The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - LIVE From Toyota Center: Chiefs Eliminate Texans, Stroud Gets Sacked, Officiating Issues, Rockets Host Pistons

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the Houston Texans 23-14 in the Divisional Round of the NFL Playoffs. Multiple unnecessary roughness calls, missed and blocked kicks and quarterback C.J. Stroud getting sacked eight times lead to the Texans second straight divisional round loss. The Chiefs are heading to the AFC Championship game for the 7th straight season. Matt and Ross also:review the rest of the divisional round matchups and preview the conference championshipsbreak down the Rockets hosting the Pistonsdiscuss the winter storm coming to Houston and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 101 at H-Town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a MLK edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Coming to you live tonight. Live as compared to tape delay. Yes.

From the Toyota Center. You ever notice that? Why do people do that? You are looking live. Well, no, I'm looking three hours ago. No, we are here live. Well, you might. There's tape delays.

That's true. The Aussie open on tape delay this week. Oh, really sorry for the four of you that liked that. great morning to you. Tomorrow will not be a great morning. Today will be fine. Hopefully many of you are at the grocery stores stocking up because you're not going to leave your house after about, I don't know, 8 o'clock tonight.

People are stocking up at the H.EB by me. I'm sorry, the Rachree Rearie by me. A lot of the shelves were barren, particularly everybody's going to be okay on toilet paper. There's about one roll of toilet paper left in the whole place. I don't know why. The city of Houston, any of the... happens, it's a hurricane, it's snowstorm, let's get as much hands on, our hands on as much toilet paper as we possibly can. Well, maybe there's a high-fiber diet going to be happening in the next

couple days here. Yeah, yeah, it's true. They're out of fiber con too, actually. You're right. We are at the TOTA center because this is my home away from home, it feels like, although I've not been here much the last through week. Have they named a suite after you yet? They should. They should. I think the urinal is all they've done. They need the urinal after. We've got a daytime Rockets game, which is really bizarre, but it's going to happen at 1 o'clock, so you and I will take it till noon. You will then have the Pulitzer Prize winning edition of the Rockets launch pad at 12 o'clock, and then we'll have network coverage at 1230. Tip time will be at 1 o'clock, and then we're going to go home, get some food, and then

get close to the station because tomorrow, this show will go on. You and I will do a four-hour radio show. That's right. We will be here for you, folks, if you want to listen from home. Yeah, and then I'm going to go over to KTRIG and work for four hours after that. So, pro bono. Which, yeah, and I don't mean to pill the curtain on this, but I don't know what, I mean, with, I was telling this some people on the rockets yesterday, we were coming back from Portland, I was like, when you have tornadoes and hurricanes, you say, okay, this hurricane, the eye of it's here, or the traffic is here, or the power has gone out here, or tornado warnings for this area. I've lived in snow cities.

I mean, I've lived in Salt Lake in Minneapolis. It snows, it rises, but it sounds like it's a fast-moving storm, and it's essentially the easiest thing to do. is just don't leave your house. Suck it up and stay at home and actually like your family for a few hours. Well, that's the best thing for a hurricane usually too. Well, not necessarily. If you're like evacuating and stuff like that, yeah.

So we will not be in that situation. And hopefully we do not lose any power tomorrow because that will be the worst part of it all is that people can't keep themselves warm. But tomorrow and so if you listen to me tomorrow between 3 o'clock until 7 on KTRA, it's going to be a lot of stay at home. Don't go outside.

But we'll be there for you. We are here today. for you to talk about all things about the NFL playoffs and namely about the Houston Texans as the thirst, the quest, the chance, the charge to go to a AFC championship

remains unfilled. The first time ever, I think now, are they 0 and 6 all time on the road in the playoffs? The Houston Texans is a franchise? I believe that's correct. I can't think of a road. No, no. They're only over. I just don't know if it's 5 or 6. I think it's 0 for 6 now all time

on the road, never been to a championship. ship game. I'm regretting becoming Battle Red Ross. This is just terrible. Okay, so there's so many layers to this. Yes. And I want to, here, here's on, I want to carefully measure this.

As you know, and you are with me about 99.9% of the time on this, maybe even, maybe 100. You and I disrespect people that bitch and moan about officiating. Yes, to a point. Now, we can bitch and moan about officiating. about bad calls, but to a point to where it is determining the outcomes of games. The number one reason why the Texans lost the game on Saturday was not because of the officiating. Was it a factor in the game?

Were there two ridiculously poor calls made? Yes. Was there almost a third call made when Pat Mahomes was Zeke and and Zagin and moving his way down the field and then had to bump in and bump out? I was definitely afraid a flag was going to come at that point. Was I scared about that? Absolutely. But frankly, I'm embarrassed for so-called media that were just running to their Twitter accounts as fast as possible.

The Texans got job. This, this, this. The Texans did get screwed on a couple of calls. It is indefensible to describe the amount of penalty. yards that Pat Mahomes not only gets got on Saturday, Rossi, but he when he gets over his career. But that's the superstar treatment. We see it in the NBA all the time. LeBron, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, James Hardin.

James Hardin. We have seen strike zones that are bigger for the elite pitchers. Greg Maddox is the greatest example of a ball. He was about the size of a barn, his strike zone. So Tom Brady is an NFL player, got calls. Everybody gets calls, and it sucks. It does, and it's the human element of it all. I don't know if the officials think that the stars are bigger, that they get, they get, we're going to have to deal with this today, which is I'm not going to be very happy.

Rockets, Power Dancers. We're catching a nice rehearsal. And play a little Michael Jackson, too. Okay, back to what I was saying. I'm distracted. I'm focusing, too. Look at me. Stare me, not them.

Look at me. I'm in trance, Matt. Stair me. The movement, the gyration. I know, I know. Superstar calls are a part of life. Yes. And I don't like it, but we've had superstars.

So we know what it's like to give and receive such treatment. Yes. But you cannot blame the officiating for the reason why the Texans lost. And I'm afraid way too many people who I thought I respected are doing that. While it is something that we are used to and something that happened, it's also something when it happens, we do need to call it out. We do need. And I thought Troy Aikman and Joe Buck were outstanding.

I mean, Troy Akeman, of all people, a guy who got his fair share calls over the years. Well, also a guy that's kind of had beef with Pat Mahomes back of the day. True. He was ill-fraid to go out and say, that's ridiculous. Even the replay, dude, I never heard of the guy until he was on. Me either. Was he even a referee? I have no idea who he was.

That guy was spot on. He was like, oh, this is crazy. We got to do something about this. So there's a lot of things. and I mentioned this on Twitter on Saturday. The NFL competition committee is going to look at a lot of things in that particular that game. Well, apparently they added to the rule book talking about the Will Anderson roughing the passer that if there is any doubt, throw the flag.

I mean, why would you add that in your rule book except to just extend drives and keep points getting on the board? NFL is doing this intentionally. What happened this past weekend is what the NFL wants. They want drives extended by these penalties. And another thing that people are pointing out, which is true, is past, Pat Mahomes knows this. Pat Mahomes knows he's going to run around for a while. People are going to get close. He's going to curl up and do a turtle shell. He's trying to get these penalties. Like when he flopped and he went out of bounds.

Like he slowed up to get pushed out of bounds and then did a full-on. The flop. I got a shotgun shell to my back flop. So it's on Pat Mahomes, but he's also just manipulating the rules. It feels like we're like James Harden discourse. Like, hey, yes, is James Hardin manipulating the foul? the referees? Yes, but those are the rules. And the NBA made adjustments to it,

just like I think the NFL will do this. It'll be a conversation point coming up. And will they ultimately change it? No, because they want the quarterback to protect it. But back to my general point, the Texans saw their quarterback go down eight times. Yes. The Texans saw Travis Kelsey,

who I thought was 51 years old before kickoff, looked like he was 26 years old. they were clearly unable, unable, I should say, to stop anything that Travis Kelsey did. And if Travis Kelsey was even just a wee bit faster, I mean, he's lost some speed because he's been the league a long time. I hit a lot. And plus, he's, you know, doing things with Taylor Swift that a lot of others would like to do. Point being is that Fountain of Youth. Fountain of Youth.

He was fantastic and was a little unstoppable. And that last touchdown through that Pat Mahomes made, I mean, that's why he's, potentially the goat 2.0. Yeah, that was a great play. He's falling down, which by the way also, wasn't that a taunting on Travis Kelsey? Speaking of the referees, I feel like if a Texan Swive,

Nico Collins does that, it's a taunting, six taunting penalties come in, but Travis Kelsey doesn't and there's nothing. But no, the play was made. I hate taunting anyway, so I'm not even going to focus on that. But, yeah, Pat Mahomes made a great play. Travis Kelsey's been sitting in that same spot in zone

for like 10 yards, up the right scene. He's been sitting there for 15 years and nobody ever stops him. He was there like 10 times on the game on Saturday and the Texans weren't properly covering him. Kiami Fairbairn chose his worst game as an NFL player to be a part

of the divisional playoff. I thought the offensive line was atrocious. I thought Dalton Schultz probably should have joined what's his name, Boyd, back on the bus, back to Houston. I thought you could say Mark Andrews. We'll get to that later.

How do you think Mark Andrews slept last night? Or did he? That's a great question. Probably not great. A couple of the defenders are like, I mean, not defenders. We're saying the throw was a little bit behind it. Might have to take a little extra insulin and have a little more extra alcohol that night. All right, so we've got a lot to get to today on the radio program.

Your thoughts about the Texan season. If you want to bitch you mom about the officials, we're here for you because there were some very bad calls. Very, very poor calls. It scares me that even though the NFL game is under a microscope, Rossi, we continue to have these sort of controversial plays in every single playoff game it feels like. In every sport. And I feel bad because we're not getting any, we're not getting, the officiating is not getting better like the technology is getting better.

Yeah. I'm going to put that on a T-shirt. That's a little wordy. It still fits. Okay, just hashtag it. Okay. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-2-2-5-7-990 join us here today we're here to noon and we just want to hear from you guys if you're home today because of the holiday or just you

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We don't bite. We're nice people here at Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-7-90. If you want to join the radio program today, 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90, there are some people on ESPN that scream and yell just because they won't have their hot takes. Yes. And there's also some people that

frankly can be brutally honest. yet level-headed. And I thought this clip from Teddy Bruske from ESPN yesterday was pretty good. So here is Teddy talking about the Texans and the Chiefs and how Rossi to get over the next step,

to get over that obstacle of going on the road and beating somebody as good as Kansas City. And when you beat teams, as often as they do, you get some teams thinking, like Will Anderson said, we are the better team, but then he says,

we just keep making the same mistakes over and over and over. I don't think the Houston Texans understand how to win a football game like this. I think there's just a big difference in class of coaching staffs and in players here. And I recognize it right away. I mean, in terms of the opening kickoff and then, I mean, it was Chris Boyd going absolutely ballistic because he thought he forced to fumble him pushing his coach. And then the defense, yes, the defense is outstanding. Minus 15 yards from that and they get the three and out. Maybe it's a tougher field goal to make.

those little things they just don't understand. Will Anderson, you know that that's Patrick Mahomes, right? If you give the officials any type of excuse to throw the flag, they will throw the flag. I played with a guy that, yeah, he had the same type of carte blanche slash Jordan rules that Patrick Mahomes also has, all right? You're going to get those calls and you have to know how to win those type of games to hear Damiq O'Ryan's afterwards talking about, you know, everybody against stuff. Of course he's talking about the officials, but when you lose a game and you're talking about officials, the Chiefs will just look at that and just understand that you never really understood how to beat us. Because what Patrick said was exactly true.

It doesn't matter what the game is. They know how to win the game they're in, not the game that they thought it would be. That's how good the Chiefs are. You want to slow the dragon? You're going to have to overcome a lot of things, frankly. And you can't overcome a very porous offensive line. You can't overcome two missed field goals and missed extra point. And you can't overcome Travis Kelsey finding himself routinely open throughout the course of the day.

Yeah, I mean, they just weren't good enough. I don't think, I disagree with his first point about it being a reflection of the coaching staff because of Chris Boyd. No, you're right. That was hollow. Chris Floyd, but he's been in the NFL for six years on three different teams. He should know not to take his helmet off. and get all fired up for a, for a, and that was, that was boneheaded. Yeah.

That was just horrible. That could happen to anybody. Right. Yeah, but to what he said, yeah, they're not necessarily in that class. But it's also because they aren't good enough on the offensive line, because they don't have the past catchers because they did get a couple calls. It didn't go their way. You add it all up, and, yeah, they're not good enough to get into that hump.

And also, it's really hard. Left in these playoffs in the AFC is Josh Allen, Lamont, Mark Jackson, Pat Mahomes, and the CJ Stroud and the Texans. Like, those three teams were all better than the Texas if we're ranking them one through four. Those teams are really good. It's hard to win. They didn't make it to where we thought they were and where we were hoping for. Because a lot of times, and especially in the off season, this happens every year.

It's going to happen this year. The Texans are going to get some draft picks. The Texans are going to sign a couple players. And be like, man, they got better. But you always point out, Matt, as well. The other teams get better, too. The other team gets drafts, too. And they already have Andy Reed and Pat Mahomohms and Lamar Jackson and John Harbaugh.

and Josh Allen. So it's just at the bottom, at the end of the day, they're not in the class of those three teams, but it's also just, it's really hard to get into that class, and it's really hard to win a Super Bowl, and they didn't deserve to be there. Well, you know, it's funny. I think Will Anderson said this just a minute ago at the Texas episode.

I don't know if I'm misquoted the player, I apologize, but somebody just put on Twitter, I think it was Will Anderson said, if we're going to get over the hump on this, we've got to be in Houston, Texas, more than just one playoff game, and that means you can't afford a lot. loss to a Tennessee. You're going to have to go be 12. If you're going to go do what you think you can do,

you're going to have to be a 13 and 4 football team and have the home field advantage. Yeah. The Chiefs won one home game. They're in the AFC championship. That's it. You win one home game, you're in the AFC championship, and you're hosting it. Yeah.

You have to win the regular season. And you have to, yeah, you have to take care of that. And, of course, again, it's going to be hard because there's so many good teams. and you have to get that much better. You have to have the balls bounce your way? I mean, how many times did the ball bounce the way of the Chiefs as well? But you can create your own luck as well.

Yeah, I just, you had to play a perfect game. The officials, it's maddening. It really is. Because they're not, you know what? You know what that is Rossi? They're also getting older, too. I must look at some of the side judges in the games this weekend. I mean, there are some blue hairs out there.

You've got to get their eyes checked? Well, but I mean, I mean, not moving it, grooving like they used to? If you're 58, you're 59, 60 years old, and you're, refereeing a game in 17-degree weather? I mean, is that going to be great? Probably not. And also, of course, we have to say it is a hard job. Let me ask you this.

I brought this to you before we went on the air today. If it's too defensive linemen for the Texans and the hit goes to Mahomes when the 15-yard penalty was calling Will Anderson, does CJ get that call? You think, well, you were hedging a little bit. I think quarterback protection still is at very high level. I don't know. CJ what I got. I'll answer your question in this way. Do I think Pat Mahomes gets more calls than C.J. Stroud? Yes.

I would completely 100% agree with you. So I don't know that he gets that call in that instance. But man, the official was looking right at him. Right at him. And that's why again, every defensive lineman has to know. You've got a referee whose sole responsibility right now is to watch the quarterback. That primary responsibility for a referee on a specific game play is to watch the action of a

quarterback. Yeah, we had, what was it in a Vikings game, middle of the season? There was, there was, like, the most egregious face mask in, like, NFL history, referee is standing right in front of it. And totally blew the call. It was in the end zone. It doesn't throw a flag. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, it happens. It happens in every, like, how do you miss that? It's three inches off the plate and you call it a strike and, you know, NBA's with the, with the, I mean, there's overturned calls almost every NBA game. Yeah. With the challenges. Yeah, I just, and I think there's a lot of us that feel helpless about the situation. Because you want to be an even playing field.

But the human element, you'd like to have every game that you watch, whether it be baseball, football, or basketball, officiated 50-50. Those penalties extended drives for the Chiefs. They did not give them points. And the curious late in game 4th and 10 call where the Texans, and Treygman is screaming from the booth, you've got to call time out. They're coming out of the huddle late. I mean, it just, it was like it was a team that was on the stage

with a big time, and the stage was. too big. Yeah, the margin for, that's why Andy, coaches like Andy Reid, and Bill Belichick, what his greatest asset was his attention to detail, because every little thing matters when you get later into the playoffs, one play,

one penalty, one miss timeout, one, any little thing can cost you the game because that's just what the margins are in the NFL when you get to this level. And does there a margin you have to overcome with officials giving Pat Mahomes calls? Yeah. Yeah. Yes.

I guarantee you Bill's Mafia next week is going to be all over the officials if Pat Mahomes gets a call. 713212-5-7-9 if you want to join our conversation. 7-13-212-5-79 if you've not figured out yet, we are inside TOTA center where Ross. Reed Shepard gets her shots up. Reed's my guy. He finally hit a three-in-in-in-night. We're proud of him. It's taking a while, but he's getting there.

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You tell us. I tell you, well, let me ask you this. Let me know what you guys think. Because, you know, it's getting to the point where, like you said, the officials is really, you know, I don't know what exam that they normally take, you know, but I'm quite sure they do. But look here, don't you think that the seriousness of a game that's getting so competitive and everything that, okay, why not? You know, a college that's really meaningful that they think is meaningful people.

Because they're sending those drives, you know, with bad calls. It's hard on the defense. So what do you think about adding more, at least adding, you know, another situation where a coach can challenge a call, especially as blatant like that in the official mission? Because think about it, if the Nico could have challenged, vote with those calls with Patrick McHone, getting hit and being the call, you know, hey, it's definitely devastating. And let me ask you this. What do you think as far as the defense?

I mean, even though the defense played pretty good, look like Kelsey hit us and beat us every time we went into a zone. Every time we went into the zone, he killed. We were playing man to man. You know, we were straight up. But let me just hear your opinion. I want what you think of course. Thank you, Renfro.

Good conversation point. The NFL tried to add subjectivity to instant replay. It was called pass interference, and it was a complete and utter disaster. There was a horrible pass interference called in the Bill's Ravens game. But, yeah, because they used the clear and obvious language, and if it's not clear and obvious, a lot of times it's 50-50, or it's 70-30, and if it's 70-30 is not clear and obvious, so nothing was getting overturned, and they completely wasted their time with it, and they got rid of it.

They wasted their time, extended games. Frankly, Ross, they couldn't put commercials around it, which would have, if they could put commercials around it, maybe they would not let it have it. And the review sponsored. Yeah. Maybe they'd do it then. So let's say that you could challenge the rough in the passer call on Will Anderson.

I don't think it would have been enough to overturn it. No, I don't think so either. Walt Anderson, the NFL's representative of the competition committee, or I'm sorry, he is the, He's like the NFL's refereeing czar, whatever. I think he's an emeritus, or is he still involved? I don't know. But he said on NFL Network that he doesn't think either of those,

he thought both calls were correct. So the NFL state-run media, well, yeah. They're going to have their back. They're going to have their back. For sure. But they were close enough. They were, and we do have to remember,

they look egregious on slow-motion replay, which the referees, In a lot of time, they don't have the luxury of slow-mo street. And you can't challenge those plays. And these are like some of the fastest, most powerful athletes on the planet. So it is hard to do. And there was a little helmet contact with the Will Anderson one, but it's supposed to be forcible.

It was not forcible contact. It was incidental. So it shouldn't have been called. But would that have been overturned? I don't think so. I think it would have been a call stance. Yeah. Yeah.

But it should have never been called. Well, I mean, look, I deal with this in the NBA all the time. When I see things and go, that that wasn't contact. or that was a legal defensive play or that was should have been kind of offensive. These rule books, these interpretations are done by people that spend eight hours a day looking at stuff like this.

It doesn't mean it's right, but I'm saying they're going to look at it with a much deeper analysis than you and I are as a Joe fan. And that's why I always tease Wex and Adam when the client will work with me is that I don't want to look at these replays anymore and judge it because what I think seems fairly obvious, I get it wrong 80% of the time.

And I think that's what we're doing here is that I thought to myself, two things I thought of. If you had a challenge system in place, that call's not getting overturned. And then the other thing I thought of was if the rolls were reversed and there were two candidacy cheeps colliding with each other and colliding with CJ's drive, would that have been a 15-year-hour penalty.

I'm going to lean to believe that there would have been. I'm going to lead no. But I could certainly understand what somebody would say, no, they would not be. And as far as his own coverage is concerned, other Texas did a pretty decent job of mixing up their coverages. It wasn't the receivers that were having the big day. It was Travis Kelsey.

He's going to zone beat her for his whole career. Yeah, I don't think there's anything from a defensive perspective that would have caused confusion. Pat's got greatest capability. Pat keeps plays alive. The Texas defense did its job for the most part. I mean, there were some incredible catches, and the biggest problem they had in the course of the day was. And it's been like this, I think, ever since you and I've been together as a lot, show. Had the Texans ever done a really

good job of covering elite tight ends? I mean, Mark Andrews had some big games. Dallas Clark had big games. I mean, name some other time. Travis Kelsey's breakout party to start his career as a big time tied in when he got two touchdown. He was against the Texans.

Like 10, 15, how many years ago it was at this way? I've never felt like there's ever been a touchdown, tight end killer. No. I mean, how many tight ends of the The Colts had over the years that scored Big Clark. Yeah.

The boys. I don't think of also was out there, but there was others. They looked rusty for a while, but it wasn't like, I was like, they didn't look off-sync. The Texans, the Chiefs couldn't move much in the first half because the Texan defense is good. The Texas defense played its ass off of the month of January. That's indisputable. Yeah. The defense was up to the level of everyone else.

offense was not, along with CJ Stroud did have, he had a pretty good playoff. He wasn't spectacular. Wasn't terrible. He wasn't like, you know, oh my God, he's going out and putting the team on his back and winning this game. Wasn't throwing into terrible coverage. There weren't a bunch of drop interceptions. He was good. But if you want to win at this level in the playoffs at the divisional round, you need elite.

Josh Allen was elite. Lamar Jackson was not. Who won that game? Yeah, Josh. Yeah. Lamar was good yesterday. Not great. But it wasn't great.

Turn the ball over too many times. But I do feel bad for him because the ball's thrown to Andrews. Oh, my God. That was in time. I mean, it wasn't a one, on a scale of one to ten pass. It was an eight and a half. Yeah, it wasn't a ten, but it was eight and a half. He had to go back slightly to, but he cradled it.

He cradled it. He should have caught that. He made sweet love to that football, and then it dropped. Yeah. And also, that's the funny thing is that whole night, I think the short passes, there were a lot of drops because the ball's coming out so much faster in that cold. The deep passes, nobody had any problem with

because it just didn't, it wasn't, I guess, stinging the hands or whatever. So I think they should have ran it, but what do I know? And I'll say one more thing here. We'll get more on the Texans, and we're going to play some more audio throughout the course the next hour. So I'm going to duck away for a few minutes because I'll go talk to email for our pregame conversation. This is totally unrelated to the Texans.

I watched that Washington, Detroit game before I was getting ready to call the Rockets Blazers. And Jane Daniels was. As Thomas Sports Enterprises knew was going to be a great player. Mary, I told you two guys. Oh, okay, thank you. The guy taking number two overall is really good. There have been number two's a lot of genius work.

There been a number two bus. You know that. You know, I'm not wrong on that. Point being is this. I actually felt sorry for Detroit. I didn't. I mean, Detroit was the sexy story. It was the most vaunted offense.

Problem was they were losing defensive players every five seconds, and it finally caught up with them. Who told you on Friday? Their defense wasn't good enough to make them to the Super Bowl. Bowl. Take him to the Super Bowl. It was probably Connor. It was me. Oh, was it you? Okay. Well, congratulations. And also, I didn't know Jared Goff was going to be helping him out with all those turnovers, too.

Again, Jaden Daniels was an elite. Jared Goff wasn't. Who won that game? Ross, you get one quarterback for the next 10 years. Oh, here we go. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. CJ Shrout. What's up? You're going to take CJ Stroud over Jane Daniels. Yeah, if we were here last year, we would have said CJ Stroud. So, yeah, I'm going to stay the course.

Okay. I'm with you, too. Jane Daniels is great. It's okay to be one-in-one. It's amazing. And yeah. He's got a better offensive line. I think far too often. I'm not saying you're doing this, but too often, like when somebody says, oh, I like Lamar Jackson better than Josh.

I don't like John. That doesn't mean the other guy's trash. That's right. I think Jay and Daniels is incredible. Yeah. Let's do with our guy in Houston. I could be wrong. He needs an offensive line.

Ask me on one more year. He wants an offence line. Let's see if Jayden Daniels has a bit of a sophomore slump. Let's see what happens with the offensive line. And look, all sophomore slums happen. Yes. I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say CJ had a slump, but he wasn't as good as second year as he was his first. And I think if he gets a couple of linemen to help him out and not fearing for his life and can step into his throws.

Getting hit eight times in 20-degree weather, Ross, I mean, clearly telling him was braving the elements and braving getting his ass beat. He was tired of getting beat up. Can I tell you one problem with the offensive line, offensive line, offensive line? Nick Casario built this offensive line. Yeah. Blake Fisher first round. And look, people got really mad at me at the trade deadline.

Nick was dismissive of kicking the tires. I'm not saying he had to do something. He was like scoffing at the idea. He was like, no, no, no, no, we're fine. And it's just transaction. It was this mealy, typical cassero mealy mouth, well, transactional, we couldn't find anything, everything. It is your responsibility to improve at the trade deadline,

no matter what sport you're in. And frankly, Ross, the NFL has had more trades in the last two years that probably on the previous five. if you're going to tell me there wasn't a single lineman that could have helped this team at the deadline, I would frankly choose not to believe that. I don't think Nick, who built this line, thought there was as big of a problem as everybody else did. Now, his eyes may be different. He's a general manager and trained.

I'm just, you know, Jamoak here hanging out with you for a couple of hours. Right. But I thought it was criminal how flippant he was about not going to try and improve things. Now to stand by that stance. 1043, Sports Talk, 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to join our conversation. 7-13-212-5-7-90. All right, we're now three weeks into the new year.

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Matt and Ross with you from Toyota Center. We've got a nice crowd here watching this. Rocket social media department who doesn't use my highlights enough of my radio calls. Can y'all hear me? Hello? Anyone? Don't worry about it. Anyone?

A lot of blank stairs. Look at you. They don't even know who I am. I know. Max and Hannah, I travel with them all the time and they're not even looking at me. That's okay. Come on. Now, that's not nice. Yeah, I was talking about how for you guys use my radio calls on the highlights. I'm sorry, people.

We should. I love those people. They're great folks. Don't listen. Don't listen to my partner. 7-1-3-212-12-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-2-5-7-90. Let's go to David in.

Well, let's pop this up here. I can do it. Can you? All right. Boom. David and League City on 790. David, good morning. Thanks for holding. Hey, no problem. I just want to talk about Mahomes.

I mean, it's not so much that he gets calls, but it's the fact that, like on the Anderson, you know, you see Anderson barely tap him, and then all of a sudden the head flies back, the arms go flailing. Yeah. There was a play later on in the first half where Hunter, you know, reached out as he was kind of going by and hit him in the left shoulder with his hand. Yeah, and he goes flopping to the ground, arms flying, you know, and just, you know, and even on the play where the two got the other roughing the passer, I mean, he was out there, he's jogging, he's jumping back and forth, back, back, and forth, and finally falls down. He had plenty of opportunity to take the safe, you know, drop, but he waited until there was going to be contact.

And then the same thing on that play on the sidelines. he stops at the sideline and waits for somebody to push him and then he goes into this flop. That's something the NFL should be able to see, recognize, and anticipate, you know, and I'm surprised he didn't call the one on the sidelines because that's just typical. But, you know, there needs to be something. He needs to be penalized for flopping, unsports like conduct, whatever they could make it. He's just gaming the system, you know. Yeah.

You know, years ago. Yeah, I mean, here's a problem again, David, and you're bringing up a very fair point, is that this is done in real time. There isn't time to go back and look at this stuff. You know, you can't challenge a subjective call, and that would have been a subjective call. Now, if there would have been an instant replay put into place, David, then I think you're absolutely right. They would have called the NFL's version of flopping, whatever that is.

I don't even think there's even a call-call-flopping in the NFL. But that was it. I will say this, to your thinking, there are NFL referees that watch that game. The NFL is going to see, NFL referees are going to see that tape of what he did. And they're going to be a lot less lenient, David, to throw that flag. That now Pat Mahomes has that reputation of doing that. He just does.

He's had that reputation, though. And it just continues to happen over and over and over and over. He didn't get called there, though. The flop didn't get called there. No, it didn't. It would have, and I think everybody would have thrown their televisions through the glass windows. But, yeah, David, I just, I hate to tell you this, but in real time, it's awfully hard for them to stop what they're doing and challenge a subjective call, because right now it's not the bylaws of the NFL to do that. Yeah, but you can be aware of, you know, somebody who has a propensity for doing stuff like that.

You know, Peyton Manning used to, you know, he used to jot with the spike deal. he would walk up, oh, I'm going to spike and I'm not spiking, I'm going to spike it, and then he'd bend down and he'd fake it and then stand up and totally like, you know, but if somebody had hit him, you know, oh, look at that, you know, it's just, you know, they've got to be aware of it, they can see us. And, you know, even if it's,

even if you left the first one stand, you know, when he, the son he pulled on the sidelines should have been flagged. You know, and, you know, and, you know, and he ought to be, hope. he should be at least fine. Well, but the problem, and thank you, David, for the phone call. You can't flag something that didn't, that wasn't, I mean, it didn't affect the game.

Yeah, he didn't break a rule. Yeah, he didn't break a rule. He just tried to get away with something. Right. Now, you know, you can't flag him for that, but you would like to, in a perfect world, be able to say, flag thrown, challenge play, go look at the replay, and the replay says that he, he flopped. Just like it happens in the NBA. Is it a flop or not a flop?

And I don't know if the NFL has that kind of thing. No, they don't, but they should. And you said this a minute ago, and I hope you're wrong. I hope that this won't, that Saturday's flop was so egregious that they will stop letting the benefit of the doubt go, oh, he must have been headed that way. He's been flopping around for years. My son, who is the biggest bandwagon fan of individual players. Now, he went to Texas Tech, so he loves Pat Mahomes. Okay, good.

He is, he sent me two texts during the game. He's like, I'm not a fan of this guy. Oh. And if you have Cameron, if you lose Cameron Thomas as a fan, and he's a Texas tech guy, that must have been something really serious. Wow. Interesting. By the way, Cam will want to me to let everybody know that he wore his Davis Mills jersey to the sports bar to watch the game on Saturday.

How did that go? They lost. I mean, it is what it is. Well, Davis Mills almost came into the game. It looked like he was going to. And that first quarter, he stood in. The next crowd was hobbling around. Yeah, yeah.

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It's going to be an epic launchpad. I mean, one of the greatest of all time. Look at this script, Maddie. I mean, this is... I mean, honestly, you're in our time slot, so I don't need you to mail it in. I mean, you want to do it at 6 o'clock. I never mail it in. That's your own bit, but not during this time slot.

You got a huge responsibility on your hands there. I don't mail in my pregame shows. I know there are some out there that do, but it's not me. Oh, I've heard them. Trust me. I know you haven't. That's true. You haven't heard a single one.

I haven't heard one. You're in the arena, whatever arena it is. I know, I know, I know, I know. I just don't know what this arena is all about. Can I be honest? I don't want, I mean, I would lie to you if I could. You normally do. I do.

I'm a little road weary. It's just, yeah, January is a little tough. What is it? I think it's 14 out of 18 games on the road for the rockets? We're here this week, and then I'm going to be staying in the city the next couple nights because of weather. So I was able to kiss my family yesterday and spend three to four hours of quality time with them. Why don't you have them come stay in the room with you? Because it's a small hotel room.

Why don't want a family of, they're going to be in a big house. Are you going to hang out with your family? I do, but I didn't seem like it. Well, why don't you call our bosses in spite of them situation? And why don't you get upgraded to a suite? You can afford it. I don't have status at this chain. Okay.

that's all you're going to say you got nothing else you'll say nothing you'll say nothing and like it to leave it there sometimes you've got to know when to drop it man you got that right 713212-570 so tomorrow we're going to be on and Todd and Rishi will get to you in just a second

I don't know where Connor is but we will be happy to get you in just a couple of seconds here tomorrow we're going to do a four-hour radio show I highly frankly don't expect many people to listen so if you're ready for a little off-the-wall banter between you and me as we watch the snowflakes drop into

Houston, Texas tomorrow. It's going to be you and me between 10 and 2. Why would we just do it from the room? We could. We got the equipment. Yeah, but man, that feels weird. You and me doing in a hotel. As long as you're fully clothed, there's nothing weird about it. That's true. I never thought of it that way. You've got to actually put on pants.

Okay. Ten and two on that, and then I will be with KTRH a 3 to 7, so be an 8-hour day. Do you have some guest book? What's the deal? I don't know. I just going there and say Storm Team Coverage, News Radio 740, KTRS. I'm going to call you.

You know how you do the news at new in your little news voice? I'm putting the news voice on tomorrow. I like it. I'm calling you as Dale from Magnolia. Yeah, Matt, we got about six inches up here. Excuse me? What? I don't care what you're carrying, Dale. I'm talking about snow, man. Oh, okay. What are you talking about? I don't know, but that was very odd, Dale.

All right. Real quick. Go ahead. Let's rally here. I'm doing great. Come on now. Buffalo, Baltimore was everything as advertised. It was great. I feel terrible for Mark Anders. Really, really bad because there have been some drops in sports and, you know, ball between the legs with Bald Bill Buckner and there's been Nick Anderson's missed free throws and that kind of thing that you don't. Jackie Smith or whoever.

Jackie Smith of the Cowboys, yeah. There's some drops you just can't get. pass and that's going to be one that's going to resonate because people are putting them in AI pictures with Jeffrey Epstein as his head it's just not right Matt he's been one of the best past sketching tight ends in the NFL for about a decade right yeah give or take yes oh my god these these meeps oh this I've been having fun with this Grock AI too it's too much I got to stop yeah come on focus on the show sorry see I was putting Pat Mahomes getting married to a rep oh there was there was there was a there is a

photo of Andy Reed on his knees on the field that I was like, come on, everybody, let's be a little more professional here. People, you know, it's too much people. I'm sorry. But yeah, Mark Andrews, that was a great game. Philadelphia game was good, too, honestly. Yes, all four divisional games, the team that gained the most yards lost. Isn't that weird?

Yes. But comes down to turnovers, comes down to one of the reasons the Texans lost us by gaining more yards in the Chiefs is because that big return and penalty yards as well. And by the way, the NFL is going to make sure they can have as many games outside as possible. Do not want dome teams playing in the playoffs deep. I also saw Texans

Chiefs. Did you see this? 32.7 million viewers the highest audience for an ESPN playoff game that wasn't the Super Bowl ever. I've never had a Super Bowl on ESPN. Oh, you know what I mean? Yeah, ABC. Yeah. Highest, most watch NFL game ever

on ESPN. On their network, yeah. And a lot of that is because the game was good. And another thing is, Ross, we're talking about this for. Divisional weekend is fantastic football. And also they add up the numbers. What is on ABC and ESPN? Correct. And was there ESPN2, some kind of alternate?

That I don't know. But ABC ESPN Plus. Yeah, there was, you had plenty of ways to find it. So essentially what they're doing is they're saying, hey, we know some of you are cord cutting and don't have an ABC affiliate, but we're going to put it on ESPN Plus. You pay this $10. The ESPN's most-watch NFL game ever.

And I thought Joe and, People rip on Joe and Troy. They were fantastic. It was a great call. Good drama, fair and balance, all the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah stuff. I mean, it was, you saw the good broadcasters working this weekend. Yeah, it was great. How about speaking of the broadcasting room, did you see the Tom Brady's agents like, oh, no, he's going to finish out that $375 million contract.

You go back and there'll be an L for you? It's going to be an L unless Mark Davis wants to sell more of the team. And does Tom Brady have that kind of money? I don't think so at this point. Now, is he ironically getting money from Fox that's going to be put towards an NFL team? Very well could be. Yeah. At some point, it's like, I guess he's got to do something with his time.

But you can't even, as we discussed, he can't interview players. He can't be, he can't watch practices. But you don't, when you listen to him, you don't hear that, you don't hear that lack of. No, I think it's always nice to say, oh, they, you know, they, they talked about this. We meeting him there. They said they wanted to do this. This is exactly what they said they were going to do in this situation. Also, criticizing the officials as part of the game.

It just is. Yeah. I mean, Troy. Troy did it. He did a great job. Tom can't do that. He can't say this was a bad call. Even though it's plain as day, everyone can see it.

And then that, unfortunately, puts the onus on the play-by-play man. Yeah. For him to have to do it. Well, the reality is also is that you didn't pay him $37.5 million a year because you were looking forward to 20 games. of this analysis you paid him because Tom Brady is going to take he's going to jump on a company jet and is going to go meet with the Fox officials when they're going to look for Rickalob Voltra and spend millions of dollars on advertising that's how that's what

Tom Brady you're paying Tom Brady to go play golf with the executives of the big three automotive dealers groups yeah clearly Fox thinks his contract was worth it or they wouldn't have paid it right so they were Tony Romo like he was out there like oh man ravens are great in the run game and they're great in the run game and they're great the past that's what you want to be and i'm sitting there on the couch like he's getting 17 million dollars to say this meanwhile greg olson's like man i am better and i'm my ass is sitting at home he's well he also took a big reduction in pay too right Greg olson i don't think he got a big pay to begin with yeah i mean i don't think they said not only are we i thought i really like he

had to reduce his money or something is that right i feel terrible i feel super bad for that that now and then that greg olson i mean greg also made a lot of money and is in it for a career so I don't think he's hurting. Yeah, Olson's salary dropped from $10 million to $3 million per year. Because of Tom Brady. You know who hates Tom Brady? Greg Olson. You know what Greg...

Greg Olson is going to plant heroin on Tom Brady. If Tom Brady is murdered, I got my prime suspect. Okay, Giselle won. That's true. Greg Olson, too. And by way, ironically, on the big board... Giselle's grappling with the Brazilian jiu-jitsu trainer. But she's still a sneaky pick.

My top three for who murders Tom Brady. Giselle won. Two would be Greg Olson. And three, ironically, Bill Belichick, most like I haven't murdered. No, I think they're good. They're noise now. Really? It's sneaky.

I'm just saying it's just, you know, if you're looking for a dark or space. Dish best serve cold. All right. We're going to let you hear from the Texans locker room coming up in just a second here. 713212.5.7. I'm going to step away for a few minutes to go talk with my best friend, Ema, at Donka. Getting ready for tonight's game with Detroit. Okay.

What are you saying? Nothing. Everything's great. Don't slap me like that. Disingenuous a hole. I put that up my gravestone. Yeah, you should be. I can help you with that right now.

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Rockets coming up at 1 o'clock. you have the Rockets Launchpad with me coming up at noon, and right now you have the news at noon with Conno McGovern. Conover, giving us all the great sports news of the day, a lot of NFL action over the weekend and other stuff. Connor, how are things back at the studio? You doing okay? There's nobody here.

Oh, well, it is a holiday, and there is an pending snowstorm. Well, good for everybody else, I guess. Anyway, we can talk about the game over the weekend. The Chiefs are heading to the AFC championship game for the seventh straight season after defeating the Texans 23 to 14 on Saturday. The Texans have lost in the division round for the second straight season and have yet to reach the AFC championship game. There was multiple unnecessary roughness calls and missed and blocked field goal kicks. And quarterback CJ Stroud getting sacked eight times. But they snap it.

Blitz again. Stroud in trouble. Carlophtos is there. Kansas City Ball. Yeah, I mean, tough to blame C.J. Stroud to an extent. But not all of those sacks were on the offensive line. A couple of those were on C.J. Stroud. It was an extremely high pressure rate.

He was running for, there were a couple of those times where he was running for his life. There were free runners, and that just should never be the case in an NFL game. But it happens, especially with the Steve Spagnola defense. As I mentioned this past weekend, I was scared about it, scared about free runners into the backfield for the Houston Texans. Happened a couple of times, especially there in that second half. But eight sacks, no way to go through life. And C.J. Stroud was good, but he wasn't great. And he could have made a couple of other plays, a couple of throws missed.

And the penalties, we know were a factor starting off with, I mean, can the Texans start off a game normally? The first playoff game, they fumble on the first play. And then the next playoff game, they have a long 60-yard return or whatever it was given up. And then Chris Boyd, Longhorn Legend, loses his mind, takes off his helmet, which you should never do. It's the first play of the game. It's not even like you forced a fumble that, by the way, your team didn't even recover. And then you're taking your helmet off like it's the fourth quarter and you just clinched a spot in the AMC Championship game. six years into the game, Chris Boyd should know better.

And then he's pushing coaches and stuff. What a disaster start in both playoff games for the Houston Texans. Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. What else, Connor, what's going on on the news at noon? Well, we'll stick with the NFL. The other division around matchups in the playoffs, saw Josh Allen run for two touchdowns to defeat Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens 27 to 25.

the Eagles and then the Eagles advanced with a 28 to 22 victory over the Rams. And the six-seeded commanders upset the number one-seat Detroit Lions 45 to 31 on Saturday night. Lions head coach Dan Campbell was a pretty emotional post-game after the tough loss. It just hurts to lose, man. And I don't care if you're the seven-seed, six-seed, five-seed, one seed, because I've lost it all of them down there. And it stings and it hurts. Yeah, tough.

for the Lions. I mean, while I did predict that they just lost too much on the defense for them to make it to the Super Bowl, and I mean, the commanders just ran all over. They're scoring 45 points. Now, seven of those did come off of a big six from Jared Goff, who did have

three interceptions in the game, but almost 200 yards rushing for Washington. Jade Daniels was great. Two hundred ninety-nine yards, a couple of touchdowns, no interceptions either. It's just that Lions defense to me was going to be their downfall at some point in the playoffs and it happened in that divisional round you pair it with jerry goff just having a horrible horrible game sucks for the lions uh that's kind of how it goes we can go throughout history there are teams that were dominant and ball didn't bounce their way too many injuries bad performance at some point and bottom line is it's hard to win to super bowl only one team out of 32 gets to do it all the other 31 teams are talking about how much it was a failure and they got to go back to the drawing board so

So Lions didn't make it, shaping up for a Commander's Eagles championship game. And then on the other side, the Buffalo Bills game. Yeah, that boils down to the turnovers. Lamar Jackson was good. He wasn't great. He had that bad interception. And then he had that. Demar Hamlin was sacking him.

And he tried to keep the play alive. And he lost the ball because he was trying to one-handed in the sleet and snow. So, oh, and then, by the way, Mark Andrews with a bad fumble there and a bad drop. So add that all up. It was a thin margin between the ravens and the baseball. Bills, who I thought were the two best teams in the AFC. Chiefs get one of them at home. That one is the Buffalo Bills.

Should be a good championship weekend in the NFL. What else you got? Connor McGovern for the news at noon at 1120. Well, yeah, you just alluded to the, or you just talked about the championship games. I mean, Josh Allen, the Buffalo Bills taking on Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in the championship game for their fourth playoff matchup in five years. Probably the NFL's biggest rivalry. Yeah, that's interesting. It's certainly up there right now.

Certainly with teams that aren't, if you're talking about teams that aren't in their own division, they just keep meeting each other over and over. Unfortunately, Joe Burrow didn't show up to the playoffs so he could get into the mix. By the way, how stacked is the NFC as we're talking about it? Like Joe Burrow, Pat Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, I mean, CJ Stroud, the Texans, it's tough.

They did beat Justin Herbert in the Chargers, but they're really good. Could the Bo Nixon, the Denver Broncos be coming along as well? man, it's a stacked, stacked AFC. And it's Bill's cheese for a chance to go to the Super Bowl. Should be fun. Should be gangbuster ratings for CBS coming up next week, to be sure. Well, we'll continue on with football, but we'll go to college.

The inaugural 12-team field is down to two in the 2025 college football playoff national championship game is set for tonight. Between the number eight Ohio State Buckeyes and number seven, Notre Dame, kickoff. from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, except 6.30 p.m. Central. And I believe the Buckeyes are 8.5 point favorites. 8.5 point favorites. What were they 6.5? I think 6.6.5 over the Texas Longhorns. We'll see how much I end up watching.

Thankfully, there's a big winter storm coming in. So we'll see. But I can't get excited for this game. As somebody who just watched Texas Luthu, Ohio State Buckeyes, Buckeyes were the better team in that game. They deserved to win and all that stuff. But it was at least a close game down to the end until that fumble six by Quinn Ewers, but the right tackle Cam Williams missed the block completely.

By the way, I saw he's getting a first round grade. He had a billion penalties, and I felt like he got torched in the first Georgia game and wasn't great consistent all season long. What do I know? I'm not a draft expert. But anyways, I digress. Buckeyes, Notre Dame Fighting Irish. I guess I'll pick the Buckeyes.

I kind of don't care. I don't have any skin in this game. I don't really have a rooting interest. Perhaps I'll flip it on just because it is basically the only game in town tonight with the Rockets playing in the early afternoon. But I can't get excited for it. Are you rooting for your people, the Irish? Connor McGovern?

Yeah, I'll go from Notre Dame. I mean, Mizzou played Ohio State in the Conville last year and beat them. Oh, and you went to Catholic school, right? Yeah, growing up, yeah. Well, your last name is McGovern. and you went to the Catholic school, you have to be rooting for the Notre Dame fighting Irish. Yeah, I'll go for Notre Dame. I don't, I mean, and then I grew up with family that really liked the Michigan Wolverines,

so it's just natural not to like Ohio State. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's okay. So you got to root against Ohio State. Yeah. Okay, I got you. Another college, here, maybe there's some college football news that you'll care about. The Texas has agreed to a new contract with coach Steve Sarkisan, seven years. How do you feel about that? it's the right move Steve Sarkesian is a really good coach

Unfortunately it was a kind of I feel like somewhat of a missed opportunity this year What they have like 14 players or starters or whatever it is Going into the draft So We'll see what happens Next year's team should be pretty loaded as well Arch Manning we'll see

He's a good job He does a good job He's a good coach There were the NFL Overtures I felt like that was probably just leverage to get this extension anyways. I don't know that he would have been hopping to the NFL. I don't know how much real interest there was for him as far as him declining two interviews

with NFL franchises. That being talked about as one of the reasons that Texas was moved to send him to give him this big extension. So, I mean, I like Sark. He's a good play caller. He's a smart play caller. I don't agree with everything he does. I don't think he's a genius. But if you get him really good players, I don't think I would. think he's not an infallible genius. Of course, win a couple of national championships. We'll go. We'll go ahead and recalibrate, right? I mean, Ohio

State fans hated Ryan Day. Wanted him fired for the last several years. And now the guys on the precipice of winning a national championship. If he choked, that'd be pretty funny. But Sark is a good coach. Sark has Texas. I mean, back into the fold more than they had been in years past. They haven't won a national championship

still, but back-to-back Final Fours, great recruiting classes, really good play caller, really good play designer. I like Steve Sarkisian as the Texas Longhorns head coach. But of course, as always, the standard is winning the national championship.

Hopefully, he can get there. Anything else? On the news at noon, Connemoghiven. Go to baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers have added left-hander. Tanner Scott, arguably the best relief pitcher on the free agent market, agreeing to terms on a four-year,

$72 million contract. The deal includes a $20 million signing bonus, and $21 million in deferred payments. Has Jeff Passon said anything about this? Has he come out and said, now this is just normal spending for any franchise. They can all spend up to this level.

They just choose not to. No, I'm definitely not carrying water for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers are doing what every MLB team has the capability of doing. Any statements from Jeff Passon about the Dodgers' ridiculous spending? What's their payroll up to now? $2 billion? Apparently, the Dodgers luxury tax payroll is estimated to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $375 million, which is about $70 million more than that of the second place in Philadelphia Phillies.

So they are far outpacing other teams. They just don't give an F and they deferred a bunch of money. They're spending all this money. They just won a World Series. They have that huge TV deal. They can outspend everyone else, Jeff. and it's annoying, but whatever. It is what it is.

I just, I don't even know what to say. The Dodgers are just, and people are talking about, oh, they built this. They built this team. Like their entire rotation is players they bought. There was somebody that was carrying water for the Dodgers, too, talking about it's all prospects and stuff like that. I think it's like only one regular starter is somebody that they actually drafted. So I don't want to hear about the Dodgers making me mad, spending billions and billions of dollars. You know what? This makes you want to say, Jim Crane, go ahead and pay Alex Bregman.

Let's go. Dodgers can go $5 billion over the competitive balance tax threshold. Maybe Jim Crane can do a little bit himself. All right. Anything else, Connor? Give us a short preview. I know you'll do this in a little bit here too, but the Rockets hosting the Detroit Pistons for the Martin Luther King Day matchup. I believe the Rockets are eight and a half point favorites. Yes, the Detroit Pistons are in town. We are broadcasting at the Toyota. to center right now. So we'll have that coming up for you at 1 o'clock here on a sports talk 790 in 30 minutes. It will be the Rockets launch pad, then the Rockets Radio Network. All right. Thank

you, Cona McGovern for the news at noon. Matt Thomas is interviewing E. May Adoka. He should be back shortly. My name is Rossi Uriel. You want to get in. We've been talking about the Texans. We've been talking about Pat Mahomes flopping. What do the Texans need to do in the offseason? I think there's a very clear plan from Nick Casario, but do we trust him to enact that plan? we can discuss other NFL action as well. Your Rockets taking on the Pistons. Anything you would like to talk about. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number.

7-13-212-5-7-90. So what I miss, boys, 1133, Sports Talk 7-90. Matt, back with you with Ross, inside TOTUS Center. Or Ahmed Thompson's going to play today for the local basketball. Was that part of your news at 1120? The Rockets? Yeah. Yeah, we mentioned it.

You mentioned Amanda Thompson's back? We did not mention Amanda Thompson was back. I did see your text, and I forgot. I saw your tweet as well. And by the way, normally the news at noon is at noon, but sometimes TV sports, I mean, TV will do like an early news because of special programming. Yeah. So that's why the news at 1120 worked.

Yeah, it happens. We had to do it before. Connor do okay? Oh, he did great. What was his off-the-beat and track story? No, we didn't have it. We didn't have time for it. Steve's Archesian's extension.

That was off-the-beat. Are you happy about that? I'm not over the moon. But I'm happy. I am happy. Let me ask you this. Why are you not over the moon? What do you mean?

It's good. He's a good coach. He's taken you to the national semifinals two consecutive years. Yeah, they lost both times. Oh, so it's either your first or your last? No. I realize that we're going Ricky Bobby here. I'm not saying we're going Ricky Bobby.

I'm not angry. I don't think he's a bad coach. But you're not. He can win. You're not falling over yourself. They can win with Steve Sarkozy. Okay. Or anybody else.

He's not infallible. Who would you like to have this? Who would I like to have? Yeah. Up Matt Brown. Get it back. That's okay. In all, is there some?

No. So you're just, you're pleased, like, the guy's getting a lot of money already. Yeah, I'm happy, but, yeah, it's fine. Yeah. Okay. There you go, folks. Texas fan who's never happy. Imagine that.

I am happy. I said I'm happy. I'm just not over the moon. The difference between being over the moon, being happy, man. What was the last time you were over the moon over anything sports-related? That would be January 6th or January 4th, 2006? Wow, so it's once every 20-year bit? Yeah.

Dang, dude. Well, honestly, I'm in the same spot. I haven't over the mood since 19. Well, the Astros winning. October of 17. 21 was actually a little more satisfying. Now that we know about 17. 22? 22.

No, but 17 was great. In the moment? In the moment, yeah. But I was on a plane going to New York. Okay, well, that's your being doing fancy Matt stuff. Not everybody else was doing that. We didn't have a tell us on a plane. I was on the couch watching with my father, so it was a great moment.

And then I headed down to East Downtown to get the people the, get the drunk report. Good time. I'm ready for that again. I'm ready for a sports franchise in this town to do that. Can we get one? And then 22, we went on air until 3.m. Yeah. I think I was in Atlanta.

So I did the overnight a couple hours, too. That was great. Here I am. We're won a World Series. I'm going to do that with the Rockets. We're ready to do with the Texans. Ready to do with the Houston Cougars. We're ready to do it all.

You know what? Should you feel comfortable that the Cougars aren't? Ken Pump has a number one every year and they flame out in the tournament. Now they're like number three? Maybe you feel like you want to be like number three instead of number one. It's funny because Lenardi is giving him no respect whatsoever. Lenardi. In the 70s?

Yeah, why did we all of a sudden make him the guru? I don't know. I don't know. He usually gets it pretty close, though, when he does bracket projection. It makes me sad. There's plenty of time. Longhorn's probably aren't even making the tournament. They got destroyed by Florida.

It's a Rodney Terry buyout watch season. See, that's why you're... You know what? Your unhappiness for Sarkeesian is translating on the basketball side. We're like, if he's going to really make some contract moves, we need to make it on the basketball side of things. Whatever. That's fine.

Nobody cares about Juan. I don't even know why I choose to care about Longhorn basketball, but I do. Is a building being full in Austin? I don't think so. Well, maybe it'll be cheaper to get to a game this year. I think it'll head on down down there for a winnable game. SEC's got nine ranked teams, by the way. Oh, it's a filthy conference.

In college basketball. Yeah, and actually Big 12 is down a little bit. Yeah. Only one. The H got there. Only one undefeated team left in conference play. I wonder who that would be. Rhymes with Ruggers.

Conference play just started. It's been enough. By the way, the Cougars game tomorrow has been moved to Wednesday. Okay. Is Wednesday going to be all right? I don't know. Good question. Rockets game against the Cavaliers, which should be a huge game,

is tentatively still on for Wednesday here in the building. Huh. Okay. So, you know, look, I was in Atlanta two weeks ago, and it was a one-day snow event just like we're supposed to get here tomorrow, but they shut Atlanta down for two days. So I don't, you know, I wouldn't be holding my breath here on any of that stuff. All right.

And, of course, you want to listen to me on KTRH with a complete website. their coverage. Do we have a name with the storm, by the way? Do we... Is it... They name winter storm. They do name winter storm. I don't know if this one has a name. You can call this... You could call this... Three inches of snow. Huh. Winterstorm met. There are no blizzards. No, don't know. No, they put a name after me.

If you're going to name me, you should call Winterstorm at SportsMT. Okay. Bill the friend. You think you'd get hate on Twitter now. Oh, my God, that's true. By the way, is TikTok back? I'm kind of confused. I think it is? I was never been on it. Now, I do look at people's videos through TikTok, but it's...

We've got to ask Connor McGovern. Connor, are we back on the TikTok or no? Yeah, it was gone briefly Saturday night and then it came back Saturday morning. So are we giving... Are we giving Biden credit or we're giving Trump credit for this one? Well, the message that showed up on TikTok when you opened the app was thank you to President Trump for helping us restore the app. Oh, wow. So they're giving credit to President Trump, even though he wasn't inaugurated at that point.

So I'm not sure what happened. But I thought it was a Chinese spy operation. I believe government officials and employees still can't have it. But it's back for everybody else. That's great. Even though I never use it. Do we need to get on TikTok, Matt? No.

I am on Instagram. You can follow me there at SportsMT. Wex is big on TikTok. Wex is... Just put the phone down, Wex. Relax. He's a man about town. I don't think he's a man about town.

I think he's a man on his phone. Well, that too. Yeah, I'm done. I'm on snap because I watch people's snaps as compared to, I've never sat before my life. Oh, you pay for some people's premium snaps. No, no, no, no. I was told a friend of mine said, get on my snap.

Maylor Tathis? No. How much do you pay Mailer Tats? By the way, speaking of Taylor, she was bragging about Texans plus nine and a half, and I'm like, girl, who had that? I mean, I know it got in the last second. Got to nine, I want to say, on game day. Not a half, like seconds. Wait, but she was forecasted out like three days ago.

I couldn't find nine and a half three days ago. Well, talk to your girl. She's the one. She's the picks guru. You know where we start calling her in the business, Miss Money Line. I will take the, uh, if you went Money Line this week. Did she take lines of the Money Line? I'll tell you, if you took lines on the money line, you lost.

If you took, uh, the Chiefs on the Money Line, you barely made any money. If you took Actually, if you took the Bills on the money line They were a small underdog at home It probably gave me a little bit of money One and a half, yeah Yeah

If you took money line on Philadelphia You probably won us A very small amount Although I think there was super late movement On the Bills game too To where it's tipped bills All right So we've successfully

As a radio host in a show Not mentioned whether or not Lamar Jackson sucks now He's terrible How do you think Ravens Radio is going today? It's about Mark Andrews, unfortunately Yeah Yeah.

But here's the thing. Mark Andrews, and I don't mean to oversimplify this, but has he been one of the best tight ends in the league, at least for the last five years of not longer? He had a bad year this year. But I mean... He likely was just as good as he was. He had a big time down here.

Everybody who drafted in fantasy knows exactly what I'm talking about. Fair enough. So maybe one of the... Maybe four of the last five years was very, very good. Yeah, he's been very good. But... And I'm looking at the... the replay. Rossi, that's a pass

he should have caught. There's no, there is, I mean, I guess Lamar could have hand him the ball. Yes. But it wasn't a 10, but I think I named him to an 8.5 on the pass. It was a 9.2. He did end up with 11 touchdowns this year. 670 yards. Been in the league with seven years somewhere in that range. Yeah. I thought he was older than 29, quite frankly, but.

Well, I know he went to University of Oklahoma where people ripping the crap out of him going there. Oh, really? Yeah. Why? Just because they always It's an easy way. It's a little hanging fruit for Texas fans to say, oh, you sucks. Oh, well, OU does. Indeed.

Hey, you know how bad they suck? That's the Texas' only win in the SEC Conference in basketball. Oh, I didn't mean they bring that up. All right, final segment of the radio program. We're here from TOTUS Center, where it's actually been kind of nice and quiet, honestly. Yeah. Shooter rounds going up? Let's see.

Who's getting shots up right now, many? Oh, Jalen Green's out there? Fred is usually very late to the catch and shoot. Do we need to have a serious conversation about Jalen Green being in a lot? All-Star? We can if you want to. But I would actually guess if it was more of a betting, man.

I might guess there'd be no All-Stars as a compared to getting multiple. Especially since the All-Star this year. First of all-all-all-all-old-old-conversation. It's just for a recognition. But for the weekend itself, I couldn't be more disinterested. I love the NBA, but I have no interest in it.

All right. How are we going to fix the Texans? We'll spend a lot of time on this tomorrow, but we'll at least get a little taste of that coming up when we come back. 1143 sports talk 790 713 212 5 790 712 719 710 710 719 where I am here to talk to you about your health and well-being your new year's resolutions we are into the third week basically of January you're like I'm going to hit the gym I'm going to lose weight I'm going to do it and you haven't been motivated no energy what's going on get your levels checked also get with synergenics who have affordable prescription gLP1 plans the health providers at synergenics cessos on a weight loss are true TRT experts because they give you treatments tailored to you on an individual basis.

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Now on Sports Talk 790. By the way, the name of the Winterstorm, according to sources, Winterstorm Enzo. E-N-Z-O. Wonderful. Which begs the question, what was ABC and D? We could go look it up if that's fine. Yeah, that's fine.

We're off the year. It's a winter storm it ends. There you go with that. I'm sorry. Stereotyping again. I couldn't help myself. It's your fault. By the way, late word that President Biden has pardoned the referees and officials that were in the city playoff game.

Have you been pardoned as well? For what? For your crimes. I didn't do nothing wrong. In perpetuity. Perpetuity. Yeah. Can't you do that?

No. Can't you, like, say, for any future crimes I might commit? That's actually not a horrific idea. Can I pardon myself? The officials that were working in that game have all been pardoned by President Biden. By the way, the meme that is out there that the official, the referee that worked the game on Saturday was 7 and 0 going against. Oh, yeah. As I told you last week, Pat Mahomes has a winning percentage with every official.

That's true. There's no official out there that's like 2 and 9 with Pat Mahomes as a quarterback. And if there was, Roger Goodell would not send him to the divisional game. You think they're mad? This is the thing. People are like, they need to change the rules. They need to do this. You think the NFL's mad that it's Chiefs Bills on Sunday?

I mean, hell no. Yeah, ABC's bragging about their ratings and CBS is like, hold my beer. We're going to take care of it like you wouldn't believe. All right, so let's do the quick, simple fix. Obviously, we'll get more into this on the show tomorrow, and we've got a little bit more time. The reality is you've got to fix the offensive line. Yes.

You're going to have to significantly bolster the wide receiving. Corps. It went from a disaster two years ago to much better this year but injuries, not performance is the reason why. And frankly, can you get out of the Dalton Schultz's contract? Because that looks like that's bad money

spent with two years left ago. Or is it a reasonable deal? It hurts so much. Schultz is, as long as Schultz is not your number two, he's fine. If you need him as your number two is what they need him, with Stefan Diggs and Tank Dell down.

Not that I spent time looking at him, but it feels like to me that I do respect when it comes evaluation, said he was not doing his job as a blocker, that he's simply just a rot runner at this point in his career. He is, let's see, what is this? He's 10th in the NFL and tight ends as far as AAV. He's behind Pat Friamuth and Colquamette. You'd rather have both those guys? I don't know what Cole Comatt. Cole Comed had a bad year.

Can't say healthy either. Okay. He's ahead of Noah Fent, Taysom Hill, Dawson, Knox, Hunter Henry, Tyler Higby. He's around that group. That's where he's getting paid. Okay, so let's knock him off the list then. If we're looking for to do things. Fixing the offensive line. I know there has been some whispers of whether or not you want to lock up Derek Stingley long term, and the answer would be clearly yes. He is one of the top five cornerbacks in the NFL. He's all pro this year. He needs to be locked up.

Yeah. Jalen Petrie apparently, according, is on schedule for his return in 2012. which is a good sign. Tank Dell had his surgery late last week. I would be stunned if he makes it again in the NFL. It looks like Dalton Schultz is still heavy dead money. Okay. So keep him one more year.

Yeah. Sorry, what were you saying? No, we were talking about it. This is the thing. Everybody in their grandma knows Nick Casario needs to show up the offensive line. The problem is Blake Fisher was his second round pick. No, he needs time to develop. We'll see.

Juice Scruggs. High trick. Jus Scrugs was, I believe, a second round. pick. Yeah, second round pick. Jared Patterson, I think it was a third round pick of his? That's been the thing is that if you've criticized Casario for not going after lineman, that's actually not fair.

You're just not picking the right ones. And Shaq Mason was a free agent signing of Nick Casario, right? Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, like all these guys that we think are very, oh, and, oh, by the way, Kenyon Green was a first round pick of Nick Casario. So we're like, yeah, Nick Casario, get the offensive lineman. Well, it doesn't look like we're at this point. The early returns are he can't pick offensive linemen.

So who's the most trusted mind in Houston when it comes to offensive line evaluation? Is there anybody you all know of that could give us a good evaluation of some offensive linemen? That'd be NFL Network's Mansmoreline. Okay. We should call and get them on the show. We should. We need effective offensive line. They need the receiving core bolted up.

You've already spent a lot of money on your defensive line this pass-off season. linebacking core looks They need some interior help still Run stuff Settel has come along But I mean Folli Folli Folli Fadikoski is just a guy Mario Edwards

Kind of like he's decent And that's not necessarily their jobs You can't pay money to everybody Right Because the linebackers are so good As long as the defensive tackles The way that this defense is They don't need to win

They just need to not lose Because the linebacking corps is so good But it'd be nice to get some Some consistent interior pressure which Tim Settle has provided and kind of established himself as a season went along as a starter, but you could still do better. You can still do better on the interior of the line, both sides. But I think if you were to look at the first three rounds of the draft,

and that's where people care. I mean, after round four, people check out. You're going to go wide receiver and offensive line in some particular category. Yeah, about two offensive linemen and a wide receiver. Let's go. Who says no? No, I mean, and just maybe, again, what if you're CJ? What are you doing this month as you reflect on this season?

Do you go? Podcast tour, going to Turkey, Venice, Italy, Japan. He was going to do it again. Hanging out with him? Who was the Dallas Cowboy he was hanging out with? Mike Parsons. I'm a killer. I'm a dog.

I don't. I'm top three in the NFL. That's not the reason why his numbers fell. I know. His numbers fell off is because I think he lost faith in his offensive line. He looked a lot better at a lot. He played one of his best games of the season against the Chargers. and then another solid performance this weekend.

To where at least he didn't cost you the game. He didn't go out and win you the game, which you would have liked, but he didn't cost you the game. Who was the best quarterback this weekend? Was it Mahomes in that fourth quarter magistrate? Was it the fact that Jay Daniels was just... They just kept putting up touchdown after touchdown. They never took their foot off the pedal.

The best player this weekend was Sequan Barclay. Oh, my God. Two long touchdown runs. Imagine how much fun or lack there is of fun of actually running. in that crap. When we were kids, we loved it. As an adult, like, I'm walking off the plane. I'm like, I'm going to fall and crack my head because we were snow-air.

There were players. Getting like barely falling into the turf. That stuff must have been icy over there, especially in Buffalo. They were barely falling into the turf and, like, getting shaken up. Yeah. Speaking of that, do not go anywhere tonight after 9 o'clock. 8 o'clock. 8 o'clock.

I think it's what the folks are saying. So make it 7 to be safe. Yeah, be safe. Yeah. Listen to the radio for us. We're going to be on Colin Rockets basketball here in an hour. You've got the launch pad in a few seconds. And then I will, you and I will talk tomorrow between 10 and 2.

And then I'll talk to you again 3 to 7 on KTR. We're going to be busy the next couple days. Sit back, listen, relax, calls. Give us your life story. Santander, Blue Jays. Santander, Blue Jays. Not going to the Astros. And also, does that take him off the list for Bregnant?

Blue Jays. Take them off. By the way, did you see Joe Spada quarter saying we're not giving up on Breggling? We can walk him with open arms. All right, we've got to get out of here. We've got to go out of here. Actually, you can keep talking. No, no, no.

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