's genuine, it's not just for the show.

And you have to respect the man as well. Emeadoka, former player. I think D'Amico Ryan, he doesn't really call guys out that much. He does it every now and then, but I think he commands that respect because he was a middle linebacker in the league for a while. So it's about the source,

and it's about who's hearing it as well. Okay. Very good. So I think they're probably, They're probably being receptive, I guess. All right. Elsewhere, Sharon Moore has been arraigned

and we do now have some charges for him. Per the criminal complaint. Felony charge of home invasion in the third degree. Also charges of stalking and breaking and entering for Sharon Moore. Or entering without breaking, they're also saying, too. So whatever that means. Oh, really?

Pete Thamel says breaking and entering. I don't know. I think it's both. Entering without breaking? Yeah. What does that mean? Like, you weren't, the person said you can't come in and you still came in without breaking anything? Yeah.

Okay. I'm not a lawyer anymore. Okay. So he goes from $5.7 million to third degree felony charges. Not great. That's, I mean. Oh, my God. He's like in a padded cell in the arraignment.

Yeah, because he's like under, he's under suicide watch or something. Because his life just cratered Oh my gosh Like for me Ross the greatest free fall From good life to A life of whatever I mean whatever Sharon Moore's life is right now

It's OJ Simpson right Yes Actor TV star celebrity football hero To Hall of Famer Alleged double murderer That's Sharon Moore's not there But that's a pretty steep drop too

I mean Let me give you some other people Lance Armstrong Steep drop Yes Any of the people that got caught with steroids That were saying no I didn't do it But we got like Raphael Pomero

500 homeowner hitter Future Hall of Fame Blah blah blah blah I did not do steroids And you got caught That's a steep drop Oh Delante West went crazy and homeless Yeah

How's he doing, by the way? I don't think well. The Mavericks took him in, but I think they was just... Yeah, that was Mark Cuban-Fill, sorry for him. I think he was a little... But Sharon Moore, that's from 5.7-milly to a super high-end job at Michigan to no wife, no kids, no sidepiece,

and a padded cell. Well, hopefully he saved his cash. And he's going to need it for the legal team. And that's your news at noon. Thank you very much for that. Legal team, plead guilty. Get out here. I mean, what would be the charges on that?

I mean, I don't know. You can't get probation for a felony charge, correct? Probably. If you plead, you would be pleading to a lesser charge. And my guess is he doesn't have a criminal record. What, you know what, he should be, oh, Tiger Woods is a drop. That's a massive drop. Yeah, but.

For being a world champion golfer. He's still billionaire. That's true. But his is pretty far, pretty far down, too. He was, I mean, he was the toast of everything. And then, I would say that with the end. injuries. He didn't get injured as much as he did.

So is Sharon Moore's drop a comp to Tiger? I would say, sure. The Sheron Moore's worse. A tiger got arrested for pills and stuff. I guess he did sink kind of low. But this whole, I mean, in a padded cell under suicide watch. Well, yeah, but you don't know how bad Tiger was off.

And look, a tiger's been was popping pills and driving under an influence and nearly killing people and himself. Sad to say. I hate to be blunt. It remains undefeated. We're talking about Tiger Woods? No, he's defeated. Oh, well.

Yeah, he fell under the spell. With a, all right. Restaurant, waitress, or several of them. Good for him, I guess. Not good for him. Two consenting adults, not my business. There you go. Yeah, we'll stay out of it.

As in most of the... And that's your news and news. That's what we got. 1222 sports talk, 7 outy, man and Ross with you until 2 o'clock today. E. May Doak is going to join us in 10 minutes. Dr. Roto's at 1 o'clock. Now in Florida Story is at 130 and a hell yeah or not at 150. That's what we're doing today on the radio.

And again, remember, if you're going to contribute to St. Jews, we really would appreciate it. Text the word kids to 626262. That's 626262 for kids, KIDS, and you can help with this amazing group of people from the St. Jude's Cancer Center. All right. Texans are back working out. They're wrapping up there. Friday you get to walkthroughs, whatever they're going to do.

Nine and a half, ten point favorite against Arizona. I sense no buzz, but it's okay. Every game can't be a Super Bowl. Every game can't be the most important game on the schedule. we don't we're not an NFL a locker room so but human nature says we've seen it all the time that sometimes when you when you play down your competition especially after the emotional games the Texans have gone through the last handful of weeks

you would think it'd be a natural letdown and you can you can yell at them and say don't do this don't be in a letdown but every every sport goes through this well I mean this is the nature of how the Texans play too I mean if all five their losses are by one score for their recent five wins on the five game winning streak are by one score and that Chiefs Texans game it was a two-score game technically but it was close the entire time so that's just how they play so if it is a close game on Sunday it's not going to shock me this is the NFL anybody can win any game of Sunday the Titans can beat the Browns like I whatever I want to say last week that the Cardinals

got beat up pretty bad by the LA Rams the Rams are just a mean they're just a more complete football team they have one of the most explosive offenses in the NFL. The Texans don't have that. The Cardinals this year, and they're 3 and 10, they're going with Jacoby Brissette. Yeah, they got beat up by 4517 at home last week to the Rams. The week before that, the Buccaneers won by three. The week before that, the Jaguars won in overtime over the Cardinals. And then three weeks ago, they've been beat up a couple

times in a row. 41, 22 by the Niners, and then 4422 to the Cardinals. They did beat the Cowboys in Dallas on a Monday night but the rest of games are close I mean it's just to your point it's just not the NFL is about a touchdown game give or take and so what does that mean that means the margins are thin that means do

the little things right no penalties turn over take care of the ball and that's football 101 but I mean are we going to have a lot of empty seats in the game on Sunday I don't know I don't care but I mean they don't do that in Pittsburgh or Green Bay and I agree well you're saying a six Super Bowls and however many Super Bowls four Super Bowls

Like what was the empty I wonder what the Tampa Bay crowd was like And how many I didn't see the game So I can't speak to it But I mean were there a lot of empty seats at Tampa Bay Not that I noticed But I would think this would be a great week

For people that have not been able to go to games Before to go check out the team That's not a sexy matchup And that's just how we roll in Houston There were 64,917 at Raymond James I don't know what their capacity is Probably around here Well the problem is most teams

It's now sell-offs anyway right You know that just because they don't want to hide Texans do that. Everybody does it. It's like we could have like an auditing firm. Realintendents.com. This says Raymond James capacity is 69,000. So they're even short of capacity.

So it probably wasn't super full. So Atlanta, give me win, Thursday night. Buccaneers. Buccaneers. They were coming off of a bad loss of the Saints. Does anybody want to win that NFC South? Does it really matter who wins NFC South? Not really.

It feels like to me Panthers are in first. The Rams, now the Panthers did beat the Rams in Charlotte a few weeks back. Every team in the division

has a losing point differential in the NFC South. Meaning again, for those that don't know, the other team score more than you do. Oof.

Terrible. All right. Are you ready for an even more difficult question? No. I mean, yes, I'm going to ask

I'm going to answer it with ease. It's not difficult at all. I'm ready. Who's having a better season this year? C.J. Stroud or Bryce Young? I guess I would have to look at the numbers. Now, Carolina sucked earlier in the year. But it's how you're playing now.

And they're in first place. The first place. Yeah. Easy to hand the ball to him. Let me look. 18 touchdowns. They both have a 2 to 1 ratio, but Bryce Young has got 18 touchdowns. Yards per attempt.

Bryce played every week. No, no. Andy Dalton played like four games for them. Did he really? Yeah. God, I should know my Cardinal football or my Carolina Panther football better. I'm sorry.

I said I was going to answer this easily. My gut feeling is Bryce Young is having a better season. Significantly higher yards per attempt for CJ Stroud, 7.1 to 6.4. Same ratio. Bryce is a better running game behind him. They both have 22 sacks.

Cuba Hubbard and with Ricko D. In 10 games for Stroud and 12 for Young. C.D. Stroud's having the better year. Is that battle red or is that NFL Observer talking? Let's see. He's got a higher rating, a higher quarterback rating, higher QBR, and higher yards per attempt, and the same touchdown interception ratio. So you tell me. Well, I'll say this. Matthew.

It was so easy to say that Bryce Young was hot garbage. It was. And he's turned out to have a pretty nice NFL career. he's been decent i think cj's had a better NFL career yeah well we're three years in they're babies yeah rockets last night knock off the clippers 1231 on sports talk 790 it is a matt thomas show with ross and we are pleased to be joined for the next 10 minutes by the head coach after winning that game in a very bizarre ending

in many regards coach is matt ross good afternoon to you did that last 20 seconds or so felt like it took about 15 minutes to play yeah definitely it was obviously the reviews and looking at flagrants and offensive foul defensive foul took a little bit of time but guys kept their composure and pulled it out some clutch plays were made down the stretch you got a little bit of help your heavy lifting I mean it was a night where Kevin Durant was felt like he was double teamed 80% of the time other guys stepped up it had been a while since the team had played how much do you attribute that to rust how much do you attribute that to clippers of something to prove coming out or bottom line is you know you it's a 48 minute game and you like to play all 48 brilliantly but sometimes it's just not going to happen yeah it felt like we were in mud a little bit especially in the first half um you know they're a team that we want to play with some pace uh get up and down and then really move them and it felt like we were playing at their pace and a little bit slower than we would like in the first half um credit to reed and Aaron and some of our

bench guys coming in and kind of injecting some energy and some juice into into the game and that's what really helped us get the lead in the third quarter. That was a really good quarter. In fact, Kevin was probably in his best in that during the game. Is he, and you've known him for a very long period of time, does sometimes the game come to him and he goes, all right, I'll take what they give me, and then sometimes he have to force his way,

because it felt like to me, especially after the way he kind of performed in the first half, that he had a little bit of extra spice in his going, and he wanted to get things going offensive for himself in the third quarter in particular. Yeah, definitely. I mean, he's going to, you know, let the game dictate. If teams are going after him, he has no problem getting off the ball

and letting other guys be recipients, but at the same time, you still want to be aggressive and look for your spots and your shots. And, you know, at times, if they're doubling and we're picking them apart and you're up 15, 20, teams have to kind of relax on that and he'll get loose. But it'd be in a close game, their game plan was seeming to work. In the first half, so he up to his aggression, up to his pace.

I think we set some really good screens, and he got downhill a little bit. got to his spots. Rocket Tech coach, Ema Doko, was here on Sports Talk 790. And we mentioned at the start of the interview about how long the end of that game took. What is your opinion just in general about the review system, the challenge system now, to where they got rid of the final two-minute stuff, to where you want to get the calls right,

but you've got to also find the balance of the game's not dragging out. Yeah, I mean, I think getting it right is the main point there. And so, you know, they're going to take a look at certain things. So, you know, the offensive foul was one thing, but, you know, we clearly thought he got, Jabari got fouled before that, and they didn't overturn it, so we were kind of surprised by that. But credit to our guys, like I said, they kept their composure moved on, and we went from an unfortunate play to Aaron taking a charge and playing really good defense there. And so as the ebbs and flows of the game, I think getting the right is the most important thing.

And although we felt it was still wrong with it, like I said, we held our composure and got it pulled it out. I'd like to congratulate you, Coach. This will be about the 500th time you've been asked about turnovers this season, so congratulations on that. But in terms of, you know, a lot of talk about improving the turnovers and not playing in a crowd and stuff, what is that process for you like working with the

team? How much is that game tape or practice or talking to guys individually? What are the steps that you take to trying to improve that? It's literally all of the above that you just mentioned. Obviously, we point out in film sessions with the group, you know,

especially half time. We had nine or nine and half time, and I think we upped it to 10 in the second half. So we talked about the reason that they're in the game is because we're gifting them these points and then didn't get much better than the second half. So we do that. A lot of individual work with, you know,

defenders and showing the crowd and when to get off the ball. And then, like you said, individual meetings as well, and understanding Alperin and Kevin, the attention they're going to draw. And, you know, for our guys getting to the spacing, you know, sprinting to the outlets. kind of not just leaving these guys on the island. And so we'll go about a little bit differently.

Obviously, with Fred in the past, our turnovers have gone down significantly with him handling. But we got multiple guys now. Kevin's going to initiate times. Alperin's going to initiate. Our man's going to initiate. And it leads to some of that. But the balance that will bring us in the end of the season, I think will pay off. Does Alpe still at practice is bringing the ball up a quarter of a minute?

Is that a science? Is that just key fundamentals of being a basketball player? because you do give him quite a bit of responsibility in doing that. You know, he starts our fast break. I think some teams that, you know, we have 24 fast break points. A big part is him and a man's rebounding and pushing. And, you know, it's great to have a center that can lead the break and get out and run and kind of find guys all over the court and just puts an extra amount of pressure on defenders.

And so something he does naturally well, we encourage it, of course. He's one of our best passers and more cerebral players. So we want him to do that every chance he gets. I'm sure, you may, if we were doing Denver radio, we would say, well, Yolkich does this, but I'm worried about the Rockets, as are you, the assist combination of amend to Alpi and then vice versa. How many combinations in the NBA can do that, where each guy works as well with each other to finish the baskets on the offensive side of the floor?

Yeah, it's a uniqueness that they have. Both guys can be a handle or be the recipient. being setting the screen and rolling and popping and all those things. So tough to guard, you know, put people in different positions, but a man works so well either way, you know, handling or setting those screens and getting the hit under. He was great, you know, some hard roles last night. And he's done that over last year. It's not just been a ball hammer, but played in the dunker, played and, you know, setting screens and doing some different things. So he has a lot more versatility to his game now.

EMA, there are still James Hardin fans in this town. And you and I talk before the game about the amount of time to get to the free things. fill on, and that wasn't much of an issue. In fact, I think more than half their shots last night were from three. That seems like not nearly as prevalent as it was those four or five years ago, but was that a huge part of this kind of report is, you know what? If they're going to

take those three, give them their chances, and kind of live and die by what they do perimeter wise? Yeah. You know, Kauai, Leonard only got three and Hardin only got five. And so, you know, we know those guys are two of the most Hardin's averaging nine in Kauai, about five and a half. You know, kind of

foul baiters. And so we wanted to be disciplined, show our hands. And other than one slap down, I think, by Reed, and then the foul on the three-pointer by Jabari, did a pretty good job on James, you know, making them finish shots and Kaui as well. So the three-pointers, we were living with certain guys. We showed

a crowd and encouraged other guys to shoot it. Made a few early, but the numbers came back to their norm, and I think that really helped us out. Long road trip coming up, and years past, team was a little bit younger. You talked about teaching guys about handling themselves, taking care of themselves on the road. Is that a little bit

less of a point of emphasis these days, or still something you talk to the team about? No, I think guys are mature. They understand, you know, the routine they need to be in. You know, we're going on a long one, 13 days, you know, six games, but holiday season and all that and, you know, family

and, you know, Christmas Day games. And so we still mention that, you know, handling business, taking care of business on the road, but it was good to get this mini break here, play this one game. Now you get three days before seeing Denver again. So, Loading up for that, I think guys understand the task at hand and this important time of the year. By its nature, you have to have this mini break because you don't know who the NBA Cups are.

You've got to schedule games and whatnot. Generally speaking, I know we're all accustomed to it, but do you like it? I mean, would you like to have had two days in this break, maybe scattered during later on during the course of the year? Or is it, look, I look at a counter. We just play what's in front of us. Yeah, kind of just play what's in front of you. You know, make it to Las Vegas. bit different like we did last year but you take advantage of it for sure you know we're coming off

of five games and seven nights leading up to this break so it was needed with some guys banged up and hopefully returning from injury soon and sickness with alpia and so we took advantage of it like i said tried to sharpen up some things and look at what we did well and not so well in the first 21 games and then you know rest your body up and get ready to go and so we'll do the same thing take a look at denver the first game and be be off of three days of rest and have a good amount of energy going to denver lastly you were talking about alpi defensively zubots had a great game and that's not just his solo responsibility but is it a good warm-up for yokech or is just yokech a one-of-a-kind type of player that frankly he spends just as much time outside the ark than he does inside of it

it's very unique as two different things um you know we we had jabari on zubatch and you know we're trying to take away lennard and harden more often and encouraging other guys to shoot or make plays you don't want somebody going 13 for 14 but you know if he's if he's getting post-ups and road post looks it's taken away from what they're mainly trying to do and so we'll allow done to get the shots we'll allow Zubat to get the shots and that's very different from Yolk it's strategy of course are you bringing two suitcases I've never brought two suitcases on an NBA road trip in my entire life you mean I don't know what how are you handling this long trip

we're about to go on say it one more time I'll definitely be packing two suitcases for sure okay because i mean like i just don't want to do it but i feel like it's too damn long i wanted in cleaning on the road you know that's that works unless equipment seven one for clothes and one for pickleball equipment oh that's right how is the pickleball game give up people on all the update how are you feeling on that i'm feeling good i had a bad day the other day one of the worst performances i had but other than that i've been been solid do you blank talk on the court like you did it's a basketball player or no? A lot of yelling.

Seems like an easy yes. Coach just say yes. It's all right. We got your back. We don't judge. That's right. Thank you for the time. We'll see you Sunday before the trip to Denver.

Thanks for the time, as always. Thank you guys. All right. See you later. You may doka joining us here on the show. The most famous pickleball player I know. They have professional pickleball leagues now. He asked me to say, do you play?

I'm like, oh, hell no. I don't want to get. I've played now. I like it. Do you really? I'm going to be honest. I'm a tennis snob because I'm like, you guys, it's half of a court.

Why don't you play tennis? Why don't you play real sports? And then I'm like, man, this is pretty fun. It feels like to me, and I probably should do it. I'm not doing it with the Rockets because they take it so intense. They take ballrooms in hotels and they tape them up to play. It's fun. It feels like it's just a faster pace game, right?

It's all on the wrist, Maddo. Well, I would do well on that then. How's your backhand stroke? Good. So you're not running a lot around the court. You're basically not in a stationary position, but you're not doing as much. The hardest thing is keeping the ball down. You've got to keep it dipping.

You've got to put that spin on it, keep it dipped, and then you've got to flick the wrist, Maddie. It's like ping pong sort of. A little bit. Did you play more involved? Now, is it always a couple? No, now that's for like seniors, the doubles. And that's fine. Why didn't you tell me you playing pickleball?

I didn't know. This is something I learned about you. I don't know. I need to tell you everything I do. I think something similar like, hey, you wouldn't believe what I did this weekend. What did you do? I went hiking. Oh, that's cool.

What did you do? Pick a ball. I'm a private person. Okay. You know that, Jonathan? So don't ask when he comes back what he's done all the week because he's not going to tell you. It's a very private thing. No, I'll tell you if you asked you didn't ask.

You never asked me if I played pickleball. Then it just came up. I think you should present those things. We want to learn more about you. I'm not that interesting. I'm not that interesting. I second time, Matt. We want to know more about you.

Yeah. It's not that interesting. Your private person over here. All right, Dr. Rotto is going to help you out here with your fantasy. This is either the last week of the regular season or it's your first week if you play in a 16-team, a 16-playoff. How do you feel about 16-play? I have Commissioner of the I-Heart Radio. I don't like it.

I like Fantasy League. We have 12 and 4 get in. Yeah, perfect. I think that's correct. Absolutely perfect. And I don't want to go any longer, bigger than 12 teams. 12 is great because you have to work a little bit on the waiver wire. For some people, shmatham, shmanton, there's nothing on the waivers.

Hey, you study up. See who's a couple of weeks away? Who see where the buys are? You got to read up on the waiver wires. Or just listen to Dr. Roto. That day you to pick up on the waivers. Yeah, here's the key. Don't draft a defense.

Don't draft a kicker. You save them for every available wide receiver and running back you can get. and you pick them up on the weekly. That's what I do. I have new defenses every week. New running, new kickers. Wow. I'm so proud of you, Matt.

Thank you. Call you streamer Thomas. Call me playoff Thomas. Well, for once. And Mr. Blackjack. We're proud of you. On the phones we go, let's talk to Larry in the Heights before we get to Dr. Roto. Larry, good afternoon to you.

Thanks for waiting. Yes, sir. I have a question about, is Joe Mixon ever going to come back? I like Marks running back. I like him. And the other question I have is one of my. I was Zach Evans from Gleney Park, North Shore. Is he ever going to show up on another team?

He's a very exciting running back, but I don't know. Go ahead. Yes, sir. I'll listen. All right, thanks, Larry. Where did Zach Evans go? I know he committed to Texas and then he flipped or something. Oh, no, yeah, he's nowhere.

He's out of the sport? He went to TCU, then Ole Miss, and then he was a sixth-round pick, and then he's been out of football for a year. He always has high school, though. And as far as... He was the dude. As far as Joe Mixon's concerned, thankfully, we've stopped asking

the coach, Domech O'Reilly's when Joe Makeson's coming back, because it doesn't matter. He's not coming back. Yeah, he was the number one's recruit in Texas five-star Zach Evans. You see, sometimes five-stars don't work out. Highly subjective.

High stars don't have 100% hit rate. No, they don't. Especially quarterbacks from spring. Not when you bring your coach with you. I'm just kidding. Not when you bring your coach with you. Wishing the Cougars, all the success. Yeah, starting with a beat down of LSU.

That'd be nice. That'll be beat down one of two. You know what, man. You know, Gordy will be beside himself. You know what? I honestly don't. I honestly don't know what to do here. First of all, I don't want you happy.

You can stay out of it if you want. You should talk about so much. But also, do I need Gordy in here? you're talking trash to you? Can they just cancel the game? Can they both teams opt out? Well, you know, the Bahamas Bowl is no more. Yes.

And this year is the last year of the L.A. Bowl. They're having an L.A. bowl since when? Yeah, they're starting to pare it back a little bit. Because, you know, ESPN's been financing these bowls for the large part. Yes. And ESPN needs to be a little more fiscally responsible. And they're going to say, hey, two six and six teams playing on a middle of a Wednesday at 2.30 in the afternoon. Probably not going to move the needle for us much.

So, yeah, the LA Bowl, which was once, the Jimmy Kimmel Bowl, it was, it's been a variety of things, but it's no long, I think this is this last year. Okay. That was the EV1.net bowl. Well, you know that history of that bowl has been EV1, it was a gallery of furniture bowl. Yes. And then it's been 20, this is the 20th year of the quote unquote Texas Bowl, which has had a variety of sponsors on it, too. Yes, and now it's Kinders, whatever that is. I don't even know what Kinders is.

is it? I don't know. Gordi Catelis. He's busy. All right. But yeah, the bowl sees it. I believe it's a very, very assaulted, cured meats. Oh, like the brand of meats? I made that up, I don't know. Go look it up. Now people are going to cure it. If we've already ruined the product.

Oh, barbecue sauces. See, I was close. Wait a minute. There's a bowl game after our barbecue sauce? Yeah. Willie Fritz is going to be bathed in barbecue sauce if you guys win the game. Well, you know, there's a mayo bowl. That's what I'm saying. And there's a Pop-Tart bowl. Yes.

I want to go to the Pop-Tart bowl. Why? Because, first of all, you get endless pop-tarts. Strawberry Frosted, number one overall pick? Yeah. Anything frosted. Although I don't like chocolate frosted. Anything frosted.

The cinnamon ones weren't my favorite. The fruit's okay. The fruit. The fruit. The fruit. The fruit. It's anything goes Friday. I know.

Come on. Seriously. What do you want? You won't kiss and discuss whether or not the Texans are aren't back to do anything? No, they can't go to squat this week. Unpopular take. Didn't like the cinnamon brown sugar ones. Hmm. Frosted strawberry, frosted

cherry. Yes. And whatever the third is, is a deep dive down the list. Blueberries, it's like a nice off the bench. You know, if you're digging at the bottom of the box and the blueberries in there, you're like, all right, it's fine. It's a utility Pop-Tart. Yeah, exactly. It doesn't start every day. Right. So, Mariusio Dubana, Pop-Tarts.

Now, don't do that. Now, don't do that. There are people that are upset right now. Oh, quit your whining. Marizio Dubon is the greatest in history. Shut up. He's good. Let me tell you, are you going to endure yourself to Dubon Truthers or not? You're not.

Well, God, Dubon Truthers can go to Atlanta. Okay? We don't need you here. We are going to watch him. I'm wishing him the best. We've watched Jerry LoCapaprito. With an OPS of 590, I'm wishing him the best. Is that a hitter's friendly ballpark, Atlanta?

I don't think so. I don't think so either. I think it's more picture-friendly. It's so rare to say because most of the ballparks are very pitcher-hitter-friendly. All right. Speaking of friendly, let's talk to Dr. Roto. He's going to give us the fastest 30 minutes of major market radio next. Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm supposed to tell us. Seasonings as well, says Chris Cordy. It's barbecue sauce and seasonings. You know what? Barbecue sauce. Oh, stop. Don't even faux Mr. Texas. You're going to eat.

No, it's a dime a dozen. There's a difference between good barbecue sauce and not a good barbecue sauce. Of course, but to sit there and go, I have the best barbecue sauce ever. It's homemade. It's made from scratch. And your ribs are going to go to a different level. Shut up. It's barbecue sauce.

Give me a bottle of craft or Sweet Baby Rays or Acme or Walmart brand. It's just fine. Can you see, folks, I try to save this man. He just said Kraft barbecue sauce and Sweet Baby Rays are as good as homemade good barbecue sauce. Yes, that's correct. That is not correct. sweet baby raise is just fine it's fine yeah but i'm not gonna go

i can't cook it unless i make mail barbecue says all right go to a store and get the high-end nine dollar bottle shut your bum ass up just get the damn crap put on your ribs and call it a day don't attack matt thomas that hard he just he's got the pallet of uh i don't even know what this is the matt thomas show with ross Waiver claims have to be made And I've got trade proposals for lying my way My first round pick

Turned out to be a big flop I don't know which wide receiver I need to drop Ooh, Dr. Roto, give me the news I really don't know what I should do My quarterback keeps getting sacked I've got a bad case of fantasy blues It is the fastest 30 minutes in Major Market Radio we say hello to our good friend. Dr. Roto,

it's a final week of the regular season for some. Summets playoff week number one. Dr. Roto, let's get right to it. I love when I go against somebody and they get a minus three on defense. That's what the Buccaneers gave our friend Chris Gorda here at the radio stations. I'm already up to a zero to minus three lead in my weekly fantasy football. It's an offensive explosion.

They're empty. But for some people, if they played against Kyle Pitts, Kyle Pids did this week what he's done all season basically and it's like it's so tempting you look at the guy he's 6-6 he runs great look he was fantastic last night

cousins played the game of his life Mike Evans looked sensational in his first game back Chris Godwin did a great job I mean Abuka suffered a little bit Buckie Irving lost that touchdown I think a lot of people were shocked at that but they really liked Sean Tucker by the goal line

I think the bigger problem was Tampa should have won that game if Baker throws a better pass to a buca there on third down, maybe a buca scores and this game's over. To this week, Rodo, we got weather major issues, especially in the Midwest and in the east. I think Cleveland and Chicago might be 12 degrees of kick time. Tell me how that's going to affect the folks except just having a bundle up here. All right. Cold doesn't bother me.

Rain doesn't bother me. Wind bothers me, right? The more wind, that's a big problem. So, I mean, look, we saw Buffalo last week. Buffalo and Cincinnati put up a million points. together in the snow. So I think people tend to overrate weather. It's the wind. When you see 30 miles

per hour wind, that means they can't throw the ball deep downfield. Shador Sanders has actually played decent football. I mean, you sit there and you save yourself, why do they go with Dylan Gabriel when Sanders is obviously more pro-ready than Gabriel is? If assuming,

for example, Cleveland, if the weather's not that bad, Sanders is in play, Jerry Judy's in play, Harold Fanon Jr.'s in play. DeAndre Swift's in play. play on the you know so what i'm trying to tell everybody out there is don't overrate the weather just look at the wind if it's raining it's not a problem cold is not a problem they have heaters on the sideline they'll figure it up uh we all watched texans chiefs last week kansas city a couple of real boneheaded fourth down call well actually one boneheaded call uh but a lot of drop passes

kelsey looked like disoriented worthy wasn't a huge factor there were some drops of rheed rice How nervous are we about using Kansas City players knowing that we don't know what emotion they got left in the tank between now and the rest of the season? Yeah, no, it's a really great question. I think the problem here is that the Chargers don't match up very well with the Chiefs, and here's why. First of all, Herbert is not 100%. We see that. Secondly, the Chiefs play a lot of zone defense. And I think where the Chargers receivers excel is against man.

Vlad McConkey, you can't stop him, man to man. He's terrific. Same thing with Quentin Johnson's got a lot of speed. But because the Chiefs run that zone out there, it's going to be a little harder for them to find holes. On the other side, the Chargers play all zone coverage, which, hello, Rishie Rice, may be one of the top three guys in the league against that. So the Chiefs' backs are against the wall. It feels like a rebound spot for them so long as their defense plays well, they should be able to do it. On the other side, once again, keep an eye on Marion Hampton.

He looked fantastic in his first game back. all right uh philadelphia uh talk about a tale of two seasons they're on a free fall uh but they've got los vegas coming in tell me that if i'm if i've got philadelphia players i'm going to get really fat and happy against that raider defense mt if you didn't use the words fat and happy i was going to use the word i figured i figured you're still in my bit i get it yeah got to steal from the best right so what happens here is nobody wants to play jalen hertz after what we saw last week it's exactly why you play Jaylen Hertz. Nobody wants to play

Say Colin Barclay. That's exactly why Barclay is going to run for 140 yards and two touchdowns this week. You want as many Eagles as you possibly can. The Raiders look like they've given up. This is a bad, bad spot. I could see a 40 spot here. I know Vegas has it at 25. I think they're off by 10.

I just don't even see a pathway for the Raiders to be successful this week. This is one of those games where the Eagles need to figure out their offense right now. Start running the ball better. Get Hertz throwing the ball a little bit. Get DeVant the Smith involved and beat the crap out of Las Vegas. Super sexy 325 game has Detroit at the L.A. Rams for as potent as the Lions offense has been

this year, they're on the outside looking in. They need this game desperately. Right. The problem is I think they're playing a better team. The Rams are a really good team. So here, you know, what I've been trying to tell everybody for weeks, it's always look at the matchups. Okay. So what's the matchup problem here? The Lions play man coverage. You can't cover Pooker, and you can't cover Devante Adams, not with that lion's secondary without Brian Branch. He's your best guy in the back there. He's out with the torn Achilles. So the only way, the only way Detroit stops the Rams is if Aidan Hutchinson can get some pressure on him.

But if Matthew Stafford can find time, he's going to pick apart that team all game long. Now, the other thing is Detroit stops the run pretty well. So this may not be a Chiron Williams week, but Blake Corum has looked like he's been shot out of a cannon. so he's in play. Devante Adams, remember the touchdowns that he didn't score last week? Don't worry. He gets one this week. Pook is sensational. On the other side, I love St. Brown. This could be one of those St. Brown 10 catches for 120 yards weeks that we haven't seen in a while. And of course, Jemir Gibbs, you want to get him in. I don't love Jameson Williams this week, but I like the other two guys. But this is a game, 55 points feels of light.

Brought this up with you last week about teams that are not coming in the playoffs, and can we find some sneaky pickups? or using of players. We saw Tennessee win at Cleveland last week. Will they have any sort of similar success, at least from a fantasy perspective in San Francisco? When K.M. Ward doesn't get pressured. He's actually a decent quarterback. So Chimari D.K., their young rookie wide receiver,

he might actually be decent. That's probably the guy that I'm Gunnar Helm. He's a tight end who played at the University of Texas. So a lot of you guys down there might know him. He's pretty good against zone coverage, which what San Francisco likes to roll out. Maybe they're usable. D-K is interesting because if your league gives credit for return yards,

not only is he their second receiver, he's also their punt and kickoff returner. So if he gets a kickoff return, you might get double the points. That's interesting to me. But really, the talk of this game is the other side of the football. You know, San Francisco had their buy week. They're coming back rested.

They're coming back ready to go. Brock Purdy is going to throw at least two touchdowns this week. George Kittle gets the matchup of the century, against Kevin Winston, who might be the worst cover safety in all the league. He got McCaffrey, you got Joanne Jennings, load up on your 49ers. All right, let's get to the Sunday game. We

have used the term trap a couple of times. Also, Jacoby Percett's probably best performances ever as an NFL quarterback, as limited as it is, is against the Houston Texans. Now, I don't think history can repeat itself with different football teams, but size up for me, Arizona versus Houston,

with the notion that if it does get ugly, would the Texans' offensive players not be of great choice? Also on top of that, the fact that the Texans don't score a whole lot of points and typically stay within one score of most of their opponents. Everything you said is true, except Stroud is better, as we all know, when he doesn't get pressured. Arizona doesn't get pressure on the quarterback. It's their weakness.

And their number one draft pick, Walter Nolan, has been out for most of the year. So if you give C.J. Stroud time, it's got to pick you apart. And Arizona plays a lot of cover four, which is right up Nico Collins's alley. I mean, this doesn't get better for Stroud to Nico feeds families this week, right? You're probably looking at 240 to 260 yards from Stroud. Maybe 110 to 140 goes to Nico. Definitely one touchdown, maybe more. Right.

So now the question is, will the Cardinals play enough to keep the Texan starters on the field? If they do, we love Nico, we love Woody Marks. Schultz is fine, not special to me. Jaden Higgins is fine. I'm really sticking with Stroud, Collins, and Marks. On the other side, Marvin Harrison Jr. is out once again. Michael Wilson is going to be out there. Now, I know the Texans have played amazing defense, but you know what happens to the NFL MT?

Letdown weeks. This feels like a letdown week. So I'm not saying the Texans are losing. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying maybe they didn't do that same preparation for this week's game, and maybe the Cardinals hang out in there. maybe Michael Wilson gets 80 yards, maybe Brissette has another 250, maybe Tray McBride gets 80 yards, maybe the game is closer than we think, so those Texans actually have a boom fantasy day. All right, with that, we go to your phones next at 713-212-5-790.

All right, we've got to go to the phones because Dr. Roto, our lines are overflowing, my emails are overflowing, Twitter's overflowing. So really quick for everybody that calls, Dr. Rotto, let's make sure you tell it. Dr. Roto, how are you doing today? I'm doing fine, M.T. Thank you. I'm doing fine. Ross, you're doing okay? I'm a little gassy. All right. Let's go to the phones and talk

to the great people. Brian on 790 for Dr. Roto. Don't ask how he's doing. Go, Brian. Hi, Dr. Roto. I was wondering, I got Patrick Mahomes and I got Brock Purdy, and man, that's a tough one. I've been doing my homes all the time, and I just don't know this week because it's

the playoffs. I know, listen, one of my best friends made the wrong call last night because he worried about the name of the player not the matchup. Purdy has the better matchup. You play Purdy. I know Mahomes is a great player,

but based on the matchup, Purdy is the better spot. All right. We continue on the phones and go to Ray on 7-Henny for Dr. Ordle. Go ahead, Ray. Pick two of these three. Jalen Waddle, Devonte Smith, Jacobi Myers.

I'm going to go Waddle and I'm going to go Smith. So it's not that I don't like Myers. I do. I just think that Jacksonville always wants to run the football. And ETN is going to run it down the jet's throats. So I'm going to fade Myers. All right.

Thank you for the phone call on that. Let's continue. 713-212-5-790 for Taylor for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Taylor. Dr. Roto, I've got Jonathan Taylor or Travis E-TN, and I'm currently projected to win by 40. I don't know if that makes a difference. I love ETN this week.

This one, though, is really hard to bench Taylor. But Seattle's got such a good defense. Philip Rivers, though, I'm worried for him, dude. The guy's 44, and he's not in the best shape ever. Seattle's defense might score two touchdowns this week. That said, there's cute and there's too cute. I think you've got to give it to Jonathan Taylor. You're going to win by 40 anyway.

Might as well just use Taylor. Are we singing away from all cults, receivers, and tight-ins? Is that accurate? No, I will play two people. I'll play Jonathan Taylor, or I'll play Tyler Warren. I've got to think that Rivers can get the ball to Tyler Warren. I would not play Pittman, do not play Pierce, do not play downs. All right.

Let's go to Willa on 790 for Dr. Rodo Willow. What's your question? Real quick, so it's either Keenan Allen or Smith. Should I roll with Hertz? He got me 04 last week or should I try to just Bryce Young. No, no, I'm going to go Hertz and DeBontas Smith. Just go with that hookup. Hertz is going to have a great week this week against the Raiders.

All right. Thanks. We'll look for the phone call. You guys are doing good. 713-212-5-7-90. Hugh and Conroe for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Hugh. Hey, I got screwed by Irving last night, so pick two out of Chuba, Hunt, Neal, and Kenneth Walker. So, listen, I'm going to go with Kenneth Walker. They're going to put up four touchdowns. I've got to think Walker is going to have one of those. Chuba Hubbard and Rico doubt was a big mess because it was Chuba and then he got hurt Rico looked generational and then all of a sudden he was a starter

and then all you know who played last week Chuba Hubbard I know this I know the Carolina wants to run the football I don't trust Kreme Hunt as far as I can throw him Chubin Walker So are you on Donald or Offa Dottle this week?

I don't love him this week MT do you have a better choice I know you have them on your team Yeah I got A-Chann but he's questionable still at this point well let's let's let's do you have jalen right just in case i'm gonna go scoop them up that's the rhodo tip of the week right there thank you dr rhodo you're the best you got it reese for dr rhodo at 123 go ahead reese rase are you there go ahead

reese yeah you got a bad connect well we'll put reese on hold and try him again let's go to john and conroe go ahead john I got two questions. The quarterback question. Justin Herbert or Marcus Mariotta to pair with Debo or Joe Burroughs and Patrick Mahomes. Thank you. I like Marioita over Herbert and that, yeah, especially if you have Debo. And who is the other one?

Don't know. I'm sorry. I can't remember that one. Call back. We got a couple lines open. I feel badly. Yeah, you're fine. Who do you say?

It was somebody you said. I can't remember this time. All right. I'm trying to write it down quickly. Yeah, Reese is calling back. We'll get it back. If you want to get in 713-213-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-5-7-90, let's get Reese back. Rees, finish your question again for Dr. Roto, please.

Yes, I got Love or Caleb Williams, and then I need two or three, Harvey, Jenkins, or Brian Thomas. Okay, you got it. So I like love for sure. I know it's a bad matchup, but I'm not worried about it. I'm going to play R.J. Harvey. I'm going to play Judkins. Last week is a Brian Thomas Jr. week. I don't think it is this week.

Oh, are you big on this? I have RJ Harvey Harvey. I forgot about that. Are you, he has grown as a season's progressed. Is it worthy of a play this week, period, regardless of the... Absolutely. I mean, look, without J.K. Dobbins, we would not... Because of the injury, we're seeing what this guy did at UCF.

He's explosive. He can catch. John Payton Cherry picked this guy. He wanted him at the draft. The crazy thing was he didn't really play him in the beginning of the year. But this guy was the most talented running back on this roster. All right. Let's go back to John who's going to finish his question.

John, go ahead and finish it off, please. Joe Burroughs or Paco was that? All right. I don't know what the other guy was, but you play Joe Burrow. That game is going to be through the roof, dude. And we'll get to that in part of the lock of the week. All right. Thank you very much for that.

You weren't worried about Burrell throwing beautiful passes to a defensive lineman. Were you last week? Were you? It happened anyway. How good did he look except for two passes, M.T.? Four touchdowns, big ones, in the snow, to T. Higgins. Oh, my God. He looked fantastic.

I felt so badly for him. Listen, this is a guy. You know how you, I mean, I do. I feel badly for Charles Barkley. I look at Barclay and I say, man, this is the best basketball player who never won a championship. I feel the way about Joe Barrow. The dude is molting away in Cincinnati. This guy, if you put him almost anywhere else,

they're winning Super Bowls. I know. All right, I'm going to go to some emails. Need a tight end. Fanon, Hawkinson, Barner, or Gadsden? Fanon all day. Shadour loves throwing him. All right.

That's for you, Clifford. Let's go. Travis Kelsey or Joanne Johnson from Jason? I guess it's Kelsey. They're desperate. I don't hate Joanne Johnson, but I hate the score in that game. It's going to be very low-toteled. but I think Kelsey probably finds the Anzo.

All right. Which three playing is PPR? Slayton, Sutton, Metcalf, Thomas Jr. Watson. I'll say him again. Slayton, Sutton, Metcalf, Thomas Jr. Watson. I am going to go Watson, Sutton, and D.K. I don't hate Slayton. I love the game for Jackson Dart.

We haven't talked about Jackson Dart. Epic game this week. Everybody does well against Washington. Look at J.J. McCarthy. But is it going to be a Wondale-Robinson week? kids are going to be a Theo Johnson week. I don't know, so that's why he got a fade Slayton. Get a bench one of these. Marks, Neil,

Warren, or Tet? Neil. He definitely playing Macmillan. Devon Vale. Is that how he's pronounced it? Or Alec Pierce? Veilet, excuse me, Veilet. Oh, I think you got, look, you can't play Alec Pierce. It's not that I don't like Alec Pierce, but I mean, I'm worrying about Philip Rivers.

I'm worried about the time. I'm worried. This is like the worst game to come back to. I mean, if he came back to the Raider game, you'd be like, oh, Philip Rubus looks good. You'd come back to Seattle. It could be ugly. All right. Chuba Hubbard or Kairn Williams? Oh, man.

Can I tell you something? I'm worried about Kairn Williams. Blake Horam looks better, and I think they're going to run. I think they're going to throw more than pass this week. So I'll play Chuba because you know the Panthers want to run. Bo Nix or Trevor Lawrence? Give me, Bo Nix. I think that game explodes more than people think it will.

I think it's higher scoring. All right. A couple more calls before we get to the lock of the week. Maricio on 790. Maricio, what's your question for Dr. Roto? Do I keep the Rams defense or do I stream

either the Panthers, Chiefs, or Saints? Chiefs playing Tennessee next week. I don't think you play the Rams this week. I mean, Jared Golf's not going to make that many mistakes. I have no problem with the Chiefs. Justin Herbert didn't look great last week. I mean, Hertz didn't either. And especially, I think they're going to sack him a couple of times.

Might intercept him once, I'm okay with the Chiefs. Chiefs always seem to play better defense, but later it gets into the year. Juan for 790 and Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Juan. Yeah, so you said Benj Neal, right? And then I'm between

Jordan Addison, Jerry Judy. Yeah, I would bench Neil out of that group. Look, as long as the weather is not terrible in the Midwest, I like Jerry Judy. Chicago plays a lot of man coverage and they let up a lot of

explosive plays. The most explosive player that Cleveland has happens to be Jerry Judy, and Sanders has found him a bunch. He's a guy that I've been targeting in DFS this week, so so long as it's not a monsoon there or something crazy, you know, Blizzard, I like Jerry Judy a lot. For tight end, Schultz

are likely? Oh man, Cincinnati that's every tight end score. I like Schultz, but I love likely. All right. And last call, Ray for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Ray. I got Schultz or Goodert and Michael Pittman or Olave. Schultz and definitely Olavee.

O'Aleve is one of the best plays this week. See, I'm going to go with Goddard over Kelsey. Goddard was good last week. I'm against Las Vegas. Why wouldn't I load up on him? I'll see. No problem with that one. Okay.

I want everybody. Philadelphia is scoring four or five touchdowns. May Dallas Goddard get at least one of them. Ladies and gentlemen, we asked Dr. Orodo once a week. to give us the knock-down, drag-out 100% amazing performer. It's Dr. Roto's. Lock of the week.

All right, this lock comes in the Bengals Ravens game. We mentioned it a little bit before. T. Higgins, not playing. Jamar Chase playing. The Ravens just can't cover him. Marlon Humphrey can't cover Jamar Chase. It's like he was, Chase, if he played every game against the Ravens, he would be the greatest receiver in NFL history by like 10,000 yards.

This dude is getting 120 yards minimum, at least one touchdown, maybe more. I think Cincinnati is going to try 1,000%. I think Barros is going to give it everything, and I love Chase as the lock of the week. There it is. That's Dr. Roto's lock of the week. Now, you're putting in ER hours, Dr. Roto, because we got some playoff for some teams around this country of ours. In the next three weeks are busy times in the office, M.K. So get out those insurance cards. So you can find me over at Dr. Roto.com.

You can find me over at Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio from 6 to 9 a.m. Eastern tomorrow. And, of course, over at X-D-R-R-O-T-O. All right, good doctor. Look, thank you for the time. As always, we'll visit again next Friday, my friend. Have a great week. All right. Thank you.

Same to you. That's Dr. Roto. Playoffs start for me next week. Ross has got playoffs in, I'm sure, one of his leagues, one of his nine that he plays in. The main one, though, the one's the most important. He's four in ten. And in dead last place. Justice has been served.

Up next? Four-time champ to zero. Suck it. What if I'm a champion? Four-time champ to zero. Okay, four-time champ to one. Okay, Pittsburgh Steelers. Guess who you guys, what?

The Detroit Lions are coming, and the L.A. Rams are coming to town. Next year, we're going to go one for the thumb, baby. And you'll be twiddling yours. I don't know. I'll be sticking my thumb. Let's go to non-Flornaissance next. That's unclean.

131 on Sports Talk 790. We find interesting stories that occur outside. the state of Florida and share them with the people of Houston. It's time for non-flora. All's time for non-flora. the strange and wild no alligator tails but something that

will make you smile it's time for laughs from far and wide in this crazy world there's nowhere to hide 90. Time now for something we do once a week at this time. We don't play the Fantasy Five. We give you non-Flority

stories. Every radio show in the marketplace in this country gives you stories about wacky things that happen in Gainesville, Miami, Tampa, St. Peter, Orlando. Our rule is our wacky stories must come from outside of the Sunshine State. November 20th, United Press International has story out, boys,

about a talking... The UPI still exists? I didn't think it did, but it does. Good for them. About a talking teddy bear name Kuma or Kuma, K-U-M-M-A. Okay. It has been pulled from retail shelves after the AI-powered toy ventured into questionable topics. A group of researchers from the United States and Canada held conversations with Kuma and found it's easy to get the $99 bear to discuss sexually explicit topics,

including spanking, role-playing, and bestiality. What? Yeah. The researchers with this bear also said that you can take a particular topic and the bear would, quote, run with it simultaneously escalating in graphic detail while introducing new sexual concepts of its own. I never thought a bear would do that, but you know what? And say I. The bear also offered advice about where to find sharp knives in the home. The CEO of this company, Folo Toy, name is Larry W.

Wang, said his company is, quote, conducting an internal safety audit. So be careful when you buy a $99-a-lid bear from Larry Wang, named Kama from Wang, because this bear will give you advice about spanking and role play. And where to find sharp knives in a person's home. And that, my friends, is this week's least in my version, not in Florida story. Thank you. You're welcome. who's next who's next let me go go go ahead well last weekend man i know you're a big fan of game stop

the real tailor 2007 video game retailer well uh they did a trade anything event this past weekend where they were taking in trade-ins and they allowed anything for you to be to be available for trade for people to bring in the trade-in event was a publicity son of course from the company. It's designed to highlight its trade-in program that provides customers with store credit

or cash for a range of home entertainment items. Okay. Well, some very interesting things came into the store including taxidermied animals, road signs. You also had

artwork with people with their pets with hair like Snoop Dog but also things got really weird including a customer bringing in a goose and another customer bringing in a bobcat

to attempt to have it traded. And what's the value of these trades? Well, GameStop says it paid out more than $30,000 for a rare Pokemon card and some other items, but it does not say what they paid out for a taxidermied goose. Hmm. What's the last time you wanted to go to a GameStop? When did Modern Warfare?

3 come out. Woo! The new modern warfare 3. I guess a bigger question will be, when will GameStop be? No, sorry, the new modern warfare 2.

Will no longer exist? Is it, it will always exist? I mean, we used to always think that blockbuster videos would exist. They didn't last. No, actually, no, it was before that. It's probably been 10 years since I've been in one.

Shout out to you, their GameStoppers. Appreciate you? Yeah, I used to love playing games and video games. I miss it. Yeah. But it was taking too much in my time. the kids got we got i get them a wee when they were kids they love the we do you ever play the wee is good at least built hand-eye coordination that's true

you got some exercise too if you want to play some wee tennis yeah you can get you can get a good uh frothy sweat going if you will sit down and playing 12 straight hours of modern warfare not as good nope hurt your thumbs give you the carpal tunnel all right jonathan you're non-floor story please all right minds is out of hayd or really texas gavin rivers West Wessonberg, 21 of Allen, Texas, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20 of Argyll, Texas were indicted on November 20th in U.S. District Court for a bizarre plot to carry out a coop on Gondgave Island near Haiti. The New York Times reported that the men hatched their plan in 2024. Both were learning Haitian Creole. Westenberg joined the North Texas Fire Academy to learn and command and control protocols.

He flunked out in February 2025. Thomas then joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in Maryland. Both men planned to recruit homeless people from around Washington, D.C. to assist in the coup. After sailing to, oh, coup, my bad. After sailing to and gaining control of the island, Westenberg and Thomas planned to kill all the men and make the women and children sex slaves. The would-be conquerors could face up to life in federal prison. Great story. You ever get together, try to stage a military coup, Matt?

I was junior in high school I was a junior in my high school Didn't work How'd that go? Not well Oh Mrs. Exxie wouldn't allow me to happen Mrs. What? Exley

I thought you said Ecstasy No, Miss Exley I thought I think I heard that too Ross, I'm gonna lie No, that's Exxley Okay

All right So you're talking about Haiti They were trying to do a coup in Haiti? Yeah There were using Texas men Texas men doing it Some country Texas men

Island and Argyll is Really country Okay I don't even know where Argyle is North of Dallas Is he had fourth word That sounds like I don't want to go No it's it's

yeah yeah it's what is it it's on 35 isn't it yeah yeah it's right it's right out it's right rest of it for worth yeah going to if you want to go to midland oh that sir okay thank you very much for that I have a little bit of breaking news in a relationship world Sharon Moore and his side piece

getting back together that's it and probably didn't even deserving of one uh play Thompson has broken up with his girlfriend Nikki I mean not Nikki Megan See, this is why you can't trust couples that post all the time.

I told you. I told you that. They have broken up because she was caught cheating. Megan the stallion. No, no, no, that's another one. That's another one. All-timer, by the way. Jonathan?

Megan The Steyllian. On Clay Thompson. The Matt Thomas show with Ross, we are big fans of Megan The Stalian. You know who else is? David Hensley. Oh, the former Astro? Uh-huh. He rested his forearm on that shelf.

rest in his forearm I don't know Go look David Hensley and Megan the Stalian You know what I'm talking about So we should applaud him Absolutely She's

By the way I'm getting a lot of Tweets from Sam and from Craig about this bear I was talking about Oh I thought we were well What about the tweets about your barbecue sauce tick You're getting crushed on that I don't care I don't even care

Just give me some of them Sweet baby raise Put that on my meat We're good to go Let's see Chris says stop giving Your culinary opinion SportsMT Soup says

Now the whole McRib love Makes sense Really craft Braheck no Craft is just fine This one's rude Can we get Matt tested For autism

That's nice Well the person probably Well I'm gonna say it I don't be that rude Appreciate you listening Sam Thank you for listening Sam go to hell Let's see JimboTron

SportsMT can be so disrespectful Sam and Stephanie says Good barbecue doesn't eat sauce That is all That is true So if you need a little sauce Get your little sweet baby raised But also you can have a little sauce

Get you a little uh... That's not what we're arguing We're not arguing good barbecue and not needing sauce We're talking about 89 cent Croger brand Just it'll do the trick You are so wrong It hurts me

I tried to stop you I tried to stop you from getting all this hate I want a gold star For trying to prevent this hate that you're getting right now you did it to yourself i don't care bad food opinions jeremy pain you by the way is engaged oh good for him late word on that as well congratulations i don't miss dion's associated with that but if it is good for him for her

all right uh hell yeah or not is all things about texans killer jacobi brissette i'm really happy for you got eight questions out of jacobi brissette we'll do that next five minutes left to go on the show what should we do We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show. We simply call it me, believe it or not, on Monday through Thursday. But on Fridays, we call it a hell yeah or not. And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Hell-Year-Nat is all things about Jacoby percent. I'll read your statement about Jacoby's statement completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Hell yeah! If the statement's erroneous photoball command up, you'll say this. Not. Now, Jonathan, we went into the A-team's prize vault.

What are we playing for today, my friend? We got the trans-Siberian orchestra tickets for the 19th of December this month. And then we got the four-pack of Monster Jam tickets on February 15th at Energy Stadium. Let's go. Let's play Hell yeah or not. Frank on 790. Frank, you're ready to play Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah, man.

In his true freshman year at Florida, Jacoby Brissette served as backup quarterback to Tim Tebow. Hell yeah or not. Not. Not, not, not. That is correct. Tebow left the year before. Statement number two for the win. Jacoby Brissette was also a basketball star in high school, receiving scholarship offers from Central Florida, among others.

Hell yeah, or not? Hell yeah. No, he never played. Thank you for playing now. He sounded so confident, too. I feel bad. John on Seven, are you ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hey, yeah.

Jacobi Brissette has beaten the Texans with three different teams, New England, Indianapolis, and Miami. yeah or not. Matt? He certainly did. Why don't you have his Wikipedia page out? That I thought it was that Gini in there.

Yeah. Kenneth on 790. Kenneth, your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show? Listen to Dr. Toyo. Doctor who? Toya. Dr. Toya?

Who's Dr. Toya? All right. Ah, I thought of his name was. Sorry. It's Rodo, and it's been that way for like 13 years, but thanks for listening. Jacoby Preset's favorite athlete of all time is Peyton Manning. Hell yeah, or not?

Not. It is. Hell yeah! Even Dr. Toyo know that. Chris, on Seven, outy. Ready to play Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Jacoby Brissette has recorded four tackles of his own off of interceptions in his NFL career.

Two of them were solos. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, Ross made that up too. That was a good one. We're going out with a bang, literally. Matt on 790, ready to play Hell Yeah or not. Hell yeah.

In 2003, Jacoby Brissette made a million-dollar pledge to renovate his high school stadium in West Palm Beach, and the field is now named in his honor. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, Ross made it up to. We didn't even go to the A-Team for prizes. Lindsay on 790, Lindsay, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. Well, see, believe, hell yeah.

I asked what your favorite part of the show was. What was your favorite part of today's show? Well, this part, believe it or not, hell yeah or not. Okay. Nice hell job there, Lins. May I call you, Lins? Jacoby Burset has said that his favorite meal is his mother's homemade mac and cheese. Hell yeah or not?

Hell yeah. All right. Hell yeah. Here we go. Lins. Statement number two for the win. Jacoby Brissette's go-to-cariochi song is chicken fried by the Zach Brown band.

Hell yeah, or not? Not. It is. I'm sorry, Lins. Duh. I like that song. That chicken fried. Cold beer on a Friday night.

A pair of jeans and fit just right. You fit right. With the radio on. Everybody. That's not right. This is incorrect. Go get yourself some craft barbecue sauce. And put it on some homemade macasies.

Instant mac and cheese up next. So bad. The A team. Talk to you Monday from Denver. Woo!