The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Colts Crushed, Matt's A Pessimist But The Texans Own AFC South For the Next Decade

Episode Date: October 28, 2024

Hi there. So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. What's happening in lunchtimer's. Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Coming to you today from not only our Houston studios but San Antonio, Texas, where tonight the Houston Rockets will finish off their two-game road trip.

with another matchup against Victor Wimbunyama and the rest of the San Antonio Spurs. That probably will not leave the show. We may get a little chit-chat on it, but today it's about what happened yesterday at NRG Stadium. As Vattle Red Ross celebrates yet another victory, another win over the Colts, a two-game leading the AFC South. You have the tiebreaker. The Titans get destroyed yesterday. The Packers win a game winner.

against the Jaguars. Battle Red, you got your playoff tickets locked up for that first playoff game? Absolutely, Matt. I'm ready. I'm ready to go. Six and two, as you mentioned, you have swept the Colts. The Jaguars are two and six. The Titans are one and six.

So we can go ahead and start stitching up that banner for another AFC South championship. And if I'm going to go glass half full with you, which I will since I'm Battle Red Ross, the Texans haven't played anywhere close to their best football. And they're six and two. All right, I'm going to give you the, because you know what, there's too many fanboys in this marketplace. I'm going to be the real list of the group. Okay, good. The Texans Realist Matt is what they call me.

A Texans hater Matt, I believe. Not true. Not true at all. Ross, your favorite quarterback is going to get killed this year. Well, he got killed last year at MetLife Stadium, so maybe it'll happen again this year. I am a huge C.J. Stroud fan. I mean, big time. guy has got a great arm.

He's got great leadership. He eludes tackles. He's a really smart decision maker. He's doing a lot of good things. And doing it with a receiving cord that obviously Deco Collins got hurt a few weeks ago. It looks like the situation with Stefan Diggs is not

going to be great today. We'll find out more coming up in an hour from now. He's got a running back. He's got plenty of threats. Rossi, seriously, do we need to put the favorite quarterback of this town in bubble rat because there's no way this sad sack of offensive linem are going to keep him up right the rest of the season. It's just not going to happen.

What did they say at some point in the third quarter's pressure rate over 70%? Not good, not ideal, not what you want to see. And they tried to fix it. They took out Kenyon Green, who, I mean, he has just been, started off the season actually pretty strong. and then since then he has just been horrible. He's been getting pushed around. He's been missing assignments,

and then he's just been giving up too many pressures. They replace him with Jared Patterson, immediately goes down with a concussion, and then you're back to Kenyon Green season. Not great with the offensive line. Yeah, I'll say this. I don't know what you can do by the trade deadline to make something happen.

I don't know, Ross, if the guys that are currently in uniform, and you mentioned Patterson was out there did a pretty decent job before he got hurt, can step in and help the cause. I don't know how much shifting you can do with this group because you don't have a deep group as it is because you're holding on every roster spot and for death purposes.

But I can see it in the demeanor of CJ. He is winning and making completions and finding people downfield with the great fear that something's going to happen. And again, I don't want to have this fear tactic, but we're going to just deal in the reality of this. The defensive line played really good yesterday. Yesterday, another bomb for Richardson.

Yesterday was part of the loss, and we will get to that disaster of a football team shortly coming up here. But I'm thinking big picture on this, because this is what this team has been this entire season. This isn't about winning another AFC South championship. This is probably the worst division in the NFL, if not the worst or second worst. This is more about this team getting past a division around, playing for an AFC championship, and going all in you. We're very aggressive in free agency. You've made some smart, savvy moves in the draft. Kenyon Green excluded, obviously, on that.

This is more than just winning by the skin of your teeth. This is more about getting in the Kansas City, Baltimore world. Now, Baltimore yesterday did lose to Cleveland. So people can be vulnerable every single week, and that can certainly happen in January come playoff time. But I kept watching that game yesterday. and I listened to the first half in the car, getting back to Houston and then watching the second half over at the Furtita Center,

thinking, I generally speaking, Rossi, feel terrible for the quarterback, who I don't think if you were to inject him with some truth serum, would say, I can trust this offensive line to get me to where I need to get this team between now and the end of the season. Yeah, I would say that's the number one concern with the team right now. And I don't know, as you mentioned, you mentioned the trade deadline,

I don't know. I mean, Kenyon Green needs to get better. If he's going to play, and if Jared Patterson is going to continue to miss time, he needs to get better at protections and all that types as far as communication with the offensive line. But the bottom line is, too,

he's just getting moved around too much by anybody. And that's in pass blocking and in run blocking. And he can show flashes and he can be good. But it's not going to change to where he stops immediately getting pushed around by the bigger, better defensive tackles in the NFL. So I don't know exactly what the solution. is going to be. Demico Rines, like you said, we'll hear from him on that, but something needs to be done and something needs to be improved because the state of this team right now, where it is, yes, they can beat the Colts. Yes, they can beat, I don't know, the Jacksonville Jaguars and teams like that. But as you mentioned, I mean, if you're going up against some of the better defensive tackles like they did against the Colts with who got DeForest Buckner back, you're going to see what you saw on Sunday. You're going to see those guys getting moved in the middle. And that goes for Drew Scrugs and Jack Mason as well.

to where those guys are decent, and thankfully, Kenyon Green is getting a lot of blame, but it's not like those guys have been playing at all pro-level either. Yeah. It was good to see Laramie Thompson get back in the obligatory false start campaign from yesterday as well. He's back on track, maybe. Let's go. He's fine. He's fine. He was pacing behind his weekly one to two fall starts per week, and now he's back on.

Yeah, he saw that he was going to lose the NFL lead in penalties, and he said he needs that back. Yeah. Yeah, exactly right. All right, 713-212-5-790 is how you reach a show today. 7-13-212-5-7-9-0. Joe Mixon is a grown-ass man. He was absolutely incredible yesterday. Tankdale coming through and helping the cause.

Ross, Tankdell, your W-R-1 going into the Thursday game in MetLife Stadium against Jets coming up this Thursday? Either that, or you're going with Xavier Hutchinson. Of course it's Tang Dell. What? Oh, I'm sorry. Tank Dell, he had a touchdown. You got four catches. Sell it. You can sell it.

He's fast, quick, good route runner. Yeah, I'm good. He can get open. He can get open on anybody. I'm not worried about that. But if you're giving the ball 10, 12, 15 times a game, then he's going to take 10, 12, 15 hits, and that's what I'm worried about. Who would have ever thought Rossi to say the word

John Mechie season? Ooh, hey. That was a nice catch that John Metchy made. It was a beautiful throw start of the fourth quarter from C.J. Stroud. Yeah, yeah. All right, so we got a lot to get to today. 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

When we come back in segment two, we're going to destroy the Indianapolis Colts. We're going to destroy their quarterback, who apparently Rossi had to tap out because he was so exhausted yesterday from actually, I don't know, playing in the game. if I'm Colts fan, which I don't know there's any Colts fans in Houston, except for my friend over here, Vanessa Richardson from Space City,

it's got to be Joe Flacko pretty soon. I mean, we'll get more on this the next segment, but what a disaster he is. I just, I mean, he's got all these deep balls. He throws against Texas, which is kind of a separate issue for a separate time, but everything else he does sucks. He's terrible. He's terrible.

And how the Colts didn't fire their, entire offensive staff after the way they performed that final 60 seconds in the second quarter of yesterday's game, that was criminal what they did and how they play called. And look, Bobby Sloat gets a lot of criticism, and DeMiko has taken his, his lumps, hits on lumps, hits, scab, pushes, kicks, whatever, to what he has done in late game situations. I got a general statement for your, Rossi. You know how football coaches think they're the most, you know, the smartest guy in the room. You haven't played football.

You don't know what it takes the grind of the time. I feel like the dumbest people on earth are football coaches. And I don't mean to paint with a broad brush here. But you are. But that was

as stupid of a segment of a sequence that I've ever, and I shouldn't say ever, that I have seen since the next time we'll see a stupid sequence of place. Yeah. Richardson's staying in bounds. and then the checkdown as well. I don't even know.

Can we talk about, didn't that clock hit zero? Like, am I crazy? I thought the clock hit zero. How lucky was that? That was like, that was zero point negative one, negative two, negative three. There was no way they should have had a final play on that one. That was terrible. So, yeah, and by the way, I'll go back to this football coach thing.

Football coaches think they're the smartest guys in a room. And I'm not talking about you high schoolers and coaches that are run around town, listen to the show today. You all are smart people. You are good kids. You're father figures. I'm talking about arrogant college. coaches, and I'm certainly talking about the arrogant NFL coaches.

You can't manage a two-minute drill. Your challenge systems, you can't ever get challenges right. You burn timeout stupidly, and you drop stupid-ass plays. NFL coaches, you suck. Give me Rossi right now in the 12 seconds left we have in this segment. Who is the best coach in the NFL? Because if you're going to say Andy Reid, that might be right, but guess one? Andy Reid screws up the two-minute drill occasionally.

Yes, he does. I will say probably Andy Reid, John Harbaugh, Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVey. That's it. Not going to go Doug Peterson, not going to go Sean McDermott. You didn't go 70. Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin.

Okay, Mike Tomlin. You went 60 by the 32 human beings. Yes. NFL coaches, y'all are vastly overrated. You think you know more than everybody else. And Bill Belichick, you're the king of that. Well, he was pretty good. He was good, but he just treated us like, not us, but, you know, media-like-shed.

There are some media scum out there. Well, he loves the media now that they cut the check in the ESPN. Yeah, imagine that. So does Nick Saban, by the way. You notice that on college game day? He's certainly fourth very fourth coming with his commentary. All right, we've got a lot to get to today. 713-212-5-790.

I'm here in San Antonio, Ross is back in Houston. 713-212-5-790. D'Amico will speak at 1 o'clock. We have to tell the truth at 130, and we have, believe it or not, today, at 250. More Matt Thomas now. On Sports Talk 790. The reality is at 1220

that your Texans sports RV are going to win the AFC South for the foreseeable future. I'm thinking seven to nine years in a row here coming up. Tennessee needs a new quarterback, Richardson ain't the answer in Indianapolis And the money that is spent on Trevor Lorris in Jacksonville is just going to be wasted because they can't do anything else And he's just been average You got to be above and better than what the AFC South is giving you

And that's what I think everybody that's a Texan fan is thinking about it's not about winning the AFC South It's going deeper The Colts game yesterday Ross Anthony Richardson is terrible He can't make intermediate throws He takes sacks Now granted good pressure by the Texans' defensive line, but the fact that the coaching staff,

Jim Bob Hooter, Couter, whatever the hell his name is, I don't know what it is, I don't particularly care, would allow them to throw that interception that Petrie got late in the game and scored the touchdown in the second quarter. You should have fired everybody on that staff, and Shane Steichen should be embarrassed in the way his team coached that last two minutes in second quarter on Sunday. Well, no, Matt, they were a team with a four-and-three record

coming into yesterday. It was for the first place, for first place in the AFC South. And as you pointed out, the Baltimore Ravens lost to the James Winston-led Cleveland Browns. They've also lost to the Gardner Minshue, Las Vegas Raiders.

So I'm going to choose to say, hey, you are what your record says you are. Six and two. It hasn't been pretty. I think still, I mean, some of the problems are fixable. Some of them aren't. I don't know how they're going to fix Kenyon Green if we're this far into his NFL career in this season. And then he already got replaced if that's going to get any better. And that is going to be problematic going forward.

But you're still winning these games. But how are you feeling? I'm feeling good, not great. Okay. Well, then don't you want to feel great? And I guess we can't control that. Who's feeling great right now in the NFL? Chiefs fans and who else?

Maybe commanders fans just because it's found. money, but I mean, they've had some struggles. It took a hell merry for them to win yesterday, and they weren't expected to do anything, so they're six and two as well. Lions fans are crushing everyone, but they also lost Aden Hutchinson, but they, I mean, what was that final score yesterday?

Like 52 to 14 or whatever it was against the Titans. Yeah, it was 78 to 6, I think it was an eventual final score on that. So Lions fans feeling good, cheese fans feeling good. Outside of that, I mean, Is that the list? Yeah, Baltimore is feeling kind of, I mean, I would say severely disappointed the way they played against the,

I mean, you got some teams, you mentioned Washington. Pittsburgh probably feels better than the way they thought they were going to feel this year. Atlanta probably feels better than the way they were going to feel. But, you know, again, I think that this season was not about just reaching what you've done in the past. It's about reaching the future. And I'm just, and maybe I'm over thinking. in this a little bit, but this offensive line is so porous that even when you scramble and put CJ in play action, you're limiting yourself with the amount of plays you can go with.

It's going to become very predictable. I just don't know. I personally myself don't have an answer to why or how you can fix this when you're in the middle of the season unless you do something that the Texans have never had a history of, and that's no matter who the general manager has been, and that's going after somebody before the trade deadline. Let's go to Brian and Friendswood on 790. Hi, Brian.

Hi, how's it going? Good. I just came on to give my two cents. We've watched this team for so long. They obviously came into this season with some confidence about this offensive line. And I just, I do not see how they can solve it in the middle of the year. They can't trade for someone. Well, actually they can.

I mean, I don't know how many offensive lines available before the deadline, but there is a deadline coming up in a couple weeks. They can improve themselves. I don't know how long it would take to make adjustments. But you tell me, Houston, Texas, can the five guys or the six guys, if you're including Patterson in rotation, if it comes off the concussion, is that enough to keep your quarterback upright the rest of the way for a deep playoff run?

you know here's the thing I should I think we're losing here a little bit there um Ross how do they how does mix and get his holes and yet Stroud has to run for his life I mean just I mean pass pro and run blocking two different things

and some got oh for example one of the best pass blockers in the NFL the last several years has been Laramie Tunsell he hasn't been as good in the run game um but I would say also it hasn't just been, look what happened when Joe Mixon went out. It was Dario Gumbawale and Cam Acres.

And Cam Acres literally got traded away. It's not like Cam Acres was ripping off six, seven yards of carry. A lot of it is Joe Mixon. I mean, he's making spin moves. He's got good vision. He's finding the correct lanes. He's getting physical, like that touchdown run that he had where he's running people over. Joe Mixon is a special running back.

And if you do want me to get down and out about the Texans prospects of going on a deep player off run, that would be an injury. to Joe Mixon. I think an injury to C.J. Stroud or Joe Mixon would be devastating to this team's hopes of, I'm not going to say Super Bowl. I'll say AFC championship game. Like if Joe Mixon's not there, Texans aren't making an AFC championship

game. There's no doubt in my mind. Yeah, no question. 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-7-90. We take you to 3 o'clock. We'll hear from the head football coach, Damico, Ryan's at 1 o'clock. We have to tell the truth at 1-30. 7-13-3-2-1-2.

5-7-90. You are what your record is. That's no doubt about it. And the fact of the matter is, they're winning these games with so many flaws. They might just find themselves of the number two scene in the playoffs, which will be they'll take on the weakest wild card opponent

in the first round, which would be a good sign. And it gets them one step closer to help with that AFC championship game. 7-13-212-5-790. Ross is going to try to make you feel a little stronger, a little better about yourself here in the next 60 seconds. More, Matt Thomas. Now.

On Sports Talk 790. Here in San Antonio for the Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs. Very quickly, Ross. Victor Wenbanyama is a pretty damn good basketball player. I mean,

he can can be honest people rather than putting on our rockets gear. Well, how about this? How about the fact that I have already petitioned the rockets to move the Eastern Conference so don't have to face them four times in a year? He, if, and this has always been the big if, if he stays healthy? Yep.

He's going to dominate the league for the next 10 years. He's an absolute freak of nature. And the other if, of course, is knocking down three-point shots consistently. He is unfreaking stoppable. I've never seen anything like it. I wouldn't say unstoppable, but I'm fearful of him. The three-point shots got to get better. That's where he becomes unstoppable.

Yeah, I would say the more the perimeter game is good, the scarier he will get. He can rim protect. The opposing team is scared to shoot at the rim against him. Nobody even sniffs the restricted area when he's in. and they just dribble around it. Yeah. But you know what? What is he listed at 225?

Is that right? Are I making that up? Do you believe the story he added 25 pounds of muscle? I don't see that. No chance. He's still a string bean, but he's really good. And I don't like it. Not at all.

It makes me angry. It makes me angry. Yeah. When Tumman was praying for Victor, I was praying as well. and then I had to pray for him to go anywhere outside of the Southwest Division, preferably out of the Western Conference, and it was, none of my prayers were answered. Yeah, the story is that he's listed at 235 and that he added 25 pounds of muscle.

I don't know where that is. I guess 25 pounds on somebody who's 5'10 looks a little different than somebody who's 7 foot 3 or whatever, but he looks relatively the same. I guess I'd need to see some side-by-side pictures, but that's the story they're going with is that he added 24. five pounds of muscle in the off season. To me, I think

if you're going to try to create what he can be, he can be a better Janus maybe, but Janus is so fluid and can dribble and can take off at the top of the three point line and just

glide to the air and take over. I mean, that's to me, if I'm San Antonio, give me at least Janus and then give me better than Janus, which I don't know if that's going to happen. But that would be what I would want if I was a Spurs fan, which I'm not a Spurs fan. I mean, how many MVP is Yonis won?

Better than a guy with a multi-time MVP is pretty good. Yeah. But I'm saying, and bare minimum, you get to Yonis level. That's when San Antonio wins. We lose. I'm not happy. Yeah, Janus has been a defensive player of the year. He can't shoot threes either.

He can't shoot free throws. But he's, He's the greatest downhill force, I would say, in the NBA right now. And he's not as strong as Janice is. But if he gets there, then yeah. This is just going to be a problem for us here in Houston for basically the next decade plus. I can't wait. Let's talk to Ken and Unble on the Matt Thomas show with Ross at 1234.

Ken, thanks for holding good afternoon. Hey, gentlemen, I was calling a little bit about pass protection. You know, I'm coached a little bit of football on my day for 30 years, and all I can say about pass protection is, it's like I used to tell my guys, it's like a dog in a fight, and these guys, if you watch them, their effort is what the problem, their effort, they don't realize how lucky they are to have that guy

taking snaps from ever play. And if that's the effort they're going to give, these bad things are going to happen. and they're run blocking. There's three levels in run. And we don't have enough time to talk about all of it because we sit and drink beers all day. They're run blocking, and there's three levels to run blocking.

There's level one, two, and three. Level one's the defensive line. Level two is the linebackers. Level three is the secondary. They're never going to worry about the secondary. You're not going to get there. That's a blessing if you get one. You get to pick one off.

But we turn the front loose so much. We slip up so fast, the guard will slip up. off to go to the linebacker before the center's ever there. And we wonder why people are in the backfield. We got a good, yes, y'all were talking a minute ago. You guys doing a great job talking about the running back. He does a great job finding scenes.

But there's not giant holes, but he does. And that's just the tribute to a really good running back. You guys know that. But we could talk all day. It's just real disappointing to realize the kind of quarterback we got. And, you know, God bless that kid. I just pray to God he doesn't get hurt. But those guys up front, they need to be taken over to the other field in full gear when everybody's out there in shorts and t-shirts and say, this is good.

And we need to strap it on today because we've got to get better. That's how football used to be. I know they don't do that anymore, especially in the NFL. But guys, those guys up front, they turn their shoulders in past protection. They don't pass it. The pass protection is a fight. And if those guys aren't going to fight, it's quite a question. going to be a law. I don't know

what the future holds for the Texans, but I tell you what, they've done an awesome job being six and two. That defense, that defense gets after. But anyway, that's what I call it about. And I'll let you guys talk about it because I know everybody's going to call on about the O line. My thing about the

line, it's just disappointing to watch the effort they put out with the people and especially that young kid at quarterback they have. If they don't do better, God bless him, he's going to get hurt, and I just don't want to see that. Thanks, Ken, for the phone call. It's interesting. Ken, it sounds like it's a football

coach, Rossi says, he believes it's effort. That I can't judge. That's not my responsibility. Now, if guys just give up on plays or you can tell their mailing it in, that's one thing. I don't know. I can't say that. That's not fair for me to do that.

Joe Mixon's cutback ability to be able to find those creases after it makes that initial look inside the lane and then go to the outside or cut in inside is special and that's the reason why the Texans, maybe one of the best for agent moves in the NFL this season. I don't

know the answer. I'm not an O-line specialist. I can't tell you this, but it's not just as simplistic if let's put them in play action all the time. Let's not roll them out because that again just narrows your looks down the field if you're always going on a controlled scramble and C.J. doesn't

want to do that. C.J. Stroud is built to be a pocket quarterback and not saying you can't run, not saying he's not elusive, but his best opportunities to be a successful franchise leading quarterback is taking a five and seven step drop, looking downfield, looking through his progressions, and finding those receivers who have a really good ability

to get past defenders and get open. Yeah, he's in, and he can't, you don't want to be in a situation where he's starting to expect pressure every single snap. That's when things are really going to start to get bad. If it starts to get in his head, he's going to have to keep his eyes downfield, he's going to have to unfortunately trust his offensive line because when they do pass protect,

that's going to give you your best chance for chunk and explosive play. So it's going to be interesting to see what happens going forward because this is something we've basically been talking about this every week since the Minnesota Viking games where they just got completely thrashed up front. So it's not going away. It hasn't gone away. And I'm curious to see how this continues to go unfold going forward. And Ross, think about this for a second. I mean, look, CJ's a quarterback. He knows pressures coming.

That's not going to be foreign to him. Every quarterback has hurries and pressures. What I'm thinking about is, how are his feet? Is he able to step into the throws? Is he being able to still have the good mechanics? That's where I think the biggest issue is, is that if he's having to throw off his back foot or he can't plant because there's no time and he's got no space, that's where I think the overthrows and the interceptions.

and the underthrows come of the play. Not necessarily the fact that he's going to have to scoot to his left to his right because NFL quarterback does it. Nobody stands back there, has a lunch, and can throw the ball at nauseam where he wants to with no pressure. That's not reasonably to ask any offensive line to do that. Yeah, I mean, but thankfully, C.J. Shroud is good throwing on the run and good throwing in dirty pockets and kind of contorting his body.

And he makes magic back there sometimes when he's throwing off of his back foot or throwing on the run. so he does have that capability, but that's not what you want to ask him to have to do all game. Joe, Northwest Houston on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Joe, thanks for holding good afternoon. Yeah, hey guys. Real quick, though, run blocking requires effort also. And I'd like to point out, the Nixon is having a fantastic year, and he's not doing that alone.

I mean, offensive line is putting forth some effort there. But anyhow, what I wanted to talk about is thank goodness for battle race. Red Ross because we need some Texans optimism on this channel. I mean, Matt, I love you, but you're starting to sound like, you know, get off my long guy. What are you talking about, Joe? I'm sorry, Joe, go get to it. Get to it.

Get off my long. What are you watching? Are you watching the same game I'm watching? Because I don't think you are. I don't think you are, Joe. Hey, Matt, we're 6 and 2, okay? Let's extrapolate that out. Let's say we're 12 and 4 or 12 and 5 end the season.

Are you still sit there and say, I mean, what's what are you going to be saying then? Get them, Joe. I'm going to say, what's the end? You don't want to say, Joe, is what's the end game, Joe? What's the end game, Joe? Do you want another AFC South Banner in the building? Guess what you're going to get one. Congratulations.

You excited about that? Hey, that's already flying in the wind, man. That's slapping. for an AFC championship banner. Well, guess what? You're not playing like an AMC championship team right now. Your offensive line is holding you back from that. And why can't I say that without you getting all butter?

And the Chief, the Chiefs are? The Chiefs are? Yeah, they absolutely. They absolutely are playing like that. Absolutely they are. They dispose of Vegas. They beat San Francisco. They're undefeated.

And, oh, by the way, they got the skins on the wall the Texans don't have. Sorry, but they're different. Matt. I wish he showed the kind of optimism that he showed for the Astros with the Texans. What do you mean optimism? What do you mean optimism? You lost the Detroit Tigers two straight games. I wasn't overly optimistic on the Astros.

We talked about the fact the Astros' lineup has been struggling for most of the season. We worried about the back end of the bullpen. What are you talking about? You're nuts. You know what you're talking about. Okay, Matt. All right, man. Just the glasses half full, okay?

That's all I'm trying to say. Okay, good. Guess what? Candice News and mower and mow your grass is what they're going to do. That's what you want. Okay. Hey, everybody. Everything's good. I'm Texans Matt, and everything's good.

Your team is 6 and 2. It's what the scoreboard says. We're going to win another EMPC South Championship. If that's what you want, I'll do with the rest of the show, Ross. I'm in. You know what? I'm with Joe. Yeah, Matt, you're just a hater.

I stand with Joe. He's making a lot of good points. I think he's making some good observations as well. And 10 of 10, no notes for Joe. You know what? Why don't you go to YouTube and find some failed radio hosts? I'll do some shows for you. You'll love that a lot.

Whoa. That's not necessary. What do you mean? It's not necessary. It's what you'll find it. It's there for you. They have some issues. They have to shore up.

But as I said, if I want to be glass-half full, which I do want to be, you are six and two and you have not played your best football. You are six and two. You have not played your best football. And guess what? You can do some things. Nick Asarro can go get some offensive line help, hopefully on the trade deadline,

and maybe a receiver if Stefan Diggs is going to be gone for the rest of the year, and go get yourself in a position to win the whole damn AFC. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. You're just, and you know what you're going to do, Joe? You're going to get your quarterback killed. Who is the best thing the city has had in a long time? when it comes to football.

You're going to get him killed. So I'm sorry for pointing that out. Sorry for telling y'all something that you guys already know. 713-212-5-790. 6-2. There's another wrong with the offensive one. Everything's good, everybody. We're 6-2. Look at the scoreboard. Okay. Are you having a stroke?

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I thought you guys used to stay there on the riverwalk. Not anymore? Sort of. It's far. Rip it H-Town, light, five, slamma jama. Yo, what's up? This you boy, bumbee, the Trill-O-G with the whitest man in America. Matt Thomas

You are now tuned in The Sports Talk 790, man And your March 10th ready to go Thank God you have a Texan realist on the radio Thank God Poor Joe All he wants to hear is the stuff Yeah, me

Who's the realist? No, you're the hater No, I'm not I'm just Look, I'm watching my man Tankdale catch everything I'm watching C.J. Stroud

Thank God for him as compared to the awfulness that was to Sean Watson towards the stretch, anything Davis Mills related. Oof. Money Mills, baby? Remember money mills? No money mills. No, no, no, no, no, we are not money mills. My son is money Mills. No, we don't want any of that.

Okay, money mixing. Money mixing, I'll accept. And the good move to get Will Anderson Jr. He's a ferocious, I mean, just hurting people. Love all this. There's too much good going on. But there's one bad. Help me, Ross. I need an analogy on this.

You've got all this good stuff going on. Okay. But you are one massive hit away from an underperforming group of people not doing their jobs. And this ends. It's finito. Every NFL team is one hit away from their quarterback being out. That is true. I mean, the chiefs are one hit away on Patrick Mahomes, who scrambles a lot from not doing much.

Same thing for the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen. I mean, any of the, we can go to the, the, Goatts up the list. Except the sealers. They're okay because Justin Fields was winning. They're going to give them too. But the Ravens and Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow and the Bengals, et cetera. All right.

So I'll just say this. Can we say this being fair? Are the Texans playing with fire right now and not getting burned? Playing with fire to me means that they are doing something on purpose. They're not doing this on purpose. So that's what I'm saying. We can't use this analogy. That's what we have you.

You're Mr. analogy. Oh, okay. I am? Hmm. Well, I would call myself Mr. analogy if I had a good analogy of this. There's just, and you can feel it.

You can feel it with the fan base. I know you can. Except for Darling. She don't care because she's all she's going to the game to get on television. She don't care about the result. Even the diehards that are spending the money and going and cheering and putting the uniform on and going to the bars

and hanging out. Y'all are like, there is a lot of components of this team. It's very special. But I'm scared that CJ is going to run into some trouble. And again, as Ross said, you can run that within every NFL team. Bahams is one hit away from ending Kansas City's dreams. Lamar Jackson is one hit away from being destroyed by the Baltimore Ravens dreams.

So that's not out of the ordinary for any NFL team to say you're going to go as far as your starting quarterback is. But those teams also have better offensive lines than you have. Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly right. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 Patrick Westew on the Matt Thomas show with Ross Patrick Thank you for holding good afternoon Hey Matt and Ross how are you doing? Good

calling because I was listening to Joe get on you about Oh, they're six and two everything rainbows and butterflies But I'm with you on this one There's a lot of stuff wrong and as we know The bottom half of the schedule is overloaded We're about to play much better competition, and running out this offensive line every single Sunday is going to be a huge concern. And at this point, I mean, I'm not a coach.

I'm not a general manager. I'll never tend to be one. But I don't know what you do to fix the offensive line like that in the middle of the season. And so there is a little bit of pessimism, I agree. I think there needs to be some of those discussions because it's not all rainbows and butterflies. Thanks, guys. I enjoy the show. I'll listen.

Thank you, Patrick. And it's not even really pessimism. Rossi, to me, it's just extreme concern. Pessimism is you guys won six out of a, and like a basketball team, a college basketball team, or a football team. It's out to a six and two start. And you play nothing but like, you know,

U.L. Monroe or you played Kent State in football, and you're bragging out about a six and two record. The NFL is, generally speaking, fairly even week after week. And the Texans do have some quality wins. You beat the Colts twice, as you mentioned, a 500 team or above coming into those games. you beat Buffalo at home. I mean, there are some impressive wins in this group.

But this has never been this season for me, and I know for the majority of people that consider themselves Texans fans, it's never been about just doing what they did last year. It was about being better, and how do you get to the next level? And the next level is making sure every one of your positions is as good as humanly possible. And right now I think Nick Aserio and D'Amico Ryans are in a room, door closed going, how are we going to withstand this?

If Kenyon Green, our first round pick is a mess, our offensive line and juice scrugs and Laramie Tunsell are all not performing up to expectations, and I got a quarterback who's feeling it. You can sense the body language on Cedrishtra. Unless I'm making that up. Do you think there, I think there's frustration from him? I mean, I guess, yeah, I'm sure he's frustrated.

I don't know. There are moments where you feel like you've seen visible frustration that he's upset? Yeah, two weeks ago, he threw the helmet. Yeah. When, I remember him, was that after he threw a bad pick or what happened there? Well, I think it was after an interception he threw or what was the situation? I don't remember when it was, but it was definitely a time where this, not, now this week I didn't see that because, but last week there was a time where he threw it with his helmet down.

Yeah, I remember. Yeah, I remember. He's not at himself. Yeah, I mean, he could be just as mad at as himself as he could be anything else. Yeah, the bottom line is they are going to have. have if they're facing, like for example, you're playing the Jets this week and Quinn and Quinn and Williams had a field day with the Texans in the interior of their line last year. And I expect, unless something changes in the next couple of days for him to be somebody that's

going to be a problem for the Houston Texans. And then we were talking about the, the Kansas City Chiefs and of course how they're the favorites. If you get Steve Spagnolo and the Texans who have struggled with fronts who move a lot of moving parts and late movement and late pressure and show and try to confuse and disguise, which Steve Spagnol and the chiefs do. And oh, by the way, you've got Chris Jones in the middle. I think that is going to be a huge problem. So, yeah, we were talking about them and them making that next level.

They are going to run into some issues with teams who have either a good pass rushes or definitely to me in the good opposing interior defenses give the Texans problems. We saw that with the Forrest Buckner and the Colts this past weekend. 713-212-5-790 we're going to check in with D'emico Ryan's coming up in a couple of minutes as he will be speaking over at NRG Stadium we'll go see his thoughts on the offensive line we'll also probably my guess is not getting a big update on staphon dig scheduled of an MRI today but it looked like to me that was not going to be a situation that I think we're going to be getting any good news on but hopefully for you Texans fans that is not the case but we'll get an update hopefully from him on something on Stefan in just a matter moment This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 101 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross here from San Antonio. We've got the conference coming up with Domeko Ryan's.

It's just a matter of moments. We'll have to tell the truth at the bottom of the hour. Ross, I'm going to help you out here. I'm only going to give you one take I don't believe. Three I believe, one I will not. Oh, interesting. So we're finding out the one you don't believe. Yep.

Okay. Real quick. let me know if Damiko speaks. I was driving, I made a day trip back to Houston to call the University of Houston basketball game against A&M. And by the way, our Cougars look amazing. So does A&M for that matter. So I went to, I was in Sigeen.

I went to Rick Ronels. Oh, we'll tell you this story a little bit. Right now, here's Domeco. For Diggs, Steele, Evaluate him, see where he is. Is there anything good about, or any advantage about playing on Thursday. I've never really heard coaches and players speak glowingly about it. Is there any advantage or positive to it?

The positive with playing on Thursday is a short week, so you get to flush whatever happened, you flush it out even quicker than the previous week. And then I think the best part about Thursday is getting the extended weekend off. So that'll be, you know, everybody is looking forward to a little off time. So that'll be the best part about it. What was some of the things that you all can fix on the office inside of the second hand?

For our offense, I thought, you know, overall, and we ran the ball well. Joe at over 100 yards rushing. He continues to show us up, show up big time for us in the run game, the way our guys blocked up front in the run game and the way they, you know, not only the front, but our tight ends, our receivers, everybody involved. Guys did a really good job of working to stay attached and finish there. In our passing game, we had a lot of really good reps in the passing game. CJ was able to make a lot of plays and go through his progression.

I mean, go in full field re, so he's only able to do that with good protection. So we had a lot of great reps from all of our guys. If you're without kicks for any time, how important will it be for Dell to continue to improve and do things for your team? What I love about our game last week is, you know, what you saw is multiple guys. stepping up and making plays. That's what excites me the most about our team. It's different guys, whether it's Hutch, Mitch, Dalton, everybody. Rob is just a lot of different guys stepping up and making plays,

and that's what we'll continue to see. What goes into the decision to reinsert Kenyon when Jarrett gets hurt, and what part of the evaluation of that decision was Kendrick agreed? Yeah, Jared did a really nice job when he went in and had some good plays. Unfortunately, he was out. Then Kenyon was back in. There was no overthinking that. Kenyon got a lot of reps throughout the week,

and he was the guy to go in, and he has a lot of good reps as well. A lot of people want to, you know, focus on the bad. Everybody has bad reps here and there, and we can all focus on that, or we can look at the positive, and think he has some really good plays as well. So did you feel like you all made tries in the past protection?

Or what do you stand on that? When CJ is able to throw for as much as he threw for and make the plays he's able to make, of course, guys did a good job in the passing game. And look, everybody wants to talk about the pass blocking and all this time. Our guys did a good job, you know. And overall, we've had a lot of good reps in the passing game. So let's talk about those good reps that we've had. Is Jared in the concussion protocol? Jared is in the concussion protocol.

What are some of the challenges that the jets present? Well, one thing about the just is they have playmakers all across the field, right? A lot of playmakers, a lot of veteran guys who have been successful in his lead for a while. So you look at their offense, the receiver position with Wilson, with Adams. Like they, it's a tough match for us, right? So we have to be on our guys. You got to play sticky and coverage versus guys. And also the running back position, they got two backs, young back and Allen, and also Breeze Hall.

explosive players, explosive physical backs that can make plays all across in their defenses. You know, they've been a top 10 defense for a while, so it's a tough matchup, and one we're really excited about,

looking forward to. You have a sideline. We have a great view. Danil and we're going on the field together. What do you see from them just, you know, them two being so destructive? What I see from both of those guys just, man, wrecking havoc.

They can have constant pressure on whoever we play. It doesn't matter they're able to generate pressure. It doesn't always results in sacks, but it results in incomplete passes. It results in inaccurate passes that our DBs are able to force PBIs and make interceptions on the ball because of how those guys are rushing, how they're speeding the quarterback up. To have a great defense, you have to have a really good front. And our guys have gotten better each week, and I'm very pleased with where they are.

It's been the reason of why we're playing really good defense. A couple of players yesterday to get today defensive players credited the coaching staff for some creativity and basically the play you called on the Hail Mary. You kind of have a philosophy of whatever you can do to prevent the past even being made. Yeah, my philosophy is put our players in position so they can go make plays. It's not about me. It's about those guys. And there in that last play is about Will, DeNeil, and their effort.

and how they, you know, got after the quarterback to force them to not even be able to throw the football. Like, it's about those guys and, you know, just who they are. And not only as players, but as people, like, they represent all the right things. They're all about the right stuff, the effort, right, the strain, the relentlessness that they show each and every snap. Like, that's why they make a lot of plays for us. What strategies are you seen from Jalen Petrie as far as coverage? Jayland has continued to do really good things for us and coverage. He's been locked in the past couple weeks, really on the details and fundamentals of his job

and what we're asking him to do. And it's no play better than the play that he made for the interception there before the end of half. He's just in his technique, eyes in the right spot, playing the right technique, and big plays happen when you just lock in on the small details. And that's what the small detail. I know we mentioned it a lot and talk about it a lot. but that's what it looks like. Maybe boring to some people, but to me, that's how you make the plays.

It's not the wild plays. It's just being consistent in who you are consistent in your play, and you make the big plays when that happens. That's what I was. Gayland is Aaron Rogers called next year in your 49ers days. What have you seen from him since he's been in a Jets jersey versus maybe years past? I haven't spent much time going back thinking about, you know, the 49 of days with Aaron Rogers will get into more of that, you know,

have to see where they are right now as offense and what he's been doing with the jays. How do you guys go about all along with the young talented player like Kenyon Green, which you guys pulled him, put him back in the game. What's kind of the process of when you're coaching him, not beating him down too much to where he can compete with his confidence and he moves to confidence, just completely lose his player, but coach him in a way to where he can still have that confidence to eventually get at that. What's kind of that balance where now we're not overcoaching him versus trying to get

on track to play to the capable ability that he does have to. For all of our players, and it comes to coaching, it's all about just being positive and uplifting guys and trying to help them as best we can with techniques, fundamentals, try to help our guys to go out and play their best, and it's always encouragement from everyone, right? But as we all know, we're all still in the business, we have to get our job done.

And no matter what position you play, no matter, you know, what's your role, like you have to go out and get your job done and you have to play to the best of your ability. So we'll keep encouraging, we'll keep uplifting our guys, everything about here and what we do is about positive energy. And that's what that's who I am, that's what I represent, and that won't change.

Why do you best match up? The one where you decided to receive the ball to start the game versus defer, which you typically do? Yeah, for this one, it's just a decision I made to get us started, right? And I want to feel like our offense, you know, I wanted those guys to go out. I want to C.J. to touch the ball first and get us started, move down the field and get us some points. And, you know, Damien started us off right with an explosive kick return. That was one of our keys to victory of getting an explosive in a return game.

So Damien starting the game off that way in our offense, being in control, being able to drive down and get points. That was what I envisioned on when I took in football. Talk about those positive things with pressure and protection. CJ didn't have his best game against the Packers, but then improved against a lot of, you know, a lot of pressure yesterday. Just where did you see him improve when he was facing a lot of pressure? I thought CJ did a really good job, was just having command in the pocket, having command of the entire offense. Like when, again, you know, we talk about the pressure. Those guys make plays, too, some good designs by their defense.

Coach Bradley did a good job of some designers and some rushes. that were effective. But we also did a good job of handling it. CJ did an awesome job of commanding, the pocket stepping up in the pocket, two hands on the ball, going through all of his progressions, taking a checkdown when the checkdown was there,

hitting his hot answers. When his hot answers were there, he was just in complete control the entire game. And, you know, he didn't get flustered at all. He led in a positive way. He had great spirits, upbeat the entire game. And when CJ is playing that way, our team is in a really good spot.

Thanks, guys. Thank you guys. Very much, Domingo Ryan's visiting. Again, no surprise there that no definitive word on us, Stefan Diggs and his MRI. We come back. We have to tell the truth at the bottom of the hour. We have you guys next. If you want to come in and jump in on the conversation about anything that D'Amico had to say, 713-213-2-790.

7-1-2-790. Other things to get to. Texas with their impressive win at Vanderbilt. Aggies super impressive. You beat a ranked team on the road, Matt. Let's go. That's true. Aggies were really good against LSU on Saturday.

Mike Cougars pulling off as a nice surprise win against Utah on Saturday night as well. You called that, I believe. I did. I mean, you called them to win every week. Yeah, you called to win every week, but you know what? I'm still going to give you credit. You know what? They call me.

they call me, what do they, Cougar's optimistic Mad. Yeah, we'd like to show you to show that on the Texans. Come on, Matt. All right, I will. I'll be fully optimistic. Everything they do is right between now. Did you hear Domingo talking to you? He said, why don't we focus on the good reps? It's like, did he head

and Kenyon Green have any good reps? I don't know. Yeah, I was going to say, why don't you point those on on film for us there? Coach, we'd love to see those. Matt Thomas returns. On Sports Talk 790. That's not right now. we'll do it to tell the truth

at the bottom of the hour It's a good song It's a catchy tune Yeah it is You can still play it It's fine We just won't do it to the bottom of the hour Yeah people look at me weird

When I'm in the hallways going It's a lie Lie lie and I'm telling a lie What? Excuse me? No, they're just They're looking at you For many other odd reasons

Besides that Oh, okay And my stunning good looks Is that what it is? I don't think I'd put the word Stunning in front of it Awkward looks disturbing those are better adjectives

anything to get noticed Matt that's what I'm all on board for by the way Matthew our good friends at pro football focus have released the grades of from this past week okay go ahead there are 77 guards they have qualified for enough snaps to rate do you want to guess where our good friend

Kenyon Green rates out of 77 you know what it seems to be the easy answer would be 77 so I'm going to say 76th. 77 is correct, Matt. You should have stuck with your guts. Oh, man. I know. So, I don't want to see this either. Go ahead. What I took out of Domeko was that he's like, we threw for 285, bro. What do you want? That's, you know what? That's actually the testament to how great C.J. Stroud is. They were getting pressure. You're getting a 70-something per set pressure rate and your QB throws for 285, a touchdown and no picks. That dude is a, a one. That dude is a

wizard and C.J. Stroud is a wizard. Yeah, I'm going to tell you this. We spent how many months signing between Bryce Young and C.J. Stroud. Did you and I even come to a conclusion? I mean, Bryce Strung was the consensus number one. The tag Nick Casario and the Texans tried to trade up and get Bryce Young number one.

The Panthers did trade up and take him number one. Everybody was on team Bryce Young, who was bad for the Panthers this weekend. Yeah, Panthers is just bad. But my point is this. everybody, I wonder if there was somebody out there that can claim they knew how good CJ was going to be. And had the receipts. Because the knock on CJ was the big numbers were coming against the will be gone back half of the Big Ten. He did have the one good national semifinal game.

Against Georgia. That's what everybody said. If he can play like he did against Georgia, he's the best quarterback in the draft. And well, I guess he can play like he did against Georgia. I am not pleasantly surprised because thankfully that's the guy that we get to watch every week. But I'm even a little beyond impressed what I thought he was going to be. Now again, this year he hasn't been as good as he was last year, but the drop is so minuscule.

I don't know if I would say noticeable, but it is a little bit. And again, to me, Ross, and again, you know, me being the offensive line. expert that I am. It feels like if we watched his feet, we would see more than the inaccuracy than just overthrowing guys or not having the proper touch. I think the pressures and the hurries are

affecting his legs and his placement and setting his feet and getting off the throw that he wants to go. Yeah, I would say the majority, I mean, if he's in a clean pocket, which unfortunately has been rarer this year than maybe it was last year, he's totally fine. His mechanics and footwork are like tapeworthy as in you show this tape to all the young kids around the NFL.

He's very good with his feed and scanning the field and throwing the ball and putting the proper touch. And ball placement always has been really his hallmark. And maybe it has taken a tick, been a tick down this year, I would say. But he's still special and he's still a quarterback. And we talked about this actually pre-season about sometimes quarterbacks hit the ground. running and then you don't know where their ceiling was and how much more ceiling does C.J. Stroud have relative to how good he was in his first year, that remains to be seen. Well, I'll put it this way. If C.J. stays like this for the next eight years,

I don't think anybody that would be a Texan fan would be disappointed. No. Like, where would be the ultimate room to grow? Yeah, I would say. Not as an individual, not as a Tleem, but as a. an individual. Is there something that you watch when you watch him play that goes, man, I need CJ to be better at that? For the most part, no, unless you're just quibbling with the bad ball placement here and there, but that's every quarterback.

Nobody completes 100% of their passes. He did miss digs on a wide open throw at one point list past week, but he doesn't normally miss throws at all. He has such a good command of the offense and knowing what the defense is doing to know who is going to be open. That's something that he's really, really good at. He just doesn't get it right 100% of the time, but no quarterback does. Yeah, I just, again, a slight tinge down overall accuracy ball placement from a year ago, but I wouldn't say it's so much that it's, how you would say, overly noticeable. And I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that he's just not able to have the kind of protection that he had a year.

go. Yeah, just raw numbers from last year. TD percentage is slightly down. Interception percentage is slightly up. Yards per attempt, slightly down. So in those three things, he is worse than he was last year, although the completion percentage is up. Yeah, but you've said on the three of the four things you just mentioned, that you used the term slightly so. Again, if it was dramatic or massive, I think it would be a greater cause of concern. All right. Rossi, we're going to put you and Trey on the test here. I have four sports takes coming up and to tell the truth. Three of the four, I believe.

One, I do not. Okay. So let me get to figure that out. We're doing a little reversal this week. Okay, good. Last week you said, I said you were crazy for saying Dodgers in five and so far you're looking pretty good. Yeah. By the way, was that Freddie Freeman blast one for the ages? It was. And it made Brian Cashman cry and I'm happy. Yeah, I've never Just we were on the plane going to Houston when that happened or to San Antonio

And I don't think I've ever openly rooted for anything other than the Astros or the rockets of my entire life on a plane or a cougars But I openly was cheering when Freddie Freeman hit that grand slam Go Dodgers Aaron Judge by the way For the Dodgers I'm dumb man, this is great I love watching him strike out Did you see the fake Twitter report out there today, by the way, on him?

No, I did not. What was it? I don't want to even want to say it because it was a meme. Yeah. Right. Yeah. It's, there's no foundation to it, but if you want to go look during the break, you can know exactly what I'm talking about.

There's a faux report about Aaron Judge. I believe it is out there. All right. The Tell the Truth is up next. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. More Matt Thomas Now

On Sports Talk 790 And I normally do Now I'll lie to you right to your face It's like it's zero issues with that And remember the average person doesn't mind when you lie Because if you tell the truth every single time Ross in life It's going to hurt a lot of people's feelings What does that even mean?

You know You've lied again the average person lies four times per day I think I'm on under I think I'm under you said average So that means people are under the average average. Yes. So I'm going under.

Like when you say, when you see somebody in the halls, you go, how are you? You don't particularly care how they are. That's not a lie, though. Yeah, it is. You're not in your mind. You don't think, how are you? You don't really care what salesperson A, B, or C is the day is going unless you really do. I don't say, I really care how your day is going.

So tell me how it's going. That's a lie. Now you say, you say, how are you? You don't care what they? You can say, hello, that's polite. What if you just say, what up with it? I don't think you say what up with it. Yeah, that's what you always say to the bosses.

Oh, I see. Okay. All right, Ross, I got four sports takes. You and Trey have to decide which one of the four I do not believe. The rest of the three, I do believe. Let me write down these bad takes. I'm telling the truth. The Chicago Washington game was very interesting yesterday. And, man, the Chicago Bears are a different football team

than what we saw earlier in the year when the Texans beat them in Houston. Caleb Williams. Is that Caleb Williams, right? I give these mixed. Yes, Caleb Williams. Yeah. Number one versus number two. It was good yesterday.

Hail Mary, great. There was one great call on Jim Nance's call was great. The radio calls were terrible. They were all screaming and yelling. And I know that's hard because I'd probably do the same thing. But if one person screams, it's okay. When you have multiple people in the booth that scream, it's not good. because you have no idea what happened.

But after seeing that yesterday, Rossi, all four of the NFC North teams are going to make the playoffs this year. Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota, and the Chicago Bears. And I don't believe it's ever, has that ever happened in NFL playoff? I believe it did.

Sometime within the last 10 years, I'm trying to remember. And it's a little easier now because you have six, you have the three. wild cards. Okay. We'll look at it later, but my point is, ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you all four of the NFC

North teams are making the playoffs. Number two, Jerry Jones does not have a history of doing this Sports RV and Trey, but he's going to fire Mark McCarthy before the end of the season. It's going to get so bad in Dallas

that he's going to feel the pressure of letting him go with two or three weeks left to go in the season. When he eventually fired Jason Gary, you let them finish out the year. Okay. So I'm going to go with Jerry Jones is going to fire Mike McCarthy

before the end of the season. They lost yesterday to the Niners, gave them 21, I think, third quarter points in that game. Now the Cowboys put together some late run, but it was too little too late. Number three, Ross, mark this down.

Okay. The winner of the Aggies Horn's game is no doubt playing in the SEC championship game. That's how big that game is going to be. One of those two teams is playing in the SEC championship game, and it's going to be

the winner of the Aggies and the Horns. Okay. And number four, sad to say that yesterday was the last time we saw Stefan Diggs in a Houston Texan uniform. It won't be, however, because he hates it here. I think he likes it here.

but my feeling is it was always going to be a one and done because Casario renegotiated the contract for one season. It was kind of an all-in. Let's get to take a chance on this guy who has been disgruntled, not one place but two places. Maybe he gets into our culture, and he likes the team and they like him,

which has been the case. But I don't think Yasserio is going to take a guy and give a guy a long-term extension coming off of what should maybe be a severe injury for a guy that he already could have had under contract for multiple years but decided to only go for one when he traded for him from Buffalo. So yesterday, sad to say, for all of you are Stefan Diggs fans, that's probably the last time you saw him playing for the Houston Texans.

So which one of the four takes do I not believe? All four of the NFC teams, NFC North teams are making the playoffs. Jerry Jones will fire Mike McCarthy before the end of the season. the winner of the Aggies Horns game is no doubt playing in the championship game in the SECONDICS, or yesterday was the last time we saw Stefan Diggs play for the Texans. Which one of those four am I not telling the truth? Your thoughts, Trey? I think it's actually kind of a tough list.

I said this is a pretty good one. At first I thought it was flipped the other way. I thought it was only one that he did believe, and I thought that was a lot of tougher. That's how we used to do it. That was be a lot tougher. not how we used to do it. Sometimes it's that way. Sometimes Matt wants to flip it around for whatever reason. He only believes one of these takes.

No, no, no, no. I only not believe. I'm sorry, only not believe one of these texts. Well, I have a favorite. I do think, first of all, Matt hates Stefan Diggs and the Texans. So I do believe that he believes number four. You're the worst. That was my thought process. You are so terrible.

Number three seems extremely logical. number two seems extremely logical and if Matt Matt could believe number one now this is the thing Tray you have to remember it's not whether or not this is going to happen it's whether or not

it's a take he believes there's just no way everybody from the NFC North can make the playoffs because that would mean there's no other wild card team from anywhere else and that would mean the Green Bay Packers

the Vikings would miss the playoffs no no no no those are an NFC North team I'm sorry, not the Packers of the Vikings. Excuse me. I'm sorry, the Eagles, the Eagles, the commanders, the Buccaneers, the Niners, the Seahawks, Cardinals. There's just no way. Well, hold on, hold on, because upon further inspection now, I could, like, those don't jump out to me as like.

Okay, well, if that's his take, it's a bad take, I'm going with, I'm going with number one. I think, honestly, this, and this might be kind of. my fight on it is because I don't know if I believe it, but I think it might be number two. Jerry Jones firing McCarthy before the season's over. Okay. All right, here we go.

Ross, you say, I don't think all four the NFC nor teams are making it, and you don't think that I think, Trey, that Jerry Jones is going to fire Mike McCarthy. Correct. All right, here we go. I do believe that Stefan Diggs is the last time we saw him in a Texas uniform yesterday.

And again, I do believe, I think Casario went all in for this season. Why would you take a guy that had a manageable contract and cut his contract the way that you did unless you were going all in for this once? Yeah, he's going to be out sad. Yeah. Number two, even though Tennessee is playing good football, I think Georgia's going to represent the SEC in the championship game.

And again, when you have so many teams in one conference, it's going to be very hard to declare that one game could make a difference. But the AGI's schedule, the rest of the way, at least conference-wise, is not very difficult. They have to go to South Carolina. They have to go to Auburn. They can win both of those games. I think Texas is better than LSU. I will take the winner of that Texas Horn's A&M game and Texas game to represent the SEC.

So I believe that as well. Now, the last two. I think Detroit's a legitimate Super Bowl contender. I think Minnesota is a legitimate Playoff team I think Green Bay is going to be a playoff team even though Jordan Love got hurt yesterday I think Chicago is going to fall

Back a little bit so you are right Ross I do not believe that all four The NFC North teams are going to make the playoffs Because I think Philadelphia is going to make that wildcard spot I think the NFC West is only going to have one playoff team Because the number one team in the division right now is Arizona at 4 and 4 So, yeah, I like the fact that you're going to get Philadelphia and probably three of the four teams in the NFC North,

but I think the Chicago Bears will be the odd team out. So I do believe Jerry Jones is going to eventually fire because if things do continue to go south with the Cowboys and they continue to lose more football games, you've got to show some signs of assemblance that you actually give a damn bunch of football team, and you're going to have to relieve Mike McCarthy before the end of the year. Well, do you know? Like, do you have to show that? Because I feel like that's all Jerry Jones does is show that he cares. And maybe, and I feel like that's the main part of his criticism a lot of the times is you show it too much.

Like show it from the owner's box, but not on the mic, not on the field. Yeah, but he's a general manager. So he's not just an owner. He's that, I mean, think about what they've got coming up. He's not going to blame his picks and his signings. Yeah. They're at Atlanta this week. Who do you like Dallas, Atlanta right this second if you were to judge it.

In Atlanta, I'll go with Atlanta. Okay. Even in Jerry's world, that still might take Atlanta. You got Philadelphia at Dallas. Toss up, I'll go Philly. Texans at Cowboys. Texans will be a favor. So you're looking at one and two at that point,

which would then put them at what? Four and six. Yeah. He might fire him in the next three weeks. Yeah, so that's what I'm saying. I think you have to kind of keep that as an option out there. But again, not a, not, Niggies didn't know a lot. Remember, Jason Garrett was supposed to be fired multiple different times and never did so until the very, very end.

So, Ross, congratulations. What do I win? Figure out which one I was telling the truth. Thank you, Matt. What do I get now? What do I win? What's my parting gift? I'm going to buy you a quarter pounder with cheese.

Oh, so far Texas has been okay, right? Well, real quick, and I got five seconds of this. I was in Sikine yesterday going to Rick Ronald's, and I was going to get a burger, and the, You know, they have like an automated little electronic menu board. Yes. All the quarter pounder with cheeses were scratched off the list. Oh, my God. Yeah.

And said, well, just stay away from the restaurant for a while, Matt. You can't help. You can't. And it said, hopefully coming back soon. Oh, my God. That was really weird. That's. But then I turned the news on today, and apparently the quarter pounders were back in play.

So I'm going to stay away for a little bit. I think I can manage. I can go with the other 7,000 options for dinner. So why do the little patties and the burger are okay, but the quarter-pounder burgers are not good? That's a question for Ronald. I don't know. All right. 145.

It's Matt Thomas. Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not? I don't know. You tell me. Sigeen, Texas? I guess we could. How about how many times the Cougars will win lose a game this year in basketball? I'll say zero.

Believe it. Go over. Okay, let's make a bet. No, we're not making bets. Why does everything a bet to you, my man? What do you mean? You just said zero and I said over. ride half the workday is done celebrate with matt

hey matt love your show what was you talking about and by the sound of it some of you started the party at breakfast Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790 And I'm with Ross at 151 So we carried the Press availability with Domeko Ryan's a few minutes ago And he was talking about you know the positives are that

CJ threw for 285 Ross, again, if we were to inject truth serum into D'Amico, does he as a coach legitimately believe that maybe this offensive line criticism is maybe a little unwarranted or is he trying to

mask up something that is an issue that he doesn't want the general public to see that he's sweating about a little bit right now? I think it would be more towards the latter. All right, Matt, let's roll play as you love to do. I will be honest D'Amico and you

can be a reporter. D'Amico, the last few weeks in particular, your team has had a difficult time protecting your quarterback. His hurries are a lot more abundant. He's getting hit on a lot more plays. He's taking more sacks. Are you concerned that against even better defensive fronts than what you saw against the Colts yesterday, that CJ is going to be in trouble and it's going to stop you guys from

really moving the ball down the field? Have you seen Kenyon Green? out there? He's getting steamrolled like a tortilla. We have to keep putting him out there because Nick Casario took him in the first round. Yeah, I'm worried about our past protection. Yeah, I'm worried about number seven. If we lose him, I'm going to lose my job. Wow, I didn't

realize you're going to be that honest. Thanks, Thanks, DeMico. Yeah, that's a fine line. Do you think Nick is even going, damn, I screwed up? He's like, yeah, that's an hell. We got to give him more shot. Well, they tried to replace him with Jared Patterson.

They tried to do something. They tried to fix it. Kenyon Green, like I said, he was at least looking competent earlier on in the season, but back-to-back games, he has just been, I mean, one of the worst, like we said, pro-phopo-focus doesn't mean everything, but probably they have him 77 out of 77 doesn't mean he should be on the old pro team.

So he has not been good. They tried to fix and correct things with putting Jared Patterson in there, and then he goes down immediately with a concussion. That's some bad luck. and here's the thing. So he's in a concussion protocol, which means he's definitely going to be out for this Thursday's game. I mean, can you bounce back?

Can you fix this? Is this something going to be done in a handful of days? I mean, think about this. Who is Eric Murray? I mean, famous, you know, a guy that gets criticized all the time for his lackluster play. Rossi, his name was called 10 times all for the good reasons yesterday in the game against the Colts. He was really, really good.

I mean, guys can bounce back. I'm just wondering if it's technique, if it's athleticism, if it's not knowing, if it's bad habits, that I don't know. I mean, physically there's no reason why he shouldn't be able to withstand the pressure. I mean, he's not like he's 37 years old on his last days. I don't know. I think he's just been getting undressed too easily by swim moves. I think maybe there has been some miscommunication where he's missed his men,

and you can maybe chalk some of that up to coaching. But I think far too often, he just gets pushed around. He gets bullied. He's not strong enough. So what you just described, ladies and gentlemen, what Ross just described means it's not going to be fixed in time for Thursday's game. Now, granted, the Jets are so bad. I will also say this is like my untrained eye.

I am not, you know, I don't break down offensive line for NFL.com or anything like that. Oh, yeah, you do. It's just one person's opinion. So I could be wrong, but just from what I see, he's just getting bullied. Yeah, I mean, I would say 99.9% of us that watch a game don't sit there and study offensive line work. But when you see something back when he's letting his man into the backfield untouched over and over, I'm no coach, but that doesn't seem like it's a good idea. Yeah, the instant replays are cruel, aren't they?

I mean, they're the ones that say, oh, look that. Oh, wow, he was swung and missed on that. How did he get around that guy? Oh, rather easily he did. This is a pick that was questioned when it was made. This was a lot of draft people around the NFL and people. There was a reach. That why I don't see, not me, but people, these draft Nick saying they don't see first round ability from Kenyon Green and that there was a reach pick.

And that if you take a guard that high in the draft, what is it? What is it? 15 or 16 overall, whatever he was. That's right. You need a can't miss guard. You can miss on a tackle there. You cannot miss on a guard that high with that high a draft capital. All right.

Let's get to the final hour of the show. What do you guys think? I mean, your untrained eye against our untrained eye. Can CJ survive this? Is there enough good things from the quarterback's arm and his escapeability that makes you feel okay? Just Joe Mixing said the team's bacon, we just hand the ball to him 30 times and take your chances on that? it is a short week, so these new problems that have been recurring,

I don't think can be fixed in just basically a day and a half for practice. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. You Aggie fans, have we finally seen the changing of the guard at quarterback this week after what the Aggies in the second half yesterday? Texas fans, were you worried about Vanderbilt stealing their goalpost again, as that game was a lot close to people thought it was going to be? My Cougars taking care of Utah.

We have rockets and spurs tonight, so we've got a lot of different things to get to. We want to get you guys involved. And ladies, at 713, 212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Hi there. Yeah. I'm on my way. Thomas Show with Ross.

All right, this is the final hour. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I'm here in San Antonio, or tonight the Rockets will take on the Spurs. The Texans will be having practiced today. They'll practice a little bit tomorrow, and then Wednesday they go to New York. Ross, I got to be honest with you. I really, and it'll be interesting because the Texans will be on this week. But I'm not gravitating towards Thursday night football much.

I don't know if it's because it's on Amazon. I mean, I had the channel. but I don't get it's too soon too soon stupid for me to I know I think I sound stupid I'm saying I'm sorry I'm sorry I sound stupid but it is what's wrong with it what else are you doing on Thursday now I guess you got NBA on TNT now you can do both yeah but I you know sometimes you got to just get away from sports for 24 because I feel like Saturday and Sunday are so ingrained in college football and pregame shows and watching that and then you're just getting you You watch even, you'll watch a Boise State Hawaii game at 11.30 at night because you're coming back from going out and your friends or whatever. And you're watching that. And then Sunday you've got to get up and you're watching NFL from noon to 11. This sounds great. You got a game.

Yeah, no. I know. I just, I know. I sound stupid. Get your head in the game, Maddie. Come on, baby. Vikings Rams was good this past week. Before that, it was Bo Nix versus Spencell Ratla who wasn't that exactly a barn burner.

going to make the playoffs in the EFC. It's kind of looking that way. Let's see. Texans' Oh, Bingles, you're not getting up for Bengals Ravens on a Thursday night next week? That sounds good. Honestly, I don't think it's very fair. I mean, I thought when the NFL was going

to these Thursday night games, they would try to regionalize them a little bit so the team that had to travel doesn't have to, don't have to go very far. Minnesota, Houston, New York's solid three. Now granted, they're on a very nice playing and whatnot, but still getting up there. Minnesota had to go to L.A.

That's not right around the corner. Yeah. It shouldn't happen. It shouldn't be happening because, I mean, for player safety and all that, it's not a great idea, but they're going to put it not going to watch it, and that's why they do it. Honestly, and this may be super taboo,

I'd rather see games on Friday. Yeah, I don't know how... Well, I know how Texas would feel about it. Texas is exactly. Texas is going to feel about that. But how does New Hampshire feel about it? They're probably not doing too much.

I mean, this Wisconsin is going to be really upset if they had a Green Bay Packer Friday game on? Probably not. By the way, 6 and 2 Houston Texans versus the 2 and 6 New York Jets and the Jets are a one-point favorite. Yeah, and that's because I'm guessing the receiving core is down plus the travel. And let me ask you this. Can Vegas do a the Jets or do kind of point spread? I don't think they normally do that. God, they lost to the Patriots.

They lost the Patriots. Texans aren't great on the road, short week, long travel, injuries. It feels about right. Quinn and Williams, looking at Kenyon Green. Like a steak dinner. And let me tell you, Thomas Sports Enterprises has not had a great run as of late. What happened now? well I mean we'll love us it is what it is

oh he's been hurt he didn't Mason Rudolph start this weekend yeah he threw for a bunch of yards they lost about like six touchdowns and it was it John Ross the receiver for the bingles before that yes well I'm glad you're bringing all this up so I don't have to well but there was one that I'm still right about and we'll see him on Thursday

oh sauce gardener oh I thought you're going to say Dak Prescott. That was your other win. I don't know if that's the biggest win. It was how big of a win that's looking like right now. No, it was a nice win when he got that big cat, right? Yes, it was. Three and four now. Let's talk to David Spring at 206 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Dave, good afternoon. Hey, Matt, hey, Ross. I want to talk about Kenyon Green real briefly, but I got to set it up a little bit.

I listen to a lot of sports talk. In between noon and three, I'm always with you guys, but in the morning a lot of times I'm with some other guys and I'll use your method of kind of rhyming. It's a show called The Stench. And there's a guy on that show and he goes by the name of Vance Sirline. And Van Sirline was really,

really big on Kenyon Green. I remember you guys say it was a reach, but I remember when that draft pick happened because I was listening to Lance, or pardon me, Vance, talk about it afterwards. And he said, yeah, that's right, that's right where I had Kenyon Green slaughtered right in there.

I predicted the Texans would take them. I think it was an excellent pick. And I like Vance. I think he's pretty good at his job. And so I guess my point is he fooled a lot of people. You know, I mean, Kenyon Green, everyone thought he was going to be good. It's a shock that he's as bad as he is. And I just thought I'd throw that out there.

Yeah, thank you for the phone call, then. We appreciate listening noon to three. And I do know Vance very well. I've worked with Vance, so has Ross. And Vance is a good guy. Matter of fact, I saw Vance that Rockets came just yesterday. I think Vance liked Kenyon, but I, I don't know.

I still believe Rossi the consensus was from everybody. And again, everybody's going to have an opinion on this. But still the consensus around the NFL drafters, the people that consider themselves the experts, that he was still taken probably five to six spots higher than he would have been elsewhere. That he was more trending to be a late first round pick as compared to the middle of the road first round pick.

Well, I'm trying to find some searching here. He does say he, uh-oh, from April 28, 2022. from Schmanch Merlin. No, look, he's not going to get 100% of his picks, right? So I'm not trying to... No, nobody is. Ask kicking interior blocker who can move people around. Okay.

So there you go. Hoping he's the pick here, time to get tough up front and crank up the ground game. Well, it's being cranked. It's early. Give them some time. Yeah. Can I tell you one more thing? This is not related to the offensive line.

I still hate the kickoff rules. I'm, Ross, I'm trying. I like it actually. I've gotten used to it. I got used to it. What's wrong with it? Yeah, I can't. What do you want?

Everything from the kicking to a certain level to not anybody moving around. It feels pinball video game gimmicky. It doesn't feel like authentic football. They have to do something. They wanted the happy medium of the guys having running 40 yards down the field and crashing into each other and causing injuries and still allowing there to be a return game. So I think they're working with what they had to as far as trying to be concerned about player safety. And you can still get a big run every now on them.

I'm against the onside rules personally. Well, you know, you don't, you have to, when you onside, you have to tell them, which kind of ruins the bit, right? Yeah, but how many, okay, we can always point to the Saints and Colts Super Bowl, but that was like in 2009. So outside of that, how often does it happen? Did it even happen? does Andy redo it once in a while, too, or at least he did.

Didn't he do it in a playoff game one time? I don't know, maybe. You got to declare it. It can only be in the fourth quarter, and I think you have to be losing to do it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not a fan. Yeah, it's just, Rossi,

you just feel like we're adding a new layer of rules. I mean, if you think that kickoff returns are the reason why there's injuries are so prevalent in the NFL, I mean, are we seeing significant drop-up? off and penalties because of the new kickoff rule? I would say no. No, I don't know. You know what we're seeing injuries?

It's because the damn sports brutal. There's nothing. Hard turf, hard grass, big physical men destroying each other. That's how you get rid of the sport. You just put out guys,

you put a weight limit. You can't weigh any more than 148 pounds in play football. That's how you get rid of it. Like a heavy weight limit? Like in boxing or UFC? Yeah, if you have nothing but ban on the field, you'll be just fine. Yeah, there's no heavyweight limit in boxing, but in UFC, I think it's like 260 or 265 or something like that.

Yeah, we're going to be UFC fighter on Wednesday, as a matter of fact. We are? Yeah. Okay, great. There's a big event coming to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which I've never been to before. Houston guy's going to be in that, and we're going to talk to him on Wednesday. Let's talk to D-Man and Shiner at 211 on 7.90. Hi, D-Man.

Hi, hi, hi. Hey, you know, one thing about on the tourist in Europe, I lived a lot of time in Italy. And what they do is they had like these grow lights. And like right now, that stadium, those windows could be all open, sunlight. Those guys are just, they're greedy. They want to put that plastic stuff out there, that plastic grass, the asphalt, whatever you call. And that's just, that stuff is horrible. But the reason I'm calling is, did you guys see the Seattle, two Seattle, T-Eight,

teammates grab each other's face mask on Sunday. Yes, they were getting upset with each other on the sideline. I think was it a defender and a lineman? I can't remember. Yeah, a linebacker and a defensive man. I think it was the linebacker that just pushed, you know, after he threw the pass. Was it Buffalo, wasn't it? Yeah, Buffalo.

And threw his ass on the ground and they got a penalty, yada, yada, yada. But I'll be real quick. I know y'all pressed on time. I was playing rugby up in Boston. and like when you get, I mean, if you were thinking about how stupid it is, you grab each other's face, man, what are you going to do now? You're going to hit the side of his helmet? Great, that's stupid. But in like in hockey, they try to grab the back of their jerseys and pull it over their heads so you can start wailing.

In rugby, you grab the guy's collars. You got like three buttons, so it's easy to grab, and those things don't tear. And so we're like in these nationals, the Easterns. and this one dude and see you can't leave the field you can't leave the field because you've got 80 minutes and there's only two substitution so you got to stay out in the middle of field

so if you got to pee you just kneel down you speed this up D man okay yeah D man I I think you've been hit with a rugby ball too many times in your head or something get to the point please it was a fight

it was just amazing but anyway I was going to send it over to you but why would these guys do that So anyway, I'm sorry to bother. Bye. Bye, that's all right. You're okay to bother. Yeah, we've got to get to break and, you know, we didn't need the three buttons and just guys got in a fight.

Let's go. It was fine. I mean, D-Man, we love you. Again, I think you've been hit one. What is that called the weave? You're asking a wrong person. When I think of the weave, I think of 70s hairstiles. Huh.

Okay. All right. If you guys want to follow up whatever D-Man was talking about, let us know. 713, 2.1.5.790. Ross, famous rugby players of the 70s on today's edition of Believe it or not? I don't think so. But thank you, D-Man, for calling. We had to get to. We had to get to a break.

Yeah, we're fine. We'll let you call back anytime you want to. Just got to just kind of narrow the conversation down a little bit. This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. You know, sometimes you've got to be good and sometimes you've got to be lucky. That's what this show is. I'm good and Ross is lucky. 220 on Sports Talk 790. 713, 212-5-790.

Ross, can we talk about Jim Bob Cooter? Excuse me? Jim Bob Cooter. Okay, he played banjo for who? He was on the cast of E-Hihaw in the mid-70s? Or is he the offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts? I'm going to scope with the latter. What's your problem with Jim Bob Cooter?

he's an idiot what did he do how about the last 75 seconds of offense for the Colts in the second quarter he's trying to score some points Matt yeah he has an insanely inaccurate quarterback deep in his own territory throwing two passes in the final drive for them the first pass should have been intercepted the second one was and the Texans score a touchdown which Ultimately, was that

was the difference maker? Can you say that? Or is that a little too hindsighty there? Yeah, you could. They won by three. I was in the car listening to Texans radio when this was going on, and I was like,

they're going to give the ball the back to the Texans. Have the Texans caught some breaks with end-of-half mismanagement by variety of teams in the last year or so? It feels like the Texans have taken advantage of every opportunity that's been given to them. Well, the bills did. mismanage the last drive.

The Colts, of course, mismanaged the last drive of the second quarter and the last drive of the four quarter. Texans themselves mismanaged one of their last drives against the was the Packers? Yep. That's what I'm saying.

These NFL coaches think they're smarter than you are? They're not. Either that or we have tremendous hindsight that they don't have. Well, I thought in the moment of running for first in second on second down talking about the Texans against the Green Bay Packers

in the moment I was puzzled by that one. Well at least Bobby Sloak admitted late last week that he goofed. I mean, that's to say something because usually coaches will never tell you they've done anything wrong. But I'm listening in the car going, how in the world do they

get away with this? Oh, by the way, they don't get away with it? No. And I thought Anthony Richardson had the tools to like, you know what, put him in a pro style off offense, get him some good direction. He's freakishly athletic. Remember the big thing about him at Florida was,

heck of an athlete, big freaking arm, terrible accuracy issues. Guess what he is in the NFL? Yes. We're going to run, big arm, terribly inaccurate. Yeah, the hope was they could coach him into being a more accurate passer and better decision maker. And so far, that has not happened.

Because if you could, if he could be accurate and make good decisions, he would be completely unstoppable. Yeah, I mean, the problem is he also runs himself into some injuries too because he won't go out of bounds. He didn't go out of bounds in the fourth quarter there. I don't know why. Yeah, I'm just so unimpressed

with his development. But the only thing is, was I listening to Stan this morning? He's got like six touchdowns against the Texans or something altogether? I mean... He's had his biggest games against the Texans. The Texans, yeah. Why is that?

I mean, do we just, we just give, the Texans just give up on him? I don't know what it is. But every time I watch a Colts game not involved in the Texans, I'm like, man, there's a nice seven-yard pass. Oh, he threw it 12 yards. Or he threw it out of bounds. In the dirt, yeah. In the dirt. Or he, you know, or he has to tap himself out.

Rossi, we hadn't talked about that much. He tapped out of a series of plays yesterday. And then, you know what I tell you it sometimes is better to lie? Yes. he told the truth yesterday and guess what it did he's getting crushed for it he scrambled two plays in a row he needed you know hey hey if a running back runs for two plays in a row for 40 yards they take him out for a play why can't anthony richard get a play off how do you go back to the huddle and say what's up man hey we got a 15 drive ahead of us here

let's go hey i was tired they should have just handed off or i don't remember what exactly the situation was when as far as on the clock i couldn't throw past it because i i was getting ready for the game, my game, but I don't think he threw a pass during that time, did he? No. No. So I'm telling you, Ross. This division is gift wrap for the Texans for the foreseeable future. It really is.

Trevor Lawrence is playing better, but the Jaguars aren't a threat right now. Jaguars aren't a threat. The Titans need a complete overhaul. Oof. They're having a tough time getting financing for a new stadium. Imagine that. Really? Amy Cronk's drunk getting that.

Their head kicked in on that. That does make me happy. knowing that the Titans losing makes her sad makes me happy. Is that wrong? Just like Yankees fans watching Aaron Judge, their Lord and Savior, Aaron Judge, the greatest hitter on the planet, watching him just strikeout over it, over it, over it, over again, the playoffs. It really makes me happy.

But that's who he's been. As great as he is as an offensive player, his strikeout numbers are astronomically high. But, you know, granted, if you're a Yankee fan, you knew that going in. Because Reggie Jackson is one of the greatest hitters of all time, and Reggie Jackson struck out all the time. Yeah, I'm curious his numbers against, I mean, look, everybody suffers a good pitching, and especially in the playoffs. We saw that with Craig Bigeo and Jeff Bagwell here in Houston. But it just seems like such a stark difference when he faces good, the Astros have consistently in the playoffs,

gotten him to strike out a ton. And then, I mean, his whole career in the playoffs, it seems like his strikeout numbers have skyrocketed. now I did pick the Dodgers to win in five if it happens in five I'm going to be basically un intolerable to you intolerable okay I mean you tolerate me most days correct I was going to say okay now as much as I think the

the Dodgers are going to win the series I was kind of doing the Dodgers in five but just to say something well I hope it's Dodgers in four you can be wrong then we're all going to scream let's go Dodgers but Max Payne for the end Yankees would be losing in seven. So I don't know what to root. I guess it doesn't matter what I root for.

I'm going to be sitting on my couch. I can't affect the game. I'm not going to be throwing for anybody. So we'll see what happens. But whatever is, whatever's going to, as long as Yankees fans are crying by the end of this, I'll be happier.

Even though that means Dodgers fans will be happy. Yeah. What does, I mean, if the Dodgers have a rally, have a part celebration, and there's going to be massive violence in downtown Los Angeles, wouldn't you think? The violence.

Why? Because they're, they get into trouble. They like to cause crime. I think they'd be happy, Matt. Their team won the World Series rather than stabbing each other. The other cities that have won championships before and they cause damage and throw cards everywhere and stuff? I guess.

Yeah. The only city in America that can handle their business when we win championships is ours. Houston, Texas. That's why I love our city, so. Well, I wish they would test that theory a little more often than they have in the last 50 years. we've had four championships don't slight the dynamo now mattie oh the dimos start the playoffs

were the comets I never went to a you know what that's not sure I went to one comet's parade you did you know and you and six other people or what was it like that's not nice there were probably thousands there comments were actually big weren't by the end of that run I thought they had good attendance

what happened how do they fold I don't know I left town with that happened. Okay. Well, maybe that's what happened, Matt. You killed the comments. I filled in one time Maria Todd, who was a disc jockey at over at 104, was a B, was a, uh, uh, PA announcer for the team. And I filled in for her one game and it was like I was, I hurt their feelings. Where's Maria? Why are you doing the game? Really? Like, I go, I do the rockets. I don't care. Where's Maria? Sorry, Matt. Commer fans didn't like me. It happens. Yeah.

All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We take this program to 3 o'clock today. Ross, what is today's edition or believe it or not, which is coming up in just 20 minutes. I don't know. Jim Bob Cooter? Famous Cooters.

How about that? We're not doing famous cooters. At all. Hey, have we done any... Well, I don't want to say speaking of. No, I won't say. Please don't say. I wasn't going to say it.

Please stop. Let me give two seconds a pause. No, nothing on the air. 713, 212, 570. Come on and join us. The Matt Thomas Show of the Ross continues until 3 o'clock here on 790. More Matt Thomas. Now.

On Sports Talk 790. 233 on 790. Matt Ross with you. I'm here in San Antonio. Rockets are going to take on the San Antonio Spurs for the second time. Ross, Rockets got to not turn the ball over as much as they did and fall behind by 22 points in the first half because the second half was a different basketball game. That was nice to see them come back on an unfortunately fall short.

And funny, you mentioned turnover is that turnover from Jalen Green on the streaking Cam Whitmore to tie the game with what, like 40 seconds left. Yeah, threw the ball behind him. Through the ball a little behind him. Cam Whitmore couldn't wrangle it. They went on to lose the game. Jalen Green also missed a three at the end of the game. and you lost to the Spurs.

And now you're one and two. Bari had a couple looks, too. So, yeah, got to knock down a shoot a little bit. It was interesting. Alpi did not play much in that second half of that game. He did not. We've seen a friend of the show, IMA Udoca, go with the hot hand.

If there's a unit that brings the team back, he can stick with that unit. And he did that on Saturday. Emei Adoka will start joining us Wednesdays at 1 o'clock, starting this Wednesday. Oh, let's go. Yeah, so. Got that. Rockets will be playing tonight, and then we come home, hang out for a couple days, go up to Dallas and play the Mavericks on Thursday.

713, 212, 5790. 713, 212, 5 to 790. Let's go to Kelsey at 235 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Kelsey, thank you for holding. Good afternoon. Yes. With the beginning of the basketball season, it reminds me of a question I've had a long time. We have a baseball team that plays with a retractable roof that never opens it. And a football team that has a retractable roof and it's closed 99% of the time. And yet we have a basketball team. Was Toyota Center ever considered to have a retractable roof? Because what? Hello?

Because what? Because what? Well, because it would, there's a lot of ideal nights that it would, they could have it open. It'd be a beautiful time to play. And it would be a unique venue. you compared to any other basketball courts. I think it'd be a cool idea to have that.

It'd be like most kids play or most basketball games are played outside on pick up courts and things like that. I figured you would know if they even thought about it or not. It would be the reasons they wouldn't want to do it. You okay over there, man? I'm fine. I think he's making a lot of good points. I think you get you lay down some asphalt

in the Toyota Center Now hopefully you open the roof first So the fumes don't get in there And then you go with the and then you open up the roof of the Toyota Center And you get a blacktop game You get hockey and all over the place and outside Football's played outside Let's get some blacktop games going in the NBA

You got a field of dreams baseball They go to the field of dreams And do whatever stuff that they're doing they've played college basketball on an aircraft carrier didn't they? Right. I'm with it.

This guy's making a lot of good points. All right. How do I digest this whole conversation here? I am an arena geek, Ross, and sadly I have some information for you that's going to startle you. Okay.

There was once a city that had a major downtown sports arena with the retractable roof. Okay. And I'm not kidding you about this. I'm telling you the God's honest truth. Okay, who was it? I'm going to give you a chance to guess.

You get five guesses. This is the NBA? No. The only hit you get will be it's a major city. Okay. That has sports teams, but does not have an NBA franchise. Okay. Okay.

And after you name a city, then I'll tell you which direction you need. to go from there at that point. Toronto. I would go south and probably a scosh west, but not much. Chicago. I would go due east.

Cincinnati? Just to say it. I've got to get out a map of views in the United States. Pittsburgh. Okay. Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh. Had an arena called the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. Okay. And it had a roof.

And I'm not making this up. God knows the history. This show we had today was really good until we had a couple of screeching halt things happened in the last hour, which is fine. It is what it is. But the nickname of the Pittsburgh Civic Arena was the igloo. The igloo. The igloo. I like that. Because you could open the top and close it. See what I did there? Okay. Do igloos have retractable roofs? Yes. The igloo is a of a retractable roof. Oh, is it? What do you do to an igloo?

I've never been in an igloo. I don't know. No, I'm talking about the damn things you put cold beers in. Oh, like the igloos. I thought it was someone like actual igloos that like Inuit peoples live in. No. I didn't know you were talking about a cooler. At Market with the hot girls on San Felipe in 610.

Okay. I almost thought we're going to want a Marconi today, but that's not going to happen. I think we'll have to go ahead, yeah, pass on this one. We might not send this tape in. We're not going to send the 2 o'clock hour in for sure. That's in the case. Oh, it's also known as the house that Lemieux built. Yeah.

You know what? Believe it or not, Pittsburgh Civic Arena? No, can't do that. Mike and Cyprus at 241. Mike, how the hell are you? Man, I am. I was fantastic up until that jack wagon that just called. And I just, I'm sorry.

Early candidate, cannot wait until Wednesday. Shut your bum ass. up about retractable roof basketball stadiums. I mean, we would rather have retractable roof anything. But in basketball, let's do this under all the elements in Houston, Texas. Yeah, great going guy. Whatever his name was, I did not catch it. But just shut your bum ass up early in the week.

Sorry, got to do it. All right. Thank you, Mike. Appreciate the phone call. You know what, Ross, I'm going to be honest with you. People have questions about a lot of things, and I feel like this is the place you can ask them. Yes, you can ask MT. You can always ask MT.

But you may not get the answers you want, but I want you to feel like you can always at least ask. That's good. Someone to talk to. We appreciate you. By the way, Shane Steichen and his Monday press conference, that's a Coltick coach, just said moments ago, that whether or not Anthony Richardson starts this next week coming up, and they're playing, by the way, in Minnesota against the Vikings, quote, we're evaluating everything.

And, i.e. Jim Bob Cooter sucks and B. Richardson sucks too. Well, he didn't say that. Okay, he didn't say that. Anthony Rusk, say it with me. Anthony Richardson sucks. Anthony Richardson has a lot of room from improvement. You don't want to say sucks. No.

Okay. Tava Sports Enterprises would never be bullish on Anthony Richardson. That's all I can tell you. All right. Anthony and Deer Park wants to talk some Texans. We've got, believe it or not, after that, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Is there another arena in sports you'd like to see the roof open for? No, don't call about that.

7-13-212-5-7-90. Ross is here, and then we'll come back to you here on Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas Now On Sports Talk 790 247 Matt Thomas Show and Ross with you will have Rockets Launchpad tonight at 6 o'clock

hosted by Dan Matthews Okay So that we'll get a much better production Out of that tonight than we normally would That's true The Rockets pregame show And then I'll have the call at 7 o'clock

from the AT&T Center Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs. And then we're done going to San Antonio. It's kind of weird. Two games with San Antonio and then we're not coming back here at all. Until maybe the NBA Western Conference Finals, Ross. What do you think?

Sounds about right. I don't think either of those teams are going to be in that running. Come on now. What? Give everybody a chance. You never know. They've lost two to their first three. Let's get a win tonight and we can talk maybe.

There you go. 500, baby. Anthony and Deer Park on 790. Anthony, thank you for holding good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon, guys. So I want to start by saying that no matter which way we slice and dice this, the Texans are six and two. With that being said, I am of the belief that a, and I use the term mediocre here loosely, because I don't think there's a such thing as a mediocre professional athlete.

But I am of the belief that a mediocre NFL quarterback is going to have a better chance of success at success behind an elite offensive line. then an elite quarterback will have behind a mediocre offensive line. And yesterday we see CJ Stroud visibly frustrated, and this is the second week in a row that I can recall that he's visibly frustrated. And yet again, he completes almost 70% of his passes and throws a touchdown and doesn't turn the ball over. But I don't think that success can be sustained this way. This is CJ simply being elite and bailing your ass out every single play.

So I would like to hear y'all's thoughts, but I think that the very first concern at this trade deadline next week has to be the offensive line. Yeah, you know, that has been the theme of our show today. And Ross, we need to stop and smell the roses a little bit here. It is six and two. You couldn't ask really for any better of a first half start, except with, you know, the Minnesota game hurt. Green Bay was a toss-up. and the injuries are starting to pot up a little bit, especially in the receiving core. We obviously have the defensive starters out two weeks before that.

It all depends on what the endgame is, Ross. We talk about this at the beginning of the show. Is the end game just hoping to get to the playoffs and catching lightning in a bottle, or is it you want to be a dominant team that's going to legitimately challenge Kansas City and or Baltimore for the AFC championship? And you can say what you, we can say you're rooting for all that, but the reality is, is there a roadblock that's in the way of you, I think, dominating and trying to win this whole thing?

And I think right now that roadblock is, at some point, this offensive line, unless it gets dramatically better, is going to cost CJ either on interception, a tip throw, or, God forbid, an injury. Yeah, I mean, to answer your first question, of course, they are in that building. Now, we could talk about it outside that building, how we feel, but in that building, they're pushing for a Super Bowl. That's why they signed a new hunter. That's why they traded for Stefan Diggs.

That's why they made all the move. Joe Mixon is here as well. That's them going all in to try to push for a Super Bowl, especially while CJ Stroud is on a rookie deal. That's what they're trying to do. That's the goal. All right. Five minutes left to go on the show.

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completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. If statement's erroneous full of bone command up, you'll say this. Two believer not in a row on all things James Winston wins your prize. Trey, what are we playing for today? Today, plan for a pair of tickets to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra on the Lost Christmas Eve tour on December 26 at the Toyota Center. Tickets will be available for afternoon and evening shows this Friday at 10 a.m. on Toyota Center.com. Jeremiah on 7.90, ready to play, believe it or not?

Jeremiah is not ready to play. Let's go to... I was waiting for you to say something. Jeremiah, here we go. In 2013, James Winston was drafted by the Miami Marlins in the second round of the MLB draft. Believe it or not? Believe it.

Not. Matt on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? I believe it. James Winston wanted to play his college football for Texas, but Mac Brown and UT never responded to his coaches. Believe it or not? That's true. He loved Austin, Texas.

Who doesn't love Austin? Beautiful city, nice people, good food, good-looking ladies. Joe on 790. Joe, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, Matt. James Winston led the NFL in passing yards in 2019. Believe it or not? Believe it.

That's right. Statement number two for the win, James Winston has stated that before becoming an NFL player, his dream job was to become a podiatrist. believe it or not. Oh, Matt. Not? No, he loves feet. Oh.

I'm sorry. 713-212-5-7-90. Bill, you ready to go see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra? Matt, I didn't get my Eurobase tickets when I won earlier than week, and I still got my L-O, I mean, am I blackball? What's going on? I didn't get my ticket to go see. You only win once every 30 days. I know.

Bill. You know, 30 days apart. All right, whatever. James Winston is very superstitious about his headband. If the team begins losing, he'll switch headbands. Believe it or not. Come on, man, believe it. Number two for the win.

James Winston has always worn the jersey number five in the NFL in honor of his favorite quarterback growing up, and then, of course, is Donovan McNabb. Believe it or not. It's unbelievable, but believe it. It's not. Bye. Filippe on 790.

You're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. James Winston has stated that his favorite artist of all time is James Brown, and he dressed up the artist at a Halloween party with the Saints teammates. Believe it or not. He dressed up as? Believe it. No.

He would dress up as James Brown, Ross. I don't even know how you do that. You got an open shirt and a James Brown wig. You're good. And you get in the hot tub and go, ooh, hot. Sure, why not? All right. And that's it for today's edition, believe it or not.

Nobody won today. Up next, it's our buddies Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler. They will be hosting the A team. I'll talk to you tonight at 7 for Rockets and Spurs. It's right here on Sports Talk 790.