The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Get Swept, Dropping 3 Games Behind AL West #1… Texans Drop 0-3… DeMeco Ryan Speaks

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

Astros Get Swept, Dropping 3 Games Behind AL West #1… Texans Drop 0-3… DeMeco Ryan Speaks 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-01 in H-Town. Good morning, or is it? It's a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Number 58 for Cal Raleigh. It's a two-run shot. Second home run of the inning for Seattle.

And the Mariners have a 7-0 lead. So I put a poor question up to decide And what would be the topic A on a Monday edition of Matt Thomas show with Ross? There were four options sports survey. Okay. One was the Astros got swept. One was the Texans now O and three. One was U of H's awesome three and oh baby.

Or cheddar or Swiss cheese. And the winner of said contest, by the wait, 17% Texans now O and three, so that will not be topic A. Okay. The tie for second was the Asthma. has got swept and the U of H is awesome 3.0 at 25%. The winner at 33% is cheddar or Swiss cheese. And we are a man of our word.

We will do a very quick summation of our thoughts. First of all, both are delightful cheeses. Okay, yes. I would agree. You cannot go wrong with a Swiss mushroom combo on a chicken sandwich or a hamburger. Cheddar, if you're going, you're going to go probably good. cheddar cheese in your enchilada. So, says my wife. You've got to go

with a good sharp cheddar when it comes to putting it on your hamburger. Cheddar cheese would always go well in your fajita tacos. And cheddar cheese nachos is good. Mixing it as a part of a queso is not so much. And that is my thoughts on cheddar or Swiss.

Your thoughts. Cheddar and Jack is the proper way to make queso. Okay. That's the same. Just flat out. Cheddar is not acceptable. No, no. Okay. But yeah, the versatility of cheddar is undeniable. I mean, it's the top cheese of all time. It's not the most flavorful cheese, whether you want to go with a Parmesan,

perhaps, or something else as far as... Or a blue cheese, the pungency of a blue cheese. Now, nobody likes blue cheese, and you and I are team blue cheese. But you have the versatility of the smoother mild and the sharp with a little bit more bite. Correct. And you can... The versatility of cheddar is unmatched.

It's the greatest cheese of all time. Yeah. But Swiss is good. It's tier two. If cheddar's getting married in the bridal party, you've got Swiss. It's like a matron of honor, if you will. The Swiss is tier two, but it's great.

Okay. All right. That is Topic A. The rest of it is, what the hell was that this weekend? Horrible. You ought to be embarrassed. Texans ought to be embarrassed. The Astros, I mean, the reality is that,

and I've been thinking about this. We drove home yesterday from Lake Charles, had a great trip. Listen to the game. Listen to the game. Turn it off after the third inning. We listened to Robert Ford. That ball. is out of here.

The reality is the Mariners are a significantly better baseball team than the Astros. It only took them 155 games to prove it right in front of our faces. 156, actually. It took them that time to wake up, and they were hot, and I do feel like I kind of gave myself a little false confidence when I saw the good performance against the Braves. I mean, that wasn't super shocking. Right. But the sweep against the Rangers is when I kind of convinced myself, okay, they can take two out of three. They're ready to get going.

They've got something going. They were putting together great at bats against Merrill Kelly and Jake Dick Gromman. Yeah, you've got some good starting pitching. They can take two or three. And then the game started. And then honestly, man, I was doing the pregame on Friday. And I'm just looking at this lineup for lineup card. And I'm sitting there saying, oh, my God, this man.

Mariners lineup is incredible. And then you had Brian Wu going against Hunter Brown, and unfortunately Hunter Brown gave up a couple of solo shots. And that really, that was the one you really had to have. You had to have that one with your ace. And that doesn't, even if they're playing the A's, I would say, you have to have the Hunter Brown starts down the stretch here to be successful. When they didn't get that one, that's when I was really worried about things unraveling,

and then they did. When Randy Orozerena is your leadoff guy, And it's had, what, two hits in the last two weeks? And they haven't missed a beat. Mm-hmm. Cow Raleigh, Rodriguez, Naylor, who has been probably even more impactful than Suarez, honestly. He started hitting. He has, clearly.

He has a buck. He's got 47 home runs. He was hitting in sixth place for them. And when your nine-hole hitter is hitting salamis, I hate J.B. Crawford. just because, I mean, he seems to kill the Astros at inopportune times. Yeah, their lineup is deeper and better. Their starting pitching is better. And really honestly, and right now their bullpen is better.

If I would have told you two months ago that the Seattle Mariners had have a three-game lead into the final week of this regular season, I would kind of said, yeah, okay, I kind of get it. But I didn't think it would be turned out this way where the Astros and Mariners were tied going in. Seattle was supposed to be a woeful baseball team. on the road? I didn't prove it. Astro was supposed to be a good home team and it's funny, I went on with my buddy softy at KJRO on Friday to

you know, blank talk and They want you back today? I'm sure they do that. Probably want me to do the whole hour if I could. But he's like, why are you so good at home? I said, honestly, I don't get the feeling that we're just this dotted home team. I think we're steady eddies. Well, your gut feeling is correct,

Matt, because our friend Brian McTaggart tweeted this out. I just saw it a few minutes ago. Astros went 46 and 35, at home, that's great. They started 32 and 14. They finished 14 and 21. Well, I told them, that's why you got that feeling. Yeah, when I told them I was on the, I said, honestly, I said a lot of this is, first of the last three months of the Astro season, really post-All-Star breaks, been about 450 baseball. I said a lot of this home feasting was when they had those great Mays and June's. It was that week before the All-Star game, was it Texas was here and somebody else, I can't remember, but this has been a different baseball team. They couldn't overcome the numerous, numerous injuries. They couldn't overcome the inconsistencies in the performances of some of their key hitters, the D.S.'s, the walkers.

They couldn't overcome the fact that Fromber has cracked like a terrible egg. Yeah, that's the thing, too. We can have perspective. We can have perspective for sure. This weekend was disappointing. It was terrible. And we were hopeful that the Astros would be able to at least win one freaking game. Right.

And they didn't. And it was a disaster. But yes, if you zoom out, the perspective on the season is everything has just been piling up. Framber unraveled as the season went along. Jason Alexander turned into a pumpkin. And Hunter Brown wasn't terrible, but your bats just weren't good enough. And you go up and down this lineup and you're just not good enough. A lot of these names sound better on paper than they are in the lineup.

Talking about Christian Walker, talking about Yonard Diaz, talking about Jose Altuve, who had a decent weekend. Yeah, I mean, let off yesterday because, oh, by the way, the home run hero of Saturday, or at least for a short time, hurt his ribs, and he wasn't available last yesterday. Oh, yeah, and then Jeremy Paine was hurt. I forgot to mention even that. Yeah. It's just, it's not. So, I'm sad about the Astros.

I'm not shocked. disappointed, yes. And I don't know how. But if they have a winning week against two beyond subpar baseball teams, they can make the playoffs. Fangraphs odds have them at 65.6%. They control their own destiny. Go out there and win these games and get it done.

Well, I felt like you also said that a week ago and... Well, also a week ago guy said they're either going to do it or they're not. Because as we said, it's laid out for them. They took care of business against the... It wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world if we just said they split the Rangers and the Mariners six games, three to three, right? Unfortunately, it just went...

The most painful way for it to go was to win three and then lose three. So here is another reality of it. And again, I'm not a math major. I did fairly well up until college algebra. Oh, wow. But the reality is you got Detroit playing Cleveland, and mono-a-mano. That's going to, if you win this week, you've won this week.

Win your games, yeah. It's going to help you because you are with those teams in a race for that final long car. Detroit's either going to win the Central. By the way, they had a, what, 14 and a half game late at one point? Is that correct? I think it's at least, it was at least 12 and a half. I'm thinking it was either 12 and a half or 14.

I have one of the two, but it was ginormous. And so if they beat each other up and you go five, and one, you're going to make the playoffs. So as downtrodden is, I mean, think about this too, Ross, you had thousands and thousands of people attend the game. Last night had 41,000 people, and the game was over in the bottom of the second. Start chugging that LTIA Bocantina, a margarita. I mean, those are pretty expensive, too, right? I've never...

I'm not a drinker at ballgame, so I'm usually working. They are quite potent, and I think they cut you off now. Oh, they're good, though. They're worth it. I think they said they cut you off. Don't they cut you off at 2 now or something like that? I don't know. Do they stamp your hand?

How do they even do that? I would think when you vomit when you get to the counter? That's a huge sign. That's when they cut you off. Meanwhile, what the F was that in Jacksonville yesterday? We got layers on that bad boy, too. 713-212-5-7-90. I'm already seeing fired Nick Cayley tweets.

people are being serious Bobby Sloick if you're listening and the chances of Bobby Slovic listening are at zero percent very low no no it's very low is point one maybe he's a huge fan

no I don't man I'd be smiling too because you got thrown out of the bus by a bunch of probably people in the building and probably by the YouTube hosts that don't have careers

you got thrown another bus on your fault and I think I mean I'm not trying to relive things relive things because I get things wrong all the time. But I remember, I remember saying Bobby Slovak is a fall guy for this, and it wasn't his fault. It just wasn't. And we're proving it out to be the case.

Yes. And by the way, oh, by the way, you replaced Bobby Sloick, who didn't have a good year last year? I mean, that's just honest. Replacements with a guy never called plays before. Hey, went to John Carroll University, though. Same as Nick Casario. It was with the Patriots while Nick Casario was over there. Okay.

They're bros. apparently if you're not a bro of cassero you can't get a job of the texans does i feel like it's fair to say bobby slow it came over from the niners was probably demico's guy and then this hire is probably casarios was it domico's hire i don't know i don't don't feel like it whoever hired him he ain't doing a good job but he doesn't have a lot to work but it's not just like in slowest case they're on his fault there is not a a uh a spoke in the wheel of the offense that is working well it's it's all bad 713-212-5-790

7-13-212-570 Flight from Intercontinental to Georgetown Guyana is it Gianna Yana Yana Yana Passenger vaping in laboratory Turn around mid-flight You should not have to turn around for a vape Right? No

Come on, we're just looking at the news here real quick That's terrible You got the emphysema Yeah but you Vaping doesn't cause airline airplane issues right? I wouldn't think so. But can you just not Can you hang on and not vape for Well, Guyana is probably a long flight.

That's, well, that's all like to be a solid eight, right? I mean, let the man vape. I mean, I don't think that's going to call it. No, don't let them vape, but... Just back off. How about a little chueless? Or, what do you put? Smokeless? Smokeless, yeah, put it between the cheek and gums.

You're your girl. 713-212-790. 7-1-2-1-7-90. Word right now for Uptown appliance repair. The things we can clean up, right, then we'll, and we play winning football, then we'll have a chance. to turn her around. But again, man, we're close.

That's what it is. We're close. But close isn't good enough. So we've got to pick it up and find a way to get a win. Yeah, close isn't good enough. And Rossi, I think I said it on, was it either to tell the, no, I didn't tell the truth. I think I told you guys on gut feelings. If the Colts win yesterday, and they did, and the Texans lost yesterday, and they did,

I think I've already claimed the Indianapolis Colts, did your AFC's solid. champions. Oh, you have? Yeah. Okay. You also put your name on the Astros as AOS champions. Yes, I did. So remember, Jack Assery can be found on the internet, on social media, and can be found

on this radio show. And Lisa, I admitted. I wanted you to be right. The Indianapolis Colts are your AFC South champions. I mean, that's feeling quite likely. Now, the only reason why that may not happen are twofold. one, the Texans could get their head out of their ass because they have more talent than the Colts, although I, I don't know if they do.

I don't know. I really, you're right. I watched a lot of Colts Titans game yesterday. By the way, those who don't, Ross and I went to Lake Charles with some friends and family. We had a really good time. Well. It wasn't, and we got to talk about a bad beat. We won't mention what happened.

We can. The bad beat as it is. Although the person wouldn't care, I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't have to give amounts, but it was a lot. Point being is this, for those of you that don't have, even bet on sports and that's still the majority of our audience.

If you want to just get into a sports book and eat and drink and watch nine games simultaneously, it's heaven on earth. There is nothing better, and I put this on Twitter yesterday, there is nothing better than being in a

sports book or being a big sports bar. You could do that too. I've been gambling. To have nine games going on simultaneously. It's beautiful. That's why you're you got to go to Big City Wings because they do have the big screen.

They have the Sunday ticket. I mean, you got to go there. You got to go eat. But there's just something special about having a financial impact on it. You know, I was just nickel and diamond bats. I didn't care particularly one way or the other. I did have the Texans and the Jaguars and the Under. So I felt good about that.

But yeah, it's just something special about being in a casino sports book with some action on these games. And loving most of what you saw and being aggravated about a lot of things you saw. But the fact is I watch a lot of that Indianapolis Tennessee game. Colts are significantly better than Texans. Now, the Colts also play the Titans who are a terrible football team. And the Texans should be getting fat and happy off them. Colts also beat the dolphins and then they should have lost to the Broncos. That's I'm saying.

The schedule has been very, very soft. But guess what? Just like we were talking about the Astros need to beat up on the A's and Angels who they've had opportunities against. Right. You get the Titans this week. Right. And you need a capital. was.

Yeah. One more thing we're going to the phones. I just saw the total on the Texas. The guest total of the Texans' Titans I might throw up.

There's your head. 39 and a half is nailed on the head. I really didn't see it by the way. A six and a half. I believe you. It was a terrible. It opened its sevens.

It's already dropped to half point. That's six and a half. 39 and a half. That's, 39 and a half. That's claw your eyes out football, folks. I got more news for you.

That's the lowest total on the board. There's going to be some empty seats. to NRG on Sunday. So get ready, all the little media that get credentialed that shouldn't have credentials that can be shooting photos of an empty stadium. Oh, you know what?

I might be going on that game. As a fan? Mm-hmm. You can get you, should get you a jersey? I have one. What is it up, CJ? It's Dominic Davis. How about we move into the last decade?

Why? I got to show people I'm true blue, baby. What's up? OG. I'll be the only one in the building with it. It's actually, I think, a Dominic Williams jersey. Oh, okay. You may not be by yourself.

Dominic Williams, you'd be by yourself. When he changed his name. Yeah. It's a deep cut. One more thing. I snatched that up on eBay. I saw it for like 15 bucks. We got more to get to on this.

Trevor Lawrence absolutely sucks. He really, now granted, his receivers didn't do any favors yesterday. But that interception that he threw was one of the worst throws I've ever seen him. And he constantly overthrows his receivers. Now, again, there were more drops than normally would have been for that. There were a couple drops, yeah. But he sucks. and you couldn't beat a quarterback who sucks.

Trevor Lawrence is not like underperforming or underwhelming or mid. He sucks. They tried to hand you that game. Multiple times. Now, you also got Nico Collins fumbling in a crucial moment, just like the week before you got Dario Gungboa, or was it two weeks ago, whatever it was,

or Dario Gungbo Wally with a, I mean, you've been a little bit of snake bit, but again, we, it feels how many, how many, at times we have to talk about this, every football

game, NFL generally comes down to a couple of plays. It just does. And the Texans aren't making those plays, and they're 0 and 3. So you can be close as you want to. The scoreboard says you're 0 and 3. So anytime any coach tells me how close you are, I don't care. Because they're actually right. Because everything's close. No, because they're right.

When they say that, they're right. And then you flip on the tape and you're like, wow, if this guy makes this assignment, if this guy makes this one block, this is a touchdown, whatever, whatever. But that's the NFL. These are the best athletes on the planet, the best football players in the planet, best coaches on the planet, the best everything. So the margins are going to be thin. And that's just the nature of the beast. Sorry. Chances are, unless you're playing Minnesota and you're Cincinnati, you're going to be

close 16 or 17 weeks a year. Life is hard in the big city and you're making millions and millions of dollars. You're going to be held to a standard. You just are. I swear to God, we're not going to say we're coming back. Heidi Ryan Renfro. Okay. One, two, three, right after this at 1028 on Sports Talk 790. All right. Well, I have to ask you if, well, the a show's are down. The Texans are down? How are you feeling, though, in your personal life?

And this is a serious conversation. 1036. It is Matt and Ross. We believe that this is your day to just yell at us. Not for us in particular, just yell because your sports teams are massively underperforming or the run is inevitably going to end. Will it end this week on the local line? We'll discuss.

Texans better get to act. are they're going to be the biggest embarrassment in the NFL. I mean, the Saints were awful yesterday. So maybe that's number one. Dolphins. Yeah. I'm just thinking of the whole Rotten 5. Titans are in there.

You can't be worse than the Titans when you're favored by six and a half over them. Just saying. That's true. Well, the Texas make the Rotten 5. We'll find out on Thursday. Let me count the O' and three teams in football. Heidi, Conroe on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Heidi, thank you for holding and good morning.

Good morning. First, Swiss cheese is best on po-boys from Daryl's. Oh. We were Daryl's over the weekend. Yeah, I know. I saw Ross's Instagram. Some people actually look at it. Heidi, my Instagram is at SportsMT.

Hollad your boy. At Sports RV for great content. Thank you, Heidi. SportsMT. Heidi. life. You're welcome. So I had a sort of bad weekend.

I'm a Saints fan. I like the Texans and I'm a big Astros fan. Okay. So things aren't going well in that department. And I have a kind of an unpopular opinion probably, but part of me is just, I just want the Astros to not make the playoffs. So they can focus on getting healthy for next year. What? Because I don't have a...

Heidi. I told you it was an unpopular opinion. Unpopular. It's... I mean, Heidi, I love you, but it's an assinine take. Oh, whoa. Oh. Matt.

By the way, follow SportsMT. Heidi. She's unfollow SportsMT, Heidi. Heidi, listen to me. Why would you ever... They're going to get healthy even if they go win the World Series. Well, they'll only be in the playoffs for about two games.

I'm telling you. Yeah. I mean... Well, that's what I... I'm with Ross. Why make the playoff? I like, I like playoff. Heidi, I like playoff baseball.

You play to win the game. Yeah, you don't play to rest up. Yeah, well. All right. I said part of me, not all of me. Yeah, it feels like it's too. You called the show to say it. So it's in your,

it's in your pores way more than you want to admit. Right? Come on now. Yeah. Probably. Sorry about your saints, by the way. That was a largely uncompetitive game. At least you're going to turn it off out of the first quarter.

Well, I pretty much expected it. We don't really, they don't have much of a quarterback. No, or offense or defense. Special teams is mid. Coaching's new. It's not great. Heidi, thank you very much for calling. Even though your take was Ascentine, we do love you.

Wow. Unfollow SportsMT, Heidi. Heidi, the real truth comes at SportsMT. And you know it. Yeah, you want to. to make the playoffs. Am I confident they would even make it out of a wild card? No. Or a DS? No. Or out of the CS? No. But you don't know unless you try. Yeah. I mean, I didn't watch 30 spring training games and 160 games and go, well, it'll be better if they got some extra time off. No.

Who do who believes that? Nobody thought the Diamondbacks are going to make the World Series a couple years ago. They've slipped in as a wild card. You can catch lighting at a bottle. This team has done it before. The longer you go in the playoff, healthier you could get with guys like Josh Hader or others coming back? I'm not even, I'm not going that far. Miracle, Maddie. Miracles can happen. 2% World Series odds, says Fangraphs.

I'm just saying... 2%. So you're telling me there's a chance. If they want to win five of the next six games and make the playoffs, I will root for them hard to do so. I'm not saying, yeah. I'm not saying anything that's likely, but you go from no chance to very little, and that's something, I guess.

Yeah. Let's go to Renfro on 70. Hi, Renfro. Hey, how's going, guys? Good. Man, you was right when you said this morning that how could the Texas go from an officer coordinator that at least got you in the playoffs twice. Only thing I thought Bobby needed to, you know, sharpen the step on was how to make adjustments in the second half, you know. But to go from that to how another officer coordinator.

and that's, you know, going through his first go around. That's almost a set up for failure, but either the head coach or the GM, because that didn't make any sense at all. I mean, you had quite a few good officers coordinators out there. I mean, I even thought about the enemy, you know. He would have loved or had an opportunity if acts, you know. But I just, I feel we definitely got worse.

And you can help me with this here, I'm going to let you go. The officer called, I mean, the office of a line, line coach or whatever, did they get rid of him to? Last year. They got him got an offensive line coach. Yeah, they did get rid of the offensive line coach, and they promoted the assistant offensive line coach to become full-time assistant

line coach. Okay. Now we see why we're in the position we are. All right then, guys. Hey, y'all have a great great. Thank you, Renfro. Appreciate it. I mean, to me, this is on Casario, honestly.

You know what? I shouldn't say this. This is 70% on Casario, 25% on, no, I'm going to break it one more time. This is 60% Casario, 20% on D'Amico, and 20% on play calling, and C.J. Stroud is just not even a top half quarterback right now. He's not. He's not. By any measure. By any measure, you look at, he's not.

There's nothing that I see from him that makes me think of the quarterback of two years ago. This is the highest concern level I think I've had for him. You know, the regression last year, we could kind of write it off. But it continues to happen week after week. Jacksonville defense has improved, but it's not like they're world beaters. The pockets have been clean. They've been a little bit cleaner the last couple of weeks. I mean, you did have some issues today, I mean, yesterday with Arionte, Arsor, he had a bad game.

Ariante does not want to look at his tape under any circumstance. He also went here in your third week in the league and you go up against Josh Heinz Allen. You're going to lose. Well, as you would say, guess what? You get paid for this. Exactly. This is what you do.

He's going to take lumps. He is. And especially with left tackles. A lot of them, now there are some who are, I mean, there's Armand Mimbu, there's Kelvin Banks. There are some tackles who are, but those are first round guys. And oh, by the way, another thing, Rossi on this, your bet on that is offensive line and penalties.

Why is, why is Damiko not running a disciplined football team? A lot of this is correctable, yes. what you're saying. You're having these penalties. You had that leverage pill. Now, it didn't cost you. They kicked a field goal in that drive anyways. But that could have cost you. Like, it could have been worse. It could have been worse. You've got the busted coverage on Nico Collins. That was a gift. They were trying to hand you the game. And Trevor Lawrence sucks. He just, he's, if I'm Jacksonville fan today, I'd be like, how the hell do we win that game? And we got to get out this contract. Fifty-five million dollars a year for that hot guard. garbage. If Trevor walked in and said, man, Trevor, I appreciate your long locking flows, but you suck and you've sucked for many, many years. He's got two playoff games

in his goal. He's not an elite quarterback and he's not developing in the one. Ryan, on 7-a Ryan, I'm sorry for your loss, and I mean that in more ways than one, my friend. I started chasing Sunday. That was bad. It was just all bad. I hope you weren't on the Rams. Robert. No,

no, I was on a rise of Rick's. Oh, wait, you all go to the Golden Nugget. Did you go to the sports book that is in the Golden Nugget? Sure. Yes, we did. Yes, we did. We went to Raft-Rix.

No, I'm going to say it. Draft-King-Ns. What's up? They ain't paying me. So I say Raff Ricks. Woo! Draft Kings, baby. That place is awesome.

Never want to bet there. And then so Sunday I wake up, I had a few cold pops to start the day. Yes. And just started, I got on, I got on prize picks. I just couldn't. Nothing. I did it again on Sunday. Sunday night. I gave the phone to my

17-month-old son. I was like, pick him. I don't care. He lost. He lost. We all lost. It's a bad weekend, Matt. Bad weekend. It's okay. We're going to get through it. But hey, O'all won some blackjack. Hope you had a good weekend. We did. I want to add to what Heidi said. I don't think the Astro shouldn't make the playoffs.

They don't deserve to go to the playoffs. There's a different. They've done nothing that tells me they even care about playing October baseball, and they can go kick Rocks. Rebuild. Jim Craney says spend some money. Do something, man. You want to talk about the window closing? It's about to slam shut if they don't do something. And I'm going to get off the phone and go into work and I'll talk to you guys later. All right. We'll discuss that coming back.

1045 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to chime in on the conversation. We're here for you. D'Amico is supposed to speak in a half an hour and we're going to try to carry it live that. If we can't, we're going to carry it. We'll record it and we'll play it for for you because I want to hear how cranky the coach is because there are going to be some legit media there and most of them are going to be not legit but there's going to be some

legit media there and they're going to hopefully call out what has turned on to be a ridiculously disappointing start of the season and hopefully I don't want to hear about how close they're anymore because the team's not close. So the reality is that I am down money on the trip

because I did put $100 like I promised y'all I shouldn't put $110 on the Astros to beat the Mariners on Saturday. Yeah, good. I'm really happy I followed just for Solidarity. Solidarity. Yeah, it was team Matt Thomas. Solidarity and camaraderie. So I have

really glad I tailed on that. But I tailed you on the Longhorns. Yeah, I did. I had a, and I actually had, I got plus 240 on Arch Manning flexing on a same Houston player on the ground. That's good.

What's the, the hit? The beam everybody was dropping. I got my swagger back. Arch Manning. Suck it, Sam Houston. That game was so bad that it was on one of the screens at the casino, but they don't have commercials in between, so it's like, we'll be right back. It was one of those ESPN Plus or SEC Plus games.

They have a buy this week. Florida has a buy, and then Texas goes to the swamp. I will tell you, as bad as Florida's been at one and three, their defense is still pretty good. So that will be. That will be interesting to see, because this will be Archie's, first true road SEC test, right?

He's not started on the road in SECD. Oh, okay. Well, yeah. Well, well, on the road in the shoe in Ohio State, I guess this is going to be nothing compared to the swamp. And how did he did poorly? Okay. So when I said he's going to do great.

But you're like, what he's trying to make this SEC distinction? Like, they're the end all Bial. It's a big boy football. It's tough to win on the road. The shoe is big boy football too. It is. I didn't say that wasn't. I'm just saying this is his first road

SEC game. Okay. Yeah. It's a little different than Newman High School. I don't think he's going to be good. Newman High School playing the charter school down the street. Again, this is not his first rodeo. He just hadn't been good in the rodeos.

So basically you're saying nobody should take white people that play at private schools. No, I'm just saying people were, like, a lot of people going back and looked at this high school film and going, are we sure we didn't just hype them up because the last name is Manning? And then most people go, yeah, I think it probably is because of his last name is Matt. He was making a lot of good throws.

And I like the highlights were very good in high. Look, and I'm not a, I don't work for a recruiting service. But again, I will keep going back. five stars are no guarantees. I'm still an arch-truther. I think he's going to be great. You think he's going to be great? Next year.

This year he's going to go through his growing paint. I think a lot of the... Well, he's since his third year in the program. Why is Sarkal always so sarcastic, too? Did you hear his post game? He goes, yeah, man, they were telling me I didn't know how to coach him up, and I was just about to hand the reins off to somebody else. Luckily, I didn't.

Why are you always like that? Because college coaches are A-holes. High-level college coach is being smug? I mean, are you telling me? You've never heard that before? It's just like, yeah, we're pretty proud of him and he's coming along. That's what you say. Brian Kelly is smug as hell.

Let's walk in their shoes for a second. Hold on a second. Dabo's smug. When you run a high-end football program, everybody bows to you, correct? Yes. Except the university present. Athletic directors are scared of coaches, generally speaking. So when negativity hits, it's hard for you to, you're like.

Correct. I mean, imagine if Michael Berry walked in here and somebody criticized hit, that's not going to happen. But Michael Berry goes outside. Michael Barry, I mean, he may get defensive. Well, he wouldn't walk in here. But you know what I'm saying. When you are... He's at his compound.

Go talk to Matt for me. Yeah, he's going to send a proxy, number one. Number two, yeah, well, also, you have to remember the coaches who make these types of if you think of how many thousands of high school college coaches there are to make it to these heights, you've got to be pretty cutthroat. Correct. You have to be very competitive. You have to have an ego. And so those are the guys who rise to the top in many of these professions.

And then we can go up and down the list, especially at the college ranks of guys who had egos. So I'm just saying it's human-native. for these press conferences to be so combative when they don't face that resistance the other six days of the week. They just don't. Yeah. I would also say, Gordy is correct. And then, like, showing a little of humility would be nice, especially when you just beat Sam Houston. But everybody was like, got by swagger back.

I would like to see more humility for sure. You see that? I did see that with the AI picture. I got that sent to me by multiple people. Terrible. I think I got it, too. I got a little check. Got to check who.

The interesting part here. The same Houston slumbuster, and it's him leaving a door room, and there's a big girl standing at the door. From a college football standpoint, though, Texas will get, they're on the road at Florida. Florida's next two games are home against Texas and at A&M.

A lot of people I've talked to said they believe after that A&M game, they're going to tell Billy Napier. Don't know the play. Look, I didn't know much about Billy Napier except that he won at Louisiana Lafayette. I mean, good for him. Good coach.

It's not cut out for this level. But my God. I mean, what a massive rise from a mid- Sunbelt to the SEC? But I'll only bring that up because this is going to be the next, or really the first big level job that will be open this coming off season. What names could make that leap? You know what I mean?

If I'm Florida, look, I still think it's an operational on SEC job. But why don't I go get the hottest coordinator at another power four school as compared to going getting to somebody that, you know, when you go eight and four in Louisiana, in Lafay and Louisiana, you're considered a king. Like Ryan Silverfield at Memphis. Memphis is 4-0. Alex Golish at USF is doing well. But it's like, those are such gambols. You don't know if that guy's going to, okay, it's working at the American.

Will it work at this level? In Memphis, they have a good year. They beat Arkansas all the weekend, although Arkansas gave that one away. All right. So you did the 10th inning show yesterday. I'm surprised anybody that called because the game was over at the bottom of the second. Sorry about that. So anything else?

I think, I think people didn't have enough Crawford Bach. I think that was the problem. But do you want me to do that? I want you to do whatever you'd like. It's your show too. Six games left. How are we feeling? Oh, I got, okay. Astros. Oh, I'll save it for To Tell the Truth at 1150 coming up today.

It is 1102. We normally do to tell the truth at 1130. We might push that back a little bit, depending on exactly what D'Amico. And again, we're going to try to get the press conference for you live. If we don't get it live, we're going to play it for you. Hopefully, in its entirety, coming up at some point this hour. again, I'm not a big soundbite guy.

I like to hear the demeanor in a little bit of longer questions, as long as they're legit questions, but my guess is there won't be. But point being is that I want to be able to hear and see, you know, my guess is Domechia will keep a stiff upper lip. He's going to have to. This is not a death nail. He's not going to break down in tears. Don't cry out loud.

Just keep it aside. But O and 3 is on a death now. But the numbers, history, there is. history to this. The Texans did. The last time they went 0 and 3 did make the playoffs. But it ain't easy. The only benefit you have, the only benefit you have is you thought you were in the worst division in football. And now that the AFC South is no longer in play, because I said what I said last week, I got to stick to it, right? The Colts of the AFC South champions. You're saying you put your name on that? You don't have to. Don't let me goad you.

you do a lot of that I would never you just do but that's fine oh man yeah just a real real lousy local sports weekend

I'm not a good now you and I argue about length of contracts we never talk dollars and cents so much like you don't have this bet on about Kyle Tucker if he still hurt he won't be hurting after he gets this 12-year deal that you're talking about.

I didn't say 12-year, Jeff Passon did. Well, and he should lose his cardability. His credentials, too, and you're saying he's a 12-year-old guy. But my point is this, how much has Fromberg lost in the last two months? Legitimately? Legitimately, I would say, like $100 million. He was probably going to make, now he's 32. He was hoping for a max-free deal.

what was Max Fried? That was like eight years two ten-ish something like that 225 let me go look 218

8 years 218 for Max Fried that's what he was going to hope for and he was probably going to fall a little short of that Yep now he I mean is he going to take a one-year opt-out deal at 32? Do you know that I was on the Seattle radio station

they asked about the throw to Caesar Salazar. I was at the sports book playing blackjack, and they were talking about Framber. And the very first thing that came out of the guy's mouth was, man, flambor's a chump for doing what he did. No one believes that was on accident. His agent does. Well, that's because.

Maybe he doesn't either, actually. His agent had to say that to protect his client. But do you know that in itself probably cost him, that one pitch cost him money? That, like, national news. Yeah. Yeah, like you said, the buzz on that was huge. It was on everybody who makes baseball content, like that guy who,

that retired juco guy who just hits home runs. I saw that same video. Yeah, I'm like, this guy's even talking about it. I was like, man, everybody, of course, Jamboi was all over it because of the Astros especially. And so all the, like every baseball content creator on the planet, it was like, dude, you'd never even heard of some guy who was a reliever on the 90s who does a podcast was on it.

Even Ben Verlander, who isn't busy enough, you know, doing his stuffed brother, even commented on it. Yeah, even Doug Verlander was all over on his podcast. A ratio of Verlander was like, man, this is a jump move. Yeah, exactly. It was not good. So I don't, I couldn't not even guess. If we had a contest, it would be for a Fromber deal. Frumber coin, I would have a no, I would have a, I would stay far away from it.

I don't know how many years he's going to get. You mentioned 32 years of age. He has been healthy, which is a large part of it. but don't you always believe at some point that pitchers are going to get hurt somehow some way? I mean, this was his one year, prove it year. Oh, you prove something all right. That's what I'm saying.

Does he try to do another one? Because the Astros are going to make him a qualifying offer because they want to get draft picks. It's going to be about 20 million-ish. You know, one year 20 million is. What Frumper could do. Take it. Doesn't happen very often.

I went from no chance. It still feels like a low chance. It's low, but I don't think it's zero. He would want like one year 30 or 25 or something like that. It's not dictated by him. Or, you know, I'm saying like three years 90 without doubt.

Wouldn't that be the most unbelievable thing if Framber said, you know what? I'm testing these free-insured waters and they ain't good. I'll come back one more year. I'll take the dollar amount and prove myself that I'm good, then move along. Meanwhile,

it's funny. I don't even think you can find the name Valdez in the stadium anymore. They've already cleans that bad boy out after what happened over the weekend. Would you do 375 with opt-outs after every year, Frommer? Houston Astros, would you do that? No. Honestly, Rossi, there isn't a single deal that I would keep him for. I mean, relatively speaking, like if you said, I'll come back for $240,000.

Okay, I'll get that. But I'm talking fair market value. Okay, qualifying offer when you're 20. I don't look at what the qualifying offer was in 2024. But it's going to be in that range. 21. Oh, he could do that. Let me tell you some.

If you're Fromber and the Astros offer you a qualifying offer, which gives them draft compensation if you go elsewhere, and it's $24 million, I take it. If I'm him, I need a year to rebuild my image. Because first of all, my second half has sucked. Next, I'm considered a terrible teammate. Honestly, I wouldn't mind Fromber on a short-term deal. I don't know.

The juju is so bad, Rossi. I understand the juju is bad. It's bad. It's bad. Oh, did you see the Seidester I wore a Yankees cap yesterday? Are you joking? No.

I'm telling you, the guy wears every cap but the Astros. Okay. Again, I don't care. I just think it's funny. It's funny that he would do that. I seriously thought you were kidding. No, he is. At least he wasn't wearing the Mariners again.

He's just a cap guy. Do we need to get him an American League West championship shirt? You know baseball cap guy. They just wear every kind of cap. Yeah. That's funny. Trey Campbell was like that. Yeah.

All right. So back to it. So I'll put this. If there was a percentile of him accepting it, I'd say it's 10% accepted, but it's not zero. And what if he's got one more start for this team? Gives up five runs in three innings or whatever he did over the weekend when he couldn't get deep in the game? Why would anyone want to commit any sort of long-term deal to him?

I don't think they would. Or the money per year may be bad. I think, yeah, the age factor now, that's what you have to wonder. Is he just over the hill? Overall, it's been a great run with Frumber. I know he's caused a lot of headaches and all that type of stuff, but he was top 10 in the Syung for three straight years. This year, the wheels fell off, and he's 32.

But Rossi had been saying it for two, and you've been saying it for two months. It's just, it's tiresome. I understand. Because he will go, like it was not this pastime, the previous one. Fourth inning, four innings. I mean, he has thrown that curveball, that 12-6, inducing ground balls, keeping guys swinging and missing. And then he has that one implosion in inning, and the Astros can't dig the...

Now, granted, the Astros' offense doesn't help him out much. He can't fall behind three-nothing. It feels like it's a death now. It feels like watching a soccer game. He didn't implode on Saturday. He just wasn't good. Yeah. no implosion it was just

ERA of 9 for the game. One run burning. He knows that up and wasn't good. Not good. All right. Damico is going to speak. We'll try to catch some of that next here. 713212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90. D'amiko's going to speak here very shortly, and we hope to carry some or all of it. Coming up here to let you guys hear it right from the coach of a massively underperforming team. I could not get past multiple occasions telling you because you were right next to me. How bad Trevor Lawrence is? How bad the Jagu.

Now, the Jaguars have a respectable defense. Travis Aitin didn't do much running only 56 yards yesterday. You bottled up who had been. He'd been the best running back in football in terms of yards and yards. Yeah. But Trevor Lawrence is, he was a 1-1 and he was the next thing. he was the next Montana. He was the next name whatever you want to go to.

He's, Mark Brunel is the greatest Jaguars quarterback of all time. Over this guy. I mean, he's... Don't disrespect, Brian Leffield's like that. And they absolutely spent crazy, crazy money on him to keep him there. You know, what do you call it when you're pot committed? You already spent a lot of money on the original hand,

and you're like, well, I've got to go on because I've already spent this much? Yeah, pot committed works. Yeah. But you know, there's also, there's an antithesis to that would be the sunk cost fallacy where you stick with something even though it's a sunk cost because of what you put into it. When you should decide to get rid of it and cut bait, but you don't because of what you invested. Now, I'm not trying to put these in the same context here. but if CJ plays like this for the next 14, 13,

there's going to be some hard conversations in that Texans over energy because he's ready. He may not be physically ready and performance-wise ready, but on his time card, it says time to get me in that $50 million club. I don't know that he would. I think maybe you could give him, I don't think he's going anywhere.

I think he's going to get better. Was it the last week? I had the gut feeling that he's going to prove that he's the franchise quarterback? Or no, I said that on, did I see that on to tell the truth? I think it was tell the truth, yeah. It was one of your opinions.

Okay, I wouldn't make that opinion this week. But I think, you might sign him to like a Daniel Jones type of deal with the Giants to where it's big money, but you can get out of it any year? Who's his agent? Uh-oh. Is it David Moologetta?

You got it. Okay. So go ahead and what you were saying. Well, he can play. And then talk yourself into it. Well, I'll sit out. So what? He hadn't been good enough.

Michael Parsons, okay, who's... I think, I think Casario... Michael Parsons has leverage. C.J. Stroud does not have leverage right now. Casario takes care of his stars. Yeah, he does, but he's not a star right now. Well, but maybe... Maybe they're saying it's not you.

It's the people running and will get you better. I can pull up 10 different things that'll tell you with just like metrics and I told you. I've told you, I follow a lot of fantasy people. Yeah. And every time I see quarterback metrics, I go find where C.J. Stroud is. And he's bottom. third everywhere, everywhere on everything. Off target rate and all

that type of stuff. Any kind of passer ratings, pro football focus ratings, anything you want to look at, CJ Stroud has been poor. And bottom third of the NFL this year. I'm not arguing with you. I'm just saying that the calendar is not

in the Texans favor here, unless they want to play hardball. And I don't think they, first of all, Cal doesn't even realize they lost the game yesterday. He was to worry about what was on the flight food-wise. Hannah's pissed. Nick's probably not pleased. But that's the trend in the NFL now is

even the Mids are getting these superheilatious deals. Yeah, that's what I said. Like a Daniel Jones deal, basically. And how'd that work out, by the way, for the Giants? Not great. It's working out for the Colts. Yeah, but if you were to say, at its core, whose long-term future do you believe in more Daniel Jones and C.J. Stroud? You'd probably, nobody would argue and say C.J. Stroud wouldn't be the answer to that question.

Are they, what do you, oh, you're biting your lip for something. No, I'm just kidding. Oh, who's been better this year? Daniel Jones. Okay, I'm just saying that's a fact, right? That's not controversial. But could one good week from CJ fix that? Absolutely.

When's it coming? Now, Daniel Jones is in a much better situation. They have a great offensive line. They got Jonathan Taylor. Pass catchers are pretty good. Yeah, number 11 for them. Michael Pitman. Alex Pierce is good.

Pittman's good, not great. They have the new tight end, Warren. He's good. They've got better, they've got better pass. They've got a better run game. They've got better offensive line and better pass catchers. So Daniel Jones obviously is in a much better situation. What if I told you that when Joe Mixon comes back, all is fixed?

I will feel a lot better. I will feel, I will feel. Do you really, now, feeling better is for sure. I will feel five times better about this. He is the back. of this offense, Joe Mixon. He is. And I shouldn't be saying that out loud because Nick Casero

should have had better players around them on the offense. But he matters a lot to me. And I said that last year. The reality is, I don't think of the three teams the Texans have played so far that any of those three teams respect the Texans running game at all. Nick Chubb gets some yards.

Every team gets yards. I mean, it's just a guy. You just don't, nobody goes rushes for 14 yards a game. People are going to get their yards. Nick Chubb has been just a guy. We're seeing a little bit more and more of Woody Marks. He's a rookie. They're working them in. Let's go to the press comments right now.

Something you guys will continue to do. And why was that something you felt like you need to do? Yeah, we did. We rotated the guards in the game on Sunday because we felt like that's what we wanted to do. To give Juice a chance to get in there and Juke did a really nice job with some of the reps that he was given. Biko, when you say you're close, are you close to turning those close games into wins? Are you close to where you want?

Yeah, what I mean about close, we were close in our three games, right? We were there in the fourth quarter, right? We were close to finishing and closing those games out. There are plays in each game that we've had these first three games that we didn't finish and win the game. So I'm not talking about close as a team, talking about winning the football game.

That's what we're here to do. We're here to win football games. We've been in position to win those games. and we have not won the game. So we got to find a way to win the game. We got to make the plays in the fourth quarter of the games we've been in. We've got to make those plays to put us in position and to just ultimately to win the football game.

That's what we're here to do, right? That's what we work tirelessly and hard for is to win football games. So the games have been close. We've been right there in the games, right? So we just got to find a way to get it done. We talked about most games. And I think we even talked about it with you last week. Most games in the NFL are close.

And it comes down to a couple of plays. So is being close encouraging or is that just kind of a league-wide thing? It's not encouraging to be in close. We want to win games. It's not about being close. That's just stating the facts. And the obvious of how the three games have played out, how those games have happened for us.

But we're not here to just be close. We're here to win the football game. That being said, you know, you talk about how close you all are how you all have been in those games. And even if you would have won those games, do you feel like that still, the win would have masked some of the issues that you all may have as far as, you know, looking at the totality of the team? Oh, we go back. No matter win or loss, we go back and we dissect the film, right? To see issues whether you win or you lose. To me, you attack the film the same way every single time and you attack it to see first and

foremost, how can we be better? No matter what the outcome or the result of the game is, how do you get better? That's what it's about. Long season, it's about how do you grow, how do you get better each and every week. And so that's what we'll do every time. Can you delineate on the fact, just moving in the same thing, close making the proper decision or moving shifting the line or either get the chip from a tight end depending on where the pressure might become particularly at a critical point to probably looking at your route

trees and then looking at your spacing on some of your receivers because I think at least from my perspective I think your receivers got space on that on that interception because it was so close within that is that is that an issue that can be addressed and you have to just deal with moving forward as we as we go through the film we talk about the route distribution right the protection all of those things are things that you know we bring up And we look at see how can we better deploy guys to make sure we're giving ourselves the best chance to have successful plays. So some of that comes with protection where we have a problem guy. We may need to put some chips on the edge and make sure we're helping out when we have an issue player like Josh Allen Hines had a really good job on yesterday.

We've got to find a way to protect better. and to come to route distribution. There's some plays. It was good. Some plays we can do better of distributing the guys. Some plays we can do better of running the routes the proper way. So it's all of us. It's all inclusive, coaches, players, everybody.

Just fine-tuning things and make sure we are giving ourselves the best chance. How do you overall feel about the communication on the back-end for other times where there's a little bit of this communication that can lead to a bigger play in the second? How you just feel we're all about the communication that's been going on in the secondary? Yeah, when you see a big play that happens on our defense, somewhere along the lines, there's a busting communication.

It all starts with communication, and it hasn't been as crisp as it needs to be. So we have to play better. On the defensive side, we've got to communicate better, and we've got to execute the defense better. So, yep, it's not been great. We see that. We have to make some adjustments there to make sure we get it corrected.

That is it? The answer, but why do you feel like the defense hasn't been able to close out games? I understand the offense has put a little bit of a strain, but why do you feel like the defense hasn't been able to close our games compared to what we saw in the past? For us defensively, and I look at this past game, though we had multiple opportunities. to take the ball away.

We had one hit us right in the hands. We didn't take it away. We had one in Tampa Bay hit us in the hands. We didn't take it away. We had a couple where we were supposed to be a deep safety. They throw the ball up and we're not taking the football away. So there are multiple things where we've had opportunities, right, defensively. And we haven't capitalized on those opportunities by being exactly where we're supposed to be communicating the proper way, tackling the proper way as a unit.

the tackling hasn't been up to our standard, and so we have to get that fixed. Do you feel confident that last year we kind of had similar struggles, or you guys had similar struggles on offense? Do you feel confident now dealing with it that you're in better position to oversee it than you were last year? For me, right now with our team, like, when you go through different each team, like no matter what year it is, like each team has its own, it's a fan. with its own adversity and different issues that arise.

So for me, as the head coach is a matter of, hey, different set of problems, different set of challenges, and I'm up for it. That's why I'm here. Like, that's how we attack it. We'll get it all corrected and we'll get this thing going in the right direction. I don't compare year to year for me. I say this is a different year. 2023, completely different team.

24, completely different team. We're here. We have different issues here in 2025, but we go, we attack it the right way. We attack it with the right attitude, and we're going to get this thing rolling in the right direction. What do you do to change, I mean, you know, you've identified the challenges early on, and if you have the same challenges, what do you do to try to chip away at those? Yeah, you just go through it. You make the necessary adjustments you need to make, right?

Whether it's schematically, whether it's personnel, you just make. the adjustments that you need to make schematically and see how it improves from week to week. So we'll take a look at where we've been over these first three weeks. Just take a deep dive and look into it and see how can we, first and foremost, as coaches, it always starts with the coaches, like how can we put guys in better position? Like how can we help the players to be in position to get on the winning side of things? So it all start there with how we plan, how we prep, and how we structure practices throughout this week, and then we cut the players loose and let them go play and let the players

go execute and do what they need to do. What is some of the messaging to the team overall, but to some of these young players who haven't been through this type of adversity, like you got some players in their locker room that didn't lose three games throughout their whole college career, three games in a row throughout their whole college career. So how do you keep those younger players motivated to, you know, as the saying goes in the NFL, one game at a time? Yeah, for sure.

You keep guys motivated by understanding storms are going to hit you in life, like whether it's, yeah, we do football, but also in real light. Like storms will arise, storms will come in your life. It's like when you go through the storm, are you coming out stronger? Or are you getting ripped apart by the storm? Right. And so there are different people who can handle those at the adversity in a storm that comes. It's like, how do you handle it? You got to remain resilient.

You've got to remain strong through it. And it really test your character to see who are you, who are you truly as a player, as a man. Like, how are you, who are you? And we'll see that. I will see how we handle this. As individuals, we'll see how we handle this as a team. The last team to go to start the season, 4 and 3 and still make the playoffs was the 2018, Houston, Texas, and, you know, in the midst of that, they had that nine-game winning street.

Is that something that you can see this team doing as far as getting it back on track and ending up like they did? I did not know that. So thanks for the history there. But anything can happen. Anything can happen. It all starts with, with us first and foremost, just playing cleaner, right, and protecting the football. Like, I know we're in position there again. to turn the ball over three times to only take it one time.

I don't care who you're playing or when you're playing. It's going to be hard to win that game. We can try to point fingers here, there, this and that. We have to protect the football, no matter what it looks like. We want to see ourselves, you know, start down that track. We've got to just make sure we're protecting the football, taking it away when we have our opportunities, and just playing cleaner, finishing the proper way. We talked about the defense before the general sense is if we take care of our business.

business, we don't care as much about how the offense that we're playing that week operates. Offensively with your team, has some of the mistakes they've made allow the opposing defense to sort of dictate how things go? And is it just simply cleaning up their own mistakes so that your offense can dictate how? For sure, it's never about the opponent to me, especially when you have the penalties that we have on first down that puts us behind the sticks. All right, that has nothing to do with the opponent dictating anything. It's things that we control. And if we handle that the right way, if we make sure we got a proper hat on the hat in the run game,

we make sure we're executing in the past game, going through our progressions the right way, hitting the receipt. Like, those are all things we control, not necessarily a defense is dictating to us anything. We just got to control. We control and press forward. There was a moment in the fourth quarter where the campus,

the country frustrated. and you kind of urging the offense alone. Were you hoping for my urgency from the offense at that moment? Or what was frustrating? Who says I was urging the offense? Well, it just looked like you were doing this. What does that mean? Just because I'm doing this?

There are some people who saw the words coming out of your mouth, but I wanted to ask you and not. Yeah, no. When you saw me, if you guys saw me animated on the field, that was directed. I think during that snap, we got on the ball, we went tempo, and the refs held our offense from continuing to run their play. And the refs said that we were substituting, which we were not substituting, no one on our sideline got off the sideline or moved. And so they didn't allow us to run our tempo office. They held the huddle. So that's who I was talking to the official, right, and making sure that we're able to run our office, the proper way. way. We weren't yelling. We don't think you were, but just to clarify, you weren't yelling at

and Kelly, correct? I just said I was talking to the official. No, I was not yelling at anybody on our side line. Any coaches, any players? I'm too cool for that. Is this something that I know all of y'all sent different things into our league office about certain place. Is this something that you would know going up to the league office about that particular issue we'll hold you back and then that you're not substituted?

Is that just part of the overall thing that y'all send up? Every week, if we have any issues, anything that arise from that standpoint of how the game was managed, we'll go through it with the league office and make sure we talk about that. And really,

it's also about talking to the officials for the next game of things we want to do offensively. If we wanted to do that, just having awareness. Yeah, Stingley. Still, we're evaluating his oblique. He hurt his oblique in the game. Early in the game yesterday, tried to push through it.

He couldn't push through it. So we're still evaluating him probably be day-to-day with where he's is. Coach, I know that you all can control what you can control as far as coaches is concerned as far as players and play on the field. But, you know, from this fan standpoint, They're looking at it and they're saying, you know, this team is 0 and 3.

And, you know, for a lot of them, they don't feel like there's no coming back from that. What is, you know, something that you can say to the fans to, you know, encourage them to, you know, just say, hold on a, you know, jump ship. Yeah. That's all we play the games, right? We're 0 and 3. We don't want to be 0.3. But that's the matter of the fact. That's where we are now, right?

We have to go out. We have to play better. So for our fans, just continue to support us if you want to. I know how everybody gets rowdy, everybody gets upset. You know, you should win every game. I get it. We're trying to win every game. We're working hard.

We're doing our best. We just got to go play better to make sure we give our fans something to be proud of. Thank you guys. Jesus Christ. You heard him begging? Come back. He's a coach. Coach, coach, I want to lick your boots one more time, coach.

I can I lick your boots one more time, Coach? Say something to the fans, coach. Tell him it sees that over, coach. Seriously. Have we lost it? Have we lost it, Houston? We are an embarrassing, so-called media town. Coach, you know, you win O'N three and, you know, the other team like more years ago won eight or nine in a row.

Do you guys can do that? What's he supposed to say? Oh, hell, now we can't do that. we'd be lucky to go four and five in the next nine games. My God. There are soft balls and then there are beach balls. I mean, my God. That was interesting.

I mean, is Domingo pulls pants up or win? Oh, hey. I mean, when are we going to do that? Oh. Tell me I'm wrong. I'm walking out of here. Tell me I'm wrong. I'm walking out of here.

Good God. I mean, good gracious. I mean, look. we will be we will soft pedal ourselves occasionally because the situation is you get weekly appearance you got to you got to play by the rules a little bit and you have to understand these things but that's the necessary question but we don't ever avoid questions and we don't foe so if i if i if i said to email dog be like man shut the hell up god dang that was bad oh awful all right we're way late for a break but i oh man we got to tell the truth coming up about, oh, 15 or some minutes here on 790. Rossi, did Dimeco Ryan's pull our station cord?

Hey, you heard you talking trash and put us off the air. Nikki C., did you pull the cord? Somebody. It was fast, too. I'm hearing a little slight echo. Yeah, I am too. I am too. So we can call Tom and get that echo fixed.

I'll be back in a second. Oh, you're going to fix it. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. How do I put this delicately? I've never been delicate at times, but I don't know. We have great employees, we have great staff. I love this I Heart Radio family, which we live in.

We just have a lot of technical issues that we fight through, and we're trying our best. And we're sorry, and I don't mean to keep bringing up. I'm going to stop bringing up, but it's just, it's tough. We, our station, operating board fried, and we lost air for a couple minutes, but now we're back. We're sounding bigger and better than ever, sports RV. So I just put a moratorium. I'm discussing any of our many engineering issues here that we have here at the station.

Forever. Forever? Maybe like 30 days. Yeah, that's more of a banishment than a moratorium. All right. Hit the music again. We've got to do a little to tell the truth. Let's go.

All right. Here we go. Everybody's dancing this one. It's catchy, isn't it? You don't know how to tell the truth. But I do know how to tell the truth. All right, gentlemen. I have four takes.

Three of them, I believe. One, I do not. Okay. Which one of these four do I not believe? Okay. Number one. This may be radical, but this is the hot takeiest segment of the week. Would you say have all of our takeies?

Of course. If the Texans don't make the playoffs, guess what, gang? there is a certain owner of this team Hannah, I don't count Cal, who is desperately trying to get a new refurbish stadium and trying to get, well, there's that echo again. No, it's not the, we just dropped down an octave. Sounds good.

Oh, hey, we sound, what's up, girl? Hey, you got old Joel Myers. Yeah, we sound very deep. She wants a refurbish stadium, she wants a facility, she wants all the bells and whistles. Okay. She being Hannah is going to make a move that's going to please this.

Houston to get her on their side. She's going to let Nick Casario go. Okay. Because this will be a second straight year of inadequate offensive line and you're supposed to be winning games to get approval for stadiums, not lose.

You're not firing Domeco. So it's got to be, and you've already fired the offensive line coach. This is criminal. So if the Texans make the playoffs, Hannah's going to make a move and shock the world by firing Nicky Cee. How many of these do you believe? One.

Oh, three of them. Three of them. You believe three. Okay. Number two. Even though this weekend was a hot mess, the Astros are getting a walled card spot. Okay.

Okay. Now that's number two. Number three. Still, even though they're three weeks into the NFL season, and it's a very small sample size, good and bad. The best quarterback in the AFC South this year. and maybe for the entire season will be Daniel Jones.

And number four. I despise the tush push. We saw it twice in the Eagles game over the weekend. Okay. The NFL doesn't care that I don't like the tush push. I think it's going to stick around. And that's my fourth take. Which one of the four do I not believe?

One, if the Texans don't make the playoffs, Hannah's going to let Nikki C go. Two, the Astros make the playoffs. Three, Daniel Jones is far and away the best quarterback this season in the AFC South. Far and away. Far and away. And number four, I despise the tush push.

The NFL doesn't care. I think it's going to stick around. Which one of the four do I not believe? These are very hot fire he takes, by the way. Not really. Wild card spot's good. Yeah, that's a sad. A wildcard spot.

That's going to happen. Put your name on it? No. I put my gut on it. You got an ample one. All the food we ate this weekend. We eat good. We ate Darrell's.

Ooh, Lord, I had a full Darrell's too. That was too much Darrell. Too much, Darrell. I don't want to get crushed by the people of Southwest Louisiana. Go ahead and say it. My shrimp, the first time I had it was great. My shrimp were a little off this time. And thank you.

I haven't suffered any intestinal repercussions. but I was a little worried. Okay. But normally, Daryl's is great. Sorry, go ahead. Which one of the four? Now, I ain't the same sandwich you ate and I'm fine. That's good.

Yeah, I've been, like I said, everything's been pretty regular. But I was concerned. All right, go ahead, make your decisions. Which one of the four do I not believe? Okay, I think he believes they're going on the wild card. I think he believes the two sports will stick around because they haven't gotten rid of it yet. And they don't really care about it to seem like they're going to change it. And I don't think, but I think he's lying about

Nicky C, man. I don't think they're going to get rid of him. How long he's been here? Two years? I don't think they would. Four. How many years has been? Four? He drafted Davis Mills in 2020. Three?

Three? Two? Two? I'm going away. I'm sick. I'm going to stick with two. That's two, right? Yeah, that's two. No, two is the asterer to make the playoffs. Oh, the Nikki C won.

Daniel Jones is far away in the best quarterback this season in the AFC South? I mean, when he adds the far and away qualifier, that's when you're trying to make a distinction. of one of your lies, kind of. You do say Spiry Take, but I mean, Daniel Jones is that guy. That could happen. I mean, he's the best one right now.

Yeah, General Manor's in 21. Nick Casario. I'll go with one as well. So you believe that I think if the Texans don't make the playoffs that Nicky C's going to be gone. I don't think I'm really going to argue with you with any of these, really. Okay. Is that what you're going with? Yes. Jonathan,

what are you going with? Same one. All right, number one. I hate the push, push. The NFL doesn't care. They're going to continue. Now, will we start to see some more false start penalties, hopefully? Okay.

Because there were two false starts penalties in that Philadelphia game yesterday. The left guard. Both, yeah, both guard. Number two, I can't believe it, but Daniel Jones looks like a completely different quarterback. I don't know what he's wearing or what he's eating in Indianapolis. He didn't eat in New York, but he looks great.

He looks confident. He can throw the ball. He's play action. Well, he'll be the best quarterback in this division this year. He does. And that's a lot of it, too. But he looks. Great.

And I do believe the Astros are going to make the playoffs. I believe that Nikki C is bringing all these little New England connections in. Hannah's going to start getting really mad when she goes to Neiman Marcus and drops the black card. They're going to be starting to make some little snippety statements. You don't make the playoffs with this team, with all the money that you have spent on these skill position players, and you've neglected the offensive line for a second straight year. I could see it. I could see it.

Absolutely. It's not probable. But I wouldn't be totally surprised if NikiC has to bite the bullet for this. Because you've already changed coordinators once. I mean, what else are you going to do? You're not going to fire D'Amico. Wait, so which one did you believe? Oh, I don't.

You just said you believed all four of them. Hold on. No, my answer is. We got fraud. We got a fraud alert. First I'm not going to yell. My statement is that the Texans don't make the playoffs. Hannah's going to fire Niki.

I believe that. So what's the lie? Where's the lie? Oh, forget what I said. Oh. Forget what I said. Now you throw me out. You throw me out.

What's the lie? The lie is that. Hannah's not going to fire Nikes. I'm sorry. I misunderstood. It's my fault. You've got your own wrong. You know what?

The board is fried. I'm screwed. Yeah, number one. So we were right. You guys were right. Okay. She's not going to fire. No, she's not going to fire him.

Okay. No, no, no. No, no. No, no. I apologize. This is what happened to you to live a lie, folks. Let me tell you. The truth is.

I lie so much that you would think it would be easier for me to lie in the first David. We're free. You deserve that. You absolutely deserve that. He crushed his knee against the table. It's been at least a month. You deserve that and I'm so happy for you. I deserve it because you lie?

I'm a liar and I love to lie. Oh my God. Get out of here. Affordable tree service. 7-1, 3, 2. Oh my gosh. All right. Is the Matt Thomas show with Ross to nothing lead.

Rossi, it's a free fall. I don't want you to look this up and frankly I should have asked you this before. But remember when the Astros had a seven-game lead? It's now a three-game deficit. That's a 10-game free fall in what about three months, give her take? Free falling. I see what you did there. Time now.

1208 for the news at noon. Let's see where you start on this bad boy. What are we starting on the news at noon? Cheddar cheese, named the number one cheese in America. Cheddar's delicious. Jonathan, you prefer cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, or you have a different favorite cheese? I'm a fan of the provolone. Oh, provolone's very good.

On a Philly cheese? On a top of, yeah, yeah, I'm all about the problone. Perhaps on an Italian sandwich? Yeah, you get it in with the peppers and the onions and the problem. You get the gabagoo. And you get you like a hoagie roll. This is a high salami. Well, we didn't have much hard salami around here.

What is it? Moving along in the news at noon, Astros get their faces caved in. Okay, that's too strong. Wow. That felt personal. Astros get smacked in their house. Well, that's also rude. Astros get their lunch taken and their girls stolen away by the,

the Seattle Mariners over the weekend. Yeah, you know what the Seattle Mariners were? They were the guy that stepped up in the plane and major league and like, how's your wife and my kids? Yeah. They came over and took your girl and made you watch. How was it? Did I mess that up?

How's your wife and my kids? I don't know what you're doing. How's my kids and your wife? I don't know. Four nothing on Friday. Six, four on Saturday. Seven to three on Sunday. Your three games out.

You lose the tiebreaker. The good news is, though, Matt. According to our fins at friends at fan graphs, Astros playoff odds are at 65.6%. So you can take care of business, regroup on the day off, hit it, Sacramento, and take care of it against the A's. How are you feeling? I brought this up with the tell the truth. I didn't do it very eloquently. The Astros are making the playoffs.

Yes. I feel good. Making the playoffs. I feel good they're going to make playoffs. How far are they going to go to playoffs? That's a different story. All right. Well, elsewhere, we've also been talking about, of course, your Houston Texans,

10 points against Jaguars on 7th. The terrible offensively charged Jaguar. Her defense is respectable. I give it a net. Your point totals for the Texans this year, 9, 19, and 10. They have yet to score over 20 points. They are the worst red zone team in football. They've been one of the worst scoring teams in football.

and they're 0 and 3. There are 7 0 and 2 teams in the NFL right now, Matthew, are the Texans among the worst five. You'll find out later in the week on Ross's Rotten 5.

Now, are we going to be able to find out what Wednesday, how the offensive line is doing? Remember, you wanted to be in the top 25. At some point. They have been 32nd, two straight weeks in the season. You told me that was like easy, pretty like, oh, that's easy, no problem. They've been bottom 32.

for three weeks. They're going to have to get some work done to get the 25. I'm going to guess the over under this week is 31.5. And over is the favorite. I got a real simple question for you. Now, I'm not going to hold you to it, not even a gut feeling question. Right now, in your gut, which is, you know, you've had a lot of fatty food this weekend. Are the Texas making the playoffs?

In my gut, in my heart of hearts. Yeah. No. You still have Kansas City. You still have Baltimore. You still have Buffalo. Get it done this weekend. You're only six and a half point favorites.

I mean, let's be honest. Six and a half point dogs lose weekly in the NFL. Weekly. I mean, sorry, win. The underdog comes through. Yep. Playoff odds according to playoff status.com, whatever that is. For your Houston Texans, you want to guess?

I'll give you a hint. They're the bottom, they're in the bottom five in football. 44% 15%. Ooh, wow. Not great by it. You know what? Is this a byproduct of first place schedule or this is a byproduct of this team was vastly overrated to start the season? Well, I think you've had some, first of all, you've had some bad luck with fumbles.

And D'emico Ryan's pointed out you could have, some of the, any one of these games could have turned on its head. Unfortunately, they did not. And by the way, I lied. It's not seven and three teams. It's six. Six o' and three teams. So I'm going to assume that one team does not make the rotten five coming up in a few days. Only one of the O and three.

I'm going to tell you this. All five of the Rotten Five are going to be O and three. Will the Texans be able to avoid such a terrible list? 15% playoff odds. Not great, Bob. All right. Anything else going on in sports? Yeah, you have the Baltimore Ravens taking on the Detroit Lions tonight in Monday Night Football.

Go see flowers and go Jimere Gibbs. Both teams. I would very much like. Jamir Gibbs, more than 3.5 receptions more on that in an hour. Okay. But how are we feeling? Baltimore minus 4.5. Total is very high.

53 and a half. It means a lot of scoring. And a quick note, by the way, the Texans minus 6.5, but the total in that game, 39 and a half. Meaning they're anticipating a very low-scoring affair. Correct. All right. That is the news at noon.

two things we've not discussed that I wanted to discuss. Were you bothered by Arches flexing over the same Houston player? We'll discuss it coming back. Don't do it yet. And we have a great example of why you should not bet on sports. I don't want to talk about that either. You're just bringing up, you know what? Yeah. Are you going to punch me in the gut next segment too?

I'm going to take your lunch money. Are you going to tell me I'm adopted next segment two? But I'm going to. actually. I'm going to have a loving family. Yeah, I was going to see your family loves you. They don't want to zone you. All right, I want you guys to think about this in ladies two for the next segment

of the show. 1222 sports talk and we'll start taking these responses in about 10. Now, I don't know if it's possible to be equal fan of the Texans and the Astros. My guess is it very well could be. My also guess is we don't have that here

with this station's audience. I think in general, there are more people who are football people and people who are baseball people. There can be some overlap, but I don't know. Does it sound weird to be like, you're kind of, if you're all in on football or all on a baseball,

you're kind of a different, two different kind of sports fans. Does that make sense? For instance? For instance, if you were to split up my fandom, I am 60% Rockets, 40% Astros. For my pro fandom. I'm not talking

I don't even count college. And the reason why the Rockets are 60, because I call their games. I'm going to have a natural, just a leaning more towards their success. I love the Astros, too, have been a fan all in their life. There could be people that are listening to our show that are 33, 33, 33, 33. There could be people that could be, I'm 100% Texans, zero percent Astros, I don't like baseball. I think everybody's got a lean. But everybody has a lien. So it's just maybe a jaded question. But assuming that you were a 50-50, you love the Astros and the Texans equally. What pissed you off more this weekend? A regular old mundane, regular season week three game was still 14 weeks left to play, right? It's not over. Or a ass kicking by a team that

you hate that they're better than you are. No one's hiding that. And it should be a credit to the organization. They were able to stick around as long as they have been. And, oh, by the way, they go win this road trip or maybe even win five of six. For sure, they're in the playoffs. So life doesn't end for either one of the teams, but you can certainly be just flat out pissed off of what happened this weekend. It was collectively a disaster weekend for the Houston Pro teams. So what made you more angry?

What disappointed you more? What made you sadder? I want you to give me an answer on that. I mean, do you want my answer? Well, we'll save it for the next segment. Oh, okay. What are we doing for this segment? We're going to talk about a couple things of the arched.

You wanted a gut punch me and that's fine. Yeah. How was the Arch? I didn't think anything of it. Oh, that was great show of emotion. You know, you really want a guy's battling out there. And, you know, we're out in the same field.

You should be celebrating. I'm just kidding. You shouldn't be doing it. I don't know what Arch is doing. It's Sam freaking Houston. It felt like to me that was not an indictment against Sam Houston. That was a, I've been reading my press clippings. I feel like there was a concern.

asserted effort from the entire team to celebrate plays, to get some, I don't know, juices flowing or whatever you want to call it, get some swagger back. I feel like there was at some point Steve Sarkisian had the whole team in a room and said, hey, you guys got to get your swagger about. Go out there, celebrate, have fun. Don't put so much pressure on yourself and go out there and have a good time. Because there was just, it wasn't just that play. Like they were celebrating, you know, sacks and stops.

like it was, they were in the playoffs. And I'll say this, I got the sense watching the game like I did, like you did, I'm sure, that probably Sark said, don't let them score at all. I think it was a main goal of them not to allow any points, and obviously it did not. Yeah. If you want to, by the way,

for those of you, there are casino enthusiasts and betterings, there was a live prop that was going on in the game. The over-under on the live prop, meaning he was in the middle of the game, was 0.5%. scoring. I mean, that doesn't happen, but hardly ever. Yeah, and they did not score.

No, they did not. So, to me, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't say, I didn't think it was the most, it wasn't classy, but I was also like, okay, he's pissed off, it's a tough season. No, don't show up against Sam Houston. No, no, no, I don't think you should have done it. I mean, I'm saying he'd been better off not doing it,

because then they'd answer questions about it, but no matter what he does, he's going to get crushed. He can't win unless he throws five touchdowns and is perfect every single game. Against Alabama, by the way. But, I mean, come on. That was a little much. Like a winless Sam Houston, who you're favored by 40 points,

don't stand over the guy. You can celebrate and you can do all your, like your 10 piece handshakes and all that type of stuff, which he was. And quite frankly, even though his numbers, if you didn't watch the game at all, 18 and 21, Wow, 309, three touchdowns, a couple of runs. He was great. There's a lot of wide open guys that he was still not making super accurate throws on. So I'm not super encouraged quite from me.

We'll get a strictly objective viewpoint here. Oh, here we go. From Longhorn Scott. Scott, what do you got? Hey, guys. Well, I guess I would add this. You know, here's a deal. If you've been a Texas fan, if you're a graduate or even just a fan and have been for a long time,

you get used to this. But it's so typical. It's just, it's so funny to watch. Like, here's a guy that he wasn't out saying he was the next coming of Jesus Christ. He wasn't saying, I'm going to be the, whatever. He's just a guy. And he's actually been pretty humble. And he goes out, he doesn't have a great first game.

And then, of course, all the people that said all those things, well, now they're upset, so they're going to tear the kid down. That's fine. That's the nature of the beast. That's part of it. No big deal. But along the same vein, So what's being overlooked is earlier in the game, that same player that he was standing over.

And by the way, I still wouldn't have done it either. I still think you rise above this. But earlier in the game, that kid had gotten a lick on him and stood over him and was jocke in and running his mouth. So fast forward to this point later on in the game, he's got all the, you know, and all of the frustration mounting, you know, had a really nice night. And there weren't a lot of guys he didn't hit wide open, Ross. I would disagree with that. There was a couple of throws I saw where he was behind a guy or high or whatever.

But anyway, so this guy who was John and him earlier in the game, and now look at this. The worm has turned. You come in at the last second, and he's gotten a better view. I would say, as a Texas guy, you just kind of look at him and laugh because that's all you got to do. You don't have to get up and, like, you know, position yourself. puff out your chest. But to overlook the fact that this kid had done the very thing

him earlier in the game, as part of the part of like how all this went down would be irresponsible, but yet so typical of sports media. So just adding a little bit of extra color behind all of that for what it's worth. Yeah, I didn't see whatever play you were talking about. We were at the book and we had a bunch of games on. So that play I did not see. I will also say there are a couple sides of the coin of what Longhorn Scott said. Yes, Arch Manning didn't ask for this hype. He's not doing, you know, he's not going on the Fondbaum show five times a week, and he's not building up his own hype. And a lot of this hype that has happened has been completely outside of his control, completely outside.

So, yes, he wasn't the one saying, I'm a Heisman favorite. But also, at the same time, he's not turning down those NIL checks. So I think it's above board to criticize him when he is not coming through, even though it wasn't a hype that he manufactured on his own. I can see both sides is what I'm saying there as far as the hype. He has to understand and I think that probably are, I mean, I know Arch understands. The pressure is intense. The last name, the program, the expectations, and the NIL.

it's going to come with it. So, I would have it's unfair to him, yeah. I wouldn't do it again, do a partial on SEC team, because if you lose that game, you're going to get worn out. So be careful. I would say, just be very careful who you flex with. And maybe he doesn't even flex at all. Hmm.

Wow. Sage Awards never found on this show right here. Be careful with your flexes. Be careful who you flex with. Yeah, I don't flex. I don't flex very often at all. Yeah. I like in a good old-fashioned Twitter fight with somebody,

But that's not a flex. That's just trying to, just backing up my voice. By the way, me and my girl were laughing at, you know, that Twitter thread last this weekend. Yeah, because the guy called us out and called it and then he deleted it. We screenshot it. We got you, bitch. Sorry, it is what it is. That was pretty funny. Yeah, after a grand slam that Jeremy Payne hit, the hitting coaches had nothing to do with, which has always been my point.

Because if, if, like, the coaches aren't retained, they're going to be people come out of, she told you, the coaches are bad. I'm going to, no matter who it is, the player's got to play. The player's got to perform. Jeremy Pena's or Jose Al Tuva and these guys got to be better. And that's all I'm saying, man. I know that's all you're saying. And it's just funny to me that that guy came after you and then deleted his tweet.

Don't be a tweet or delete it. No, no. He came after all of us. And I ridered out with our 790 guys, except, of course, Adam Clayton. 1232 here on the Matt Thomas. I'm just kidding, Adam. We just start with you sometimes. 713-212-5-790. All right, I brought up this question a couple of minutes ago, and I want to repeat it. I know that all of you are not

current equal when it comes to your fandom and I'm talking about your fandom split between the various sports teams. You could be 70% rockets, 20% Texans, 10% Astros. You could be 90 Astros, 10 rocket zero Texans. You split up your pie. But if you consider yourself pretty much

a fan of all the Houston sports teams and two of your sports teams had miserable weekends, what made you more angrier? Now, full admission and I've told you this before I'm not a Houston Texans fan I'm an observer

we talk about them I want them to be good because so many of you that listen to show are Texans fans but I have no even they've been around 20 plus years I've got no emotional attachment to the Houston Texans

and I'm kind of comfortable my skin that way Rossi is battle red for the last couple of years that's been terrible so for me when you close your eyes last night okay And you weren't thinking about those bad beats.

I'm talking about... I don't think about other stuff too. Me too. You and I are more like than you want to admit. What pissed you off more this weekend? The Seattle coming in here and taking the lunch money and the girl, the Texans losing to that wretched Jacksonville team. I think it's easy.

Go ahead. It's the Texans. Astros, I feel like, look, as they've been running on fumes, they did give us a little hope with the Texas. Rangers sweep. You go look up and down. Like I said,

just read the lineup card. Read the lineup card. Look at the mound matchups. Seattle was favored in all three games via Vegas. No, I'm sorry. Yeah, no, they ended up favored a little bit on Friday.

It was a minus 115 to minus 105. So they're favorite in all three games. They're the better team. They have the better roster, better pitching, better hitting, all that stuff. You had liked them to get one. And it was frustrating for sure.

But the Houston Texans being 0 and 3 against a bad, a bad Jacksonville team to where we can excuse week and 1 and 2 to some extent because you're number one, you're on the road against the Rams who are very good. They were dominating the Eagles. We don't have to talk about the rest of that game.

But the Rams are good. The Rams are going to win their division. The Buccaneers are going to win their division. And I know you're on the road against Jacksonville, Jaguars, but they are not very good. You are supposed to be above that class. And I know Vegas had them as dogs before the game, so I understand. But you're supposed to be good enough to where you can

overcome that. The expectation in the beginning of the season was not for you to be worse than Jacksonville. Oh, by way, they missed a field goal. Jacksonville did. Yeah, they missed it. It was an year, 43-yard or something, right? It was frankly easier than Fairbairns miss. And that's another thing. They tried

to hand you that game. You're not very good. The issues that you're having right now, you had last season with play calling, offensive line, run game, pass catchers besides Nico College. Play discipline. I mean, I play. I mean, uh, penalty discipline. You're racking up penalties. Your offense is having issues.

Your defense is tiring at the end of games because they have to hold things for four quarters because you're going three and out. You can't get more, you can't get enough first downs. It's just, and I really, really, really don't like the phrase, same old Texans. But it fits.

But it fits. It just fits. It's frustrating. I'm way more frustrated with them. So let me tell you. you this, if I was a Texans fan and I was equal parts, I'm going to go the other direction on this and tell you that I'm probably more heard about the Astros loss, even though they've got a chance to make the playoffs. The Mariners came in and took your lunch money. They beat you

up. They doubted yourself. And there is something that has been talked about in these parts, Ross, that we have not talked about since 2016. And that's thinking about the Astros not being in the postseason. That is a bitter pill to swallow. Do we appreciate the time? Yes. Have we got accustomed to it? Absolutely.

It's going to be very, very difficult to try to be upbeat baseball guy, even though with all the injuries. If this team at one point at a seven-game lead in the division and didn't even make the vault card. Now again, I'm not, I'm 100% Astro Zero Texan, so this is maybe just me more of that, me talking. But that, this weekend really hurt. We were embarrassed. Fromber was supposed to be, Hunter was supposed to be our ace, didn't get the job done. Frommber was supposed to be our mini ace, not even close. No, there was a point in this season where it was 1A1B, where we were literally arguing.

There was a point in like July or something where we were like, man, would you start Fromber in a game one? Now, we were still Hunter, Team Hunter. But it was close. This hurt. This was the first sign that I really in my mind thought, they're not making the playoffs. Now, I've since slept down a little bit, had that dream about Sydney and we're fine,

Sweeney, of course. Oh, okay. I thought Portier. No. You guys could be dancing her? I've never thought about Sydney Portia that way ever. Maybe you're having a dance off. Well, you just said a dream.

You didn't say what kind of dream it was. That's true. You guys could have been robbing a bank. I don't know. Yeah, I was robbing a bank with Sidney. She went to the handler and said, give me all your money and I'll show you these. And they said, no, here's the money.

All right. All right. Phones we go next. 1243. It's a Matt Thomas Show at Ross. 713-212-5-790. Ross, what is today's edition of? Believe it or not.

I have no idea. All right. It was a low-energy performance by Houston sports teams this weekend. Wouldn't you say, Matt? I would say so. Beautiful segue. Very low energy. By the way,

next Monday next Monday. One week from tonight, today. Ross and I will be at the TOTA Center for the Matt Thomas show at Ross, and we will be there for Rockets Media Day. It is going to be probably one of the more surreal episodes of the history of this show because of a variety of things.

One, the Texans will be finishing a Sunday game. We've done that before. We've done Monday games after Texans games there before. That's not the ordinary. Uh-huh. Two, are we celebrating an Astros playoff appearance or the end of a run that started in 2017? And three, Kevin Durant will be a guest on our show. What? Confirmed? The Kevin Durant?

Not confirmed, but I would say better than 80%. Okay. I'm scared. Now, before we go the phones, we've got Ray and Doug. Can you just leave during the interview and I'll handle it? Here's the thing I'm thinking of. We've talked a longhorn ball the whole time. You've loved Kevin Durant since you and I have been doing this show together.

That's correct. And you've never wavered from that, no matter what uniform he's worn. Yes, that's correct. No matter how. I defended him when he joined the Warriors, I was like, though, I was on Durant Island. You wore out there by yourself. He's the best player on those teams. Check the tape.

Finals MVP, which is why I have him greater all time than Steph Curry. What's up? So, come at me, bro. Are you going to use this? as an opportunity for sports journalism or to be one of his bros? I'm just going to drool. I'm going to drool and then pass out.

I had a buddy of mine, Jonathan, listen to me very carefully. You said to have a show. Oh, God. And he was able to get Paul McCartney as one of his guest. Okay. Okay. And that's pretty cool, right? Yeah. And all he did was, remember that time you sang that song

and it was really popular? And he goes, yeah, I was there. And the host was like, I feel this interview so bad. He goes, oh, I'm so stupid. I'm so dumb. Okay? So I'm afraid that Ross is going to do the same thing. He's going to have Kevin Durant on and he's going to say,

remember that time you scored 40 points in a game and Kevin Durant's going to be like, yeah? I'm worried about you just completely fan-borne in the five minutes. What if I do? I mean, I'll get with it. So what? There'll be 10 people in the history of my life that I would like to interview that I would have a fan boy for five.

Okay. We'll see what happens. I think I should be fine. I won't know until it happens, but I will say the only time I've been truly Star Trek is struck in this business is when we had... No, when I met...

Yeah, I'm mean. Here's what I do know, and I'm not speaking out of school on this. I'm trying to think of people. I interviewed Justin Verlander. I was cool. He never came on this show. Twice, actually, I interviewed Justin Verlander at Fan Fest.

And you enjoyed it, right? Yeah, it was good. He's really a pretty thoughtful... He's pretty a thoughtful guy. I don't know why. Oh, you know what? I was a little shaky with Tom Herman. I couldn't get my question out.

That's because I didn't want to piss him off. Oh, that's right. We were in the locker room. But now I'm more confident. That was years ago. Yeah, that was right. Okay, so here's what I know about Kevin Durant. He is basketball through and through.

He's a hooper. He's born a hoop. He is not looking to create a huge TV show career. He's not Jones being an analyst. He's not looking to host a, a serious podcast in the very end. He's a Twitter Hall of Famer. He's a Twitter Hall of Famer. He's a burner

Hall of Famer. He'd be the first one to bring that up. Yeah, but it's fine. He's been off the burner. He's been off burner for years, Matt. You always want to bring up one mistake when you got a burner. I got a burner. Wave Busters, H.O.U. Probably going to go dormant for the next six months, but that's fine. Point being is he's all about basketball. I don't think there'll be a lot of little chit-chat

between he and me and me and you and him. But he's also a guy that I think is determined to play into his 40s. He wants to be as every bit of the longevity of LeBron James. I think that drives him. And every time I look at the film that they're showing of him and working out,

it looks like he's 23 years old shooting basketball. Now, again, the body may look 23, but those bones are still 38 or whatever they are. 37. I'm excited. He's been in the league a long time. Longhorn legend. I have had the great opportunity to call games

for the Rockets involving James Hardin, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard. These are all Hall of Famers. And I'm adding another one in the list. In Folly Dante. I don't believe in Folly Dante's going to make it. PJ Tucker.

P.J. Tucker is not going to make it to the Hall of Fame. He is a goat, but he's not a... He's not in the role player Hall of Fame, I think. He's in the Shoe Hall of Fame. Yeah, that's true. Sneakerhead Hall of Fame. Let's go to the phone to talk to Ray on 790 and 1254. Ray, good afternoon and thank you for holding. Hey, thank you.

I appreciate your rocket coverage. and calling the games. I've been listening to me for a while. Thank you. I put your number two behind Gene because nobody can replace Gene, and I would like to hear a lot of that. No, I would like to hear a lot of that

during the commercial break. Yeah, I got it behind Craig Ackerman too. Yeah, I love Craig, you know, because Craig was a throwback. He came off that three of folks. I'm just kidding, Matt. No, but, O.C. I think that it's past the regression.

I think that C.J. has actually taking three, like his five step drop, he's taking five steps back. And I don't think nothing's going to help CJ. CJ, I feel sorry for you. I don't blame the offensive line because every Sunday I see quarterback's offensive line collapse. They roll out and make a play. Even Patrick Mahomes, I love him. He'll text his boy.

Patrick Mahomes is not going to let you get him. He's going to scramble out. He's going to get that first down or some of it. And if he catch you slipping, he's going to throw a bomb. And CJ, I don't want to hear about the mental part either because you've been through this since you was a kid with Snoop Dog. And you don't want to call it and everything. I don't want to hear that.

You're playing soft. And I wish you wake up and put a hat on a hat and try to do something. Because right now I'm nervous because Derek Stingley is the best player on that roster. And I'll argue that with anybody. Derek Stingley is the best one on that team. Without Stingley, you're super trash. because CJ's man for man, play for play, down for down, nobody can be stinging on that team.

I don't care about Anderson Jr. I don't care about C.J. I don't care about running back, none of that. And number two is the running back, but he's hurt. So C.J. is number three or four on that team behind Nico. And he should be number one. He's throwing the ball every play. But you're the fourth best player.

And the defensive guy is the best player on the team. And Coach D'Amico, you think I'm lying. me wrong. Even you know it D'Amico that Sting is the best on that team and you wish it was CJ but it's stingly and once again I'll hang up and cry. All right, thank you very much.

Appreciate the phone call. If I'm starting a Texan's team right now defensively, I'm choosing Will Anderson. Yeah, I mean... I mean, it's why it could be 1A and 1B. I mean, I would go with that too. I mean, because a pass rusher inherently is going to be more valuable than a corner.

but that's pretty good too. I mean, if you just go, look at the salaries. I mean, average, it's basically quarterback left tackle pass rusher. Yep. All right. Conroe James and Doug will get to you to open up the final hour of the show. Yeah. Will Anderson more valuable? I guess it's arguable who's better at their job.

It's harder to find a spectacular cover man in Stingley's all pro. First team. But I could have taken sauce gardener too. So that's what it is. Thomas Sports Enterprises and Derek Stanley's been great. Suscarner's been better. First team all pro. Successful.

Suscarner. Suscarner, good player. He's missing this, hallily, and me very well. I don't know why you started talking like Mac Brown, Texas football. By the way, I've been known this North Carolina football since I left. Archmanning's a great kid. He's a great young man. I think he's going to be well for the, he's going to play well for the Texas Longhorns.

There's a lot of pressure when you play in Austin. There's a lot of eyeballs on Mark Manning. I think he's going to come through. His name is Arch, not Mark Manning. That too. That's his cousin. We had, we had an arch and we had his pops over and his nephews and his brothers and uncles. And Sally made some of her famous very peach cobbler with vanilla bean ice cream because that is the best ice cream.

Not though French, not regular vanilla, just the vanilla bean. And I got to tell you, Cooper Manning is the most funny of all the mannings, but you have personality when you're not a Hall of Fame quarterback. And you got a bad disc and you can't play football anymore. All right, what's wrong with us? Spinal stinosis, I think it was. Oh, man, that's bad. That's no good.

It's funny, though. I mean as I said you got to develop Let me tell you something It's like the big ones already got Always got a personality It's you know what Back in the day when I was fat and didn't get girls I was a funny

Hey man that's mad that's mad He's funny You're not good looking but he's funny See? Now you gotta bring something to the table Now I'm both What both what It's funny we were playing cards

At the table yesterday Jonathan This is a real story Yeah The three women that were next to us And he said hey you look like somebody And I said yeah Matthew McCona They said yes you do That's actually a very good choice there

That must have been when I was at the bathroom. Max, do you know how that is what she went for? I did. Maybe from, never mind. Yeah, shut up. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show. A certain role. Stop.

Matt Thomas show with Ross. Back for 60 minutes of radio. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 104 on Sports Talk 790. We've got phone calls to get to. Doug and James will continue to second. quick. We're not a huge college basketball time except for the future national

champions. And that'll be, of course, a Houston Congress. Come on, right, owls or something? No, no, no, no, no. Bruce Pearl, coach at Auburn. Resigning today? Is this a breaking news sounder? I'd give it

a one. I'd give it a one. Yeah, I mean, probably in Auburn, it's two. If we want, oh, now, oh, now Bruce Pearl retirement, man. Can't believe it. Okay, so three things come to mind. Yes? One, he's in porous health.

Okay. Because it's so, I mean, look, we're in September. It's pretty sudden, yeah. The season starts in a month and a half. By the way, you know the new head coaches for Auburn? I don't. His son, Stephen. Nepotism works, folks.

Okay, so let me give you the three. One is health. Two, the. the NIL game beats him down. The NICL is beating is I mean, hold on NIL. I'm saying NIL is beating down. Okay.

The older coaches. Or number three, the NCAA is knocking on the door. Could be. Because it already knocked once. It happened in Tennessee, right? Yeah, absolutely did. Knocking on his door. Explain that to me.

They're coming after him. He did something illegal. Yeah, he was, he had a bunch of NCAA infractions when he was at Tennessee. Yeah. Let's see. Additional NCAA. Let's see. Can I make a guess? Go ahead.

He's going to say in his retirement press conference that the NIL is for a young man's game. Auburn, Alabama, you're probably not getting a bunch of cash. First of all, Bruce Pearl is going to retire, very, very wealthy. Second of all, he's going to be on national television calling games or doing studio. Yeah, he's good. He's good on air. Very good on air. So he may be done from coaching.

He hands it off to his son, but he will certainly be able to make some money. Final poll last year, they finished fourth. Auburn, one of the few teams that beat the University of Houston last year. That's true. That was like a last second thing, right? At Toyota Center, I think, too, yeah. We got Florida State coming in this year.

That'll be a piece of cake. Yeah, that'd be a cake walk. Yeah. Is that going into Toyota Center? Yep. Okay. Our non-conference at home is not good. I heard it's 10 tickets for

1 for 10. One dollar for 10, yeah. No, no, no. We're doing ads for Florida State of Houston, so we're going to support that game, Ross. We? We? I heart. Your employer.

We? But not me? I'm not doing commercials. Oh, okay. You hear the commercial on the station. Easy. To the phones we go. Get you out of this hole you're digging yourself. Doug and South Padre on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Doug, good afternoon. And thank you for holding. How's it going, guys? Good. You know, in response to your question, you know, growing up in Houston and being a Cougar alum, I think most people that did that, it's Rockets, Astros, Texans, Cougars equal. But in response to your question, to me that the Texans loss was the most disappointing. Because when you look on paper, I'm surprised the Astros have done as well as they have.

I mean, the outfield is anemic, Christian Walker, his woes. But on paper, they're pitching staff with all the injuries. and their team, you don't really expect them to go to the World Series. Whereas with the Texans on paper, everybody's expecting them to be in the Super Bowl. Although both were very, very disheartening, I think the Texans lost to me

was more of a gut punch than the Astros because I kind of expected that with the Astros. And it's odd now if you don't watch good football, you need to watch the Cougars play. Yeah, it's... Go Couges! The reality is Doug, and you're right. I wish more people would gravitate the Cougars,

because it's a better product. I mean, it's more underjoint. But that doesn't happen. You don't lose your NFL in baseball fan of them and go, well, I'm going to watch the lower league. And I'm not saying college is lower, but it's just a different level. Yeah, it just, we've had down Houston sports teams for the Rockets Astros and Texans, and it hasn't all of a sudden, I mean, University of Houston ticket sales did not go up 300% because the Cougar, the Rockets were losing 60 games five years ago.

You know what I mean? It just, it doesn't translate. Either you're a fan of a school or you're not. And in this part of the country, when you are a fan of every school in this area, Texas Tech, A&M, Houston, Baylor, Arkansas, LSU. I mean, I'd like to get some more Cougar people that are not Cougar fans that go to these events. But I just think that's just not going to happen. By the way, real quick on this, a couple updates for you. The Texas Florida game, which will be two weeks from last Saturday, not this Saturday, But the following Saturday, it's a 230 start at Florida.

The Cougars playing Texas Tech will be a 6 o'clock start. So there you go. Both I believe the Texas Florida games ABC and the Houston Texas Tech game is ESPN. Okay. That's a good day of football right there. Well, Texas, Florida during the day and Texas Tech Houston at night. For supremacy and the Big 12, baby. Let's go.

Huge. Huge. I still have a prediction of. I might be there. you don't have to come. We actually don't really need you. Place can be jammed. You're going to take that, Ross?

With Raiders fans? I don't care who comes up. Just buy the damn tickets. Get in the building. Shut the door. Let's go. You don't care. I mean, what does that say about your athletic program?

Like, oh, we don't care if the opposing team runs over our stadium. Look, if we're going to have 41,000 people there, if 10,000 want to be Texas Tech fans, I don't care. That's ridiculous. That is ridiculous to say out loud. Why would I care? You don't want it packed with your fans. I would like to. have 40,000.

But you know what? You know we are, Ross? We are polite. We let other people come in. No, exactly. Come over there and run over and take over your territory. Mm-mm. You are a huge enrollment, University of Houston with a large fan base, and you're going

to say, we don't want 40,000 people? I want 40,000 people. Okay. What are you talking about, Dan? Let's see. But let me tell you, the Texas Tech crowd. That's a good crowd. They don't drink and eat well.

Enrollment 2024, 47,980. Every student went to the place to be full. And then you've got years and years and years and years of alums and a big fan base. Yeah. And you can't get 40 in there and you're saying, let's do it up with Red Raiders. It'll be 40,000 and fine. But a Texas Tech fan wants to come? That's sad.

Just don't bring the damn tortillas. That'll cause a lecture of trash. They're going to be tossing up tortillas in there. I don't know they are. Problem with those people. A lot, actually. Conroe James at 111 on 790. C.J., good afternoon to you.

Good afternoon to you, sir. I've been part of Astro Nation since 1980 when I first moved here. And I'm used to having some winning streaks and winning periods. And I want to say at this point, as a fan, I don't care if the Astros make the playoffs because it's too gut-wrenching to watch them. And here's why. we rank at the bottom of getting people home when players are in scoring position. There's no excuse for it.

We got the players. We got Pena, we got Correa. You know, we have Al-Tube. You know, we have some good hitters. We got the hard word. We're just not getting them home. I don't want to hear about Alvarez, has sprained ankle, you know, That's hurting us. I'm tired of all the excuses. We do have a good team and we should be doing a lot better.

And I'll just go back to 2023. When all we had to do was win one game at home, we had two games at home, all we had to do is win one to make it to the World Series again. So this has been an ongoing drama for the Astros. Can't get people home. That's what I have to say. Okay. Okay. Thank you. I don't get some of you all. I just don't. Why do you want to watch sports if you don't want your team to win? I don't, and you don't need to give me a list of, well, I've seen it before.

No, I mean, let me tell you something. It's easier not to be a fan if you don't want to be a fan. I'm not a fan of the Texans, so when they lose, I don't really care. but I'm a fan of some teams and I do care and I'm a fan of the Astros I want them to win and so if you call yourself a fan of a team you want them to be as good and successful

in deep and playoffs and at least hoping every year to get the World Series it's funny because if you don't care about any of that stuff I just said then don't be a fan it will be easier for you trust me I know these things this little roller coaster well the roller coaster really this whole year

has been really interesting I mean, going into the series Friday after sweeping the Rangers, winning five of the last six, man, we were riding high. And then the weekend happened. Because remember the Rangers came in playing pretty good baseball, too. It wasn't like you were taking on a team. It was batting 400, you know, or playing 400. You knocked out DeGrom and Kelly in the last two games of that series.

I was feeling good. I'm just telling you. I was like, they're going to piece this together somehow. If you don't want the Astros to make the playoffs, if those words have crossed, have uttered, out of your lips, then just disassociate yourself with a fan. Don't watch the games. Don't watch the games. And that's okay. You don't have to watch.

They're not forcing you to. We like you to. We'd like you to listen. We'd like you to listen. We'd like you to listen to us. Talk to us. Very good for us if you pay attention. Actually, Matt, shut up. Tell them to pay attention. We need you all in. But don't, but don't, but don't, but if you don't but if you don't want them to make the playoffs, then you're not a fan. Because fan means fanatic. You are fanical about

your team. And I'm never been a fan of my life that said I'm a fan of said team and I hope it was 95 times. I am a they call me Texans mad I want them to go 3 and 14. That those that that sentence never comes out of anyone's mouth.

Battlered Ross wants 17 and no. Now we've got to settle for 14 and 3. Baltimore? Yeah they got it. 13 and 4. Don't start don't start Kansas City. Shush. 12 and 5.

Dubs. win. Bills, 11 and 6. Victory. Colts. Split that. Nope. Sweet. 10 and 7. Sweep. 14 and 3. You heard it here first. You're the only person I'm going to be hearing it too. 115 on Sports Talk 7. You need to start working on believe it or not. Will you please do that? Yeah, I'm working on more important stuff, Matt.

By the way, we will be playing, believe it or not today. All things about Bruce Pearl. He just resigned as a head coach of Auburn's basketball team. He met a couple of listeners. Jay and Stephen, shout out to both of you. There is some rumors out there that he may be running for U.S. Senate. Hmm. A little political career for him. What are you shaking your head over there for? We've got sports people running for politics all the time.

We got Tommy Tuberville as in a senator somewhere, I think. You got what else we got? Who else is sports related that's in politics? Tommy Tupperville. I don't know. Steve Largent was a U.S. representative for a while, I want to say. Gerald Ford. Gerald Ford played ball at Michigan.

Who else? Who else has been in sports that was... Is there somebody... I'm painfully obvious. Oh, George Bush. Then he played college ball or something? Yale or something? Baseball?

Yeah. But, I mean, was he a sports figure... No, these are... Sports figures before being... Sports figures, yeah. I'm sure there's somewhere definitely missing. Yeah. Something to ponder.

Oh, didn't know. Well, Hershey Walker ran for Senate in Georgia. He lost. You lost in a runoff, but he lost. Um. I mean, hell, Stephen A. can be running for president. You never know. Oh, Bill Bradley. New York Nick.

That's right. I googled. Oh, you've already got a list. Some, yeah. Give me a few more. Chris Dudley? Oh, yeah. Former Portland Trailblazer big man. Dwight Eisenhower played for Army, but I think he was more.

Oh, oh, oh, we'll see. Kevin Johnson, right? He became the mayor of Sacramento. He was the one that got the arena for downtown Sacramento. The Kings are still in the Sacramento Kings, thanks to part to Kevin Johnson. Of course he got some off the, not off the court, but what would you call it, off of the mayor's mansion legal issues? You mentioned Steve Largent. Sorry, I wasn't listening to this list. Steve Largent, I mentioned. Tom McMillan? Yeah, I want to say a former Washington bullet. He was a Maryland House of Representatives. Yeah, that would fit minutes. That's a member. Yeah.

The Topperbill is the current one. Isn't he a senator somewhere? Wait a second. Should this be believed it or not? Or should it not. Maglio Ordonias? Maglio Ardonia? He was mayor of Juan Antonio Sotillo municipality in Venezuela.

One of your favorite boxers had a long political career. Mani Peckio. Mani Peckio. Oh, yeah. He's been a... He was... Whoa, I don't know that. Tom Osborne.

Yeah, Mani Pachia was... Yeah, he ran for Senator Congress or something. I thought he had along. Philippines, right? Yeah, fill it in the Philippines. He won a bunch of times. That's insane. I know.

Oh, Lynn Swan. Lynn Swan. Lin Swan, what? He ran for Pennsylvania Governor. Did he win? No, no. I remember he was... Jesse Ventura!

Oh, yes. Jesse the Body Ventura. We should have gotten out. Oh, oh, by the way, real quick on this. Real, real, real quick on this. Ross, you know I love wrestling. Yes. I don't love current wrestling.

Okay. I am all number. I mean, when I go to sleep, I listen to old podcasts of old wrestling stuff. Wonderful. Did you see the third headline on SportsCenter after the Wyoming Colorado game on Saturday night? You may have been at the casino.

I went back to the hotel. It was probably knee deep at the blackjack table. So it was this game, this game, whatever the two games were. The third big headline, Sina versus Brock Lesner in wrestle, Pallusa.

Russell Palooza? They're just running out of names now. So ESPN handles... It's Russell Fest. I'm sure there's going to be one of those two. So ESPN now does all their big pay-per-view events are self-serving.

Yes. I mean, look, it's not the... John Cena versus Brock Lesnar is not the third most important sports thing on Saturday. I'm sorry it's not. But it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing.

The comparison to ESPN has said, we're going to, once again, we're going to give you a predetermined, fake event and make it one of our top headlines. That's bad. And I don't like wrestling, but I'm not going to hide the fact of what it is. When's the last time you watched a full WrestleMania?

Never. Ever? No, I shouldn't say never, ever. Gotta be 30 years. Really? Yeah. Okay. When's the last time you went?

Went. How many times have you been? How many times has Clinton been? Like 10? Clanton's gone. I've been to zero wrestling meetings. I think he's been to four or five. The last time I saw a real wrestling, or I mean, a real event in town was at Toyota Center.

What was it last year? No, it's been probably four or five. Okay. A good season. Time flies. All right, let's go. Roger. How dare you ask that?

Sorry. You know what? I'm sorry. Let me write that down. Yeah, save it for Friday. You ever notice, Jonathan, he always thinks I don't pay for things. Yeah, you know what? What's on with that?

What's up with that? Have you done something like in the past? Have I accused him of not paying for something and he paid for it yet? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just asking. To the phone's next.

Next segment is a lot of Roger, a little bit of James, zero Ross. He's got to work, I'm believing or not anyway. 128 on 790. Madden Ross. at 134, Bruce Pearl. Believe it or not today, resigning as a head coach

at Auburn. Is politics in the future? Is TV in the future? Could be some of both. You never know. By the way, I need a ruling. Our buddy, Jason, Arnold Schwarzenegger, sports. Mr. Olympia, I don't think

is, I don't think bodybuilding is bodybuilding a sport. You got to, he was. Yeah. I would say it is, it's competitive. and it's physical. You need a trainer and a coach to do it. He was a big star.

There was a Netflix documentary on him that was pretty good. But when you think of him, I think of him more as a movie actor. Now, granted, the Olympia stuff. Think of him as. Well, you know what? No, but no, he doesn't count. Because he wouldn't have won governor

if he wasn't a movie star. He wouldn't have won governor if he was just a Mr. Olympia. Yeah, if he was just playing Mr. Olympia, he would not have been the governor. But he won't be, yeah. So, sorry, Jay, you lose. Love you, though. Mm-hmm.

But how many bodybuilding calls have we taken in the history of sports radio? If you talk about all-time interesting lives. Oh, I'm sure his main would agree with you. Hey, come on. Yeah, the documentary on him on Netflix was really interesting about how he grew up in Australia. I mean, Austria. Austria. A little different.

A little different. He grew up in Austria and all that stuff. And, you know, he had fathered growing up in the fallout of the World War II. And then he grew up poor. And then he started bodybuilding and came over to America, took America by storm. It's very interesting life lived by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah. Very successful.

Few blemishes along the way. Well, nobody's perfect. He became freaking governor of California. What's more incredible? Ronald Reagan president, Jesse Ventura governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger governor. President wins.

But I'm not, well, I mean, but a more, but Ronald Reagan was the governor of California. He had a political background before he became the president. He had tried to run for president a couple times. So Ronald Reagan had a pretty distinguished political career. Ventura was like, if y'all, I'm just going to try this and see if I win and he won. Schwarzenegger, I don't think he had much of a political career. Didn't Ventura win as an independent or like a green party or some other party?

Yeah. In Minnesota. That's pretty impressive, although, you know. How about Sonny Bono being the mayor of Palm Springs? Clonisville was a mayor of some of the Malibu, was he not, I think? He was? Yeah. I think I'm going to run for political office.

I thought that was a nickname. I'm going to run for the governor. I'm going to run for the... You know what? I think you should do that. I guess to do the show. You know that. No, you can't do both.

I think I could. How can you be on the road, shaking hands and kissing babies, and do a four-hour radio show every day? And the Rockets play by the play, don't forget that. Yeah. You're going to be like Doug Gottlie. You're going to do a bad show,

and you're going to be a bad coach. Thanks, Ross. Roger, 790 at 137. Roger, good afternoon. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Yeah, I think the more depressing between the Texans and Astros is the Texas, because the Astros at least give us, you know, we're in the Golden Area, hopefully doesn't end, but, you know, we're always, you're not real down with the Astros.

You know what they're going to give you something good, at least for most part of the season. But the Texas have always just been, you know, trying to get there, but just never can. But whatever reason, you know, they did all the bold moves. They got rid of Tunsel, and they got Christian Curr, and, you know, we're going to, we're in an addition by some traction and blah, blah, blah, blah. Here they are again. Yeah, so on a better topic, a food topic, did y'all go try some biscuits and jams when you're on Lou Janna? No, we didn't leave.

We went from our hotel to the, we went to Daryl's. We were supposed to go to Biscuits and where? I forgot. Biscuits and jam. It's and jams. Roger, let me tell you something. On behalf of Ross and myself, we apologize. We had free breakfast in our hotel, and we were cheap snacks.

Yeah, I ate the free breakfast. We ate the free breakfast. No, it's all good. We're going to go for our anniversary next month. I'm just going to live at the sportsbook. Oh, they close at 1 p.m. I wouldn't make it. Now, we did go to a she-she coffee place. What?

What I called shishi-feminine kind of coffee place? What does that mean? Shish. That's pretty like I was my wife. Sophisticated. We have teams keepers afloat. We've got the cougars and we got the rockets. Hopefully, nothing happens. You're home for us.

Rockets basketball. Thank you, Roger. Sports Talk 790, baby. Let's go, Rossi, let's go. Hmm. Okay. Shishi has several meanings commonly refers to urine or urination in Hawaiian Pidgin English. Okay, I'm going to get rid of the word Shishi.

I'm going to go with Boogie. Okay. This is a slang term for effectively trendy or pretentious. Oh, then that's, then I can stay with it. I'm good then. I'll stay with Shishi. We went to a Shishi coffee place. Did we not? For Lake Charles. For Lake Charles. Not for Houston, for Lake Charles, Ross.

It was like a breakfast and coffee place. Yeah. Cafe. Yeah. I didn't think it was too effectively trendy or pretentious. For Lake Charles, it was bougie. Okay. Because, I mean, Lake Charles, when you think of normal place eat, it usually involves Waffle House.

Right? Yes. Oh, come on. Even Lake Charleston's know what Lake Charles is all about. Is that what Lake Charleston? I don't know. Lake Charleser. Call our buddy Jared, he'll tell us.

Isn't that where me... Nise is that? Lake Charles? Magnisias. Yes. I try to get my daughter to play volleyball there. She would not play there. Whatever place you guys went to,

it definitely was bushy for it. Thank you very much. See, he knows. That's a swamp. Oh, my God. Yeah, see, he knows. I think it's a lovely town.

I love Lake Charles. And I believe at birth, the hospitals, they hand out neck tats. I believe in sterilizing the various equipment to clean the surgery rooms. In late Charles. Everywhere he goes,

got sodas on the floors. Peanuts. Strange. No, let me tell you. I love Lake Charles. I'm glad Lake Charles is there, but as soon as Galvison gets casinos, by Lake Charles.

There's no way. You're probably right. Again, that place was packed. Saturday night at the, at the rolled and rugged, packed. Yeah. High limits.

The rooms were, what I tell you about? 400? $400 a night. Woo! That place is packed. They're not, there's, yeah. Tellman's just doing just fine. He's in Italy, still counting the money from there.

That's true. Let's go to James on 7.08 at 141. Hi, James. Yeah, it's definitely the Astros. The Astros are more heartbreaking because they were 20 games about 500 and seven games in front, and they were on cruise control. So, yeah, that's what got me.

I mean, you invest so much time and you hope for the best, but it is what it is. It is what it is. It's definitely the Astrodos of the Texans. All right. Again, thank you for the phone call. We've got some breaking news right now. How many? Two.

Two! Especially for your Niners fan. Matt Jackson, if you're listening. I saw this and I was like, oh, that's okay. I mean, it's big news. Nick Bosa, defensive end for the Niners, Torres ACL out for the season. Ooh, ooh, ho. man football

it's we're week three we're week three and we're already seeing what was it Jake Browning versus Carson wins Nick Bose is down for the year we got one at the talk of the story we're quick Derek singly got hurt yep go ahead all right so those of you that don't

understand gambling we'll dumb it down for you really quick you can bet on games you can bet up teams to win straight up you can also get some points to help you called handicapping handicapping and balance it out a little bit Now you're going to pay for those points. So the Rams were a three and a half point underdog. They were plus 3.5.

So you add that to their school. Yeah, it's very simple. So if you think the Rams can stay within three, if they win the game, you win the money. If they lose by two points, you win the money, if they lose by three points, lose by one point. I had 3.5. 3.5. So to really dumb it down, when the game kicks off, the score in your mind in terms of gambling, it's the Rams 3 and a half for the Eagle zero.

Rams jumped out to this huge lead. Eagles come all the way back. 26 to 9 they led! It was 2726. Correct? Am I running the score on that? Yes. Rams are driving.

If they kick the field goal and win it, you win because the Rams just flat out, won the game outright. If the Rams kicked the field goal and miss it, you still win because you got three and a half points. So in your mind and the betting ticket mind, it was 29.5 to 27. So really the only thing that bad could happen in order for you to lose your bet, if you were taking the Rams plus three and a half, which I did, which Ross did,

and another person in our group did, was have the Eagles score a touchdown. If you did not see the game, the final play of the game, Philadelphia blocked the field goal and took it back for a touchdown. Eagles won. Rams did not cover the three and a half they were given. The Eagles covered a three and a half. There's three seconds left on the clock when they kicked it.

There are things in sports called a bad beat. You perhaps see Scott Van Peltz does bad beats on... I'm sure he did that one. That is one of the five worst bad beats I've ever seen in my... my entire life of watching sports. All the Rams had to do was miss the kick, and you still won. Jordan Davis, because it's gone down. If Jordan Davis would have ran on an East West pattern and stopped,

but at 325 pounds, he's like, I'm taking this son bitch to the house, and he did. And the game was over. And the Rams were the right side. They were dominating that game. Yes. They were. Until they didn't. Thanks for bringing it up.

Believe it or not, all the things about Bruce Pearl, who might have had some points on that Rams game, you never know. Joe is spotable with us tomorrow at 1230, looking forward to visiting with him. Got feelings tomorrow. And what else we got going on tomorrow? Big recap of Detroit versus Baltimore Monday football. Look at that. We mentioned this earlier.

One week from today, Rockets Media Day will be at Detotel. Center Monday from 10 o'clock until 2 and we will be there to do the four-hour show from there looking forward to that hopefully going to get we'll have e-may stopped by for sure Kevin Durant hopefully we'll be stopping by a couple of the players as well and then Tom's kind of stuff like that so it'll be a lot of fun and that'll be all tomorrow next Monday from 10 o'clock until 2 Thursday we are at big city wings and just going to be really kind of a highly charged week on the show How will the Texans react to being 0 and 3? Tennessee's terrible.

Should win that first game. And the Astros have six winnable games ahead of them. I think if they go 5 and 1, they make the playoffs. 4 and 2, little dicey. If they go 3 and 3, they're out. I don't think it's really worth arguing at this point. 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 B, believe it or not, and here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-2-1-2-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe or not is All Things About Bruce Pearl. I'll read you something about Bruce Pearl. If it's completely utterly accurate, you'll say this. Believe it.

If this statement is erroneous full of bunk and made up, you'll say this. Not. Two, believe it, not's in a row when you either, a 7-90 t-shirt. A pair of tickets to see the Toadies live on December the 29th at the House of Blues. Tickets on sale now at Ticketmaster.com or a four pack of tickets to see with pit passes to Monster Jam, October 18th. Don't do it. Energy Stadium. Tickets available for that as well. Can be found at Ticketmaster.com. 713-212-5-790. Kevin. Kevin on 790. Kevin, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Kevin, Bruce Pearl was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, and it said multiple times that coaching the tar heels was,

his dream job. Believe it or not? Not. That is correct. Indiana was his dream job and he was actually born in Massachusetts. Statement number two for the win. Bruce Pearl's 236 basketball head coaching victories at Auburn is the most in program history. Believe it or not? Not. That is a believe it. I'm sorry, but thank you for playing. Scott on 790. You ready to play, believe it or not, Scott? I am. Bruce Pearl has never played professional, college, or even high school basketball. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's a believe it.

Stay-in number two for the win. Bruce Pearl was also investigated it by the NCAA from proper benefits while he was the head coach at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, he behaved himself there. Matt on 790. Matt, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? The WWE wrestling talk. It's always a good one. Yeah, we talked about it for about 60 seconds. Thank you. Bruce Pearl graduated from Boston College in 1982, where he also served as the manager of the basketball team. Believe it or not? Believe it. That's a believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Bruce Pearl was the head coach for Team E Israel for the first.

Fibah World Cup in 2018. Believe it or not. That is correct as well. Congratulations. Nicely done. George, on 7.90. George, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Say less. Mr. Matt. Great show today.

Thank you, Frank. You're a cowboy. All right. Bruce Pearl is the reigning SEC coach of the year. It has won the award four different times. Believe it or not. That's a not. That is believe it. I'm sorry, but thank you very much anyway.

I know. Hey, Seuss on 790, Hey, Susu, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Bruce Pearl met his wife, Pam. While at Boston College, they have three children and are separated in 2012, but they reconciled in 2014.

Believe it or not? Not. That is also correct. You're looking for the old reconciliation one. I don't know. That was good. I ran out of time. You did run out of time.

All right, that's it for the radio program. Sometimes you've got to bomb it down the field, Matt. You did. You know what you did? You hailed married and Nebraska scored a touchdown. You don't always connect. All right, that's... Up next, Adam Clayton will evaluate the dumb-ass questions asked in today's Texas Press Conference, part of the big team on Sports Talks of the Dining.