The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose, Texans Lose… Mariners & Rangers Are Creeping Slowly, Oline Still Not There

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

Astros Lose, Texans Lose… Mariners & Rangers Are Creeping Slowly, Oline Still Not There

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-1 in H-Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Moving poor Ariante Urshry all around the offensive line. Cam Robinson's like his leg is shaking, can't move his shins. I think they announced they're putting ursry at D.N. this week. God Almighty. It was just a bad day.

Ross. Week ones are going to have bad days. Remember 16 teams win every week and 16 teams lose. I like that math. Makes me feel better. Unless it's in the bye week and then there's not as many teams in the lose. I get your point. And the Astros lost? They did?

Yes. I mean, I don't think anybody watched or listened. Why watch? Saturday was good. Saturday was outstanding. Sunday, not so much. Nope. Friday, not so much. much. A wonderful

Saturday at Rice Stadium. The beatdown continues in the Bayou Bucket. Hopefully that game will never be played again. Yeah, it's going on pause, correct? Well, it's not scheduled. Early as it can be rescheduled was 2030, but we're moving on from that. Well,

Rice football could be folded by then. That's actually true. Ross, how the hell are you? I'm doing great, Matt. And I won't even mention that my fantasy team at, which I was not a big fan of going out. I think I've decided that if you don't like your draft, You might be pretty good. I told you this.

Usually the draft, I'm like, those are the teams that are dominant. That actually happened to me this weekend. The two drafts I like, lost. One draft I was unsure about, Justin Fields would offer 30 plus and I crushed. That's right. I got to tell you,

NFL football was outstanding this weekend. It was great. That Buffalo Baltimore game was sick. What a choke job by the Ravens. That Derek Henry fumble. Yes. And it's funny because I actually, I love watching Derek Kenry reply.

I tweeted as much. I think you do the same thing. He's timeless. He is, you know what? There's a small part of me. It's never going to happen. I would love for him to become the all-time leading rusher in the NFL. Yeah, I don't think that's kind of.

No, he's up the list, though. I think he's, but he's got work to do, though. I mean, Emma Smith, again, Hall of Famer, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All-time leading rusher. Maybe it's because he's a cowboy. or maybe because he ended his career in Arizona Cardinal, but I just, to me,

if I'm putting together a dream backfield, Rossi, Emmett Spence is not in my dream backfield. I'm with you. You know, it's Jim Brown, it's Barry Sanders, it's Walter Payton. Adrian Peterson. Adrian Peterson. It's Derek, freaking Henry.

Adrian Peterson, fifth on the all-time rushing list. Barry Sanders' fourth, Derek Henry 18th. And let's just tack on a thousand to his total. he conceivably could get up to 11th passing Jim Brown being just behind Tony Dorset. Yeah. He's in rarefied air. The funny thing is, though, right now he's sandwiching between Fred Taylor and Stephen Jackson, who you don't think of his all-time grades, but who had very good careers.

Excellent careers. Excellent careers. All right, let's get to it. We are largely open line today. We do have to tell the truth coming up at 1130, the news at noon today, and then we've got, believe it or not later, at 150. So much to get to, and we like to leave Mondays rather open, because of this.

Yes. Okay. And congratulations to the Toros. I forgot. I will be six and nine before you know it. And out of the playoffs. Rosser looks good. Rough riders, not so much.

Toros are looking good. What's name of the Rough riders? Just this is the Rough Riders? That's Cal's Rough Riders. And what's your logo off? Why are you asking? Because I forgot. I want to know.

Well, you want to out me in front of everyone. Jonathan? It's a zoom-in photo of Cal McNair's mustache. I think it's a fantastic logo. Okay, that's kind of funny. I mean, I think you should turn to Hannah's Neiman Marcus Black Card eventually, but that's neither here nor there. Okay.

All right. It's just one game. And there are 16 more to go. So I want to make sure I preface for at least every time I talk about the team under every. There is a significant chance next week they come in at the Loud Energy Stadium, 6 o'clock kickoff. Y'all are going to be in a fever pitch. And the Texans' offense, again, look, for as many mistakes. stakes as they made in the game,

including the fumble punchout at the end of the game. Ross, it was a one score game. I mean, they had so many penalties. Well, thanks to the defense. Pass pro was atrocious. Nico Collins was frankly non-existent for most of the game. What else?

Oh, Matt Stafford could play it every third down it felt like he had to get. Nakua was amazing, even though they tried to take out part of his chin, not his forehead, but his forehead with that pad that kept bleeding over and falling off it and he's still catching passes. 10 for 130.

It's pretty good. Probably when we're targeted 15 times of not having a thing that bandage reapplied twice. Yeah, I mean, the margin was thin. They fumbled in the red zone, so you got a break there, but then you fumbled on the other end. So that's kind of a wash.

But as you said, I mean, the offensive line was shifted around the end. It was shifted around pregame after Arionte Ursiwri has been working out at left tackle for like a week. Correct. And a stone cold rookie in his first start on the road against Jared Verst and Puna Ford and company, they switch sides on him and then your center goes down. And so, I mean, it was, I don't want to call it a disaster, but it was a failure.

No, you know what it is. It was a failure by the offensive one and coaching in my opinion. It's a, okay. I feel like I'm going to do it the half the show and I'm. macro view and half the Toronto microview. And frankly, maybe Mondays we should do more micro, but I mean, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So let's, so macro view to me is

this team has an elite defense that C.J. Stroud if given time is going to be fine. By the way, when CJ Straud gets sacked, he doesn't just take the loss. He adds five to six yards or 12 yards to those sacks. He thinks he's in a foot race to the other goal line. Yeah. And that's something that can be

correctable. You know what I mean? It's to be corrected. Well, Matt Stafford took sacks yesterday. Yes, he he stays in a pocket. I mean, and for those are like, well, I want CJ to run more. No, you do not want him to run more. He often tries to make, because it's the blessing and the curse, sometimes he can shake guys off and make plays. Yeah, he's felt physically gifted.

And then we talk about how amazing it looks. But when you go backwards and you go the other way and you get sacked, then that's obviously, that's where your team gets cost. You cost your team. Okay, so there are things that you say to yourself, okay, if he doesn't fumble, you're in the red zone. And remember, the Texans defense last year forced a lot of, of turnovers. Turnovers were a part of their game.

Late, I thought the field goal, the third field goal before the half was a huge thing. I mean, there was so much about last season in just that one game yesterday that I felt like I was watching a continuation of last year's team. And that's not a good thing. That's a fair assessment and that's what's frustrating. And I mean, some of it's not your fault. Yeah, you had Ingram go down before the game and you had to shuffle your offensive line. I still think they should have, rather than kicking Titus Howard and kept him at right tackle and Arionte Urstery at left tackle, but it is what it is. And then the running game.

I mean, Nick Chubb didn't really get going until the second half and it was like the Texans needed a touchdown at the end of the game and the Rams defense was softened up in the middle. Before that, he just wasn't very good. And it's not like he had a gangbusters day in the first place. So I am concerned about the run game. Going in, we were. I'm concerned about the offensive line. Going in, we were.

And that's a lot of last year. So, yeah, everything in the fears from last year were validated. You had no Nico. Nico Collins was a no-show, and you were hoping to see a little bit more from Jalen Noel and Jaden Higgins and Jaden Higgins and you really got nothing. And by the way, when did the tight end become such a huge part of the Texans offense? It felt like everything in the first quarter and then some were to the tight ends. Oh, yeah, Donald Shulton's and Cade Stover did good, I guess.

Five yards of catchish. So let me do this. And we got a lot to chew on over the next few hours. Answer this question from Battle Red. If the tech, granted, not every team is going to have a front seven as vicious as the Rams. Correct. But they're not going against grambling. You know what I mean?

There are going to be playmakers on every single team that the Texans play the rest of the season. How in the world do you? do you have issues on the offensive line in week one with 16 games left to go and think that this team is going to be better than it was last year? Yeah, we had basically four new starters and then you shuffled them around the whole game. So that's how. I mean, that to me is, honestly, is that the quote-unquote new offensive line coach, is it the quote-unquote new offensive coordinator?

Is it, to me, this is on Casario. This is, you create the roster. You give Domeico the ingredients and you make it, and what you made was a blank pie out there. I can't play match game. I was going to say something. I mean, if we were all fair, I'll tell you what. I'll tell you about one minute or two, one minute from now.

Okay, thank you. 713-212-570. 7-1-3-212-570. I didn't think the Cayley offense was this spectacular. I mean, there are so many people that owe you guys apologies. All those little YouTube video nerds that think they're journalists owe you an apology. They just do. Well, it doesn't matter who the play caller is.

It's your offensive line can't walk. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it was, again, I want to, I feel like I'm going to go back and forth for macro or micro. Micro to me was, it was just the same. So the question is going to be, how does this, how does this avoid, how do you avoid this for the next 16 weeks?

Did we not, Rossi, did we not spend all freaking offseason talking about, is this offensive long going to be any better? It's going to get better. How? Cohesion. and health. Maybe C.J. Stroud will have a better week of practice. Yeah.

Because apparently it was not a great week of practice. You'll hear from him next. 1013 on Sports Talk 790. All right. So apparently C.J. Stroud said that the game week preparation wasn't spectacular going into this game against the Rams. You said four? Yes.

It says Nick Chubb. Well, I mean, that's what I mean, I was told. four from Dan Matthews. Okay. You keep talking. I'll find it. We'll find the car. Okay. This is what we call advanced preparation for the show. That's my fault. We were chatting about other stuff.

Yeah. Hey, by the way, talk about the red zone. I know that was a big issue. I watched it this weekend. What did you think about the commercials? Big deal or no big deal? No, it wasn't a big deal at all. They put it to the side. They put a lower graphic and just put the little wing stop with the game still going on so you don't feel like you're missing out on anything. So you don't miss anything.

Yeah, I think awful announcing, which is like a broadcaster kind of a website that kind of watches over the media industry. I think they said one minute of commercials altogether. Oh, I have it. So, yeah, I didn't watch a super amount of it because I was at a

family event before the Texans game and then one of the Texas games, I was watching that 90% of the time. But it is funny how CPS coming up next, Detroit and Green Bay. We're live at Lambeau field and all the NFL today people are there and they're all doing the Lambeau leap.

and they're all getting ready for this big game between the lions of the packers. Some of you will see the Houston, Texans, the L.A. Rams. I mean, it was, we were the complete afterthought of the 325 game yesterday. I thought it was a huge matchup, Matt. I liked it. Me too. I love Kevin Harlan. You know me? I mean, yeah.

And I love me some Melanie Collins. Astros, Texas, Red Zone, U.S. Open finals, a wonderful Sunday. All right. I have it now. Some of the cuts were labeled Stroud. This one said CJ with a number on it. So that's why I lost over. That's on me.

I mean, you know, it was inconsistently labeled, but it's my fault, though. Okay. Was it slugged by Gordy? No, it doesn't matter. Okay, continue on. Okay, here we go.

Okay. Now my computer doesn't like. I thought a computer for it. There is. I think, you know, I love the confidence we have, but there's a, I don't know,

I always say there's like a type of... All right, no, let's just have, let's just have him pulled it. Let's just have... It's CJ4. I'm sorry. I'm going to restart this computer. I'm sorry, guys.

This is my fault. It's a Monday. No, it's really not your fault. It's our computer's fault. Yeah, that's true. But you probably didn't know. But we should have tested it in the break. All right, here we go.

Here's CJ. I think, you know, I love the confidence we have, but there's a... I don't know, I always say there's like a type of mindset is like, did I do enough? And I think it's a healthy way to be because then you'll probably do more. So I just, for me, you know, preparing, I got to do a better job. and I also got to hold my guys accountable for that one exotic and it's the first end of the year

we got a lot of exotic looks we did not expect they did too but they made the play so you can come with a million excuses we got to just be better there you go you didn't necessarily say they were ill prepared that they could have prepared better and they got a lot of exotic looks

they weren't expecting because there were some free runners and that was the big problem last year free runners happened a couple times in the last game And again, I don't think I'm overstaying this. CJ has got to be better about taking the ball, putting in his midsection, and taking that sack. I mean, there were, I mean, the three sacks,

it felt like every one of them were double-digit lost yards on those plates. I think they were. And, yeah, that just completely, at one point in the game, they put up their average third down. It was like third and 12. Yeah. You're just not going to win football games like that. You should not.

No. You know, and, again, the use of the 10th, it was cool. I thought Nick Chubb showed some signs and moments. Damien Pierce, not so much. Agumbo Wally, Fumble, hurts. It's just the reality of it. You know, does that, is, are you questioning why

Guma Wally is even in the game at that point? I don't know. I mean, that's just in its football. Yeah. Yeah. Landman comes up there and makes a great punch. Landman. It felt like a superhero back in the 70s.

When you were watching cartoons, I was watching some Aquaman. I was watching Wonder Woman. moment I watch land man. Landman sounds way boring, more boring than Aquaman. Yeah. But then they have to keep on making inventing crimes to happen in the ocean. Yeah, I was going to say, usually the ocean is a pretty safe place.

How many maritime laws can be broken? Exactly. How many squid are causing those many issues out there? Tim and Friendswood on 790. Hello, Tim. What's up, guys? It's been a while. So, first thing's first, man, if only the defenses we play the remaining 16 games will just give us the look that we're

expecting we are freaking golden, right? That's true. We're ready to go. right? So, now listen, man, I got two questions for you, but real quick, can I talk to Astros comment? I wanted to say, congrats to the Astros for once again making the last 25

games of every single season of playoff games. I mean, bonus coverage for that, right? So on the Texans, Matt, you guys are going to have to talk me down here, because I've got two concerns. One, I'm going to chalk it up to first game jitters, possibly, but

the O.C. not getting Nick involved. involved, excuse me. Boring, boring, play calling, slow tempo. I just, I worry big time that we're not going to be eight games into the season and being like, where's Bobby Slowick? And then number two, hopefully you can address both of these.

Talk me off the ledge that at this pace, every single season, the O-line has been an issue for this team. Since day one with David Carr, we have never been able to find five guys that seem to work. together and can protect the QB. So talk me off the ledge that DJ is not going downhill, not going to be beat to hell, and become, you know, basically secondhand used to goods. That's all I got on time.

Thank you. All right, I can hop out with one of those things. The Texans win seat when they were first making the playoffs with Matt Schaub had Eric Winston, Mike Bryzel, Chris Myers, Dwayne Brown, and I'm forgetting the fifth guy. The guy that came over from the Chiefs. I don't know. It doesn't matter. Wait Smith.

Wait Smith. Yeah, wait, Smith. I see a volleyball time. I was going to say, I see him at volleyball. Yeah. Those five guys were the best offensive one that Texans ever had. And they kept Matt upright for the most part. I mean, Matt was not very elusive.

So he was strictly pocket pass. He wasn't scrambling for any point. But he, that was the best. Not very elusive as an understatement. Well, I want to be polite. I'll go statuesque. Okay. I mean, cement and concrete.

That's fine. But that was a three or four-year stretch, Rossi-worthy offensive line was elite. Yes. Even Laramie Tunsell, it wasn't particularly good. Now, remember, you did strike out on some offensive line acquisitions. Was the kid that just got released in Philadelphia that was a former first round pick of the Texans a couple of years back. I'm drawn blank on his name already. And so far, it's mixed.

Juice Gruggs has been underperforming as an offensive lineman. you know frankly you know they're trying they're just missing I mean I don't know I don't know how to way other way to say it we talked about this off season

I mean I understand it's culture culture culture Texan's culture but Laramie Tunsell was your best offensive linemen even with all the baggage and the penalties Yeah. And there's going to be some growing pains there. Titus Howard's been just okay. He's been okay. He's been okay. Between injuries and not being able to define a position, Ross, probably a little underwhelming as a first round pick.

Would that be fair to say? I would say so. Yeah. But, I mean, he's been in the league on the team this long. It's certainly not a bust, but you would have hoped for better. Yeah. Oh, Kenyon Green. Kenyon Green, yes.

Thank you very much. Yeah, you took Kenyon Green. first of all you overdrafted him and then he couldn't stay healthy and he couldn't stay on the field and you moved him and then you said he got cut? Yeah, I think he cut, it got cut.

Oh my God. I didn't know that. Well, he's available. You're looking for some help. Are you saying we should take a flyer on him? No. No, no, no, no. Okay, I mean, please, I don't want to

oversimplify this, but I'm literally asking you, If they're bad in week one, how in the world are they supposed to get better when they, first of all, can't say healthy, them being the offensive line with so many different shifts, not enough depth. And you didn't make a bang, bang, impactful move. You didn't replace Laramie Tunsell with, I mean, again, Tayersery, probably going to be a nice NFL player. Frankly, right now, being unfairly treated because of the fact he's having to move all over. I mean, his first NFL game, he will never, Arionte Ursula, he will never forget his first NFL game

in a regular season contest. He didn't stay still. Get moving around. How do you, how did that happen? It's not ideal. It's anything but ideal. I mean, it's, Cam Robbins is kind of a journeyman.

Jake Andrews is kind of, I mean, he was just a guy for a couple years of the Patriots. And Lincoln Tomlinson is a journeyman. That's your whole left side. And then it was Howard and Ursary on the right side, a rookie, and then a guy, as you mentioned, who's been not just a guy, but slightly above. And Ingram doesn't even play. I don't even think Ed Ingram is like, oh, man, we're going to be so much better with that Ingram. He's going to have future all pro.

It's a concern, and it's going to continue to be a concern. So literally, the season ended in 2024. Here we are in 2025, and we're already banging the drum for changes in the offensive line. Well, we don't know if to changes to what. I don't know, maybe just they get a little more cohesion. If they can actually all stay in one place. And Nick Cayley, you're imagining? I mean, you can only go up from here as a play caller.

This is literally his first week ever as an NFL play caller. And then who is your offensive MVP in many regards? Justin Watson. Yes, true. If you walked into a bar and he said, hi, I'm Justin. Ross and I'd say hi Justin I'm mad and Ross What do you do for a living Justin

Actually he's actually been a pretty decent NFL receiver over the years Blue guy But my God was he a star yesterday It's not good It's not good So by the way I 9 points in the first half Zero in the second

I was going to do TOs today But the fan base said it's only week one So we will not do TOs Okay So those are Texans proper reactions It's week to week in the NFL Yeah We did this

last year. One week against the Jets, they just look like they are absolutely inept and they can bounce back and get some wins. Yeah. To tell the truth coming up one hour from now, I'll have it. Oh, some spicy Texans hot tics. Oh, they're going to be sizzling. We call you hot take Thomas. They're going to be

sizzling. 1031 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. You wanted to discuss what you saw from the Texans yesterday? If you want to discuss what you saw with the Astros yesterday, boy, this you know what's going to happen. Let me see my Astros take coming back because I think there's going to be some people that are going to come back at the end of this year and come back and tell us,

I told you so's from our listeners. Okay. And I'll explain next. 1031 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. All right. I'm going to save my Astros take for a little while because somebody just sent this to me on Twitter. I got to shout you out whoever you are.

Let's see who you are. Pedro, this guy, 6-9-3-1. I don't follow a pro-football talk because Mike Florio is a complete douchebag, but that's a different issue for a different time. I follow it because it's got good NFL. It's an aggregation. You've taught me stay away from an aggregator, so I do. That's not true.

Some of the aggregators who don't provide any of their own news. Mike Floreo does provide his own news sometimes. That's okay, so you know what? He's maybe not a complete douchebag. It's just a partial douchebag Okay This is from This is so

I gotta read this I'm gonna try to read the highlights Quickly here Okay Yeah keep the music up Yeah So a parent Remember our friend Carrie McNair

Why? He's not everyone's friend Well He could be If he wants to come on seven And I can tell a story I'm more than I'm ready for that

Okay He is targeting the NFL Pro football talk obtained a letter from Tony Busby because probably Tony Busby sent it to pro football talk. Let's not kid ourselves.

You're not our friend Tony Busby. He requests mediation from Commissioner Goodell on behalf of Carrie McNair, the son of Texans founder Robin McNair. The five-page document accuses the league and Cal McNair of quote,

engineering the ouster of Carrie McNair from the Texans and other family interest. Woo! I want you to read that again, actually. I want to read this again. The five- The page document accuses the league and Cal McNair of engineering the ouster of Carrey McNair from the Texans and other McNair family business interests. Oh, baby.

We got a family feud. Go ahead, sorry. It says without a resolution, Busby and McNair will proceed in court and not in the NFL's preferred form of arbitration. Wow. McNair's case centers on a 2,024 letter agreement regarding the termination of his employment relationship with the McNair family businesses. Busby accuses the league of colluding with Cal McNair to harm the interest of Carrie McNair. This is what Busby writes. Although it is clear that both the NFL and Cal McNair conspired to eliminate Carrie McNair,

it'll be interesting to ferret out who came up with the specific plan. I want to know what lies Cal McNair told the NFL about his brother, Carrie. I intend to find out why the NFL chose to go on a limb and take action that it knew would be harming my client. while at the same time subjecting the NFL to liability. Wow. So, and there's some things about the Deshaun Watson situation. There is also the sexual abuse case involving a former minority owner, Javier Lawyer. Skipping, skipping a few paragraphs.

Stay with me on this. Busby also attacks Cal McNair's fitness to serve as the controlling owner of the Texans. Listen to this quote. This is so juicy. I need the Funkmaster Fleck bombshells noise here. It is widely known fact in Houston that Cal McNair is unqualified to be an owner's representative. The NFL knows it as well. Okay.

I'm not done, Ross. I want you to read that one again, actually. Okay. Stay with me. It is widely known fact in Houston that Cal McNair is unqualified to be an owner's representative and the NFL knows it as well. Oh my God. Staying with me on this. Despite what he has placed on certain websites, Cal McNair is not even a college graduate.

Oh my God. Cal McNair interestingly now claims he obtained an MBA from the prestigious Rice University. Although the Rice administration office has stated quite clearly that an individual lacking an undergraduate degree isn't eligible to receive a Rice MBA. Perhaps an exception was made for due to a well-timed charitable donation by his parents.

These are haymakers. The NFL, last thing of Busby says, the NFL's interference has caused my client, Mr. McNair, this is Kerry McNair, more than $60 million in direct financial losses. Because I believe the NFL's conduct to be willful and malicious, I intend to ask a Houston jury to award many times that amount as punitive damages. Oh, wow.

I love a family feud. Bring it out of you. Let's go. I'm going to just let you folks know. Matt Thomas loves soap operas because he lives for drama. He is living for this right now. This is my wheelhouse. Matt is loving this.

He is saying, My brother is a buffoon. And not in the NFL knows it. They're going straight for the jugular. They're going for that vein. Oh, my God. We always wondered about that Rice NBA. We did.

Oh, we've worried about that first. a long time. He's like, he got an NBA for Rice. Have we heard him talk? I mean, okay. And it's a Robert C. McNair business building.

So let's put both sides of this. Kerry might have gotten sideways with the family. Clearly he did. It's not a might have. He got sideways to the family. And the family's like, not only do we hate you for doing what you've done to

besmirch our mother's mental capacities, but we're going to fire you from everything and you're not going to dime from it. This is clearly, there is a two sides to this. And I want to make sure I'm very clear with this. But you go get Tony Busby to fight the NFL and basically call your brother a doofus? Hmm. And alleged that he never got a college degree and this NBA he got from Rice was because dad wrote a check.

I mean, tell me this ain't juicy. Good night, nurse. Wow. So how about that Texans offensive line? Wow. I want to read this NBA paragraph again. Read it out loud. It is widely known fact that Cal McNair is unqualified to be an owner's representative.

The NFL knows it as well. Indeed, despite what is his place on certain websites, Cal McNair is not even a college graduate. Yet Cal McNair interestingly now claims that he obtained an MBA from the prestigious Rice University, although the Rice administration office has stated quite clearly that an individual lacking an undergraduate degree is ineligible to receive a Rice MBA. And then they go pair in parentheses on them. Oh, perhaps an exception was made for Cal McNair due to a well-time charitable donation by his parents. We'll figure that out in due course.

I mean, there are family fuse and there's this. I'm just going to tell you, if any of you are part, part of families that have multi-billion dollars of generational wealth, have your act together? Because this happens, I'm sure, all the time. We don't care if members of the Walmart family don't get along because we don't talk about Walmart radio. Well, actually, you do because you're Mr. Walmart over there. But when it's an NFL owner, that's juicy. But when it's a local owner that's getting, I mean, one of the most recognizable attorneys in this country,

when bro goes against bro I'm me I need a cigarette I'll need some energy Ross You know what you do need some energy Matt 1053 is the time Time now for our gaudy drop by

Every Monday and Friday at this time when he doesn't Forget 790 is your home He did the Astros 10th inning show yeshick Shout out to you for doing the 10th inning I'll be doing the 10th inning next week But there's no Astros No Texans game to go monot

on model with it. Yeah, it was, I think we were midway late in the second quarter when we went live at the post game. We got a couple calls. That's fine. That's good. But when the asteros have lost, what, their three and six in their last nine? Is that good? Stumbling. Stumbling. Stumbling down the stretch. They've been playing about 470 baseball for about two months now, right? You ever take? It's been around 500. But I had a caller who was like, one of the postgame calls was like, I think they're going to fall out of this. And I'm like, that would be an epic collapse.

Well, an epic collapse. Like you're talking losing eight of ten. They're only two and a half up now, right? And by the way, Atlanta, now Atlanta got its brains beat out yesterday. Yeah. But they were pesky to the Mariners on Friday. The Blue Jays are trying to hold on the American League East and all the way try to be the number one team in the American League. So these are not going to be any fun. I would say just don't get swept in Toronto. win at least one, I think you've got a good chance to go take two out of three or sweep the braves. God, I hope so. They just don't get swept card.

I don't want to be here. But how about the Rangers? It's very unconfident about the team. The Rangers have closed this gap too. We are, guys, this next homestand with three against the Rangers and three against the Mariners. If the Astros fall flat on their face, they could end up in third. We could come out of next week, the Astros being third place in the AOS with the Rangers and Mariners ahead of them. And you know what if that happens?

They won't deserve it. They won't deserve to be there. I mean, it's that simple as that. Go win the games or don't. And they've had a lot of injuries and they've had a lot of underperformances and that's what it'll all add up to. They'll have nobody to blame with themselves in the injuries, really. But the reason why I don't think that will happen, I don't think they'll fall out of this,

is because they're consistently inconsistent. They won't go on a stretch where they lose six in a row. They have those games where the bats show up and the pitching's great. They win 11 and nothing. So it's like, you know, those happen more than just lost, loss, loss, loss, loss. Well, I mean, that's just, it's just the hallmark of the team that they've been. And again, we'll go with the injuries have been a huge part of it. But they just have been, for the most part, inconsistent all year long.

You know what? If the Mariners beat them, the Mariners deserve it. To back up your point, just hold on into that, those six games with Seattle and Texas at home. I mean, hopefully the stadium will be filled. hopefully it'll be a good buzz to that the Sunday night game and by way I got a gut feeling hit on that is moving to ESPN for Sunday night baseball.

Good job. That'll be the final ESPN Sunday night baseball game, I think, ever. Do, do, do do, do, do... Carl Ravich. Great broadcast. And I'm a, you know me, I'm going to play by a play snob. Uh-huh. I mean...

Usually you try to tear everyone down because you feel like you can do better? In that case, I can do better. Put me on the Sunday night game of the week. I could do better. The worst thing they did was, put those guys on the college world series where they don't know anything about this teams. It's like putting Charles Barkley on Final Four coverage.

Which they do. They wish they do. I think Rutkus is good. What? All right. So let's get to this. Your LSU Tigers let down America by barely hanging on to beat Louisiana Tech. As did Georgia, barely beat Austin P.

Is that true? What was the final score? It was like 28 to 6. Ours was 23 to barely. 23 to 7. They were like 40-point favorites, both of them. And the Saints were in those atrocious uniforms. yesterday.

The gold tops. Come on. I got the cover. Is that what we're worried about now? Oh, yeah. Saints are at full-on tech mode. And by the way, they are on Arch Manning. No, they're not.

Arch's coming back. By the way, do you all see the video of the Archmanning arm? Wincing with the shoulder. Is that AI or is that legit? I think it's legit and it is concerning. I mean, if he's got a shoulder injury, you got U-TEP and Sam Houston State. Go ahead and take a seat, Arch.

That's what I'm saying. You know what? Just shoot that bad boy up. Let's go. Quinn Ewers played through injury basically all last year. Is it the hip? It's always the hip. I think he had an elbow or a shoulder issue or some Quinn Ewers.

There's also context. When was that? When was that video taken? I mean, that could have been in the second quarter and he was fine the rest of the way. I mean, just, I don't know. You guys are making me sad. It looked better, as predicted. You knew they were going to look better against St.

Well, you know they were going to look better against St. Looked, yeah, four first half touchdowns. Hey, you got three straight wins coming up. You got Sam Houston State. U-TEP. U-TEP, and you're going to go to Florida and win there because apparently South Florida goes there. Yeah, that's not as scary as a, the game now.

It doesn't look as scary now that they lost, but whatever. But the buzz on the Internet, by the way, O'Holk-Holk-Games looking tough. Arch likes some Caucasian receivers. Oh, right. To the white boys. Stop. Parker Livingston.

You're really running with this on air? It was all over Twitter. I didn't know you were going to do this. Yeah, it was all over certain. Yeah, you're for you, Tab. People were really like, there was one guy who's like, hey, Arch, how about Ryan Wingo, break a brother off? Like, he's open, throwing the ball.

Yeah, I didn't see that tweet. It's not on my, that one's not in my algorithm. I'm looking at Gordy's tweet line right now. It says, I love Justin Watson. Yeah. Let's also what you love on here. By the way, there's no freak out for me with the Texas. Dalton Schultz, you're a Bincade Stoverd fan.

Okay. That Rams. defense is steadily. I knew they were going to give the Texans fits. So that's no surprise for me. Now go take care, beat your crappy divisional opponents and win this crappy division. Oh, by the way, Indianapolis put up a 30 burger on the

Miami Dolphins. Daniel's looking good. Miami is a debacle, though. That's crumbling before I. Well, their defense was supposed to be good, though. Mike McDaniel, not a good NFL head coach. Yeah, I mean, apparently has bro's bro, but that's not going to last very much longer. Yeah, well, to a tongue of Loa.

Looking so crazy. All right. Real hot take is the 49ers coaching tree crumbling here. Mike McDaniel, Domingo Rions. Bobby Sloick. Oh, Domingo Rines is good. He's a good coach. He's got no offensive line.

Let me ask you this. The defense has been fantastic. How much do penalties go directly towards the head coach? You can say zero if you want. I'm not going to say zero, but I mean, a lot of it's what? Like, there was an incredible, a couple of those, the personal fouls were like just football plays, right? When Tootow went low. And there was another one where

Bullock hit Nekua in the head, but Nekua's like falling down. Those are just penalties that happen. But the ones where it's like false starts, I mean, are you putting that on the defensive coordinator slash defensive head coach that Laramie Tonsol last year is losing his mind and tries to fall start

every time because he doesn't want to give a pressure? On the road, I mean, it's, I get, it's not a hostile, of all the hostile NFL road environments so far, maybe not hostile. There was a, uh, an encroachment in clutch time that was big. It brought a third and nine to third and four, something like that, right?

That was bad. I don't know. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right. It is an open line Monday, literally meaning that what you want to get to, Astros chatter, Texans losing in Los Angeles yesterday,

DeAndre Hopkins with yet another one-handed grab. Rossi, and we'll go to the, phones in just one second here. Look, DeAndre's tenure, in Houston, came to a grinding halt with the most stunning, maybe moment, maybe in the history of our radio show while we were live on air. And look, his places he's gone since then, since Arizona have not been great. He was good in Arizona, but not great. And he's been kind of shuffling around from school. But he did make the one-hand to grab yesterday that was absolutely sick. If I tell you, he has the greatest hands I've ever seen

live in person. Who's he debating for that number one spot? Two popped in my head the second you said that. Okay, go ahead. Chris Carter? Larry Fitzgerald. He's on that list, though.

I don't think I ever saw Chris Carter play in person. Okay, you mean like that you saw in the building? Yeah. I mean, I watch Chris Carter play, obviously, yeah. He had some hands now, kids. Let me tell you youngins about Chris Carter. He was a horrible human being, but he had great hands.

Let me tell you about Chris Carter. What a complete 100% a-hole. I have never been... I was in Minnesota. One year we did Super Bowl Radio Row when I went down to Phoenix, and Chris was still fighting to get in the Hall of Fame. And I said, Chris, come over.

I want to prop you up. He's working at ESPN at the time. He could not have been a more miserable human being. I was like, no wonder the NFL doesn't want you in the Hall of Fame. Now, he eventually got in, but he was just an unbelievable a hole. Larry Fitzgerald to me is a very good comp And maybe that's the one I'm thinking of That would be among

In this generation in terms Not necessarily He would go seasons without a drop Seasons. I'm not talking about breakaway speed Yeah I'm not talking about the great route run I'm just talking about the ball is near you

That ball is going to fall into your hands And it's not going to drop Yeah the old saying was that he had more tackles than drops Yeah and he made a great catch. That game was phenomenal yesterday, the deflection, the late game comeback. I'll be honest with you, Rossi, I felt when they were up two touchdowns late, I went to sleep. I was like, you know what?

Baltimore good win. And you know what I was thinking? There's got me a small part of sports every year. He's like, you know what? I picked the Baltimore as when the Super Bowl. And when you go to Buffalo in week one and win, that makes you Super Bowl caliber. It just does. Well, and then they lost.

And then they lost. But I mean, it was a good game. And Cougar Great Ed Oliver crushing like normal. Yeah, he's very good. Of course, he says he regrets going to Houston, wishes he would have gone to LSU, but he had a great career to the LSU. He wishes he could have gone to U of H's eight years,

just like I did. No literal quotes from him saying he wishes he would have went to LSU. He only went there because his brother was at U of H. Yeah, and he said it was the best ever made in my entire life. No, I can literally pull up the quotes. All right, but he had a great career for the Cuckers. 713-21-5-7. So if the Texans offensive line is a hot mess after week one,

How are we going to feel eight weeks from now? I want you all to think about that and call us in. They're going to gel and pull it together and maybe a trade's going to be made. I don't know. But as it stands right now, week one was not good. And again, if you're a YouTube failed media person and you had a video out there and bragging about the offensive line, you need to go on your little show today with your 55 views and apologize to people for saying the Texans offensive lines can be better than ever. Just apologize.

But you won't because you all are frauds. Roger on 790 at 1108 Roger good morning to you and good morning gentlemen wow what are I mean for our local sports team actually crapping the bed the whole weekend it just the

the the that thing you just let out with the McNair's I mean how how kind of what effect they're going to have on the on the team and they're going to fight for something we all read you about Cal McNair in the town

I mean, that guy, you know, Hannah did a good job reinventing, you know, the franchise and covering it up and, you know, making it terrible. But now this is going to come delighted. Now we're going to be back again to the, you know, all that hard work of sharpening our engine image. And now it's going to kind of falter a little bit. What kind of is that going to have on our team, man? Zero. Thanks, Roger. I appreciate it.

Thank you for the call. Roger, and I'm going to say this, this will not affect the locker room under any circumstance. This is a pissing match between ridiculously rich billionaires. So generally speaking, it's more fun for us. It's more fun for the national tabloids. It's more fun for a certain midday radio show that basically has said that Cal's very lucky to be where he is. But that's not going to, Domingo's not led that infiltrate.

Nick Casario doesn't even know who Carrie is, much less anything else. It's not going to make any difference whatsoever. The reality is we've always in the back of our mind and even this is the most diehard of Texans fans. I mean,

you know your owner's been a goof. And it's how do I put this? I think if Cal walked in here right now and sat down, we would have a very nice nice, fun, laid-back, chill conversation.

Very low-level. Not deep conversation. But that is, that's the off, I mean, for instance, I'm not shooting the blank with Tillman Fertita. He's all about business. I'm not shooting the blank with Jim Crane. He's all about business. I don't know if Cal has a real deep understanding of the business.

He, you know, Hannah probably has a significant role in that now. they hired a new team president who was brought here to get at least a minimum new facility put together in probably either a refurbist stadium or a brand new stadium. That's the goal. And again, I don't think that Cal is intimately involved in the dated activities of the organization. He probably has a lot of good lieutenants around him and they do the heavy lifting for him and that's fine. That's what you're supposed to do. But it's one thing for us to kind of joke about it. But when a brother goes after the other brother and says the NFL knows that Cal is in,

is, what was the exact term on that, Rossi? I don't want to miss. Engineer disaster. No, no, no, no. Talking about he's not, he's not, he's inadequate to run the team. There's unqualified to be an owner's representative. Yeah. The NFL knows it as well.

And then they came for his Rice MBA, which really strikes me funny because we've been talking about that for years on this show. Yeah. I don't think we're shocked. No. And the problem is, look, you, like, and I, you know, I always talk about that movie, the TV show succession. There was several brothers and one sister in that show. And again, it's fiction. So this is hard for me to cross over on this.

But tell me that. the Ford family didn't have issues with several siblings. Some were successful. Some weren't. Some just collected the check. Some thought they were more successful than others. Some wanted to be more power. This is just that this is a power hungry billion dollar family that happens on an NFL team.

And unless everybody is on the same page, you're going to have strife. And this is exactly what you're getting here is you've got a brother who sounds like he's been iced out of the family. of the family, not only of the Texans, but of the family of their business interests, it says, okay, you're going to kick me out of this? I'm going to take you down with me. I'm going to insult you and I'm going to go after the

NFL because the NFL is saying, you know, since Cal's been a nice guy, it hasn't caused any too many ripples in the NFL streets, that the NFL had Cal McNeer's back when maybe Cal asked for them to have his back when it came to Brother Kerry. This is getting messy folks. This is going to be fun.

I thought we were done with Carrie McNeer. I did too. I thought I thought everything was okay. I mean, Carrie basically said mom's not got her wits to her. Well, yeah, there was a lawsuit there. He lost. I'm going to assume that Carrie will not be at the mom's induction in the ring of honor.

Probably not. Of course, Cal's living in a one-bedroom apartment off of West Alabama right now when the rest of the family is living in River Oaks. That's probably not true. I thought Carrie was running all the business interests. Doesn't sound like it now. He's looking at, he says it costs it.

Busby says it's costing him $60 million. Hmm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Makes the offensive line issues kind of petty, doesn't it? No, I'd rather the offensive line be fixed. I don't care about this.

Yeah, this is just fodder because it's today. I mean, I don't, we're only going to really get into this when we get news developments. And it clearly, Mike Florio is very interested in this. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7. Let me tell you about Hannah, Hannah's pissed. I mean, you... You know she is running around the house today.

I mean, dropping F-bombs on her brother-in-law like you wouldn't believe. She just crushed her. She had her pumpkin spice latte in her hand and she just crushed the cup. Yeah, she threw the cup against the wall and had one of the housekeepers clean it. I mean, it's not pretty, gang. It's just not. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

We'll take your calls. We'll tell the truth coming up at the bottom of the hour. 1114 here on Sports Talk 790. We will be doing our own YouTube show. Actually, we can't. The conversations we just had is not suitable for YouTube. For anybody. Good God.

I apologize for asking your insensitive question. You should. If you folks think Matt crosses lines on air, my God. They call me Mr. Insensitive. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-1-2-5-7-9-0. let's go the phones and talk to you folks. Astros suffer a two out of three series loss. The Rangers, by the way, the Rangers blue uniforms are ugly, gross, nasty.

Ugh. That's just a side point. I don't like them. I know. I'm in a minority. I get it. I don't know. I think, I mean, most Astros fans probably agree with you.

Well, but by the way, every time I did watch the Astros game, there were still a lot of Astro fans there. Shout out to y'all that go there. I mean, yeah. Not that far, but it's a nice trip. Still cause. I guess. I mean, where do you stay? If you're staying in Arlington, you're next to a pawn shop within 30 yards.

Six pawn chops. And then a Rappelries. Yeah. But would you see the latest Rappelries commercial? There's like a three combo appetizer for 15 bucks with choice of sausage. There's like 80 different choices for Rappel Rees? No, I didn't know that. How about the zero choice I'm making when I'm not going there?

When's the last time you sat down and ate at one? Oh, Cleveland, Ohio. That makes sense. We were. sound like it's a good experience. We didn't choose it. We had, my son, my son, this is, well, this is now going to be six years, five years ago. My son, Peyton my middle, and we went to Muson Parks up there in Cleveland, you know, the big roller coaster.

And it was the park closing 9 o'clock, and we were starving. And, you know, 9 o'clock in rural, it wasn't rural, but it was definitely a suburb of Cleveland. Not a lot of choices. We're like, we're hungry. We're going to do. What do y'all want? Just hamburgers? Okay, we went to wrap, or he's and had dinner.

It was fine. They do have good French onion soup if you're a French onion soup fan. Which I am. Yeah, I know. I think you drafted it in soups. French onion soup at the Rappelries. I'm not proud. Fancy Matt.

No, and we had all these calls and all just dropped off. Are you hanging up on these people? No, Mike just left. He was waiting. Why aren't? We weren't like waiting for half hour for you. People get busy, man. It's all right.

No, come on. You call the show. We get you on. So you get in right this second. As long as you haven't called before. Okay. In the last 20 minutes. 713, 2, 112, 570.

713, 2, 1,000, 5-7-90. I think we over going back to the game a little bit with the Rams, did we overestimate the oh, I hope Matthew Stavre can walk storyline because he looked pretty good yesterday. It's not like he was lighten him on fire. They only scored 14 points.

That's true. Yeah, he looked good slinging it five yards down the field of Puga-Dakua and then he ran for another 10 and then then get tackled. How about that bandage that went over his forehead when he got speared? Well, yeah, he got his eye brow cut open. And it was, the bandage was

big to stop the bleeding they had to kid him. He couldn't get the over his helmet. Well, yeah, because they had to pad it because obviously he's going to wear a helmet. He's playing a violent football game. But, I mean, that just shows you. I don't know why you're so fixated on this. I just think it's intriguing that that must, that thing must have been. I mean, he got cut.

I know, Matt, yeah, we're of helmet since you were six, but that's where the helmet goes right there. And then when you get, when you hit somebody, it's going to press on there. So they had to pad it up. And they leave a couple of times. And that's when the Texans defense did really well. When he came back on the field, he was a lot. good. Tid ends were being thrown too. Their running game was really

not exist. I mean, do you think there's any part of the defense going to, we just gave up 14 points to Matthew Stafford in Los Angeles and we can't win that game? Yeah, probably. I've been saying that for a year now. You can't say that out loud. No, you can't say it out loud. Team football complimentary football.

But the defense was doing their compliments. They even got that late fumble. I mean, the game was dead. They were dead. in the water. And then that ball, and that was an easy challenge, by the way.

Thank goodness that was an easy challenge. And I don't know how you missed that call because the receiver turned his shoulders headed north. It is a bang, bang, play, though. We could see that in slow motion, though. Yeah, I guess you. But full speed, it was pretty good. All right.

Mike is back with us here on 7. I mean, Mike had answered the phone call from his office. Mike, good morning. Hey, how are you guys doing today? We're wonderful. Thank you for calling. Yeah, you had a quick comment on the results of the day. I mean, is it really surprising?

I mean, all off-season, before the season, local guys and the national media. I mean, they were calling it. It was, you know, the Texans were going to win. There were going to be 1913 games. The defense was going to have to do the job. And they really haven't done anything about the offensive line that I can see from last year to make it any better. So in the end, they had a chance to win the game. the unfortunate fumble, but I have a feeling that's the way it's going to be the duration of the rest of the year.

I don't see anything else that's going to change that unless you guys do. Well, the reality is this. We brought this up multiple times and we continue to do so. So how to the dog for us. You're not going to face as good of a defensive line, but Ross, you're going to face good defensive lines. You're playing a first place schedule. You've still got to play Baltimore. You've got to play Kansas City.

Again, I totally discredit anything from the AMC South. you've got to go to Seattle, who by the way, coughed up a lead late in that game. San Francisco, you got to play this year in Houston. I mean, this is, you just don't, you can't, you're not going to face that front seven, but you're facing comparable front sevens. And when you're shifting guys around and you have those pre-snap penalties and you have holds and you have illegal shifts, I guess you could say, could that be just buy?

a byproduct of week one and just going getting off the rust? I mean, because some of it, I think, I mean, a lot of the, if you look around the NFL, there was a lot of people, a lot of teams were scuffling. I mean, you had, Ben Johnson went to the Bears, and so they got a new offensive coordinator in Detroit, and they only scored six points. Let's see, well, Ravens are doing good. Kyle Shanahan's pretty good. Let's see.

Who else? There's some other teams that were scuffling. Oh, yeah. You had Bryce Young and then was in the Panthers were supposed to light things up, and they only scored 10 points in that game. So there's been some scuffling all around. I think the unders started like 11 and 2 or something like that in the first set of games, something, somewhere in that neighborhood. I just don't know how you fix what should have been fixed in the offseason.

Josh McDaniels and Drake May and the Patriots, they only scored 13 points. I mean, you only allow 14, man. That hurts. Bengals and Browns is a low-scoring game. Let's see, Cardinal Saints low-scoring. But the problem is, and what hurts, not what hurts, but just what doesn't give you a whole lot of optimism is what was the issue last year,

is an issue this year with the offensive line and then the run game with Joe Mixing out. And we still don't know how long, Joe Mixon's out. Nick Chubb is not a number one running back in 2025. He's just not. And Damien Pierce is just the opportunity for his explosiveness, ability to protect. I mean, I can see Woody Mark's getting a little bit more run.

Yeah, he got three carries for three yards. It's not great. It's not great. Not great. All right. Maybe he can come along. Something called old school Houston Order banner man. What the hell is this?

Explain, Jonathan. He was telling me that he's the old. His name is Old School? Yeah, his name is Old School, but he used to be the Houston Oiler Banner Man, if I heard and correct now. All right, let's find out. Hello, Mr. Old School. Hey, guys. How old are you, may I ask?

I am 70. All right. So that does make that. We'll qualify you as an old man. Continue on, sir. I'm 70. Well, I'm a record on the Paul Fodbombom show today. Of course, I don't know who I am.

They still don't know. But here's who I was. In 19, I'd say 19. 90 to 95, I was a Houston Orler Banner Man. I wore a top in a tuxedo. I was responsible for the buddy Ron Bairn that was slag by

Cary Cash and the playoffs against the Kansas City Chief. Oh, good, Paul. And I was the number one fan when the Houston cards, when a national card show came, I was the first one taken as far as our picture. We all got our own playoff cards.

But here's why I'm calling. For 30 years, I've been wanting to some way apologize to the, to Bud Adams, to the Houston Oilers, to all the players on the Houston Oilers, to every fan on the Houston Oilers, and I'll tell you why, because I was a drunk. Sometimes I'd get so drunk, I'd have to wait to wait all the cars left just to find my car. And I was not a good representation of, everybody loved me. Don't get me wrong. Everybody bought me drinks.

But as far as doing something for charity, as far as helping anybody, I did not do that. I did not do that. And I have, I've had thought 30 years how'd I get through what I'd do to apologize. Well, through the Paul Fondbaum show and what's going on there, I'm going to have a second chance to actually help people and to tell my story about how it all happened and to make things better this time around and to actually help people, you know, charities and stuff that I should be doing. And so I just want to tell everybody in Houston, man, I'm sorry when you look at me and it. I said everybody thought it was cool, and I had a good time, but I did not do anything to help what was what really, really matter. And that was people. Thank you, old school.

Thank you very much. Wishing you the best on your path to healing and forgiveness. Yeah. You know, they called this show, the show of healing and forgiveness. And old school said, you know what, I got to call the show and do it. Wow. We appreciate you. Old school.

Old school. Banner, man. All right. you can't you can't even hang banners anymore because they're all corporate corporate logo and stuff right yeah if you want to bring a banner to a texans game or astros or right you can't even do it right so you got to be signed guy banner guy's gone yeah i guess so i don't know i mean he did pull a carry cash on us against the buddy ryan banner i mean i that's i remember that being an old school older fan okay thank you very much

old school. All right. To tell the truth is up next. Gentlemen, there are four takes I've got coming your way. Thank you. Three of them are the truth. One is a lie.

I want you to be able to figure it out. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. I'm getting massive text from people that listen to the show about old-school guy. It's probably just one. I'll show you who it is coming back. But I do, ladies and gentlemen, this is a weekly segment where I give my colleagues, Rossville-Oreal, and Jonathan Allen, an opportunity to listen to my four sports takes.

Usually they're amazing. In this case will be the same. Three of them, I believe. One, I do not believe. It's up to you guys to figure out which of the four I do not believe. So, Jonathan, I have four. three I believe How many do I not believe?

No, one lie. Just one. Just one. Rossi, how many do I believe? I don't know. I was responding to some tweet. Sorry, what? What's your name? My name's Matt. What show is this?

It's Matt Thomas Show with Ross. What segment is this? This is called The Tell the Truth. Okay, how many truths? Three? One lie. One lie. Okay, one lie.

All right, here we go. Sorry, some guy was trying to tell us the old line, like, we were blaming the old line unfairly. Who read that out Who is it? So it's the O lines fault The Dari coughed the ball up late Or the secondary can't stop one man They gave up 14 points and scored nine

Let's move on folks Sorry, go ahead That's basically what I said Don't worry about it. All right, three, one, one lie One lie One lie Four

Three truths Here we go Number one Okay, got it, sorry Nico Collins largely forgotten about yesterday, right? Yes. Need not worry, my friends.

The Buccaneers defense is coming. Nico Collins and C.J. Stroud are going to build their relationship to new levels. Nico Collins will have 100 yards or more next Monday night at NRG Stadium against the Buccaneers. Wow. Okay. Okay. Number two. Number two.

the Texans' offensive line issues will not improve. Thus, Nick Casario will do something he has never done since taking over this team. He will go get an offensive lineman before the trade deadline that will immediately come in here and take over. So the gentlemen that are here now, get ready. You're getting a new offensive lineman. I can't tell you when.

Okay. But my belief is this offensive line is not getting any better. They're going to make a trade. And you're going to see a new offensive lineman here at some point this season. All right. Number three. We have a lot of people that call Ross and myself. And Ross, you're kind of getting worn out on on Twitter about this, about the hitting coaches.

They didn't say Jack on Saturday. They did not. They scored 11 runs. Every organization does a thorough staff evaluation at the end of each year. Mm-hmm. they're going to make a hitting coach change. Yeah, they might. Whether it's their, through their fault of their own,

or just we've got to change the vibe or the fact the team was too inconsistent offensively, which really is not their fault. Again, hitting coach to me are the most overrated in terms of success and failure. But the Astros are going to make some coaching changes for that. And number four, based on what we saw on the offensive line yesterday, everybody.

if you own a Davis Mills jersey like my son still does you can wear it to two games because he's going to start at least two games for the Texans this season because there's no way, no chance, no how. CJ is going to stay upright for 16 games with that offensive line sacking him and hitting him the way they did yesterday. Okay. So the four takes. Nico Collins bounces back.

We'll have 100 yards against the bucks. Nick Casario will make an offensive. line trade before the end of the season. I would not be surprised that the aster's make a hitting coach change at the end of the year. Not that I'm endorsing it, not that I want it. Because again, those guys do their thing and I have no opinion in whatsoever.

And Davis Mills, get ready, we'll just start two games this year because CJ Stride is going to get hit and get hard and going to miss time because that offensive line will do him no favors. Which is the four? Am I not telling the truth?

How are you feeling, Jonathan? This is actually a pretty good week for Matt. I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of... Thank you. Yeah, he actually didn't come up with a bunch of horrible stuff like he normally does. Yeah, so it's only... Very impressive. Nico Collins could have 100 yards, but that's kind of a bold statement.

That doesn't mean Matt doesn't believe it. That's true. I'm Mr. Bold. You know that. Matt hates Nick Casario, so I don't know if he really believes that he's going to... Why would I hate Nick Casario? So I don't know if he really believes that he's going to make a trade. I don't know. hate in a cassero. I'm not pleased with his offensive line choices. In Texas

didn't get any, like, wasn't even focused about O'Line this entire offseason. It felt like, so I don't know him seeing the first thing. They drafted a guy and they hired, I mean, they signed Cam Robinson. I mean, they tried. Let me say. They dropped the center to. He was going to do.

Hitting coach could very well change. I do. I feel like Matt does believe that. I mean, both, I want to say both guys' contracts are over at the end of this year. But why are we? And Matt does hate the offensive line. He loves Davis Mills. I don't love Davis Mills.

I'll go with two. What's two more time? That Casario will make a trade for an offensive line before the end of the year. I think your lie is the hitting coaches. I don't think you believe that they are going to leave. Especially after this season with all the injuries and everything. Okay.

So you say the hitting coaches stay. Ross, you say that I do not believe that Casarro make a trade. All right, here we go. I do believe that C.J. Stroud's in serious trouble, and I do expect Davis Mills to start two games this year. Okay. I expect him to start none. Okay. Number two. I think the Astros, because of public pressure, are going to make some moves and are hitting coaches. It's, look. Whether it's fair or not, I don't like it, but it's not fair, though.

We talk about it, and it's fine. Whatever, it's going to be up to the players. I mean, if Jose Altova and Carlos Correa say, hey, no, these guys are, our guys and they need to stay, then I think they'll stay. But we'll see. Joe Espada, too. Don't forget how loyal he is. Remember, Joe Espada, also, Gary Pettis, long time third base coach, Gonslob after last year. That's true. It can happen. I'm not saying it's not going to. I'm not saying this is not your craziest take. Thank you very much. It could very well happen just to get another voice in the room. I would have believed Nico Collins had 100 yards, but I looked at Atlanta's

receiving mix yesterday. They had one 100-yard receiver. It was Bejohn Robinson. of the back. You know the Bejan Robinson for Atlanta? Bejan. Whatever, Bejan. Had 124 yards in total offense. Only 24 on the ground and 100 receiving. There is no Texans running back that's going to receive for 100 yards.

Their highest receiver yesterday for Atlanta was Kyle Pitts at 7 for 59. Okay. Nico's not going to get to 100 yards. So I do believe that Nick Hesario is going to make a trade. Okay, wow. For an offensive line. See, that's what I would have chosen if I thought I was doing. dealing with a reasonable person.

So you're saying I'm unreasonable. But yeah, it's good. Sorry, are you insulting me or? No. Oh, okay. Shue. I was a good, this is a good week. I really didn't know which one to put.

Thank you very much. Thank you. You're so pleased with me, which is so rare. And that, my friends, was to tell the truth. 1144, we got the news at noon coming up. I picked the song Bad Day. It was pretty good stuff. It was just a bad day.

It was a bad day for the Astros, too, right? When you think about it? Bad day for a lot of people. It was bad day for Oklahoma State University. My God. You went to Eugene National TV, 230 on CBS, and you got your ass kicked. What was the final score on that?

I missed it. I want to say 663, something like that. Ooh. Brad Nestor was like, wait a man, we used to call these awesome SEC games. Now we're getting the number two Big Ten game of the week. This is what you're giving us? 69 to 3.

69 to 3. I was off, sorry. What was Mike Gundy have to say in that post-game presser? By the way, I'm looking at this Philly's Karen moment. Oh, Philly's Karen was a crazy moment for the weekend. The guy, his reaction was horrific. Well, I understand. You got somebody aggressively pointing your head,

and you want the whole ordeal to be over. So, look, he just gives her the ball. And he's like, all right, whatever. Just get out of my face. It's a frigging baseball. God, Philly's Karen. I understand. I understand.

Everybody's like, stand your ground. But it's like, I, I empathize with the guy because I'm kind of like that too. I'm just non-confrontational. I'm just saying his mannerisms were just not the most. He was just like, what are you talking about lady? Okay, you want the baseball? Take the friggin' baseball out of my kids' hand.

Whatever. It's a frigging baseball. That's how I would have been. So you're going to let someone take a... See, I know, Jonathan, we know you're confrontational. We know you throw french fries at the Wendy's workers. I'm just not to let someone take the bottom of his hands. He was like having a nervous...

Yeah, exactly. What was that all about? Stand your ground. My son's right here. I'm going to show you. No, no, no, no. No. No, and I also, but it's also easy for everyone on their couch to say that's how they would have reacted.

No, no, no, no. I would have sock her in the throat. I don't have the issue with him grabbing the ball and giving it to Phillies Karen. Yeah. I have the reaction of his hands, like having a jerking motion. Oh, you think he was about to throw hands? No, I don't know what he was doing. He was having a breakdown or something.

He was having a breakdown. That's the problem I have. So Philly's Karen beat it. 1146 on Sports Talk 790. All right. So I went back and looked at Philly's Karen. A couple of you have said, hey, he was. putting his hands up because he was startled by this woman walking over to him.

And maybe that's the case. I don't know for sure, but his hands were twitching. And maybe if I'm in that spot, my hands would be twitchy too. You've had people come up to you before and argumentative. I don't know. Look, the bottom line is the dad is not to blame on any of this. The dad did the good thing. The dad said, listen, bitch, here's the ball.

Go. Get away from me. Yeah, he's kind of, he's just startled. He's like, what? So maybe he's more startled than anything else. Yeah. But it was almost like, it was like me and the dance for a little shimmy-shimmy move.

He thought he was about the soccer one. I don't know. First of all, nice hair, Phillies, Karen. God, double shades up there. That's good. What else I want to say? Oh, and then the guy that hit the home run for the Phillies met the kid after the game, gave him a bat and a ball.

So that was great. And the dad's, you know, the dad did the most important thing. You want the, you want the ball, you middle-aged old hag, here you go. I can call her middle-age hag, right? I guess so. There's a lot more things I'd like to call her worse, but I can't do that on air. I'll tell you off here. Okay.

Jonathan's thinking the exact same thing I am. No, exactly. Jonathan, yeah. Same page. Same page. Thank you, Jonathan. So, yeah, the hand shaking was like, it was like he was thinking. What was that thing?

that used to exercise or we used to talk about on the show where you move it up and down? Oh, it's the shake weight. Yeah, I know, but don't move your hand like that. Stop, don't move your hand like that. I'm getting very uncomfortable. It's like this thing. No seat now.

No, he's double hand in it. What's that thing called? Shake weight. The shake weight. It was like he had a shake weight in his hand. No, he didn't have a shake weight. But his hands are moving up and down. He just got startled.

I don't know why you're so fixated on this. You're so weird. I'm trying to give detail on this. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, yes. We're talking about the man and his air shake weights. Some guys do air guitar. Some guys do air shake weights.

Yeah. I would have, I'd have gone with a backslap. Get out of here. Out the way. You wouldn't have hit her. Like, excuse me, who are you again? So, most importantly, shout out to the dad. He handled it.

He's like, you want the ball of that damn bad. Here it is. And now my son's crying, and then he can go back and explain. No, it's all worked out. It did work out. Good for the dad. Didn't they get a ball from J.T. Real Mutu or something like that? Did I not just say? I just said that. I wasn't listening.

Would you say? Are you listening to a different show today? I was looking at these highlights of the Yankees. Who did you get a ball from? The guy hit the home run. They went and met him after the game. See, that's what I'm talking about. They won.

That said the same thing. James on 790. Hello, James. Yeah, shout out to the Houston Cougars for winning their game. Shout out. Yeah, nice victory and a cover. And a cover. 7-3 at the half, by the way.

What did you think of the Rice uniforms? I mean, I haven't heard of this oil or stuff. They're a Columbia, believe, their version of Columbia Blue. It doesn't matter, but I mean, you know, it is what it is. Yeah, I just thought we've had enough this order stuff, but that was my opinion. Yeah, we should let go of the Oilers. I don't disagree. The Oilers died when they left, and I don't have a football team, and we'll never have one again.

It's fine. These look like North Carolina uniforms. They're more like Lawrence Taylor, North Carolina. 1976, honestly. But, you know, I see what they were trying to do. Yeah, as far as the Texans game, didn't they seem like, it looked like a team that had never played together. Never, no continuity or anything.

Well, the offensive line certainly hadn't. I mean, that's for sure. And by the way, you're a new receiving court, too. There were two guys out there that hadn't played. Two rookies. Exactly. And that's why I think preseason should be more than just, let's see what we got. You should have the starters out on the field so they can get some kind of rhythm going.

In my opinion. I get it. I get it. Thank you, James. I'll say this. Does the preseason fix that? Problem is, go tell a coach, put your starters out there for a half. And they're going to be like, you're high in the night.

Sean McVeigh doesn't play his starters at all in the preseason. Matthew Stafford did not take a snap at all during the preseason, not a single snap. Yeah. And while he didn't like the world on fire, they look good enough. Nope. He and Pooka and Akua seem to have some rapport. It's, they just don't want to risk injury. the long season, especially 17 games now,

wears on everyone. No one's 100% healthy by the end of it, so they tried it to shoulder the burden as much as possible. And by the way, we said this last year. We said it two years before that. We'll say it again for the future, Ross. Week 7 of the NFL will look significantly crisper than we will see in week one.

That's no surprise. That's just how it goes with everyone. I mean, you have offensive, defensive coordinators, hired and fired everywhere all over the place, all over the league. There's a lot of turnover, even with head coaches as well. And then you don't get the preseason. And then practices are limited the amount because of the collective bargain agreement and all that type of stuff. It's just, it's the way of the world. All right. The Texans had a bad day. We'll tell you more about that in a moment after we tell you

about big city wings. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Calamity? Oh, that's felt personal. It was quite calamitous. I was like, all right, they're going to have to get a touchdown. They go to two. They could be up three. Harlan can just put together phrases that just make you go, everything he says is memorable.

Mm-hmm. No disrespect to Andrew Canelan or Spiro Ditas, but you don't go, wow, I can't believe he just said that or how he was able to phrase it. Yeah, he phrases things perfectly. He's like almost, it's like melodic or even symphonies. the way his cadence up and down. He's very good. Yeah, it's, I mean, and he's such an awesome human being too.

Now, he's being pulled in 500 different directions, and he's in the 60-year-old category now, so I don't know how he does it. Yeah, he gets some things wrong. I think was it Jalen? He called it Jalen Higgins or a Jalen Riegen, or Jaden. Wait, Jada to see, I can't even get it right. Jaden Higgins or Jalen.

So don't rip the guy. No, I'm not ripping him. I'm just kidding. So let me just tell you how crazy. I'm also not making what he's making. So here's his schedule. And this is, part of me is envious. Part of me is like, I don't know you'd think I could be able to do it.

He called the Thursday night game Dallas, Philadelphia on radio. Okay. Where was that game? Philadelphia. Correct. Where was yesterday's game? Los Angeles. So Friday gets on a plane.

Yeah. Flies 3,000 miles. That a direction. Mm-hmm. First class. Yeah. But still, still a flight.

He's doing the Monday night game tonight. Where's that game? Who is it? Vikings and who? Chicago Bears. Tell me where it is. Chicago. Okay.

It's a lot of travel. Yeah. He's done this for like 30 years. What's he doing? Tuesday. Probably at home sleeping. Wednesday? Sleeping.

Thursday, he might be working. Well, he doesn't do anything until the NBA. Okay. He'll do those. Amazon Friday night games. Yes. I mean, again, I don't know how he does it. I am ridiculously envious of him.

First of all, he's got one of the greatest broadcasters in the history of sports broadcasting. But he's able to pull it off, and I'm very, very impressed. And he does a great job. Yeah. I and Eagle, same thing. I mean, these guys are getting the big gigs because they're the best of what they do. I love JJ Watt in the broadcast movie yesterday.

I thought he was in a perfect spot. He's going to be there Greg Olson for CBS. recently retired player has the, I mean, the acumen to do it smart, works hard. Okay. Learning. Doesn't take his status for granted. He's like, Tony Rommel, get the hell out of here. I'll take you number one spot before you know it.

Ladies gentlemen, 126 of the time. It's time for us to get you the news at noon. And with that, we go to the James Brown of Local Hughes Sports and Bronx. Casting? Wait, we did that on Friday. I'm out of James Brown songs. You are the Kurt. On the night train.

I stand correct. I was thinking about CBS. You are the Kurt Menifee of Houston Sports. All right. We mentioned that Texans lose 14 to 9 to the Los Angeles Rams. They start the season 0 and 1. C.J. Straught, three words or less, Matt, or fewer. C.J. Stroud 19 and 27, 188 yards.

No touchdowns. One interstress. How would you describe it? Him or the team? Him. Good, not great. Oh, I'll go just okay. I'll use two words.

Nick Chubb 13. Oh, you say just okey dokey then. I said or less, or fewer. Okay. Anyway, so the Texans lose to the Los Angeles ramps, as I said. But the big story coming out today, Matthew, that we talked about earlier on the show. show apparently Carrie McNair is not done

fighting for the Houston Texans. He has retained the services of famed lawyer or you can call him infamed lawyer Tony Busby in a letter dated September 8th.

This is from Poe Football Talk as they obtained the letter as well. Busby requesting mediation from Commissioner Roger Godell on behalf of Carrie McNair. Five page document. the league and Cal McNair of Engineering the ouster of Carrie McNair from the Texans and

other McNair family business interests. So it sounds like it's more than just him getting raked over the coals for not support and mama. It was, hey, you're kicking me out of the family business. I want some of that money. The letter vows absent a resolution. Busby and Carrie McNair will proceed in court and not in the NFL's

preferred form of arbitration ultimately controlled by Goodell, citing recent rulings in case. is brought on by John Gruden and Brian Flores, striking down the NFL's efforts to compel arbitration. Now, let me ask you this question. We are maybe months, if not years away from this getting settled. Yeah. How juicy do you think this is going to get?

This sounds pretty dang juicy. Carrie McNair's case centers around a March 2024 letter of a letter agreement regarding the termination of his employment relationship with the McNair family businesses. Hmm. Hmm. Of course, the juicy part of this. This is the part I want you all to listen to very carefully. From Tony Busby. It is a widely known fact in Houston that Cal McNair is unqualified to be an owner's representative.

The NFL knows it as well. Indeed. Despite what he is placed on certain websites, Cal McNair is not even a college graduate, yet Cal McNair, interestingly, now claims that he obtained an MBA from the prestigious Rice University, although the Rice administration office has stated quite clearly that an individual lacking an undergraduate degree is ineligible to receive a Rice MBA. And in the parentheses is where it really gets good too. perhaps an exception was made for Cal McNair do it a well-timed charitable donation by his parents we'll figure that out in due course

so I'll ask this very simple question does Cal McNair strike you as someone who got a master's degree from Rice friggin university that would be no well I mean wouldn't it take like one second to figure out where he got his undergrad

he went to Texas but did he get a degree I mean, everything I've read online says he did, but clearly Tony Busby is refuting that. So here's what you would do. If you really want to be an investigative reporter, you call the Texans and say, what year did Cal graduate with, graduate in, and what degree did he get? And they would say, here's what he did. This could be solved, frankly, very quickly.

Not that it's a huge part of the deal, but it goes along the lines of the NFL's covering for basically an owner that shouldn't be an owner because of his last name and last name only. Mm-hmm. This sounds like a mess. And if he's lying about having not one but two degrees. But could this be the opposite of this is a really, really disgruntled, bitter, jealous brother that he was loved more than that Cal was loved more my mom and dad than maybe Kerry was? Man, I guess. And look, Tony Busby has success, but he doesn't bat a thousand. No, he does not.

Jay Z slapped him around. Yeah. Got that stuff dismissed. So it's not a foregone conclusion, but on the initial premise, could the NFL be covering up for Cal? It's certainly within the realm of possibility. Well, you know, if he says he has a Rice MBA and he doesn't, is it incumbent on the other owners to have investigated that? That isn't worthy of grounds of saying you are manipulating the system and covering up lying in degrees. That's embarrassing, but it's not a reason to pull somebody's leadership off of a committee.

Yeah, but terminating him from the family businesses and then having Janice sign over the team. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. And if the NFL... Something bad might have happened. Well, here's the thing. The NFL has no business doing that.

They should not be involved in the McNair family business. And they probably wanted everything to go away and everything to get, you know, expedited and get it done. Let's get it. Let's rubber stamp this bad boy. Let's get it all over with. We don't think about it. Yep. And that, my friends, is the news at noon.

Robert wants to talk about Jimmy Johnson. What? Yeah. He retired, Jimmy. He's full on retired. Oh. Is he okay? He wasn't on Fox NFL Sunday yesterday.

Oh, I didn't notice because I don't watch those shows. Yeah, I'm not a big pregame watcher. I watch fantasy football now if I'm watching any pregame. Oh, you really? Okay. Thank you for that. That's good. Well, it didn't help me against Toros.

You know what? Do you notice how I'm not even bragging about it? I know. You know why? Because I'm just, I just don't love my team. Maybe I just caught a break. Oh, it looks good.

Team squads look good, Maddie. I'll give me to Wii 5. Oh, yeah. So you're thinking, nobody likes victory. So if I'm four and oh, I'm in full braggadoches mode is what you're saying. Okay, that feels fair.

Yeah, week one fantasy victory lap is not good. Otherwise, I'd be Victorily lapping Dr. Roto for telling me I'm dumb for not drafting Demer Gibbs. He was just pedestrian, by the way. The whole lions were pedestrian yesterday. Seekwan Barkley was better. But you can't take a week one victory lap. No, you cannot.

Under zero circumstances, you may not. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 1220 and the PM here on Sports Talk 790. Ross v. We're out with you, Matt Thomas, on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 7-13-212-5-790 is the phone number if you'd like to get in. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you had a business class with Cal McNair at Ross,

we'd like to hear from you as well. That we're going to hear from no one. I mean, he sat in the back and took notes. Seriously. This example, and we're going to go to Robert in a second. This is, this story is not a typical of other multi-billion dollar families. It's not. I guess.

I mean, I guess nothing's coming on my, off the top of my head about some kind of power struggle. I mean, do this happen? I don't even know. I mean, does every member of the Warren family get along? Does every member of the Probably not Of the Chrysler family get along? I mean, I don't know.

How do the forwards? I mean, you're telling me that every sibling of every child Of a multi-billion dollar operation Is on the same intellect level And same work ethic level? No, of course not. It's literally, this is literally succession, is what this is.

People are saying it's loosely based off of certain families, It's probably very largely based off of the McNair family. Janice and Bob frankly loved Calmore than the other kids. And Carrie's feeling it. Carrie's like, if you're going to kick me out, I'm going to take you down with me. And I'm going to have my attorney call you a buffoon. Janice probably doesn't like when you go to court to call her incompetent. That didn't help out.

That's for sure. Make the Thanksgiving dinner a little awkward. I wonder how, do they even break, there's no way they break bread. I bear there is no communication between any of them. You just hired Tony Busby and you're suing your brother in the NFL because you believe he is inadequate to own a team. And oh, by the way, you're thinking,

youth believe it costs you $60 million at least. And he's talking about punitive damages on top of that. Mm-hmm. All right. Wow. But at least the Texans' offensive line will be fixed this week. Yeah, well, probably not. It could get better.

Let's go and discuss how this offensive line's going to be. better. Who's in? Let's go. NFL. It seems to be thinking that the offensive line will be okay. Okay.

Well, then he's he putting his name on it? Yeah, I mean, he tweeted it. Okay. So if it's on his, then he's in trouble then. It's on his account. Okay. I would use a burner.

I'd go with like O-line Texans for life, God. I don't know if you knew this. His dad was a coach in the NFL. No way. Yes, an offensive one coach. No chance. So, yeah.

I mean, I think he knows his stuff. Robert on 790. Hello, Robert. Hey, guys. Hey, hey, I don't even know how it's capable of, you know, owner of the team either, but the reason I call was Jimmy Johnson retiring. And I was just kind of throwing this out there

because he's a good announcer and everything. He's real smart and everything. And I was wondering what would happen if he went back to the Cowboys. I mean, you know, would that be something? To do what? To do what? To like sit in the stands and relax.

To be the head to be the head NFL coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Robert, he's 82 years old. Well, you never know. No, I do know, I know. I know. I absolutely know. 100% I know at this point, Robert. Okay.

I just thought that would be great thing for the Cowboys. Oh, yeah. That'll fire him up. 82-year-old coach with an 80-year-old general manager. That makes plenty of sense. Thank you, Robert. We'll see you later. Ooh, Lordy.

Put Billy Wagner it off as a coordinator. Do you know that when that said Jimmy Johnson on the line, I knew exactly what was coming? You did. Because that's why I had no idea. I went to look at his age. I said, you know what? I'm going to make sure I know how old he is.

I was impressed that you knew it off the bat. You should have just said you'd known it. I was like, wow, how didn't Matt know that right off the... Nope. No chance. No. Top of the dome. I know you guys so well.

I know you better than I know myself sometimes. I was blinds I got to be honest I saw it said Jimmy Johnson's like What the hell did Jimmy Johnson do Because you were thinking maybe he's missing on a fox Or was he yesterday or I met him over the weekend No no I knew there was a

Now the question was going to be Was he going to say to come back to coach the Texans Or come to coach the Cowboys And he went with the Cowboys Well you know I really love most of y'all No I love 90% of you 10% of you can go getting a car wreck

What was I going to say? Oh, Pete Carroll. 73, I think. He's not 82, though. No. Yeah, 73 is accurate. He will be, in a week, he'll be 74. Happy birthday to Pete Carroll.

You know, that kind of gives me pause, and it should give a pause for all of us that we can do things. Like, when I was growing up, once you got to 65, it was like, you have to retire. You're done. You're done. You can't teach.

you can't coach. You certainly can't fly an airplane. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Now you've got, well, I mean, say what you will, and we'll let you say what you will off air. We have a mid-70s president, late 70s president. We have a 73-year-old NFL head coach. We have an 80-year-old general manager. How old is POTUS? I want to say 77 or 78, somewhere in that range. 79.

He's 70. The lead of the free world is 79? Oh, Lordy. Joey B was too old. I mean, can we, all right, not over. You want to go to the... I got an ageist with us here. This is A. Just Rossfield or Rale?

70. Okay. How old was Joey B? He was like in his 80s almost, right? Yeah. Good God. It's too old. I wouldn't want it. Like, get me to... Get me 20 more years.

Give me to 73. Term limits? On the show or in general? Yeah, on the show. Actually, term limits. 15 years, actually, on this show. So you're over. So, incredible. incredibly rude.

God, I hate you. I really do. That's fine. I'm used to it. All right. Let's see. Okay, back to a few more things from yesterday. Again, Texans,

pardon me for not for being ignorant to the fact that how does a line that was of a concern before the start of the season that performed just as expected is supposed to all the sudden, unless again, unless Tennessee doesn't have a front four that's going to dominate,

unless you're saying that Jacksonville doesn't, unless you're saying Kansas City's D-Line, unless you're saying, to me it's not about them getting better and getting more acclimated because they are who they are. No, no. They had a lot of issues with communication with some free runners and happening. You can get better and more cohesive when you shuffle things around

literally before the game starts. And then guys go down and you have to shuffle and you're changing the center. as well, yeah, you're going to be, you're just going to be a bit of a preparation deficit, which it seemed like they were. They just weren't good enough. And they could bounce back.

Well, you know what? You have that pro football focus, right? You told me that they, what do you want to see? They're grades? No, they won't greet until after tonight, correct? Because of the Monday night game? They might have some up. I can go look.

You wanted to because you had brought up, Because you're captain optimism with them. You wanted the Texans to be the 25th round. I said they're in the top 25, baby. So is there a way you can look at how they're doing so far? I don't know if these are the grades from this year yet. I don't think they are. So yeah, I think maybe they'll come out tonight.

Okay. Tomorrow on the show, I cannot wait to hear what the grade is, because all you've asked for is top 25. Mm-hmm. Oh, the rankings will probably come out later this week. But as far as grades of them as an individual players, I think those normally, they might even be out now, but I don't see them posted yet.

Why don't you stick Ariant Territory at one spot and let him be? Is that because Cam Robinson can't play right tackle? That's obviously the reason why. When Cam came back. I guess they don't want to. I mean, they signed him to be a left tackle, and that's what he's been. Yeah.

All right. A little on the asteros when we come back. 7-13-21-5-7-9 if you want to join in the conversation. We are open line today. anything you want to get to, whether it be the gutty, gritty performance for the University of Texas against San Jose State. Nice win. Four first half touchdowns for Arch. Do you watch any of the OU game on Saturday?

Didn't watch a lick. Yeah, nor did I, but apparently OU is looking a lot better than people thought they were going to. Yes, they're a quarterback. What's his name, Meteer? Yep. The portal can help. John? Yep.

Yeah, the portal can help. And shout out to South Florida. Cougars got a portal quarterback. We did. All we did was still 75-yard touchdown passes in the second half. Well, let's go. Cougars and Colorado this Friday, and apparently already 30,000 tickets are sold.

Think about maybe building a fourth deck of the stadium. Oh, wow. 30,000. That's huge. Well, that's because you Texas people don't care about anything but your school and don't want to really support great football in our city. And that's only on you. 713, 212, 5-799.

I think we're in a weird part of our sports life schedule. 1235 it is the Matt Thomas showed Ross 7132212-5-7-9. So Rossi, the Astros are playing this intense, really important series of the Rangers. It doesn't, not a end-all, but it could have grown really, really well or really, really bad. It did lose the game in the standings, and now they're two and a half in front of Seattle who beat the, Braves yesterday, and then the Rangers gained a game on the Astros yesterday. But Friday night, you got your high school football, you got your volleyball, for those that do that, you got your end of the week, let's go have happy hour, Saturday were immersed in college football,

Sunday the NFL took place. It's almost like if you needed a little respite away from the Astros, you had some excuses, right? Yeah, the frustrations. you could point your attentions elsewhere. Yeah. To the Texans and the NFL. Yes. And the frustration's there.

Everybody making the jokes like, is anybody in Houston ever going to score points? War runs. Both are applicable for sure. Look, this week, it's why it's almost like the midweek games are going to get a little more sexier because they'll have the exclusive.

Once the weekend's going, you've got other things going on. This tarot. Toronto series scares me. George Springer is crushing a baseball. Yes, he is. And the Toronto Blue Jays like to score lots of runs. Guess who doesn't like to score a lot of runs?

Largely. The Houston Astros. Yeah. They're going to bounce back, Matt. They scored 11 on Saturday. They did. 11 and nothing. Nice win.

Were you a little wigging out when Luisca? See it was supposed to start yesterday? No. Did not start? Starts tomorrow. It's all good. Yep. not wigging out

Frumber was good enough seven innings of four run ball I did stay up late to watch the Friday night extra inning game felt okay in the 10th felt a little wheezy in the 11th

Lance McCuller's in the 12th I was on that post game I've been pretty lucky all year long but I've had a little run of extra innings here lately I don't like it how were the calls on Friday night well the game went so long

it was a Friday night I think most people were on other things. We got only a couple calls, which I was thankful for. Do you think Lance McCullors realizes he's on the very end of the bench? I think he should. He was the last one to come out that game. And then he gave up the game. I mean, it was the unearned runner. It is what it is. He walked the first guy. I really, and I mean this, he needs to change scenery.

Oh, yeah. Florida Complex League. Well, I mean, you can do one of two things with Lance's career. You can say he's washed. Well. Or you can say, you know what? It's been here. He's been rehabbing a long time. It hasn't been great.

You know, if he's wearing Miami Marling gear, is the pressure not nearly as intense on him? Is he playing somewhere else to kind of reboot his career? If he was somewhere where he could get out there every five games and try to work out and he thinks he's close. He's said that. Then maybe there's more of a chance. I don't think he's going to turn it around and all of a sudden be a really good starter,

but he would have more of a chance in that situation. He's got basically no chance coming out of the bullpen once or twice every couple weeks. The only way that a team would want to talk about him in a trade would be if the Astros were to pay a lot of the salary. Yeah, he's making $18 million next year. You send over, I don't know, 12 or whatever.

15? I don't know. Yeah, it's negotiating. between the two teams. I just, I think Lance's, the juju is so bad here. It's not, it's not our fault.

It's not the fault of the manager. It's not the fault of, frankly, I mean, you say what you're all about the medical staff, but, I mean,

Lance has missed two different stints since coming back. Yeah. When the weight fell on him and then he got the blizzard. I mean, there's just nothing.

The aura is terrible. Yeah. And he's not the only problem. I mean, They're going to have to do some serious rearranging next year. They've got to figure out which pitchers are healthy and wealthy. You can go six innings. They've got to figure out perhaps a backup catcher.

If Kirtini leaves in free agency. They've got to figure out their outfield situation. You've got to figure out your infield. You've got maybe one too many infilters. Yeah. If he comes back, if he's a part of the team, you know, do you, are you going to continue to use your own area as a catcher? or do you transition him to his Christian Walker

be talked about in trade possibilities to move yarn here to first base? You know, Altuve is going to be probably more of a guy that you're thinking about deaching even more than he did so this year. Which means that it's going to be more Yordon and left, which we're already seeing that. Yeah. Those are questions obviously

for down the road, but it's going to be a very, very I think, interesting news-filled off-season. I mean, because think about it, last offseason was Bregman's gone, we weren't surprised by that. The Cal Tucker trade, while we were surprised that it happened, it was a sound decision because he was never going to come back and play here.

And then you were trying to figure out which pitchers are going to be healthy enough to start the season and realizing that many of them were going to be on time. And oh, by the way, this young man in Riley Field by the name of Cam Smith was batting, you know, slugging 1,200 OPS in spring training. You got to be on the team. then he got on the team and it's been obviously a mixed bag. Well, he's been bad for multiple months. Yeah.

At the plate. He's still very good in the field. Teams don't want to run on him. I mean, I believe I'm bullish on his future. I just, if he could, the season could end now, he'd probably be like, that'd be great. Yeah. I've just played a lot of baseball in my life in the last 12 calendar months between college and going to, you know, when you have to go to spring training and wow somebody, I don't know if it takes a lot out of you during the course of the season. But some guys temper spring training different than others.

Veterans that are on the team, Jose L Tuvae doesn't have to fight for a spot on the roster in March. You got Camp Smith saying, I don't want to start the season on Sugar Land. So he approached spring training significantly differently. And maybe that's part of the Fizzolot factor, which he's had the last couple of months. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm not really mad at him about it,

but it's just obviously, he's just also a point when he gets to the lineup. You just don't expect it. Now he had a couple of hits on Saturday, but yesterday he was, for three with three strikeouts. Since July 1st, he's hitting 192 with an OPS of 533. And, well, he's also playing half as much, too.

Yeah, it's in 52 games. Yeah. Because Hesu Sanchez has been playing a lot of right field during that time. All right, that is... That's the thing, too, though. He's getting... You're filtering out his negative matchups against right-handed pitching.

This has been more, more often than not, against favorable matchups, and he's still hitting that poorly. That's concerning. Yeah. Because against the lefty, you don't want HesuSanchez. I think it's done very much. 713-213-2-5-790.

7-1-2-2-7-90. So is it a bad Houston day for the city of Houston both teams? Or a forecast of which to come? Texan's offensive line? Going to keep CJ strut upright? Are they going to make adjustments? And does C.J.'s quote about, the week of practice telling.

We'll play that cup for you again, and we'll comment on that as the Matt Thomas show with Ross continues here on Sports Talk 790. All right, CJ was some brutal honesty about the performance for the Texans yesterday. Here is CJ in Los Angeles after the game. Ross gives the great details. There's a lot of hope still.

We did a lot of good things. You know, that's a really good defense is a really good team. But I definitely think we could have won, but just you should have would have could all day. We didn't deserve to win that game because we didn't do the right things. So when you come out in the NFL lollygagging and, you know, not going through the motions, that kind of happened. So I think we'll be all right, but I think it's a good way he'll call for it. All right, let's go to CJ4 because this is, that was lolliggan and going through the motions. Lolley, I don't believe in Lolliggan.

I didn't think they were lolliggan, did you? I didn't see any lollying or gags. Here's CJ talking about concerns about the team preparing throughout the week. I think we could have practiced better. I think, you know, I love the confidence we have, but there's a, I don't know, I always say there's like a type of mindset is like, did I do enough? And I think it's a healthy way to be because then you'll probably do more. So I just, for me, you know, preparing, I got to do a better job. and I also got to hold my guys accountable, you know, for that one exotic.

And it's the first end of the year. We got a lot of exotic looks we did not expect. They did too, but they made the play. So you can come with a million excuses. We got to just be better. There you go. Gotta be better. So do you think in the back of his mind that CJ got on the plane to Los Angeles,

they went Friday, by the way. And he's like, we're not ready for this. No. Like, for what? Ready for the season? Whatever for the rear. That he, you know, you can get on, you can have a great week of practice and have a crappy game.

And you can also have a crappy week of practice. Absolutely. There's no, if you practice while you are guaranteed success. I just think, well, first of all, it's, D&FL is hard. Okay. Especially when you have a bad offensive line and no run game. And they know, and they're playing too. And so they're playing too deep, as he mentioned, a lot of the games.

game and cover two saying hey you you weren't we're not going to stack the box beat us with the run game and you can't do that yeah so i mean then you're just left with a lot of you know underneath throws and screens and quick hitters and stuff like that which they did some of here's how i interpreted his comments and again we don't need to over interpret things but we can interpret because things are said and you're supposed to just you know you can you can drink the kool-lade or you can be honest he he was upset that his side of the ball could not do things that I don't think he thinks he I mean put it in put this way I think he knew the Rams defense was going to be better on yesterday I don't think he was thinking in the back of his mind we are better than what

the Rams are so when things aren't clicking in practice going guys if we don't get this better we're going to go to Los Angeles and lose this game, I think he's going, that's what it was. We didn't execute during practice like I wanted to. I'm not going to say anything because, you know, again, doesn't mean because you have a bad practice means you're going to have a good game or vice versa. He's probably saying we just, he didn't feel as confident as he needed to be getting on that plan and going to play that team. Well, it's difficult to be confident in the first place.

And then you shuffle your, now they announced pregame basically that they were going to shuffle. So maybe they knew for a while they were going to reshuffle and put areas. left so that's fine. But even then, that's not what's had been happening in Texans practice for weeks. it had been Arionte Ursery is going to be your left tackle and you're switching them to the other side a rookie who has never played in the NFL who started off as the right tackle

then you switch him to left and then days before you switch them right and then you switch him back to left I mean or whatever the switching is it's just it's not a good situation you're already in a bad situation you're already down Joe Mixing and then it got even worse and then you have

So here's what happened yesterday injuries happen during the game Jake Andrews gets hurt during the game and Ingram doesn't even play in the game and then you've got to move people around because Ken Robinson gets hurt which means you got Jared Patterson in there backing up Andrews you got Drew Scrux playing a little bit you got Blake Fisher all over the place you got Titus Howard staying where he is and then moving

it's not like you're even missing all pros it does it kind of doesn't I don't say it doesn't matter who's out there but whoever's out there they need to have a consistent unit because they can figure this out because they're changing so many different things offensively as well. You got a new offensive coordinator. He's, you had already these things that were not in your favor. The fact that you had four new starters, the fact that you have a guy for the very first time calling plays in an NFL game, you've got two rookie receivers as well, who you're hoping

are going to be a big part of your passing game. And no Joe Mixon. And then all those shuffling happens as well. It's not that unexpected. To use a baseball analogy on this, Ross, it's like a underperforming. baseball lineup having the manager flipped the lineup card

around and moving guys around and expecting different results? I would say it's even different because moving the offensive line like guys in a lineup you just go over there and you swing a bat, you're going up against a pitcher. These guys need cohesion. These guys need to be working together. These guys need to have these kind of unspoken bonds where they're covering things and they're

covering blitzers and being on the same page. They have to do that. and as we know and we saw you can make first down after first down after first down, you can make three first downs and a drive,

but then you're at midfield. You got to get further. You got to get into the red zone and you got to get into the end zone. What was the deepest pass at me? I'll go up during the break. Like the deepest target? Yeah.

The longest pass was 23 yards to Jaden Higgins. But yeah, they're playing too deep the whole time. And then they had the one that got intercepted. That was a nice throw. into double coverage. And that was a difficult grab. I mean, that was an interception, yes. And then it got ripped away.

Yeah. I mean, it was a slightly, I mean, just by inches, slightly overthrown. But it was a good, overall, a good, not great throw from C.J. Stroud. And that gets ripped away. So the way to hurt them and what has been a big trend in the NFL in the last several years is to play more too deep. So you don't get deep, beat deep. And you, you dare the run game to beat you. And the Texas can't do that.

I thought anybody selling us on Nick Chubb? There were a couple of moments, but Nick Chubb didn't surprise. He looked okay, and then that last drive, he was getting some runs. But that's also, like they needed a touchdown. But like I told you before, 13 carries is about as much as you're going to be able to get out of it. 13, 14, 15, he's not going to be able to carry the ball for you 20 times per game. Yeah, it was a 10-yard run, 9-yard run. and well that was basically it

well he was 13 for 60 with a long of 13 you take away that one and this is getting into minutiae a little bit he was 12 447 he was a little under 4 yards of carry after that he wasn't very good but it's not like he just they had a bunch of wide open lanes or anything like that they have to figure something out

whether it be some I would just like would see to more opportunities with somebody I presume Damien Piers so Woody Marks have a little more juice in their legs than Nick Chubb. But they like the professionalism and veteran guys, and we know that Dink O'Ryan does like to lean on vets. The longest play in the game yesterday, there were two plays of 23 yards.

That was it. And give the Rams credit. Whether the pass protection wouldn't allow C.J. to find Nico downfield. But there were a lot of times. You were just kind of curious where he was going to be, and he was only targeted five times. He had three for 25. and that is, you know what,

Rossi, that's three-step drop, get rid of the ball, because my offensive line can't protect me. Mm-hmm. And as you said, the shuffling of the chairs. Shuffling everyone around, you can't run, offensive coordinators calling his first game,

and you've got no Joe Mixing. And you had full starts. Oh, yeah, and by the way, and a couple legal shifts. We haven't really talked about the penalties. Yeah, the penalties are way too many as well. You got 18 first downs. Three of them came via penalty.

it's not like they got thrashed and trashed in this game. No, they had a chance in the fourth quarter to win the football game. Late in the fourth quarter, actually. Because you were then going to, if they would have scored a touchdown to take the lead, then you were going to then ask Matthew Stafford to go 60 yards in about a minute and a half. Now, granted, he's also one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. The Texans have allowed those types of plays. But it's also the Texas defense kept you in this game.

It really did. It really did. Now, to the Rams credit, they did. a bunch of third downs that killed him. Matthew Stafford knows when sometimes to take a sack, and he did. And there was one wide receiver for the Rams that kept getting open,

a matter how much his eye was gashed and how many pads he had over his eye. There's always next week. But you know what, in all seriousness, though, if you want to go glass staff fullness, that's also an NFC title contender there. It is. I would agree.

They may be a favorite, but they're probably closer to an NFC title game than the Texans are, but not by much. their divisions a little more difficult than Texans is will be. Your favorite at home next week.

By a point. Well, I see two and a half. Did it open it? It opened yesterday as soon as the games ended at one point. Did it move that much already? I see two and a half at ESPN bet, but also you lay 120. Normally you wait to lay 110 for those of...

I don't want you laying down much more than that, my friend. I won't. All right. That's a stay away for me. 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right, let's get back on the phone. [phone].

7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Don't spend an hour and a half talking to Jonathan. Get your name, part of town, your comment. Let's go. You got a lot of people that want to get in. Poor Jonathan's having to answer a bunch of calls about 1975 painters at the Astrodome. That's just not true. That was 1995.

House of Pain. I miss the good old days the orders. Well, they're gone, Matt. They're long gone. Way dead and gone. Way dead and gone. Let's move on, Houston. All right.

We've got a new team that's mediocre and is going to disappoint you. And as long as Carrie McNair's brothers running the Texans, you'll be never going to the Super Bowl. Maybe Carrie's been listening to the show. All right. Maybe we wanted that GM drama from the Cowboys and we moved it over to the Texans, you know? Yeah, Carrie, if you're listening, come on into the show. Would we not want Carrie on the show? Probably reach out of Tony Buzzby and get him on.

Oh, that would be a... You know he doesn't want to turn down a microphone. There'll be one station, won't ask for that. I can tell you that for sure. That's probably too. Yeah, sunny. Okay. I don't think the buzz is asking for Carrie McNair either.

Tony buzzed me. Really? Mm-hmm. Get him on and talk about the latest Green Day record. All right, so listen to me. Tony, if you're listening, or Carrie, call the show and give us all the deets on this fact that you believe your brother never got a bachelor's degree ever.

By the way, somebody on Twitter gave us a note that said, that, yeah, Rice is acknowledging Cal for having a master's. He's on the website. He's on the website. And it's Rice. They wouldn't lie. What if they did? That would be a huge... That would be an ambiguous scandal, wouldn't it?

If Rice is lying about it? Well, Benjamin says, Cal McNair is listed as having graduated from Rice's business school in 1995 by the Rice website itself. Dought they're lying. Well, that isn't the issue. The issue is, did he get the bachelors? Right.

Did he get like, you know you can award like honorary doctorates. You get an honorary MBA because his dad paid for a business building? Well, yeah. That is so funny. You write a check for a building. We'll give you some degree. It's like, you know, you get some bonuses. Give and take.

That's crazy that we talked about his MBA and Rice for so long with this show. And then it's, Buzzbee straight up brings it up in this letter. that's wild to me because if you're if you have an MBA in business right aren't you intricately involved in all of the businesses because you would think you'd have a mind for it I guess so I mean word has it the CalPas video games well that's in between business meetings Matt that's in between he's uh you know he's on his Excel spreadsheets so it's Excel spreadsheets yes call a duty stockholders meeting then Madden 26.

I have to fight these zombies. By the way, Cal, if you're listening, I'm on NBA 2K, if you like to play me with my voice again on there, I'd be very honored by that. Oh, my God. How did you drag yourself into this? We're talking to video games. Yeah, but all right. Yes,

yes, you're doing great, Matt. Give us a tutorial how you go, you go to the settings and then you put you on. You have to go to the, you have to play, I don't even know. You have to play with the Rockets in the 90s and then you're there. Right? I think so. I've never played it myself. I'm on a video. Oh, you have? Okay. My son's been asking about it, but I don't know about it. So,

would you give another free copy? HoneyNotes free? What if I paid for it? I know you don't. Because I know you. Hands out Thomas. You get free copies? I can get you one. Wow. Okay. Don't you want to hear your friend on the video game? Yeah, I'd be a big flex. I can post that on Instagram. You know, this is my coworker.

You guys. Yeah. See, big flex. By speaking of Instagram, at SportsMT. Oh, no. You should follow at SportsRV. If you follow SportsMT, the Texans offensive line will get better. You said that the Astros are going to hit runs if I followed you, and then they'd be doing nothing but tossing up twos and zeros. They've got to love it on Saturday. At SportsMT Instagram.

What about Friday and Sunday? I don't know. That was a sports RV follow day. Oh, okay. Follow me on Instagram at SportsMT. Follow me on Twitter at SportsMT. Good things will happen for you. And by the way, I do get rid of my spam accounts.

They'll spam accounts, the porn people, fake Elon Musk people. So my number is authentic and true and honest. Unlike others who brags about their Twitter numbers when they're 90% of our porn stars. Mine are down to them in the 40s. Let's go to Adam and Tom Ball. At 108 on the Matt Thomas Show, Ross. Adam, thank you for holding and good afternoon.

So strange. I know. Hey, good afternoon. How you're doing? Nice. Good, thank you. Great. No, I've just got a little bit, I've just got a little bit to vent about a little bit.

I mean, we gloated all season about our defense, okay? Number one defense, one of the number one defense, probably top five defenses in the league, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You let one guy, one guy by the name of Puka, Nukua, he couldn't even see. We bloodied him. It was a blood to massacre on his faith, and he still got all the, every, he was, you know, Strauss was talking about shell defense. We were probably playing a shell too because we were, I mean, a broken shell, shell toe. I don't know what they were playing, but they couldn't stop.

They couldn't stop a nose bleed. But his eye was bleeding, but it was just ridiculous. I mean, you know, we got some, a little bit of pastoral, but I just couldn't, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I'm like, you let this one guy beat you the whole game, you know, it just, and, you know, and CJ, come on. I mean, he knows if you're playing a shell, I mean, that's why you got a whole note, new offensive coordinator, and that's why you did everything in the off season. You said you're going to, you know, you're going to do new looks. You're going to do what, new looks before, you know what I mean, before the snap of the ball. You're going to do pre-snap.

You're going to do movements. You're going to do all that. And then what? Where was it at? It was nowhere to be found. If you know to playing a certain defense, switch your defense, especially during halftime. It was just ridiculous. Thank you, Adam.

Adam. We got you. I understand. Yeah, Pooka Nakuwa. Might want to keep an eye on that guy. Who was on him primarily? We know? The second of last, so the last play was Jalen Petrie.

The second of last play, they ran, and Pukua went and blocked Jailen Petri. Then in the last play, on third down, Pukua went to go act like he faked like he was going to block Jailen Petri. Petri bid on it, and then Nekua. split out to the left and was wide open. Petri was bracing himself. He was like going to go try to blow up Nukuwa blocking him. And then Nukua, he faked and flared out to the left and he was wide open. So it was just...

You know how old sabot of me yesterday? The amount of play action the Texans bid on all day long. Yes. And that's kind of what happened there. And well, Jalen Petrie, we love him. He is prone to biting on play action. He's very aggressive. He can get downhill and he can be in the backfield and he can get a lot of stops.

And then, unfortunately, well, all. that play? His aggressiveness? But there was one, help me if you remember this, there was a third and long, I want to say eight or nine, where Matt, staff are went into play action that never, no one should have thought,

realistically they've been running the ball on third and eight. I don't know if we're talking about the same play. The very last drive, this was the very last drive is what I'm talking about. Okay, yeah. There was one play, third down, second half, long play action convert. Because again, the Rams did a really good job

of converting third downs in which Texans did not, but one of them was like, come on, you're not biting on a play action on third and eight. Yeah. You got to start writing that stuff down. I was like, I need to tell somebody. Nobody's in the house. Everybody's taking a nap. Yeah, don't you take Texans games, though?

I need to. You should. Your Texans insider, no? Yeah. Mr. Texans? Insider? We're not taking notes? Yeah.

You know what I should be doing? I'm starting to start taking more notes. I am the insider. Everything I've given you so far in the Texans has been 100% accurate. Thank you, Matt. And I need to- I've been meaning to thank you about that. You need to.

The only way you thank me is by giving me the old file on Instagram at SportsMT. No. Not the shameless plug, too. This is so funny. You never mentioned your Instagram until I mentioned mine. You really have no proof of that. I mean, you recognize that, right? Maybe.

So great. I love you, Matt Thomas. I want to say that. I'm going to ask you just real quick in 30 seconds. No. Do you really think this offensive line is going to be significantly better? No, it's not going to be worse. They can be better.

Yes, absolutely. It can be better. and you don't think eight weeks from now we're going to be bitching and moaning about it. I didn't say that. I'm asking. I didn't say they're going to turn around to be a top five unit. Here's what I'm going to give me a little grandiose prediction.

I'm going to give it to you straight because I'm the insider. Okay. We're going to be bitching and moan about this all season long and somebody's going to have to hold Casario's feet of the fire on this. It's very possible. And they tried and they drafted a guy. I'm going to tell you, Arionte Ersari can get better. He just started his first NFL game.

He's 20%. You're telling me a rookie can't get better as a season goes on? I'm telling you he can absolutely get better. And I'm excited about seeing his development. Because you're telling me, you're in your first NFL game, Ross. You've got to play left and right tackled? I mean, that takes something special. I'm going to credit for that.

I'm going to tell you this. Also, when is Joe Mixing coming back, if ever? Because that's a huge part of it. Joe Mixon is supposed to be a huge feature part of this offense. We cannot overlook that. He was supposed to be here. And outside of that, you've got to bust it up, 17 knee surgery.

Nick Chubb and then question marks. Damian Pierce, who had one good season, it hasn't been good since. And then Woody Marks, who's a fourth-round rookie that a lot of people said was overdrafted? We're talking about this all season long. It's possible. Absolutely.

Because it was never really fixed in the off-season. The Texans decided not even to go to it early in the draft. Second round for a left tackles. But there were multiple spots that could have been fixed. You could have got multiple rookies in the first three rounds. You know Trader Nick is always moving around draft picks. Yes, he is.

Hannah's not going to be pleased about this. I don't know if Hannah's more upset about the offensive line or her husband being... You know what she's more upset about. By being character assassinated by her brother-in-law. She's the PR queen. She hates this story that's coming out. 114. Sports Talk 790.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 122, Sports Talk 790. It is Madden Ross with you until 2 o'clock. Believe it or not today, I don't even know what we're talking about. You want to do Maraq Carey? She got an MTV Award or something yesterday. Speaking of which, why is Peyton Manning telling me to watch the VMAs?

Bally, when... There shouldn't even be a VMAs when there's no V's. Videos. 7-13-212. Yeah, there's Vs. They're just not on that channel. I mean, some V's about another. he's got that right

thank you Jonathan why are you startled by the things I say I just said some people are better than others like for instance Uptown girl back in that day was a good V song video song or those other videos like Thrull I was saying

Okay did you enjoy the Kendrick Lamar squabble up video Is that Drake reference? By the way he just no No the video was just so the song was called Squabble Up By the way over the weekend Kendra Mar won an Emmy For what?

For a music presentation for the Super Bowl. Congratulations to him. So that makes a Pulitzer and Emmy. I believe. Is he a Tony yet? No. He's trying to get the EGOT with the Oscar and the Tony.

I don't know if the Oscar is his, but I think Black Panther for original song won, but I don't know if it was his song. I can't remember. And then, of course, 22 Grammy Awards. So congratulations to him on the Emmy Award for over the weekend for the Super Bowl halftime. performance. And 50% of America hated the halftime performance. Probably more. But you know what, though? I figured this out over the weekend. 50% of America hates everything.

You just figured that out? Well, I mean, I wanted to put in perspective. Okay. Like, you and I go to sports bars. You like Matt Ross? Well, I love Ross. That's true. 50%. No, people love Matt. People love Mr. Texas.

I was in Brennam on Friday night. On the streets of Texas. You know what? That's my fault for bringing that up. made it three and a half. I brought it up, but you didn't bring it over three and a half hours. That is accurate. So that's my bad. Anyways. By the way, I think Jonathan from here on out, we should play God bless Texas when I first start the show. Because that's the appropriate theme for Mr. Texas. Oh, okay. It was nominated for an Oscar, did not win. Sorry, all the stars. God bless Texas.

Yeah, it's, don't play it. I'm just saying it was just, there should be patriotic songs about me. Because I am, I do carry the flag for the state. Like a bald eagle war or something? Exactly. Well, wouldn't it be like an armadillo and a blue bonnet? Brown, great city. Like that Rutter Ruger commercial? They say the Texas Burger has all the stuff in it. Big stars at night.

Bruder Ruger's getting too national on us. It's losing its Texas charm. Got to be honest with you. You agree with me, don't you? I don't think you're wrong. Oh, you know how painful that was for sports? No, what do you mean? I've been talking about In-N-Out Burger being better for years.

It's not, though Shut up. You don't know. I guess I do. Burger for burger for burger? My family's from California. No, no, no, no. Burger is not close.

Sorry, you're wrong. To Rotter burger, right? Yes. Renn in Route is better than Rotteridge. If you want to bring in the French fries and whatnot, we can have a discussion. But burger for burger, it ain't even close. Matt's trying to claim Mr. Texas and you're saying the Ops. See, Renarouts are throughout Texas now.

Houston, Austin, Tennessee, because they're not real. out real authentic. What I mean real authentic? I walk and they go walking the running route may help. You know that prince is not authentic to me. But Waterberg is only in a select few southern states. No, sir. They're in Missouri now. Missouri. And in south. It is

by the way, the Renan route if we're going with that. It's better in California. I don't disagree with it. But if I need a little renter out hookup, I'll go get that hook up. All right. Anyways, what were we talking about? Supply. Sports. Stunna on 7.

90 at 126, Stana, how the hell are you? What's going on, Matthew Thomas? How are y'all doing today? We're wonderful. Welcome back, Rob.

Welcome back, man. Thank you, Starr. I think I've been back for two weeks now, but I appreciate it. Man, your replacement was pretty, you know, pretty interesting, man. Your replacement was pretty interesting, man.

What? I had two guys come in for a couple hours. Gordon came in one day and called Thompson. Okay, what do you think? Am I getting Wally Pitt? out of here? Oh, yeah, yeah, you know, Adam Palillo.

Oh, that's what he called Cole. He called Cole Thompson, Adam Polillo. He's got some Clanton and some Charlie Palo in him. Oh, that's quite an interesting mix, actually. I was really calling because, man, um, hey, Gubb has got a sit, man. He can't be starting every game. He's got to sit.

Who does? Dubon Maricio Oh yeah A fully healthy team's not starting him every day Well Richie and man I just thinking he got either

playing At Tuve at D.H. or left and put Uri is at second and I didn't go with that that Jose Cat

out there in in light field because, man, that's our best lineup. Because when you got the bun and, you know, I can see him coming off at the end of the game for special reasons, but the spotter got to stick with one lineup. No, he doesn't. No, that's not how baseball works.

We don't stick with one lineup. You have to go with the situational matchups. You've got to go lefty versus righty, righty versus lefty. You know, guys are going to get days off. guys are going to be hot. The whole thought and love you sounding like a brother from another mother, obviously. But the fact is you just, no, we don't do this.

We don't, in 2025, hell in 1975, you don't go with the same nine guys every day. It doesn't work that way. It just doesn't. Thank you, Matt. That's all I got. You play matchups and, well, I mean, especially in the situation of Cam Smith and Sanchez, their splits are so different

against righties and lefties, and the fact they both are primarily right fielders, and the fact that Cam Smith can use to your days off. Dubon used all over the field, and it's not like Ramon Urius has been great at the plate. At one point, Dubon had been better overall, but

I mean, either way. Dubon's by the 118 games. I mean, that's not every day. That's a lot. And there's also been some pinch chaining in there, but... Yeah, how many of those are starts? Probably most of them, right? He's got 200 less at Bats than Jose Altovae, who's put 137, so significantly. All right. I didn't have it memorized, but I looked that up.

I was looking up. I thought you had that. I thought you were channeling Palillo. No. 336 plate appearances. He's got to be better. Let me come on now. I mean, you know. Here we go.

You know, is Nick Kassarion doing some sort of institutional lack of control the building? You know, come on now. I mean, why is it George Berger played? He's 25 years old. That was curious, but we knew why. Yeah. Team control. hashtag, sign me away.

Get me out of here as fast as humanly possible. And now he is tearing it up for the Toronto Blue Jays. Yeah, but it was a slow start for a while. Man, how are his overall numbers? They're probably pretty good, right? How many... He's hitting 300 with 27 homers? How many OPS is over all those years in Toronto?

He's got 942 OPS right now. Oh, damn! We could use that. How about the last three or four years? What's this been OPS? I'll give you OPS pluses, folks. 100 being average, starting his first year in Toronto. 141. Excellent.

132. Excellent. 102. 91ish. And then 154 this year. He's played a lot of games there. We talk about him being injury prone and all that stuff. 21 he was hurt, but since then, 133 games, 154, 145, and 121.

And that U.S. money does okay there. I know these things. Yeah, but doesn't, well, if, isn't he getting played? paid in Canadian money? That's a good question. How does that work? I don't know, but you got Tim Horton. Riem Rortons up there.

A little taxes in Toronto are, no Bueno. And the airport's far away from downtown. Further than Intercontinental. Okay. I don't know why I brought that up. I'm sorry. I think when he's in stretching out in a black SUV, he's doing all right. It's funny.

We drove to Brennam on Friday, and my wife's like, man, I wish we had a driver. I said, we could it's called Uber. Uber to bring him? Everybody has a driver now. We can literally get a driver anywhere we're going to go. I'm serious. If I can ever convince you to go back to that in your industry, Uber,

that would be good because, first of all, you'd be awesome at it. Secondly, the stories you could tell. Yeah. Let me check the Iheart's earnings reports. Might be back there sooner than I think. That 401K number. Yeah. Breaking news.

That's one. Do you know what it is, Jonathan? No, I was waiting. I was waiting. Ross, you know. Feels like 1.5 max. They're going to round up then. Okay, let's do it too.

You're reading it or me? Okay, by the way, I hate to divul. Just digress here. Sam, I do not call Coke pop. When I lived when I was a kid, when I was seven years old, I called it pop. You always say that, Matt. You always walk up here and say, would you like to have a poppy? No, I do not.

Shut up. Sam, shut your bum ass up, man. I do not call it pop. I call everything Coke. What kind of Coke do you want? I'll have a Sprite. So Sam, shut up. You don't know.

False. I'm sending him a... Yeah, that's ridiculous. All right. Go ahead. Cade toot this from Aaron Wilson, who did get the C. We just have to say,

did get the C.J. Gardner Johnson ACL tear wrong, but also has gotten a lot of things right. Texan starting tight-in, Cade Stover, broke his foot against the Rams and is out indefinitely. Stover was in a boot after the game, caught a team high four passes for 22 yards on four targets. With Cade Stover out indefinitely, the Texans will need reinforcements at Tide End. They went with just two tight ends against Rams with Dalton Schultz and Stover.

Hmm. Tide end was pretty big, especially in the first half. They were catching everything. Dalton Schultz's like, you can keep me around now. Yeah. Broken foot, that's what, six, eight weeks, right? In theory? In theory?

I don't think about the average person breaks his foot. I mean, I think a tight-in needs his foot as well. You got to run, you got to push off, you got to block. I mean, I have not told you this yet today, but I was able to get a sound bite that we just found. Of? We attempted to call Bobby Sloak, the former Texans coordinator. Oh, my God.

Here is his thoughts after yesterday's Texan's offensive performance. Oh, that's it. That's it. It's kind of fine, huh? It's kind of funny. Oh, okay. I was thinking more of a, oh,

like a big barrel chested laugh. I thought it was going to be one of these. Shit your bum ass up, man. Now, he is in Miami where that whole staff's going to be fired eventually. That's true as well. He doesn't have much of a life that left either, but. I thought you're going to go with the shack. Kobe, tell me how my bleat taste.

Oh, those cussars and discussers all on their little YouTube fanboy pages. Well, it's got it. I'm going to start throwing shade it by, Bobby Sloke. Bobby Sloog is like, shut your bumass him. You give me a trash offensive line. Yeah, it's just so easy. When someone leaves town, it's so easy to say, well, it's like, I cannot wait for if, I shouldn't say this, if the Astros coaches do change, there's going to be somebody, I told you so. I told you that's what the problem was.

Yeah, look, that's fine. And they could very well be changed. And I've talked about this. And people have misconstrued me defending the coaches. Oh, I've seen your tweets. you are defending him to the nines. Okay. Really what I'm saying is that the hitters need to be better. Because the coaches get all the blame when it's bad and none of the credit when it's good.

I'm just saying be consistent. And I'm consistent. It's the players. Carlos Correa is how many years in the major league has he been? 9-10? Carl's Cray is a 9-10 year major leaker. Yorna Alvarez has been great. He's like six, seven years in. And oh, by the way, the only hitting coaches he's had is the one that, they have right now. And he's been pretty darn good. Jose Al Tuve is about to waltz into the Hall of Fame. Christian Walker is 30 plus years old and eight, nine year vet. He needs to be better too. Jeremy Pena's having a breakout year. Hitting coaches don't get any credit for that. Trust me,

if the Texans don't score in the end zone this week, Nick Cayley, you might as well get ready for Nick Cayley combo 24-7. So let's go through the lineup. Jeremy Payne, breakout year. Yorda Alvarez, amazing. Jose Al Tuve, future Hall of Famer, Carlos Correa, 910 years in. Christian Walker, 9 10 years in. Jake Myers having a breakout year. And then Yiner Diaz was having a bad year

and it needs to be better. That was your top 7 in the lineup. Where are the hitting coaches failing in what I just ran through? It isn't an individual thing. It's a byproduct of team to not perform up to expectations. An owner and a general manager say, what can we do to be better?

And sometimes there's a shake-up. And that's what I'm I don't think it'll be fair. I have no relationship with the pinning coaches at all. Yeah, me either. I don't. And you get new guys in, you get Tom Dick and Harry in here next year. I'm going to say the players need to hit better. I'm just saying, and the reason why I'm cross-sport comparison, comparing this is that,

oh, Nick Cayley, this is the guy that went to Los Angeles. He learned out from the very best and Sean McVeigh. That was the team that didn't score touchdown in week one. Right? I thought Nick Cayley was supposed to change everything. healthy C.J. Stroud. Good running back. Elite receivers.

We got to do a better job. We as sports fans. Got to put this on the players. We really do. Even your boy, Sark was getting the grief after the Ohio State game yesterday. Oh, God. Oh, the Ohio State game? Yeah, well, well, also you were,

to me, it's a little bit different when you're a college coach because if you blame the players, these are the players you brought in and you developed. Do we have the sound bite of Mr. Sarkeesian. You want him? Okay. Set it up. Have you seen the video, folks, of there's a video circulating where Arch Manning throws a

pass, and he's wincing. I'll see that. And he's grimacing. So Steve Sarkisian asked about that. Here's what he had to say. Archmanning seemed to be having some throwing pains by the fourth quarter. According to who? Arch. Arch said that to you?

No. Oh, according to who? It just looked like he was... He doesn't have any. Is there an explanation to why? why he was, it looked like that. I don't know. I've never filmed any of you guys when you're using the bathroom,

so I don't know what faces you make when you're doing that. What? What? That was Mr. Analogy-level analogy. That was bad. I would say,

that was horrific. I know what about analogy sounds like. That's bizarre. Let me ask you this. If you showed, you know what I would have done? Is that reporter, I would have said,

here's the video I'm talking about. Go up and show him. Yeah. I mean, there's the video is circulating and it looks like he wintzes before he throws. It looks like he's in paint. And I'm quite frankly a little concerned about it. Because I thought when I virtually thought, I thought it was something AI driven. Okay. Because no one said word one about it during the game. And we don't have any idea when that video was taken, right? We'd have zero. I think it's, yeah, you can see it's the San Jose game.

I know that, but I'm saying it was in the first half. I don't know. I don't know exactly. I just know it doesn't look good. Biscott, I got 60 seconds for you. You're on 790. Good afternoon. Yes, sir. You, Coooole, Matt. What? Cougar, Matt. Yes, I got 45 seconds now. Biscuit, what do you got? Let's go. Fire away, Big Brother. First of all, man, Cougars in the house on Friday night, man. I wish I could make it on Friday, but I think it's going to be at the show on Cougars, man.

I've got him playing some deep at the ball. To the Texas. Matt, come on, man. You changed four office alignment. Y'all thought they were just going to come out the box just shining and looking like a well-all machine. It takes time, man. Now, listen, to me, Ross, and you can correct me for wrong, the issue to me to look at

seven, eight games from now is, do they have enough weapons? And now you're telling me another weapon got hurt? That's where the issue I see is. They don't have, they got one guy. scared up right now. When Kirk and Joe come back, maybe it'll change. But right now you just got one guy, and he can be taken out the game.

The rest of the guys is just mediocre. And you're playing one of the top to pump sevens in the league. Yeah, you weren't going to score many points. You know, that's, the Rams mess around going to the soup bowl. So yeah, man, I think we got to pump the brakes on the offensive line. Give them time

to jail. I know they do got some injuries that came in front of the game. Left tackle is an issue, though. give them time to jail. You know what? The reality is, Biscuit, thank you for the call. We have to give them time. That's not out of the, I mean, we're talking about, first of all,

no, a season never finished after one week. Frankly, for that matter, remember, you know, next week when teams go into, we're going to hear that stat every year we hear. That teams only make the playoffs certain percentage of time when they teams go over to that. That is the easy, easy storyline. I got news for you, folks. I watch some of that Buccaneers Falcons game. making me feel can throw the ball around.

Mike Evans ain't slowing down. You're going to have to score a bunch of points. And if the offensive line wants to hold up, that's great. But the reason why we're bringing this up is because that was the number one concern going in and you felt absolutely no better whatsoever. And I guarantee you, as you're watching the game yesterday, many of you were going, oh, just give a time and give a time. No, you're thinking, you know what?

Same verse. Same as a first. 713-21-2-5-7-90 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 believe it or not today is all things about Matt Stafford and maybe some other stuff Matt Stafford and maybe some other things okay hmm 713 212-2-570 7-1 3 and somebody I'm very curious about the other things I'm going to make some stuff up that's fine all right I got a kill for 30 seconds tomorrow on the show gut feelings at 11 o'clock. Actually, 11.30, excuse me.

Tomorrow, there'll be no news at noon because we're going to hear D'Amico Ryan's press conference live at 12 noon tomorrow here on 7 o'clock. I'm looking forward to that. Joe Spott is with us at 1230. Ross's NFL rewind at 120. And I will not make mention of the complete annihilation that the Houston Toros did of the Cal's Roughwriters over the weekend in fantasy football. We'll not bring that up at all anymore this week. but that's all on tomorrow's show. Astros also starting a series tomorrow in Toronto

against the Blue Jays three-game series with the Blue Jays in Canada, then on to Atlanta for a three-game home stand or trip against Braves. Then one week of home games left. The Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners, and it's on the road to close out the week, the season, with six games in California,

three against the A's and three against the Angels. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We're going to go quick here. We're going to play America's fast as, you know, you all know the rules. What is the category today? Matthew Stafford. I wrote all eight questions in the last break.

Oh, my God. There might be some spelling errors. That's fine. If you get them right, you win a prize. Here we go. The prizes would include a $790 T-shirt. I probably should have had this. This is my fault on this.

This is totally terrible on my part. Where are the damn prizes? Oh, we got Cougar tickets. Oh, Cougar tickets. Tickets, see the Cougars against Colorado. Or, that's it. 713 go Couges. 713 go Cougars.com slash tickets. Cougars versus Colorado this Friday at 6.30.

Felipe on 790. Felipe, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Matthew Stafford is a lion's all-time winning passer in six on the Rams list. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Believe it.

Same number two for the wind. Matthew Stafford was also a standout pitcher in a Highland Park High School in Dallas and received several baseball scholarship offers. Believe it or not? That's right. He was not. Congratulations. Jerry on 790, Jerry, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Matthew Stafford was the first ever true freshman to be named starting quarterback at Georgia in week number one.

Believe it or not. Not. That is correct. Statement number two for the win. Matthew Stafford is now the 10th on the all-time passing list behind Damarino. Believe it or not. Not. That is a believe it. Sorry, I think you're playing.

Renee on 790, Renee, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Matthew Stafford is the godfather of Nebraska quarterback Dylan Rayola. Believe it or not? Not. That is a believe it. Believe it. You should know those things.

Come on. You use that one of Friday. John on 790, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In 2023, Matthew Stafford starred in the second season in the Netflix series quarterback. Believe it or not. Not. That is a believe it.

Thank you for playing. On 790, Matthew Stafford met his wife, Kelly, at Georgia, where she was a cheerleader. Believe it or not? I'm going to help you out. Believe it on both. On the next one, too? Yes, sir. I'm confident.

All right. Matthew Stafford is the second all-time living past from Georgia history behind Aaron Murray. The answer was a knot. You're out. Goodbye.