The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Are Rolling! Texans Lose vs Broncos, Demeco Speaks

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

Rockets Are Rolling! Texans Lose vs Broncos, Demeco Speaks 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. It was a touchdown. I don't feel like I'm getting what I need. All you wanted was... The son doesn't fit. I'm upset. All you wanted was a time-consuming drive

to maybe send the game to overtime. Instead, pass, pass completion that set the receiver out of bounds, pass, stop a train. your clock and you gave Bo Nix a chance to run down the football field literally as the Broncos beat the Texans. You get what you need.

No, it's not what you need. You got what you deserve. No, you need a victory. No, that's not what you deserve. You don't deserve your quarterback to get his brain slammed into the turf and taken out of the game? Legal hit, by the way. It was a legal hit.

Yeah. Davis Mills is a typical backup. Aziz Alshayir doesn't think it was a legal hit. Yeah. He's like, he's a legal hit. Can I get $13,000 fine for just looking at the play? That man gets dickled and dined to death with all his penalties and not penalties, but fine, Sam. Thank you very much to the Rolling Stones.

Appreciate you. Terrible. No, so. Rolling Stones are one of the greatest rock bands of all time. No, I'm not talking about that. Oh, okay. All right. Yes, they're one of the greatest rock bands of all time.

Someone would say even better than maybe the best. Someone would say they're the best rock band. Those would be idiots that, but that's a different issue for a different thing. I'm not saying that. I'm saying some would say that. That's right. Those some are idiots. Rossi, how are you?

I'm doing okay, I guess. Yeah, it's weird. A weird sports weekend. You can't be mad, I guess, in theory, when the quarterback gets hurt and the backup comes in, but still, I'm still mad, I think. Yeah, your defense gave up 18 points. Yes. Now, granted, a lot of that came in the fourth quarter. 11 of that.

Yeah, the TV broadcasts are like, man, this Bronco team, this Bronco, you know, some teams are built for the second half. some may be just built for the fourth quarter i.e. the Broncos scoring 33 against the Giants a few weeks ago in the fourth quarter. Well, it was only 11 against the Texans, but whatever. No, this look, if I've given up 18 points, I'm supposed to win football games.

This very well may be the best defense in Texans history. And they're three and five. They cannot score points. Yeah. It is extremely frustrating. Yeah. What's the comp on this? Having a 40 home run, 150 RBI guy in your lineup and the rest of

the guys in front of behind him can't hit? How about the 2005 Astros? Yeah. Pitching is elite and they know, then you got Adam Everett, batting cleanup. Okay, he wasn't bad and cleanup. You got Brian Awesomeus, not hitting Awesomeus hits. Yes. Exactly.

I used to have a partner who always call him Awesomeus and I'm like, bro, it's Osmos. Yeah, I know. That's pretty lame, I would say. Yeah. Yeah, Jason Lane and the boys weren't getting it done. Yeah. Morgan Insberg's bat not nearly as powerful was in previous years. For whatever reason.

All right, that's the, we'll cut off the 2000, mid-2000 Astros conversation. But that's where we are. It's extremely, extremely great defense and in its own way, fun to watch. But when you add it up, like 18 to 15 games aren't very fun to watch. 14 to 9. What have been some of the other final scores this year? Well, you know, 20 to 19, 17 to 10.

It's been ugly. It's also easy for all of us to say, man, I wish we would have fired on that game. meaning putting some money down on it. Because when you think you've got an absolute unbelievable line that you think you're going to win on, either you're not in Vegas or you're not in Lake Charles or you just say, you're just full of BS. You're like, oh, I'm going to bet that game. And you wind up not betting it.

This was the one of them we probably should have gone in together. You wanted the Broncos? No, I wanted the under. Oh, the under. Yeah, that seemed fairly obvious. I guess I'm with you. But 39 and a half is a very low total. It was so low, but yet we should have known.

Yeah. The Broncos don't score until late. The Texans just don't score at all. And by the way, a couple of those field goals at Fair Baron hit were, I mean, he first one, he missed his first one. And then they were just sliding at the very last second. No, they do count. Yes.

It was like he was playing closest to the pin, but it was closest to the upright. Well, it was like he was playing darts. He's getting bored. He's like, yeah, I don't want to split the upright. That's boring. Let's see if I can doink one. Let's add some drama to this. He was calling glass every time he was doing it.

It's like, what's going on over here? That felt like to me, just getting the vibe off the television. And again, the crowd is going to feed off of what's on the field 99% of the time. The crowd couldn't really get into it. It was a bad crowd. A lot of bad football crowds this weekend in this town.

Oh, my God. Don't get me started. It was a bad crowd and it was a lot of orange. How come every week we're like, Team X playing the Texans travels well? Yeah. It's Broncos. Oh, the Niners. Oh, yeah, they travel well.

Oh, this team, everybody travels well. Well, okay, we can't go to that excuse every week. At some point in time, you've got to have a good crowd that is loud. Yeah. It never got the juice. And granted, when you're kicking field goals for your offense, you're not going to have much juice. Terrible. And then CJ Stroud goes down.

They would have won that game if C.J. Stroud stayed healthy. But he didn't. That's the overriding sentiment is that the difference, I mean, you're going, from a really nice tenderloin. I wouldn't say a filet mignon. Oh, really? You're going to a nice centerloin with some bernets or perhaps a chima chiroe sauce to go into, you know, chop steak?

No, you're going to a checkers to get the two burgers for $2. Hey now. Man, you'll eat it. You'll eat it. You'll eat it. All right. But it's not going to do you very well. First, it's going to be harmful to your health.

But they still could have won, though. Two things will be, two statements are true. They would have won if C.J. Strauss were healthy. They also could have one with Davis Mills in the game. Yeah. The play calling was once again horrendous. The late game execution

was horrendous. And you know what? Look, Nick Cayley is going to be losing his job at the end of the year. I hope he didn't get any real estate here in town because Lord knows it's probably going to lose value on it. Can that happen? Are they going to do that? Absolutely. They're going to. They must do it. I mean, don't you look like an in-app franchise? Okay, stop

me. I'm not going to stop you. I'm just saying, in general general managers slash coaches I mean they do come to a point but they don't like to admit their mistakes they'll kind of dig in like how how DiMico Rines was last week when they won

yeah all this noise all this outside noise we believe in Nick Kelly this offense is great this offense is awesome one week later this offense is not looking so awesome no no it went from low against Seattle to super high against San Francisco to being back to what it has typically been this year and that's a team that doesn't have offensive line

protection. They gets its quarterback hurt. And again, CJ was running, so it wasn't like he was in the pocket and got hit down. I mean, the prect, but the protection was fine on that play. But generally speaking, it wasn't great. The offensive line can't help the running game at all.

They got knocked up. They got a couple of injuries on the offensive line, and you're going up against one of the most ferocious pass rushes in football. Yeah, which is going to happen again. I mean, yeah, teams build defenses. Yeah. Other teams, the other guys guys are good too. This is the NFL. This is the highest level possible of football. Right. Right.

Yeah. Well, other things to cover, but time for break, man, but I think we do you have a quick public service announcement. We're going to have to the break? Are you going to do it? No, right now. Don't click on anything posted by SportsMT. Oh, no. Is it really bad? Yeah, they're posting, they're posting crypto stuff. Yeah, I got hacked. Matt got hacked at SportsMT. Oh, geez. They've locked it so I can't reply or quote tweet it. They're very smart. They locked your account so they don't allow retweets or quotes so people can't say it's hacked. But Matt's been hacked.

Don't click anything at SportsMT. You know what? Actually, in the meantime, just go ahead and unfollow him. That's not nice. Okay, I'm just kidding. You don't have to do that. God. This is your third time getting hacked or fourth?

Third. Okay. You don't get two authored. Oh, come on, Matt. Mistakes are been made. I know he doesn't do the two-factor. Even though he's so famous. I'm going to set him up on Google Authenticator.

Don't get. Don't worry. You just know he's going to get hacked. Yeah, I know. So don't click anything at SportsMT. Just quick public service announcement. Okay, now back to your regular scheduling sports radio program. All right, I'm going to work on this during the break.

I just got a response from it. And they say that we've investigated your report and it seems like you still have control of your account. No, I don't. I don't have it. Send it again. I don't think I've got to control my account. You know what I'm thinking about this. Can we just get rid of, if I just said, you know, enough of Twitter,

by. I mean, would that be the worst thing? I mean, I don't know. You tell me. I would say. Because my, because all I do now is I block people that are either offensive linemen that play in Chilwaukee, Ohio, or crypto accounts or porn accounts. I don't get fresh on people that listen to show. I think people have, and people are leaving Twitter left and right. Yeah. It's up to you. I just, I don't know. I think it, and I mean, just because we lit, we work in sports media. It's good for us to have them. But I'm with you. If I didn't have this job, I wouldn't have a Twitter or on Instagram. But I mean, they're Go and follow me at SportsRV. I would appreciate it.

I wouldn't do that. I mean, you know, I got to get the messages out with my partners. You can find at SportsRV. And then what was the one people are getting mad at me about? The Michael Jordan one, people are upset at SportsRV. But people agree with me as well. Okay. And I don't get hacked. Yeah. Lo blo. I'm hacked. I'm hacked.

I'm going to, oh, I'll set up Google Authenticator. Will you please do? I'll set it up for you. Thank you very much. I'm so thankful. And by the, let me see, I have one text. I wanted this person, I'm going to hit the text right now, is going to say, you've been hacked. Let's take a look.

Let's do it. Oh, no, it says four hours of Nick Cayley talk. Oh. Well, we're one segment in. You do know me. 1114 on Sports Talk 790. 713-1-2-570. We'll hear from Dimeco Ryan's a press conference at 1115 today.

I wonder if any of the water carriers will be there to ask simplistic questions. And if they do, we'll call them out. We'll say that was a stupid question. How many stupid questions will we get during? the press available. Three and a half. I'm not saying like probing, you know, get at him,

but I'm just saying like stupid questions. Like, you know, Tommy Townsend did great yesterday, you know, stuff like that. Tom Townsend is busy. Yeah, he was certainly. His foot is like, he's getting a rub down right now. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

All right, so we are with you today until 2 o'clock. We've got the get together with Tomiko at 1115 to tell the truth at 1130. Wonderful. News at noon, believe it or not, today at 150. Category is? I don't know, but I've got to tell you right now. Tommy Townsend?

Eight punt. 420 yards of punts. I mean, if anybody should sit on the front row of the bus or like in the good first class scene on the next road game, it would be him. I mean, guy's working his ass off. I mean, Denver punter, Jeremy Croshaw had eight punts. He had 428 yards of punts.

Oh, okay. By the way, have you noticed, and we brought this up maybe once or twice before, we are seeing this in college football. We saw it yesterday in the Jaguars. Are kickers on steroids? Yes. Because yesterday the Jaguars kicker kicked a 68-yard field goal. He looks like he's about 5, 6, 110 pounds.

Now, I know they're using special kicking footballs. Yes. I didn't realize they had bottle rockets underneath them. They're using broken-in footballs. Oh, okay. Actually, I look him up. 6-1? Is that true? Well, he's surrounded by Lyman, though I guess he looked small. True.

It looked like they let Rudy on the field. He's 6-1-160. The pads wear him. He listed at 172. Point being is that first of all, you can never trust college kickers, but now you can trust some of them. And then you can

certainly trust NFO kickers from 63 yards out, hashtag chip shot. 68 yards. Yeah, Cam Little's the one that made the 70-year order in preseason. Yeah. And now He has the record at 60. They put up the list of like the all-time longest kicks. Basically all of them, I think like eight out of ten of them in the last three years. Yeah.

Jason Elam had like a 61-yard or back when he was playing. He had 63, yes. That was in Denver. Yeah. And then it was that guy with the, with like his, wasn't there a guy like his toes were amputated or something? So it was like he had a, it was like he had a hammer for a foot. Am I making that up? I mean, it sounds good.

I don't know if I completely believe it, but. I'm sorry. It was the guy who had the record the 63-yarder back in the day. Oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that guy's got like a club foot. I mean, I'm sure he's fine now or if he's still alive. It's not Lou Groza. It's, um, Tom Dempsey. Tom Dempsey, yeah. Wasn't there something wrong with his toes or something? I think, yeah, he was born with no toes on his right foot. So he went, okay, we're, you know what, he just kicked a big ball. That's, it. So it was like he was swinging a hammer.

Yeah. So he had the biggest foot in 1970. But the bottom line is that, and he probably kicked it straight, too. He didn't kick it soccer style. I guess not. But yeah, Brandon, these are the longest kicker. Kickers longer than 63. Brandon Aubrey last year. Matt Prater, 13, 25.

This is Jake McLaugh in 25. Your boy, Tucker hit a bunch. Justin Tucker in 21 and then Cam Little in 25. It's all within the last five years. There was Jason Hanson for the Lions. He'd kick a bunch of long ones, too, I want to say. I think there's two real reasons for it. First of all, three reasons.

One, you're being able to choose a football you want to kick with. Number two, I think today's kickers are better athletes than they were back in the day when Tony Fritz was kicking for the Oilers and he was 5-7 and 260. And number three, more games are being played indoors where you don't have weather elements to worry about anymore. Now, in Denver, you could probably do it, but

these are kicks that are being made. The game in Jacksonville was in Las Vegas, which is a closed-door stadium. Yeah, the training is better, the technique is better, it's more refined. You have all these kickers. They have like they're kicking coaches. Like the dude, all they do is teach kicking. That wasn't happening in like 1963.

You just find the guy who kicked the longest and that's your kicker. Now, you and I have never kicked field goals for living before. No. I tried out for kicker. But my son has a little league kicker. My big boy, my big 25 year old. Yeah. Kick field goals for his Pop Warner team.

Yeah, that's probably what happened. They just said, hey, who can kick the... What the heck is that? You're probably getting hacked too. Oh, no, no. You better check your two-factor authentication, however that thing is called. I don't know why that alarm's coming on. It's not like a ring camera alarm.

Somebody trying to get in your apartment? Good luck. Nothing of value in there. Yeah. But it is... Dirty clothes? But it is crazy that we're seeing this. And I guess the question will be, will we ever see a 75-yard kick?

I mean, these are athletes and the ball, unless you're doing something with the ball that is just crazy. Like, they're putting, again, a bottle-rocketing. They're breaking them in, apparently. So they're a little softer, I guess. But even the object that is the pigskin can only go a certain distance. That's true. It doesn't have a jet propulsion to it. It is finite.

Yeah. But yeah, 68 yards or? Like, for instance, I thought maybe Denver late in the game yesterday was setting up for a 60-yard field goal try. And another thing, yeah, with the kicker's getting better, years past, you wouldn't even attempt these, a lot of these kicks. And that one was at the end of the half. No, I'm talking about the end. This is the fourth quarter when Denver got stopped. They punted to the Texans, and that's when they did those hard-to-fathom three straight plays

that a lot of the Texans, the Broncos have time left for the clock. If any of those, if they were getting first downs on those plays, we wouldn't say anything. Right. They were trying to win the game. And it just was the absolute worst possible result. Yikes. Horrible. These are not fun games to watch, even when they win, for the most part. Well, I mean, think about it.

The Niner victory was very. good. That is a quality win. You cannot take that away from them. The rest of them are garbage games. They just are. And everybody has to have garbage wins. You can't play 30, you can't play 17 contenders every week. You have to beat

what's out in front of you. But if you lose the teams, you have no business losing to, you got to make that one back. And I think yesterday would have been a huge game. Because A, to win another game at home is important. B, you have a congested AFC right.

now with and I don't know if Denver is going to win the western up but Kansas City wants a playoff spot the LA Chargers want a playoff spot I mean that that they you know you're looking at wild card situations now the Bengals losing yesterday helped the Colts in yesterday he was really hurtful because the Colts looked human for the first time in a while and the Colts were going to be human they were not going to go 16 and 1 you had a chance to make up some ground if you thought about a chance of going to the AFC South winning the AFC South but then Jacksonville has to go to overtime, scores the touchdown.

The Raiders come right back, and then they don't get the two-point conversion. And Jacksonville gets out of Vegas with a one-point victory. I mean, it just overall was not a good day on the field, and it wasn't a good day for me, Standing Sky. Sorry, Matt. I don't care. I'm indifferent to it. You said it wasn't a good day for you.

Well, I mean, I'm watching Standing to see where it's going to be. I know. It's, yeah, they're pretty much done. we'll see how much time. Hopefully it's one week maximum missed by C.J. Stroud. Could be zero. You don't know. I mean, you can beat the Jaguars at home with Davis Mills. You can't.

Yeah, because Trevor Lawrence is still not very good. He's... Yeah, he's never going to be more than mid. I don't think. No, I agree with you. All right, 713-212-579. If you want to chime in on the conversation, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We've got Texans to get to a very rough weekend for me college football.

wise on many accounts. The Cougars lost to a very poor West Virginia football team. I know. They were 2 and 6 and 0 and 5 in the mid-12. They were ranked in the top 25. I know. Well, they're not anymore. What happened? They lost to the Mountaineers. Weren't they 14 and a half point favorites?

Yes. Mid-Vegas isn't all everything, Rossi. They just don't. Vegas is no, you're going to turn the ball over every possession. And look, I like Conor Wigman, but the interception he threw in the second half of that game was one of the worst INTs I've ever seen in my entire life. I mean, it was,

I thought it was, because I was eating lunch with some people with the rockets, and I thought the ball was tipped. You choked on your food. Yeah, I mean, I'm sitting there knocking back to the shrimp cocktail. Give you the Heimlich. Yeah, I mean, you can't, you don't, you know, you don't want to lose your steak bites in your, in your prime rib and your shrimp when you have that happening to you. That's a shame.

And then the crowd sucked. They did? Oh, it was awful. What do you mean? What do you mean? I didn't stutter. The crowd sucks. Swell of these rabid U of H fans talking about how great their program is the last couple weeks.

We don't have it. No. No. How many people were there? They said 25,000. I don't believe them. I wasn't there. That's it.

Yeah. Announced. Hmm. Interesting. It's not U of H's fault. It's the fans' fault. You know what it is? It's Kug fans. Y'all dumbass. It's your fault. All you do on your keyboard. I feel about 25,000 people came after me the last couple weeks. I don't care about them anymore. They all go to hell because they're not even real Kuger fans.

Interesting. Well, they do go after you. They should have because you were rude. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 1135. We will hear from Domingo coming up in about 40 minutes from now. I guess the first question will be is how is C.J.

If he's in concussion protocol, my guess is there going to be no definitive answer. There was a Instagram photo put out of him saying he's fine. I guess was his mom in the locker, I couldn't figure who that was. I'm not sure. I don't know who was. I didn't see that. Yeah, but it's out there. So hopefully he's okay.

I don't, you know, again, we're not doctors, so there's no need a guess. We'll let, I don't know how forthcoming, frankly, D'Amico will be, but my guess will be, we'll get the obligatory. We don't know just yet. We'll let you know later. Yeah, we're going to get that. There's not going to be. No, no, no. That's how they're going to roll.

By the way, did you say, I think you said 1135, our clock needs to get fixed. Oh, you know what? I'm looking at the wrong clock. I'm sorry. By the way. We fell back. So we fell back here and in our prep room where Ross and I sit before the show, there is food trash all over the ground. Like people spilled rice and everything over there.

Do you go there and look and see in there? No, this is gross. Hmm. Yeah. So who changes the club? Do we have to go to engineer for that? Yeah, we'll put in a trouble ticket. I'll just tell this text time.

So if I do that multiple times, I apologize, but I do stare at the clock quite a bit. So 10.36 on Sports Talk 790. Get that extra hour arrest over the weekend. You feeling good? It was weird because we played the Celtics on Saturday, and the game was an hour later because they had a hockey game earlier in the day. That's the reason we were late. It was because of the hockey.

They had to have a certain number of hours of transition it over. So we didn't leave Boston to probably 1230, 1245 Eastern time. You know, it's a three and a half hour flight. Really? From Boston, yeah. Boston on back? I guess you got to fight the Gestream a little bit? Well, you know, you fight the stream.

but you don't have to, there's not a lot of traffic out there. So we were, it was a smooth flight, thankfully. And so I got a little bit of sleep in. And then you lost the hour because you went back to the central time zone. And then you lost another hour because the time change. My bed, I hit my, uh, I went to the bed, got to the house and my head at the pillow at 315, which was really 415. So no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it was supposed to, I, I, I hit the bed at 315 with the time change. Trust me in this.

okay because by the time we landed it was three and a half hour flight by the time we got our bags no I'm not saying what time but the clock runs back there was 415 Eastern is what you're saying I'm confused

no it was supposed to be 415 central but it's really 315 yeah I got you okay fall back by the way can we just keep it consistent uh there I thought there was an act of Congress to get rid of it I don't know but I just

I think we're confusing America and then you got to figure out that Phoenix is bougie Phoenix doesn't do it correct used to be Phoenix Is it the whole state of Arizona? I don't know.

But I know Phoenix is the biggest city there. And I also remember growing up, Indianapolis also didn't do it either. Arizona and Hawaii, apparently. Yeah. Boy, he's like, you're team changing out here anyways. Nobody cares. You're worth 4,000 miles away from you. Go away.

I do like the longer, the longer sunlight in the summers. Yeah, tonight, when it's 5.30 and it's pitch black, it's not fun. I don't like that, but I don't know. It doesn't bother me that much as much as others, I guess. I like it. You like it getting dark early? Yeah, I love it. I'd love it.

I'd love it's depressing. Good old. You're in the minority. So is it, are we in daylight savings time now or are we, we were previously in day? I was going to confused by it. We're in standard time now, right? In daylight is the summer? No.

I think we're in daylight. Is it the other way? Are you sure? I know I'm not. I think we're saving daylight because it gets darker quicker, right? Yeah, for instance, this morning when I woke up at 7 o'clock, it was bright sunshiny outside. I'm like, I don't need that. No, I'm right.

Jonathan. I didn't know. I was, you know. No, you were sounding all confident, wasn't he? You got to be confident. You got to be confident. Daylight savings is from March to November. So we're in standard time right now. Now we're in standard. You know, the reason why they say that they don't want to make it a 12-month thing is because they're afraid kids are out at the school buses at 6 o'clock in a morning and it's dark. It's supposed to save as far as energy or something? I don't know. It just adds to my confusion. By the way, shout out to any of you trying to travel in the next handful of days to the government reopens. When I got the email from Intercontinental Airport that they are closing down multiple TSA checkpoints, I was like, this is not going to end well.

It's taking hours and hours and hours, apparently. You're going to California on Friday, so. Yeah, I'm going to have to leave you early. What time was your flight? 630, I think. I got out there, too. I saw people getting, I saw someone on Twitter saying somebody got there at 1.30 for a 630 flight and they missed it. I'm a little worried.

Well, hopefully you got it. You duck out early on me all the time. I mean, I'll do it tomorrow. I mean, if you're doing it tomorrow. Yeah. I mean, that's fine. Look, hey, Jonathan, can we handle non-Florida stories and believe it or not in front? Of course, absolutely.

Yeah, we got that. I'll call you from the TSA line. Are you leaving that early? Are you leaving 1045? I don't. You leave that early. I mean, you can leave her if you need to. But you're going to be going on all next week.

I'm going to miss you. Yes, you are. You can pay for this vacation. Good for you. That would be a nice little change of pace. You want to have nearly the spending money you thought you were going to. I don't know. I don't have to pick up any shifts at Rillies. Slangins kill at Koso.

By them. By the way. So, you know, I came home Thursday to see Carly's last volleyball game and then left, went to the airport Friday. My flight was 90 minutes delayed. And I knew ahead of time, at least United said, hey, we're slowing down flights. There was some wind in Boston, so it kind of made a perfect combination. So we left on time at 8 o'clock when we were supposed to live at 630.

So I appreciate Schmided for giving me the heads up on that. But so they said you're flying out of Terminal D. I've never been the D before my entire life. I didn't even really know what international. Some of it is, yeah. Okay. Primarily it is. So I go to D terminal.

Yes. And as soon as I get there, they say, you have to go to. to checkpoint terminal E. I walk all the way to E to check in. Oh, my God. And by the way, I'm not carrying my bag on. I'm not even checking a bag. Oh, no.

So then I have to go back to D and D is a long-ass terminal. Yeah. I went to gate D4A. I got like 6,000 steps in just at Intercontinental Airport. Look at my number like, it's like, man, you got a good workout in. I'm like, I'm just at the airport. Yeah, I like that. When your watch is like, are you working out right now?

Like, no, I'm actually just watching. walking but sure why not. Actually, if you have some time to kill, getting your steps in at the airport's not bad because you can first for you can people watch. Yeah. Second of all, you can always figure out what you're going to go eat. And third,

and make camp to kill the times. Find the bar that best suits you. Yeah. I went to Rob Rize. Find the bar with the best prospects. I got the three piece spicy. And the biscuit. Rob Rize.

Yeah. And the biscuit didn't taste like a hockey puck. It was actually flavorful. I told you they can, if they make them right, if you go to the right Popeyes, the biscuits are good. Go to Popeyes at Terminal D and you'll get yourself a good biscuit. And also, you can always always ask for honey. So if you do get a dry batch, then you can just put the honey on it.

Red Beans and Rice did kick up. Ooh. I don't think people on the plane next thing. They shrink-flated them. The large is about six ounces now. Yeah, that's true. It's ridiculous. All right.

We just basically didn't talk sports there and I apologize. Matt, hold on. We got listeners. We do? I think so. I can't tell my Twitter. It's like a hat. Don't tweet at SportsMT because he has been hacked.

as they're promoting some crypto account. Yeah. Sorry, man. Maybe I need this break. Maybe I'll get, when I get my account back, I'll get an account, because I'm not getting any new followers. I don't know why. I'm just getting the same.

You need to tweet more. I didn't know. I don't want to overtweet so much. Yesterday, watching the Texans game, when everybody, and I look, I love Adam Wex so like he's my best friend. And he's one of my close friends. That's good.

But he tweets 50 times an hour. I'm watching the game, Wex. I don't want to mute Wex because he does provide good information. What do you mean? It's like you get the whole game recap, just reading his tweets. But if I'm trying to find out what else going on sports, I don't need six-yard carry there. I mean, you know, yeah, if you slept in, you need to catch it. It's all good.

Who's sleeping in? Sunday, it's noon. You've got to watch the games. That's what you're here for. Oh, am I talking to the wrong person? Oops, I'm sorry about that. What do you mean? Yeah, I don't know what I mean.

Bush Airport tweeting an hour ago, by the way, T.S. wait times may exceed three hours. So let me ask you this. Are planes leaving without people? I mean, I'm going to presume so, right? Absolutely. Absolutely. This is a whole mess.

Thankfully, I mean, just because I'm blessed, I don't have to go through that and flying with the rockets. It's kind of nice. If I sign up for pre-check now, can I have it by Friday? No, because you don't get your fingerpins. I guess if you can get your appointment this week,

you probably could. I don't normally do pre-check because I don't fly that often? No, you're too late. You don't have enough time. You're probably in a couple weeks. I'm sorry. I can do clear.

I can do a clear trial. Clear can do it, yeah. But I don't know, again, I don't know how much faster it's going to be for you, honestly. Okay. So if anybody... This is three to five days. Now, I'll say this.

I did not have any issues on Friday. So was I just lucky? I guess Intercontinental just said that I had to close it down. I'm assuming how I had the same thing. What time were you flying? My flight was supposed to be at 630 and I left at 8 o'clock. PM? Huh. Yeah, usually that'd be prime on a Saturday or a Sunday.

It was on a Friday. Friday. Even worse. Yeah. Huh. Just saying, I don't know. You got lucky. I did get lucky. Yeah, we're getting a lot of you guys tweeting the Ross's account because it's legit right now. Apparently Clear, I'm by the way you just texting me. He says, Clear is not taking any new customers. So I think you're SLL on that. Okay, that makes sense. And I was thinking about that too. TSA might be backlog because everybody's thinking what I'm thinking. Oh, just signing for that and I'll be okay.

Yeah. I'm going to leave you early on Friday, Maddie. That's fine. I mean, it's, I don't. I don't. why you miss a flight because you be cranky. I'll be real cranky. Shooting video at the airport. I'm sitting here. I've been here in a hobby for $40. No.

So when do you leave in 1 30 or? You know, we got Roto. Why don't you live at 1 o'clock on Friday? Oh, Roto? Yeah. I'll call in my question. That's fine. But see, the thing is, I would actually, if you leave at one, can you get, you go to hobby?

Yeah. We get you to hobby by one. At the park there. You're going to park at the airport? What are you going to do? Oh. There's no change you. get on before the end of the show. I want to see how the lines are.

I'm my Uber from here. Okay. If you can get, so yeah, well, yeah, you're living at 1 o'clock on Friday just to be safe. And then, um, uh, and then you're going to try to call us from Hobby. From the TSA line. From the TSA. Tell us how bad it is. Three hours of TSA.

This is going to be great. Let me tell you something. If you get past it, then you're getting in the airport. You'll have plenty of time. Yeah. I'll just take a nap or, or, I don't know. They have food there, apparently. So you'll be fine.

Yeah. Granted, the Roppas company got screwed out of Hobby. but that's a difference. They did? Oh, yeah. All of those are gone now. All of them? All of them. They lost the contract.

What? Yeah. Do you not watch the news ever? No. No. You don't. No. Have you seen the news?

I know. But my point is... It's six murders and then our government is broken. But that's fantastic. I go to story number eight. Yeah, okay. I skip past number of seven stories. It's the kitten's competition.

I want to watch that story. Yeah. That's the only... Fireman rescues dog from the tree. Exactly. We don't have enough of that stuff. Yeah. And the story about...

Carly was nice, too, on two different stations. Yeah, that was nice. That was the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life. Yeah. So, adorable. Yeah, so the bottom line is that if you are a Roppas fan, you are S-O-L because they lost the contract on hobby. So there's now a bunch of, like, similar type restaurants, but they're not the same.

So I can't go get their overpriced breakfast burritos is what you're saying. Well, I mean, you'd be there at lunchtime. Does you have rinks, Rita there? I don't know. I don't go to hobby very often. They do an intercontinental they still have it. So, Doug on 790, thank you for holding and good morning. Hey, guys.

I appreciate your. of Monday therapy sessions with us. Yes. Before I get to my point, like most fans, after watching that game, you know, I swear I'm never going to watch them again, but then suddenly I'll be in front of the TV watching them again. What I wanted to talk about is in three of our five losses.

I know the offense is pathetic, but it's been the defense, and it's the same mistakes, you know, against Tampa Bay, fourth and ten, you know, the defensive line doesn't hold their gap. The quarterback scrambles for a long game. They score, they win.

Jacksonville, our cornerback is not guarding a wide receiver thinking he's got safety help, unmolested, long touch, they score, they win. Yesterday, they did the same two mistakes in the game. You know, at the end of the first half, for some reason, Stingley stops guarding his man thinking he's got safety help. The guy goes untouched, and then in the end of the game, once again, third down and long, nobody holds their gaps, quarterback runs for a 40-yard dash, and they score and they win. and it's the same mistakes and I keep hearing how we've got a top three defense

and they do play well most of the game but it seems like when the game's on the line is when kind of they I don't know I don't want to say fall apart but you know it just seems to go to the hell on a handbasket at the end so anyway I'm curious what you guys think as always I appreciate your show.

Thank you very you know it's a fair conversation to have I mean the big moments in this game yesterday the defense did not come up there was the touchdown there was a two-point conversion, Rossi there was the long run that allowed Bo Nix, who I thought was generally speaking awful during the game to get those, I mean, that made that 25-yard run he had

untouched, not only did he get out of bounds, he wasn't touched, it put him in prime field goal position. I mean, you sometimes, you have to overcome your offense's weaknesses, and sometimes you've got to be able to step up and help. And again, it's an excellent defense, the top three defense, but it's fourth quarter, it lets you down a little bit. Yes.

They are not going to execute properly 100% of the time. Correct. That is true. And also, we have to remember, this is the NFL in 2025. The rules are set up for offenses to score. It's all about offenses. But if you hold the Denver Broncos to 18 points, you're supposed to win. You need to win that game.

If you hold the, he brought the Jaguars game up, you held the Broncos to 17 points. You need to win that game. Yes, absolutely. The other guys are paid too. They have all these wonderful, great. players and they have a great offensive line. They have Bow Nix. They have Corlin Sudden. They have a pretty good one-two punch at running back.

They're going to score some points. If you hold all that to 18 points, they have done their job. Yes, they didn't execute properly or perfectly on every single play. But you're like, I think still tops in the NFL and points per game. You're still one of the top five in, you know, DVOA and EPA and yards per play and all that. Yeah, those are hollow numbers. It's in result. And also, by the way, they need better offense.

Yeah. And your defense is going to be tired at the end of the game. If you're punting and going three and out every time and your defense is on the field every game, you are going to be gas at the end of games and have these slip-ups where you're giving up scrambles to Baker Mayfield. Or you're giving up touchdowns to other teams. They need to score more points, bottom line. Yeah. No, the macro picture of it is, Doug, and your point is very fair.

Macro is you've got to score more points. You give me a defense that surrenders 18 points. Or you're at home. At home, you're going to, you're not only saying. You're going, you should win the game. You're supposed to win the game. I mean, it's, yes. There's just, it's an aptitude on the offensive side.

It's been that way, and it's largely because of the offensive line. It certainly did not help that CJ got hurt. The ground game had a few little spurts here and there. And oh, by the way, Ross, penalties, illegal motions, holding calls. It's a D minus offense. It's a C offense with CJ's around the field because he can make some plays, but short of him not putting together some heroic. performance, it's a D-minus offense.

How many penalties have they committed like at the one or two yard line? It feels like a bunch. It feels like it's happened a lot. You give up a fourth down and goal situation, which they probably wouldn't have scored on because they didn't score on first, second, and third down, but you had to go set up on the field goal

because it was the five-hour penalty. Oh, so frustrating. And the play calling, again, even, who was it? Was it Rapid Port? No, it was noted the NBA analyst, And I think I... Is it Magic Johnson?

No, it was... Even Major Johnson would probably tweet out. Bill Simmons needs some help. What did Bill Simmons say? Bill Simmons, and I'll look at my old account because I think I can still go to it. You're locked out, I don't know. I retweeted it.

Okay. Let's see here. Oh yeah, here it is. Bill Simmons, still not over this. First and 10, 114 left to go in the game. Davis Mills incomplete pass to Christian Kirk. Okay, that stopped the clock. Yes.

Second down. Davis Mills passed to Jaden Higgins of the left side for four yards. That pass was so poor that his Higgins couldn't even stay in bounds if he wanted to. He was falling out of bounds as he was trying to make the catch. That's difference between maybe C.J. Stride and Davis Mills. Third down and

6. 105 remaining. Davis Mills and complete pass to the right. Stops the clock. Tommy Townsend, punts the ball 55 yards. Michael Bandy, who by the way lost football earlier in the game, returns it for 8. You give them first and 10 with a minute left to go

in the contest. And you saw what happened. Couldn't make a stop. Could make a stop. Could not make a stop. Frustrating. I mean, these losses have been so frustrating. And by the way, if I hear one more time about this being a one-score game,

which it was. We're going to lose our minds. And I want you, Battle Red Ross, to lose your mind over it. Because you're tired of hearing about it. It's, yeah. You're tired of hearing about it since any bingles. that game yesterday. Holy smokes. This is the Matt Thomas show

with Ross. Gordy has a great argument for Halloween trick or treating, but we can't do it today because we're going to do it. Probably what? You want to do commissioner's court on that later this week? Okay. What would we call that? I mean, it's not really a fantasy league question. No, I think we should do commissioner's court, period.

There's a judge show that has like three judges. You come to us and say you need a ruling on stuff all the time. Yeah, I do that to you. So it needs to be sports RV's commissioner scored. Okay, I'm the commission. I am the commission of our league. We're going to put you on the marquee. Yeah, the commission needs to do some score corrections for the last five weeks or so of our league.

It's been going bad. Like I said, all I need is, Dak Press got on to throw for 384 yards and five touchdowns. He might. By the way, can I get a little bit of credit that? I'd not say with Roto on Friday that Indianapolis Colts game was going to be a trap game for Pittsburgh? I wasn't listening. Thank you.

All right. By way, happy opening night of college basketball for everybody. That's true. Wait, is it tonight or tomorrow? The Longhorns open with Duke. In Charlotte. Ooh, good for you. No, not good.

Why? They're going to get their ass kicked. You don't know that. I mean, I actually kind of do know that. Hey, we got a tough matchup with Lee High. Oh my God. Hey, it's better than playing Lee Lowe.

All right. That was a dad joke. I apologize. Go ahead. Get him. He needs to be dinged for that. Hit the, I'm sorry for that.

That was terrible. Man, he sounded like me on that one. That's terrible. I apologize. Leave the bad puns to me. Exactly. Speaking of basketball, rockets tonight tanking on the Dallas Mavericks,

Cooper flag in town for the very first time. Tomorrow, Texas, not at Duke. a neutral sight game in Charlotte for the Dickie V. Invitational. Seven and a half point favorites are the Duke Blue Devils. Really? You want to know how much of a favorite the Houston Cougars are? Boy, you know what?

They have covered in these games. Do you see my jaw dropping at this line? Okay, can I go 34.5? You're close. What is it? 36 and a half. Lehigh mascot is? No clue.

That's tough. Mountain Hawks. Yeah, I didn't know. By the way, no Anthony Davis tonight for The Mavericks. He's out again. I know that'll surprise you. Oh, my God. Street closes out again.

Left cap stride. Yeah. What's the, Nico, what's his name? Collins? The Mavericks. Oh, Fire Nico. Nico, whatever it is. I don't know.

It's not Matthews, is it? Harrison. Harrison, yeah. That's not, yeah. And by the way, Cooper Flagg has been okay, not great. I mean, he's a rookie. Yeah. he's a rookie.

By the way, thank you finally for the Spurs to finally lose the game over the weekend. Yes. Thank God on that. Yeah, I think Wimby didn't have a good game. Yes, he had a single double. He had a single double. He had two, double points and I think double

less than double the ball on the rebounds. Did you watch the Rocket Celtics on Saturday night? They kicked the crap out of the seas. Now, the Celtics are not very good. When you lose Jason Tainham, you lose your franchise. I mean, Jalen Brown's nice, but he ain't that kind of, you can't carry it by himself. when you're having Peyton Pritchard being one of your main go-to scores.

Hey, Peyton Pritchard can ball a little bit. A little bit. The me is Keita. Excuse me? Yes, exactly. That's 88 if those are playing at home. Chris Boucher. No, come on now.

Not a pelican. Not Bobby. Not Bobby Boucher, but yeah, it was fun. Rockets go up to Boston and beat the crap out of them. I mean, literally beat the crap out of them. Rockets are, I believe, the number one three-point shooting team in the NBA. Call me completely stunned. That is nice.

And I'm in Thompson in his first three. of the season, by the way. I saw that. Yeah. Good for him. Yep. And two players almost with a triple double in one game until we just called the dog's office. So we've got to get out of here. Yeah. Rockets and Celtics tonight, we'll have it for you beginning at 6 o'clock right here on Sports Talk 7.90. We will also have in about seven minutes from now, Demico, Ryan's going to speak to the media. Let's talk to quickly James on 790 before we get to Demico. Hello, James. Yeah, the longhorns will rank number 20th or 22nd, then they jump to 20th, and now they're at 13. They're 7th. They're 7th. This. team up for the playoffs. I'm totally convinced. They beat two top 10 teams in that span. I understand that, but they got to get them in the top 10 for the playoffs, and that's what they're going to do. Almost the AP poll.

It's completely different from the college football committee rankings. It doesn't matter. The AP and the coaches poll are irrelevant. Well, I still think the Longhorn Nation's got some involvement in this. No, there's absolutely nothing involved. That's not true at all whatsoever. They've won four games in a row, two of them against top ten competition. Yeah, that's not

accurate at all. I understand that. Well, good for them. It's going to take care of itself. They lose at Georgia, not this week, but next week, or at home against A&M, they're not going to make the playoff, I don't think. Yeah, by the way, the first announcement of the top 12 will be on ESPN tonight before, I believe, the Monday night game. So, James. These Cougars fans. Is he Cougar?

Yes. Yes. Oof. Y'all, you know, I'm sorry, they're the best. The greatest fan base in the country shows up big for their kids. guys, not obsessed with the Longhorns at all. 25,000 strong on Saturday for their ranked squad.

That's the worst part is that not only did we not show up, but the team didn't show up. I mean, it was a terribly played football game. Hey. And Willie's first one to say, and again, I think Willie is a

coach that falls on it on a sort of for his team. That's good. He said, we didn't prepare well, didn't show up. I mean, all the good coach cliche stuff. He turned the ball over five. Was it five times or six?

I lost track after a while. When that Wegman Interception was thrown, I was like, this is not going to be the day. First of all, they scored at ease early on, and the Cougars got back. Weiman did want to, I think he had five touchdowns in the day, four passing, one rushing, but damn,

the defense was, I mean, just not to be found. Could he used a strong, loud crowd? It would have made a difference. Well, maybe a little difference. Inflancy officials. Well, because here's the thing. If we'd have won the game, then the all

the onus would have been on, well, this city doesn't support the team, the school doesn't support the team, it's been 25,000 people, but now you got well, since the Cougars lost, why don't want to go watch that trash? Why they lost the West Virginia? I mean, it just was a bad narrative that got worse. It's as it could have gone you. Sorry, Matt.

You know, I blame West Virginia actually. You should. They should have brought their 16,000 fans. Blame John Denver. Could have needed you there. Look, U.H is trying. It's just not good. It's just, we just, we never We never draw. I mean, what do you want me to say?

I can lie. We just don't draw. We're not, you know, we have, there's too many colleges with too many affiliations of other people that live in this city. You would think of six million people with all the people that I talk to and hang out with and proudly are proud Cooghugers. When I go to the airport, they put up the go Cougars hand sign and scream at me and say hello and all that kind of thing. We just don't show up. We just don't show up at the Astrodome. We didn't show up at Robert's City.

We didn't show up at, I mean, it was a struggle just to get the building fill for. on the Peach Bowl season. It just was. Got an enrollment of 51,000. Student section was pathetic. 51,000 enrollment. The student section wasn't good? Yeah.

I get the excuse was, well, it was 11 o'clock start. The kids were on Halloween night before. Sorry, I put UVA enrollment. That was Hawaii. Hawaii has 51,000 students. I guess so. I guess in all their campuses.

Oh, yeah, there's multiple campuses. All right. Let's hear from Houston. Well, Houston's close. It's 48,9,77. Well, about 2,000. About 2,000 students of those showed up claiming the free tickets. They don't cost him a penny.

D'Amico is up next. 1112 on Sports Talk 790. All right. D'emico's been pushed back 15 minutes, probably just to make sure the proper media is assembled so he can get the people questions that'll be nice to him. No, it's not true. I mean, D'Amico, look, it's tough. He's got to answer questions.

It's easier when you win and you can be a little more salty when you can say, told you so. But if you have to be a little more introspective, see, when you lose, you have to, you know, kind of take the lumps. Come with it. This is, I am interested to hear how this goes because last week he was getting contentious and combative. And a lot of times you want to do that after a win in the media, if you attack them, guess what? They'll come back at you.

Generally, that's how it goes. You want to be somebody saying, oh, all this noise and all this negative, you guys, all this negativity. And then you want to complain about it after you get one win because you're riding, high after beating the Niners. And then next week, you get your ass beat. When the Broncos coming to town, people are going to be frothing at the mouth. Well, that's just natural.

The reality is this, though. Here's reality. It is human nature. But it's also not Houston. I mean, Aaron Wilson is not going to go up there and be antagonistic. No. Rainy McEvoy and Greg Bailey and Jason Bristol. They're not combative.

I told you so. There's not a columnist in town. No. The Chronicle doesn't even have. a columnist anymore. And then there's, you know, water carrier people that are that pretend their media that are going to be there. I mean, I don't, again, I don't, I don't know who would be up there, but I don't think anybody

that's going to sit in that room and it's going to sit there and go, what can I do when I got you moment? Here are things you have to know. How is to me, how is, how is the quarterback? And we're not getting much of an answer on that. No. Number two. When you go back and review things, the run selection.

the red zone offense is as bad as has ever been. Do you think there's a team and this would take intense PFF research? This would mean these guys would not have sex for months. Do you think the Texans are the worst red zone team in the last 25 years? No, that wouldn't take that long. They could find that. As far as touchdown percentage? I mean, I'm telling you, there's a reason why Andre Johnson didn't score 10 touchdowns in a single season.

Yeah, when we've had a good red zone offense here? Well, I mean, I'm presuming when Aaron Foster was the lead dog. Yeah, because remember Bill O'Brien getting mad at the media? Yeah. Hey, guys, it's hard. All right? You get in the red zone. It's hard to score.

They're like, yeah, you're still 32nd in touchdown percentage. So it's hard for everyone. Bill O'Brien, we get it. You're still 32nd. That's what if DeBico Ryan's going to do. Hey, guys, this is hard to score touchdowns. Yeah, we understand. That's also your job.

I mean, think about Chris. Literally the name of the game. Chris Brown made a blank load of money kicking field. Kyle. Kanye Fabry. I mean, he's going to get his name in the ring of honor next to Janice. I mean, even though. He's the best fantasy kicker in the game right now.

Fat Randy had a few over the days and he was not pulling things. I mean, you know what I mean? I mean, this team has had franchise-wide, coach-wide, and it's purely coincidental. It's not because, I mean, look, D'Amico Ryan's had nothing to do with the Red Zone offense in 2007. I mean, I'm just saying, this is a franchise that just has never had a prolific red zone offense. Yeah, it's been crazy. So you get the questionable running plays, and then the questionable handling of the clock.

Now, let me ask you this. Now, you and I don't, I'm privy to this, but I'm just throwing this out there. Clearly, Domech O'Ryan says, Nick Cayley, you call the plays. Does Nick Cayley not understand what has to happen? If you don't think you can go down and score, especially after that first down play goes incomplete,

don't you run the ball at second and third, punt the ball deep, to not give and drain as much clock time as possible to make sure that the Broncos, when they get the ball back in fourth quarter, they have like 12 seconds and one timeout left? I get it. They were trying to go out there and win the game. And I appreciate that.

But if you throw an incomplete pass, there are negative consequence to come with that. I think you take that one grandiose shot to get the first. And then you do it again. If you don't get that first down completion of a first down, Rossi, that's when you have to say, I got to oh by way, I've got to trust my defense that I've been trusting for basically three hours here.

I mean, that could be the other side of it, say, hey, we do trust our defense. So we are going to go out there and we're going to look at the, see the looks we get, and we're going to try to go out there and win the game. Like, they're playing to win the game. So I get it. The result looks horrible. You run 24 seconds off and they don't have to burn a time out. That's

the worst possible scenario. And the crazy part was, you had with Davis Mills. You had, was it Hutchison and it caught the bash, right? No, it wasn't Hutchison. It was, who was... In that last drive? On that last drive, the one that went out of bounds.

It was going to Higgins? It may have been Higgins. You ran out of bounds? So he catches the ball, he falls out of bounds. The Denver secondary guy's like, oh, no! The clock stopped. Meanwhile, you had Moose Johnson, the booth going, that's a big benefit for them.

They didn't have to burn a timeout. Yeah. It went from bad to worse. It just did. Horrible. Just horrible. Dead last in red zone touchdown percentage. Wait, is this true?

Philadelphia's, is this real? What? Texan's red zone touchdown percentage is 36.36%. This year alone, right? Yes. Okay, go ahead. Philadelphia Eagles is 83%. 25%

Wait a minute That how they have lost How have they ever lost a game then Because they're not getting the red zone much Because they got a lot of big plays It doesn't matter how many Smith got big play I mean

Sequan Barclay's running a couple big runs Washington 77% Pittsburgh 73% You're the only team under 40% Oh this is embarrassing Oh my God Do you know why Because you can't

You can't run the ball Within a five yard line You don't have enough play action Pass protect. You can't pass. You've got a smaller feel to go from. You need for CJ to go through his progressions. Well, in Red Zone, you don't have those progressions.

You don't have time. You've got to make split-second decisions. I don't believe what I'm reading. Like, I have to go to us. This is from TeamRankings.com, very reliable. I got to go to another website. Why? Oh, my God.

Is it this bad? You're trying to have to believe it. It's so bad. I don't believe it. Yeah. Wow. And maybe Nick Cayley's thing about this Ross. Maybe Nick Cahill is going like,

what am I supposed to do? I don't have an offensive line. I've got two nice running backs, but nobody that's going to put the fear and got anybody. I can't continue to throw the ball exclusively to Dalton Schultz. And every time I want to take a seven-step drop, I got pressure coming from the two outside pass rushes for the Broncos. You know what?

Let me ask you this. Can you go if our hands are tied or they're tied? If I don't have the bullets in the gun, I can't fire them off. Yeah. I don't know what they Yeah they can't run They can't pass and they can't pass Protect and they can't

The run blocking is questionable And then you had I mean Howard and who else got hurt in that game Ingram got hurt for a bit Yeah You got Urshry Just being just a guy You get the rotation of the guard spot I mean

New offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel next year Of the Miami Dolphins will be here He's not going to be able to solve everything If you're running back Chubb and marks And I mean They're going to have to be They're going to have to go get a decent running back.

Let me ask you this. Do you go, go get Breece Hall if you want to make the playoffs? Does Bruce Hall the difference maker? Or do you go, you know what? We got so many teams in front of us. We got so many bigger issues that if Breece Hall comes here from the Jets, that he still can't find the holes because the offensive line doesn't offer them. Yeah, I don't know enough about Breece Hall and the Jets running game to know how much of it is Brees Hall

and how much of it is the Jets' offensive lines have been horrible throughout the, years. So, I mean, it wouldn't be that much different. Let's see. Who else? I'm trying to, well, Tony Pollard, but they probably don't, Titans probably don't want to trade in division. I think people have mentioned him as a possible trade target. Put a bigger question. Devon H. Ann? Do you even try going after anybody? Devon H.N. I would go after. I think he is a difference maker. Yeah, I think he is, too. I think he doesn't have to have the holes because he's just, he's a guy that gets yards for you after contact. Yes. And that's the one thing that Woody Marks can't do, and Nick Chub physically can't

do it anymore. A-Chance a game-breaker. If you get him out in open space, he can run by everybody. All right, let's hear from D'Amico Ryan's. He is up next. It's 1126. I can get this clock fixed. This is really good. 713 212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

All right, we're going to push back to tell the truth for another hour as we wait to hear whether we have the feed from NRG or not. I wonder if the Texans conveniently are like, yeah, you guys

were unavailable to get it to you. They wouldn't do that, would they? You wouldn't have quote unquote technical issues. I don't think they would do that. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to chime in,

it is a happy opening day of college basketball. I see that our friends from Duke women's basketball and Baylor women's basketball are playing a game in Paris right now. Hmm. Man, it's a nice trip for the girls, but my goodness, who's paying for that? I don't know.

By the way, speaking of a sponsor. Speaking of paying. Auburn looking to pay out, yet another coach, fired Hugh Freeze over the weekend. It's so funny, man. Everybody says, we need to win, we need to win, we need to win. Oh, yeah, they're absolutely saying we need to win, because we're going to fire you really quick.

Really quick. This is going to be like, Like European soccer managers, Matt, I know you don't know this. But they sometimes, I think Nottingham Forest is into their, they started the season in August. They're on their third manager already. I don't know what that means, but it cracks me up. They change them out every.

It's been three months of the season. They're on their third manager. And we're going to be like that in the NFL eventually. I mean, I don't know what to tell you. To me, this is what comes down to it. You've got pressure on money that you're spending on your coach. you got pressure on the money that you're spending on the kids and none of this i guess rossy nobody could go eight and four anymore if you have any if you have a lot of money invested with a power

program eight and four ain't going to cut it oh man it's crazy how quick the the the honeymoons the honeymoon can be gone in weeks james franklin six weeks after making the semifinal yeah of course he'd been there for years right is the counter argument right but he literally was six weeks from making the at the semis. Crazy. Again, I will submit, Ryan Day, if it's the regular playoff and only the top four make it and they're out,

he would have been fired because they kept on getting close and not getting there. So we're always looking for the end game and when this is going to eventually slow down. The only way it's going to slow down is when you eventually say

to the big donors, I can't be paying out these coaches anymore. I can't pay $50 million. I can't pay $40 million. And oh, by the way, you want me to pay that out and you also want me to help you get more money and pay for that new head coach who wants an additional staff who makes a lot of money.

I mean, somebody's got to blink, whether it be the agents of the coaches or the schools, where they have to kind of put their foot down and say, we are not going to negotiate these big time, long-term contracts. And if you want to go and get hired off, You got, it means you got to stand your ground. Well, it's going to take... Nobody forced A&M to sign Jimbo to that extra...

We're all like, what? Yeah. He didn't even win a championship and he got a hundred, X, $100 million or whatever it was? Nobody forced, nobody forced the Longhorns to resign Steve Sarkis into his big deal in January. Yeah. They're making the semifinal twice. Yep.

Where's he going to get higher off to? That's what I'm saying. It's going to take... a school to say, we're going to give you what you think your fair market value is. But I can't give you a seven-year deal. I can give you three years on an option at 14, maybe front-end pay, maybe pay more than you would on an average. But you are saddling these schools. LSU is saddling.

It's alumni base. It's corporate sponsors. It's entire state. Governor Landry is still losing his mind over this. It's absolutely crazy. Wild. All in the name of championship. So here's what you got available to you.

Florida, Auburn. It's not when I was... UCLA. Penn State. Virginia Tech? No, I think James Franklin's going to go there. Oh, James Franklin? Is that Dundee?

I don't know if it's a done deal, but everything I've seen is towards that. Okay. Florida State, probably. Baylor, probably. I mean, this is crazy. Not only the number of jobs that are out there, but the number of quality jobs. We're talking about... You want to take a job at Florida State?

That's a great job. The funny thing is, oh, did you mention Arkansas? Arkansas. Good job. I mean, good job if it's in the Big 12. Great job. It's a good job of the Biggie in the SEC.

Because you've got better jobs in front of me. Florida job is better. Auburn job is better. Auburn, LSU, Florida, Penn State. All four of those fan bases and boosters are going to want a championship within like five years. And that's four teams right there. That's, yeah.

I mean, expectations are so. You don't know the heavy hit. We have the pressure. I'm ready to go. All right, here we go. Let's go here in Domeco. Feels like afternoon. D'emico, midway, roughly through the season here, the defense has had a lot of success.

It hasn't been in that way in offense. It's been a lot of side. As an organization, it shows of how you build the roster, how you put all together. How do you kind of get that where it's so, not so one-sided for one side of the ball? We have to play team, boss. It's a team game, and we have to play complimentary football, all three phases, helping helping each other out, however that. looks every week. To me, it really doesn't matter about finishing the game in a winning

fashion that's scoring more points than the other team. That's stopping them, not allowing them score points. Do you have any new information on CJ Stroud? And if Dave Smith does have to play, what are your expectations of him? If CJ's in the concussion protocol, spoke to him last night, he's feeling a little bit better. We'll see how the week goes and how he has progresses throughout the. week and oh davis has to step in and play we just expect him to go out and do his best i just play the offense in the proper way uh made great decisions with the football

the struggles you guys had on some of the short yardage plays is there an adjustment a change in the future with how you guys approach those so that you can maybe mitigate some of those issues i hope so we're trying to get we're trying to convert them so we have to do something different obviously what we're doing it hasn't worked So we just got to find a different way. What can you go back to look at the play that calls CJ to be injured or concussed? How do you balance looking at it from a coach's standpoint, you know, a former player standpoint, and then with the way that Aziz was penalized last year,

and it was basically almost like the same hit. It wasn't the head area. But how do you balance, you know, being able to judge that? Yeah, look, it's a tough play, right? The quarterback is sliding. The quarterbacks are protected when they slide, but what I'm learned is if you hit them, don't hit them in the head or neck area,

they slide, you hit them in the chest, and that's just fine. So that's what I learned. Amiga, do you expect to be, you and Nick expect to be aggressive at the trade deadline? We'll see what happens throughout the trade deadline, not involving that right now. Just finishing up here,

we'll see what happens, you know, later throughout the afternoon. Your last possession, any regrets doing what you did? Phil's think it was the right decision? No, no regrets. Look, we're trying to get in position to score, right? We tried to throw the ball.

We had a couple quick options to throw the football, and then get the clock moving, get our two-minute drive started. It didn't happen. A lot of focus, obviously, on what changed when CJ left the game, but you also weren't able to pretty much go jumbo package to the rest of the game

because Blake's on the field for Titus. Did that change a little bit of offensive football that you might have wanted to play otherwise? Not really. It didn't change much for us. Not going jumbo package is not a huge deal for us. Still had opportunities to run the football. It's just got to make sure we're targeting the right way.

We've got to make sure we're blocking and making sure we're finishing our blocks. If we want to be great in the run game, it's going to take more finish in our blocking, which we've got to improve. A couple years ago you've got her in a simple position like this, Cesar gets hurt in this couple of games. You guys were able to play a very pivotal game against the Titans.

Obviously, much different are off the difficulty and things of that nature. But how much can you draw back with that experience, how you be able to rally the team and be able to get key wins? How much people draw back from that experience to apply the distance in the situation? Every experience, everyone, it's new. It's a new team, new year. So we'll do what we have to do, put ourselves in the best position to go out and play a great game to play winning football. So that's how we'll approach it this week.

There's a visceral response. I know when you get inside the one-yard line, you think we're supposed to be at the school. We should be able to knock and not focus off the line in spring. However, if it comes to a point that sometimes you can play action, maybe you can do an option there suppose, okay, line them up, let them knock, then go play action on them, throw the pads for one yard. Touchdown is touchdowns, like you say, you want to win the game. Yeah, it's a lot of, right? what else, right? We throw the ball on the goal line. We don't

get in. Hey, you guys should run the ball more. We run the ball. We don't get in. Hey, you should throw it. So there's always a wish I would have, what I would have done different. Look back at it, do a different look. I approach the game from a physical mindset of, hey, if you're

on the one yard line and we got to knock somebody back to get in the end zone, that's how I approach it. And that's how I always approach it. And then when we do get in the end zone, on the fourth down, we got a false start. So it's like we got in here as though. CJ got in and let's take points for taking on the board because we have a false start.

We're not locked in on the snap. So it's just so many things there that goes in. Yeah, there's a physical mindset. That's what this game is built on. You have to have that mindset. And you should want to be in those situations where, hey, we got to knock somebody out of the ball to go get one yard. If you don't have that mindset, then you're probably not going to get in. Kalyn and Kamari had good games yesterday.

You immediately trusted them, and they've been consistently impacting the game. What's stopping Jalen and Jaden Higgins from doing that early in their career? You're talking about, I mean, four completely different guys. I don't think you can't come. There's not apples to apples as you compare those guys. But all our young guys have done a really good job. They're all growing, developing, doing the things that we asked them to do. I think Jay Noel and Jay Hennel.

Higgins have done a really good job of the things we've asked them to do. Coach, 10 weeks into the season, what would you say that your team's offensive identity is? Oh, for us right now, offensively, like, we got to be better. Like, we have to be better. And that's from all standpoints of just putting guys in position that's executing all the way across the board. We just have to be better offensively. Titus Howard and concussion protocol as well. How's he doing?

Did you have a chance to also talk with him? Also, were any of those injuries for Christian or Daryl Taylor, are those long-term injuries? Yeah, Titus is in a concussion protocol as well. Again, you'll see how those guys progress. As you guys know, concussions are, you know, very sensitive to each guy. You want to make sure they come back and they're okay when they come back.

We don't want to rush guys back from concussions. all about, you know, players' health and safety. That's the first and foremost thing that I'm concerned about. Titus is feeling better. I did speak with him as well. With Christian and D.T. Christian had a leg injury and D.T. had an ankle injury, so we're still, you know, evaluated those guys,

and we have to see what that looks like as the week goes along as well. What went into some of the struggles in getting Ego the ball in the second half? He had a great first half and was able to have it for the second half. Look, we're trying to get the ball to him. It didn't. It didn't work out. Of course, we all like to see the ball go to Nico, right? 20 times.

Put the ball up to Nico. That's everybody's first, you know, first thought. Like, get the ball to Nico. Of course, we want to get the ball to Nico. We got to do a better job of game planning and putting them in a position. They get the ball more. D'clock then, so.

D' Nico, obviously, you don't want to be at this point. But, you know, how much is three and five concern you? And how do you navigate it when every game matters here from here on now? And for me, every game mattered from the start of the season. So it doesn't change my mindset. Every game is important. Every game is it's on the line. So that doesn't change where we are.

We just got to go play better football. And look, man, for all the misuse for everybody, like we, again, you're right there. It had opportunities to close it out, multiple opportunities. is there to convert on third down and make plays where we got to make the throw, make the catch. We got guys in position defensively. We got to find a way to get a stop, you know, to get off the field there. So we had our chances. All right.

We just, we came up short. When you look around the AFC and look at your record, do you feel like the playoffs is still attainable? So how do you all get to that goal? Right now, we can't talk about playoffs until we play football better. All right. Thank you, guys. Thank you, Damika. No surprise, Rossi. He said he didn't have an answer on the concussion protocol,

so no surprise on that. He was playing. It was just like, you know what, we can't execute better. And I don't think he did anything that was flammatory or causing noise. It was just like, he's up there like he's got to answer the questions. When things don't go well, team can execute. Penalties. I thought he was a storyline of the game, clear.

What he really wants to say is my offensive line sucks. And I can't move and I got Davis Mills. Yeah, when Nick Cayley, now we can question the play, calling all the type of stuff, he's not, well, some people might disagree and disagree, but he's not completely lacking in football knowledge and an idiot. Whatever play he has drawn up, there's a way it can be executed to where it can work. It's just about also having the players.

And then maybe he needs to kind of build around the, the players that he does have and Hank can be effective and then go from there and do a better job of that. But the players out there, I mean, you've got no running game, no offensive line. And while the past catchers have been okay, I guess, Nico Collins has been the best among them. Well, it was a difference when having him on the field. It's basically Nico Collins and Dalton Schultz and a smattering or everything else. Yeah, that's something I mean, Dalton Schultz had a good few weeks now. You know what? He's reemerged.

He has had a bounceback season. For all of the criticism that he's taken in the past, he has been the go-to guy. for him. And I do applaud him for that for sure. And here's the guy was banged up all week long too. He was able to get out there and playing and be a part of the offense. Yeah, led the team with 77 rushing yards, I mean, excuse me, receiving yards. Six catches. Yeah, he's been very good the last five, six weeks. All right. 713-212.570.

You've heard from Domeco. What do you think? 713-212-790. We're going to move to Tell the Truth to 1230. We have the news at noon coming up. We have you guys between now and at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It is 1146. Ross, what is today's edition of, believe it or not? West Virginia, Mountaineers. We already did that. Oh.

Oh, you want to do a celebratory edition. This person scored this week. Believe it. This guy got a turnover. Believe it. Don't look at me like that. I can, and I will. Shooting lasers at me over there.

It's only a tournament. Well, at least your squad won. Yes. Made a little nervous down the stretch, right? Got a little close. Diego Pavia's carrying people out of bounds and it's a penalty on Texas. That's fine. Whatever.

Two point conversion. Ball didn't cross the pile on, but whatever. It's two points. Sure, whatever. Covers the three and a half. Unreal that a so-called Houston reporter gets to ask an NFL head coach two questions in a press conference. And he wasted one of them on, what's your offensive identity? Who said that?

Who said this to me? Oh, is that a tweet or text? I don't have tweets. I've been hacked. Sorry. I didn't mean, I forgot. Hey, coach. I'm your official water handler.

I can carry your, what is your offensive identity, please? Coach, what do you say to you guys? Can you still make the playoffs? DeMeekl up there. Man, we ain't got jack crap chance to making the playoffs, bro. We don't know what you're talking about. Get out of here. I think it's the last time I saw it's like a 2% chance.

So you're saying there is a chance. It's non-zero. Texan should be ashamed they're credential as many people as I do. I'm just going to say it right now. And I like the people over there. But man, that's embarrassing. It's just embarrassing.

I just learned that I don't want to live Ross's life 365. But it feels like 10 days a year wouldn't be too terrible. No comment. You shouldn't. Man. What?

I brought lunch. I know. Matt's over here, heating up food and bringing it in here making me super hungry. So sorry. We just... I know.

We get into two. Eating at 9.30 lunch and eating in 2.15 are just not in the realm of possibilities. I'm not mad at you. I'm just mad at you. You know what I'm saying? I'm not mad at you, but I'm mad at you. Well, it's like we were just talking about. I'm not mad at you, but I'm mad at you. Texans, I am mad at you.

The line is at three for the Texans, but that could fluctuate depending. I see one and a half. Well, I mean, it could have fluctuated since I first saw it. Can we stop? Does the Texans total have to be under four? 40 every week. This is so annoying. Well, not going to be any points in this one. It's 37.5.

Well, how about this? That's disgusting. Let's do this. Let's do some Texans marketing phrases. Ain't nobody got time for that. Texans home games. You'll be out in three hours or less. Play the under. Yeah. Texans home games. Yeah. Form tackling. No points. Kami Fairbair in jerseys are going up in value. Yeah, exactly.

he's MVP of the team to this point, correct? I mean, seriously, if you wanted to, you know what you're talking about bubble wrapping C.J. Stroud. You got a bubble wrap Tommy Townsend and Tommy Fairbairns' feet. That's true. Because if that were for those two guys, well as you got left. He's probably got a bruised up foot. Yeah, Texans minus one and a half total is 37.5 in an NFL game.

Come on, guys. Didn't the Seahawks have out in the first half alone last night? Pretty much. By the way, those blue uniforms they were. I mean, my goodness, are those perfect? I love those retro. I love everything retro. We were in Boston the other day.

And when the other teams come in, they have room set aside. They have room for the coach, assistant coaches. They got a room for the trainers. They use the Rockets ketchup and mustard logo. And I was like, oh, God. Bring it back. I mean, I don't know how much you can do it. The dripping paint ones, it's been enough.

I don't know if you can do. go back super, super old school to the original, but like the Pistons are pretty close to what the Pistons have been. Yeah, the Pistons went back. Because remember they had that weird horse and it was teal? It was terrible. They just, whoever, it was like their version of the

pajamas rocket with the teeth. Yeah, it wasn't great. It was like, what was it? Like Jerry Stackhouse and whoever else in the boys? I'm trying, who else has made a concert effort to go back to what it used to be? Magic, did it? Well, the commanders did it for a game. Yeah.

I'm just something in the NBA that does. The Sixers. Sixers do it. Now it's not, it's kind of an up. They did kind of what the Astros did. The Astros went back. The two kind of, uh, yeah, updated version of the old school.

Give me the, you know, but I'm asking for more. I'm asking for a complete conversion back to 1983. Yeah. I don't know me to be old school guy, but even the youngans love the old school stuff. They just do. All right. Let's get to the news at noon. Scott and Verrokes wants to talk some Texans football.

If you guys want to talk some Texans, let's get to you as well. Wizards, I'm trying to think of it. I'm trying to look through other teams. Wizards kind of went back. The bullets, what they used to wear. I'm trying to think who. Mavericks have got a Dallas green uniform now. They have, but they still have that primary Dallas blue.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-7-190. Phone lines are available for you. We've got calls to get to who we want to talk to you to tell the truth and the news at noon. All straight ahead as our number 3. of the Matt Thomas show with Ross begins in a matter of moments here on Sports Talk 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. At the reception. With the winner. The field goal is good at the end of the game. Oh, Battle Red, you can't get what you want sometimes. We've been getting quite a bit of what you want lately. Of course, the Texas win.

I'm not getting much. Hook of horns. Big game coming up in Georgia. Game day will not be there for that. Not this week, it'll be the next week. Maybe they will be there for that. You never know. I don't know.

Whatever. Oh, man. It's an agenda. They're trying to get the longhorns in the playoffs, according to James. James' takes are questionable. He and I've made up over the years. He's fine. He's nice.

He hates the longhorns, that's okay. But it takes a little minute to best. you know. Love James. Nobody's perfect. Nobody, wish we were perfect on this show. Woo! We're bad from it.

Our OPS is barely above 800. Oh yeah, we haven't even mentioned the World Series. We will right now. It's time for the news at noon. Oh. Can we start with that? I don't care what you start with. Dungers win the one series.

Oh, here comes Debbie, Debbie, what is it? Not Debbie Donah. It was a droopy dog? Rooky dog. Dangers win it all. Yoshinobu Yamamoto $312 million contract

We're so happy for you Dodgers Shohei Otani $700 million contract Yeah we're so happy for you Dodgers Roki Sasaki Whatever millions and millions They signed him to And Freeman and Betts

Max Muncie Whatever Miguel freaking Rojas Do you know that All of America For that matter All of North America except for a small portion of Southern California.

Not even all of Southern California was rooting for the Blue Jays. Yeah, I do know that. I mean, St. Eagle wouldn't even root for him. I don't know how Palm Desert felt, but it was just L.A. Metro. Everybody else wanted the Blue Jays to win. Miguel Rojas had not hit double-digit home runs in a season since 2018, has not.

Hit seven this year for the Dodgers in 114 games. And Harley played in the World Series. It's a freaking home run. Who was it off of at that point? Was it Chain Bieber? I can't even remember. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

Whatever. They went with a guy whose arm fell off on Friday, and he said, we need to give you two endings on Saturday, too. Crazy. I mean, credits of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, independent of the uniformity wears, unreal performance. MVP of the World Series. And that's what exactly is the definition of MVP.

Absolutely insane. The Dodgers are back-to-back world. James Jr. Yeah, it's fine. All right. Texans, what did DeMico have to say about C.J. Stroud? Rosti. D'Amico, Ryan's, no substantive updates on C.J. Stroud. He is in concussion protocol.

Generally, in these things, when it's the first one of the season, you miss one week when it's more than that. Generally, it's going to be multiple weeks. I think his last concussion was 2023. So he didn't get to say the concussion on the hit. I think it was a head at the ground, man. His head hit the hit. Right, his head slammed in the turf.

That's how Archmanning got his concussion. His head slammed into the turf. And the replay looked at it and they got the booth review and it was their correct call. They picked up the flag. Look, these defenders are in very difficult spots. You don't know when to win guys are going to slide. You don't know when guys are going to go out of bounds. I think it was, was it Bryce Young this weekend that got hit out of bounds and then there was a flag thrown even though he was kind of still in play?

I can't remember. It was somebody in the NFL. It's the Pat Mahomes rule, basically. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, though. It's like, when you got Pat Mahomes, he's acting like, oh, hey guys, I'm going on the other. Then he cuts up field. Yeah.

These defenders are in a tough spot. There needs to be a penalty for that. Yes, I know what you call it, but you, it's an unsportsmanlike conduct. You're not conducting yourself in a sportsman-like matter. Why is Dylan green officiating? Oh, but Dylan, you're not being sportsman-like. I mean, doesn't it sound like a stupid thing?

you're not conducting yourself in a sportsman-like manner. We're going to call 15 yards for unsportsman-like conduct. Well, put it this way. You can be penalized for calling for a fake calling of a fair catch. If you're fake giving yourself up. Right. It's bad sportsmanship. It's an unsportsman-like conduct.

Nobody should fake anything. And if you do, you should be penalized for it. Yes. Hmm. Interesting. All right, Matt, elsewhere in the news at noon. unfortunate news for the Green Bay Packers and three of my fantasy teams. See, this would not normally make the news at noon in Houston, but it's always got a sports RV connection.

It's big NFL news. Tucker Craft is number one points per game tied in to in football. Drafted as the 11th tied in. A genius pick on some people's part. And well, he's torn as ACL. He is out for the year. Injury's piling up everywhere. I didn't even mention Jaden Daniels.

Dislocated. Did you see that? I did not. Woo. Do you like to watch gruesome injuries or no? I do not like violent movies. How do you think I feel by gruesome injuries? No, but you're so weird.

I don't know. You get in a weird stuff. Adam Clinton has probably watched it 110 times in between watching John Wayne Gasey and Jeffrey Dahmer of documentaries. But yeah, it's gruesome. If you don't like gruesome injuries, don't watch the Jane. He'll watch it. His elbow snaps in half the wrong way.

And now I've got the heby-jeebies already. Thank you. So it's his non-throwing shoulder. I mean a throwing elbow, so it is possible he could come back. But there's going to be some time missed by Jaden Daniels. Unfortunately. And there has been some debate, Matt. It was 38 to 7 in the game.

Seattle Seahawks trouncing the commanders. Seven minutes left in the game. Many people saying, why was Jaden Daniels even out there? I guess the question would be, would there be blowback if he did, if he was not in the game, thinking, wait a minute, he's getting paid all this money, he should be out there trying out.

Right. It's, especially the, I think a lot of time coaches, they know they're going to lose, but they're trying to see a little something positive. You can call it build them momentum, building momentum into the next week. Put things in the film room for sure. Yeah, like put some positive tape on. Call it whatever you

want. It was a disaster. So Jane Daniels out could be back by the end of the season, but as of right now, dislocated elbow for Jane Daniels. And also a small trade, but just trade deadline coming up, I think it's Tuesday

at 4 p.m. or something like that. Jalen Phillips traded from the dolphins. So dolphins are selling players. I was an outside linebacker, defensive player. There has been some talk about Devon A. Chan and others being available. Of course, before he went down for the season, Tyree Kel,

for the Miami Dolphins to possibly be making some trades. Fire sale in, Miami. We'll see what happens. Anything else? That's it. See, I want to talk to your editor. Why? Oh, what did I miss? You brought up your doofus tight end. Dufus? You got...

The number one tight end. Okay. You have the Rockets played... No, no, no, no. No, no. No, I'm sorry. The University of Cougars got wall up by the West Virginia. No, no, no, no. You have the Rockets. The Mavericks's playing the Mavericks. We ran out of a time. It's time to for a break. You know what you do? You do not put the tight end question in there. Nobody cares. No, it's time for a break. No, no, no. I was going to do. I was going to to get to it. Completely selfish. Okay, DuBond want a gold glove. Good job. He's going to be

non-tendered. You don't even know that. I don't know that. Can you non-tender a guy who's won two gold gloves? Well, we can't talk about it now. You didn't bring up in the news at noon. Thank God I came to rescue. I thought you're going to be a good host and make a segment out of it. Well. On, was it Friday show, Rossi? We've got to get to the Yankees Keith in a couple of minutes.

We've got our buddy, Scott's been very patiently waiting. So we can get to him first. But Yankees Keith called the show. Whatever. And predicted that CJ's Star, I was going to get hurt. It's ridiculous. And he did get hurt. So is that a gut feeling?

I guess. Yeah, he also said the Yankees were going to win the, when were they out of the playoffs? Wild Card round. Oh. Yeah, he said they were going to win that. He said they were going to win the World Series all season long, so. So take all of his broken clock. Blind squirrel.

Yeah. He's a blind squirrel with a broken clock. How do you, how does a squirrel, I mean, does a doctor go, that squirrels blind? You don't do a seeing eye tess with a squirrel. I don't think vets are checking out doctors, but I mean, yeah, I would imagine via scent. The blind squirrel can smell the nuts? How do you scoop a squirrel up, go to a vet and say, hey, can you check to see if the squirrel's got sight? I don't think you do that.

Yeah, you try to punch it in the face and see if it'll flinch. Oh, is that what you're going to do? You're going to try to punch a squirrel. So you're talking about hurting animals. You don't punch it. You fake. Oh, you're like a jab. A fake jab.

Okay. I don't know if I'd go that way, but that's fine. Scott's good. Stevie Wonder can really see. Oh, really? You're awful. You're way meaner. I'm just kidding.

You're that Joan, my great friend, Joan. Ross is way meaner. It's called Joe. Nobody's making Stevie Wonder Fletch. Hi, Scott. What's going on, guys? You guys are ridiculous. All right.

Thank you. I was calling in to talk about the game yesterday. I've called in many times before this season. I think this is the third time, and I think I can give a good example. of what I've been talking about. And I've said, we are not, it's very obvious what this team's strengths and weaknesses are. So, and with that known, we are not very good at assessing what's going on with in-game situations

and making decisions accordingly. An example I gave earlier in the season, when we were playing Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay didn't like, they had backup offensive tackles in against us. And so what do they do? They ran screen passes, quick hit, huts, draws. they didn't let Anderson and Hunter make impact the game, even though we'd play it decently on defense.

So that is assessing where your team is and making decisions accordingly. You go to this week against Denver. When we got the ball back with a minute and 30 left in the game, two timeouts at the 10-yard line, we're

sitting there pretending like, well, you know what the chiefs would do in this situation? They have Patrick Mahomes, so they would go down the field and try and take a field goal. What would the bills do? They would go down the field and try and get a field goal. We have Davis Mills at the 10-yard line who has two first downs in the entire game.

The Broncos have two timeouts. We need to run the ball three times, make them use all their timeouts, run the clock down to 30 seconds, and then if we get a first down, great. If not, we're punting the ball back with them not having any time to get anything done. We have a better chance of going into

overtime, switching the field position, creating a turnover, getting good field position, and winning that way, then Davis Mills taking us from the 10-yard line into field goal range against the Broncos defense. I was screaming at the TV to run the ball.

And my buddy, who I was with, he's a football fan, but he was like, no, this is where you go win. And as soon as we threw the first in completion, I was like, you realize we're going to give him the ball back. And he was like, oh, shoot. The only thing I push back on is, Scott, is I would have, I don't have the problem with him

throwing on first down, because you do want to have a thought in your mind. We can go win this game. all he needed was a field goal. If you throw that first down play and you incomplete it, that's when you run on second down and third down and drain clock. I don't have an issue with them thrown on first. It was the attempts at second and third, especially when both of them plays why I'm going out of bounds,

not having Denver burn a timeout, which was just an atrocity of play calling. No, it was. But the only thing I would, the reason I would say that you needed to make, you maybe needed to run all three plays is because they had two timeouts. You could have made them burn. both timeouts, and then on the third play,

you're running the cloth all the way down. I get it. You do want to try and win, but you're at the 10-yard line with Davis-Mills. He's not going to get you into field goal range. Like, let's go into overtime. But I at least want to. Yeah, I look, I am the king of the second-guessing play call

guy. I do want to go see if I can go win a football game. I do think, even though at the 10-yard line, you make sure it's a pass-it-safe. You get the first time. You get out of bounds. You get to the 25. Remember, all you got to do is get to the 40, which would be 50 yards. It's not impossible with 70 seconds left going to the game to get 50 yards and 70 seconds,

especially as you talked about before. Offenses have this ability to put together large amounts of yards in short period of time. Scott, yeah, I understand. I think the criticism would have been just as much if they would have given up on that knowing there was a minute 10 left, having no they've got Kami Fairbearance of a possibility. They would have been booed. If you had went there and just ran it up the middle three straight times, punted. I mean, you've been booed and you should

be. You have to, now, whether or not we think that they can move the ball with Davis Mills and go and score a field goal, which clearly they couldn't in that drive, you have to believe that you can. You have to say to yourself, we are not going to just crawl in a hole

and try to die. Now, obviously, some sort of compromise between three straight passes where no time is taken off and between three straight runs where you're just laying in crawling and dying and praying for the best in overtime, you need some kind of happy medium

between that. But I like that the Texans went and tried to go and do something. They tried to make it happen. Obviously, it didn't work. And if the results were going to sit here with hindsight and say that was the stupidest thing they could have possibly done because they only took 24 seconds off of the clock. Kind of Dan, if you do, Dan, if you don't,

it comes on execution. The bottom line is their offense is bad. If they had to play for overtime, you're saying, well, how are they going to score in overtime? If they can't score with one minute to let... If you say, I have the ball with one minute left and I need a field goal to go win a game, you go try to win that game. But I would have changed my tune after first down. I totally get that too.

That's just me. That's just me. All right. Now, as promised, Keith, who likes to predict injuries is with us here on the show. Keith, good afternoon to you. Go ahead, Keith. I think that was intellectual thinking on my part, considering that that team that they played had the most sacks of any team.

Well, he wasn't sacked. Yeah, I know he wasn't sack I expected him to get hit and hurt on a sack I didn't expect him to go down the way that he went down But by the St. Donkittles, I still predicted he'd go down And that the Texans wouldn't lose Okay, thank you Keith All right, what do you want?

No, I'm not true I'm not true I got something Oh, here we go What about when you predict the Yankees we're going to win the World Series all season Well, we'll win it next year Oh, that's always next year. We know who won't win it next year. Whoa! What does that mean?

Who are you talking about? The team that plays downtown. The Blue Jays? Downtown Toronto? No, downtown. You're in Texas. Let me say this. I bet I was an Oilers fan way back before I even moved to Houston. I remember when they had George Blaine, it was the kicker and a quarterback.

And then when they dragged the Warren. Moon. I was an oilist fan before I was a Titans fan. I'm sorry, Keith. I'm sorry. There were other quarterbacks in between George Blaine and Warren Moon. Duh. Yeah, I don't know. I know. Make your point.

Whatever point. We don't need your life story, Keith. What's your point? I'm trying to get to a point. So, I know what Matt Thomas said, I've heard Matt Thomas say this repeatedly. That the Texans,

I know the Oilers never want nothing. That Texans haven't won nothing. Matt Thomas said, they're never going to win up until they get new ownership. The Texas had a chance to get Derek Henry, who had ran 200 yards on him four or five different times, and they chose not to pick him. So he went to the Ravens. That's how he became a Ravens fan because I was a Texas fan with Derek. You're Ravens Keith? Ravens Keith.

All right, I got to go to break. Everybody, but, no, I'm going to say this again. And I ain't stuttering. You're not Texas fans. you're not going to the Super Bowl with Hannah and Cal running things. You're just not. And people forget Derek Henry. I'm not going to say he was looking washed,

but his yards per carry had been down significantly for several years. And one of the reasons he's been so successful because of the threat of Lamar Jackson. When Lamar Jackson goes off that team, his yards per carry go down. It's not a coincidence. So I think it's fair to say we can't say it would be apples and apple. If Derek Henry were here,

he'd just be running amok on everybody. and the Ravens also have a better offensive line and a better quarterback. And better receivers. No. Rashad Bateman and Zay Flowers and the boys? Hey, I'm from Team Zay. Mark fumbling away the AFC Championship Andrews.

Whoa, whoa. I'm sorry, division around. I bet you I could get 30, there's 31 other general manager. I can get 23 of them to take Mark Andrews over Dalton Schultz. Dilton Schultz. Probably. Yeah, so that's my right. Me Zaylor is that.

Just a guy. Nico Collins is the best of the lot. Xavier Hudson's a baller, Matt. Don't be hating on Hutch. Don't be hating on Hutch. Hutch? Sorry, Hutch. Christian Kirk is good when he plays.

Attendance is part of the grade here, Rossi. I know. I said he was going to go over 649. And a half. By the way, I was watching the end of that Jacksonville, Vegas game. You know what it didn't see on the field? Aschia 2,

gut feeling hit for me. There's no gut feeling. You said he would never run for a thousand yards. No, you are not. I'm an NFL insider and I'm Mr. Texas. And why are you talking like that? I don't know. It sounds very like I'm very smart right now.

You were none of those things. How did Ashton did you do yesterday? I think he had 40 yards. Okay. All right. Nick and Nigel. Or is Nigel. I always butcher.

Oh, geez. This is Nigel. The one from Vancouver is Nigel. This is very easy. Nigel. It's also spelled phonetically on the screen. Nigel. This is not phonetically.

I'm sorry. But the other one is... Nigel and Nick will get to you after we'll get to you after we play the tell the truth next. This is going to be a gimmy on the tell the truth. If you guys don't get this right, I'm going to be really disappointed in both of you. 1231 on Sports Talk 790.

Actually, I do know how to tell the truth. All right, kind of. This is kind of easier for y'all too. Okay. I have four takes of mine. Four takes. How many do you believe? I believe three of them.

Okay. All right. One, I don't believe. Time for you to figure out which one I don't believe. I think it's actually easier for you all to figure out which one I if we flip it. But three of the four, I believe, one I do now. It's hard to come up with fake ones.

It's unbelievable. I understand. All right. Here we go, number one. Guys, don't have to worry about that 3.30 Saturday game for the Texans. Okay. Chronicle, you could put up that tombstone little graphic there. Your Texans, Rossi, I'm sorry to say, are not making the playoffs.

That was it. That was it yesterday. That was a fait of complete. Okay. Okay. Number two. I will stay with the Texans. If Davis Mills winds up starting this week against Jacksonville,

they can still win this game. In fact, I would still make them a favor in this contest. They are. So, I mean, I know Davis Mills is not good. He wasn't great yesterday. You don't want to be great against Jacksonville. You can win this game. Jacksonville's weird.

And they didn't win yesterday, and they do have some nice road wins this year, but they can, you know, I'm just saying. They gave up 30 to the Raiders. Yeah, 29. Yeah. But my point is this. He did have 47 receiving yards and a touchdown. It doesn't count because I would talk about rushing yards.

NFL. He's very effective. Hashtag NFL Sider. Hashtagged production counts. Hashtag got it right. All right, here we go. Number three. If I'm Deion Sanders, I'm going to go to the old.

My health is not great card. And I'm going to resign at the end of the year. He's had some issues. Why did they lose again? Yes, bad. Hummeled. by what, is it Arizona State or Arizona? Arizona.

Like by 30 plus points. 52 to 17. Yeah, 35. Wasn't that the final score on one of the Buffalo and Cowboys Super Bowls? So Dion Sanders' last coaching job will be at the University of Colorado. And it probably will be at the end of this year. Okay. Take number four. The Dodgers bought their title.

Yes. I have zero respect for them. It takes no. talent whatsoever when you simply just outpay everybody. So, Dodgers, you do not get my respect for winning Game 7 World Series. Sorry, you just bought the title. You get nothing from me and like it. Which one of the four am I lying about?

Which other three am I telling you? The truth. I'll recap. Don't worry about the 330 Saturday Wild Car weekend. The Texans won't be in it. We're not making the playoffs at all. If Davis Mills starts a quarterback, the Texans can still beat the Jaguars this Sunday. Okay.

If I'm Dionne Sanders, I resign at Colorado because I can go to the, hold on quote, unquote, health issue card. And number four, the Dodgers bought their title, and I have zero respect for them winning on Saturday against the Blue Jays. Which one am I long here about, gentlemen? This is actually difficult, I'd say. Yeah, I'm saying you said this is a game. Yeah, I don't know. What kind of think about this one? Okay, your first statement is the Texans are not making the playoffs.

There's no way they make it. No way, no chance, no how? No way, no chance, no how. Now, see, I mean, he could be right about that. It's only about a 2% odds right now, Jonathan, so I don't know. These are not facts. These are just my take. These are my opinions.

I got to have Jacksonville again and Tennessee. They are favored against Jacksonville so they could win. Coach Prime probably should resign, and Matt hates Coach Prime. Well, then, the thing that Coach Prime is like... I'll go for. What's four? What are you going for? I think...

But I don't even think he believes that, but I just don't know which one to go with. This is actually one of your better lists, Matt. I thank you. I think, you know. Normally these are really... Yeah, I know. Usually there's a cabbing. me eye to it. I like this one.

Most of them usually you have suck. I know. I get it. You just can't. I give 100% positivity. You know what? He's a greedless. I'm just kidding with you. I'll just take the David Mills. I don't think he believes that Texans have a chance without C. Ted Stroud. Okay. Let's go. Here we go. I do believe Davis Mills

can give the Texans chance to win. Get them out of here. I got it out of a place. And it's not because I think Davis Mills is great. Trevor Lawrence just sucks. I don't know how they won against the Raiders last week. I can't imagine I'm going cross-country twice in a row and trying to do a game like that.

I continue to try to buy into any sort of Trevor Lawrence hype. Their defense is mid. Texans need to win and get the rebound game after losing that Jackson earlier this week. I think Davis Mills can win that game. Number two, if I'm Deion Sanders, I do resign at Colorado.

There's not money at Colorado Ross. His kids aren't there anymore. It's the Big 12. He's got health issues. The recruiting basis, is non-existent. And if you don't have cash, you can't bring kids to Colorado.

Not a great place to play college football, not a college football hotbed to play. This last job should be a Colorado. And the Texans aren't making the playoffs. Oh! So yes. I hate the Dodgers. You know what?

But I respect them. The World Series came down to extra endings of a five of a game. You're saying the Texans aren't? They're not making the playoffs. That's right. I believe, yeah. So my lie was number four, the Dodgers. Would you say for number four?

Number four was a lot. I have no, zero respect. I respect them. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I respect the Dodgers. I hate, I don't want to respect them, but I just do.

It's a game seven. You have, it's a blue jays. It was doing extra ratings. It was a completely even series, even though the payrolls were completely out of whack. Money? Money will get you to the playoffs, Ross. Talent will help you win the World Series. Yeah.

The Yankees are a great example. that Yankees can by their way into the playoffs every year, but it takes more than it takes about being great in a three game or a five game or a seven game series. But nobody has the amount of deferrals the Dodgers do. And nobody has the built-in, well, unless you want to count like Seattle and, I don't know, San Francisco, as far as the built-in advantages of the combining of signing massive checks and the advantage with Japanese players who want to play there because, A, it's geographically closer. And B, they can offer the most money.

It's probably A, first. The most money. Then B, it's geographically closer. C, there's a large Asian fan base and already Japanese players there. They have these, they have too many built-in advantages. It's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. But I still respect what they did.

I mean, it was... I don't respect them. They're playing a different ball game than everybody else. When you add in all of that. So that's the case, then they should win every world series for the foreseeable future. But it's baseball. I would say luck factor is biggest in baseball. Well, probably no, NFL, because it's one game.

But as far as seven-game series go, there's a huge luck factor. factor in baseball. Look at the, the best team doesn't always win. 2019, Washington Nationals. I mean, it's arguably the 2017 Astros weren't as good as the 2017 Dodgers. We can go through it up and down the list. All right, there you go. That's the title of truth.

The Diamondbacks making the World Series in 23. They beat some teams that they weren't better than. It's baseball. Yeah, it's baseball. It's just baseball. So still the Dodgers have the best shot, are going to have the best shot every year right now. It's three World Series and six years.

That's what I'm saying. Jerks. I don't respect. I mean, I respect him, but I don't like him. And again, can you tell me, and I was talking to my wife about this last night? I literally mean this. I believe everybody outside of the, what is lost, is L.A. 213 area code? Is that what that is?

Two one, sure, why not? Outside of about 50 miles around Dodger Stadium, everybody was written for the Blue Jays. I was on a bus full of Rockets employees and staff. Do you say 213? Was that right? That was 305. No, 305 is Miami. 310.

Yeah, come on. Mr. 305, Mr. Worldwide. Oh, hi. How did I know that? You didn't know, no, I'm thinking. You know, forget about me calling myself Mr. Texas. That should be Mr. Worldwide the second. You and Pitbull.

Yeah, whoever that is. 142 to the phone's next. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90. All right, I got to tell you about something that just really weird popped up on my Wave Busters H-H-O-U timeline because my account is down. So I'd go to the burner.

They haven't helped you out? Just get Elon on the phone. No, I'll worry about it tonight or tomorrow. I don't know. If I had a couple days off from Twitter, I'm going to be okay, actually. Well, you have it. You're on your burner. Well, but I want to say, again, it's for sports.

I know, I know. There is two different sporting events. It's called, actually, it's one event over two different venues, called the Field of 68. Have you heard about this? Oh, wow. This person is, I can't, they blocked me. Who's they?

The person that hacked you. Really? Yes. Huh. I wonder he's blocked everybody. that I followed. They blocked me because I tweeted, hey, sportsMT has been hacked.

I tweeted at SportsMT has been hacked. Don't click any of the links. And now this person has blocked me. Okay. So this field of 68 is six games all-day event featuring three games in two different venues. One is in Rock Hill, South Carolina,

and one is in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. These are all very low division one teams. Okay. Case in point. Queens versus Winthrop, Bradley versus St. Bono. of Venture, High Point versus Furman is tonight. In Sioux Falls, it's Murray State versus Omaha,

Drake versus Northern Arizona and South Dakota State versus Merrimack. I mean, obviously the lowest of Lowe of Division I schools. Now, there is one school in that group of 12 that is probably famous, not for any of the players, but who their general manager is. Do you know who I'm speaking of? You're talking about the Bonnies? I'm talking about the Bonnies and Woage. This happened two hours ago.

because the game didn't start until it started 10 o'clock this morning. After a heated verbal altercation with the officiating crew, St. Bonaventure General Manager Adrian Wojian O'Donahouski was just ejected from the venue. Woj was berating the officials from the stands and was forcibly removed by security. Oh my God. He's got a screw loose.

Yes. He went after people off for political stuff a couple of years ago. Yes. And had to apologize and I believe was suspended by ESPN for such. And now as a general manager, this is, I think it's his second year as a GM of St. Bonham, which is his alma mater, by the way. He goes to Rock Hill, South Carolina at this opening weekend event, opening day event, and he loses his mind. Obviously, there's nobody there in the crowd. So if Woj is screaming something, my guess is they can hear it.

I mean, I'm going to assume that there isn't a huge crowd for Bradley versus St. Bonaventure in Rock Hill, South Carolina at 10 o'clock in the morning. Probably not. It's forcibly removed. Forcibly removed. He loves Bonnie's basketball. Well, my guess is he probably went to the deal. You know who I am, card. Maybe. And you know who doesn't care about who woeges? Is anybody that's a police officer in Rock Hill, South Carolina? Did you know he went from making $7.3 million a year to $75,000 a year as the GM of that program? Well, let me put it this way. That doesn't surprise me, the discrepancy. But if he's, I don't know if he's married with kids or has a lot of investments.

I think so, yeah. But if you have that, if you've got $20 million in the bank and you're in your mid-60s or however old he is, and you've been doing this for a long time. And that is a 24-hour job. And that's a 24-hour job because ESPN makes it a 24-hour job. as ESPN makes it a 24-hour job. He probably did it knowing he's got enough money to be very secure

the rest of his life. Yeah, but he's supposed to be doing this for peace of mind. That's screaming at reps and getting removed from the stadium or the arena. I've never heard of a college administrator being kicked out of an arena. Now, I was there, I mentioned this before, when Dave South got kicked

out for throat slashing the officials during a Southwest Conference tournament back in the early 90s. I remember that. Didn't some, didn't Les Alexander get fined? He got fined. get fined? He was screaming at the refs? Yes. Okay. He didn't get forcibly removed. No, he didn't get forcibly removed, but he got out of his seat and walked towards the officials. We were sitting there

going, what is he doing? He wouldn't have and told the official what he thought of him. So, yeah, Woj is probably at a, I'm guessing Rock Hill probably has a bunch of rapporteurys, my guess, would be within three miles. He retweeted with the Bonnie's win, the final score.

Well, was he one there to see it, though? I just thought it was crazy. That is crazy. talk to Nick on 790 at 1253. Nick, good afternoon to you. Hey, good afternoon, guys. I just want to get your take, man. I know you've all been talking about the Houston Texans and a little brother over there.

Let's talk about the Daz Cowboys, man. America's team. What do you think about the nice game, brother? I think they're going to give up about 38 points. I think your defense sucks. Oh, no, it's terrible at the moment. We're going to give up 38, but we're going to put up 41. Okay, that's fine.

As long as it doesn't involve Dak Prescott, thrown for 350 yards. I don't care how you get your 41. Well, I can't promise anything on that one, brother. With George Pickens and C.D. Lamb, you know, 350 is pretty easy. But, you know, after we win this game, they were in the playoff fights, and now we've got to make some trades happen. I was looking at the Texans. I was looking at the Cowboys. What y'all need to do is trade Will Anderson. Oh, my God.

Hey, look, y'all got no offense. You need a receiver. You need a spark. So you think they're going to trade one of the best. best pass rushers on the planet and Will Anderson to the Cowboys. Maybe they should have signed, you know, best pass rushers are one of the best pass rushers on the planet. Cowboys had one of those, didn't they? Well, I mean, Michael Parsons, he was overrated. Every time we got some playoffs, he let us down.

Oh, okay. We need a good fast rusher. Now, Will Anderson, I'm not going to say he's a great pass rusher. That's why we would only give up George Pickens. So you think George Pickens for Will Anderson, do you think the Texans say yes to that? Look at the numbers. You think the Texans would say yes to that?

You have a top three receiver? No, to answer my question. Answer Ross question. Would the Texans say yes to that trade? Yes or no? Probably not. Okay. Okay, then why are we having this conversation?

That's why they're in the situation. They're in. Oh, my God. You waited all that time to talk about that? I don't mind waiting, but I mean, I appreciate it. You know a while since we get, like, boisterous cowboys fans? Yeah, when they don't, they're three, four and one. I'm sorry, three, four and one.

Don't forget the tie, yeah. By the way, our friend Grace listened to the show, she also got blocked by the spammer too. So apparently anybody that follows me is getting blocked as well. Or they're either getting blocked or maybe it's unfollowing people. I don't know. Because how many accounts had you followed? It's at 381 now. That's what it was.

Okay. Then I'm probably blocked, I guess. I'm going to give Twitter 24 hours figured out. Okay. And then we'll get you on the two factor. We'll get you on the only. For sure. We're definitely two-factory for sure. Whatever that means.

By the way, somebody sent me a tweet that Woj was at the game and fine. I don't know if this Scott Hughes guy that you got that report from. Or maybe he was let back in the game. I'm not sure. You get a team's call? Yeah, my number is spammed to something for some reason. Okay. I've been answering them all the time. They don't answer back. I'm sorry, Matt.

So is that an erroneous report? Why would that guy do that? There's a picture of Woge at the game. So I don't know. Or maybe that picture could have been from the first half. Who knows? I don't know what's happening. Well, and if it's erroneous, I apologize. I just, I looked to the guy's report.

It looked credible to me. I mean, again, why would you, of all things, tweet that out? This picture looks like it could be AI. Now I don't know what to think. The guy's profile picture. No, he's posting pictures from Rock Hill, South Carolina. Well, he made, obviously he was in the arena at some point. What does Woj have to say?

I wonder if Woj is saying anything on his Twitter. Again, I don't have my access to it. So, all right. Nigel is going to join us to start the final hour of the show. Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not? Coming up in 50 minutes from now? I don't know. Okay.

Adrian Wojr-Norowski? No. St. Bonavich. No, anything wrong. Rookie Sasaki? The Dodgers? Dodger? We can do Dodger stuff. Oh, I'm going to throw up.

You can vomit, I know. I get it. 1257 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right. It's been a bad day for the old Twitterverse for SportsMT. Apparently, I wasn't the only one that was duped on it. The guy was a fake account or interactive report. Even Drew Goodman, who was kind of a snarky kind of basketball reporter. Jeff?

Jeff. Drew Gimman is a announcer for the... What about Drew Goodman? Rockets or for the Iraqis. That report is erroneous. Okay, I'm muted that guy. Yeah, I said his profile picture looked kind of like AI. He was fake. So let me tell you something, Elon.

Elon likes his money. Please get my account back active again. And please, if people are putting stuff out that, let's get them eliminated and get those accounts long gone. Fake news. So I would block the guy, but I can't block him. I don't need wavebusters to block him because wave busters. It only follows one person. By way, if you are anti-wave,

wave busters, HOU is the count you must follow on a slow, steady climb towards 1,100. There wasn't enough people for a wave. I don't think of N-R-G. The Broncos wave. So that's two straight weeks we've seen Texans fans either give up their tickets or just not go and the other teams are scooping them up.

A crowd looked pretty pathetic, quite frankly. Maybe we're just a crappy sports town. Don't say that. We don't fill up NRG. We don't get to the Toyota Center until second quarter. We don't fill up the Cougar Stadium. Rice Stadium looked like you could have played it in a small junior varsity high school game and put that crowd in there. Well, I'll give you the other side of the coin.

Do you think there are Texans fans sitting on their couch saying, I wish I was at that game? No. Probably not. We definitely can be a front-runner. We saw the stadiums when when the Houston Astros were bad. What happened when they got good? They filled up and the people come. And to me as a consumer and how much tickets cost and parking and all that stuff and these headaches?

And especially in the NFL, if you're a team that and this team has never really gotten a foothold on this city, which is, which is hungry for football success. It's directly their fault. It's their fault. Yep. Okay. So let's run through it. Rocket tickets are sold. That's true.

but they're handing them off to their friends. There's a lot of downtown corporate partners. Downtown corporate partners, and those people don't have the vested interest in it because they didn't spend a dollar to get in the building. When you spend $89, $109, $149 a ticket, you're probably going to be there closer to tip time if you didn't if you were handed the tickets for free. I had a friend several years ago who worked with a high-level corporation downtown,

and they had four tickets to the game, and what they would do is they'd get the tickets from work. It was a bank, and everybody they were, worked with was from Minnesota or California or whatever. They get the tickets from work. They go to happy hour. They forget, oh, game's starting. Okay, so they show up late to the game and then they leave early. Yeah. Because they're just free corporate tickets. Yeah, if you don't have a vested

interest in the team or the debit card, which you paid for them, you don't, there's no responsibility to get there. I feel like the pressure to get there early. UBH is just a class example of a team that just doesn't have a big enough fan base at once to go. We have a lot of Cougar fans. I mean, I see people all the time. the time. We have thousands and thousands

of alums. We have one of the biggest campus sizes in the enrollments in the entire country, much less the state. We just don't care. It could be because it's commuter school. A lot of us because maybe there's just you haven't been taught from the day you walked on U of H campus. You have to love your Houston

Cougars. You have to love your sports teams. But I guarantee you tonight, now granted, if UCLA or Duke or Kansas was in the building, it wouldn't be an issue. But tonight the Cougars play Lehigh. we seat 7,500 in the building tonight for Cougar basketball. Will it be 7,500 people sitting in their seats? Probably not. Now, there is a no-show factor with every sport.

I've been to, I've been to very few sporting events in my entire life, Rossi, that literally I've counted less than 10 empty seats. There's just a show, because of whether you can't go, you get sick, you get a flat tire, you have to work late. There's going to be a no-show factor with everything. But there wasn't a no-show, no-show factor. There was no-show. I didn't want to go.

Yeah, but I don't know. you go to 30, you know, I mean all 30 arenas throughout the year, correct? Yeah. Would you say Houston's more kind of the rule than the exception, right? It is more than rule. I see Dallas. They don't, I see Dallas, empty seats in Dallas. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I see empty seats in San Antonio, like basically almost everywhere, but Oklahoma City, I would say it's a one-third, two-thirds split. One-third of the NBA, which is 10 cities. Are there at tip time, loud, noisy, let's go? Two-thirds are kind of what Houston goes through. Okay. But as far as the Cougar football program is concerned, now granted, again, it didn't, it really hurt they just laid an egg against West Virginia.

It really, really hurt. But you didn't know that all throughout the week. I've been telling you get tickets for $20.15. You get $20.15 to get in the building. First of all, they're not a bad seat in TDC. You've even been there several times. You know it. They're not a bad seat in the place.

It's very conducive for watching the game. it's 11 o'clock The weather was good Beautiful Now parking may be a pain in the ass And ticket But that's everywhere I mean

I can imagine You can't get decent parking around Where's Alabama's football city The light rail goes right off of there right Light Rail goes but people don't know The Honda The Light Rail There's not enough people that know how to

Two bucks It's not that easy Reality is this We just don't know the fans. That's crazy. 49,000. I'm trying to find the highest enrollment. It's French top

10, I think. I don't even know, Ross, if we gave the building for free, it would make that big of a difference. We said, if we give you the tickets, all you do is pay for the parking. I think people would be detracted by the parking. And parking is greed. So, if I, but Ross, if I came to you and said,

okay, parking now, instead of sitting in that $50 lot to park your car, it's an hour 25, was that going to all of a sudden add $5,000 to the list? Are people saying no to Cougar football because parking is expensive? You got to win. I guess the same consistently. When you were there in 94-95 in the Rockets, I mean, were people there tip off time? Yeah.

Yeah, I'm trying to, I don't mean, we're not trying to confuse Rockets and Cougars. Yeah, I'm sorry. There's just no. I mean, at least Cougars have had some flashes, but, you know, we've had four wins the previous two years. Sorry, Matt. Go Cougs. Seven and one. That was you doing Dana. Not Willie. That was Dana.

That was Dana Holgerson? Yeah. You know what? I'd like to apologize at the Holgerson family. He's fine. He said, O.C. Nebraska's doing just fine. Matt Rulge just got re-up, which means the problem.

I guess Dana got reupt of some sort. So you're doing just fine for him. All right. Let's go to the phones, talk to some people. Neidl, calling us from Vancouver, British Columbia on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Neiddle, good afternoon. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Thank you for taking my phone call.

It certainly was a gutting week weekend at my house. the, I'm admittedly I'm not the biggest baseball fan but to see the Blue Jays lose it was pretty gut-wrenching. I really, I sincerely hope they try to sign Bo Bichette and do it again next year. It was fun to watch.

Regarding to Texans, like to your point a minute ago, I think I'm just too, I'm at the point now where I'm tuning out. Like I'm not as interested and engaged in the outcome of the games as I have been in the past because I think that

when you see a good team when they lose, you can feel like they left it all on the field. Why is it when the Texans play, I feel like I could be making coaching decisions in my living room by yelling at the TV. Like if I yell louder, they're going to run the ball or have a better red zone, have a better red zone offense. The Texans, to your point before the break, are not making the playoffs. It's a loss season. It's sad. I really had better hopes for the outcome this year. Have a great show, guys, and thanks for doing what you do. You got a thank you, you.

Appreciate it listening. Love the Heart Radio after Vancouver. Nigel. He's right. Like, these games are so, you don't, you don't leave the game saying, man, they were close. Go ahead and get them next week. It's like, what did I just watch? It's like, I just watched this sloppy bleep show where they're committing penalties. They're looking inept in the red zone.

They can't score points. the coach is being conservative. They're doing all the little things wrong, and then they barely lose. It just leaves you frustrated to where if they could, if they could score a red zone touchdown, how many more games would they have won this year? At least two or three?

Again, I brought this up a couple hours ago. The Texans might be the worst red zone team in history, based off a number of games. So bad. Because Ross, you and I've been, I mean, you and I've been talking about this team together since 2010. Yes. There was this before you joined me and I was here before the first car.

It was Conserviac. We called him Gary Conserviac. I mean, then Bill O'Brien. It's hard to score, guys. Yeah. You guys have the worst red zone percentage in football. It is hard to score. But yeah, other teams can do it. Other teams can do it. Other teams are somehow doing it.

Yeah. Somehow, some way. And can play the two-bong conversion. Yes. Bill Nix who was mid yesterday. From the one-yard line, it does literally does not get easier than that. We're giving you the ball on the one-yard line. get us one yard one

they can't do it oh they can but they're going to get a false start penalty move back to the six yard line oh my god it's so frustrating ugh it's and you know I do tease a little bit because when I said

what I said about McNair's it was during the whole Jack Easterby stuff so it's really no there's no direct correlation now the Easterby's out so they can win they can win but how about this I'll give you one of this How about I could change my amend my kind of prediction.

You should amend it because Hannah took over now. So I will officially hear it, which is now, I believe, one 12 central time. Oh, there we have to change clock. All right. Tom, no, an hour to mountain time, Joan. Come on, Tom, one o'clock. Can I amend by the following extent? Sure, when not.

The Texans will not win a Super Bowl as long as Nick Casario is the general manager. Not as long as he keeps whiffing on offensive alignment. And I got news for you. Demico is going from a Wow, I can't wait to say what he does as a head coach to I got a pretty good sample size of who he is as a head coach. Who is he? Average.

Ooh. Not terrible. Guys fight for him. Guys love him. I'm going to say, I'm going to just hold on to it. Hold on to it. You come back and state your case. 113 on the matthom.

113 on Sports Talk 790. 119 on Sports Talk 7.90, believe it or not, coming up in 30 minutes from now. I believe that Damiiko Ryan's regressed to being just an average coach. I don't think he's winning the play calls. I don't think he's winning the meeting of the minds. I do believe coordinators are an extension of who you are, whether it's their fault or not. I do believe you have to wear the crown, the entire, represents the entire organization. Even if Nick Kaley is calling the terrible offensive off-swing running off-left,

tackle plays, even if the one with a minute left to go is thrown, asking for three passes to be thrown. That's on the head coach. That's on the central administration. I think this year, D'Amico goes from being pursued to be an up-and-comer to an average NFL head football coach. Well, I'm only slightly disagreeing with you. Okay. Because I think he's slightly above average. So we might be splitting hairs here. But the thing that I do, D'Amico Rines does some things good. Obviously, he's a good defensive coach. Now, I believe Matt Burke has taken over the play calling duty, so he is the defensive play caller for them. So it's not like he's doing that. But as a guy who is a leader of men and a former player and a player's coach, I think he does excel in that facet of the game.

Certainly the fourth down decisions, which have gotten somewhat better. Like they went down, they went for a fourth and short early in this game that I think normally he might have kicked in the past. He's getting better at that. So I would say he's kind of average there. and a good overall CEO, football CEO, and then a players coach. So, I mean, I'm not going to say he's setting the world on fire, but I would disagree to say he's just average.

I think he's better than that. Because the biggest feather in his cab being that his players love him and they play hard for him and his defense is real. They've had the best defense in football. But as you say that, now there may be coaches Ross in the NFL that aren't going to go out and have beers

with their team. But if you, if you're an A-hole to your players, this is 2025. They'll check out. The Bill Parcell's world is done. Yes. The, my way or the highway thought is Gonzo. So I do believe that if you're going to be an NFL coach in 2025, you better damn will be a player's coach. Or you're not going to survive. Yes. So I'm not going to get that. So he checks that box. Okay, he checks a box, but it doesn't mean I'm going to take, he is, you can't be such a good

players coach that it affects how I assess what your work is with a headset on on game day. I think he commands the players respect. And I think that is important. We can't put our fingers on that or why that is important or how important it is. Certainly it's an intangible. I mean, if they had a better offensive line out of his control and played better offensively, Joe Mixen were healthy out of his control. I mean, Nick Cayley's out of control.

I think Nick Cayley was a Nick Casario pick. I do. But I mean, when you want to, when you, he. He could have put his foot down and said, I believe that Bobby Slowick is a good offensive coordinator because two years ago when the team was hustling, nobody was complaining about Bobby Slowick. I don't think he did, and I don't think CJ Shroud did.

I think that was a collective. That's a collective loss on both of us guys. For sure. But, I mean, when you hire, the guy who gets hired was with the Patriots and as a John Carroll graduate, that screams Nick Casario to me. Oh, we weren't hearing that. We were hearing, oh, he's a Rams disciple. He's a Shaw McVeigh guy.

He'll be great here. Yeah. Well, somebody should have, and we all said this the day you got hired. Why are you hiring somebody when you're looking for experience and it had never been a play call in the NFL? Again, right. You're going back to back, never been a play caller. But Bobby Sloke was a genius when the pass protection was better and then Joe Mixon was carving up other teams. And D'Amico Ryan seemed a lot smarter too.

He was coached the year candidate. It's ultimately about your players. Yes. But again, I've said this for several weeks in a row now. When are we going to go, man, do you? Do you see the sly move that D'Amico made as a coach that made the difference in the game? He hadn't said that. No.

Now, they can beat Jacksonville. I talked you about this earlier, even if Davis Mills starts a quarterback, because Jacksonville is a very average team at best. You're in the home field. It's a revenge game. If you want to save your season, you cannot lose this game. I said that the Texans are done. They'll be really, really done if they don't beat Jacksonville.

I mean, there's still a sliver of a hope. But, I mean, I don't need percentages to tell me what's going to have. will be pretty much a nail on a coffin. If they had it complete if they don't beat Jacksonville. Because then you'll have two teams significantly in front of you

for the AFC South race and then you're going to lose every divisional tiebreaker. You're going to lose all the conference tiebreakers. If you have any thought of maybe making the playoff run and jumping over two teams, not just yourself, but getting up above it, you have to

beat Jacksonville this week. Yeah, I was just looking up these head coach rankings, just random one. CBS sports in the offseason had Demico Ryan's 15th. so he was average going in yeah so he's kind of playing up the role uh ESPN Ben Solac had had uh well they had the whole coaching staff they put demico ryan's and the Texans at 12 so I mean yeah it's not like I like I said I'm not

gonna fight you too hard if you want to just say they're average I'm gonna say slightly above yeah again it's semantics they haven't done enough they they I would like him to be more aggressive on fourth downs more aggressive in you know in those types of decisions and playing not to lose I definitely think he does that a little bit too much. That's my biggest complaint. But everybody that was watching the game, we had the caller, Scott from River Oak said this last hour. He wanted to go three shirt running plays.

I was against that. I am for what he did in terms of throwing the ball on first down, see if you get a first down, get down the field, get into field goal range. Because you have an asset in your team in Kyome Fairbury. But the light bulb should have gone off and been really lit. When you don't complete the pass, you're then looking at second down,

looking at the number of timeouts Denver, has looking how much clock there's left. The best thing you could have done is at your own 10 airline because you did not complete the pass, run the ball twice, and get ready for overtime. That's where a good coach becomes a savvy game day coach. And I don't think, if you were to separate D'Amico from all the positive things we have said about him, strictly as a game day coach? Game manager.

Game manager, whatever you want to call it? He's below average. Not the worst, but by no means would be in the upper half. there are people who combed through the analytics and decisions, stuff like that. He has been not going to. The absolute worst is apparently Mike Tomlin. He's extremely conservative when it comes to winning his teams. But he also had better teams pound for pound over the years than what the Texans have had.

All these decisions, I mean, they matter less when you have players who go out there and get it done. If you want to, if you want to rely on your defense and your defense gets it done, then you made the right decision. And the reason why I put the Fed of Complain that. Texan season. You still have to go to Kansas City. You have Buffalo in a short week. Now they have to travel here, so that's even a shorter week for them. You have a game at the LA Chargers

and you got two with Tenet with Indianapolis. Minimum you got to go four on one against those teams. They did lose to the Steelers. Steelers yesterday. They looked horrible. Yeah, but that's normal. They're not, the Colts were not supposed to be 16 and 1 this year. The Colts looked like to me

to be maybe a 12 or 13 win team. which would be way higher than any of us thought it would be. But they were due for a day for a day like that. Yeah, Jaguars and Titans, very important to win these next two. Because then you're sitting at 5 and 5. You've got C.J. Stroud back and you're home for the bills.

And you've got to hope the teams in front of you start slipping up. Who the bills, who you beat at home last year. And the Chiefs are out of the playoff picture right now, but I'm not going to stay there. I'm not going to stay there. And guess what? There are a lot of people that believe that at the end of the day, I don't know if I believe this

I think the lead is too big right now but a lot of people think that the Ravens could come back and win the AFC North because their schedule's second half of the year is significantly softened it wasn't the first half Yeah they won two no we went through the schedule remember They just beat the dolphins At the Vikings I mean Vikings won this week right

Vikings won at Detroit Yeah I couldn't remember the I know the game that close to the end I couldn't remember if they pulled it off. So they did. So that's looking a little more difficult. But then at the Browns, home for the Jets, Bingles, Steelers, and at the Bengals again. So there is a shot.

What are they two in front? The margin for error is thin. Right. But there are people that do believe the Ravens are going to be. They're three and five. The Steelers are leading it at five and three. So then you wouldn't need the Steelers at that point then to go on some sort of massive losing street because somebody's guaranteed a playoff spot out of the division. Now, two of those games, they still have two left versus the Steelers.

So in that way, they would control their own destiny. But yeah, I don't know. We'll see. 128 of the Matt Thomas show at Ross 713-212-5-7-9. If you want to chime in, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Rockets play tonight. We'll get to that a little bit. Also, free agency is underway in baseball. Another list is out there.

Another player is the number one free agent for the 2026 off-season. I'll give you one guess and one guess who it is. It doesn't rhyme with Bomb or Balbes. You hear that sizzle, Maddie? I hear the sizzle. We're going to go eat it. Depends on who pays for.

Can I hedge my bet right now and just buy you something right now and be done with it? Oh, you want to buy out? Hmm. I'll let you throw it up out there. No. 129 on Sports Talk 790.

134 Sports Talk 790. We believe it or not coming up at about 15 minutes from now. Rockets tonight against Cooper Flight. excited about seeing Cooper flag in person and is an indifferent to you. I mean, usually one-dash-ones are stupendous, amazing, can't believe it guys. A couple years ago, it was Zachary Rishas Shea in the Atlanta Hawks. It didn't do much for people. Victor Wominjama being a one-dash-one was a huge bit. Cooper flag kind of in between? Yes. In-between. Running point.

I'm interested to see how the young lad plays, I suppose. Yeah, no Anthony Davis, who's out tonight. Okay, so the flag show. Cooper flag show. Yeah, they got beat up pretty bad by the and down in Mexico City a couple days back. So here tonight for the Rockets, are going to try to make it four wins in a row. Jabari Smith, questionable for tonight's game with a bad ankle. Oh, no. So we'll see.

Alper and Shinggoon's getting the defensive player of the year campaign for Jabari Smith Jr. going. Oh, is he on a social? He tweeted that out, yeah. Yeah, I couldn't see it. It's fine. Oh. So what, I'm going to give you two days.

You've been hacked. That's fine. I'm still catching up on things on WaveBusters, H-O-U. Follow that, by way, if you don't like the Wave. WaveBusters, H-H-H-W. Oh, you. Not my burner account. Kind of. It's a semi-burner. It's a low-key slow-bye.

It's a low-key slow-bye. Low-key, six-seven. Hey, listen. So the athletic has a list of the free agents available. Yes. Number one in their list is Kyle Tucker. I mean, is everybody just cheating off each other now, and they're all writing the same story, saying the same thing. Sounds like the guys, this is the consensus top free agent, Matt. And you know what?

If he wants to get a seven-year deal worth $357 million, I'm all for it. I don't care about him not getting paid. We weren't talking about a dollar amount, Rossi. Okay. We were just talking about years. And I need him to sign a seven-year deal or a six-year deal or a five-year deal. Well, do you want the baseball America projections? There's some interesting ones as well, Framber Valdez on this list.

Please do. Kyle Tucker, the number one free agent. They project a contract of 11 years? $360 million. Now for my our Habachi bet, I just need over seven and a half. That's correct. Can I buy a year from you? Oh, to upgrade it?

Yeah. No, I'm kind of set on habachi. Me and John have been talking about this, like fried rice and shrimp and terriaki steak. I mean, I think, remember, your stomach is bigger than, I mean, your mind is bigger. Because you get the vegetables, you get the onion, the mushrooms, you get the soup. You get the salad. Oh, I'm skipping lunch. But I just want you to over-order.

Is it cheaper before a certain amount of time? We can go early. I don't know. But, I mean, I'm not worried about the cost. I already know what we should be. Where Ryan and I always go. Okay. It's in Bel Air, as a matter of fact.

I'm saying the lunch is probably cheaper than the dinner. Well, we're going to go on 2.30. Now, hopefully that's lunch is till 3. I don't care. I just want you to enjoy it. Oh, I'm going to enjoy it. Oh, yes. So you're telling me, I can't buy a year and I can't.

I can't hedge my bet to get like a, like pay you now for a regular meal. What was the year bet we had on Alex Breggman that I lost? Was it six and a half? I think it was six years on that country. Okay. So he is on this list. Well, the number two they have as Bo Bichet, eight years 240, they say for Bo. The number three free agent, according to baseball America, is from Ravaldes.

Can I tell you that reporters can be wrong? Yes. Can I tell you that all the all the Bregman projections were bigger than what he got but also he did a short term 40 million opt-out deal just because the numbers say it doesn't mean you don't kick the tires on what 29 or 30 general managers are thinking

you take that dollar amount to those general managers and they're like we know who Framber Valdez is you can't hide the reputation that Framber Valdez has and yes he's a very good left-hand pitcher. And yes, he's been, for the most part, remarkably durable. And yes, he is pitching the biggest games. But he's on the wrong side of 30 right now, correct? They're putting it as their age on April 1st, basically the start of the season. He'll be 32.4

years old. Okay. So almost from halfway to 33. Now, people are going longer in their careers, clearly. Yes. But when great framer pitches, it's a joy to see. When you get bad Framber Rossi or you get grumpy Frumber or you get I'm going to throw the ball it says our Salazar's chest and him not be ready for it Fromber the word travels fast I'm sorry I'm sorry that that sounds like to me now again I could be if I'm wrong on this I'll be ready to say it but I can't imagine I'm getting a super big deal because the word about him and his reputation it's not necessarily private it's not not a secret among the other baseball teams now we already have a bet now This is your gentleman's bet.

There's nothing on the line. Five and a half was our years. And also, we made this bet before he threw at his catcher. We made this bet. So I'm still not feeling great about it. But they have baseball America, and I'm with you. I'm listening to everything you're saying I agree with. They have it seven years to 20.

If he's 28, I do it. He's 32. 32. I don't think I do it at 32.5. And I will tell you this, though, where a lot of the value comes in on Frommberg-valdez and why he will be somewhat of a high commodity is the history of him racking up a ton of innings. He threw 192 innings for the Astros this year.

That is unheard of these days. Guys, we were growing up with pitching 200 innings until we met. Like August 15th. Right. Isn't our part of me, you know, the part of me that also says he's due to get hurt? Is that just terrible to say? You could say that. I mean, yeah, we can't predict injury.

We've tried. You can't predict injury. The last four years, 201 innings, 198, 176, 192. I mean, he's been a workhorse. And that in itself is an attribute, something you'd put on the resume, but you also think 32 and a half years of age.

Like, for instance, it wasn't for the most, correct me if I'm wrong, for the most part, except for Justin's last year in Detroit, wasn't Justin fairly durable as a pitcher was it with the Tigers? With the Tigers, yes. Remember that last season he missed some time?

I think so. Before he came to the Astros. but I want to say, and again, I didn't follow every one of his disables' trips, but it felt like to me that Justin Verlinder, part of his charm, not only was he one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball at the time, but he was also a guy that gave a start every fifth day. He had missed time in 15. He only got 20 starts that year. I don't know what the, I don't know what the

injury was. Well, 20s, an average pitcher we'd make 26 starts in a year. So that's pretty close. But his years were 32, 34, 34, 33. and then that one year he only started 20 games. Okay. And then as an Astro, 34 starts, 34 starts, and then we know he missed all of 2020 and 21. I'm just in the back of my mind, if I'm going to put that kind of cash into somebody's pocket,

I don't know if I'm a huge fan of doing it for somebody that I'm kind of waiting for him to get injured. And all by the way, he's going to be 33 years old, close to opening. Burlander was 34 and when he got hurt, he was 37. Okay, so maybe there's three years that. But again, if Framber's looking for seven years, the investment on Justin Verlainter here in Houston wasn't nearly as long. I wouldn't sign him to 7-220.

I just wouldn't. Okay, I'm just throwing it out there. That's a baseball America said, Matt. Let me. Talk to baseball America about it. By the way, other Astro freedoms that you would care about. Would include Victor Caratini. Is he on the top 50 list? No, I'm assuming not.

But Alex Bregman is the fourth. It's funny, there's three former Astros are top four. Kyle Tucker won Framber Valdez 3, Alex Breggman 4. They're predicting 6-180 for him. Which would be what he was looking for to begin with. Last year wasn't it like 6-170, something like that? Yep. And you tack on 1 to 40, that would be 7-220.

Yeah. So he got what he wanted, close to it. Not only, but if he gets what they projected. Which, who knows? They're really projecting seven years for Framber Valdez? That's crazy to me as high because he's 32. If he was 30, I'd buy it. And again, look, if he wants to be.

wants to come back here in a one-year deal, except the qualifying offer? I kind of get it. Victor Caratini, not in the top 50 free agents. 75? I don't know. I don't lose it 50. 96. They have Verlander with a one-year $15 million deal, which is, I think that's what

he was on, right? Yeah. Same with a job. Does it predict where he's going to go? They say predict the contract, not the, not the, uh, and he was actually pretty good second half of the year, but I don't know if I want to pay $15 million a year for 10 starts. Great second half of the year.

I don't need old gravy trainer. Ben coming in back here for the reason. Okay, come on. You're not going to bring him up. Yeah, you got to give my brother Ben two million dollars a year. He needs it. His fledgling media career. Ben's trying to get his too. Ben's last name was Miller.

He wouldn't be doing Jack. Tweets coming in when I think Mr. Texas, I think crypto. Oh, that's rude. Yeah, I don't know what's going on on your Twitter because I've been blocked. Yeah, apparently if I follow you... You better follow me back. when I get you back? Oh yeah, I'll follow you for sure.

Thanks. So how many followers I have right now does it say? 31.7K. Okay, that's right. How many following people are my following? Still says 381. Huh. That's interesting because if I blocked you,

I would thus lose somebody. I could see your tweets, but I can't anymore. No, I have no tweets. Oh, they deleted all the tweets? I think they're all gone. I don't know. Well, it says 48.8,000 posts still. So I don't know.

What's going on with you? But even if I blocked you, you'd You can still see my, you can still see my tweets. Not if you, they've locked the account. The account has been locked. What a mess. What an absolute mess. At SportsMT.

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PJ Tucker's like, hold my beer. More like Josh Goatke. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Jonathan. Thank you very much. God, I did that on purpose. Jonathan, you don't believe that, do you?

Oh, please. Oh, my God. You're trying for things to stick. I'm glad he had it at the ready. That's great. Like, Commissioner's Court's going to stick. We won't do it every week, but there'll be some things that we need to rulings on. That's true.

And I think when we do a ruling, we just go right to commissioners. Well, we need people to come to us with their fantasy football questions. You, I think we should open up to more than fantasy football, though. Yeah. Like in life. Okay. So, but I think whatever we'll do it is when I'll say, how I need to ruling, because I'm the one

to kind of push you towards it. You always always, I value your opinion. I don't know why, but I do. You're always, yeah, you're crossing lines a lot. No, I'm hesitant to go for things without getting reassurance. A bitual line stepper. Nope. Not at all.

All right. Mr. Texas is going to be in San Antonio this week. Who's that? Me. You're not. Mr. Texas. Oh, yeah. No, you're not.

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the best of TSO and more. December the 19th, Toyota Center. Tickets on sale for both the afternoon and evening shows at Tota Center.com or a pair of tickets to see Sting live May 13th at the Woodlands Pavilion. I might go to that, Ross. You want to go? So see some Sting? I'm good. Tickets available and we'll start being sold today. As a matter of fact, at Ticketmaster.com. So tickets see Sting or the Trans-Hiberian Orchestra, but you must first play and win on Believe it or not. John on 7.90, John, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. John, good luck to you. Dodgers' first ballpark was known as Morningside Park.

It was burned down by an arsonist after their first season in Brooklyn back in 1889. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, Ross made that up. That's a lot of work for a make-up there. Mike on 790. Mike, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. The Los Angeles Dodgers had the second most franchise wins in MLB history behind only the Sanford. Francisco Giants, believe it or not? Believe it. That is correct. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. The Los Angeles Dodgers have gone through over 10 name changes over the years, including the Brooklyn Robbins, the Brooklyn Grays, and the Brooklyn Brighrooms. Believe it or not?

I'm going to go with not. You should have believed it. Duh. I don't know their names. And the bridegrooms playing in Brooklyn today. Dave on 790, Dave, your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio. show. Oh gosh, I don't know. It's all so good, Matt. You just turned in, you whore.

The Los Angeles Dodgers... No, no, I've been listening. All right, thank you. God love you. The Los Angeles Dodgers' all-time leader in pitching wins is Don Sutton. Believe it or not? I believe it. You should. Believe it. Statement number two for the win.

The Dodgers' all-time leader in home runs is Duke Snyder with 389. Believe it or not. I believe that, too. You should. Congratulations. believe they've never had a 400 home run hitter that's really strange bill what is your favorite sting song if i ever lose my faith in you baby oh now you're gonna wing that was actually a legit answer here we go show hey otani comes from an athletic family his father played professional baseball his mother

was an accomplished badminton player believe it or not not believe it that was a gimmick 1790, Renee, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Dave Roberts was born in Okinawa, Japan. His father was a U.S. Marine stationed there. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it.

Statement number two, Renee, good luck. According to the sports business journals, David Kaplan, the Dodgers have turned down numerous multimillion-dollar endorsements to keep the stadium named simply Dodger Stadium. Believe it or not? Believe it. No. They've always wanted to be.

Keep at a Dodger Stadium. Poor Renee. She's trying so hard, but yet she cannot win. Rossi, we got gut feelings tomorrow on the radio program. Can't wait. We got a complete breakdown on the Rockets versus Mavericks. Woo, big victory. Monday night recapton on and...

I don't know who's playing. Oh, it's Arizona and... Dallas. Dak Prescott, 143, two touchdowns, four interceptions. I need a big game from Jacoby Preset. Shut up. I'm glad you're laughing about it, because that's not going to happen. happen. Up next, the Cowboys'

Team. Talk to you for Rockets at 7 on 790.