The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Can Texans Cover & Houston-Baylor Cancelled

Episode Date: September 18, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12 H-town. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. With Ross and Brendan, I'm Matt, and we are happy to have you guys with us. it is a will the Texans cover Friday

Ross I thought about it it would be just frankly silly to talk about the Texans winning this game Friday despite it's an energy stadium I think Indy's got them winning 38 to 20 Oh put Indy on the microphone Okay Come on Indy Well he was a barbecue sandwiches up here

So he's don't get me brisket on the microphone Indy Come on now I'll try I'll try Okay hey Andy First of all, tell the audience of all the people at our radio station, all the on-air talent. Who was the only one that had the Texans beating the Chiefs in Kansas City? Have you heard of upset? Yeah, but there wasn't going to be one.

Did you have the Jacksonville Jaguars beating the Indianapolis Colts? No, I lost that game. Well, if that can happen, then the Houston Texans can beat a good team. I was wrong, and look, they failed me the first week, but I actually went Baltimore Ravens this week. And that's how you know there's really no hope. Ooh. Andy, that's troubling sports RV. If Inde doesn't take the Texans.

Yeah, if Bill O'Brien gets wind of this, he's just going to shut it down. Well, here's a, here's a tweet for you. What was your favorite Andy Kalu as a Texan ambassador moment? Yeah, they let me down. The fact that during the game, I guess Chris Gordy tweeted something out about my pick and trying to take a shot at me for picking the Texans, and I think my father liked it on Twitter. I said, okay.

Oh. They're not going to make a joke out of me, so I'm going Ravens until they prove otherwise. How's the Bresket, by the way? It is good. It's free. So it's good. You know what? If it's free, you could take a dump in between bread and I'll eat it and I'll be excited because it's free.

All right, we have that on record. We'll be using that on a soundbite of a future best of show. You know how we have like Uncle Greg story still playing on, like, Labor Day and whatnot? We're just going to play that sound bite on an endless loop for an hour. Figuratively, not Odell Beckham type of. You have NFL. players are strange. You really are.

He's, he's straight. No, no. Don't group him in with the rest of. Before I let you get back to your brisket, don't mention a player's name. But you play in the NFL for a long time. Give me the freakiest thing that you actually know of a teammate that that was their freak. That was their freak zone.

Like O'Dill Beckham. You know what? I don't have any stories like that. The freest thing I heard about that blew my mind, there was a group of older men in Philadelphia who had young wives, and they would recruit the younger Philadelphia players who weren't the ones making money, like on practice squad. They would see them out there,

and they would invite them back to their house and may or may not offer up their wives to them. And all they asked is that they can watch. You play with a bunch of lurkers then? Lurkers? Is that what it's called? No, he didn't play with them. The other guys are. Oh, well, that doesn't count as a story then.

What? Indy, how long do you play in the NFL? Why doesn't that not count as a story that somebody wants to watch? That's weird. When my teammate told me that, and he acted like it was normal, I was like, hey, I won't say his name. Like, that's not right. And he was on the uncle.

I told him, man, if he touched me, I'll whoop his ass. So he just stayed in the corner. That's funny. So how many times did you do it, Indy? I couldn't do that. I'd be nervous. So you're telling me that none of your teammates all these years didn't have a strange little fetish that you were like.

If they did, they didn't tell us about it. about it. Okay, that's all scary. So the answer is no. You don't know of any fetishes that your, that your teammates over all your career had. Well, that's not a fetish getting off to banging a dude's wife while he's watching. But you, but that wasn't a direct teammate of yours. Yes, it was. Oh, what? Banger. Did I know? Oh, he was a banger? Indie, Indico, you're not listening or something, Matt. It's he's saying the teammates were with some guy's wife while the guy watched. Oh, okay. So that works. Okay, that's fine. That's applicable then.

Yes, I'm trying to think, yeah, other than that, no, nothing, nothing to, now, that's something you have to ask Greg about. Oh, I bet Greg could answer that better than anybody. Greg told me the story that he was involved in and he was going to tell it on air and I told him do not tell that story. Just don't. It's just so bad. Was that the 3 a.m. one? He hasn't told us. Oh, okay.

Yeah. No, I'm talking about off air. I've heard a couple of them. Oh, okay. That aren't safe for air. Yeah, no, I almost feel like, look, I don't want to program your show because it's a great show, but you ought to have like just Uncle Greg. He just could call in with a story once a week.

Actually, I thought about that. That's not a bad call. He's trying to change his image. It might be late in the game for that. He's in his late 60s. That's not going to change. You're never too old to change for the better, Matt. That's like the late Hugh Heffner saying, you know what?

I don't think I want to touch a woman anymore. Yeah, you're trying to get to the promised land. So. I started making gospel music. Yeah. Are excited about my big Houston Cougar Baylor game tomorrow? You're going to be watching?

11 o'clock. You know what? I give props to both programs for making that happen. And shout out to Baylor because that's definitely a winnable game for you of age for them not to run scared.

So I'm definitely looking forward to it. Then, you know, y'all dodged the rice owl beat down. So y'all should be fresh. Now we're, now we're revising history. Y'all dodged the beat down from rice. You all were supposed to play rice and it didn't happen.

How many rice games are on a schedule at this point? Well, they called me up. There's four games that I'm calling alone, so. What? They said maybe. Oh. They said just, they said, Tinted to plants.

Listen to this. It's like when you get an outlook reminder, you put a maybe on there. TVA or TV. There is. Rice house football in 2020. Catch it. Possibly.

Maybe. Or maybe. there's a chance. Rice out football. We're going to try. Oh, my gosh. All right, I'll let you go back to your brisket sandwich. I appreciate coming in.

Oh, sports RV. When Indy Kalu comes in, I think he's hiding some stories. I bet he's got some really, really, really good ones. He just nodded. Yeah, I knew he would. I knew he would.

He can't say, yeah. He's not going to air out all his dirty laundry out on the air for you, Matt. Well, so he'd wait for his show to do it, basically. It's not a bad idea. Or some kind of podcast. Yeah, maybe like Plinkos and Powerbombs. Maybe he did something freaky when Wink Martindale was there or something.

Why would you bring up the Ravens Defensive Coordinator here on the show? Oh, wait. What was there a show host named Wink Martindale or something? You don't know that? Okay. Yes. No, that's the gods on his truth. It's been a running bit the last couple of years in the NFL.

The Ravens' defensive coordinator's name is Wink Martindale. Okay. I think he's the second most famous Wink Martindale. The first is a longtime game show host. Yeah, that's who I was talking about. Yeah. I'm confused. I put a picture up of Wink Martindale hosting Tick-Tac Doe saying this is my favorite

favorite defense corner in the NFL, and it didn't resonate. But that's fine. Every tweet's going to resonate, Ross. At SportsMT. Yeah. If you want resonating tweets, I'd go somewhere else. Just for me to amuse myself at SportsMT. All right.

So, Rossi, we're not going to treat this as a, can the Texans win game, right? We're going to talk We're going to talk about it's Can the Texans cover the spread? It's a spread bump to... It's still six and a half, I think. I've heard everything from up to seven and a half.

Give me the definitive number, please. Okay, hold on. I'm trying to find it. Because you are the official odds maker of Matt Tom's show. Yeah, it's seven across the board. Seven at the Westgate and the William Hill and other places. So I got bumped a half point. That's not a full point.

Okay. Touchdown dogs can win, Matt. Certainly at home, all you need is they just need like 4-5-6 Lamar Jackson fumbles and they'll have a shot. Okay, so we'll do this. We'll open it up to the audience at 713-212-5-790. If you and your heart of hearts believe the Texans are going to win this game this week, let us know how it's going to happen. Bill, you know, it's like, you know how I always say on the show, Theater of the Mind? I want Theater of the Mind, Rossi, on how Sunday between 325 and 640 is going to go.

can you do it can you give me a scenario in your mind without any preparation of how the Texans are going to win this game on Sunday because if you sell it to me hard enough I'll buy into it I'm not I'm not opposing them winning it's not rooting against them

I've got no financial or no interest and I mean frankly you'll get people a little happier than they would beat a quality team especially up the way they played against Kansas City Lamar Jackson and J.K. Dobbins and Mark Ingram and Hollywood Brown all get COVID by before Saturday. Oh, so basically

you're telling the audience, the only way the Texans lose this game on Sunday is due to a massive COVID outbreak with the Baltimore Ravens. Yes. So you're saying there's a chance. So you're telling me there's a chance. Yes, I am, Matt. I'm telling you there's a chance.

All right. I would hope that people would not call in with just that excuse. So you're telling me there's a chance. Yeah, I know. I mean, I would hope that people would call in and say, you know, it's because the Texans' offensive line is going to give Deshawn more protection, that we're going to see Brandon Cook step out. We're going to see that Duke Johnson grabs the ball four times out of the backfield for 50 yards.

He'll score, and the David Johnson will have another good week. I mean, I'm into all of that. I don't know if I want to go to, well, the Ravens get a huge outbreak of COVID as the reason why the Texans can win. I feel like there needs to be a little bit more juice to that. Don't you agree? You know, this is one of those ones. I feel like you call it maybe a trap game as a better, where it doesn't make sense to you.

Like, how are the Texans going to stop this offensive machine of Lamar Jackson? The Ravens have at least a decent defense, so they'll probably slow down Deshawn Watson somewhat. I don't know. This one is one you feel like, kind of like you, Matt, and you made the big bed, and we've done this a lot of times. We didn't do them beat the Shmos for years. You're like, how, in what world do they not cover?

And then you just get surprised. we've seen that from the Texans as well, where, you know, they're supposed to lose to the Patriots and they win and they're supposed to beat the Broncos and they lose. It's almost like it's the Bill O'Brien hallmark of disappointing one week and then somehow finding a way to rally. And I guess that's what is the hope of Texans fans. Okay. So I'm going to offer the audience a chance to call this radio show early on. Because I'm building today's show is not can the Texans win, but can the Texans cover the seven? because in my mind, I don't see any possibility. And again, I'm more than willing to have egg on the face on Monday.

Rossi, we eat more crow on this show than any other show in America, right? Yes, you do. I mean, we are crow-e-fool-in-fools in this show. You're going to come out with a crow cookbook. Yeah. I didn't think they had a chance against Kansas City, and I feel the exact same way. I feel, and our friend, Des is not going to like this. I feel like they don't have a better chance to go to Pittsburgh and win than they do it home against Baltimore.

I just do. That's just how I feel. 713-212-5-790. If you really believe. Matter of fact, let's come back with shares believe because that's how strong you have to believe in your Texans to play a share song on this show. Don't, don't him and ha.

I'd rather have like I'm a believer by the monkeys with your boy, Mickey Dolans. He's not my boy. We're not getting along. Okay, all songs this hour Rossi have to have the word believe in the title. Okay. So I'm a believer. Believe. Do you believe in magic?

I believe there's a song Believe in Miracles. Whatever it is, Brendan Riley. Every song this hour must have the song word believe in the title. Daydream believer? Don't stop believing? Oh, Journey, yeah. We're going to go longer than an hour on this, Rossi. Yeah, we can just shuffle share to the back.

We don't even need her. But she's, I do like her. I know. It's anti... Oh, geez. Okay, you know, we'll push her to the back. 2 o'clock hour. Ross, we have the football parody from Chris Gordy coming up at 1250.

Nice. We go to Baltimore at 1 o'clock. We have our picks at 130, which Brendan gets to go first because he beat our ass this past week. And we have Brian T. Smith at 2. 7.13-212-5-790. Do you believe the Texans can win, or do you want to believe that they can at least cover the seven-point spread? It's a Matt Thomas show. 7-13, 2-1-3.

one two five seven ninety back to matt thomas drives this deep to left center field this is sports talk 790 home of astros baseball then i saw her face now i'm a believer very different he their scheme in the running game is very unique very unique no one no one else in the league really does what they do they're just it's just the way they use their tight end their blocking schemes, their backs, and then obviously them are. And then, you know, obviously he's an excellent passer. So it's very unique. We got to

we have to have a great week. We started out on Monday, started working on them on Monday. You need to have a really good Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and you'd be ready to go on Sunday. Turn it up, Mickey. Ross, are you a believer? No.

Nor are your fans on Twitter. I just look at your Twitter poll question. At SportsRV. So far, you've had the poll question up. Nine minutes, you've been 83 votes. Do the Texans cover plus a seven against the Ravens on Sunday? You have 90% no, 10% yes. That bisex, he says, not a chance.

At B-Man Wayne says, please take my yes vote out, click the wrong one. So it'd be even worse. One of Dre Lopez says, where's the hell no option? And they'll be lucky to lose by 13. So not a whole lot of belief amongst Texans fans. And so let me tell you the reason why that song irritates me so. Who's saying I'm a believer in the Shrek movies? That would be the, what's it called?

Smash mouth. Yeah. So I'm playing golf with Mickey. I feel like Brendan's a big Shrek guy from when he was a kid. It took everything in me not to play that version of the song. By the way, Shrek is a terrific movie, all of them. I've seen them multiple times. See, Brendan, you're almost, hashtag Dad movies.

So I asked him, I said, and I was just trying to bring up conversation because it's like 110 degrees. He's bitching him on about a hot day. I'm like, again, it's July in Houston playing golf. It's kind of come to the territory. I said, you have to be really pleased at how your song is kind of a new generation of fans have loved Smash Mouse version of your song. And he goes, I don't know, I barely ever heard it. And I was like, well, you know, Shrek is like one of the top three movies.

Yeah, I don't pay much attention to that. Like, you jerk. Sorry to bring up Beatle, I mean, bad monkey stories on the show, but I was just like, man, this is, that was such a buzzkill Ross to be hanging out with one of, I mean, when I was a kid, I watched the monkey TV shows. Now granted, they were already off the air when I was, I had been born, but I just, they were playing repeats. And I'm like, this is Mickey Dolan. This is one of the guys. I mean, Daydream Believer, last train to Clarksville, the monkey's theme. And it was just awful.

sort of like the game's going to be on Sunday. I'm sorry, Matt. See, I segue between that and Texans football. Is there another radio host in the market that can segue between the monkeys and Houston Texans? Hmm. So this Sunday is the Mickey Dolans of Houston Sports. Well, I felt like last week was the Mickey Dolans and all three teams lost. Yeah, that's pretty bad.

All right, 713, 212, 5790. We're going to start taking calls right now. 713-212-5-790. Can the Texans... win or can the Texans cover the seven. Now, don't come up. I want to hear legit. I mean, I need X.

I need X. Every Texans Derek. Every Texan's Debbie. Every Texan's Julio. Every Texan's Matilda. To call in with their bling and their big necklaces and tell me how this thing's going to be close. Why don't you have a Texan black name?

You have Julio. You have Karen. You had Blaine. Debbie? Blaine Bishop is black. Why can't Blaine be black? Where's Jamal? Where's Tyrone?

Where's Texan Duran? Where's Texans in Dukeway? Yeah. Where's Texans? Elton. What is that? Elton Brand. No.

It's a slave name. We want a societal Ibiza. Elton is a slave name? Yes. He's like Elton. I ain't no brothers really named Elton. We want one where there's a lower case and follow-by application in the middle of the name. Hey, I got one for you.

It's going to make you really mad. Black Texans Austin. What is that? Austin Rivers. What are you talking about? Austin Rivers. Is black? Blackish.

I'm talking about black black Like Oh black black Like lock your doors When he walks by the car Oh no I did not endorse that message Under any circumstances

Like the ones you've never let in your house As long as you've lived there Oh my God You are going to hell Special place Tell the truth How many black black people Have you had in your house

How many white white people have had in my house Like three That's not true No I don't I don't want anybody come over the house. Really? One time I let Ross come over and he ripped about how far I lived from the city. And I'm like, you're never coming over again.

You told me to do that to jab at your wife. I was instructed to make cracks about how we were in Nacadocious. Yeah, that's not. How many black people live on your street? Uh, zero. Zero. Tell the truth now. Tell the truth.

We want the truth. You asked your realtor, hey, how many black people live here before you signed on the dotted line. Right? Then when she said zero, you paid a premium for that house. The views expressed by Andy Klu, just are awful. Unbelievably bad. He's not denying it. No, I completely deny it.

Oh, you heard that? The lights not on the switch button. Seriously, there is a special place in hell. And you know where you're going to go? You're going to go to the expensive hell because I know you're so cheap you don't want to pay for regular hell. You're going to get expensive hell. the truth hurts I haven't heard

piece of truth yet so how many how many true brothers have been invited to your house for dinner I haven't had anybody in my house for dinner in year see you're avoiding the question just give me a number

I mean I have to say zero because I don't invite anybody to dinner wow that's you you've invited someone to dinner not lately Greg Cook said you invited him to dinner no no Ross how long have you know me a decade. How many times you've been to my house?

Twice. That was one time to pick me up to go to Lake Charles. That's correct. Wow. So the Mexican guy has to come pick you up and drive you to Lake Charles. And he's only been to your house twice and you've been working with him for 10 years. This isn't helping your case, buddy. Andy, come over to the house to have stakes this weekend? I'll be busy. You're not even there.

I'm not, I'm going to wake away. That's why I'm doing the show from the Kingwood Office. You're not even there. Yeah, you're right. Wow, empty invitations. disappointing. I've been to Michael Barry's house five times. Oh, really? Yes.

Huh. Huh. Okay. Texan Devante. Texan Resortez. Let me tell you, Andy. I've invited you to station events, Zooms,

everything. You don't, you, you are like the renegade. You're like, I'm always busy. No, I've been on Zoom. Have fun. The station event,

invited me to you wanted me do something about parking cars or the valet you say hey just wear this little finger suit I said the tips are going to be good you got a bow tie exactly why are you asking if I have a bow tie all jokes you know you're my play cousin

whatever that means that means we're cool wait so you didn't have that friend growing up where y'all were so tight y'all would tell everybody y'all were cousins that's a play cousin well I mean I've had a lot of friends friends that I went to high school with that were black. The last name was Thomas.

And we used to say that we were brothers from another mother. Or they took over your, let me stay away from it. Do you know the history of black Americans and their names? No. Really? Like what, in reference to what? So a black dude with the last name Thomas, you think that's, when you look down his ancestral line, you think it's always been Thomas?

What was it before? Have you seen the scene where they're whipping somebody And they say your name is... No, that's a true story. Oh, so the Thomas is they responsible for that? Yes. Yes. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. This is my brother from another mother. I'm going to call Bunby on this. Oh, he'll break it down even more for you. I'm just trying to have fun with it. But Queenie loves me, so it'll be fine. We'll be fine.

Yeah. I've heard how she really feels about you. She adores me. No, she does. I think she likes you more than my show. She likes your show more than me. I mean, I hate to tell you, that's probably the truth. Yeah, we're going to have to call a bun about that.

All right. Andy, 10 to noon, and maybe doing some rice game this year, provided there's a season. Maybe. All right, I got to get to a call here. Let me get to a break. All right, Drew West Chase. Sorry that Indy interrupted your opportunity to speak to the hundreds that are listening

to this radio show right now. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. 12-29. Matt Thomas Show, we are back to find out if anybody believes that Texans can cover the seven or even win the game. It's Sports Talk 7-90. Houston, it's your home teams.

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Sports Talk 790 is home for your home teams You believe in magic In a young girl's heart How the music and freedom When we're sorry On 790 Ross if we were kids in the 60s Would we love this song?

I think I'd be more Motown A little Motown Howland Wolf, Muddy Waters, Freddie King. Wait, I'm in all that stuff now, so I don't know. Name of this band, I believe, is the Loving Spoonful. Am I correct on that? I think so.

That is correct. Who also did Summer in the City? That's a great song. All right, let's go to the phones. Drew is in West Chase. Drew believes the Texans will win this game on Sunday. Drew explained in my audience of hundreds how that's going to happen. I reluctantly believe that the Texans.

who's will win this game. Let me set the scene. So the quarterback matchup between Lamar Jackson and Deshaun Watson is going to meet the hype. They're both going to have spectacular games. I feel like I don't think our defense will stop or make life tough for Lamar Jackson, but I do think that maybe their offense has like a flip-up, maybe like a fumble or a jumble or a jubble snap, something mistakewise like that that gives our defense. just that edge that we need to kind of maybe hold on to a lead of some sort or get a lead

of some sort. But, yeah, I think the two quarterbacks have a great game. Sean Watson has a little better game. That's pretty much what I feel each week. I just believe in Watson, not so much the Texans. But there we know. All right. Thank you, Drew.

Appreciate the phone call. I don't know if I believe any of that. But, I mean, Ross, he did a job. He did his job. He came in and explained that he believes it'll be, it sounds like, like to me, he thinks it's going to be a very high-scoring affair. And honestly, if the Texans are going to win a game like this, don't they have to kind of win it 38, 35 somewhere in that range? I think that's definitely the prescription. I don't think you're going to see a 14 to 10 grudge match this

Sunday. I mean, anything can happen in the NFL. You're going to have to have something like that. It's going to be, have to be a shootout. And I think you're going to have to have, I mean, the formula for the Titans in that playoff game, which they won. A lot of it was luck. The Baltimore Ravens went 0 for 4 on 4th downs in that game. The Baltimore Ravens outgained the Titans, 500-something yards to 300-something yards. And really at the end of the day, Titans were pretty lucky. And they also ran the ball well, and they did a good job of controlling the clock and things like that and keeping Lamar Jackson off the field and doing just enough to win that game and kind of grind it out.

So I don't know. I think the Texans are going to have to get fortunate. Or step up in big moments, I guess, is what you could say. If you go 0-4 on 4th downs and the Ravens are one of the most aggressive, fourth down teams in the entire league because John Harbaugh has embraced analytics, you're going to have to win in those types of situations because there will be fourth down situations that can swing the pendulum of this game and the Texans have to step up in those moments. I mean, I'm looking Rossi at their debt chart, Willie Sneed, Hollywood Brown, Devin Duvernay,

Mark Engrow. A longhorn great Devin Duvernay to you, Matt. Well, I was waiting for you. I almost said it and I was like, come on. Jump in right away as I say that. Mark Andrews, a good line, offensive line, led by Orlando Brown. J.K. Dobbins is a rookie that's making some moves a little bit. You got a couple touchdowns last week.

Mark Ingram was one of the best running backs in the league last year. I mean, tell me where their weakness is. They hold up for their quarterback. They give them plenty of time. Lamar Jackson doesn't make the – now, granted, now we're not talking about Lamar Jackson in a playoff game because, look, last year he stunked up, as you just alluded to. But this is a week two of a regular season game.

This is the only way I could see this being something of a mild surprise is if they're already thinking about playing Kansas City next week. That's a Monday night game. That might be the best Monday night game in the history of ESPN as having the Ravens and Chiefs play the same day. But short of that, how are they, how do you take what they did last week combined with what the Texans didn't do last week and think this game is going to be halfway competitive?

In that playoff game, Lamar Jackson's had 365 passing yards, a touchdown, two picks, and 143 rushing yards. So basically it was 500 yards, and it was his fault they lost. Yes. Isn't that crazy? Yes. Quarterbacks, a little bit too much of the blame, a little bit too much of the credit. All right. Let's go to Steve and Katie on Sports Talk 790, and anything goes Friday.

Steve, thanks for holding good afternoon. Hey, Matt, first time. I'm an Indy and a Sean guy. typically, but I saved the best for you. The only way the Texans can win, and this is called the Bill Toe-Bryan game. Remember Stripes when Sergeant Hoka hurt his toe, and he couldn't play and he couldn't coach anymore, he couldn't do, and Bill Murray? The only way they can win is for Deshaun Watson to break his toe with a hammer and let Deshaun do his own thing. I'm going to listen to you. It's called the Bill-Tope Brian game where he can't coach.

Thank you, Tom Steve wanted to let us know, Ross, that he is an Indian Sean guy. But he saved his best material for you, Matt, and that's what you got. He saved his best for me. I have not seen Stripes. He was making a Stripes reference.

I have not seen Stripes in probably 25 years. I just remember that I fell in love with Sean Young in that movie. And then she in real, like, become. No, it's a girl. And then she became bat-blank crazy in real life. So there's that. That happens. Yeah, I can't even reference anything in stripes.

But if Bill O'Brien's, let me ask you this, Ross, if Bill O'Brien breaks his foot, he's still coaching the game. Yeah, yeah. He's going to coach with a broken foot. I mean, remember Matt Patricia hurt himself, and he's with the, he had a golf cart. he was driving around in and he had what do you call those things and you used to lift yourself up not stretchers but

what do you think the wooden things are that you carry with you when you have a broken foot? What are those called? Cutches. Crutches, there we go. He could coach a game with crutches. Probably. There's no other coaches with crutches, right? Who, I'm trying to think didn't some other

who else got hit on the sidelines? maybe like five years ago or something it's happened a number of times. Yeah, I would say the pointing percentage is with coaches with crutches is probably about $6.50, $700, right? It's not a death nail. Now, so yeah, thank you, Steve, for saving that for my show.

I appreciate you for that. But yeah, that's not going to slow down the coach and the general manager. Because, I mean, doesn't Easterby carry one of his crutches for him? That's true. That's true. You think Easterby would cart him around? Oh, yeah.

Bill's not driving the guard. No chance. Yeah, and he can get, well, there's going to be no fans in the stand. So he doesn't need like one of the Pope thing with the plexiglass around it. So he doesn't get into my trash. It's like, we need to cover over this because as people start throwing things on the field, we don't want Bill being hit. Now, that won't be applicable this week, but maybe with the Minnesota game that you'll need it.

It would be up to $15,000. Yeah, if Bill hurts his toe and can't move around. round, Jack drives the golf cart, but it must have a cover on it to protect him against falling debris from people in the stands upset that maybe the squad opens up the year at 0-3. Although, again, it depends on how they look Sunday and how Pittsburgh looks this week, is how I feel about, because I'm thinking, look, I don't think the Texans are 0-and-3 worthy. Now, they're not championship worthy, but I don't know if they're 0-and-3.

And I know Ben's Big Ben is back, but I want to see him in a game. The New York Giants suck. It wasn't like they got a real big test in week one. All right, Bill and Cinco Ranch, hang tight. We'll get to you. He's got an idea of how the Texans are going to win. Also, ladies and gentlemen, please, please, please do not go anywhere because guess what? When this radio program returns, you are going to hear Chris Gordy's horrible football Friday parody.

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Escalated way up. Home of the Stroes. Is there a song, Ross, that goes longer without getting to the chorus than this one does? Yeah, you got to fast forward this bad boy, a good five minutes. Good call by Brendan by doing that But I mean you go like three minutes For you get to the chorus It's a little something called a build Matt

Yeah but I understand a build is one thing But build take a nap Have lunch Sit down then get to the valet course That's a little more of a It's more than a build Ross Let's see

Oh I you know what I'll go with the one with a with a longer build Although not necessarily to the chorus Freeberg Go ahead. Uh, yeah. Freebird builds for like seven minutes and then it goes into the solo. You can generally catch the entire song on the Michael Barry show.

Yes, when you're talking about Joe's beef jerky. What's your favorite? Hey, Ramon, what's your favorite flavor of ice cream? Vanilla. You know, at the end of the day, homemade vanilla from Bluebell, I think. Put it on Cobbler. Oh, good gracious. It's so good.

So good. We should do a Michael Barry-esque type segment on the Texans. Bill O'Brien. Hey, Ramon. What do you think about Bill O'Brien? Ding. Ramon, remember when Bill O'Brien was the coach at Penn State? Ding!

Remember that time that Bill O'Brien was yelling at Tom Brady? I like Tom Brady. Tom Brady is American. Okay. Let's now play an eight-minute song. God bless the USA. All right. Instead of playing an eight-minute segment of God bless the USA, Rossi,

it's time for us to do something we enjoy every Friday during the football season. We love cooler weather in the fall right. We love football. And we love, ladies and gentlemen, a Chris Gordy, horrible football Friday parody. Texans back at home, sitting at 0-1. They didn't look great in Casey. They just couldn't stop the run. J.J.

disappeared. and so did Whitney too. Got to fix it quick before we fall to O&2. Playing the Mighty Ravens, it's a mighty high bar. Defense has to focus. You just have to stop Lamar. Stop Lamar. Stop Lamar, stop Lamar.

Take away Mark Ingram and stop Hollywood Brown. No fans here at NRG, no loudness to be found. If we're going to beat the Ravens, this is where we start. Spide with a linebacker. You just have to stop Lamar. Stop Lamar. Stop Lamar. Stop Lamar.

Every time he runs around. Let's get us. A steady stream of tears running down my eyes. Oh. That's an old timer. Folks, do you know how excellent that was? And when I mean excellent, I mean horrible. I swear to.

God, I better, and when I get in the car today, and I'm going to Waco from here, and I stop at Buckees to get me a little snack, I better hear 10 to 15 people in Buckees screaming, stop Lamar. Don't know, da-na, da-na, don't know, don't know, stop Lamar. Wow. Just awesome. I need the rest of the segment to recover, Matt. You talk.

Okay, I can do that. Do you understand, ladies and gentlemen, we are the very unofficial home of Texans football? The most unofficial. What's that? The most unofficial. Oh, I mean, we're as unofficial as it gets. You are not going to hear that anywhere else. That's a guarantee.

Stop Lamar. Everybody. Stop Lamar. I mean, Gordy has a lot of deficiencies. That's not one of them. 713-212-5-7-90. We go to Baltimore in less than 10. Bill's in Cinco Ranch on the Matt Thomas show.

Hi, Bill. Yeah, man. It's believable. and not Bill Duane slash the run. Anyway, I have a question for you. Well, maybe you and Ross can hear about with how to beat the Ravens. I'll hand up and listen. Who are the five offensive player and the five defensive player that has come down with COVID for the Texas to beat?

I hang up and listen. Thank you. Ross, he wants us to predict the COVID positive cases. in order for the Texans to win. All right, so let's do this. If we were to predict which five COVID players, I'll go Lamar Jackson one. Stop Lamar.

Yes. Mark Ingram 2. Then they got J.K. Dobbins, so I think I'll skip running back. Definitely go Ronnie Stanley. Mark Andrews on the offensive side. That's three. Yes. On the defensive side, we're going to go with Callias Campbell, I'm assuming, yes?

Marcus Peters maybe. How about Tyos Bouser coming back to his old stomping ground to Houston, Texas? Oh, Matt, this is... Oh, Justin Tucker's got to get COVID for sure. Oh, that's true. What a great question I can ask. I can sit with our next guest at the top of the hour. I forgot they got Derek Wolf on a cheap deal.

What's that? I forgot they got Derek Wolf on a cheap deal. Rossi, there's so much better. Better coach, better offense, better defense, better special teams I mean tell me where the Texans are better I mean I'm asking I'm asking for a friend offense no defense no coaching no special teams

no I mean Lamar Jackson is an MVP so in theory he's better than Deshawn White I mean if you went to a bar in a neutral city and said would you rather if Deshaal Watson or Lamar Jackson Lamar Jackson's going to win that nine time down a 10 right if you're not in Houston yes if you're not in Houston you know if Texans Debbie's not sitting next you, she's, you know, she's going to pick DeShan, so that's the one. Well, she's eating fried pickles. Give her a second.

Okay. I mean, come on. They have more of a pass rush. Their secondary is, I mean, I mean, Marcus Peters is a guy from the Rams. I mean, help me out here. Chuck Clark's good safety. Tell me where they're better. And I'll throw it out to you.

Not that we have a lot of Raven fans, aficionados, but help me. Their linebackers can cover people in space, right? I got nothing for you, Matt. If you want to say how the Texans are better than the Ravens. Stop Lamar! Dun-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. That's what I'm new. Stop Lamar.

An American Treasure, Chris Gordy. Let's go to Baltimore next, and we'll find out which five players. I bet it this way. Could the Ravens have five positive COVID cases and the Texans could still... Oh, no. What? Bruce Feldman just tweeted. Breaking news, Brendan.

What? I have bad news for you, Matthew. What? Baylor Houston has been postponed. Shut up. Bruce Feldman just tweeted it. Shut up. Yeah, you might want to get on the,

get on with your U of H folks during the break. See if you're still going to Waco. Are you kidding me? I'm not kidding you. Okay, I need a minute. I'm sorry. It was break time, so. Okay, I'm going to go smoke a cigarette and be right back.

1257 on Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show. Two on Sports Talk 790. Fruce Feldman's right. I can confirm Houston Baylor canceled tomorrow. I don't know many details and I can't get anybody on the record to explain what's going on. It won't hang along, however, though. This sucks.

Sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks. Baylor-Huston game. Cancelled. Don't know any more than that. Literally coming down in the last few minutes. Try to get some on-air confirmation, except all I got was no game. So everybody's tweeting with me, is this true?

Yes, it is true. No Baylor, no Houston tomorrow. Damn. We'll get to more on this in a minute. Let's go to our next guest here on the Matt Thomas show. Time is 102. Man, we haven't been such a good time, Rossi, and then that just, man, that's... I'm sorry, Matthew.

Well, I mean, it sucks for the sport. Now, do I have closer ties to? Of course. But, yeah, I mean, this is awful. All right, we'll get to more of that in a minute. Let's say how to Luke Jones. He is a part of WNST's coverage in Baltimore. He is on the Ravens Beat.

You can follow him, and I give you credit, Luke. You must have gotten at Baltimore, Luke, on Twitter very early in the game. Mad props to you on that. How are things? Going well. It's going well. And yeah, I signed up for Twitter when I don't think anyone was on Twitter. Probably like 2008, something like that.

Well, I'll say this. So you as Baltimore, Luke, now how far is D.C. an hour drive, basically? It's not quite that far, but, I mean, it's, you know, it's a nice little drive. But you guys don't even like each other, right? You don't ever, do you ever talk like Washington or Wizards or nationals? I mean, when I've only been, I've been to that area probably 10 times in my life, but I've never felt the sense of, well, we're Baltimore fans, but we're also root for the

Washington teams, too. Yeah, you'll get that with the caps a little bit with hockey, and obviously they won a Stanley Cup recently, so that it was a little more of that. You know, I mean, there's some lingering old Baltimore bullets, Washington bullets, Wizards fans, but not many. So you're right. And I say this as a native Baltimoreian. It seems like it's more so Baltimore disdain for D.C. rather than the other way around. But we're okay with that. You know, we're the pit stop on 95 between Washington and Philadelphia, and that's okay. Well, you're actually closer to the Naval Academy, which I love going to do games in Annapolis, so I give you credit for that. Luke, your squad was absolutely amazing

against the Cleveland Browns. What went wrong in that game? Because we know what everything went right. Was there something he came away with like the Ravens got to be better as they move along this season. And, you know, Cleveland's not great. So maybe competition. But was there something that you thought, okay, not a perfect game? Here's what I want to see improved from week to week. It's really funny because when you go back and look at this game and you see the score, you see Lamar Jackson did and the passing game did, and you say, wow, I mean, the Ravens just picked up exactly where they left off in the regular season last year. Now, what happened to them against Tennessee, and the divisional round is another story. But when you look at this game,

they actually didn't play all that incredibly well in the trenches. When you look at their offensive line, I mean, this was a team that set an NFL record for rushing yardage last year. They had 111 yards on 30 carries, 3.7 yards per carry. And that was their bread and butter last year. That was their lowest rushing total since you have to go back to the 2018 playoff loss to the Chargers. So they didn't run the ball especially well. They didn't pass protect as

well as just looking at Lamar Jackson's numbers and said, oh, he must have had great protection. I mean, Cleveland actually got some pressure on him, and Lamar just picked apart their secondary. So they didn't play incredibly well on the offensive line, especially on the inside. Matt Scura, their center is coming back from a major

knee injury. He played week one. commendable to get back for the opener. but he's got a little ways to go, and he admitted that. And they're replacing potentially a Hall of Fame right guard and Marshall Yonda with Tyree Phillips, a third-round pick. So there's a little bit of vulnerability there. And then on the defensive side of the ball, I would say, I mean, they are a team.

They blitzed more than anyone in the NFL last year, and they kept that up on one Sunday. They blitz Baker Mayfield on over half of his dropbacks, but they didn't get a ton of pressure on him, but they played so well in the secondary, and Baker was just not playing well. O'Dell Beckham was a non-factor and I mean the secondary just teased it so

it's crazy when you see a 32-point win and we always talk about what it starts up front in football the Ravens I would think to a man and some players even talked about that this week that they want to be a little bit better in the trenches than they were on Sunday despite the fact that it was a blowout victory over Cleveland all right so with all that being said

they're going to jump on the plane for the very first time this season they're you know look this is not about Lamar in regular season and MVP awards and piling up big stat numbers. This is about him getting his first playoff victory. We would look at the box score of that game against the Titans last hour and basically at 500 yards in total offense. And for a guy that took a lot of the heat for the loss, how much pressure?

Look, when you're a Super Bowl contend, you're going to have pressure. But does he have to have that zero playoff win around his neck a lot? or is that just more national narrative and local? I mean, I think people talk about it. I mean, look, I mean, Lamar Jackson is, he's king in this city already. I mean, there's no question about it. You're talking about a team that's less than a decade removed from winning a Super Bowl, a team that had Hall of Famers and Ed Reed and Ray Lewis.

I mean, Lamar, in just a couple years, is on track to becoming one of the most popular athletes ever in this city's rich history in both football and baseball. I mean, that's just where he is. But, I mean, January, that criticism is there. And I think what's tricky for him, what's tricky for this football team is they went 14 and 2 last year. They set all these records last year. They were by every measure that you could really look from an analytic standpoint, from a point scored. I already mentioned the rushing game. They were a top five-calibre defense.

They were the best team in the NFL in the regular season last year. But you don't do that in January. You're skeptics are going to point to that, and what do you say? You're wrong? I mean, he's O and 2, and to your point, he played – he didn't play his best game against the Titans. I'm not going to even try to begin to argue that. But go back and look at that game, look at some of the drop passes. I mean, early in the game, they're on the move.

Mark Andrews has a ball go off his hands. Tennessee picks it off. I mean, the Ravens couldn't stop the run. It's a big reason why they revamped their front seven in the offseason. So, yeah, Lamar didn't play great in that game, but to your point, you look at the numbers, and a lot of those numbers were when they were down by multiple scores, so you don't want to put too much stock into that either. But if you give me a list of the seven or eight things that went wrong in that game,

he's not in my top three or four as far as things that really went wrong. But until he breaks through, and this is the same thing that, you know, even guys like Peyton Manning, I think of Steve Young way back when, I mean, Hall of Fame quarterbacks that until they break through in January and one win a playoff game, which is where Lamar is, and two, at least get to a Super Bowl, which that's where I kind of feel like the Raven standard is this year for this to be considered a successful season. He's got to break through, but he'd be the first to tell you, and all of his teammates would also say that needs to be an across-the-board team effort. But when you're talking about the league MVP, yeah, I mean, the pressure is going to be there. but it's not in a way where people in town are down on him in any way.

It's just the nature of the beast. When you're as successful as they were last year in the regular season, I mean, how can you not be expected to take that next step? Yeah, especially a home game and then losing it after a week off. It makes a lot of sense. Luke Jones, WNST Radio in Baltimore. With this, you can find him on Twitter at a very, very cool nickname at Baltimore, Luke. So we were half joking about which five players for the Ravens could get COVID and the Texas still have a chance.

And then my beloved alma mater has got their cane cancel with Baylor and Marlesa COVID. So we're going to back off the COVID jokes. Yeah. Let's get right to it. How much of the Texans game did you see on opening night? I'm imagining you're a football fan. You're watching a little bit of everything. The Texans couldn't stop the run.

They couldn't stop the tight end. they couldn't stop the quarterback, and Baltimore's got, if not as good, better at all three of those positions. So realistically, and again, you're trying, you know, you want the local team New England's that your team that you cover, but I don't envision this thing. I don't see a scenario unless the Texans just forced tremendous amount of pressure and force Lamar to throw a bunch of interceptions and drop passes. I don't think it feels like to me that Baltimore would have a letdown, even though the game with the Kansas City's next Monday,

How is this game not within 10 or 14 points? I just don't see it. Yeah, I mean, I have to admit to you, I mean, I was even talking to a couple other reporters as we were leaving the practice field this morning. And I was kind of saying, look, I mean, I don't think Houston's a bad team. Certainly not having to Andre Hopkins changes the equation a lot. Because even though he struggled, had a couple drops against the Ravens last year, I mean, he was the best player on the field for the Texans that day,

and what was a very forgettable day for Houston. but I just look at this thing, and I just said, you know, I mean, the Ravens did look vulnerable on the interior line, but Edward Flair ran between the tackles on the Houston defense. So, you know, you look at that. I mean, JJ Watts playing in this game. He wasn't against the Ravens last year, but, you know, I mean, I'm sure you guys are asking the same questions that I am from afar. I mean, as much as I love the guy, you know, three-time defensive player of the year, how close is he to be in the guy he was five or six years ago?

I don't know. You guys can probably say better than I can. If the Ravens can manage him, and I would certainly be trying to move him around and trying to get him matched up against the rookie Tyree Phillips at right guard. I already mentioned that. But aside from him just kind of taken over in that way, it is tough to look at Houston of whether they're going to be able to control the line of scrimmage. And you just mentioned it too. I mean, Kelsey had the good game against them. I mean, Mark Andrews, who was so big for this team last year, and they had a first round tight end in Hayden Hurst, who's, who's,

they traded in the offseason. He and Andrews had played the same number of offensive snaps last year, and that worked out well for what are two tight-end sets and all that. But this year, you get the sense that they're just going to let Andrews have a bigger workload. And when you look at his yards and receptions per targets and routes run, I mean, this is the guy that I think is on the come as far as entering that tier with Kelsey and Kittle and, you know, the absolute elite tight ends in football. So, you know, I think him over the middle of the football,

field is big. And then, I mean, then you have, oh, yeah, Marquise Brown, who might be, you know, one of the top three or four fastest players in the NFL out at wide receiver. And, you know, he had 100 yards receiving in the first half against Cleveland. So, I mean, there are just so many weapons that the Ravens have that, you know, getting back to the point I was making to talking to another reporter, I kind of do feel that, I mean, I think Houston will be more competitive than they were last year coming to Baltimore. I mean, you know, I mean, that game was so disappointing in my mind because, you know, Lamar and, you know, I mean, I think that Houston, you know, Deshawn. I mean, it was just so much hype for that. But at the same time, seeing this be closer

than a 10-point game somewhere in that neighborhood, I feel like it's going to be the Ravens making a lot of mistakes. And to your point, and this was something that Lamar Jackson admitted back in the spring and summer that he thought they were caught peeking ahead a little bit to a potential AFC championship game against the Chiefs when they lost to the Titans. You know, is there a little element to that? You know, the weirdness of going on the road with COVID protocols and all that, you know, just, you know, from their standpoint, prove that you're focused and ready to take care of business and not looking ahead to Kansas City next Monday night. You know, beyond that scenario, I'm kind of with you.

I have a tough time seeing, you know, I just think this Ravens team right now, and I've been a skeptical guy over the year when it comes to the team, but they're just, you have to have a lot of talent, and you have to play such a discipline football game to have a chance to beat them with the way they played going back to the beginning of last year. We'll leave it at that, my friend Luke, it's nice to visit with you. Tell Nestor I sent my best and enjoy the football, enjoy your season. I think you're going to have a lot more fun than perhaps Texans fans here in Houston. Luke, we very much appreciate the time today. Thanks a lot, guys. Enjoy the game on Sunday.

All right, that's Luke Jones, joining us from WNST Radio in Baltimore, where the Texans remain a seven-point dog this Sunday. All right, we will address the U of H situation next. 115 on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-79 if you want to get in. 7-13-212-5-79. If you've not heard, Houston Baylor postponed. Few details are coming out. I'll give you that after I tell you about the Shell Federal Credit Union.

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The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790, where Rockets and Astros play. And real Texans talk. Hello darkness, my old friend. 2020, you suck! I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping. No, God! No, God, please no!

No! No! I even love. Simon and Garfunkel, too. This sucks! Florida Evans, you got a thought on this? Calm down! All right.

All right, U.H. Baylor has been canceled, postponed. I mean, hell, they're not going to, I don't see them playing this game. Who knows? So, Rossi, this is coming from Sickum-365.com. What is the college website? The Wall Street Journal of Baylor Sports. Yeah. I'm more of a fan of BearTracks, T-R-A-X.net.

Okay. All right, this is according to Sickam, 365.com. Yes. According to the source, close to the Baylor program, the Bears would have been without a significant portion of a single position group, making an unsafe to play. That information was the, driving factor behind the cancellation of today's of tomorrow's game.

Oh, Mark Berman said that as well. Well, there's, I'm going on with there's more. Due to local government guidelines, contact tracing, not positive results of conducting COVID test on football players and staff members led the decision to postpone the game. Because of the guidelines in place, multiple Baylor players were set to miss the game as a direct result of contact tracing and not due to positive test. Oh, wow. Several Baylor players who were set to miss the game did not receive a single positive test,

and despite already receiving multiple negative tests in the same time frame, were not allowed to return to team activities because of regulations in place for contact tracing. Big 12 programs are required to test athletes three times during game weeks to best monitor developing cases. The same was done for the University of Houston. I'm adding in another. That didn't put in the story. I'm telling you that. Because of that rule in place, multiple Baylor players were set to miss the game against Houston despite the potential of having up to six negative COVID tests over the last two weeks.

An additional frustration, according to source, comes from the inability to retest athletes who test positive for COVID-19. The inability to retest prevents checking for false positive results, which have been a regular occurrence when testing for the virus. What a mess. So Rossi, and again, I have attempted to get some U of H officials on. I think their blood is boiling to the point where that probably wouldn't be the best thing for them to do. But it feels like to me, and again, we're going to get more information as this comes out, that this is not about positive test, but about contact tracing? Yes, that's what this.

I mean, if we're to believe Sickum 365, which to me, Matt, They're a top five reputable Baylor source. No question. No, I mean, didn't we talk about these types of protocols before all this happened or everything got laid out? I remember that being one of the stipulations that didn't make sense. To where if you've tested negative six times in two weeks and you can't play, that doesn't make any sense. I'm trying to deduce this, and this is not great because we're live on radio here. but so maybe somebody within the the position group was around someone that had COVID maybe?

Correct. Like if they're in the general vicinity. But that person or persons have all been tested multiple times and have tested negative. Yes, and it's possible that the positive person hasn't been tested again for a follow-up for a possible false negative. I mean false positive That's insane to me How are we going to do this Ross And again

We could be talking And look This is not just about Houston versus Baylor This is about anybody So in theory We could have a negative person out there That hasn't been tested to become negative

Because he hasn't gotten the ability To take the test and or receive such results who then has not hysteria but what has now a group of other individuals believing they might or may not have it because of this person's inability to get his testing done so we're going off a bunch of, I don't want to say innuendo, that's not the word I would use.

We're going off of just we're trying to be so super safe that any connection at all stops a game. I mean, but I feel like six negative tests. is being super safe. And what is this part about they can't get retested? Can't they somebody just walk up to a clinic and get the student or whoever the player or whoever it is? If it's a staffer, I don't know. Can't they just go get tested somewhere else?

But it just doesn't matter with the protocols for the Big 12 or something like that? I'm confused. Yeah, I'm going to try to get Joseph Dwartheon, but I think he's chasing the story. Look, it's just hard to get this. This is just coming down. He's got a right, man. Yeah, but we're going to try to get something. I have attempted to get some U of H officials on,

and they're just going to drop F bombs on my show. Additional frustration, yeah, additional frustration comes from the inability to retest athletes who test positive for COVID-19. Let's stop there. Why? Okay. Why can't they, what is the reasoning there?

They can't find the person? Is he missing? They sent him to Siberia? Well, here's the thing, Rossi. Banner's known about this for 24 hours. This just didn't possibly. up at 1 o'clock on a Friday afternoon, right? Well, they would have to have known this about this for two weeks, then.

Right? This would have to have been brewing. Something's not right. This is weird. We need sick'em 365 to get to the bottom of this. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how to react to this, except that the University of Houston, the kids, basically have had two games pulled from them in seven days.

And as we talked with Dana on the show yesterday, and we talked to Chris Pezman, the athletic director earlier this week on our Cougar Sports magazine, frustration was starting to kick in. Rossi, you can mean, and look, life's not fair. That's the number one thing. Life is not fair. Certainly not.

But ultimately, yeah. But it's 2020. But even though life's not fair, it doesn't mean that kids can't be really pissed off. I mean, you have been practicing and beating each other up and going to school and doing the COVID test. I mean, Rossi, they've had three COVID tests a week for two straight weeks. You know how much fun COVID tests are? Yeah, you do.

They're not fun. I'm aware. They're not enjoyable. Correct. And that is being diligent. That's making sure that you don't taking all the proper precautions. And again, 2020 rears his ugly head. So sometimes, you know, you can't, but I'm not connecting the puzzle pieces here.

And that's what I need help with because, and again, I'm only going off of one report off of SICM-365. But it doesn't feel like there's any positive test in that group, right, unless I'm misreading something. That's what the report says. And that's definitely, that's frustrating for Baylor fans, Baylor players, U of H fans, U of age players who now U of age in the span of a few days, basically. Memphis cancelling and Baylor canceling. That's insane. Yeah. Let me tell you.

I know Mack Rhodes. I know his deputy. I don't know Dave Iranda. They're not scheduled this thing knowing that this could be canceled. That's not in their best interest. What I do want to know is how long has this been a potential problem? How long has this warning? sign been up.

Because damn, you would not put your kids through getting ready. I mean, they've had to go through two sets of game preparations, preparing for Memphis, preparing for Baylor to get the buses, to get the hotels. I mean, I just spent the commercial canceling our hotel rooms in Waco tonight. I mean, and again, we're small potato than this, but yeah, you're not at Baylor doing this in just the old golly gee shucks. We hope we get to play. Well, this Friday turned on to be a real kick in the ass.

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I mean, Ross, this postponer canceled, does it really even matter? I mean, again, I don't know what you. You've got to get your conference games in. If you're going to play college football this year, you've got to get your conference games in. The non-conference games, with all due respect, don't mean a hill of beans. 131 on Sports Talk 790. If you want to chime in, 713, 212, 5, 790. 713, 212, 5, 790.

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Play in October. Listen to the home of the Astros, Sports Talk, 790. Wind to 37 on Sports Talk 7. Those of you on hold, we'll get to you in a couple of minutes. Let's bring in our friend Joseph Dwarte from the Houston Chronicle. He covers the University of Houston. Joseph, you just retweeted Ross Dellinger's report from SI. Apparently, there is a combination of positives and tracing among the bare offensive line

that has put them below the Big 12 minimum threshold. What more do you know or can you add off of that? Well, no, there's not much. more to add, Matt. You know, the way the protocol goes, you know, each school, whether it's the Big 12 or the American, they do testing three times a week. This has all happened in the last few hours that Houston was notified. And it's similar to what we saw for the North Carolina game that was canceled this week.

It's between contact tracing and positive tests, you know, taking out an entire position group. And it happened to be, according to the offensive line. But, you know, this is just a, you knew something like this could eventually happen during the season. We've seen it happen to other schools. And now Houston's just the latest school to have to deal with this. I guess if you're looking at it from a Houston side, it's fortunate. They did not have any positive test, and they were ready to play.

So I think the big thing in this, Matt, is also this will not affect the future home and home series that was contingent on this game being played. According to the release, Baylor sent out, that series is still on. Yeah, but nobody cares about that right now, honestly. I mean, I know it's good for the long term. Let me ask you this. Now, I read that SICM-365 report. And again, I used those with very, very, with hesitancy to say the least. The report they had basically did not attribute any positive cases to anybody that was associated with the team.

There were six negative tests. So is this more about contact taste tracing than anything else? Or are we just speculating at this point? I believe it's more contract-tacing because I talked to a source with the Baylor program, and I was told that it was just the one position group and that they unexpectedly fell under the minimum threshold. So basically, it didn't indicate whether it was positive, but it sounded more like contact tracing because at that point you don't have those bodies available. You can't go out and safely pay the game.

I don't think we're talking a huge outbreak within the program of positive test, but the way that the testing goes that there was some concern in terms of who would be available. And I think there's also some disappointment because I'm not quite sure what the protocol is for if you could retest or how quickly. But there was enough that happened early this morning that through likely the contact tracing that they just weren't going to have enough offensive linemen to play this game. Do we know what the threshold is? Do we know an exact number or is that being kept privately? You know, I don't think it's one of those numbers that's private. I don't know that one, Matt, but you look at what teams typically use.

I believe we've seen games with Houston last year. Eight or nine offensive linemen maybe closer to 10 is what the rotation is depending on guys that you sub out and for injuries. So if you're looking at if it was below the threshold, you know, they either didn't have the five necessary to line up an offensive line or they would have very few. backups available if something happened. So that's probably where this thing is going and why they felt the need that they had to cancel the game. As I've talked about on my show, I don't see this game being played this year. This was kind of the perfect storm because both teams needed a week to play a game. Both had cancellation.

So I don't envision this trying to be fixed at this point this season. Boy, this is got to be a gut punch to the kids who have basically been in preparation mode for two straight weeks for two different opponents in zero games. It's just another example. I think Joseph of how much 2020 blows. And well, that's what Dana Hoverson said during your interview with him yesterday, that, you know, when the Memphis news started to come out a week ago today, a lot of the kids knew about it through Twitter,

and he was afraid, what am I going to tell these kids? They were coming up to me saying, you know, what's going on, coach? and he didn't know, and the fact that if they didn't schedule another game, how was he going to keep them motivated or juiced up to practice an entire week with no opponent? So, yeah, there's a lot of discipline. I'm with you. I don't see this game being played. Baylor starts conference play next week.

Houston has allegedly their first game against North Texas that'll be at home. And then, you know, the Memphis game, I think, is being pretty close to being finalized where we might get an announcement on Monday a win that makeup is going to be. There's just not enough spots left to start feeling these games back in. So it's kind of move ahead and hope that you can get some of these games in down the road. Well, you know, as Dan has also said, this could happen again. And we were kind of envisioning that this was not going to be a schedule that was going to be set in stone. It's just, it's a, it's a, it's a sucker punch.

It's a hit to the gut. I mean, you had buses, you had hotels, I'm packed. Not that I make any difference. You're already there, right? You went to go see a friend, correct? Yeah, I'm in Waco. So, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of things that go into it, the planning. You know, they joke that this was probably the quickest game put together in modern history

in terms of these games being scheduled way in advance. But, you know, if you're Houston now, how do they come out next week? You've got to, you know, you probably give the kids the weekend or at least until Sunday now to just get out, get it out of their mind, at the disappointment. But, I mean, this probably isn't going to be the last time. You start getting into the conference play. You start getting more games played. You know, we knew this was going to be a weird and unusual season,

and it's certainly been that. I believe this puts it up to 15 cancellations already during the first, you know, two weeks. Safe travels back. I'm sure Gavin will be happy to see his dad sooner than any thought. He sure will. Thank you for the time. We'll see you later. Joseph Dorte from The Chronicle with us here on Sports Talk 790.

Let me squeeze in one quick call before we get to the break. Chris in Copperfield. on 790. Hi, Chris. Hey, is this Debbie Downer Friday? Well, I mean, it kind of sucks that a college game got canceled within the last hour. Yeah, so I'm not a great deal. Hey, man, I got something to say about Andy. Andy Kluw?

Yes. You guys had me cracking up earlier, man, and go free brisket sandwich. So let's do this. Okay, thanks, Chris. Appreciate the phone call. Andy likes his brisketes, free brisketes. Ross, you need to come to King. Let's go get some margaritas at a big city.

Just knock out our pain. What do you think? Sorry, I'm eating the brisket sandwich. Oh, oh, Mike. You're so devastated over the loss. You're eating brisket dough. Yeah, I got to eat my feelings. I'm right there with you, brother.

All right. Let's do this. All right, even though you're in mid-mouth, do you want to go NFL picks here? What do you want to do? I mean, you tell me what the show is. Yeah, we'll get a bit at some point, Maddie. Let's do it right now.

Let's go to come back. We've got to do our Schmo's segment coming up. next where our buddy Brendan Riley did better than all of us. I don't know how it happened, but it did. Beat the schmose, at least beating ourselves. Our up next, 144 on Sports Talk 790. It is clearly anything goes Friday because we didn't anticipate this an hour and a half ago, that's for sure. 713-212-5790.

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Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk 790. They fall for the ball for the ball. basketball in Houston. Home for your home teams. Here we go. Time now for the Smows to make their NFL picks. Here's how it works. Brandon gets 10,000 M.T. bucks to spend.

I get 10,000 M.T. bucks to spend. Ross gets 10,000 to spend. Ross, you were awful last week. Yeah, but I won my big bet. That's true. I won three, lost one, but I'm big bet. loss I made zilch. Brandon Raleigh, a rookie to

our Schmo's contest, came through and had a winning week and actually made money this week. So Brendan, the honors are yours. You get to get the first crack of games. By the way, you will pick the Texans game last, for building of drama, of course. You'll pick a total of four NFL games. Minimumum bet is

$1,000 M.T. Bucks is four. And at the end of the year, the person that has the most money. The other two people, we've got to go buy them an expensive dinner. Whoever's last has to buy pizza for the other two. Or I like my plane. Just buy a bunch of dinners for all the winter too.

Some dinners. Man. Yeah. You sure you want to be laying down all that cash? I've seen you. Me and Brennan. Me and Brinickney. All right.

That's true. All right, Brendan, good luck, my friend. Your first step. What do you got? Real quick, I need to clarify. I have to bet the Texans. Absolutely. What do you mean?

You're in Houston. You've got to bet the Texas. I didn't think I did last week, but okay. No, because the game was on Thursday. Okay. All right. So not a lot of games I love this week. So I'm going to go big early.

And it's a team I told you guys last week I like this year. I'm going to take the Rams plus one at the Eagles, and I'm going to put 5,000 on that. Oh. Oh, yeah. Multiple to chings on that. You like a team going west and east and that kind of money? I think the Rams are going to be one of the better football teams in the NFC this year.

I think the Eagles are a fringe playoff team. Elaine Johnson is supposed to play this week, but we'll see. All right. I'm going to go to a game of two teams who were disappointing last week, but I don't buy the Indianapolis Colts. So I'm actually going to go Vikings plus three at Indianapolis, $3,000 on that one. Whoa!

Damn, what are you heavy spending this early on? You got to understand, I don't like a lot of games this week. I wanted both of those games, so I have to pivot now, right? Yeah, you can pick it, but you'd be... Yeah, you'd be a bit-stealer. I hate you, Brian. And then my last non-Texans pick probably should have put more money on this one. I'm going to take Green Bay minus six and a half versus Detroit for a thousand.

Wow. That hurt your soul. It just feels like a given. All right. And you got a thousand M.T. bucks left to spend on the Texans plus seven at home against the Ravens. I really wish that I believe that. would stay within seven, but I don't, so I'm going to take the Ravens for a thousand on that one.

Baltimore giving a seven for a thousand. All right, I will go next. I will take, I'm not sure how good Pittsburgh is. I don't think Denver's as good as what we saw last week. I think a lot of people like Denver being a sneaky

wild car team, not in this particular case. I like Pittsburgh minus a seven for 2,000 M.T. bucks. Next, I think Atlanta's terrible. I think their coach is going to be gone mid-season. I think Dallas needs to bounce back and get off to a better start than it against the Rams. I like Dallas minus the four for $3,000 M.T. bucks.

Next, I will go with the Tennessee Titans are going to show us who they really are and show us what a fraud Jacksonville was last week. I like Tennessee minus the seven and a half for 1,000 M.T. bucks. And kind of the theme of our show today, can the Texans cover the seven? The answer is no. By way, Ross, you should update the audience about your poll question in just a minute. I will take Baltimore minus the seven for 4,000 MT bucks. All right, Maddie.

I will let the audience know what's going on. my poll shortly. Excuse me? Let's start off with the Buffalo Bills. It's just more than me. I think the Buffalo Bills are legit on both sides of the ball. And Miami Dolphins, well, they're less than legit. Giving five

a half. I'm going with the Buffalo Bills for 2,500 M.T. Bucks. Next, we call this one the Brendan Riley special. I like Detroit. I think they're going to cover the

six and a half. Yes, they could have very well won last week. They should have won, as Brendan will tell you. I think six and a half is a little bit too much of a cushion. I'll go with them for $2,500. That was the Brendan Riley special, and then this now is the fade MT special. Now, I went 0 and 1 fading MT last week. We're not going to talk about that, but over the years of beat the schmose, fade MT has been quite successful. So I'm going with the Jacksonville Jaguars. I just think that's a little bit too much of a cushion, seven and a half. Gardner Minchew and the boys can cover a touchdown, right? I'll take them for 2,500 M.T. bucks.

And last, but not least, no surprise, no drama. I can't fathom a world, maybe a shootout where the Texans win the turnover battle. Even then, I think it's going to be tough for them to cover a touchdown. I'm going with the possible best team in football. Baltimore Ravens, minus a seven. for $2,500 MD bucks. All right, I missed your second game. Jack, do you have Jacksonville, Buffalo, Baltimore?

What was your second game? It's the Riley Special, Detroit. Wow. You're going with Detroit of this, huh? Plus the six and a half, yes. You are the official Lions fan of the Matt Thomas show. Yes, I am. Who would have thought?

All right, Brian T. joins us to start the final hour of the Matt Thomas show next. 157, Sports Talk, 790. Is the Matt Thomas show. 201 on Sports Talk 790 final hour, the Matt Thomas show on this. Well, what was your favorite moment of the UH Bader pregame show? Ross, I put the masterpiece of a pregame show together, and now I don't get to use it. I'd had a set an alarm so that I could listen to it and everything, Matt. Alarm, the game's at 10 o'clock.

You're not up on 10 o'clock on a Saturday morning? Are you crazy? Okay, fair enough. What time is your sports RV show? The sports RV show tomorrow at 11 o'clock right here on Sports Talk 790. Full Texans Ravens Breakdown. We'll talk about what Texas Longhorns are doing on their off date. Pretty much the same thing as U of H at this point.

They both have off dates now. Could they slap together a game in four hours, Matt? So I mean, so you would not be up at 10 o'clock to listen to my pregame show, but yet your show would be on the air at 11? Yeah. By the way. I live eight minutes from the station and I prep my show on Friday nights, Matt. Oh, okay.

Fair enough. By the way, I think Dana Holgerson's not particularly pleased right this second. Here's the statement he just released from the University of Houston Athletic Communications. Can I guess? Screw you, Baylor, signed Dana. Okay. We'll see how close you got. Our team has been and remains ready to play.

I'm extremely proud of our kids, coaches, and staff are working hard to meet both conferences, testing protocols to compete. this Saturday. We'll be ready to play when the time comes. So basically what I said. Then he said, bitch at the very end. Oh, he didn't. You're right. You didn't say that. Oh, Brian T. Smith, I was one hour

away from getting in my car and going to Waco, Texas. We're screwed in 2020, BTS. I'm bombed. I'm bombed. And I don't wear U of H gear. And I sure is hell. Sure is hell, Matt. don't do that stupid, sickom thing that John McLean and all those other weirdos do. This is, and I'm still bummed.

I mean, this was, this was, it was, it was a save it game, right? I mean, UH got screwed the first time, you know, Baylor's had its issues that were many ways before this out of its hand. I thought this was smart. It kept it local slash regional. It was fun. It was swacky. This, it was, it was a game on Saturday.

leading up to Deshaun Watson and Lamar Jackson Energy Stadium. On Sunday, it felt like college football and the NFL, and we're continuing to see that pro football can work its way through this, basically with no corona positives, which is a little weird. He's a little too good to be true. And college football is trying and trying and coming back, Matt, but left and right randomly, games are getting canceled. And to have it canceled this close, this close to kickoff,

that's painful. I mean, that's, again, that's, like you just said, that's a very, very 20-20 type of thing. That sucks. And here's the thing. And look, you know, when you were 18, 19, and 20 when I was,

we all learned life lessons, okay? And these kids are learning life lessons. But this is a football part. And maybe U of H is not the only school, but to go through two weeks of game plans to play a game, to have zero, Dana was afraid that, you know, that a lot of them are like, F this, we're out of here kind of thing.

And it's going to be up to not the coach Dana Hoagerson, the exes and O's guy, but coach Dana like the de facto dad to keep these guys motivated and say, all right, we're going to do this again, and we're going to practice and we're going to work hard and we're going to do everything right. And hopefully we play North Texas next Saturday. Especially in college football. I mean, you know, the NFL, you're playing for your career and your family

and a paycheck and your legacy and all those things. or to stay on the team to get from the practice squad to the active roster, whatever it is. But you always in the NFL, you have real incentive. And I'm not saying you don't in college football, but in the NFL, Matt, you always know you're going to play. You know, your team is going to play on Sunday or Thursday or Monday on national TV. Whether you're playing or not, big old TBD for 90% of the league.

But you know that your team is going to play. College football, if you're U of A trade now, You have no idea, and so you're exactly right. How does Dana keep these guys motivated if you're a backup linebacker, if you're already struggling with a COVID decision, whether to opt out, whatever it is, that's only more difficult. And I'll say this as well. I thought Dana, well, no thought.

Dana had a really, really tough first year of much of itself induced in Houston. And this is not his fault. And I feel for him right now. I feel for him and I feel for that program because this was a fantastic opportunity. You go to Waco, maybe you beat Baylor. It would be a very interesting game had it been played and to have it taken away from you, you know, 24 hours before when it just looks so cool. It was like, okay, we're going to make this work.

We're going to find a way all this crap, all this 2020 junk. And you're not allowed to even go up there. I really feel for him in the University of Houston football program right now. And the reality is this, Brian, it's not just about U of H. I mean, so obviously it's for us because it's local, but this could happen when the Big Ten resumes, this could happen. There's no part of the country that could be, could avoid it. And even we've talked about this before, this could happen again,

we're going to see shuffling, we're going to see everything. And the most important thing is that we are seeing games being played. And I don't want that to be overshadowed. We are seeing college games being played. We saw NFL week one go without a hitch. We saw the Texans Chiefs game last Thursday, which you were there. Not a single person that was involved in the on-field tested. So there are more positives than negatives.

But the contact tracing has added a new layer, and these conferences, the Big 12, are being super, super cautious because they do not want, you know, the fear of litigation, the fear of a team getting demolished, a fear of a team of getting embarrassed because I'm not enough position players. So I don't know if they're working with two different bits of legislation, but the report on the sickom bear or whatever the hell of that thing is called had six, yeah, so many negative tests, you never would have thought reading that paragraph on that website that there'd be any problem with this game being played to begin with. Oh, this is the problem all along with college football. And look, I'll say this for the record.

I don't, well, I should take the high road here, but I'll just be real on 790 like I always do. I don't understand anyone who says that, you know, college football should be played, or it's the darkest day ever, all that crap. Give me a freaking break. Anyone saying that, on some level, the profiting off college football. They're getting a paycheck to cover college football. If the teams are playing in the 10th week of the season, they'll be writing about those games,

getting paycheck, writing about those kids, it's the coaches. And most importantly, it's the players, the young men, all the personnel you never hear about what programs. They're the ones sacrificing. They're the ones having to deal with all this. But this is always going to be the problem with college football, Matt. There's so many layers. It's not the NFL. You can't create these many bubbles.

You're not flying private and staying in five-star hotels. You're all over the country. You're dealing with local, regional, state governments, all these different rules. And this college football directly relates to the problem we've had, Matt, for more than six months nationally to where we still don't have, any clarity about this thing. Like the fact that, you know, asymptomatic issues just will shut some things absolutely down. The fact that one positive, even though the person isn't showing any signs, might shut a game down,

might shut a series down, if it's major league baseball, whatever it is. These are the problems that country's still struggling with, whether it comes to small businesses, bars being open in Texas, schools. And so you can make it through, Matt, if you're the NFL or the NBA, in a bubble and you can have your lemon pepper loo and you can keep playing. But if it's college football and you're kind of everyone's left to their own devices, this will keep happening. But I do believe ultimately that college football will keep being played.

But the last thing these schools want to do is have their name attached to an outbreak and then they're in the middle of some national controversy. I totally agree on that. Not a much more positive news. Yes. Let's be positive. All right. Can will, no chance.

In fact that Texans and Ravens, do the Texans keep it close this week? Can they? Yes, on a theoretical, this is 2020, anything as possible as we've already seen this year. Yes, the Texans can theoretically keep it close and inside a stadium without any fans, so they're not going to get boot off the field. And if Sean Watson is a great young quarterback, yeah, yeah, they could keep it close beat the Ravens, will they? I doubt it.

And I'll be, you know, I won't be shocked. It's week two and that this league, Matt, is going to bounce week to week. You know, the Chiefs are a couple injuries away from having issues and they look like a powerhouse defending Super Bowl champion 10 days ago at Arrowhead Stadium. But no, going off what we saw in week one, even if the Ravens played a very poor team and they didn't, and Lamar Jackson wasn't really running, I think over four quarters, even if DeShon won't. Watson throws for 350 yards.

I don't believe that the Texans, here's the problem. I don't believe the Texans have enough on defense to hold down Lamar Jackson and the running game and the Ravens receivers who looked really good and Harbaugh and all that stuff. I don't believe they have enough to hold them back for four quarters. And the flip side, until we see it, I'm not going to believe in this Texans offense until they actually show something that's not in garbage top. and I think in reality, logically thinking fans thought the schedule was a bear to begin with

that would be no surprise of opening up O'N-2. That's why the Bill O'Brien must be fired crap. Doesn't work for me because no one would have thought. That's just stupid. And like who would even mention that? Look, if you were going to, I officially wrote that Bill O'Brien should have been fired after the Kansas City game.

Yeah, that's what you do. That's the conversation. That wasn't a knock on Bill O'Brien. personally, that was the fact that he had been your head coach and had all the power and had every power struggle and everyone's been fired and you've been through a billion quarterbacks and on and on. And at some point, when you get just humiliated like that at Kansas City and you coach your team to defeat again and again, every other NFL franchise would have moved on. But Matt, the time to fire Bill O'Brien was after that game. And what did the Texans

do, they officially gave them a ton more power. Nobody in the world would even be talking about firing their head coach after one game in the NFL. That's not even a conversation that rational people have. You want to talk after four or six or eight games this year? We'll start

to talk again. No one's going to do it after 0-1 or 0-2, especially after Cal just named Bill, the only real head coach general manager in the NFL without official title. Yeah, that's why I think what you have to do is if you're going to really start evaluating, which no one is.

Cal's not evaluating up to two or four. If he's going to make a move, which is the chances that are slim, he's doing it at the end of the season. He's not doing it because the team got off to a one-and-three-star. Because guess what? The Texans have gone to one in three starts, and it made playoffs. It would have to be like, Kubeak in 2013. It'd have to be like, you know,

and granted they won their first two games barely thanks to, you know, Matt Schaub and Yondry Hopkins, and then Schaubb started throwing big sixes. But it'd have to be that type of year where, what, they finished, two and 14 that season. And when Gary was fired, they, I mean, they were horrendous. They couldn't win a close game. Kate Tienham had given way to Matt Shop, and Matt Shop took back over. That's the only way that would happen during the regular season during a corona year, Matt.

And the fact that anyone in the media would even be mentioning that right now is just, it just shows they have no idea what they're talking about because the last person on Earth who's going to even think about firing Bill O'Brien after one game is Cal McNear. Cal ain't going to do it. Not going to do it. Have a great weekend. And I was going to say, enjoy my cougars, but no one's joining them and joining my cougars this weekend. So we'll just leave it at that.

I'm looking for the Texans Ravens. All right, take care of Matt. All right, buddy, that's Brian T. Smith from the Chronicle League columnist with us here on the Matt Thomas show. All right, it's you and me and Ross and Brendan the rest of the ways. If you want to get in, you may do so. 713, 212 5790, 713, 2,1, 2, 1, 2, 5, 790 on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV. Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk 719. Your rockets, your Astros, your voice.

All right, it is 219 on Sports Talk 790. Ross, I'm going to put the bed, this Baylor-Huston thing with one thing. find out the Big 12 has a protocol for a number of players for a particular team. You have to have at least 53 players healthy and ready to go. Of that group,

you have to have seven offensive alignment, four interior defensive alignment, and at least one quarterback. So if all the reports are accurate that SIs put out there, the Baylor Bears could not suit up seven offensive linemen for the game tomorrow.

Wow. And I'm going to assume that's got to be what? You have probably 12 on a depth chart, wouldn't you think? Hmm. So you're talking about probably at least five or six players that are either in the contact tracing or in the testing of positive? Yeah, I mean, you're starting five. You probably got a couple or at least a handful of backups,

especially on a college team. Yeah, maybe like 10. Yeah. Why did they have to have at least seven? Just that's what the Big 12 protocol is, says. You have to have at least seven linemen. Well, I guess that makes sense. I don't know.

So you're telling me you couldn't sue it. You couldn't have seven healthy linemen for the game tomorrow? Damn, that went over an entire section. Just give a tied end to heavy meal and call them a tackle. Or that slot receiver who's a slow white guy anyway. Okay. You know what I'm saying? You need a stereotype bailer like that, Matt.

Well, I'm talking about any team's got slow white inside slot receiver. receivers. Okay. Don't talk about Jackson, Shipley like that. Or Danny Mandolola. What is it?

Amandola. Amandola. The Woodlands, Texas, great. Julian Edelman. Who else? Inside slot, slow. Oh, Kevin Walter. Well, Julian Edel.

Yeah, you said Julian Edelman. They're quick, though. They're quick, not fast, Matt. But you add 30 pounds in them to play offensive. divine they can probably do it right sure you know in three tall but two weeks yeah that's true all right let's go the phone [phone] Mike's and porter on the matt Thomas show at 221 Mike good afternoon yes sir I'm just I'm fed up with all of the media given I mean y'all y'all you'll come down on bill of Brian some but bill of brian sure is not qualified to run no more than a

high school operation and my prediction is the tech Texans will go either 0 and 6 or 1 in their first six games. And I am a fan. I want them to win. But I won't watch them again as long as Bill O'Brien is in that stadium. Well, I hate to tell you this, Mike, because I don't want to be the bear of bad news because I felt like I've already given enough bad news today. If you're not going to watch them again until they let him go, you're probably not

watching the rest of this season. It may be not for the foreseeable future. Oh, I know. I know. You're right. Cal McNair does not care about this because he's already sold the season. seats for the next 10 years. He don't care. He's got the money coming in. That's my personal opinion. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't believe I am because not seeing the product that he lets

O'Brien put on the field all the time. But hey, I love your show, man, and hopefully I'm wrong. Hopefully I'm wrong in what I say. But I don't believe. I don't believe. I know. You know what, here's a thing. Thank you for the phone call, Mike, and have a good weekend. I just don't, Rossi, we talked about this Monday. If the Texas would have beat the Chiefs, he wasn't all of a sudden the greatest coach in the NFL. And if they lost, I mean, did it come as a massive shock

the way they performed against Kansas City last Thursday? No, we were talking about this last week. How did you feel going in and how did you feel coming out? Going in, I felt like they're in 18. Coming out, I feel like they're in 18. It's just no surprise. Well, giving up 31sts, straight points after getting outscored, you get outscored 51 to 7 in the playoff game,

and then you give up 31 straight on opening night on Thursday. It's like, come on. I didn't think that was going to happen in back-to-back games. I thought they would show themselves a little bit better. But as Bill O'Brien says, Matt, they do have a lot to build on from that fourth quarter. Well, here's the thing. We said this when we were making our NFL predictions, and we're not Philan ones. Trust us.

Kansas City and Baltimore are in rarefied air, and the next best team in the EFC, whomever that be, whether that's the Raiders, the Chargers, the Pittsburgh. Pittsburghs were just a significant notch down. And that's where the Texans are. They're in that tier two group. The problem is tier two is so far away from tier one. And it's also unfair, but life happens that you had to take on the two best teams right away in back-to-back weeks.

You play first-play schedules. You brag about your AFC championships. Then you win those. You play first-place schedules. you're going to have to play the best teams in the conference. That's just how it goes. Yeah, and again, I have them going 9 and 7. I don't think they're as bad as what they were against Kansas City.

If you play Kansas City 16 times, you may not win, but I have wonderful news for you. You get to play Cleveland and Cincinnati this year. You get to play Jacksonville twice. You get to play Chicago and Detroit. So you will get fat and happy off of the teams that I think are not nearly as good as you are. And you may surprise somebody. You might be to New England. Who else on this schedule would be considered a quote?

You might go to Pittsburgh next week and win. You might beat Minnesota. You might beat Green Bay. There are some winnable games. And again, it would be just entirely too easy to be radio host every single day to jump on the radio and say how much Bill O'Brien sucks every day. We already know he does. We've already made our point. Very, very bad general manager, not a good coach, and not a great person.

Other than that, he's great. But this, but what happened last Thursday and what's going to happen to this team on Sunday, especially if it gets ugly, doesn't change the viewpoint of Cal McNair. Doesn't change a viewpoint of us. Rosson, if the Texans win this game, it will be a feather in the cap of Bill O'Brien because that means he took his team after a week and a half off after going against another quality AMC opponent and he made adjustments. he will force Baltimore to do things that we don't think they can do. So guess what's going to happen on Monday's show? If the Texans win, we're going to brag the hell out of Bill O'Brien, unless he has some boneheaded decision about calling a timeout or two-minute drill or something like that.

But my guess is if the Texans win, it's because Deshawn's amazing, the defense comes up with turnovers, and there's something that Bill O'Brien did to outsmart Harbaugh. Thanks, guys. I don't envision. Say that again? Thanks, guys. Oh, you're welcome. I mean, I'm doing, I'll do it.

But if the Texans lose 35 to 7 on Sunday, do you think I'm going to come on the show Monday and go, can you believe what happened? Now, if Kami Fairbearer misses three field goals, then we're going to say, all right, Bill, nice job signing him to being a top five kicker. if our buddy Whitney doesn't get involved more defensively and makes him tackles and stops and puts pressure, we're going to ask why that, where that money was.

If we're, you know, if Laramie Tunsell gets two more false starts and allows a sack that is Sean, we're going to say, is this what you're the highest paid offensive left tackle in the NFL gets paid to do? But there's nothing that's going to happen this Sunday that is going to be so bad and so awful that anybody should be called for Bill O'Brien's job. when you call for Bill O'Brien's job, you called for it after being humiliated in Kansas City during the playoffs last year. You call for his job when he calls Arizona and apparently nobody else and gets chicken sandwich or chicken salad for the best receiver,

one of the best in the game. That's when you fire him. Instead, Cal made the organization flutter, brought in a chaplain to become the executive vice president of God knows what, and Bill O'Brien's got the general manager tag. That's what they did. So two games of a regular season? Going to force Cal to change his mind about who his front office is?

Oh, hell no. 228 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to get in. Still, we'll hear from our buddy Chris Gordon, the parody, before the close of the show, because it was just so good it's worthy of repeating. Let me tell you about Shaw's Jewry at the corner West Gray and Montrose. The folks at West Gray and Montrose have known one thing at that intersection. since 1966.

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All right, it is 219 on Sports Talk 7-9. Ross, I'm going to put the bed this Baylor Houston thing with one thing. I did find out the Big 12 has a protocol for a number of players for a particular team. You have to have at least 53 players healthy and ready to go. Of that group, you have to have seven offensive linemen, four interior defensive alignment, and at least one quarterback. So if all the reports are accurate that SI has put out there, the Baylor Bears could not suit up seven offensive line. alignment for the game tomorrow.

Wow. And I'm going to assume that's got to be what? You have probably 12 on a depth chart, wouldn't you think? Hmm. So you're talking about probably at least five or six players that are either in the contact tracing or in the testing of positive? Yeah, I mean, you're starting five. You probably got a couple or at least a handful of backups, especially on a

college team. Yeah, maybe like 10. Yeah. Because why do they have to have at least seven? Just that's what the Big 12 protocol is, says. You have to have at least seven linemen. Well, I guess that makes sense. I don't know.

So you're telling me you couldn't suit it. You couldn't have seven healthy linemen for the game tomorrow. Damn, that went over an entire section. Just give a tight end to heavy meal and call a tackle. Or that slot receiver who's a slow white guy anyway. Okay. You know what I'm saying? You need a stereotype bailer like that, Matt.

Well, I'm talking about any team's got slow white inside slot receivers. Okay. Don't talk about Jackson Shipley like that. Or Danny Mandolola. Amandola? Amandola. The Woodlands, Texas, great. Julian Edelman.

Who else? Inside slot, slow. Oh, Kevin Walter. Well, Julian Edel. Yeah, you said Julian Edelman. They're quick, though. They're quick, not fast, Matt. but you add 30 pounds and then to play offensive line they can probably do it right sure

and then after too tall but two weeks that's true all right let's go the phone [phone] mike's and porter on the matt thomas show at 221 mike good afternoon yes sir i'm just I'm fed up with all of the media given I mean y'all y'all come down on bill of bryan some but bill of brian sure is not qualified to run no more than a high school operation. And my prediction is the Texans will go either 0 and 6 or 1 in 5 in their first exchange. And I am a fan. I want them to win. But I won't watch them again as long as Bill O'Brien is in that stadium. Well, I hate to tell you this, Mike, because I don't want to be the bear of bad news because I felt like I've already given enough bad news today. If you're not

going to watch them again until they let them go, you're probably not watching the rest of this season, maybe not for the foreseeable future. Oh, I know, I know. And you're right. Cal McNair not care about this because he's already sold the seats for the next 10 years. He don't care. He's got the money coming in. That's my personal opinion. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't believe I am because not seeing the product that he lets O'Brien put on the field all the time. But hey, I love your show, man.

And hopefully I'm wrong. Hopefully I'm wrong in what I say. I hope you're wrong, too. I know. You know what, here's a thing. Thank you for the phone call, Mike, and have a good weekend. I just don't, Rossi, we talked about this Monday.

If the Texas would have beaten the Chiefs, he wasn't all of a sudden the greatest coach in the NFL. And if they lost, I mean, did it come as a massive shock the way they performed against Kansas City last Thursday? No, we were talking about this last week. How did you feel going in and how did you feel coming out? Going in, I felt like they're in 18. Coming out, I feel like they're in 18.

It's just no surprise. Well, giving up 31sts. straight points after getting outscored, you get outscored 51 to 7 in the playoff game, and then you give up 31 straight on opening night on Thursday. It's like, come on. I didn't think that was going to happen in back-to-back games. I thought they would show themselves a little bit better. But as Bill O'Brien says, Matt, they do have a lot to build on from that fourth quarter.

Well, here's the thing. We said this when we were making our NFL predictions, and we're not feeling ones. Trust us. Kansas City and Baltimore are in rarefied air, and the next best team in the EFC, whomever that be, whether that's the Raiders, the Chargers, the Pittsburgh. Pittsburghs, were just a significant notch down. And that's where the Texans are. They're in that tier two group.

The problem is tier two is so far away from tier one. And it's also unfair, but life happens that you had to take on the two best teams right away in back-to-back weeks. You play first-play schedules, you brag about your AFC championships. Then you win those, you play first-place schedules. you're going to have to play the best teams in the conference. That's just how it goes. Yeah, and again, I have them going 9 and 7.

I don't think they're as bad as what they were against Kansas. If you play Kansas City 16 times, you may not win, but I have wonderful news for you. You get to play Cleveland and Cincinnati this year. You get to play Jacksonville twice. You get to play Chicago and Detroit. So you will get fat and happy off of the teams that I think are not nearly as good as you are. And you may surprise somebody. You might be to New England.

who also in this schedule would be considered a quality. You might go to Pittsburgh next week and win. You might beat Minnesota. You might beat Green Bay. There are some winnable games. And again, it would be just entirely too easy to be radio host every single day to jump on the radio and say how much Bill O'Brien sucks every day. We already know he does.

We've already made our point. Very, very bad general manager, not a good coach and not a great person. Other than that, he's great. But this, but what happened last Thursday and what's going to happen to this team on Sunday, especially if it gets ugly, doesn't change the viewpoint of Cal McNair. Doesn't change a viewpoint of us. Rosson, if the Texans win this game, it will be a feather in the cap of Bill O'Brien because that means he took his team after a week and a half off after going against another quality AMC opponent and he made adjustments. he will force Baltimore to do things that we don't think they can do. So guess what's going to happen on Monday's show?

If the Texans win, we're going to brag the hell out of Bill O'Brien, unless he has some boneheaded decision about calling a timeout or two-minute drill or something like that. But my guess is if the Texans win, it's because Deshawn's amazing, the defense comes up with turnovers, and there's something that Bill O'Brien did to outsmart Harbaugh. Thanks, guys. I don't envision. Say that again? Thanks, guys.

Oh, you're welcome. I mean, I'm doing, I'll do it. But if the Texans lose 35 to 7 on Sunday, do you think I'm going to come on the show Monday and go, can you believe what happened? Now, if Kami Fairbearer misses three field goals, then we're going to say, all right, Bill, nice job signing him to being a top five kicker.

if our buddy Whitney doesn't get involved more defensively and makes him tackles and stops and puts pressure, we're going to ask where that money was. If we're, you know, if Laramie Tunsell gets two more false starts and allows a sack to Deshawn, we're going to say, is this what you're the highest paid offensive left tackle in the NFL gets paid to do? But there's nothing that's going to happen this Sunday that is going to be so bad and so awful that anybody should be called for Bill O'Brien's job. when you call for Bill O'Brien's job, you called for it after being humiliated in Kansas City during the playoffs last year.

You call for his job when he calls Arizona and apparently nobody else and gets chicken sandwich or chicken salad for the best receiver, one of the best in the game. That's when you fire him. Instead, Cal made the organization flutter, brought in a chaplain to become the executive vice president of God knows what, and Bill O'Brien's got the general manager tag. That's what they did.

So two games of a regular season? Going to force Cal to change his mind about who his front office is? Oh, hell no. 228 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to get in. Still, we'll hear from our buddy Chris Gordon, the parody, before the close of the show, because it was just so good it's worthy of repeating. Let me tell you about Shaw's Jewry at the corner West Gray and Montrose.

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because I promise you she's going to enjoy the experience. If you're looking for a diamond tennis bracelet, a pair of earrings, an engagement band, maybe adding something to the ring she already has. Get it today at Shaw's Jewel at the corner of West Gray Mantras. It's Matt, and he's back. The Matt Thomas Show on 790. Houston's home for Houston teens.

We've got some harrowing breaking news, Matthew. All right. Go ahead. Give us something positive sports, Harvey. Well, it's not positive. Matt, what high school did you go to? Maid Creek. Made Creek football star charged with aggravated robbery. Story from ABC 13.

As part of the legacy left by Matt Thomas, Made Creek quarterback Dante Javari Jones accused along with two other men robbing three people at gunpoint at West Houston. apartment complex parking lot. Sources say the man was inspired by the Matt Thomas Shrine inside Maid Creek and had to go rob folks.

You know there's a special place in hell for you. The driver of the Mustang sped off his Jones and three other suspects opened fire. The suspects continued to shoot while chasing the victim's vehicle down the road, according to court documents. What do you want me to say? Dante said, quote, I just wanted to impress Matt Thomas. Okay. People aren't thinking you're serious.

Nobody thinks that. Have you met our audience? I had a guy that we had a guy that called the show today that said that we need to break Bill O'Brien's toes so he doesn't coach. Well, he was making a poor Stripes-related joke. Oh, it was brutal, too. I mean, I was trying to give it a chance, but. Look at this kid's Twitter account. He got a full ride to TSU.

Well, probably past tense now. Yeah, that scholarship offer may be rescinded, Matthew. I thought you were going to mention that Blake Taylor's coming off the Angeles for the Astros. That's what I thought you were going. Sure. Your thoughts, Matt, on Blake Taylor. You'd rather spend more time but talking about the May.

Let me tell you something. If you want to go May Creek versus Aldi Nimitz when it comes to crimes? I don't recall any of our quarterbacks being arrested for armed robbery. Name one. So you're telling me that Nimitz, high school has had nothing but choir people.

I didn't say that. Okay. Some of them are in band. Oh, where is the drum beat on that one, huh? The drum, what do they call the thing? rim shot. The rim shot.

Yeah. You're just knocking me when I'm down. My Cougars don't play. I got my quarterback at my high school. It's been arrested for arm robbery. What else do you want, Ross? You want to come to the Kingwood offices and kick me in the testicles? Yeah, I can come and talk about how far away you live and make fun of wrestling.

I'll come up there for that. I'm free this weekend. And then you're going to tell me next to the McRib is never coming back, right? Well, that would be a blessing for you, and your arteries would thank you. You know what I need to come up? kind of fire me back up. What's that, Matthew? I feel better.

The Chris Gordy, horrible football Friday parody. Texans back at home, sitting at 0-1, they didn't look great in Casey. They just couldn't stop the run. JJ disappeared, and so did Whitney, too. Got to fix it quick before we fall to O&2. Playing the Mighty Ravens, it's a mighty high bar. Defense has to focus You just have to stop Lamar

Stop Lamar Stop Lamar Stop Lamar Take away Mark Ingram And stop Hollywood Brown No fans here at NRG No loudness to be found If we're gonna beat the Ravens

This is where we start Spy with a linebacker You just have to stop Lamar Stop Lamar Stop Lamar Stop Lamar Stop Lamar Every time he runs around, let's get us

There's nothing you can do to me at this point, Ross, that I don't feel better now for because of that song. You're riding high now, aren't you, Matthew? I mean, I'm going to take a nap out of the show. I mean, that's what you mean. Final score, Sunday. For what? Texans.

Oh, who are they playing? Baltimore. 3417. 3324. Texans are going to score a couple late touchdowns with Sunday. something to build on for momentum in the next week. Sounds eerily familiar. You know, it's also eerily familiar are the great voices of Adam Clayton and Adam Wexler.

And Jeff Graham, the first hour. What? It's like the triple play as part of the A team, and they're up next on seven-night.