The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Can The Texans Get Another Home Playoff Win? Longhorns Fighting For Championship Spot

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" give a final preview of the Houston Texans hosting the Los Angeles Chargers for the opening matchup of NFL Wild Card weekend. Matt and Ross also:recap Notre Dame defeating Penn State to advance to the College Football Playoff National Championshippreview the Texas Longhorns facing Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl semifinal with Chris Gordy and Sam Khan, senior writer for The Athleticdiscuss the Astros avoiding arbitrationcelebrate Derek Stingley Jr. earning NFL All-Pro honorsreview the 2025 Rodeo Houston lineuptell their "Non-Florida Stories" and more on this "Anything Goes Friday."

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10.02 in H-town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition for the Matt Thomas show with Ross in Atlanta. This is Sports Talk 790.

Sometimes you get teased too long and then you know why not getting all flustered. You're dangling bait and I'm not taking it, Matt. You need to. I'm good. I'm not going to dangle as much bait as I have in the past.

Freddie and Jalen, you're not, There's no girth, right? It's not girthy enough for you. It's not like a Davis Mills neck. You know what that happens sometimes when you take people to restaurants? The restaurant is so good and then they go, it's all right. And you're like, you want to punch you right in the throat.

Yeah. Well, I'm sorry I couldn't do it longer. Just one segment. It's like me. He's got dad, Bob. Yeah, it's like the big girls, the funniest in the group. Do you want to repeat that? No.

I thought that's something I would have said. It did. You're infecting my brain. But go ahead and say it one more time. 15 years is too much. Say it one more time. generally the funny one in the girl group is the big one. Am I wrong?

That's what I'm used for. I'm a very ticket, bitch. All right. You're not coming over for a weenie roast as much as you want to, Matt. Yeah, no ween roast allowed here on Sports Talk 790. Good morning, everybody. Oh, my God. I love a lot of our segments on the show.

That may be my favorite thing. I don't know if I look forward any more than a 10 o'clock open on the Friday edition of the Matt Tom of the show overall. Sports Harvey. the hell are you? I'm great and as always a big hat tip to Connor McGovern for putting it together. Man, I'm telling you folks, I heart, if you're listening, Bob Pittman,

the chairman of our company, please make sure we compensate this young federal so it doesn't leave us in six months. Ugh. Don't set it over under. That's true. That's a stay away for me. Yeah, I know.

You know, we should never keep track of the Conn and McGovern month still with us. Maybe an ugly number. Hello from Atlanta Sports RV where it is snowing and they don't get much of that here. So the city is shut down. Oh, wow. Completely shut down. How are you getting to the arena today?

You walking? The game's tomorrow. Oh, okay. That's right, tomorrow. Whatever. They're going to practice, but it's somewhere about five minutes from here. There are some people out, but the airport's largely closed. You know what it is?

Not to get all weathery on you here, but it's that 32-degree range. rain, snow mix, which is probably as bad as it gets. If it's just snows, like it's like 15 and just snow, that's one thing. But you're mixing precipitation rain with snow, and it's kind of, and then people that don't know what they're doing driving on the roads, it's a little recipe for disaster. So everybody in Atlanta has been told to stay home. The hotel where we are out here in Atlanta is scarcely, scarcely, scarcely.

Scarcely, you went Irish on me, Matt. I didn't mean to go Irish on you. You know, but in Irish, it's a bunch of crap. That's Scottish, Matt. You've been... Same difference. If it ain't Scottish, it's a bunch of crap, too. You've been misquoting us for 15 years now on the show.

We're sick of it. We're not Scottish. Those are our mortal enemies. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, needless to say, we are landlocked at the hotel today. And we'll play the Hawks tomorrow and then get back to Houston. And you have hired a Sherpa to show you around the city tonight, I believe.

I believe I'm going to be getting a massage in the hotel right after the show. Really? Yeah. Okay. It's a little pricey. but it'll be fine. Yeah, you put it on, charge it to the, charge it, just write down T for Tita when you sign for it. Well, you put M for Tita.

Like, I'm his distant cousin, like, ninth cousin. Mattia for Tita. That's right. Hey, I want to ask you, we begged the audience yesterday to call you after the show last night of the Rocket's beat the Memphis Grizzlies. How successful was us begging? I got Biscuit and Gerard. and I think one more, Stanley, I think. I got three calls.

But you got a 50% bump. It was weird. It was like the old school. Now, this is a big win. The Rockets had over the Memphis Grizzly last night, which of course we will cover on this show, Matt. Sure, sure. It was a hybrid.

I did a really long monologue to start the show because no one was calling. And then when I hit break, all the calls came in. Nice. So I appreciate the folks. We were on for about an hour. I had a good time. Played some audio, took some calls, talked to some rocket ball. It was great.

Yeah. I thought last night's game, in many respects, sucked. It was very collagey in terms of the whistles were blown a lot. There was ebbs and flows of utter madness. I'm not a big fan of watching free throws being missed, generally speaking. 17 for the Rockets. Eight of them by Alperin Shingoon. Yeah, the Rocket should have won by 10 or 12 last night.

I mean, that's the reality of it. You know, Morant was good. for a while. Jaron Jackson was good for a while. Something called Luke Kinnard was hitting a couple of crazy-ass threes, but the Rockets were the better team last night. Luke Karnard's one of the greatest three-pointer shooters in NBA history, and that's actually true.

That's actually literally true. Oh, I believe you. I believe you. But Memphis's defense is may. Rockets took advantage of that, and the Rockets won the game. Yes, they did. They started off that first quarter, they looked like they were ready to win a championship. And then, of course, they slowed down after that. Yeah, I kept

asking my set decision. I said, I said, man, we got to look at the point totals for most and a half, most in a quarter, and, you know, he's had all locked and a load, and then things kind of just came to a screeching halt because the Rockets could hit free throws, but they won it nevertheless. Escaped with a win, yes. Game and a half lead over Memphis for the two-seed right now

in the Western Conference. All right, ladies and gentlemen, as is the case every Friday on the Matt Thomas show with Ross for the last 15 years, we give you, Rossi, as we, the kids would say, the longest leash in the business. Oh my gosh. Have you heard our day drunk colors?

I mean, my goodness, it isn't anything goes Friday. 713-212-5-790. That's the number. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to chime in on anything about the Rockets last night, if you want to get into Framber Valdez getting his deal done for next year, Kyle Tucker having to go back to Arbitrude. court again?

That can't be a good sign if you're a Chicago Cubs fan. We'll get to that. We will get to the football game last night between Notre Dame and Penn State. Now, Rossi, to be fully honest, all I saw was the winning field goal in the final couple plays because I was busy calling the Rockets game. Yeah, I was locked in on the Rockets game too.

I had it on the back, you know, secondary TV. But it's funny, Shmish Morning, who is our program guru and a host of Lockdowne SEC, and I believe he does 23 radio hits throughout the South. Probably my guess. I can find them on four different Atlanta radio stations here today if I needed to.

Possibly. Going quickly to the Brian Kelly defense card. Well, of course. Notre Dame playing for the national championship book coming up next week or whatever it is. Shocking. He's defending something at LSU? I know. Isn't that crazy?

Oh, quick, man. I miss my opportunity. Somebody was talking about this. I wanted to play it. Oh, greetings. It's the Matt Thomas show on a Friday afternoon. Morning. And of course you know that anything goes.

Oh. Didn't Uncle Greg do one for us too? We lost that one. Matt, you know, I'm here for you. Hey, sports fans, this is Uncle Greg. Hey, if you just want to sit around and listen to a ball-headed, big, fat piece of tub of goo, listen to Matt Thomas on Anything Goes Friday. And when I say anything goes, you know what I'm talking about.

Hey, Matt, I've got to re-record those. You lost a lot of weight. Yeah, I know. Yeah. He would still call me a tub of goo if he saw me. I would dare to call you gaunt now these days. Yeah, God bless Uncle Greg. All right, anything goes.

713, 212, 790. Tonight is a huge game. The college football. I mean, from what I understand, and again, I just saw the highlights this morning when I turned on Sports Center. Back and forth, Seesaw game after kind of a sluggish start

for the first half in that game between Penn State or Notre Dame. But Notre Dame is advancing. And the Notre Dame alumni base, I don't know if it's alumni or fan base, they've got a national following. I don't know if it's because of the Catholic... Yeah, Catholicism.

Catholicism or if it's just the brand. But man, they... Notre Dame fan is coming out of nowhere the last three weeks or so, and they're really happy. Yeah, people were calling that game a game between two fan bases that support child molesters, and that just wasn't right now.

That just, I mean, that's over the line. Ouch! And by the way, I think they're getting $20 million to play for the championship next week, I think is what it is, or somewhere. Are they already received it? In their own pockets. Wow. And it goes all to them.

You know how much sacrament wine that can buy? That's great. Good for them. Meanwhile, James Franklin, before the game this week said, you know what? If you don't play in a conference championship game, you probably should be playing for a national semifinal. So his thought was either you must play in one or we just get rid of all of them. And these conference commissioners are like, whatever you, whatever.

We're playing conference championship game. We're going to fill a stadium up in a neutral site, get a lot of money from our TV networks. We're playing it. Yeah. But Notre Dame can NIL to your blue in the face now. I mean, they're getting every bit of the money that other teams have to share with their conference brethren. Good for them. I hear the exact version of your voice.

It's fine. I mean, I'm not pocket watching colleges. Right, that's for sure. All right. 713212-5-790 and oh by the way ross we got a football game coming up tomorrow at 3 30 inside energy stadium huge we have a national semi-final game tonight in arlington how's the weather up uh in arlington it looks really snowy yesterday i don't know what the morning update is we should actually ask chris cordy he's going up there wait a minute i thought he was too busy handling programming duties here

at 790 he he's a man about in town and the country is he doing locked well he is i guess he is representing the SEC. The Longhorns, their first year, carrying the flag for the SEC in the final four right now. You know who doesn't care? Vanderbilt. You know who doesn't care? Who is another sucky team in the SEC?

Mississippi State doesn't care. Oh, it seems like the SEC cares about conference pride more than any other. So I don't know if I would say that. But I don't know. That's more of a question for Chris Gordy. I'm new to this SEC game. Yeah. All right. 713. 212-790.

Isn't anything goes Friday on the radio program. We'll wake the strippers up at 12. At 1.30, we have a non-floor story to get to. We have believe it or not today, hell yeah or not, at 150. We have rockets to get to. Texans playoff game tomorrow, college football on the agenda, and some baseball

chatter as well. 713. 212-790, 10-15 here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Anything goes Friday on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

I'm here in Atlanta, or if you are trying to travel here, good luck. There has been a ground stop at Atlanta airport until 2 o'clock. Atlanta, I think, is either the busiest or second busiest airport in the country. So that would be fun for people travel today. It's weather. We've got a poll question up, Rossi. Very simple.

It's called your shot. You like the Chargers or the Texans. You've got 24 hours to get a vote on that on my Twitter account at SportsMT. very early in, 76% of the audience thinks the Texans are going to beat the charges tomorrow. Let's go, baby. That's what I'm talking about. By the way, Hartfield Jackson number one, Matt. Is that right?

Can I guess the top five? You probably can. You're the biggest airport horror I've ever heard of. Airport horror would be an exact name. That's my pseudo name. It's your forte. Yeah. I'm going to go Atlanta, Hartsfield, Chicago O'Hare.

O'Hare number five. DFW. Number three. LAX? Number two. So I'm missing one, huh? Yes. JFK?

JFK is six. Ooh, what am I missing? Oh, I'm going to go sneaky off the board. I'm going to go Charlotte. Charlotte is ninth, so you're not crazy. That's not crazy. Okay, so I'm missing. L.A. Atlanta, Chicago.

I'll give you the ones you got in order. Atlanta 1, L.A.X. to DFW3 and then you missed four and then O'Hare 5. Can I go Denver for? Denver is four. Yeah. Hashtag Airport horror. I'm so proud of you, Matt. I mean, when you

think about it at the end of the day, I am the king of useless trivia. Hmm. Okay. Well, especially if it's about like soap operas. Yeah, it's true. By the way, they are preempting the prices right here in Atlanta they're calling first over weather coverage. How mad are you one to ten?

That's zero. I'm sitting here doing a radio show. You're just going to hate watch Drew Carey anyways. I don't know why you bother watching the show. You know what? I thought, you know, for 2025 to get rid of some things. Hate listen to bad sports radio. Hate listen. Stop hate watching that Drew Carey hosted Price is Right.

I can't get rid of these things. All right. One more airport question for you. Can you guess what number George Bush Intercontinental comes in it? It's going to be lower than you think. I'm going to go. It is lower than I thought. 14.

Wow, you are an airport whore. 15. Okay. Just behind Phoenix? Well, it all depends on who the hubs are. Southwest is a huge hub in Phoenix. Americans have a huge hub. Shmerican, excuse me, and dark breast.

Intercontinental has just shmited. Who's the Seattle Hub? Well, it's actually a state. It's Alaska. Oh, Alaska Airlines. Yeah. Okay. And they also had a lot of people going to Asia off of Seattle.

I know that from looking from flights, looking for flights. You didn't have to change planes to Seattle, did you? I changed planes in DFW, yeah. Okay, I got you. All right. What else is going on, Rossi? We go, let's go over the headlines of the day again. Texans going through a walkthrough today.

The 3.30 kickoff is tomorrow. Oh, by the way, and I think, did it happen on our watch? Minnesota Rams are going to Phoenix to play the game. That's a significant advantage for the Minnesota Vikings, I think. No, they were going to have, they probably have more Vikings fans in the building ready to go in L.A. Oh, there's probably more Vikings fans in L.A. than Phoenix. No, because I think people would have to travel there. And my guess is the city of L.A. has told people to just stay away for a while, if you know what I mean.

I'm saying even transplants, even with like the people that love L.A. There's probably more Vikings fans than there are Rams fans. Rams are actually decent. Chargers is worse. Yeah, the charges are the ones that have the fans from other places. I don't know. I mean, think about all the Minnesotans that retired to the Phoenix area. Okay, that could work. You're looking at the average age of the game.

A fan of about 71, 72, somewhere in that range. So you're saying the handicapped spots have been snapped up? I'm saying. What do you think the crowd is going to be? Could they put 40,000 people in that stadium for that game? I'm going to say yes, especially if they're really cheap. Well, are they really cheap? I don't even know.

We'll have to look it up. I wonder if you want to buy. Well, if the demand is that low, the resale will go down. But, I mean, I wonder if you just went to the, what is the name of the stadium? Bank of, is it something, Bank of Something Stadium in Arizona? No, it's something like that. It used to be University of Phoenix. Phoenix, right, and they've changed the name of it.

But if you went to that state, oh, no, I know it. It's State Farm Stadium, I think, is what they call it. No, that's... No, that's... I'm just kidding. State Farm Arena, Atlanta, isn't it? That's right. Rate Rom Arena.

Oh, I'm sorry. But I mean... State Farm Stadium? How much money are these people taking from? us? They're sponsoring two stadiums. Jake is on the TV every five seconds. Yeah. From Rake Farm.

Yeah. I mean, they've got Drake in these commercials and whoever else. They've got Pat Malhomes, Travis Kelsey. My God. Whatever it is, it's working because I continue to spend lots of money in advertising and they get enough to talk about it for a minute. And were they the ones that got out of the

Pacific Palisades area like last year? Yes. Yes. So that's the kind of publicity you don't want. That's how you keep, well, that's how you keep printing money. Yeah. Have you seen the number of famous people that have lost their home? I mean, just in sports. Steve Kerr's mom lost her house.

Is she okay? Well, she's 90. Oh, gosh. Because I know his dad was shot and killed back in the day. I hope his mom's okay. Yeah, JJ Reddick had a rental home up there when he was, when he's taking the Lakers job. He lost the home on that.

Who else? James Woods has been talking about all of his neighbors have lost their home. I mean, it's, you know what it is, Rossi, and I don't mean to get non-sports us on it's here, but it's like a 1975 movie. Yeah. Yeah, the pictures and the, well, the guy that we had on from L.A. yesterday, I said it the best, surreal. It's just surreal.

But, you know, back in the 70s, they made movies about, you know, one of the most famous movies in the 70s is the towering inferno. And then they made all these movies about airplanes, you know, airport 74, airport 75. And, I mean, it's, you could literally create a storyline of fires being set and destroying an entire coast. And it's happening in real life. It's crazy. Yeah. Terrible. So the Lakers game got postponed last night.

The Spurs are out in California right now. I think they're supposed to play tonight or tomorrow against somebody. and they were staying in Santa Monica or whatever, but they've changed hotels, but they're going to try to play those games after all. So, yeah, it has absolutely created a standstill for life. And that's why it was the right decision for the NFL to play the weather game in Phoenix. Get those guys out of town.

But, I mean, I can't imagine anybody that Rams are going, damn, this is going to cost us here. If you're going to beat the Vikings, you don't care if there's 75,000 people right. You've got to play better football. Yeah, neutral field is a true test anyways. Exactly. You know, it's funny when we say, you play these two teams that are neutral field, how would it go? Well, we're about to find out.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. One of our former favorite Astros did not get the paycheck he wanted. We'll tell you about that next. 7-13-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90, 1028. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I'm here in Atlanta on Sports Talk 790. 1033, and anything goes Friday, 713, 2,1, 2,1, 5790.

719. 713, 212, 5790 is how you reach us. I'm here in Atlanta, where the, you know how TV likes to take advantage of weather situations and just dramatize things? Yes. Well, Atlanta, everything is closed here. Schools are closed, and they just did a live shot from Georgia Tech. one of the great institutions in America, where the kids are outside throwing snowballs.

That was the lead headline here in the 11th. Oh, wow, that's funny. I'm glad they went lighthearted. Nobody getting murdered in the snow? I don't know. Is crime lesser in? Somebody want the criminals? Yeah, nobody's outside.

I think so. I think you're right. 713-212-5-70. So, Rossi, if you make a trade with whatever the sport may be, don't you want to endear yourself to the guy that you've just traded for to hopefully commit to that franchise long term. Wouldn't that make a lot of sense? If you'd given up major league level players and a prized prospect

and you want that trade to bear fruit and build a relationship and lay the pathway for a long-term relationship? I would think so, Matt. Sounds great. The Chicago Cubs and Kyle Tucker were exchanging arbitration dollar numbers for his final year. He'll be a free agent after next season. Again, for arbitration, your first three-level years of your major league career, at a certain dollar amount.

The last three can be negotiated through arbitration. Or, you know, you say you're worth this. The other team says you're worth this, and you can either come to a common ground or you can agree on it, whatever. But if you can't come to an agreement, you go to an arbitration hearing where, as we talked about on the show yesterday, you can create some bad feelings because you have to go in and state your case. And meanwhile, the team you're currently working for is going to tell you about

how sucky you are. Well, apparently the Chicago Cubs are going to go to an arbitration case with Kyle Tucker. Kyle wanted $17.5 million this year. The Chicago Cubs are willing to offer $15 million. They could not come to a havesys. And so they're going to go to arbitration. Kyle Tucker's got to be going. Damn.

Do I have a bad agent or am I greatly overestiming on my value? Or am I just running into a cheap, frivolous, miserly baseball team? That's who I wonder. Yeah, where the blame lies. That's a great question. I was thinking about that yesterday. Like, is it his representation? Because they lost.

Now, we talk about the hearing here in Houston. They lost that hearing. Yes, they did. The Astros won. So their side was correct. So on one side, I want to blame the Cubs and say, hey, you know what, just pony up the money, build the relationship. But if their representation is overvaluing Kyle Tucker again, then I kind of get if the Cubs want to draw a line in the sand somewhere. So do me this favor, Ross.

to give me his numbers from last year. Now, obviously, we know he missed basically three months of the season with the... His numbers are great as far as OPS and all that, but he only played, like, I don't know, did he even play 90 games? I'll pull it up. So I wonder if you're the agent and you're trying to figure out what a good value is. Did they go reach for the stars? Or do they say, look, when he was healthy, he was as productive.

as you can find in Major League Baseball. Five-tool, right-fielder, speed, power, average, arm, all the good stuff. And unfortunately, a foul ball hit him in a bad spot that wind up, you know. He was hitting before over that week, the same weekend. Yeah. So how much does that come into it? And how much did the Cubs go, you know what, man, we love you. and we're going to pay you in really, really nice salary,

but man, you missed a boatload of games last year. 78 games played. Now, he still had a 4.7 war, this is 5.4 the year before, and 157 games played. That's how good he was. Yeah. But 23 home runs. I mean, he had like a good season.

23 home runs, 11 stolen bases, 993 OPS, which is just insane. Yeah. OPS plus of 181. That's better than say Juan Soto last year. But as a good friend of mine was to tell me, Rossi, attendance is part of the grade. Attendance is part of this grade?

Well, he got an half in attendance. Yeah, he did, unfortunately, for him. I mean, again, it was a fluky injury. It wasn't like he was out of shape or trying to do things, you know, being dangerous. It was just he swung out of ball. The ball landed in a bad spot. It went to crack in his feet in about nine different, you know,

spots or shin. But it's just a bad vibe, isn't it? To have to go to arbitration twice in your major league career when most players and most agents, and frankly, for that matter, most teams don't like to go to arbitration? Yeah, that's weird. Two and a half million, they can't just meet in the middle on that? That's what I'm guessing. Did somebody say that on either side of the negotiation?

Hey, let's cut this thing in half and go and be done. That's usually what they do. So it makes me think a little bit about what it's going to be like watching Kyle Tucker try to get a job in 2006 when he goes test for a agency. If his agency can't get along with two teams, if his agency can't get along with two teams, how grumpy is he going to be with his representation when maybe he tries to go get that $300 million deal somewhere and he can't get it because teams are like, man, you know, you've missed a lot of time. Now, if he comes out this year and plays 155 games and has an OPS above 1100, well,

you know, it's a moot conversation. But again, I don't know the inner workings of it. And I would love to steal an agent away for a little bit and say, how do you see this from a distance? But just the pure general baseball fan of me says, somebody overvalues somebody, because then you're basically telling me the Astros who have spent money in the past, the Cubs who have clearly spent money in the past,

are saying, man, Kyle, we love you. But come on, man. let's still in some realities here. You didn't play much of last year. It was also a freak accident. It was. And also part of me thinks, again, you're the Chicago freaking Cubs.

Are you really going to create some animosity over $2.5 million? I know it sounds crazy, but that's what it would be. There's no way unless, even if Tucker wins, even if Tucker wins, he's still going to be like, why are you making me do this again? Yeah. Well, he played 100. 157 games the year before, 150 the year before, 140 year before that.

58 before in the COVID year out of 60. So he's played full seasons or thereabouts for four years before last year. Yeah. And he's 27 years old and, yeah, I don't think injury stuff is going to factor in too much. But why again, if you're the Cubs, if you just traded for him, why are you getting sideways with him? This is not a way to build a relationship, right? Yeah, I would say this is a situation where you, rather than drawing a line in the same, saying like you have, you bite the bullet.

And you get as close to that number as you can take. Because here's the risk, Ross. They gave up a lot of high-end talent. And if they lose him after this, and again, remember, relationships can be hurt by the fact that you don't, you have to go to a guy for one year. That's a lot to give up for a guy for one year when you could have gone and just gotten him the year after that and paid him, you know, and gotten into the world of negotiations and saying, hey, here's what we think you're worth.

Doesn't that make the case for the Kyle Tucker side? Like, guys, they just gave this top prospect. It's the number one prospect in the Astros system and two major league players for Kyle Tucker. I think he's worth $17.5 million, by the way. Yeah. And again, I don't know the Cubs track record of whether or not they come across marginal in some of these things,

but I don't think so. I think they've always had a top seven or a top eight payroll. Yeah. You know what, frankly? and maybe the Astros knew this. Maybe the Astros knew that it was going to come down to this again. And maybe Kyle's, and again, I firmly believe Kyle's representation said, look, this is just not going to happen.

We're going to go somewhere else, and the Astros are going to be sitting there holding nothing in their hand as he goes and plays somewhere else. And frankly, Ross, the corner outfield spots for the Astros are set for 2025. I mean, Predits, I can't wait to see what he does. Infield. Infield, excuse me. Like, huh, Matt?

No, no, no, no. Excuse me. That would be, my first statement was far from accurate. Matt's a really true. Matt's a real big Chaz guy. No, no, no, no, no, no. Chas got their arbitration dollars set. Yeah.

Chas got more than Jake. That was disheartening for the fan club. Oh. You know what? The fan club may need to do a GoFundMe account. Sneaky snake, man. That's fine. Hey, even if it's just me in the room by myself, the fan club lives on, baby.

I don't care. Well, you know what we're going to do? We're going to get Jake, when we go to our spring training next month, we're going to get Jake aside, and we're going to get you guys to do a video. It'll be very funny. No, I'm good. You don't want to do a video with Jake? No, Matt.

I don't need to make it about me. Fan club's about Jake. It's not the Ross Villarreal fan club. It's a Jake Myers fan club. Man, I don't want to be in a video. I'm good. All right. I'm trying to build your brand sports.

All right, fine. I'll whore myself out and put a video. There you go. That's my nice. 1043 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. The poll question is out. Call your shot.

Texans or Chargers. We'll tell you how that's going with you guys. A fan base out there and start getting in the little bit of the conversation of what's going to happen to 3 30 until about 7 o'clock at NRG tomorrow, Texans and Chargers. If you want to join us here on anything goes Friday, it's 7-13-212-5-7. 719. 713. 212.5. 790. Matt and Ross return.

Return. On Sports Talk 790. We will be getting a live report from somewhere along I-45, Chris Gordy, locked on SEC, locked on Atlanta, locked on Jacksonville, locked on Columbia, locked on Dolphin, Alabama, locked on Monroe, Louisiana, all that coming up at the top of the hour. Wow, every single one of those? Yeah, he's locked on everything. He's locked on the southeast, every state. We appreciate that for him.

Okay, so he'll join us at 11 o'clock for a live report on his way to Arlington for the... A lot of people are saying it's the national, it's the real national championship. De facto national championship, as it were. It doesn't work that way. Does that mean that the committee screwed it up that we have this as a semifinal or just how things turned out? That's how things turned out. I mean, I wish this. Texas would have won the SEC, and then they could have had to play one last game.

But we'll see how it goes. They're still in the final four. All right. The poll question's been up for 29 minutes of 184 votes are in Rossi. 69% of those people that follow me on Twitter voted for the Texans to beat the charges tomorrow. 69 to 31. Wow. Yeah.

I don't know if I voted. What's your name? It's an at SportsMT where I'm having to consistently block bots. Okay. You know what? I'm trying to build the brand, Matt. follow ad sports RV. You should build it.

And by the way, most of the bots are coming in. I had told you this before. There's another radio person in this town that has, he follows these bots and now they're following me. I mean, I don't know why you obsessively care about these bots. Just let them follow you a lot of times. They'll go away anyways. You're wasting your time.

I like it. The bots can't hack you. It's not about authenticity. Nobody cares how many followers you have. No, I don't. Except me. I just want the authentic ones. Oh, my gosh.

It's funny. A lot of these ones that are bots are. like they just want a loving man who will take care of her and the photo of them. Oh, that's why you block them. You don't be tempted to send more cash. You've been catfished. That's, all right, maybe so. All right, 1051, is that anything that goes Friday, 713, 212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, so let's get to a perfect scenario here. If I told you, if you told the audience right now, Rossi, the Texans are going to win the game, say, let's say 27 to 20. How do you envision that? If they're getting the 2317, something like that. I'm going to say, if they got the 27, there's a pick six in there, or turnovers with short fields or something like that. I think that the formula for the Texans is going to be the formula for what it has been

for a lot of Domeco Ryan's tenure, as you establish the run, you play a good defense, you get a good lead, and you play not to lose. That's how they were winning early on. That's how they beat the Buffalo Bills. And harassing Josh Allen in that game, they're going to try to harass Justin Herbert. who everything I've been reading, he's one of the best quarterbacks in football with no pressure. You put him under some pressure.

He's going to have some issues. But of course, easier said than done, they have one of the better offensive lines in football. Well, we had our guest on yesterday from Los Angeles, is that Herbert's not been throwing very many interceptions this year. To me, how I envision this game tomorrow, if the Texans win, is I do believe there is going to be some theatrics to it. I think there's going to be a deep ball thrown that C.J. Stroud is going to, to score a throw a pass of say

50 years more yards to Nico Collins. I was going to say, you only got one option for it. I didn't say Robert Woods. No, you didn't. I didn't say Xavier Hutchinson. No, you shouldn't. I didn't say an 11 grab day for Dalton Schultz.

Something's really gone wrong if he gets 11. That means he's past 70 times and they're losing big. I think it's a dynamic play of some sort. I'm not saying trickery. I'm just saying a seven-step drop, one-on-one coverage. Nico wins the 50-50. ball and takes in the end zone.

I do believe it is a multi-turnover day for the Texans. Not necessarily has to be all through the arm of Herbert, but I believe if you can force at least two turnovers, that probably is a big part of the reason why the Texans win the game tomorrow, if they do. I would agree with that. I don't necessarily think that Joe Mixon has to have a hundred-yard day. I just don't think that if we look at a winning box score, Rossi, Joe Mixon has got to be above, say, four yards of carry? Would that be fair?

Yes. I'm going to go over that. I'm going to say he needs to have a 100-yard game, but over 100 is going to be, it's been a pretty good formula for them winning games. I don't know. I just feel like that in a game where they fall, if they fall behind, they've abandoned the run largely. Can you, man, can you consistently get four, five yards of carry to set up third in shorts. Can you, you know, take Stroud's accuracy, especially in the short passing game and use that to your advantage?

Can you keep Stroud upright? Can you keep him from facing a lot of hurries and a lot of pressures and a lot of heads? I mean, I feel like, Ross, we've been a broken record on this for about the last eight weeks, and the answer, largely to a lot of these things is no. Yeah, the question is, how much it was of a benefit?

Because Joe Mixon had multiple ankle injuries throughout the year. He only played one drive on Sunday against the Titans. So he's largely been arresting since that time. C.J. Stroud has had a lot of rest there. Some of your banged up guys as well. So you essentially had a buy week against the terrible Tennessee Oilers, and you still beat them, by the way. So I'm wondering if that's going to help them be fresh, ready to go.

At home, loud crowd. I'm feeling confident. I'm feeling confident. So more so than you were on Monday or Tuesday, we were talking about this. Didn't I tell you, though? I said I'm always scared on Monday. I'm more confident. Everybody's always scared on Monday.

That's for sure. Oh, my God. Khalil Max is going to get six sacks in this game. Joey Bosa is going to be acting like he was in his first three games. And the running game is going to get 100 between Gus Edwards and J.K. Dobbins and Quentin Johnson's going for 120 in a touchdown. Aladdin Mconkey is going to be tough to stop. They are a really good football team. It's the playoffs.

there's no buys. Certain former defensive coordinators and coaches in the NFL. But the Texans, I got them winning. Kami Fairbairn game winner. Let's go. Oh, so it's a field goal game? Yes. Is it a field goal game that was 20 to 20 with a minute left to go, or was it like? This is what's going to have.

And it's a last second kick. And I in Eagle goes, Clutch sitting again, Kimee Fairbairn. This is what's going to happen. The Texans are going to score a touchdown within their first two drives. They're going to get up.

We're feeling good. Then they're going to get another good drive, but they're going to stall out with penalties or something and settle for a field goal. Then like another field goal, like maybe even three. It might be even like a 1917 type deal. That's what I'm predicting.

We're all going to be like, what the hell is this team doing in the middle of the game? And then we're going to be like, My God, Kami Fairbairn made that kick day one. That's my prediction. Let me ask you this. In the last two years since Domingo's taken over, do you think, and I think I know the answer is, I think they're the best last two-minute team in football in terms of squeezing

points out of a small segment of time. They're pretty good at it, and especially last year. Yeah. This is a buckingeers game. Last year was really good. Last year, there were miracles worked in that season. And I think Dick Casario tried to warn us of that in the offseason. So I would say if you're watching the game tomorrow, which I'm presuming most of you are,

you want to be in a spot where you want to see your team do something offensively in the final two minutes of both halves, especially the first half, because those are sneaky points that you want to take with you to halftime. Yeah, I like that. You're trying to, you're giving me a good sell job on why they're going to win this game tomorrow. Thank you. And you want me to give the sell job on why the Chargers win? see here's not that difficult Herbert's been remarkably accurate this year

he's got two healthy running backs and Cleo Mac's going to be in CJ's face the whole day I mean I'm no Laramie Tonsel's got him locked up more worried about Joey Bosa unless they're going to move Calilio Mac around Tansel's already planning for his Pro Bowl No that's not true Laramette's one of the best past blockers now when he's not going off sides

which he goes I mean uh when he's not going to false starting which he does so much. He lives on that edge. That's one of the reasons he's such a good pass blocker because he's normally getting off the line of scrimmage like at the snap. And sometimes he's mistiming it and that's why he gets his false starts.

It's almost always in pass sets where he's just going a little bit early because he's trying to be there and live on that razor's edge, which helps him as a pass blocker. It's his blessing and his curse, man. Okay. Maybe some work on the pretext.

free season next year when I actually once put the pads on it'll help fix that a little bit. Yeah, well, we'll see what happens. And D'Amico, I will trust. Got a little breaking news from the NFL. We'll tell you about that coming up at the top of the hour. It involves a former Texan. Plus, we check in with Gordy on the road.

713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. A couple of bits of news to get. it to one involving the Texans and one involving a former Texan. Diana Resini of ESPN reporting that Deshawn Watson is hurt again, Rossi. Yes, I first saw it from Schefter. I don't know. He doesn't matter who had it first.

It really matter. Yeah, okay, Schefter, I'm looking at the Schefter tweet right now. Tor his Achilles again, underwent surgery yesterday in his status with the 2000. of 25 season is up in the air. Wow. This is the second straight year his season ended because of injury. He tore his right Achilles tendon on October the 20th. I don't know. I don't keep track of this kind of things, but I know somebody will.

Will this be the biggest trade bust in NFL history? Not only do you trade in basketball? for the first round picks, three of them. But you renegotiated his contract, but when you made the trade to make him the richest quarterback in NFL history at the time. Way overpaying.

And basically, Deshaun got to figure out where he wanted to go because he wanted to get the extra year and the extra cash. He did everything in his power to control the narrative. And then he goes out there and plays poorly, and then he's been nothing but hurt for about 80% of his Cleveland Brown's career. Yeah, first name that came to mind was the Herschel Walker trade.

This might jump that, and I think you're absolutely right. The Herschel Walker, Dallas, Minnesota trade might be one for the ages, but this one may top it. It's, man, he tore another Achilles? That's insane, or is it the same one? It doesn't matter. I mean, I don't think it matters now, yeah. I don't know exactly but the same one.

Oh, yeah, this is what Ian Rapidport. It says less than three months after the original tear, it happened again. Wow. Wow. All right. Here's a CBS article from March of last year. Worst trades. It does have the Hershal Walker trade is number one.

Here's a good one. It's a good one they have at number two. Broncos for Russell Wilson. Ooh, that hurt. Two first round picks. They're in the playoffs again. Yeah, but that's not with Russell Wilson. That's true.

That's true. They sent the Seahawks two firsts, a second, and a fifth, plus Noah Fant and Drew Locke and a defensive lineman Shelby Harris. They get the Brownstreet fifth. That's got to go up. No, it's going up. That's prior to what, obviously, what happened today. This is going to be talked about in the same NFL news circles as the Hershal Walker tree.

but at least Herschel Walker helped a little bit. Yeah, I pulled up his stats. He was terrible even for Minnesota. He only played for two years for Minnesota. Yeah. And he was under a thousand yards both years. Both years. Okay.

Which I'm with you. I was like, I thought he had at least a thousand yards season in Minnesota. Yeah, I was going to say, at the time, people were like, that's the, that's the last piece to the Minnesota puzzle. Because, you know, the Vikings during that time in the late 80s were just going to the NFC championship game and losing the Chicago. of the world and the Niners, they thought, you know,

we're going to get a legitimate running back in here. Nope. All right, other bit of news. Congratulations to Derek Stingley. He is officially an all-pro in the NFL.

What? Yes. AP? The real all-pro? First team all-pro. Wow. For the first time in his career, congratulations to him.

Wow. Great pick by Nick Casario in the Houston Texans. Yes. I mean, Sauce Garner would have been better, but that's still fine. It's still worked out

both sides. Oh, I'm sorry, was Soss Garner first team all pro this year? Nobody's been twice before, so he's good. Well, scoreboard, baby. You're only as good as your last season. Okay. Derek Stingley, the right pick. Suck it, TSE. TSCRner. TSA remains bullish on Soss Garner.

And a little bit on... Go ahead and say it. Go ahead and say it. Say it with your chest, Maddie. Come on, baby. Oh, no. He's in the background. He's one of the background singer. He's one of the Pips? Come on, man. Other names on that first team all pro, real quick, that you would recognize. Lamar Jackson quarterback, Sequin Barkley running back.

Brock Bowers, a TSE client, is a tight end. Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, Amon St. Brown. Offensive line you don't care about. A little bit. Well, it's fine. You don't have to read on the show. I'll look up. First team defense.

Miles Garrett. Fred Warner, Roquan Smith, Patrick Zertain, Derek Stingley. Special teams, Rice's own Chris Boswell. I believe Jack Fox is also a Rice Al. Am I correct on that? Sure, why not? And that's about it. Okay.

Second team offense. Second team. Josh Allen, Derek Henry, C.D. Lamb, A.J. Brown. Second team defense would include T.J. Watt. J.L. Carter. Bobby Wagner. Let's see here. I think it's just the first. That's all I got here is the first two teams among players.

You guys don't look it up, but there it is. So congratulations to Derek Stingley, taking a leap up to put himself in that same category as one sauce car. It worked out well for both sides. 713-212-5-7-90. Gilbert and San Antonio, we'll get to you in just a couple of seconds. Right now let's get an eyewitness report. We are locked on I-45 with Chris Gordi of Sports Talk 7-90,

who covers everything SEC. He's also the biggest Brian Kelly defender. Gordy, how the hell are you, and where are you? Hey, I heard Derek Singley said he owes everything to what he learned playing college ball at LSU. So congrats to the first teamer. Yeah, why did you late at night go on a Brian Kelly rampage? What precipitated that? Because for some reason, everybody hates Brian Kelly.

I don't know. I've interviewed the guy a couple times. He's been pretty damn nice to me and pretty affable guy. I mean, he wins at a 75% clip. Like, I don't know why everybody just loves to crap on Brian Kelly, whatever they can. They never say anything nice about it. There's never a national person going, hey, great job by Brian Kelly. And what a win.

Like, even all the Notre Dame people are crapping on them, forgetting they were in the doldrums of Charlie Weiss and Ty Willigham before he got there and started winning nine, ten games a year for them. So, like, I'm not a Brian Kelly defender. I just think it's absolutely ridiculous that everybody loves to crap on the guy. and all he does is wins. He wins 75% of his games. He's in the top 10 category of winning his coaches currently at college football.

Notice Ross how Gordy raised his voice on his own cell phone on the way up here? He's very upset. Let's see. 10 and 4, 10 and 3, 9 and 4, Texas Bowl victory. He's doing great. Yeah, I mean, won the SEC West in the first year. You know, had a Heisman trophy winning quarterback a year ago. I mean, he's doing fine.

It hasn't been championship, which is what everybody wants, but he's working on it. He just seems fake. I mean, he came down there and there initially, and he's trying to talk in a Cajun accent, like he's grinding on players in recruiting videos. He's just a walking joke. He just seems kind of fake to me. And who grabbed that audio and blew it up? The national media, who continues to make fun of him?

They never grab anything good about it. It's a joke. Yeah, the national media has gotten Brian Kelly in their crosshairs, and he's just a perfect great human being. That's what's happening. Well, I mean, they could harp on the alcoholic coach who got fired from USC, who ended up a second. Oh, great stories on start.

That's called a redemption story, my friend. Yes, he has risen from the depths of USC. Like a Phoenix, he flies into the final four and has been much more successful at Texas than Brian Kelly has been at LSU. I don't know. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know.

You're in the Texas bowl, brother. You're in the Texas Bowl. Five and seven. You are shilling barbecue sauce at the Texas Bowl. Stop. By the way, who would show barbecue sauce? Normally, it's just ketchup and a bunch of pepper. Who would do that?

That's ridiculous. Come on now. If Texas had played anybody other than Georgia this year, that was a worthy opponent, they probably would have taken more else. Two playoff games they've won. That was targeting, and you know it all. All you're talking about the one

on Isaiah Bond, I agree. When is, hey, Gordy, when you're starting locked on Notre Dame playing for the national championship? When's that podcast starting up? Hey, it's congrats to them. But you know what nobody wants to say? If Brian Kelly had stayed at Notre Dame, he's probably coaching still and got them in the championship.

It's not like Marcus Freeman with some miracle war. No, they would have lost three games. Same players. He's winning with Brian Kelly's players. You see how the SEC guy, Matt, goes to the hypotheticals? You always got to go to the hypotheticals when it's SEC. I'm a big hyperjohner. We're all at C.

Tonight. We are all in on the Texas Longhorns. I'm making the drive up to Dallas. Tons of Texas fans. I've already passed about six range rovers with their Texas gear out. A few private jets I've seen overhead with their Texas gear on. So they're all making the truck up to Dallas.

It should be a fun game. And our sister station, $1,300 to zone, going up to see those guys. They're doing a live broadcast for their pregame show. So come out to Boomer Jackson, Arlington. if you're making the way up. No one's going. No one.

The weather's terrible. No one's leaving Houston. What are you talking about? That's ridiculous. Nobody's leaving. I've not encountered any ice on the road just as of yet. All right. So where are you staying?

Where is the official locked on SEC Hotel? Do we know? I mean, do you actually have an elevator or do you have to go right from the outside to your room? You know, we'll figure out the hotel thing. We may just come on back to Houston after the next. You don't have a lot. Are you serious? Go to sleep somewhere, Gordy.

Yeah, just sleep in your car. No, it's too cold. It's too cold for that. No, I have a hotel, but it's, again, it's just a quick in-and-out trip. We'll get to go see. And hopefully Texas doesn't embarrass the conference. I mean, you're playing for the pride of the SEC now, and all our hopes and Laurel's rest on you,

although the majority of other SEC fans I've talked to have said to hell with conference pride, we hope Texas loses. All right, so who's going to win the game? Honestly, being as objective as you normally are. What's the game going to end up like tonight? Ohio State is going to see the toughest defense they've seen all year. Those receivers that have been running wild the last couple weeks against Oregon and Tennessee, Texas has got the secondary that can lock down Jeremiah Smith and a mecca.

I'm looking forward to McCuba and Barron and Michael Taff and all these guys playing zone doing what they need to do, locking them down, and Quinn yours, despite all the the transfer NIL deals offers he's got on the table. We'll play his butt off tonight for the Texas Longhorns. They will get the run game going with the right to Apple Cam Williams back healthy. Isaiah Bond's supposed to play. Texas Longhorns win in a close one tonight. 3124.

By the way, when Gordy comes on, Ross, to give us his predictions, he's usually right. He helped us with a big winner last week. Gordy didn't give us on a recorded line. He gives us on a live line. So I trust him. He knows his scuff. I'm happy for it. I'm happy for you.

I'm happy that locked on SEC is back in an SEC school. I'm nervous. All right. All the SEC money is there. Like I said, I just saw another Ranger overpassing Texas plate. Were they sipping tea with their pinky up? I believe so, yeah, Texas University. All right, Aggie.

Now, are you and Gordy and Raw? Are you the two of you going to drive to Atlanta for the championship if this happens? What's the game plan on that? Very busy. That's a long trip. Oh, you're not going? No. Can you put a credential in for me?

Sure. He'll be sitting in row 800. I mean, if that's what you want to watch the game. Unfortunately, it's going to have to be a spirit trip looking at these flight prices, but I've been looking. All right, Chris, good luck to you, my man. Save travels, go to speed limit, and we look forward to hearing from you next week as we celebrate the National Championship Game, Texas. versus Notre Dame.

All right, some bad news for you guys. I just passed the Sam Houston statue. He was not wearing his deep steel blue Texans jersey. So maybe some bad luck for the Texas. Oh, well Darlene, I'll get over there and put a wrap him up in it. And Tampa Stroh says

Freeman is, Gordy said Freeman is winning with Kelly's players. Not one player is left from Kelly's time there. Brian Kelly is a fake P-O-S crap coach. Gordy just jelly. Amperstros does is spit, spit facts. So, you know.

I don't know. I haven't looked at, I haven't combed through the two deep at Notre Dame, but I'll take him at his word. No, Mark, are you kidding me? Notre Dame fan is, if you and I were Notre Dame fans, Rossi, we'd be living this up. Are you kidding me? Brian Kelly's playing in the Texas Bowl. We're playing for national championship.

Yeah. I would be living this up like you wouldn't believe. I like how I said Sark has been more successful. at Texas, then Kelly has been at LSU and Courtney tried to push back on that. He went right to the alcoholic card. Wow. Philp. Very personal.

Gilbert and San Antonio wants to talk some Texans. What do you guys want to talk about? It's and anything goes Friday here on the mat show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. With a word right now for the Shell Federal Credit Union. The folks at Shell FCU

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I know what story you have. Good. I saw this one. And it's very Matt Thomas of you. I mean, it's Friday. What are you going to do? It's 33 degrees. It's snowing in Atlanta.

I'm stuck in the hotel all day. Might as well talk about laundromat. Oh, you poor baby. You're stuck in a luxury hotel all day. Poor Matthew. It's a luxury hotel. All right, can I give you a very quick hotel story today? Yes.

I want to do guest to meal again. All right, it is a Belgian waffle. Okay. Bacon. Okay. Coffee. Yes. With tip, how much did I spend?

You get a $4 range. $6.150. $54. Dang. So. D.C. was so expensive. I shot, I overshot it. I gave her $60.

I said, I'd like $6 change back. Oh, uh-oh. How is this story going to end? Go ahead, if you can finish it. She's like, I don't have the cash, but I'll try to go find it. That continue on. You are on 100% on the market. She can only bring you back a five.

Nope, keep going. She can only bring back one? Keep going. What? She checked with the belt desk. She checked the front desk. and she said she could not find change. Ooh, couldn't find change at all.

At all. Hmm. Yeah, Matt. People don't use cash these days, unfortunately. Well, her not using cash, Gator gave her a really nice tip, so I'd say, just keep the other six bucks. Yeah, that's how it's supposed to work. So at the end of the day, Belgian Waffle, bacon, coffee, $60.

Hmm. So I was still right. I said $61.50. Yeah, I guess you were right. You were in range. She just got a really good tip on a really expensive breakfast. That's right. All right.

Is that a scammer? Tell her you a Vindmoer. Can I get your VIMO? The reason why I didn't care. First of all, the weather's not good here. And she's obviously drove in to work and, you know, and there's probably a limited staff here. I was like, who cares?

It's six bucks. Yes, the holidays, Matt. Happy New Year, by the way. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. 713-212-5-790. Gilbert's been very patient in San Antonio, and we thank him for calling Sports Talks.

7-90. Gilbert, good morning. Good morning. I want to talk about the Texans. I think they're going to win, too, because think about the games that San Diego won. Who did they play? They really didn't play, really nobody, and they struggled.

Texans, on the other hand, we had a gauntlet that we went through. And then we beat Buffalo. We came close to beat and could have won that game against Detroit. We came close with Green Bay, and I don't know what happens at multiple games, but anyway, we'll forget about that one. But anyway, what I'm saying is that we have the defense, and we do have the offense, and I don't think San Diego would deal with our defense.

Another thing, the Longhorn is going to win, too, because they have a defense to deal with as far as, like, what Penn State's going to have to do. I mean, not Penn State or Ohio State. So I'm thinking, but I think the Texan is going to win, and I think the Longhorn's going to win, too. And they're going to be up against Notre Dame, and I guess we're going to play Kansas City.

I guess that's the next, right? But I think the Texas is going to win and Longhorns. Go Texans. All right, there you go. Gilbert got his material and hung up as soon as he could. It's an underdog weekend, Maddie. Let's go. Yeah.

I don't think Schedule Strength plays a factor at all in terms of what's going on at this point. Now, did you see that stat put out by Adam Schaefter? No, I didn't. So I'm going to eerily awake. It sounds ominous on your part. Teams point differentials against playoff teams this year. All right. Running through.

Let's go. Best Baltimore Ravens plus 112. That's insane, by the way. Worst? Your Houston Texans, a minus 66 against playoff teams this year. All right. Let's think about who those games were. Baltimore.

Minnesota blowout. Minnesota and Baltimore basically covers it. Yeah, Minnesota Baltimore. Kansas City was what, within 10, right? Am I right? They lost by 7 or 8 in that game. Okay. I think it was 19 and 27, 27 or something? Yeah, let's see.

What else? Didn't play the Chargers, didn't play the commanders, didn't play the Bucks. Beat the Bills. Beat the Bills. So that helped them out. Lossed to the Packers by two. Lossed the Lions by three. Lossed the Lions?

Three. Does that Detroit loss eat at your craw a little bit? No. It didn't have any material impact on the result of the year. Yeah. I would have to say the bright shining moment of the 2024 season was the fact that they made Josh Allen look like rookie Josh Allen. Kyle Allen is what I mean? Hey, that's rude.

It's true, though. And then the low water mark was the embarrassment against Baltimore Christmas Day. Yes. Nobody will remember that. Okay, well, we'll still remember it, but we won't remember it as much if they went on Saturday. Unfortunately, you're wrong about that. When you lose a game. I said, I said not nobody.

I corrected myself. Relax. 31 to 2, Rossi, that you can't even, if you were to say, hey, let's do a, let's do a radio show in 100 different markets and give people 100 different final scores. No one would have put 31 to 2 in the mix. Yeah, it wasn't a score of Gami, though. It happened in the 60s. Yeah. I believe it was the Chicago Stags

knocking off the Canton Bulldogs, 31 to 2. No, it wasn't the 50s. That was the 30s. You are, I mean, you do very, you have a few voices that are decent. Your 1933 NFL voice is not bad. Okay.

Thank you. So, so. The boys from Baltimore defeat the boys from Houston down south 31 to 2. One of the worst losses in the history of the National Football League, which is now fledgling. Now you're getting Seinfeldman mixed up. George Hallis called it the worst game he's ever seen. Howdy is gorgeous, too. What's the deal with that?

Lamar Jackson. They only use the ball foot a few times. CJ's Trout's playing like an infant. All right. Endless weather coverage has ended here in Atlanta. Thank God. Oh, now you can get to your yodeling game, whichever one that one is. No, no, just in time for the young and the wrestles.

We're good. Oh, my gosh. 1127. It's Sports Talk 7. Focus on the show, Matt. Let's get focused. Yeah, right. You're watching Y&R.

Although the Atlanta TV anchors are kind of hot. I'm just going to throw that out there. Where are the TV anchors ugly that you're going to be in an NBA city? Grand Rapids There's no Great That's G League Matt

We're talking about Where I'm talking about Where Reed Shepherds Going next Oh God Oh From the top rope

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Market in terms of women Oh Jesus Would have to be Probably Memphis Huh Then And I don't think there were very many hotties in Sacramento. Minneapolis could use some work.

What are they bundled up in scarves and Gortex? A little heavier. I think it's good. Philadelphia is a bunch of hags too. No, they got hot women on TV in Philadelphia. There's no doubt in my mind. You're probably right. All right, 1128.

Thank you. Yeah, just play that anytime Matt's doing some horn dog type stuff. No! Yes. I like this. Guys, I'm talking what people, the guys are talking about today. Anytime Matt's unnecessarily horny on the show. Hey, unnecessarily.

When you ever necessarily a warning? Oh my God. What about like anytime it starts, like we do? There we go. No, this is, no, this is making me uncomfortable. No, this is definitely, we're going to a break on this. 1129. Matt with his silk pajamas on.

I got, I'm head to toe and cougar stuff. You have eight shirt, you have eight shorts. Okay. You like the Cougars. What you're saying. Stop. 713212. 570.

7.1.3212. 5. 790. The quiet storm continues from Atlanta on 790. Big, big shout out to the Houston Texans as an organization, pledging $1 million to support the wildfire relief efforts in Southern California. They just announced that a few minutes ago. Wow.

Yeah, that's good. Really good. I think I'm sure many other sports teams not only in our community, but around the country will do the same thing. Man, that's, that we'll do much, unfortunately, but it's a thought that means everything.

And just terrible, terrible, terrible situation with people losing their homes and valuables and just, oh, terrible. So, bravo to the Texans for doing that. All right, 713-212-5-790. 1135 is the time.

7-1-3-212-5-790. I was scrolling through the 4-U tab, Now, see, it comes across around the NFL circles that if Deshawn, first of all, do you come back from back to back to kill these tendentary ever? I mean, do you really ever? Yeah, we'd have to find some sort of precedent for that. I mean, when he comes back, if he does, he's not going to be able to move around. He's going to have the running abilities of a slower Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Yeah, I mean, he developed into a much better pocket passer than he was early in his career,

but a lot of his game is helped out by his mobility and moving around and not necessarily running, but getting into the open field and finding guys from there. So I'm looking at just again, just random people in the NFL that I do look at, it will be the worst contract ever. It'll be the worst trade NFL history. It's got to be. Because not only are you, did you trade the first picks, but you gave him this obscene amount of cash to not perform.

And a lot of it, people will say it will be karma. But at the end of the day, I mean, karma always does get you Rossi, but he also has a lot of money in the piggy bank for not playing. Yeah. I mean, he's already won from that standpoint. And his legacy is permanently tarnished. Depending on how much these payouts were. I mean, Deshaun Watson, whenever he calls it a career, will not be on television.

DeShon Watson will not be, uh, I mean, I don't know if he's, this. Is he have any kids? I don't know. I don't know. If he was to have kids, he's not going to be able to go to a flag football field and see. And people are going to be turning away going, is that the one that was having all the action with the masseuses? I mean, he should cover up, put a mask on. He's just not going to have much.

It's not going to be an old. Oh, there's Deshaal. Let's go say hi, hi, Deshawn. What's going on, man? How are you doing okay? I mean, he doesn't have that life. People will forget. He has some supporters as well.

Well, he had too many supporters in Houston that were just turning a blind eye because they were Texans homers, and it was embarrassing for them. I mean, Ojo Simpson was walking the streets, and he had, he'd killed two people. I guess so. But would you want, if OJ was alive, and he, he was the same restaurant, you wouldn't go take a picture with him, would you? No, I wouldn't. Hey, somebody gave me a kitchen knife. Oh, my, too soon. Sorry, what's been 30 years?

Yeah, it's always going to be too soon. Oh, my bad. You know, I met Ron Goldman's dad before. That poor guy. The amount of pain that poor man had been in. Oh, my God. I don't know what, is he still alive? I, oh, man, this is a question for Adam Clanton.

I know. He would know him more than anybody else. He would know him, he'd know his birth date and place and where his gravestone was if he died. So I was working at $7009.50 at the time when Goldman, he was doing some radio hosting. Yeah, Fred Goldman is alive. he is 84 years old. Okay. So this has got to be 96, 97, somewhere in that range.

So this got almost 30 years ago. And I don't think I said five words of my. I just shook his hands to welcome. I was a producer at the time. I said, I just want to make sure he was comfortable when he was doing. But he was trying to do a little bit of a talk radio career just to kind of, you know, because he had gotten so much attention during that. And I think he just said that this isn't worth it.

But he did some radio appearances and did one of here in Houston many, many years ago. He was on a crusade for a long time. Yeah, it was very surreal. Very surreal seeing a guy that was part of the trial of the century in the radio studio in which you worked at. Very, very weird. Yeah. I think it was a way to grieve for him is to just... Yeah, yeah.

I think the same thing when the Cole Brown's sister, too, the brunette. She was like, you know, I want to get out there and say all these things and do whatever I can. Then she kind of just, you know, took her 15 minutes and went away. So how do we segue from Deshawn Watson, O. O.J. Simpson. That's quite a segue. It's anything goes Friday. Yeah.

That's the one thing you've learned for me is your segways are incredible. Mine? Yeah. Thank you. Because I would do something like that. And you helped us, you helped make this segue. Yeah, but I was like that in like eighth grade. Oh, really? Okay. All over the place. I think

never. It was serendipitous, Matt. We were very similar independently in many ways. different than others as well. You're finally willing to admit how close we are alike. That's what I appreciate. You're doing the girls. I said very different in many other ways as well.

How? Explain the ways to the audience, please. No, no comment. Yeah, I didn't think so. We've not talked about the Rockets from last night. They won, beat Memphis, game and a half, leave of the second spot. Yeah, can we talk some Rockets Bowl? We're going to talk about, you know, we're going to do this segment and the next segment on the Rockets.

And if you're a rocket fan, I got news for you. Your rockets have the second best record in the Western Conference, Ross Field Real. And we're into like the middle of January. Yeah. We're almost halfway through this season. Yes. And they beat the number three seed in their house.

In the arena. And if they didn't miss 17 free throws, it would have been worse. It was pleasant to see the difference in the second and third best team, especially because the third best team had all their players back. John Morant did play yesterday. Jaron Jackson did play yesterday. Desmond Bain did play. I mean, it wasn't like you were taking on the Knoxville Grizzlies.

It was the full-fledged Memphis Grizzlies. Yeah, John Morant was you could definitely see a little rust. He was turning. He was losing the ball and dribbles and stuff like that a little more. By the way, Matt, I was kind of talking about this on the post game last night. Is he the, two names come to mind are the quickest player. as I've ever seen. Not fast, quickest in short

areas, and it's Alan Iverson and his John Moran. I think he went 80 feet in a second and a half yesterday. Yeah, he has it all. I mean, yeah, the top speed, the top speed I feel like I put Russell Westbrook, you know, Derek Rose,

some guys like that. Amin Thompson may reach that level, but from like not only from zero to 94 feet, but like from zero to 10 feet. He's so fast. So, by the way, you mentioned it already. A man Thompson's got that too. Yeah.

When a man Thompson takes off after a missed shot, his zero to 60 is incredible. He runs by everyone. He looks like Prime Usain Bolt, just like looking back at everyone. What are you guys doing back there? By the way, I'm ready to put my name on something when it comes to a man. Uh-oh. When we come back? When we come back.

Love it. I'm getting the no strongest file out. No, you're not going to need to get that out. Oh. because I think you know, I said it earlier this week, I'm just going to double down on it. And you agreed with me on it. So if you want to be wrong. No, I'm putting it on the file.

Yeah, I don't care about me being right. I care about you being wrong, Matt. That's what the whole file's there for. You're going to lose on that bad boy. 713-213-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you're a Rockets fan, your team has a second-best record in the Western Conference. You can't say wake me up and think until Christmas because we're already past Christmas.

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He's also the best dressed sports reporter in college football. Yes. Multiple time winner. Yeah, I mean, where's a, but now I always call it a fedor. It's a Cangle. Where's a Cangle better than anybody else? No, he wears a fedor. He doesn't wear Cangle. Does he?

I think so. No, I think he's a fedora guy. Cangle's like what you had, well, Indy Coulou got you on. Carson Beck, the former Georgia quarterback, committed to Miami. It's committed, it's over? It's over, done. I saw that he entered the portal. Maybe you're going to be right and Quinn is going to transfer.

Oh, thank you. Okay, I'm just saying, Sam Con confirmed for 1230. So thank you. Oh, let's go. I'll let you go ahead and text. You know what, folks, follow at SportsRV on Twitter. We're committing ourselves to rebuilding the brand. All right, we're going to ask him again.

Yeah, what's a follow sports RV. I'm 70, you know what, I'm 74 away from 12,000. Yeah, but can I go see how many followers, yours, or bots? And we'll see you can rid of something? No, I don't care. Why would I do that? Because they're not real. I'm not some kind of psychopath that is going to go combing through my followers and then block people that I think are bots.

And then they're going to go to my co-host and ask them to unblock them because I blocked the wrong people. Yeah, who would do that? That's douchy. All right, real quick, the Cleveland Browns did release a statement on Deshawn. Here it goes. And then I want to give you my, put your name on it, prediction on the rockets. Yesterday, Deshawn once it underwent a second surgery to repair his right Achilles tendon rupture. Watson initially tore the tendon during the Browns game against the Bengals on October the 20th.

His first surgery was performed on October 25th. Earlier this week, when Watson reported the cross-country mortgage campus for his exit physical as part of the Brown season ending process, he complained of discomfort after rolling his ankle in Miami. MRI results demonstrated a re-rupure to his Achilles tendon. Dr. Bob Anderson, a foot-and-an ankle specialist in Charlotte, North Carolina performed both surgeries. Watson's recovery time and return to play status is uncertain, and he will likely miss significant time during the 2025 season. So my guess is Rossi, if we see Deshaun Watson ever play again in the NFL,

it will not be until 2026. Yeah, David Chow, who is believe has been on this show. He has. At Pro Football Doc was the doctor of the Chargers for years. He says, hazard of pushing too hard is retair. Upside as Brown should get their insurance money, as Deshaun Watson won't be cleared to play next season. Yeah.

By the way, somebody on Twitter is that Kemp. Cam Acres double rupture. Well, Cam Acres is about 20% of the player that he was before he got hurt. Yeah, Cam Acres was a much more dynamic. It's largely been a death knell for running backs. J.K. Dobbins had two really great games to start the season, but then has faltered off of his Achilles' tear. Deontay Foreman really hasn't been back.

Cam Acres. I mean, we can point to dozens of Achilles, really, probably one of the worst injuries you can suffer. Yep. All right. Put my name on it, Rossi. I'm writing it down. You already wrote it down earlier this week and put my name on it down. After watching this team the last week or so.

Yes. You can pencil a man Thompson as long as he's healthy in the starring lineup for the rest of his rocket's career. For the rest of his rocket's career. I didn't stutter. Woo! I like that. I mean, like I said, the only pushback I would give is it does it put too many non-shooters on the floor, but he is so fast and getting to get to the basket.

Yeah, I know, I'm with you. Yeah. I would say you're the, what you're saying is the favorite. Yeah. And you know what? You do bring up a good point about the shooting. But if Jalen, if this is, the Jalen of the last two weeks, which has been better, four of the last six weeks. Will that be fair to say on Jalen?

All right. I caution do you always caution you when you say if this, how many times have you said to yourself, if this is the real Jalen Green. That's the only thing. That's the only thing. I'm with you. I want you. I'm with you, Matt.

We're Rockets fans. We root for the Rockets. You do the games. I do a lot of the pre-imposed. I want them to win and be successful. Yep. I don't want to be a wet blanket. But here I am.

We've said this a lot if this is the real Jalen Green. I think you can go Jalen and a man and go athleticism. And, I mean, Ross, let's be brutally honest here. Brutal. This team is a bottom five shooting team in the NBA. Yes.

And it hasn't made that big of a difference. Correct. They're still that good. They still get to the pain enough. Three point shooting is horrible. I think it will improve. I still think, I mean, I keep waiting and waiting and waiting. At some point, Fred.

They can't regress. Fred Van Ville is going to get close to his career high at some point. He's going to mark my words. He's going to get hot from three at some point. I just keep waiting. the way, for Fred Van Bleet haters, you can stop. Yeah, I'm, there's, you know what, it's, I mean, I know he's very hot and cold shooting. But the rockets, I mean, if you can't already tell, EMA loves veterans he can trust.

He trusts Fred Van Vleet a lot. He doesn't turn the ball over. He had, what, four steals last night. He can get hot offensively, but not, but this offense doesn't run, around Fred Vanley. No, he's not the engine of the offense. He's the setup guy, and he's great at it. He's got one of the better assist turnover ratios in basketball.

Yeah. Now, do I see a day in a few years where Fred is not the starter and that a man is maybe the point guard? I mean, sure. It might be next year. It might be. Who knows it could be. Next year, it could be. I mean, you're right.

But a man's a multi-positional player. You just put him on the floor and say, be the out. It's like having a guy on a football team that can catch and, you're not. run. I mean, he's a ATH, athlete, is what he is. Oh, I like that. Look at this guy. That's what we call you, Mr. Analogy. You know what? That was one of my better analogies of the week. Proud of you. Oh, no.

All right. We've got to wake the strippers up in a couple of minutes. You ready for that? Oh, yeah, you do. I'm just going to kick my feet up. All right. We got to play our 12 o'clock open like we had our 10 o'clock. By the way, again, we need to set up a go-fund-me account to keep Connor employed by us. We're working on it. Is it really? Yeah. No.

All right. I'm trying to take care of him. I got him some wings yesterday. You did or Adam and Adam did? We're going to have to talk about that. Yeah, Ross, no, he did not. So, let me, you're false gifting? Sure, why not?

Well, it'd be like... It didn't even go get him for me. Wait a minute. Well, why'd I do that? Your legs work. I only got him for somebody whose legs don't work. That's true. Ain't that a blitz. So wait a minute.

So what exactly was your role in the whole wing bit? Zero. I'd let him know they were there. That's true. There you go. He wouldn't have known they were there without me. He probably would have found me. They're going to call you the great communicator of 790, Ross.

I really am. And honestly, I'm not a great communicator, but relative to others around here, I am. That's true. All right. Let's wait the strippers up next. 1156, Sports Talk, 790. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 if you want to follow us on Twitter you may do that as well

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Let's go. I'm trying to get to a thousand. Your Instagram is useless largely. There's nothing on there. It's interesting. I don't like it, but let's just say it's going to help me. Oh, look at you. I like that.

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Welcome to the third hour, the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Sometimes you get teased too long and then, you know, why not getting all flustered. You're dangling bait and I'm not taking it, Matt. You need to. I'm good. I'm not going to dangle as much bait as I have in the past. Freddy and Jalen, you're not, you're just no girth.

Right? It's not girthy enough for you. It's not like a Davis Mills neck. You know what that happens sometimes when you take people to restaurants? The restaurant is so good and then they go, that's all right. And you're like, you want to punch you right in the throat. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry I couldn't do it longer. Just one segment.

That's what I'm used for. I'm just everybody's ticket, bitch. All right. It's like, I mean, he's got dad body. Yeah, it's like the big girl's the funniest in the group. Do you want to repeat that? No. I thought that's something I would have said.

It did. You're infecting my brain. But go ahead and say it one more time. Here's too much. Say it one more time. Generally, the funny one in the girl group is the big one. Am I wrong? You're not coming over for a weenie roast as much as you want to, Matt.

There's an ending goes Friday on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 12.5. I'm here in Atlanta. They've interrupted Youngler wrestles for freeze coverage. Okay, no, it's snowing, it's icy, it's cold, it's raining, let's move on. Victor Newman's got something to say. Rossi says got some things to say. as he presents to us, as he does every day around this time,

the news at noon. All right, Matt, a lot of stuff going on in the sports world this weekend. Not a lot of time, so let's get it rolling. Your Houston Texans holding as 2.5 to 3 point underdogs to the Los Angeles Chargers this weekend. Will Anderson Jr.? What was your message to the team at the end of practice yesterday? Today when I broke it down, I was just saying like, you know, Derek Barnett, we coach asked us to go around the room at our position meetings and say like our path experience

and, you know, Derek Barnett's been blessed enough to win the Super Bowl. And he was just saying like all those teams like physical like, yeah, but it was just mentally. So I just reiterated that to the team and wanted to repeat that because that's really all it is when our team is like, we've got to be mentally sharp, but we've got to be mentally sounding. There's no room for errors. No room for errors mentally for the Houston Texans in the playoffs. A lot of it gets mental problems. I think it's just going to be protection problems.

Well, yeah. They can get their mentally, if they can see who's got who and communicate, then they won't have free runners. If there's free runners in the backfield, that means some there was a mental breakdown somewhere. And then, well, if you're getting physically pushed into the backfield, which happens to some of the Texans' offensive line,

that's another thing altogether, I suppose. Derek Fisher, not Derek Fisher, what's kind of the right side? Blake Fisher or Blake Fisher. Derek Fisher's, I mean, Derek Fisher probably big enough to play offensive line out of this point in his life, but that's... Is he?

Which one? Astros, Untouchable Astros Legend? No, no, I was thinking more like the Journeyman NBA player that gets boot everywhere again. And it was trying to fist fight Matt Barnes, I believe. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Good times. Good times. When are we locking in final predictions,

score predictions for this game, Matt? In one hour. Oh, I like that. Okay, one hour. Final predictions. Texans v. Chargers total holding at 42 and a half as they take on well, the Chargers as I just said, NRG Stadium. That's also on Paramount Plus, Matt, if you want to catch an episode of Yellowstone

and then go flip over there. I've never watched one episode of Yellowstone. Me either. I think if you're like 50 to 75, Yellowstone is your jam. Now, the Mrs. loves it, but the show's already over. I mean, how can you love a show that's been on just like three years? And then one of the years, I mean, not to be a, you know, storyteller ruin her here, but... Spoiler.

Kevin Costor wasn't on the last season. Well, I mean, that was the show. Spoiler. I'm just saying. Well, Steve Correll wasn't on the final couple of seasons of the office, and then those episodes sucked in the show tanked. But I digress. You like success? Wasn't Succession like three or four seasons?

I don't know, but they had like 20 episodes each year. I mean, there was a lot to chew on. You're a liar. I just looked it up. 39 episodes total in four years. I believe there were 63 episodes in six years. Lire. Keep going. Hold on. I'm trying to look up how many episodes of Yellowstone there has been.

53 episodes. There's already more than a whole all of succession. Chacho bum ass up. Kevin Koster gets killed. There you go. There's a spoiler. How about that? Are you serious?

Suck it. I wasn't going to watch it anyway. That's hilarious. Oh, my God. If you even watch it now, there you go. And his daughter's a whore on the show. Other than that, there you go. There's your episode recap.

Oh, my God. You're one of one, Matt Thomas. We love you. That's the Houston Rockets. No, no, no. You forgot a Texan story. Big one today. What?

Oh, oh, pro? Yeah. sure, why not? The news at noon. It's the week for about news. I was moving on. I'm focusing on the playoffs, Matt. It's not about individual accolades.

It's about the team and getting the job done. It will be after about 7 o'clock on Saturday night. Oh, come on. There's a foreshadowing for next hour. Fine. Derek Stingley, first team all pro. Your thoughts. Congratulations.

Has TSE released a statement on Derek Stingley's first team all pro selection? He's not a TSE client, so thus he cannot be talking about other people's clients. Oh, okay. It's like a tampering. Exactly. I got you. Okay, well, then we will move on to the Houston Rockets. Play a highlight last night. No, oh my gosh. Play two highlights. I was playing post game. I'm going to play a highlight. No, play by play. It's much better. Robert, you know, Robert Ford gets a lot of jam time. I want some as well. Let's go. My God, this is embarrassing. Here, I'm going to pick a random one. I'm not even looking at what it is.

Amblee. Gets the play call for the sideline. Shot clock gets six, down to five. Going against Kinnar with three, with two, bump, free throw, jumper, coming. Fred Van Bleed hits it with one on the shot clock. Rockets up 117, 114. Freddie Vee with 22. Man, that's amazing. I blindly clicked a highlight, and it was like the biggest bucket of the game. Congratulations to Fred Bambleaders.

The kids call him Freddie B. Or as some people call him on the post game, Fred Van Fleet. Yeah, that's fine. That's okay. Fred Van Vleet had 22 points. Outbrin Shingoon leading the way with 30. Big win for the Rockets, not only just for the standings, but also a statement.

They looked like they belonged and then some against the Memphis Grizzlies. Alperin Shingun with a big first quarter leading the way with 32 points and 14 rebounds. Here's what Coach Yodoka had to say about what Shingun was doing well early on. Scoring in a bunch of different ways and making the right pass. I kept them loose. I kept them off him a little bit. And they just sold out throughout the rest of the game to go after them. And moved them around quite a bit up top on the elbow.

bow and on the post and kind of had his way with whoever was on him. So to his credit, didn't try to force it, try to get guys involved. We missed some shots that we should have made on the kickouts, but he did his job. Matt, we've seen it multiple quarters now. The third quarter against the Wizards,

first quarter against the Grizzlies. Alperin Shungoon, Jalen Green, flourishing at the same time. I think that portends well for the rest of the season. It definitely portends. That's right. Okay. All right.

Second place in the West. Not going to reach number one because I don't think gold. I think Oklahoma City is going to win 68 games this year. They're that good. Yeah, Oklahoma City's got the one seat locked up. Yeah. But the Rock has gone on in the two? Are you kidding me?

I'm telling you at this point, they're at worst, the fifth best team in the West. They're making the top six. They're making the top six. I agree. I am so excited to say that because we haven't had playoff basketball in a long time, Rossi. And I'm kind of looking forward. to listen to full phone lines of the Rockets Wrap. Yes, I talked about this.

Also, speaking of the Rockets Wrap, man, about recalibrating expectations. I've already had recalibrated from, let's get the play, 45 wins in the playing in to, okay, let's get top six. Now I might be recalibrating to let's get home court in the first round. Oh, I love it. I love the optimism. It's what we call you optimistic Ross. Absolutely, Matt.

Also in Arlington, it is the Cotton Bowl Classic at Jerry World. Steve Sarkeesian asked about his. massive underdog comment. We mentioned that how nobody's giving us a shot, nobody's giving us a shot. You're in the final four. No, there's no situation where nobody's giving you a shot. Here's what Sark said when asked about that.

Well, starting with the question. And for Coach Sarkeesian, you said in our Zoom thing last week that you were a massive underdog. Why do you think that? I could probably poll everybody in this room and you probably all agree they're the favorite to win the game. And that's okay,

but that's football, that's sport. That's why we have to do what we do. So I don't, I don't, not going to back off of what I said. The reality is the reality. Now, we have to go perform. That's our responsibility as a football team to go perform. But they've earned that right because of the way they've played here the past couple weeks. Sark, not backing down, baby. Good. Stay strong. And carry on? No, just stay strong. Okay. That's the news is new.

All right. When we return, we're going to talk to Kenneth in Orange about the Texas and Rockets. And then Rossi, we're going to break down the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Celebrity list this year. We are? Yeah. Okay, sure. It feels like people are generally speaking very disappointed. I saw a lot of people very happy.

Mostly country fans, I think, which I mean, it's the rodeo. This is not me in my expertise. Scott B. McGovern is our music. He's a man who That's true. He is a dancing fool. He will tell us how he thinks this year's roster compared to previous. of the years. Love it. Bottom of the hour, Sam Khan, the Athletic. On his way to Dallas, he is driving with Joseph D'Worte from The Chronicle

up to Dallas as we speak. I wonder if he, maybe if you had Sam Conn versus Chris Gordy in a drag race on I-45, who wins that? I'm going to go with Chris Gordy. 1215. It is the news. A noon continues in a moment on Sports Talk 790. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal. on Sports Talk 790. You know, folks, in the line.

Let's talk through the great people of Southeast Texas. We go to Orange. We are the official sports radio station of Orange. Kenneth on 790 at 1220. Thanks for holding. Hi, Kenneth. Yeah, what I wanted to hit on, I wanted to hit on the Texas more, but the Rockets, that's a lot of the Rockets, man.

You know, I don't see no reason to go get that drama queen out of Miami, even look his way, man. Man, you know, they're doing damn good, man. And this coach, he's tearing this team around in such a short time and looking at where they're ranked that. And see, this tells me a lot. You got a team, not even if 17, what is the 17 free throws and still win? You know, that's the sure of somebody going out and find a way to win, you know?

And like I'm saying, man, don't fix. Don't go add nothing. This is not like the old Western of NBA where you had to have a big man in the West to survive. You know, everybody had to have a big man. We're not in those days no more, you know. And these guys here, you don't need that standout super star all the time because them guys end up being canceled.

And right now, when have, you know, when can we remember any time where you had one of these whining and complain want to be traded superstars, go to another team and take them somewhere. You had them go, people go different places. You know, like LeBron, you know, he did and stuff like that, but he wasn't a drama queen, you know?

And as for those Texans, man, and this is what I wanted to dive into. Now, look at this right here. You got that left side of that line. It's weak. We look at, we look where the problem with. They couldn't tackle. They didn't have a running game. They didn't have an established

all of that. And you look around right now, man, it's not all those problems. It's right there, the offensive line, and right now, I believe if you go and right now, I would take Kenyon Green and try to get something for him while he's in

good shape, get rid of him, and get much as you can for Larry Tariffel and just go stock up on all the the line as you can weed through them and build you a solid line because a solid

line can make a nominal quarterback look good, man. You know, and I just wanted to add that thank you. All right, thank you, Kenneth. First and foremost, don't worry about it. Jimmy Butler's not coming to the Houston Rockets, okay? Don't worry about that? Ross, don't you agree? I 100%

agree. Yeah, non-starter. What do we see last night that makes you say this team needs Jimmy Butler? No, no. I think they're We talked about this earlier in the week. I'm thinking they're staying the course and trusting the process. Even after last night's game, that even emboldens my belief that they are not going to be any sort of earth-shattering trade is going to happen. No, I would be stunned if you're going to have something that kind of earth-shattering around these parts.

Second of all, you can't get a bag of donuts for chicken you're in right now. I mean, I guess you could get one of those, like those Donnell Madison little mini-donuts. For Jeff Green? No, for Kenyon Green. Oh, Kenyon Green? Yeah. Uh, yeah. I don't know.

Maybe you can get one of those big tires. They flip in practice? I don't think you can trade Laramie Tensel either, because Laramie Tensel's just the contract's too big. They're not going to trade him. He was just a pro-ball left tackle. Yeah, he's still a capable player. I mean, do I think he really cares a lot?

Not really. Do I think he commits a lot of false-star penalties? Yeah, but he still, I mean, it is what it is. He's the best of the group. you're not taking a woeful position and making it worse. You're not going to get better by training Lamarretem re-tunzel. So, yeah, all three of those things are non-starters. Don't worry about Jimmy Butler.

You can't train Kenyon Green and you're not training Laramory Tuncil. I like that. Well said, Matt, succinct to the point. All right. So real quick, before we get to our Sam Kama Khan update from on his way to Dallas. A thought or two about the star. Now, let me tell you, real quick. Reba McIntyre, Megastar, right?

Oh, hold on, let me go to the list, I guess. I mean, I guess. Connor jump in on this. I know more for her television work than her music. So I mean, I'm just pleading ignorance on this. Somebody explained to me. She's had a bunch of big country hits. Okay.

Multi-decade megastar country music. Huge. Okay. Not any hits lightly, but nobody goes to see the mega hits of the current stuff. Her TV show's coming back. Reba? Yeah, she's got a show. Okay.

It's another version of the same show. She's on America's Got Talent or The Voice or one of those? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And she's like this generation's Dolly Part. I mean, people love her that way. I feel like Dolly's more talented. Riley Green have no idea who that is.

Riley Green. Riley Green. That's a surprising young fella. Okay. I don't know. Yeah, we need the young to break this down for us. Beck? Don't know who Riley Green is.

Oh, my God. He really sucks. AJR, March 6th, no idea. Oh, they're fun. I'm gonna try and go see them. AJR, what kind of music is that? They're kind of, like, pop. Okay, I'll try to play a song.

They're kind of pop. Kind of pop? How do you sort of pop? You can be pop and rock or pop R&B or that's true. Pop rap. Okay. Next day, Bunby's birthday bananza.

Oh, wonderful. Happy birthday. Yeah. Next day, Bailey Zimmerman never heard of this person. I thought you were going to say Bailey Zappy. I didn't know he had it like that. I know. That's weird. He's kind of like country, country pop.

Oh, I know A.J.R. My brother loves these people. Yeah, they're fun. Don't, yeah. Yeah, this is like pop. I don't even know whatever you'd call it except for purely pop. Wikipedia says indie pop. Yeah, that's kind of accurate. Okay, so let's break this down.

You have indie pop Trying to fill up a rodeo stadium Yeah, they've had Non-Ccountry acts every For decades I mean, but I understand that But I mean, are they that popular They can try to fill the building up?

I guess they're those things like I think AGR is extremely popular Okay Bunby's birthday bonanza Then you've got Bailey Zimmerman What does Bailey Zimmeman do? Baylon Zimmerman Country Pop

Sold ice cream in Kansas Back in 1890s 24 years old. Headline in the rodeo. Good for him. I'm up with the first flavor known as Carmel Fudge. That seems a little complicated for the first flavor. I'm going to go with vanilla. March 9th.

Karen Leone? Karen Leone. Leone? Nope. I'm not familiar. Next day, Brad Paisley, country star. I know that name. Yeah, he sounds familiar. March 11th, Zach Top.

compared to carrot top no it's Zach Top I don't know again I go to Connor who's Zach Top Country Bluegrass Not very popular Not very popular No

He's young he's like 20s He's 27 Next day Lauren Dagle Oh that was the That's the in studio In stadium host For the Astros back in the day Did some TV stuff

No that's Lauren something else I believe she's a Christian artist like Christian music. Oh, okay. Next day. All praise B. John Party, P-A-R-D-I. Oh, okay.

Is that like Party B? Country artist. He's pretty popular. Okay, thank you. Quickly, journey the next day after that. Oh, thank God. I know somebody. Who's that? I've heard of this one.

Hey. You heard of Journey. Now, it's no scary. So that don't even get into that. It's the bad lead singer. Warren Ziders, the next day after that? Unfamiliar. I think country?

Grupo Frontera after that. Oh, Grupo and Frontera got the hits. They're good. Charlie Crockett? Don't know. Post Malone, we know. Post Malone's there? Is he going to do his country hit?

Is country, you know what? I've tapped out the hip-hop community. I'm going to griff some country music hits. Is that what he's doing now? Next. Old Dominion? Old Dominion. Really?

Are they playing Seton Hall? Yeah. Cody Jink. Not familiar. That's the former closer for the White Sox. That's Cody Jenks. Oh, he's actually Bobby Jenks. Bobby, whatever, same difference.

Parker McCollum, I'm assuming that is the shooting guard for the New Orleans Pelicans? No, I've heard of him. He's from Houston and reps all like the City's teams. Hewitt's Williams High School. Okay. Brooks and Dunn. We know who that is.

Luke Bryan closes out the show. 23rd. Okay. See, Yon easy, sis. Sorry, I'm T, no haul and oats with a rodeo. They're still beefing. Dang. Can't you get one of haul or oats? If I'm going to take one, I'm going to take haul, because Oats only has like one song. Let's do Matt Thomas's dream lineup.

Hall and Oats? Let me tell you. Barry Manolo. Let me tell you what we're going to get. We got Sam Khan coming up next. I'm going to go pull the 1984 rodeo, and I bet you I have. I know 80% of the people on that group in that list. Okay.

And that will be my jam. Okay. We're going to do that at 1250, the 1984 rodeo? 1984 rodeo. Oh, this is a remix or something. Yeah, this is not Hall & O. This is not having me know. Brooks and done.

Yeah, this is with Morgan Wallen, Whalen. Sam Con. This sucks. Yeah, this is, I wouldn't go pay to see that any here. He's no Brooks and or done. No, he's not. He's no Millie or Nilly. Let's talk to Sam Con next, 1231, Sports Talk 790.

Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. A great friend of the show who's been super busy, but yeah, he always comes through. I don't ask much of him. He's the best dressed man in college athletics. He's a significantly better dresser than Joseph Dwarte, the Houston Chronicle, Sam Kahn with The Athletic, a fellow Houston Cougars. Samuel, how are things, and where are you right now? I think I'm getting close to Ennis.

Actually, just past Ennis, so I'm very close to Dallas as we speak, and so far the roads are smooth. So knock on wood, hopefully it continues that way for the last 45, 50 minutes of this drive. Now, I'm going to tell a little secret you're driving with Duarte right now. Who decided to drive and who is paying the gas? I am driving because I ended up getting the rental car. And I don't use my own car on some of these trips because I've got an old car. It's 14 years old. It's got 180,000 miles.

And I'm trying to make sure that thing can survive as long as possible so I don't have another car payment anytime food. So I got the rental and the athletic will be paying for the gas after I submit this receipt. Nice. So basically, Dwarkey's got a free trip out of this. Yeah, kind of sort of On the flip side He keeps me occupied And we

We exchange some History secrets from time to time So you know Share some intel So that's a little Makes a little bit fun Well all I want to know is When he and I drove up to Dallas

Last year I think we were going to Oh the TCU game in Fort Worth We stopped off and had Great chicken restaurants That he will take you to I'm sure That's the family style portion

Oh, babes Yes I love me some baseball Oh, God, Babes is so good. All right, to the game itself. And by the way, thank you for joining us. I know you've been slammed it. It means a lot to our audience.

Sammy, give me a thought or two about, look, Ohio State was beyond dominant against Oregon. Did that come across a surprise to you? And for those that are Texas fans listening, what makes Ohio State so good so far in this postseason? Yeah, I think it's a few things. One, I think they have a really good staff. Ryan Day, of course, the veteran has. head coach. We've got two really excellent coordinator, Chip Kelly,

who was, of course, a long-time former head coach at the college level and the NFL level. Jim Knowles, who was the defense coordinator at Oklahoma State for several years, had one of the best defenses in the country there. So they've got, in my opinion, the best roster talent in the country, and you pair that

with some really smart coaches at the coordinator level. And I think they just have unlocked another year. I don't know what has happened since the Michigan lost when they really looked like a shell of themselves. But this has been like a rebirth, a real way for them. It's been a whole new season.

They dominated Tennessee in the first round. And the way they beat Oregon, I was shocked. I did not expect them to slap Oregon around quite like that. But what makes them so good is just the level of talent they have, how they deploy, they're very smart about how they utilize their guys. And it's also hard for an opposing defense to account for all those guys because you've got a veteran quarterback than will bellow. You've got excellent receivers and Jeremiah Smith, the true freshman.

You got a Mech, who would be a number one receiver anywhere else. G's got the tied-in. They got two really good high-level running backs, a good offensive line. They really don't have question marks on the offensive side of the ball. And on defense, they can pressure you with four without having a blitz. I was watching them against Oregon. They were getting a lot of pressure on Dylan Gabriel without having to send extra rushers. And that makes it a lot easier if you play on the back.

And so all the towns they've accumulated and spent money on over the last couple of years, it's really paid off. And it's why they're the favorite now at this point to win at all. I want to ask you, because you brought up the money, and you look, you do an excellent job covering college football for the athletic. Are you, when you're, and this is nothing regarding the game itself. Ross is going to get a couple questions in about the Texas side in a second here. But as you cover this sport now, obviously a lot differently than you did say 10 years ago, are you amazed at the dollar amount you are hearing about what is being spent on just a general player at the power for institutions

and do you think there's any evidence of this Quinn you were sick he's got six million dollar offer somewhere or do you think that's just internet rumors rumors yeah the the amount of money yes it's it's interesting to hear some of these numbers because it was just a few years ago before NIL rolled out in 2021 that obviously wasn't allowed to do that you weren't you weren't technically allowed to pay players. And so it went from when NIL first started, it was a lot of endorsement deals and things like that. But it quickly became users of recruiting tool. And it feels like that money has gone up really quickly, especially now that we're getting close to the revenue sharing era. If it's how settlement gets approved and schools can directly share revenue next year. and there's this $20.5 million cap for all the schools that want to participate in it,

that's going to change what it looks like. And I know when I talk to personnel people or GMs at college programs, they're going to structure their rosters in a similar way to the NFL. They're going to put value at certain positions, and a certain position is going to account for this much of your cap, as opposed to an offensive tackle or a quarterback or a defensive end is going to be, worth a lot more money than, say, a running back or an interior alignment. And so it is amazing to me, A, how quickly it's changed and B, how fast it's gotten up to the

level it is. And really where it has, it lives mostly in the transfer portal. As you mentioned with the Quinn Ewer's rumor, I don't know how valid that is. I mean, I think on three reported it a couple weeks ago. I'm sure there's a, there are teams out there that if Quinn Ewers decided to come back would be more than happy to happen and would be willing to pay a lot of money for him. I am just, I will tell you this, I have not gotten any indication out of Austin or anybody around that program that Quinn is going to do anything other than go to the NFL. Now, he'll still have time. Whenever the season is over,

he will have five days, everybody on the Texas team that is draft eligible will have five days to make a decision to whether or not to declare for the draft. And then they'll have until February 7th to pull their name out if they want to. So there's still time for things to change. But I just think, he's 35 starts into his career. I don't know that coming back to college for a year is going to change how NFL scouts view him because he's already got so much tape on him. I think he is what he is. And with a really shallow quarterback draft class where you don't really see a lot of elite

quarterbacks beyond, I think Cam Ward and Shador Sanders at the top, I think there's a chance for him to actually go fairly high. I don't know that he'd be a first round pick, but I could absolutely see him go high in the second round after he goes to the pre-draft process because he's got first round tools that I think a scout would fall in love with. Sam con with us here on Sports Talk 790. Ross with you as well, Sam. And as a Longhorn fan, to me, I'm curious your thoughts.

If I picture a scenario where the Texas Longhorns win this game, I think it has to be with the run game. As you mentioned, you know, Quinn Ewers, sometimes you can count on them, sometimes you can't. Run game wasn't there against Arizona State. They got off 97 plays. The defense was on the field so much. So it's two-pronged.

It helps Quinn Ewers, helps the offense, and then also keeps the defense off the field. field if they can get that run game going. I agree with you 100%. If Texas is going to win tonight, the formula to me is a great defensive effort and a strong running game. The four games this year that they have had their lowest rushing totals have been the ones they've had the most trouble.

The two losses to Georgia, I don't even think they reach 50 rushing yard. The overtime, double overtime win over Arizona State, I think they ended up around 50 or 60 rushing yards. And then the other lowest rush in total was the 27-24 win over Vanderbilt, which they have a scratch-a-claw to win that one. So when they run the – when they hit the 150 mark or get close to 200, and Trey Wisner and Jaden Blue are going and they're flowing, then they control the ball.

So much of Sarkeeson's offense is built off a play-action path. And so much of it can work, and you can hit those shot plays a lot easier if the run game's a threat because you're having to commit a safety. They're going to have to be looking in the backfield for that. if Ohio State's able to shut that down early, it puts it all on Quinn's shoulders. And that makes it hard at any quarterback, not just Quinn,

any quarterback that doesn't have a run game presence, unless you're Colorado and you just decide not to run the football, which they did in a lot this year, most teams need that balance. And like you said, it helps the defense because you're going to control the clock a little bit more. Ohio State's not going to play fast. They're going to play ball control as well.

So this can be a game with not as many possessions. So you're going to have to maximize what they have, and also having that running game going to play. is going to help you in the red zone, which at times of the second half of the season, Texas hasn't been able to start punching in the red zone as consistently. And having the run game presence effectively will be able to help that. Sam, thank you so much for joining us. Safe travels, my man.

We really appreciate it. I'm so happy that your career continues to be as successful as it is. You're an excellent rider. You're better than Dwarti, but don't tell him that. And I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Hey, give me a final score on tonight's game and wrap things up. 3427 Ohio State.

I think Ohio State's going to outlast them. I think the talent level. I just Texas hasn't been consistent enough for my taste. I think they're going to do it. But if they do the things I said earlier, then they absolutely can win this game. But I take Ohio State by a touchdown. Thank you very much.

Samuel, thanks very much again. Best dress man in college athletics, at least from reporting perspective. We appreciate your time. Thanks so much. Take care. You got it. Sam Khan with the athletic.

Ross, we do want him on the show again, despite the fact he's got your squad losing by it. That's fine. I mean, Ohio State's really good. And that's what it'll come down to. I feel like in your sports fandom, the ones that you really look back on and are painful are teams that lose

that you think are the favorites, the 19 Astros, the, I don't know, well, we'll see what would have happened with the 2009 Longhorn, stuff like that. This is, to me, the Texans are rightful dogs. Can they win? Yes. And I'm going to be nervous. I'm going to be rooting hard.

But it's not like it's some scenario. where, you know, I think that the Longhorns are going to dominate, and if they lose, I'll be devastated. All right. I found the 1984 rodeo lineup. It's okay, but I think I can find like 87 may be better. Okay. It's going to run through a few of the history years of great rodeo lineups,

and does it match up with what it could be in 2025? 1245, Sports Talk 790. We have non-Florida stories Ross today at 130. Where's yours from today, Rossi? That would be outside of the state of Florida, Matt, of course. All right. And believe it or not, today, hell yeah or not is. Go global, and that's where we're going to leave it.

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We'll talk about that. We'll get into the Texans and Chargers. We're looking for you guys to call your shot. We'll do that at 1 o'clock as well. We got non-flora stories at 130 and a very googable edition of Hellier not related to the rodeo at 150. 1984 Ross were quick stars were Roy Clark. Oh? He was the He-Ha co-host.

Okay. I guess I missed those episodes. episodes. John Conley. Name sounds familiar. I don't know his music, but I'm wishing him the best. The Commodores. Oh, there we go. Before they broke up? Or without Lionel Ritchie? They were broken up around then, right? Yeah, yeah. He was a soul artist at that point.

Lee Greenwood? Okay. He played I'm proud to be American six times and then got off the stage. Literally a one-hit wonder. Waylon Jennings. Oh, okay. Anne Murray? She's a good one. Don't know her. Ray Price, old school. Eddie Rabbit.

Great singer. Eddie Rabbit. Eddie Rabbit. And making her debut at the rodeo in 1984, Reba McIntyre. Wow. So she's been going there for 40 years. All right. So let's do a couple of more here just for blank and giggles.

Let's go to 1988. You okay with that? No. Not too bad. 1988, Alabama. Of course. Laura Branigan, Gloria. One hit wonder.

No idea who that is. Emelieu Harris. What? Naomi Judd. Okay. The Jets? The Jets. What do you mean?

Like Benny? No. No, just the... I don't know what they were. They had a couple of hits. The Judds? When Wynonna was then? So Winona came back?

She went on stage and then came back with the Juds? Loretta Lynn? Sure. Barry Freaking Manilow, baby. Oh, wow. I heard he was boot off stage Ann Murray Willie Nelson

All right Now that's a good one The Oakridge boys Okay Restless Heart I don't know who that is Kenny Rogers The Kenny Rogers

Something called Sweetheart to the rodeo Sweetheart that sounds like Somebody canceled And they're like My guess that's like five women That have had one hit Tome combined Yeah I feel like

There was a band That canceled on And they're like I don't know Just get the closest singers you can have. We'll call them Sweethearts of the radio. Tiffany, I think

we're alone now. One hit one. Tiffany? I thought she had two hits. She probably think she had two. Randy Travis made his first appearance in 1988. Wow. Ricky Van Shelton. No idea. And something called Zapp featuring Roger.

What? You don't know Zapp and Roger? No. Are you serious? We've actually been... What? Zap and Roger had the hits, Maddie. Come on, man. All right, one more we're going to do here before the top of the a row. Let's go to 1994. Okay.

Willie Nelson. T.G. Shepherd. Who? T.G. Shepherd. And then Randy Travis, that was it for 1994. That would be more than that. You never heard a Zappin, Roger? What's their most recognizable song?

Tell me. I mean, they got, uh, grapevine was a great hit. More bounce to the ounce. Uh, do what diddy. Computer love. You got to know computer love. All right. 1992,

Waylon Jennings, Patea LaBelle, Randy Travis, Hank Williams, Jr. Yeah, here we go. A little Zapping Roger for you, Maddie. Yeah, crank this up. You don't know this?

Get some people going. It does? It does? Oh. Wait a minute. What? This is a bad cover. Bad!

All right. You're taking a Marvin Gay song classic and making this out of it? Oh, man, that's classic. Oh, yeah. This gets the people going. It gets no one going. You're a liar. And you're wrong.

They were playing at the rodeo. That's true. You're going to play at the rodeo. You're right. You're right. My bad. My bad. Oh, I know.

Somebody's coming to call in to get you, I think. Who? I don't know It's all right Man I'm telling you Get in your convertible bug Put the Zapp and Roger I got a convertible bug at the house ironically

That's what I'm saying Get in your convertible bug Put the Zapp and Roger greatest hits on I'll sit in the passenger seat with you We're going to be jamming We've been in that car together before You know that Okay

All right we're going to do one more I can do this for like an hour It's not great sports It's not great sports I think it's fantastic All right. Let's take a look here. Who was in the year 2000?

This is going back 25 years ago. Merle Haggard? Naomi Judd, the Judds, Willie Nelson, Reba, Kenny Rogers, Wynonna, Steve Warner. I mean,

I felt like the hits were coming, baby. What happened? We got Brad Paisley this year. Okay. I want to talk to Biscuit. We got Brooks and Dunn. They're back? Or they were in 88?

No, I'm just saying we're talking about 2025. How are they doing, by the way? They're in good shape? Yeah, I mean, they're making the casino routes. That's good. Is it the original Brooks and or done? They didn't have any beef, did they?

No, no, they're not whole notes. That's good. We've got too many people that are having too much beef. We got Lindsay Buckingham and Mac Fleetwood and Stevie Nix all hate each other now. What's happening to our great bands? They can't get along. I don't know.

Drake and Kendrick Lamar, I mean, it's just too much. I mean, Paul and John, I mean, God. Well, they made it before he was shot dead, correct? That's true. They did break up 52 years ago. Imagine the money the Beatles would have made if they all would have been able to get past all that. And, you know, unfortunately, John didn't pass. I mean, they could have made them. Oh, my God, billions of dollars.

Hell, Paul making billions by himself. Ringo's sitting here. I got a bunch of all-stars, you know, getting Matt Thomas and his son. and $185 dollar dollars a ticket to Vegas. Insane. You got to quit that, Matt. That's fine. I'm a good dad.

It's like the keyboardist from ELO and Ringo Star and like. Don't forget the lead singer for Mr. Mr. Mr. was on the group too. Oh, okay. The bass player from Duran Duran. Hey, don't rip on total either. I don't want to hear it from you. All right.

Final hour of the Matt Thomas show. Call your shot. We'll give you an update on what people think it's going to happen between the Texans and the charges at 3.30 Saturday at NRG Stadium. 1258, Sports Talk, 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. 103 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

I'm here in Atlanta where people are still freezing. 33 degrees. Wintery mix, Ross, as the kids would say, with freezing rain here in the greater metro. Oh, winter mix on this evening, Atlanta, Georgia. Oh, if you're flying to Atlanta, no, you're not. Oh. Maybe next Sunday, hopefully.

What's Merrick going to fly you cost you these days to get to Atlanta? 160. That's not terrible. You know all your clothes on your body, so you have to worry about that. I mean, you get a backpack. I literally would be going for two nights. I can fit everything I need in a backpack. I just hate the fact that you'd have to use a coin to open up the bathroom on the back of the plane.

That's fine. You know what? If you want to upgrade me, I'm welcome to that. Man, do I owe you a gift of some sort? I don't think I do. No, I think I owe you. That's fine. We're so waiting for the Bregman contract.

What's going on with that? Are we going to get that soon? I mean, we're a month away from spring training. Let Scott Boris had this handle for his client. I don't know. It's getting closer and closer to you winning our bet. It's going to be that short-term deal with opt-outs. Why would you do that 30 years?

Man, everyone is really holding a hard line. I guess nobody's buying. that he's that much better than Matt Chapman and that the market reset with Soto, I guess. Yeah. I'll say this. Did Soto give people the impression that Boris was just this incredible negotiator

and that Soto was the outlier on this and that everything else that Scott Boris kind of misreads the crowd? I mean, I can't. No, I'm not going to. going to say that, but it kind of feels like it? I don't know. Because he didn't have a very good offseason last year. Matter of fact, he lost a client.

Jerome Montgomery hates the guy. Yeah. It seems like, yeah, the last couple of years, he's overplayed his hand, and that's why we made this bet. With you, you having the under. Yeah. But you know what? Maybe somebody will bite and say, all right, look, Breggman's out there.

It feels like there's not a lot of buzz for him. Let's go in there and get him what he wants. Let's sign him. What was the date of the Josh Hater deal? I can go look. January 22nd. That felt super late in the game, and that's two weeks away. Yeah.

If you catch his report in, what, about 40 days, give or take? Yeah. All right, let's go to the phones. A man who calls you on the Rockets Wrap show. So you just talked about him not too long ago. Yeah, I appreciate Biscuit. It's almost like the Biscuit show with Ross on the, Rockets wrap. That is true. Good afternoon to you. What's going on?

Cougar math. Cougar math. Man, I'll be getting on the Lima in the morning, man. But I might have to take your black card back. You don't know who Zapping Roger is? Get a biscuit. Computer love. Let me tell you, I know who cool in the gang is. Oh, come on, man. Come on now. I know who Cool MoD is. Computer love I can make you dad

More bounce to the outs More bounce to the outs Come on man I heard it through the grapevine You heard that right That's Marvin Gay And don't Oh whoa whoa

First of all it's Gladys Night Marvin Gay And Gladys Night And Gladys Knight What's the other dude There's been about five people That one Hey but Ross

I'm gonna give you a number of Ross. Okay. 14. 14 slash 15. Dealing with the Rockets. Okay. 14 shots in 15 minutes.

Cam Whitmore? I wonder who that. Yes, sir. And he wonder why he's on the bench, man. He just be jacking. Excuse me? Say that for next Friday. Next Friday, you're on the show now.

You're stuck. You got, you got. You're on the open next Friday. Go ahead. You know what I'm saying? Galen Green only shot 20 times. You know what I'm saying? Or 21?

This dude shot 14 times and 15. He never saw a shot he didn't like. That's why in the 4th quarter yesterday, guess what he put in the game? He put Tate in instead of Pitten Whitmore. He's behind Tate now. Man, you got to do what the coach said you to do, man. You got to be a team player, man. that's all I'm

I'll say, Ross. Thank you, Biscuit. Appreciate it. Ross, were you out there selling Cam Whitmore to the audience? I don't think so. I like Cam Whitmore. I think he's good.

He definitely was out of control with the shot selection last night. There was a cut. He was like pull up mid-range, defense all over him a couple of times. I think he went to go try and hit a layup over Zach Eady

when he should have just stopped and kind of pass a ball back out. Zero assist, by the way. Three steals. Cam, what's good? He's young. He's like, what, 21 years old?

Yeah, he's only a second year. I mean, he played one year at Villanoke. He's 20. He's 20. He's 20. He will be 21 years old. He's got some tools. He's a good player. He's got some learning to do. Only shooting 29% from three this year, by the way. Yeah.

How about it? I'll be finally hitting a three-pointer yesterday. That was good to see. That was nice. He never gets a corner. He never gets a corner look. It was a corner three. Yeah. Every time he takes a three, there's like the hardest ones. The above the break, top of the key, those are the lowest percentage in basketball.

And it feels like those are the only ones he takes. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. But you know what? Keep the rocket chatter going, Houston, Texas. Because I got news for you. Oh, we got to make our predictions. Yeah, you said in an hour.

Or when we come back. When we, okay, next thing, we need some grandiose football. addiction music. They'll play some Zapp and Roger. So am I really getting a foul? No, I don't know. I grew up listening to, I mean, my parents did it too. So, yeah, maybe if you didn't grow up with it, you didn't hear it.

Yeah. I mean, it's not that I would avoid it. Yeah, I mean, my mom had the Zapp and Roger greatest hit CD. I'm telling you, Matt, you put it on. We're going to have, we'll be having some jams. Is it, uh, is it bros hanging out playing cards, kind of music in the background, or is it, uh, date music or what? I mean, it's hitting the dance floor music.

Could Connor D cut a rug to it in 2020? Oh, my gosh. He would be moving and groving. All right. You all right over there? I'm just coughing. I'm worried about you. Oh, geez.

All right. Matt Thomas has got the black lung. So if you like to get in and help us out. I don't even smoke. 713. He was in the coal shab, coal mine shafts over the weekend in Tennessee. You'd like to get in 713, 212, 5790. I'm all right now.

Okay, great. Yeah, my 80s Are in Brees here. Is this more bounce? You haven't heard this? Bounce. This sounds overly produced. Oh, geez.

You don't think Connor could jance to this? Just getting the people going, Matt. Give me Joanna by cooling the game. Oh, geez. What? Yeah, it's ladies' night. Give me some Commodores with or without. Okay, you hate Zapp and Rogers.

It's fine. I don't hate it. It doesn't do anything for me. Okay Give me Ross Have Connor Give me

Ladies Night by Cool And the gang Why? Because that's the jam What's that got to do? Okay Meta in that crap you just played Wow

Disappointing man That sounds like somebody Went into a record studio And overly produced a song With a bunch of mid singers Me and Biscuit are disappointed in you Yeah Biscus has been disappointed

Me mid singers We're not talking about the Beatles Oh, here we go It doesn't have to be one of the other I enjoy both But if you only your choice of one What you go with? Depends on the night

What if it's the ladies' night? I'm going with Zapp and Roger Turn it up Oh yeah, people are bouncing around town right now Oh, what a night Oh, what a night Oh, yeah, much better All right. Up next, we make our predictions.

And if we're going to go with 80s R&B early, let's go the Gap Band too. You want to go with them? No, they're terrible. Sounds overproduced. Why did Randy McAward come in the studio all of a sudden? Hey, man. I think the Texas got a shot this weekend. That's awful.

You're going to be embarrassed. You brought it up. I wasn't trying to. You went Randy McEvoy on me. I wasn't. 113. Predictions are up next on Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers.

It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. This is a jam. This is me listening to Magic 102 back in 1882. We listened to Magic 102 tonight. Oh, with the quiet storms. That should get you on there, Matt. No, you don't know Zapping Roger. You can't be on 102 Magic.

Can I be on sunny? Absolutely. You seem like more of a sunny guy. A couple things quick sports related. Mail Delilah. You know, people can call in and give me their stories. Yeah, Melilah. I like that.

Malila, yeah. That's not a bad idea. Samson would be the male Delilah, correct? Yeah, I could be the herb of the peaches and herb. I like that. By the way, if you're flying to Atlanta, no, you're not. 890 flights have been canceled today at Atlanta airport. What is?

Okay, so let's see. The entire country on the West Coast is on fire, and then everything else is under ice? Correct, basically. You're the Al Roker of 790. You just give the national weather forecast. Make it stop, Matt. Make it stop. By the way, speaking of L.A.,

there is a political pundit, Charlie Kirk. I don't know who he is. I've never, I just see his tweets occasionally. Okay, he is, I believe he is on the, squarely on the right. Okay.

Whoever he is, he thinks that this is a sign that maybe L.A. should not host the Olympics. Hmm. That if something like this was to, you know, here's the thing, if you're hosting the Olympics,

aren't you always going to have some, I mean, every major metropolitan, city unfortunately goes through some sort of I don't want to say catastrophe but issues like wasn't there security issues in Qatar like before they had

the Olympics there and yeah I always feel like every year every Olympic City has you shouldn't go there because of this or the stadiums won't be structurally functionalable and they're not ready yet and all that kind of thing Paris is worried about terrorist activity

well I mean what's what What city is immune from any sort of natural disasters of some sort? I mean, I don't know. And this was like, it was an unprecedented event. I mean, I'll be honest with you. I didn't think of these terrible fires and think, well, the Olympics shouldn't work. When are the Olympics in there?

Four years, three or three and a half, whatever it is. Okay. That didn't cross my mind, but a lot of things don't cross my mind. I'm about the here and the now. sports RV. That's great. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to make our predictions. Did we have the appropriate music for the prediction segment of the show?

Do we? This is what we're going with? This is a jam. This is great. All right. Let's go with all the games. This is our NFL prediction music? Yeah, this is NFL. Another show in the marketplace is going to use the song as a bag.

It might be smarter than us. Go ahead. Let's go with all the games. And Ross, write these down. We'll see how we do. Oh, my God. Hey, you know what? We never reviewed our preseason predictions.

You want to look at those yet? I mean, we predicted divisions and stuff like that. All right. Well, that would call advanced preparation. I have it right here. Oh, go ahead then. All right, Matt, for the divisions, we both had the lions with the north. Connor had the Packers.

Okay. In the East, you had the East. You had the Eagles. I had the Cowboys. Connor had the Eagles. South, you had the Falcons. I had the Buccaneers. Connor had the Buccaneers.

We all had the Niners for the West. Ooh. And you had the NFC champions, San Francisco. Oh, 49ers. Oh, God. I had the Ravens in the North, shouted out. So did Connor. You had the Bengals in the North.

We all had the Bills in the East. We all had the Chiefs in the West. We all had the Texans in the South. AFC Champions, I had Kansas City, you have Cincinnati. Yeah, mine's not going to hit. Connor has Baltimore over the Texans. I had Kansas City over the Texans.

Okay. And, well, that's basically where stand right now. Super Bowl champions, Matt, you had the Bengals. You are eliminated. Connor had the Niners. He is eliminated. I am still alive with the Chiefs. Yeah, I'm very proud of it.

All right, let's write these down real quick. And again, normally pick segments are terrible. for sports radio. Nobody really cares, but we have great music behind us. We can release, kill two. Okay, great. It's a four-hour show. It is a four-hour show. We'll go in reverse. Sure. Monday night game. Real quick, all three of us.

Right now, Minnesota is a minus three against the Rams. The game has been moved from Los Angeles to Phoenix. It is Minnesota minus three. I like the Vikings covering the three points. I will go

with the you know, I'll go with the Vikings as well. 30 to 24. All this is the Vikings. All three of the Vikings. Next. On Sunday, Washington at Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay minus the three.

I will take the commanders plus the three. Yeah, this is, I just don't get it. Buccaneers aren't, they beat up on a bunch of bad teams. I think, did they not beat one playoff team all year? I'm going to commies as well, plus the three. and I'm going to go over on this as well. Okay, well, all we're worried about is the points for, but I see what you're saying. I got you.

I'll go with the Buccaneers. Put your name on it, man. Don't be scared. Don't be scared. I'm just telling you, Washington plus the three. I'm taking it. Connor is a Buccaneers given the three. Okay. I like it. Homefield.

Next, you got Green Bay and Philadelphia. I will take Philadelphia minus the five and a half. I'm taking the Packers to cover, but lose. Close game. Got it? I'll take Philadelphia. Next on Sunday Bill's Broncos

I will take Buffalo giving the nine It's gonna get spicy I think the Broncos can score on that bad Bill's defense Josh Allen's gonna have to have a bunch of touchdowns I got the over And the Broncos cover in a nine Lock at a week

On a recorded line on WGR Buffalo Sports Leader Hmm Okay What Conner's turn Oh Oh

I was like you there man I thought you were just enjoying the Cheryl Lend. I am enjoying it, by the way. I'll take the bills. All right, so, Connor and I have the bills. You have the Broncos. Yes.

Steelers, Ravens, Baltimore, minus nine and a half at home. Pittsburgh has been putrid the last month. I will say Ravens win, close game. I'll take Pittsburgh. I hope you all writing this down. Pittsburgh plus nine and a half.

I'm with you. Garbage time score gets them within the number, but the Ravens win. Ravens. Blow them out. That'd be fun. I just think rivalries like this that have played each other a bunch of times in the last few years. I just think it's going to be a closer game. Last but not least,

Chargers, minus three. Inside NRG Stadium, 3.30 tomorrow. Paramount Plus, CV. Connor, you go first. Chargers. I will take the Chargers, given the Texans the three. It doesn't matter. Chargers, minus, team. Texans with an early score, don't do much till the end.

They have a bunch of field goals. As the clock hits zero, Kaimi Farber with the 47-yarder through the uprights, Texans win 19 to 17. What's up? Chargers win 2416. I hate you That could happen There we go I'm going with the dog

Sorry I'm just enjoying this Cheryl Lynn Is it a funky Friday in the mad time of show? I feel it is a funky Friday I like it And the one thing we don't do on the song Show is sing Although I'm a cruder in the uh That's what I heard

I heard you were bringing the house down Even though like four people were in the house Yeah it was a small house But I brought it down All right real quick Before we get the non-flora stories Let's talk to our buddy Jacob 790 at 1,000

Hi, Jacob. Hey, I can't believe, you don't know who, I'm sure, you know, computer love. Roger was before its time because it's a lot of computer love going on now, and these and these days, and that was written in the 80s. But I got the Texas blowing them out by two touchdowns, okay? So I'm going with 1728, so it's kind of close. 28, all right. I got 1728. Put me down on that. And then I got the Ravens, and then I got

Buffalo Ravens, and DC, Washington. That's all. That's all I want to even predict on. I'll talk to y'all next week, man. All right, be good. Thank you, Jacob. He's making a lot of good points, man. He did. What's his best point of the group? The Texans are going to win by 14. But then he had him winning by 11. Yeah, it's either 20 or 14 or 11.

Yeah, that's fine. All right. Time now for some non-Floral stories. We'll have it for you next, but I want to tell you first about a great story, and that is the story of Big City Wings with 13 Houston area locations. Enjoying the best wings can be done for you in any of those 13 locations. As you watch the college football playoff tonight between Texas and Ohio State, the plethora of Saturday and Sunday NFL games,

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Rossi, love has no boundaries. That's the theme of my non-Florist story this week. We're going to go to Waukesha. Okay. Waukesha, Wisconsin, I don't think it's how you pronounce it. Waukesha, Wachishaw, Wisconsin. They got beer and a bride. Oh, yeah.

There's a couple that have been together on a few occasions. His name is Desmond, Cleveland, and he's 29 years old. His lady. Her name is Karen Hill, and she's 67. Excuse me? Yes, me? Yeah. Say those ages again?

Desmond's 29. Karen is 67. Wow. Love no, love knows no age. Love knows no bound. Wow. Well, last year, they got in trouble for having sex in the Waukesha County Jail Lobby.

Okay. And that feels like that's probably among the least attractive places to actually express each other's love. Recently, and this comes up within the last couple of days, they got caught again expressing themselves. They were in a laundromat on Christmas Eve

and were having sex at the laundromat. According to the criminal complaint, the owner of the flash laundromat in Wauk, went to police after seeing the two on security video lying under a blanket on the floor. The owner kicked them out and apologize to patrons.

The complaint says at no time the video are the two seen using the laundromat for cleaning clothes. Wow. So they were fluffing and drying each other, but not the clothes. Was there a spin cycle in there

somewhere? Well, I'm, well, it depends on how flexible she is. At 67? It was probably a quick rinse and, okay, we're permanent press. Yeah. Apparently, they were making love in the delicate cycle.

All right, I'm tapped out. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. Anybody else have any more washer-dryor punts? We will take yours on Twitter at SportsMT. Again, the story is, my non-floor story. Yes. 29-year-old Desmond, 67-year-old Karen,

arrested for disorderly conduct for not bringing clothes. to a washer to a laundromat to wash them or dry them. But simply find a blanket and have sex in it. Sounds like they got to pink. It was a public thing. Yeah, clearly. Clearly.

Clearly, that's their jam. And that, my friends, is my non-foldist story. Okay, I'm going next to we've got to work on, believe it or not. Matt, let me tell you about a 30-year-old woman named Sherry Villa Lobos, Villa Lobos, Santoyo. Hi, Sherry.

in Harris County, Texas. Apparently, she was at an Ulta beauty store where she was shoplifting items, valued at over $186. Yikes. She was caught shoplifting the items, at which point Harris County Precinct Four Constables were called, where the officers located and apprehended

apprehended Miss Villarobos Santoyo following the theft. Okay. The situation then took a turn while she was being transported to jail. The accused of shoplifter made a shocking proposition to a male deputy in order to secure her freedom. Reports say that she offered the deputy sexual favors and cash in exchange for her release, an attempt that ultimately failed to sway the officer. Do we know what the exact offer was? We do not.

Upon reaching the county jail, Villalobos Santoyo was formerly charged with the shoplifting incident and bribery for her ill-fated attempt to influence the deputy. So sex and cash to get out of the charge. She had that much cash, would she be stealing $186 worth of makeup? Which, by the way, these pictures, she wears a lot of makeup. So do we have an update on what she's doing right now? Is she still in the county jail? I don't know, Matt. Why don't you find her on Facebook?

Why do you think she's on Facebook? Maybe she's in the IGs. It could be probably there with all this fake makeup and she got, you know, fake puffed up lips. She better hurry up. Some people are into that. Maybe out of TikTok in about a week or so, apparently. The incident, yeah. So she has been indicted for shoplifting and a bribery.

Not sure where she is because this happened literally yesterday. probably in the county jail hmm propositioning a cop with sex and money huh yeah there you go at which point the cop

reached for a statement said I wish I didn't have a body camp no I'm just kidding oh my god just kidding wow I've added comments to my own stories that seemed inappropriate

that may that will top anything I've ever said in the last 12 months I can tell you that for sure And that's my non-floor story. Thank you, Rossi, for that involving sex, alcohol, not alcohol, sex, money, and cosmetics. By the way, the flight total cancellation now at 960 at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. Let's go to 1,000. Let's go, Atlanta. Let's drop some more flights.

Connor, what is your non-fort store? Skiers at a snowy Colorado resort were shocked to find a car. parked on one of the ski slopes. Police said that a man took a wrong turn while following his GPS, which apparently led him down a ski slope. The man put the car in park and left it stranded.

Officers said they found a note on the window from the driver explaining that he took a wrong turn and ended up driving on the ski slope. Police managed to get a tow truck to the slopes and safely recovered the car and returned it to the owner. So there's a nice ending to your story after all. Yeah. He's probably a little panics driving down a ski slope.

Alcohol involved? Didn't say. Drugs? Can't rule it out. Alucidians? He was in Colorado. Sniffing of bleach. It's all very probable.

You've been skiing, Connor? I have. I enjoy it. I think you've got to be really physically gifted to ski. I just, I've never tried it. Don't have any interest in doing it. But man, it just feels like it's, you know, You got to put a bunch of gear on. You're very sore because you're moving at high rates of speed.

You're moving, using muscles you've never used before. So I come from playing hockey when I was younger. So it's kind of similar motions. I'm serious. If we get an NHL team, you are our official beat reporter. Oh, yeah. I've already said that to Gordy. And he said what?

We're not giving any more money to do it, though. Oh, he was just kind of like, yeah, we'll see if it happens. All right. Would you be okay if the team was called the Houston Errors, or would you want something to complete? The Houston arrows would be cool, even with the colors and logos that they originally had. Yeah, I don't know. If I was a betting man, I would believe they would not call them the arrows.

Would the Iowa Wilde still own that? I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know. But I think my guess is anybody that brings hockey in here, they want to have the, they want to be, they want their name attached to it. Maybe they'll go Houston Hockey Club for a year while they, until they figured out. That's what Utah's done. The Utah Hockey Club for one season.

basically it was a quick grab of grabbing some uniforms for a year and they can change it makes him more money that way all right that's it for non florida stories up next it's a highly googable edition of hell yeah or not the categories things revolving around the houston livestock show and rodeo if you did not hear yesterday they did announce their celebrities uh their artist for the two thousand twenty five series of shows seven one three two one two seven nine if you want to join our conversation seven one three two 1-2-5-790. It's hell yeah or not. Final segment of a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show of Ross is straight ahead as you listen to Sports Talk 790. And Sports Talk 790 is where we're going to tell you about pick six from Draft Kings. Have you started playing yet? What are you waiting for? You got to get on it. The playoffs are happening. It's fun to do on the NFL weekends. The official daily fantasy sports partner of the NFL is Draft King's pick six and they do it like no one else. You can play for better payouts on pick six. Very, very easy to get started, select two or more players, choose if they're going to have more or less of a stat,

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Your home for Houston Astros baseball. Ross, are you a believer in information provided by Jeff Ketchum? Yeah. Overall, he misses stuff sometimes. All right, he has soft-played a little bit of breaking news on the Longhorns. Okay. Barring a change of direction in the pregame. Ah, yeah.

I'm told that Junior Willstone will handle place kicking duties for Texas instead of Bert Aubrey. What do you think? You okay with it, right? Sure, why not? And by the way, if this Will Stone has to do anything tonight, Sark, don't go talk to him. Don't grab his helmet. Don't give him a high five.

Don't smile. Just like, go out there and do your job. Will Stone, two-star kicker out of Regent's School in Austin. He is a junior. Bird Auburn. Not a very man. Not a very enterprising man. I mean, I wish, I mean, I'll hate Bert Auburn personally.

Just when he gets lines up to kick, I'm nervous. Tell him that, he has tremendous value in your life, except for the fact what he's a kick in his life. I'm sure he's a fine young human being. He's got great hair. Got to respect the hair. Absolutely. Ladies gentlemen, five minutes left to go on the show.

What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show Monday through Thursday. We called it B. Leave it or not. But on Fridays, we call it. call it a hell yeah or not. And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90. Today's category, believe it or not, or hell-y-or-not, is, did this person ever perform at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo? If they did, you'll say this. Hell yeah! If they didn't, you'll say this. Not. Two hell-ye-or-n-n-n-all-ye-or-not on a row on whether or not this performer ever was at the

Livestock Show Rodeo when you're apprised. Connor? we're playing for today. Our final four pack of tickets with pit passes to Monster Jam on Sunday, February 2nd at NRG Stadium and some 790 T-1-1-2-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Kevin on 7-90. You ready to play?

Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Gene Autry played the rodeo in 1942. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. There you go. Hell yeah. Name number two for the win.

Cooling the gang played the rodeo in 1996. Hell yeah or not? Not. Oh, they did. Are you not there for that? Oh, duh. They played celebration like six times. Mike in Katie on 790.

Mike, you're ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Elvis Presley played the rodeo in 1970. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah Hey quickly people Let's go yeah You gotta be faster

Donnie and Marie Osmond Play the rodeo in 1979 Hell yeah or not Not They didn't You're right Congratulations Jeff on 790 Jeff

What was your favorite part of today's radio show It's all over you About the ass When Ross All right I'll take that as He dropped

All right Uh, John on 790. John, you're ready to play Hell Yeah or not? Hell yeah. Enrique Iglesias played the rodeo in 1999. Hell yeah or not. Believe it. Name number two for the win.

Ricky Martin played the rodeo in 2022. Hell yeah or not. Not. Hell yeah. He did. He was Rossi Levitah, Living Lovita. Aloloka? Yes, he was. All right. I'm kind of proud for that pull.

Dennis on 790. You ready to play Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Casey and the Sunshine Band played in 1977. Hell yeah or not? Bob Dylan played the rodeo in 1976. Hell yeah or not. No chance. Littily.

Hey, I missed the tambourie. Bob Dylan, the most overreated singer. in the history of music. Don't fight me. Josh on 790. Josh, you're ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Stevie Wonder.

Played the rodeo in 2011. Hell yeah. Or not? Not. Not. Last one for the win. Wayne Newton played the rodeo in 1972. Hell yeah or not?

I'm gonna go with not I'm sorry Ross I like that category that's a good one Duncan Shane you're welcome Wayne Newton has an act still in Vegas

I mean I make fun of Barry Manilow but Wayne Newton's got I mean if he performed 52 years ago how old is Wayne Newton got to be at this point are you sure it wasn't animatronic Wayne Newton you mean AI

No, like a Chucky Cheese. Oh, what will be the character's name? That's what his face looks like anyways. You are so rude. All right. Rockets, tomorrow against the Hawks, Texans and Chargers, what a Saturday. And Ross, you get the final 20 seconds about your beloved Longhorns quickly. I hope they win.

Texas versus Notre Dame would be a classic college matchup for the championship. Everybody have a great weekend. Up next. Two of the biggest Wayne Newton fans I know. It's Adam Clinton and Adam Lexington. They are the team on Sports Talk, 790.