The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Beat Wemby & Spurs, Dodgers Could Sweep Yankees, Should Texans Make A Trade?

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to breaking news that Houston Texans wide receiver Stefon Diggs tore his ACL on Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts and will miss the rest of the season. Should general manager Nick Caserio look to make a trade now that the offense will be missing a weapon? Matt and Ross also:discuss Anthony Richardson getting benched for Joe Flaccodebate the future potential of Victor Wembanyamapreview Game 4 of the World Seriesgive their latest "Gut Feelings"recap Week 8 in "Ross' NFL Rewind" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-1-1 in H-town. What's happening in one? Lunchtimers, good afternoon to you. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 7.30. Glad Stan got on on time today because Lord knows the city of Houston can't get enough Kenyon Green versus Kendrick Green talk on the show. Good God.

I think a lamp post might be better than Kenyon Green at this point. Yeah, my. My head coach has confidence in him. Oh, my God. Head coach said nothing to see here. We'll be all right. Yeah, yeah. Yes, did you hear that press conference?

We threw, we through for 285. What are you worried about? They're going to get him killed. What's going to do? Hi, Ross. Good to see you. I've seen you in a while. Hey, Matthew.

I wasn't sure you were going to be here today. Yeah, I come in. I'm happy you are. Yeah, I'll be here tomorrow. Thursday, be in Dallas, taking on those pesky mavarks. Well, I answer you on a three-second delay so we can go to what you're used to. Oh, stop. It wasn't as bad as you.

We fixed that the first second. We did. It was a little sketch. I get it. Technology is a bitch sometimes. It is what it is. It's fine. I'm happy you're here.

Yeah, I'm happy I'm here as well. I hate my drive. Again, if anybody would like to become my personal driver. Oh, my God. Here's what I can offer. Go ahead. I'll give you... There's straight cash.

Just start with that. Some cash. I'll give you some of Stan Northfleet's rockets tickets. Oh, wow. The North Fleet mini plan. Yeah, I'll give you some... We'll get some food. Okay.

Like, we'll go to Starbucks every day. Wow. On the way there and then the way back. Can we go to a good coffee place? I don't care. Yeah. By the way, Jordan Schult still blocks me on Twitter. What a douche.

I never tweeted at him once. Oh, I did. I'm sure I did. So he must have been listening to the show or somebody tagged him or something. Oh, he blocked you too? Yeah. I've never tweeted at him. You caught astray from me and I apologize for that, Ross.

That's okay. I had him muted anyways because he's a fraudster and he tweets out a bunch of stupid. It's stuff that's incorrect. Yeah, but people continue to give him legitimately, which is just awful. Whatever. But it's, I mean, the coffee's still good. I know you and I disagree on this. It's fine.

I'm going to get one in about three hours. I can tell you that for sure. Okay, so here's what you get. You drive me to from work. Okay. We have to get you coffee. Cash. Have to call you, sir.

No. Have to wear a suit and a cap. Got to put on music between 73 and 83. Oh, see, this is a deal break. These are deal breakers all over the place. Okay. I got you. It's a nice.

you with us. We've got gut feelings today at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Wonderful. At 1.30, we have Ross's NFL rewind. Can't wait. And by the way, the Dix family, having a tough weekend. So what's Stefan's brother's name? Trayvon. Yeah, Trayvon. Trayvon and Stefan. Getting a little lippy with a member of the Dallas media.

Yes. And that didn't turn out well, especially since the Cowboys lost the game. And I think he dropped a D's nuts on that guy, apparently. Yes, he did. Can we actually No, we don't have to talk about that play. It's 12.04. We can talk about Houston stuff.

Yeah, yeah. But during the rewind, we'll definitely talk about it. Okay. You know what we didn't talk about yesterday, too, was that corner or the extra, whatever secondary guy for the Chicago Bears. It was just out there taunting the commanders before that final play.

In which a former Texan great, Noah Brown. Legend. Legendary Texan. And I, and I, And I don't mean to get into a deep dive on that. And I don't know how much you guys get into the minutiae of play-by-play calls. We don't. Okay, so just let me have 60 seconds in.

Jim Nance called it perfectly. Uh-huh. You understood everything that was said. Okay. There was, I didn't hear the Chicago radio call. I heard the national radio call and I heard the Washington radio call. It was so much yelling and screaming, obviously you knew something good had happened. you obviously knew the play beforehand was a Hail Mary,

but then there was like 30 seconds of inaudible crap after that. Now again, everybody gets excited. I get excited last night and the Fred Van Bleet, top of the key three-pointer that sealed the rocket victory last day. Assisted by? Janet Green, who faced a double team last night on that. But it was just, it was crazy. And so you have to, you know, and thankfully for me,

I was by myself in San Antonio. So, I mean, I don't know if I'd have had one of the Wex or Clinton. They'd been yelling or two. It wasn't a yell-like moment, but it was a clutch three. Yeah. It's fine to get a little oh or something. Right. But it was just, I was listening to the highlights coming back from Houston on Sunday back to San Antonio.

I was like, if you, you had no way to decipher what was excited, except obviously somebody caught the football in the end zone. You didn't figure out who it was. You didn't know what the final score was. You know how the play took place. It was actually a perfect Hail Mary. The one tip. Yes. Noah Brown in the back of the end zone by himself, caught.

game over. It was almost like they had rehearsed it. After the guy taunting. It was great. Yeah. All right. So we'll get that during the rewind coming up today. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to follow us on Twitter, it's at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Connor D. McGahn. We got Connor D. back with us today. Yeah, he decided to show up today. I'm so proud of him.

He needed the day off after his Missouri Tigers got their ass whooped by Alabama on Saturday. Did y'all score in that game? Hey, come on. I think they're on like their third string quarter. back. We were, yeah, and we did not score Matt. Okay. Thanks for bringing it up. But a good time was had by all, right? No. No, okay. Nobody had a good time? If you could stare daggers through

a digital camera, he's not. That's what he's doing. He's not pleased. Which is fine. Congrats to your Cougars, though. Hey, we got a big win against Utah, baby. Yeah, what's the record now? I believe it's 6 and 0. 7-0, what's the actual record? I don't know if you know how records work. I don't. In my mind, I watch two different games. In my mind, I watch two different games. As a trigger fan, I know you don't know how it works. That's right.

When's going the first column? Losses go in the second column. Well, emotionally, they're an undefeated team in my book. Okay. And we'll talk to Willie Fritz tomorrow on the show and we'll get a little thought about the game coming up this weekend. Oh, this three and five? Yeah. I mean, Kansas State's coming in tomorrow on Saturday. Two touchdown dogs. Let me ask you this. And I don't know anything about Kansas State. I mean, I know about Bill Snyder was there forever, two different long. long-term runs there. Yes.

How does Kansas State do it? Now, under Bill Snyder, they were big, now this is before the transfer portal and all that, they were big at poaching Jucco transfers. Yeah. I don't know how they do it now. Well, I mean, let's be brutally honest. Everybody uses the portal now.

I mean, I can't imagine any school in the country, it's, we're good. Right. Now, it used to be you'd have to poach from the junior colleges. Now you can go from any college. But, I mean, I can't imagine Canada State having a huge collective. that's meaning cash. Who are the Kansas State Wildcat billionaire donors?

Who is the most famous Kansas State person not named an athlete? I have no idea. I mean, it would take a Wikipedia searcher. You'd probably find somebody. But, I mean, that's a, it's Manhattan, Kansas. It's literally in the middle of nowhere. It's like plunking Brian College Station in the heartland of America. But they win every year.

They wake up every year. Seems like it. And all they do is go to Big 12 championship games. Yeah, I'm trying to find a list of notable alumni. No. They have no notable alumni whatsoever? Actually, it says under construction here. Oh, okay.

Well, you know. So if you're a Kansas State alum, shout out to you because your football team just, and their basketball team is usually pretty good, not spectacular, but, I mean, it's not like Kansas good. But Pat Roberts? Pat Roberts. Not Pat Robertson, but Pat Roberts? Former Governor of Kansas. That's where we're going at this point?

That's all I got right now. Okay, that's fine. That'll conclude our conversation about notable Kansas State alumni here on the radio program. Oh, Christy Allie! Oh, she's dead now. Craig Bolerjack? Oh, Craig Bolerjack. Voice of the Youth.

In Utah Jazz. Yeah, nice guy. Comedian Eddie Griffin? Hmm. Wow. Eddie Griffin. I don't know an Annie Griffin comedian. I don't know.

I don't know. He was the pimp-induced Bigelow. He was, he had a lot of, he had a notable stand-up career, and then he was in a bunch of movies. What else was it? Oh, he starred, of course, an undercover brother. 2002?

Did you catch that one? Did not. Oh, Malcolm and Eddie. Yeah, he was in Malcolm and Eddie. Okay, so that's the most famous alum ever to go to, like if Kansas State was to go to Game Day and have it there. They'd bring that dude out to make the picks?

Or the corpse of Kirstie Allie, yes. Oh, God, Ross. What if she got cremated? Do you bring the urn out there? Oh, that's true. That'd be kind of weird. Put some Google eyes on it? All right.

I'm sorry. And they say I'm going to be one of the duo here. Not being mean. Yeah, you are. If a member of the Alley family is listening right now, they're offended by it. I'm trying to come up with solutions. You said who are they going to put out there? Okay, well, I'm going to put you on the test for the next six minutes.

Got some fine, like three famous. alum's from Kansas State. I mean, come on. Or was this our believed or not? No, I'm just saying there's got to be somebody more famous than whoever you just brought up. Eddie Griffin's mildly famous. As you mentioned, it's Kansas State. It's in the middle of nowhere. But they win. Shout out to them.

Mitch Holthus. That's the announcer for the Chiefs. Yes. And yeah, that's about it. Lucinda Dickie was an actress in Breaking and Breaking 2 Electric Bugaloo. That's good. All right. Where are we on Steph Diggs? By the way. Do we have an update yet?

he's got to be out for the season, right? Yeah, he's... I mean, when are they going to say something? When I gave you yesterday on the tell the truth that he's done as a Texan, did you believe me? Do you believe? I guess more importantly, do you believe me? I would say so. I think you're probably right.

All right, 713-213-212-790. 7-1-2-1-7-90. We are with you today until 3 o'clock. Gut feelings are at 1.130, it's NFL reworn. Believe it or not, 250. And maybe some news on step before the end of the show, although maybe the Texans could be rather tight-lipped about the whole situation. Rockets last night, Rossi going to win in San Antonio.

Let's put the series there. If you want to give a little rocket chatter, we can do that. 713-2125-7-90 with a word here. What's the matter? Okay. Something happened to the office. Berkeley Eye Center, Black Friday savings all month long, starting now until the end of Black Friday, which, of course, is right after Thanksgiving.

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10 on the shot clock. Jane on a double team. Straight on. Friends, sets, fires, and hits a three. Fred Van Blee was wide open from 25 and he nails it to force a San Antonio timeout. It was a good little nerve-wracking Ross

late that fourth quarter. San Antonio got to within two and that was the close that they got. It was a close one. A squeaker in San Antonio. Malachi Branum. With a couple of big threes. Okay.

How often do you say Wimby? and how often do you say Wimbanyama on the call? I'll mix them up. Victor Wembe and Wembeen Yama. Okay. By the way, we need to have this conversation. And by the way, Roger Hankth, we'll get you in just a second. What conversation?

You and I talked about how we think that Wembe is going to be a special ball player and he's going to be a thorn on the rocket side, maybe for the next decade. Yes. As long as it's staying in San Antonio. And if he stays in the Western Conference, it's going to be a problem. Yes. Is he a finished product at this point? Of course not.

No, he's 20 years old. Is health going to be an issue for guys that are 7-3? Yeah, it typically is. Yes. Typically, yes. But he played on the worldwide stage known as the Olympics. He was dominant and crushed everything. He was the rookie of the year, like unanimously, right?

Finished for like second a defensive player of the year. He's developing an outside shot. It's not great right now, but he launches some deep threes and makes them. So you know that's in his repertoire. It looks pretty smooth. And the fact that he shoots 87% from the free throw line this year. Tells you he can shoot. And he'll be at the line probably 10 times for game once he develops even a more of a back-to-the-basket kind of game.

Point being is this. I love the Houston Rockets. They're my favorite team. But I can also observe that other people in the league are very good as well. Okay. So Adam is on his group text with us last night. Clinton. What is he saying?

Just not a big Wemby guy. And I'm like... Is this group text? Do I hand this one? No, it was Craig. It was Craig me and him. Okay. He's just,

and he's like blank talking. Whampett and I'm like, I think you're going to be careful on this. Because I don't want to blank talk a guy that could be a serious thorn on the rocket side for supremacy in the Western Conference. Hmm.

When they get to be a better, even a better basketball team than they are now. Hopefully. And so it made me, he's like, Wembe Anger do blank in the NBA. And I'm like, I disagree with you. What is ain't going to do blank mean?

Meaning is highly overrated. I need to get the definition from him. Like how many all-stars is he going to make? Is he not going to make the Hall of Fame? Connor, let's call Clinton right now and see if he's around. We'll let him answer the question. He's not doing much, right? He's probably napping and playing video games.

He's been crashing into people on Grand Theft Auto. Yeah. Teaming up with Cal McNair. So I put a question on Twitter. Now, again, I was going to, I assumed the results were going to be heavily skewed towards Rocket fans. Yes. But the question was, I think Wemby will be an excellent NBA player.

Adam Clanton does not. What do you think? And 42% of you say good but never great. 41% say excellent. 17% say just a guy. Now again, if you took that with a general NBA fan base, it probably would skew a little higher to excellent. But again, I got mostly rocket fans that are listening.

I have some news for you. If you said just a guy, you are stupid. In his rookie year, he was already better than just a guy. There were like five players that were 21 and 10 in last year. He was one of them. he was a 19 year old rookie and he finished second and defensive player of the year. That's not just a guy. That's assonine.

Yeah, so I just completely discounted it. Oh, now we got them. Let's put him on there. Okay, great. So let's not put any words in his mouth. Of course not. Let's hear from Adam Clinton. Adam Clinton, first of all, good afternoon.

Thanks for listening. And number two, describing your mind what you think Victor Webbenyama will be as an NBA player. He's just a guy. How many all-star teams? Zero? Just a guy would make zero. All-Star teams? I don't think he's just a guy.

I think it'll be good, but I'm not, I don't think he's going to like, you know, I don't think they're going to be changing the dimensions at the lane and talking about what just an amazing aura he had as a big man years from now. I don't think we're headed there. How many All-Star teams? I mean. Is he going to make the Hall of Fame? Well, I was actually said, hold the Hall of Fame.

Yeah, full disclosure, I don't think we're also in mind this. We were texting about this last night, and I said, you know, he is, he's a discount Ralph Samson. Very, very good, very skilled, and it's going to be very sad for San Antonio fans when his knees get out on him. And he's gone to about five all-star teams, but never really wins anything for them. That's what I think he's going to do. No, I didn't bring that up. I said, look, seven, three guys can face challenges like that, especially those that are a slight build. But you can say that about a lot of NBA.

I mean, look at Joel Embedit is a big. physical, legitimate center, and he can't stay healthy. Same thing for Anthony Davis. I mean, health is always a prerequisite for any star player. You would even admit that. But again, go ahead. Look at what happened with Yao Ming. But, you know, when he came in the league, you know, the pressure was on him to build up

his body so that he wouldn't get body around, wouldn't get pushed around. And I think, you know, if you look at Wemby last night, he looks like he's put on some muscle mass. but Stephen Adams is throwing him around like a rag doll. And I just don't think that he's going to be as effective. Now look, if his game is to sit out on the perimeter and chuck threes from 45 feet like he did last night, then maybe he can have some, maybe he can lengthen his career. But he's never going to bang, you know, with the big guy. And maybe that's not today's NBA anyways.

Maybe he doesn't have to. So, you know, from that standpoint, maybe his career is extended. But I just think physically, I don't know. He has all the attributes of the guy who's going to just, oh, his legs snap in half, and we didn't see that coming. But, like, that's just kind of how the feeling I get from him. And, again, if he's so great, if he's so amazing, he never even remotely took that game over last night. It was Chris Paul, 80-year-old Chris Paul that was taking over that game late. Yeah, I just, he got 20 rebounds and four blocks also, by the way.

I'm just saying I... Yeah, but that's just one regular. I mean, I just disagree with you that I think that we're going to be talking about Victor Wemanniamer for a very long period of time. Hell, the Rockets, if they would have got the number one pick, we would have already raised a banner in the TOTA center for the guy because we think it was going to be special. He was a consensus number one pick. He did not let anybody down last year. And are there parts of his game that absolutely have to improve? No question about it.

But for right now, the progress says this guy was everything as advertised when he was. going to be the number one pick in the draft. And I guarantee nobody in San Antonio is disappointed not to have him. And I guarantee that every other 30 teams in the NBA would build a franchise around the guy. Yeah, I agree with all of what you just said. Here's the thing. And you'll remember this because you were there for it, obviously.

I had this conversation with Craig Ackerman very, very early on in Janus's career. And he was kind of ahead of the curve as he was kind of becoming that monster player. And he was like, man, Janus is really, really good. So I started watching him more closely. And I see the promise.

And I'm not saying you can't see that with Victor Wemagnama. I just don't think he's going to just change the game. The only reason he would dominate if he did is because of his height. But he doesn't do that. He's just, I don't know what it is about him. I can't even put a finger on it. It's that he doesn't wear rockets gear. I'm helping you out.

Because it says San Antonio on his jersey. Is there a homerism to this? Absolutely. This is who I am. But if you're asking me, like, purely from a basketball standpoint, I'm telling you it was easier for me to see what people were saying about Janus than it is with this guy. I just think he's, ah, he's got stiff written all over him. He's a stiff. He's a bum. Weekdays, three to six.

Oh, Lord. I don't even know if that weren't a response. We're going to have this for you and I to have a good old-fashioned argument about for the next. 10 years. You ready for it? Yeah, but Matt, can you promise me something for Saturday night when the Warriors are in town? Oh, no. What do you? Do the lineups like I did for Golden State?

Well, yeah, you always do that, even when you're not the PA. But no, no, no, it's just something completely different and unrelated. What is it? Can we take another pregame pick? Because I really like the one that we took. Can we stare into the sky? Yeah, you have to look off into the distance and contemplate your future as a broadcaster. I will do that. Adam Planton, three to six,

of the A team. See you later. All right. That's Adam Klan. Don't miss it. I wouldn't miss it. A lot of more great takes just like that one. Hey, we disagree. I mean, first of all, nobody has the right answer at this point. I just, I'm just telling you, I know when a, like my proudest NBA analysis, this is goofy. Okay.

But I knew Ben Simmons was going to be a stiff. And I know there were some very high marks in what he did early in his career. but I still, from watching enough of him in college, the one season he was at LSU, and watching his NBA days, that there was a serious problem with him. And I know Ben's back in the NBA now and trying to play, but that to me was the overrated,

this guy's change in the world. Because if you do everything at a brilliant level except, A, ability to shoot Rossi and B, want to shoot, like more importantly want, you don't want to shoot. If you don't want to shoot, you're never going to be that franchise S type player. Yeah, he might not want to be out there.

All right. Victor Wimbonyama, as long as he's healthy, he is at his very, very worst, going to be an extremely impact player, even on the defensive side. I mean, I can tell you right now, first hand, Alperin Shingoon is not looking forward

to four matchups per year. I know. But Albi's had some good success against him, but it ain't easy. He had the 45-point game against Victor Wimaniama, which was the best game of his career. But in these two games,

he scored six points and 12 points. And he was not on the court for the comeback in the game on Saturday. Yep. 713, 212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Let's talk to Jason and to Roger when we come back. Our time is 1228.

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Let's go to Jason and Kingwood on 790. Hi, Jason. Hey, man. So I'm calling about the conversation you just had with Adam Clinton. And let me preface it with this. And I'm a Rockets fan. Through and through. I've been a Rockets fan my entire life.

And he called Victor Women Yamma just a guy. You tell me someone who was more than just a guy than Adam Clanton. He's just a guy. He's just a guy. Come on, be nice. He's just a guy. He's just a guy. Well, okay, so,

so way back when you guys had a show that was on with Indy Kalu, and there was a guy that was on that show with him that I cannot, I can't remember his name. I'm sure you guys do. But that's who Clanton comes off to me as.

Well, he's not just a guy. He's my brother in crime. Now, we may disagree. No, no, no, we may disagree. Thank you for the Jason for the phone call. Come on, be nice. That doesn't mean we can't bust each other. You know what?

Hell, I listen to 10 and 12 and bust Stan all the time during his show. I just can't call in on it. But I text him a lot. Why not? I mean, I guess I could. Yeah, no, focus on the road. Yeah, it's probably the smart thing. Although, me and the Apple Carplay is a game changer.

I love the Apple Carplay. Oh, my God. I am texting like a mother on the Apple Carplay. Oh, my gosh. Please focus on the road, man. Yeah, you're right. You're going to end up under 18 wheeler again. 712.2.2.570. 713.

212.790. We've got some breaking news to the radio program. We do? How many sounders? Hit it again. Oh. I haven't looked. Can I guess? Hit it again.

Oh, now I really think I know what it is. Does it run with May Me Mel? AC. I was going to say, May Me, L? A.L. It does. It's rhyme with ACL. Oh, geez.

No! Come on, man! Go ahead. Can we get some music for this? Yeah, like some sad music? Sad music. Okay. Now, don't go to the normal stuff that's like the tension-filled sad.

Just, you know, you play that one song over and over again. What song? You know, we haven't played in a while, but there was one song you were going to quite often. Just fine. something. I don't care because I want to just read this. He's got something. Oh yeah. This is perfect. This is not perfect. It is what it is.

Jesus. Domingo Ryan's moments ago says that Stefan Diggs Torres ACL. It is out for the year. So if you love you some tankdale, you're going to get more of it.

Save us, Nico Collins. Your only hope. If you love Xavier Hutchinson, you're going to get more of that. If you think in METCHI we trust. Dalton Schultz, it's Schultz season. Let's go. What else am I forgetting? Anybody else?

Can we go grab Noah Brown back from the commanders? No, I don't think so. This is horrible. And I'm going to put my name on something right now. Go ahead. Go ahead, Texans hater, Matt. Texans realists. grave. Texans realists. That was the last

time you saw Stefan Diggs in a Texan's uniform. So what? They swung for the fences and didn't work out. He'd been great all year. They swung for the fences and it was a John Singleton chopper to second on one easy hop. Well, at least it wasn't an

Aaron Judge strikeout. I think that's at least a single, Matt. Come on. It's at least a bloop single. He got you like 500 yards. Like a Texas League, if you will. All right. Okay, we're talking about the entire season. Yeah. How many yards and touchdowns did he end up? Well, at least he's not fighting with members of the media.

Although, see? You said he was going to be a locker room cancer and submarine the team. Okay, 496 yards and three touchdowns. Not bad. All right. Let's keep the music up. 713-212-790.

We have, we need someone right now. We have some other NFL breaking news real quick if you want. Is it worthy of... I think it's at least one, maybe two. Okay, hit it. You want another one on this? Go ahead.

Hit it again. Another one. Go ahead. Anthony Richardson, to the bench for Joe Flacco. That's not good news for us. Adam Schaefter. Indianapolis is benching the former first round pick, Anthony Richardson, and turning to veteran Joe Flacco, sources,

Fowler, ESPN, and me. I got news for you. Anthony Richardson sucks and never should tell the truth. truth. Remember, lying is your best friend. Getting bench for Joe Flacco, 40-year-old Joe Flacco? How does that feel? Yeah, but Joe was okay last year for the Browns. I mean, he wasn't great in the playoff game.

Coach's met this morning and made the seismic organizational decision to change Cubies. And next time when someone asked you why you tapped out, you say because you had a hamstring issue. Yeah. Or your thigh was hurting. Stefan Diggs. Are you going to go ahead and do it? What was your favorite Stefan Diggs as a Texan moment?

Okay. I'm just going to put it on Twitter. John and Needville on 790. Hello, John. I know it's your bit, but it is my biggest. People steal it all the time. Hi, John. You did it, Matt. What did I do? Ross, remember back

when the season, training camp was starting? Yes. And Matt went off and ran his mouth. Yes. Oh, they're going to have a major injury over there on Kirby. Uh-huh. Matt did it. So now I'm going to do it to Matt. Y'all going to have a major injury with those divas on that basketball port. Oh!

They stink anyway. John, you can't carry my water pail. You ain't got nothing on this. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it way more impactful than your sorry ass. Later, man. All right. I'm going to let the audience decide. What?

What are they going to decide, man? I'm going to do it via Twitter. I'm going to give you 20 minutes to decide whether I should. put it out there or not. Just do it. Zero days. Just do it. You get 20 minutes. Just do it. The answer is should I? And the question is yes, it's a bit. No too soon. Here we go. Get it over with.

And I will only decide on whether or not I do it based off of... I mean, yeah, he's likely gone. Unless he somehow decides to come back on some kind of team-friendly deal, which I just don't see that happening. But what is team-friendly to you? One-year 10-9? No. For guys off a fresh ACL injury? No, you're not paying that.

ACL injury is not a death now, Matt. For 30-plus-year-old guys, it is. No, it's not. Okay, he's never going to play again. No, but not that's on $10 million or not. If he wants to come back for five, it's hashtag great value. Okay.

Neal. Vancouver. Is that British Columbia or Washington on Sports Talk 7? Hello, Neal. Beautiful British Columbia. And it's Nigel. You see, I got a needle on Nigel. I got a needle.

Yeah, Nigel. And that's very, you know. You say this all the time. Regarding Stefan Diggs, this is a good thing. How? Not obviously for Stefan Diggs. Because do you notice what happened when Stefan Diggs went out? Tank Degg's started performing.

He had four catches. Of course, but one of those was for a touchdown. I think that we need to see some more John Metchy. As a Canadian, I would like to see that happen. Oh, my. You know what? Canadian football acumen is terrible. terrible.

It's embarrassing. Well, he should be on the blue bombers. Yeah. Well, let's hope that he's better than that. But regardless. Who's, is the BC Lions a four-point favorite against the Argonauts or are the underdog? What's the over-under in this week's game? I have no clue.

I am going to the Grey Cup because it is in Vancouver this year. But regardless, I honestly think as a holistic thing, Stefan Diggs, not being on the team is a good thing. It's going to open up more space for our young receivers. Dolan Shost needs to get going. Oh, my God. I'm more concerned about the offensive line. Well, of course.

You should be. That's the number one concern. Look, if they get back Nico Collins and as he stays healthy and tank Del stays healthy, they're going to be still in a good spot. What about trading for Mike Williams? If we're trying to shoot the moon this year, let's do something dramatic. He's so good that the Jets traded for Devonte Adams who's washed. Yeah, thanks, Nigel.

Mike Williams. I mean, it could happen. But to Nigel's point, though, you're not trading for, I mean, all the marquee guys are gone. You're going to get a seventh rounder? Yeah, I mean, who are the marquee guys that have been moving? Old Devonte Adams, old DeAndre Hopkins. Who else? Cleveland receiver that went to the-Marie Cooper.

Mari Cooper? Yeah, I think, though, let me tell you. How many catches did he have this weekend for the bills? It doesn't matter. I would have taken all three of those guys. Absolutely would have taken it. Murray Cooper's like in his 30s too, isn't he? Yeah, but I mean, that's what I'm saying.

Anything that was left was traded for. By the way, the poll question has 17 minutes left. 52% yes, 48% no. You're right over there? I almost dropped coffee on this whole time. Hot coffee or cold. I almost pulled a Matt Thomas. That's not nice.

I'm actually in the room here. All right, so Stefan Diggs is out. Great for the year. And perhaps, his legacy as a Houston Texan. Whose jersey should be retired first? Ed Reeds or Stefan Diggs? I'm going to go with Eric Molds.

Was he a Texan, too? Yes, he was. Damn, dude. Who else will say short-term Texan? I mean, like, super short-term. Oh, Amon Green. Matt Shott? How about Amon Green?

Texans' legends. Who are the faded? He just goes on the list. Fated Stars who came here and he, Houston and didn't do squat. Okay, Stefan Dix is good. But Stefan did something. He tore his ACL. Armand Green was

terrible. Ed Reed was washed. Yep. Eric Boulds was done. Dan Orlovsky? Okay. Dan Orlovsky was never a star. We're talking about like, faded stars. 7-13-212, 5. 7 out of it. You know what we need now? No, I don't know. We need now. Something uplifting.

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Come on, man. You brought this up. This is going to be depressing. Here are the candidates. Jeff Garcia. Jake Delome. Tony Buselli on the list. Let's see.

Soob's just sent that out there. What else? And Bacilli didn't even play it down. Ron Dane. Ron Dane is a pretty good one. But I mean, he didn't have much of an NFL career either. But great college back, though. Wasn't Dane a decent giant for a while?

He was okay. Passed up Ricky Williams, so I'm still bitter about that. That's not good at all. 713-212-5-79. If you want to jump in, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Let's go to Will and the Woodlands on 790. Hello, Will. Hello, I've got two guys I want to throw in the mix.

I got Brandon Cooks and Vince Wilfork. Oh, Wilfork was good. Will For a couple years. Yeah, he was just clear on the back end. But Vince played and helped. Yeah. He made barbecue in his overalls. I mean, he was great.

He was more of a character. He was hungry. He had two seasons. I thought he was decent. Brandon Cooks. Brandon Cooks. Brandon Cooks. Brandon Cook's hurt for the Cowboys.

Yeah, and then he got salty with the team here like, Trayby, I don't care. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Those are good ones. I think he had a thousand yards season. But I would say Brandon Cook's career is more.

Two of them. He had 2,000 yards seasons here. Yeah. Remember he wanted a week off or something? Wasn't there something going on with this? It was some kind of thing. He needed some time away. He was tired.

He didn't say he didn't pull in Anthony Richardson. Yeah. Got benched now. Yeah. No, I would put Stefan Diggs' short tenures of Texan, that's got to be wrong. Dane, right? No, because Diggs was great in his prime.

Okay, well, then who's good until he got hurt? Besselli was never good as a Texan. No. I mean, how did Jeff Garcia do as a Texan? He was great. I don't believe that. He maybe started like one or two games. Yeah.

But see, nobody brought in Jeff Garcia because, oh, this is going to be a difference. You brought him in as insurance. Mm-hmm. this was supposed to be a well when you originally traded for him he was a multi-year deal. Ed Reed wasn't hurt though but Ed Reed worked

Diggs was decent But didn't we know that Ed Reed was going to be already going in We had Ed Reed on a mobile call remember Yeah Ed Reed baby Who is Ed Reed in a mobile? We miss him

Let's talk to Frank on the north side on 790 and 1252 Thank you Frank for calling what's going on Hey I was calling about the comment you made about Wimby Yami, I'm pronouncing the name wrong. I know, but yeah. Adam Klan is a

hater. He, he don't, if you're not a rocket, he don't like nobody unless you're a rocket or Kaysun or Astro. He's just a plain hater. And for you to be on his bandwagon, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're not, you're not hearing. I said we are friends. I love him like a brother, but it doesn't mean I have to agree with every one of his sports takes. You have friends that have bad sports takes, right, Frank?

I was just trying to say what's going on with you and him is he shining an old cue ball up for you on the weekend or what? What kind of fool are you, Frank? What's the matter with you, Frank? Frank, Frank, the whole point of the conversation was I was disagree with Adam Clinton. What did you not understand? Is your hamster not going the whole way through? Hey, look at here. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Yeah, I know. I ain't going to say to be where, but get his bitch self home waiting me with that haterism. The man is just 20 years old and this is the second year in the league and he already putting a jacket on. He just average. Come on, man. I don't disagree with you.

See, Frank, you didn't listen to. He didn't clean that wax out of your ears. I like Victor Wemignam. I don't want him to be good, but I'm afraid he's going to be good. I didn't say you, Matt. I'm going by the comment that Adam Klex made, you know. Now you twisting it all the way around. All right.

You like, I'm, no. Don't you turn into a hate up, Matt. Come on, man. Frank, I hate you is what I do. That's what I'm telling you. I just hate you. I just spite. Now I know he's shining old cute.

Oh, get out of here. Get out of here. Frank crazy ass. Shining the cue ball. I'll give you something to shine. Frank, what's mad at with you, Frank? That's crazy. Thank you, Frank for getting dead.

There's nothing wrong with you. Frank's making a lot of good points. No, I don't think Frank made any good points. Crazy. Oh, bad. That's funny. 7-1, 3, 2. I do get my head shave.

I don't get my head shine, though. Nope, you can't do it. Go ahead. No, you can't. No, you can't. No, you can try. It ain't working. Nope, doop, doop, doop.

All right. Oh, man. So what's happening with your Twitter poll? Oh, oh, oh, oh, let's check it. How much do you have my minutes got left here? Four minutes left. Oh, it's happening. 64% said yes

Oh you didn't even you just said should I Yeah I didn't want to put it out there If people figured out What if people aren't listening to the show Matt Sometimes people are busy I got seven disappointment 74 people listening right now They just saw it on Twitter

They're probably just clicking buttons Well it could be should I Should I hit somebody? Should I hit Frank? Yeah we don't know All the comments You got one comment and no likes Yeah it's fine Three comments

But Wemby is overrated Oh Unless a bunch of people come in with those in the next Four minutes, it's over. Wimby is overrated. I mean, I guess it depends on how you want to look at it. He is not an all-world top-10 player in the NBA right now. But he has that potential.

Professor B. Neal says Diggs equals Eric Moulds? See, I wasn't in town when Eric Mold's sign here. Eric Moles was just bad. Was he just a step super, super slow at that point? Yeah, I mean, the Buffalo. Bill's legend Eric Mould's Let me go see what he did as a Texan Up 16

games, 157 yards That's just a guy that was out there and didn't play well Yeah, so five days was playing good until they got hurt Now it's over So yes It's not that bad of a comparison One touchdown 557 yards for Eric Molds In 16 games

16 games 713-212 579 We need some gut feelings. Okay. Does somebody want to go opposite my gut that says that he ain't coming back? The Texas will bring him back on a reduced deal? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

If you have any sports predictions you want to make, let them be heard right now here on a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Right now a word here for Uptown Appliance Repair. The folks at Uptown would like to let you know that if you have a refrigerator that doesn't work, an ice maker, a wine cellar, a place where you're just chilling your wine, whether you've got outdoor grills, laundry equipment that are on the fritz, don't go out and buy something new right away. Get with uptown appliance repair. 100% customer satisfaction. That is at minimum what the

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their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. Sorry about that. I didn't mean to talk over the big voice guy. All right, time now for some serious prediction sports RV when it comes to what is going on the sports world. How did we do last week? If you have any gut feelings, get in here right now at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Okay, Matthew, we will go to the archives last week. you said Texas and Georgia will play again at some point.

That remains to be seen. Thankfully, the Longhorns escaped with a win in Nashville. So their playoff hopes are alive. You have the Rockets winning 48 games. Yep. So far, they're on pace for 41. Yeah, so they've got to pick it up a little bit. They've got to pick up the pace.

And that starts with a really easy game in Dallas. Easy. Is it? Do you say it was easy? All right, I like that. You said significant trade at the deadline made by the Houston Texans. Did it really? Okay, this says significant trade at the deadline.

I think that means Texans. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, no, you're right. You know what? It's Rockets. Yeah, I was going to say, I don't know, no, no, because I think you're going to tell the truth, said that he won't. But now, I guess the question can be, can you amend it?

Do you think the Texans will pull off some sort of deal that would be? You have to do it pretty darn quick. The deadline is November 5th. That's next Tuesday. I think that's also the only thing happening that day. That's it. Nothing else going on. Actually, Carly has a playoff volleyball game that night.

So there you go. Playoffs? Yeah. Playoffs? Yeah. Let's go Kingwood Stangs? Are they the latehs? Mustangs? No, just regular Mustangs.

Okay. Yeah. You have the Alabama covering the 13 and a half against Missou. Sorry. I think they did. Sorry about that. You had, oh, we don't have to. go to Connors. We can skip that. You had the Texans covering the six versus the Colts. They did not.

Did not. And you had Carly Thomas getting her a thousandth assist by Friday. Then she did. She got a lot one week ago yesterday. Shout out to Carly Thomas. Good for her. All right. For me, I had the Rockets winning 45 plus. I said there will be a playing team, but not top six. And I said, oh, this is off to a good start. Jalen Gris. Green best off, and I put my name on this. You did? I did. I was happy for you that, do that. Jalen Green, best offensive season of his career. So far, so good with that.

And I had the Texans cover the six, whoops, and I had Carly not getting her 1,000th assist. That's an L. Oh yeah. Uncle Ross has already been, Carly was notified Uncle Ross had no faith in her. I was just making a joke. I wasn't anything about her personally. Yeah. Come on. She's putting a voodoo hex on you. she going to do? She a witch?

Well, you know how the curse sometimes hits in strange places? Uh, Kahnemar Govon said Mazoo is going to upset Elvow. Did you really say that? You didn't, you said they were going to cover. You didn't say they were going to beat Alabama. Didn't you? Come on. I sure did. If we would have had a quarterback. Yeah. Oh, excuses. It would be different. So what'd y'all

used? You all went with ten players and go with a quarterback? He literally went with no one. No one took snaps under center. Our backup was bad. Drew Pine. He's bad. Brady Cook. Really good. Would you tell Drew Pine to his face how bad he was? Yes. Because he probably knows it.

Oh. Connor McGovern's very upset with Drew Pye right now. Tiger on Tiger Savage. I love it. I love it. All right. I will go first. Okay.

You can bet on over-unders and you don't, again, you can't bet online here in Texas on games. Okay. And if I wish I had time to go to Lake Charles. Okay. I would bet a, not a literal house, but a figuratively house on the. the under in the Texans Jets game this week. What's the line? I believe it's 42. That's pretty low.

I think it's going to be sloppy. I think it's going to be a challenge for both teams offensively. I mean, you've got no Collins, no digs, and you're going up against Soss Godna. Mm-hmm. Dalton Schultz season. Oof. ESPN has it at 51.1% favored by the Texans to 48.5% for the Jets. Jets up to minus 2.

That line is moving and shaking towards the jet side. I don't have an overrunner on this. ESPN's app is not good about this. 42 and a half. Okay, yeah, I'll take, I will bet the figurative house on the under 42. 5 in that game.

You got to lay a little extra juice on the end of the stander is the favorite. I get it. All right. At least on ESPN. And I'm not ready to predict the game because, frankly, the Jets super suck. But you're only only sending about 80% of the healthy Texans up to New York this week.

Offensive line is still a mess. You've lost a key player for sure offensively. And Sauce Gardner is a really good defense player. I mean, who is, I mean, who's going to be able to go after that secondary? The problem is the Jets don't score. As I'm saying, this could be a fluky, uneven. I think America Ross will largely tune off, tune out of the Jets, Texans game. I think honestly Al Michaels will be bored off his ass.

and Kirk Kermper sure he'll spend more time looking at his dog than looking at the game. I'm really trying to convince myself. That whole time you were talking, I'm like, how can I, how can I find an angle where the Texans win? How can I find an angle where the Texans? Well, because they're, they're fundamentally, they're better. But no digs. This is a long trip, short week, battled and bruised. Your offensive line is a hot mess.

Quinn and Williams is lining up against. Kenyon Green because Jared Patterson, I imagine, isn't going to clear protocol by Thursday. There's no way. Yeah, that's correct. You're looking at two to three weeks on concussion stuff. If it's the first time, yeah. Either way, it's probably going to be a week plus. You don't know about Henry Toa. Toa, you don't know about

Al-Zis, Al-Saiir. Damien Pierce. You don't have your backup running back, maybe. Texans lose. Yeah, Texans lose. I mean they're not, doesn't mean that the Texans aren't significantly better. You're going to run into some bad You're going to need a defensive score or Damien Pierce is going to have to break a runback or something. If he plays, I mean, can you hand the ball with Joe Mixing 30 times and say, Bra, take one for the team here?

Texans lose 19 to 16. 2119. No, it wouldn't be 19. Texan wouldn't have 19. They would have. I'm saying 19 for the Judds. I got 217. Look, Greg Zerlain has been terrible.

Are they changing kickers yet? 2117 Jetapolitans in a game that does not indicate where the Texans are. If Ross, if the Texans lose on Friday, which I'm not with you to Friday, I don't think it should be a pity party.

It should be just a bad short week, bad injury timing, Nick Casero do something before the deadline. Rockets' next three games are against Dallas, Golden State, and the Knicks. Three playoff teams. Go ahead. One and two.

one and two or winning two? One and two. I refrain comment from that. Okay. All right, Conner, Dave Montgomery. Three and four. Three and four when we come back, Nick. Connor, what do you got this week?

I know I was wrong about my Mizzou prediction, but I think I was right about my rockets, beating the Grizzlies and then splitting the spurs. Okay, we'll give you credit for that. Did you give me credit for that? That's not very nice. That sounds familiar. Sure.

We'll go to the Texans. I'll say, Tank Dell, touchdown, Joe Mixon, touchdown, Dalton Shultz, 50 yards. Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. Joe Mixing touchdown. This sounds like a lot of points. Tankdale, touchdown, Schultz, 50 yards.

The 50-yard game. And the Texans Jets final will be what? 2317, Texans win. I love that. I really want you to be right. I just don't know that you will be. Let me look at the weather forecast. That's another kicker, too.

Can we keep C.J. Stroud off this horrible turf? Oh, I forgot about how bad this turf was. Oh, my God. This is a rest... Ross, this is a recipe for disaster. Yeah, you're saying Tankdale's going to rip his ACL. No. Probably something else.

Oh, come on. Oh, man. Oh, this is just a one breaking news. How about some breaking news? How much breaking news can one show handle in one day? It's a trade deadline week. What do you got? Carolina is sending wide receiver, Deontay Johnson.

to the Baltimore Ravens. So wait a minute. So everybody's making moves for Y receiver except the Texans? I want a Deontay Johnson here. Ross, this is a problem. Nikki, Nikki C. Dang. Stop.

Ravens just got better. Stop getting measured for custom sweater vest. Zayflowers, Deontay Johnson. Rashad Babin's okay. 80 degrees, by the way, in New York on Thursday. Mark Andrews, Isaiah, likely, and Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson. That's problematic.

Oh. That is problematic in the AFC. More breaking news. Okay. This is a one star. Hit it. Go ahead and hit it. Actress Terry Gar has passed away.

Who the hell is that? Her most famous role would have to be the role of the mom in the very successful early 80s movie, Mr. Mom. Yeah, she died. She died at the age of 70, right on the nose. May she rest. Terry, our interesting story about Terry Gar. When I went on David Lunderman in 1994, when I was miced up at the summit. Yes.

guest that night on the Dave Lennerman show was Terry Gar. Really? Yes. Wow. Another interesting fact, she has webbed feet. Well, I don't... How do you know she has webbed feet? I just made that up. Is that Terry Gar, believe it or not? It's Terry Gar, believe it or not today. Sure, why not?

She was also in Tootsie and Young Frankenstein. She was in Tootsie, young... Yeah, she's very good. She died at 79, not 69. So I was off by... That's okay. You're close enough. Long battle with multiple scroses. Well, Kansas State alum as well. No way.

Oh, my God. Now, you seriously got me on that. That's terrible. Damn. You lied and I bought into it. I'm sorry. You know what I'm going to write that? I'm going to write it and believe it or not.

Terry Gar is in the Kansas State Alumni Hall of Fame. That'll be a knot for Believe it or not today and all things, Terry Gar. All right. Time for you guys to make your predictions. Damn you. 713, 212, 5.7. I feel evil after that one. I'm sorry.

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there's your last chance to get in here because we're moving on if you don't want to get in with one. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Any sports predictions? I forgot to write yours down. You have the Texans losing. Yes. Under. Anything else? Can I say, let's see what else? We haven't mentioned the World Series.

Oh, I'm holding on to my Dodgers in 5, feeling very strong about that. You should be feeling strong. No team has ever even forced a game 6 getting down 03 in the World Series. Let me ask you this. How bad of a legacy hit is Aaron Judge taking on this bad boy? Because that feels like to me any, and I'm not watching much of the World Series.

I've been busy with Rockets and college football, but it feels like to me he is getting worn out on the social media streets. Yes, he is, but that's also, I mean, that's what we do. We're a nation of haters. We like to hate on people. And I am loving hating on Aaron Judge, just because I'm rooting against the Yankees.

And of course, Aaron Judge, who in 2021-ish, when he covered up his jersey, mocking Jose Altuvae in the 2019 walk-off home run. You get no sympathy for me. Suck it, Judge. Let's just strike out some more.

And then Brian Cashman going off on the, well, you know, the cheat bit again a few weeks ago with the Mad Dog Russo. Exactly. So I'm rooting against him. I mean, he's still fantastic. He's still an all-time great hitter.

He is. He's an all-time great hitter. Our basketball ops leader for the Rockets is a die-hard Yankees fan. As a matter of fact, one of his kids' name is Jeter. Jeez. That's taking it too far.

Well, I mean, we name kids after stuff all the time. I'm guilty of myself. I know. Say hi to Peyton for me. And don't forget Cameron. Don't forget that. It's two or three on that one. But he is distraught.

He's given up. He's given up. Yeah, they're down 03. I'd give up too. But I mean, is there anything more crazier than the elation of winning a pennant in baseball and then immediately getting swept? I mean, I mean, I would, I would, the example I would go with, You win the AFC or NFC, and then you go to the Super Bowl, I lose 35 to 3. And Buffalo Fame, we know about that.

Have we had a blowout in the Super Bowl in a long time? It's been, I feel like it's been a minute. The Broncos got destroyed by the Seahawks. That was almost 10 years ago at this point. The, did the Eagles beat the, I'm going to look at Patriots by a couple of, by a couple of scores. But I mean, there was a time, Rossi, when I was in high school,

that every Super Bowl was over by half time. The Buccaneers killed the Chiefs here, I pulled it up to, in 2020. Well, the 2020 season, but February of 21. That's when they get, people forget about that. And they're like, look at this, Pat Mahomes box score. He was terrible. Both of his tackles got hurt. Yeah.

Like, but he had no starting tackles against that ferocious Tampa Bay Buccaneers front. But, hey, last year was three points. The year before that was three. The year before that, it was three. I mean, this isn't bad. Tampa Bay, now Tampa Bay by 22. Casey by 11. New England and the Rams played a Super Bowl together?

That's not true, is it? 13 to 3 was a final score in that one? Yeah, the last straight-up beat down was, yeah, the Chiefs and the Buccaneers, and then before that, the Seahawks and destroying the Broncos. The Legion of Boom Super Bowl. So let me give you scores of games when I was growing up. Okay.

All right. You had the Super Bowl then? Raiders beat the Redskins at the time in 84. This was when I was in junior high, 38 to 9. Beat down? The year after that, San Francisco beat Miami 38 to 16. That was Dan Marino's only Super Bowl. It beat down every year.

Then the year after that, it was Chicago 46 to 10 over the Patriots. That was the 85 Bears. The year after that, it was the Giants over Denver 39 to 20. And then the year after that, it was Washington beating Denver 42 to 10. So it was basically five straight beatdowns. And then after the year, you had one close game after the visit, you went, San Francisco beating Cincinnati when John Taylor cut the touchdown pass later. Then the year after that, the Niners went back to Super Bowl and beat Denver 55 to 10.

I mean, Rossi, there was a stretch of like six or seven of those years where you were watching anything else on television but the Super Bowl. Well, now the league's got more parity. It's closer games. Yeah. 32 teams, closer games, better competition. Hallaciously high ratings. Ad sales are crazy. Hard-capped league.

Yeah. Which helps. Yeah. I mean, what does the NFL, honestly? What does the NFL do wrong? Referee suck? Well, referees suck in all sports. They could be better.

They can invest in them better time out. Because I want you to walk me through this. Because I don't, I've had that argument myself and I'm giving up on that argument. Yeah. They just need to like a start of referee academy and invest in their own referees, but they won't do that because they don't care. But you got to realize if you're an NFL referee. Wait a minute.

NFL referees had been doing this for a long period of time. If you're an NFL referee, you have worked college, you have worked high school, you have worked peewee. You just don't get to go onto an online academy and get an NFL assignment. You have to, you've got every one of those, even the lowest of the lowest officials have probably at least 15 years of experience doing significantly big games. It's like being, yeah, but the pool of referees is small. I'm saying widen the pool. It's like being the hottest girl at a, at a, at a school. You go to 5A, 6A, it's going to be a little different.

Hmm. So you think the 1A girl isn't hot? I didn't say that. You did. God, there's a great line I want to say, but I want to protect a license. Good job. Thank you. All right, so all you're telling me is opening a big academy and paying a lot of money.

Yes. they're not ever going to do that. I think you'd be disappointed. I think you'd be disappointed. I think the refereeing would improve. Do you think if they got more referees and invested in them, they wouldn't get better?

No, because I still think the moment sometimes is too big for the average human being. I know that's a terrible statement to me, but that is. Well, I think if they widen the pool of referees and put them in through some sort of academy and then why were they in there? They've got so much money. Why wouldn't they

do that. Because revenue and ratings keep going up and nobody cares. At the end of the day, we complain about it on Sunday and then what happens? We're back there watching next week. But couldn't you say that with everything in life? If everything had an open pool of things you get better? Yeah. Like, are we lucky to have our jobs? Absolutely. If there were a better pool of people,

their academy of a broadcasting, we'd be out of work? Absolutely. Well, I don't know if I'd be safe. I don't know if you'd be safe. I'd be safe. I'd be extraordinarily safe. I don't know. I have come to the grips to the fact that if you get a really well-officiated game you're just damn lucky that's in all sports rossi they have academies for baseball umpires there are thousands of people umpiring at minor league levels all across

this country there is a chart to success a double a triple a major leagues it's still a mess and we have data though calling balls and strikes has gotten significantly better in the last 20 years but still not good enough for anybody closer to we're closer to to 100% than we've ever been. But these umpires that are coming up are better. But nobody's satisfied with it. We bitched them. Everybody bitched them on every single night.

Because these idiots have technology to get every single call right. And they're like, hmm, we like the human element. Which means, hmm, we like wrong calls. I don't know. I think if you doubled the pay, if you gave him a four-year college degree, I think we're going to still say the same mistake. It's going to start grassroots. It has to start at the bottom.

All right. 713-212-5-790. Speaking of the bottom, Ross's NFL rewinds coming up. What does that mean? I mean, it's not a great segment. I mean, it's got a little bit of that segment. You know what? You can leave the room.

I'll do it with Connor. No, I don't like it so much. I want to sit back and listen to it. And maybe I'll be wrong. Maybe I'll re-evaluate the segment. Maybe I think it's a lot better than it should be. I believe it was a 7-0 vote on the rush or flush it. That was one week.

People felt bad for you. Felt bad for me. Why? Because they're worried about you. What are they worried about? They're worried about your long-term success. I've been here for 16 years. If I get fired tomorrow, it's a pretty good run.

Yeah, what are you going to do next? I'll probably play poker. I'll probably drive Uber, play poker. Would you do a little YouTube? Would you do a YouTube page? I mean, I would subscribe to it. I appreciate that. Just hit the subscribe button.

Like and subscribe. Thank you. You're welcome. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-570. I can have you make some money. How can you do that, Matt? Well, because you do know your sports, I mean, a little bit at least.

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Oh, we're not going to do that. Wait a minute. I'll do that on the nightcap. That's not a great segment. This is exactly around the league, but it's just a different name. We do it once a week. We don't do it once a day. Oh, okay.

We don't do it. We just bring them, let's take a look at what's happening with the Niners secondary this week. Boring ass. Somebody cares. Ross gets a fifth of Beethoven in him. Okay. Huh, what? Yeah, or fit the scotch.

I know what it was. And you're going to give us some things that every other boring-ass host wouldn't take time for. You're going to find it here. Thank you, Matt. We'll go with the NFL rewind. Well, let's, instead of going to all the way back to Sunday,

let's go all the way back to last night with the Pittsburgh Steelers victory over the New York Giants. Giants bringing pressure. Wilson lofting. Wilson has a man out there. Wilson has a touchdown. It's a second touchdown. for Calvin Austin.

278 yards and a touchdown for Russell Wilson threw a couple of dimes to George Pickens as well. So far two games as a starter, three touchdowns, no picks. Matt, I have to ask, with that defense and Russell Wilson playing the way he is, Pittsburgh Steelers contender

or protender, pretender? They're a protender. Pretender? They don't scare me. Ooh. Put it this way. Let me give you my AFC power rankings. Okay. Casey 1. Yes. Baltimore 2. Baltimore just lost to Cleveland. We're going to get to that in a second. That matter. Texans 3. Buffalo? Buffalo 4, Pittsburgh 5. There you go. Okay. Denver's up there, by the way, 5.3. They're 5 and 3 on the year.

But let's focus on that team you just mentioned. The Baltimore Ravens losing to Cedric Tillman and James Wednesday. Winston? 104 to go second and 15. Chubb stays in the backfield. James to throw. James is high. James Coney team. All right, Matt.

Feels like we want to call this a fluke. We could call the loss of the Raiders a fluke. Raven's also losing to the Chiefs in week one. They have some impressive blowout wins, but also some ugly losses, including losing. Look, James Winston's decent. Browns are decent. But I mean, come on. Losing to that team that was number one in the Rod and 5.

If we were doing Raven Radio today. We would be flipping out still. We lost to the Browns and James Winston. No, they're wgging out because they're thinking, here we go again, just like a lot of folks here in Houston think. I want to drop, and I just don't get it. Now, they just traded for Deonté Johnson. So, I mean, if I say Deontay Johnson, Zay Flowers,

Rashad Bateman, Mark Andrews, Isaiah likely, Derek Henry, Justice Hill's a good running back. And, oh, by the way, Lamar Jackson, as a guy we've been talking about as back-to-back MVP, how is anyone going to stop that offense? And by the way, Jonathan Alexander for The Chronicle says that the Panthers did not get a phone call about Johnson at all from the Texans. I wonder what the draft compensation is going to... Does it matter?

I mean, I know that he stockpoll and picks left and right, but aren't you winning for the now? Don't you need depth loss? Yeah, trading for digs in the first place shows that you are going to try and win now. Absolutely. But unfortunately, Deontay Johnson is a Baltimore Raven and it. is crossing the line to the AFC, so that is not good for you Houston Texans. One more

quick question on that, Matt. Lamar Jackson, still your favorite for MVP? Yes. Okay. Yep. Let's keep it moving along to what happened over the weekend to the Texans opponent on a Thursday, the New York Chats. Rogers, under pressure,

ruling to the right, eludes the initial rush, steps up, throws to the left side, the pass is caught by Devonté Adams, but he's good immediately by Jonathan Jones with the 46, and the clock is hunting down to three and a two. New York's not going to have enough time to snap it again. It's over. The Patriots winning.

They gain a split against the Jets, and they show their toughness mentally, and in the end, physically in this game, rallying for the victory. 25 to 22, Patriots get the victory. Matt, this is the first time in NFL history. A team has scored over 20 points. They have not turned the ball over.

And I believe, I don't want to, I'm trying to pull up the third one. 250 yards under for the opposing team. 750 times that had happened before in the NFL. And that team was 750 and, oh, Jets the first team to ever lose. Scoring 20 plus points and not turning the ball over and holding their opponent to under 250 yards. You know what? How's that possible? You spent hours looking at that.

And for that, I appreciate it. No, I did. Somebody tweeted it. Oh, that's fine. But still, 750 and 1, the one loss with the Jets this past weekend. What the heck's wrong with the Jets? There are, I should have a better grasp of this. They're just super underwhelming. Aaron Rogers should not be as bad as he is.

You've got a terrific core receiving group. You've got Brees Hall. You've got a great. great defense. You got the shutdown corner the Texans should have had in Sauce Gardner. Maybe they've got terrible mojo. I mean, they've already fired their coach. It hasn't made any difference. It's just, it's a mess there. And hopefully the Texans take advantage of it. Although, I think, again, full week with one or two more healthier bodies, you feel a little bit better. In this particular case, I don't. I just think this is a right

for a little bit of an upset, sadly. All right, Matt, I do want to talk bears and commanders. But before we do, we have to do a critique the call with Matt Thomas on this. Hell Mary. Go ahead. So here you go. He's gotten hit throughout the rest of the game and it's hurting hard. Comes down to one last play. And it's going to be getting longer by the second. You're all the way back at the 30-yard line. Now you can step into it.

Here comes to Hail Mary with the game on the line. And the ball is terrible. Crazy. Nelson Land over Maryland. He did it. Ten. Ten out of ten. Ten out of ten.

10 out of 10. Jim Nance, still got it. Still got it. Now, do we have the radio calls? No, we don't. There's a folder I pull radio calls from, and this game is not in there for some reason. They didn't load it.

Cut it real quick, and I'll get a short time. See if you can find on YouTube a radio call of that catch. Yeah, shout out to Fox Sports for not loading that call for whatever reason. I just can't find it in the folder I normally pull all these calls from. But anyways, man, now that we're. We got the call out of the way. Quick question. I'm not going to hold you to this.

Please. This is a week to week, and this is just between you and me. Nobody has to know. I was going to say no one's listening. Buy stock in one. Caleb Williams or Jaden Daniels right this moment. Say it one more time, and I'll give you a good fan's answer. You can only buy stock in once.

One, Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels, go. Jane Daniels. I think you're right. But those are the two guys, now granted, this is no... I think they're both going to hit. They were both, to me, to hit. The other three guys were going to be misses. And we'll have us miss as well.

somewhat bullish on him. He's been hurt. He sucks. Mason Rudolph was decent this weekend, although it was all in a lot. They got completely destroyed. I mean, his numbers were decent, but not the result for the Lions versus the Tennessee Titans. Let's do another one here as we continue to go around the league. What about a guy, Bo Nix?

Back without a huddled. Bo Nix, rolls to his right, throws it in a flat sidearm. Jaliel has it. Jaliel to the goal line. Did he get in? Yes, touchdown Denver. When you see this throw by Bo Nix, he was looking in the end zone, the north end zone.

Jaliel was too in the flat on the right and he's sidearm that thing. I don't think he even looked at Jalil. Bo Nix. Now 284 yards, three touchdowns, no picks. However, but it was against the Carolina Panthers who were giving up like 38 points a game. It was basically like our buddy Nigel's B.C. Lions up there. That's how bad it was. On the flip side, Bryce Young,

224 yards, a couple of touchdowns, but a couple of picks. Nope. He's done, right? Right. Bow Nix, though. We're buying a little Bo Nix? I had no opinion on what's over of Bo Nix. Okay. I had him

more in the bus category than it hit. It's early, but you know what? It also was the Panthers. And oh, by the way, Sean Payton's a good football coach. Say what you will about how much money it would cost him and draft picks and that kind of thing. Sean can coach. It's just the truth. By the way, Broncos 5 and 3 looking a little sneaky.

They are in the playoff picture in the AFC. They're going to make the playoffs. Put your name on it? No. But how about this? The AFC West could potentially have three playoff teams. Potentially. Yes.

Chefs are in for sure. Broncos are looking good. And the Chargers are kind of being sneaky at this point. Chargers are 4 and 3. That defense is good. Justin Herbert's not asked to throw it a ton. They got a good running game with Jake. K Dobbins.

But the bingles are lingering at 3 and 5? No. They need to win this week. Then I'd put them in... You know 3 and 5 and 4 isn't that big of a difference? I don't want to doubt Joe Burrow. I really don't.

You're going to be running into a massive tie. So I guess the loss to Philadelphia isn't terrible to them because it's not a divisional matchup. Okay. Not a conference, so that won't hurt them tiebreaker-wise. Give me one of these four two-win teams and their best chance to who's the best to make the playoff, best chance to make the playoffs out of these two-win AFC teams.

Go. Dolphins, Browns, Jaguars, Jets. Jets. I think I'm with you. I think the dolphins are two a back. They lost this weekend of the Cardinals. I'm going to put it. And there's your NFL rewind. All right.

We're able to find the call. Here's the call of the same play in that Chicago-Washington game. I'm assuming this is Commander's Radio or Bears Radio? Commander's Radio. Commander's radio. Here we go. Daniel's backing up. He's just going to have to let one fly.

Goes to the right side. Steps away from. The defenders gives himself some time. Now, steps up, fires. Heads towards the end zone. It is... Now, Ross, earlier you and me rate the call? Time to play. Ross plays, rate the call.

He does say touchdown multiple times. It's just the color man won't shut up. That's usually the case. C. Minus. One to ten? Four. Four?

Okay. Best new... Okay, that's NFL. real quick we have a new poll question up on the Twitter account. Oh my God, you're so ridiculous. Best Richardson. Options are Bucky, Anthony, Poo, and Vanessa.

And right now early, Vanessa with a significant lead. 82%. So let your vote be heard on that as well. If you had not heard Anthony Richardson has been benched in Indianapolis for one Joseph Fleck. I'm going to go with Jason. J-A-Y-S-O-N?

Oh, Jason Richardson. Help me out. What was he? Who is that? I don't know. Didn't have any of my partner named Jason Richardson? I'm sure there was. There was. I just like that name Poo.

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Good news. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch. Let that boring brown bag lunch rot in the employee refrigerator. Oh, what's that smell? The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. All right. I don't usually like to give Ross any runner on his tweets because normally they're a ginormous waste of time. They're breaking down soccer and Texas football. It's not at all accurate.

That's the last time I tweeted about soccer. Well, you're just going to eventually, and it's going to bore us a tears. I've got 35,000 tweets, probably five of them are about soccer. How many do I have? How can you figure how many you have? I'll go look. You have 45,700. You got 10,000 more tweets than I do?

So I've been on, I've been in Twitter since 2010. That's not a terrible amount. You're just polluting the timeline at this point. No, some people have like 200,000. Yeah, yeah. I feel like, I think you and I are reasonable. I think I have Bomani Jones tweet, uh, muted because he was tweeting so much. Let me see.

He's got like a... Hug your children, your family, Bumani. $407,800. $400,000, $800. Go look at Adam Wexlers. Why you got to do? $120,000. That's a lot.

Ooh. We just got to get to know the people. Everybody uses Twitter for a different reason. Yeah. You know what? Quite frankly, I need to use it more. I've only gotten 35,000 tweets. I need to use them.

Yeah. So I want to see five tweets today for me. Somebody's got to do it. Somebody's got to do it. I mean, Lord knows. The show's been stymieming for a long time. For one of us. All right.

So your tweet, going back to the general conversation pick here. I love this show. I just do. Adam Shepter says the Panthers are getting a fifth round pick for Deontay Johnson and a sixth. It's a pick flop. So they swapped a fifth for a sixth. And that's all it took for Deonte Johnson to go to Baltimore. And the Panthers are paying most of the salary.

They're only having to pay him $625,000. Deontay Johnson now he's had some issues as far as, you know, in Pittsburgh, maybe he was a locker room issue and stuff like that. But he's got great hands. He's always open. He's a number one wide receiver. He should be here. Mm-mm-mm.

What has happened? Why is it Casario making that? Why is it Casario making that happen? Nicky C. Come on. Yeah. Stop going on Rat Rackafee's podcast or whatever the hell that show is. Stop listening to dudes on dudes and go make a trade.

Oh, man. That's, seeing that compensation. But, I mean, he had had some bad drops, I guess, this year is what people, the streets are saying. Well, the streets are also saying that you're going to see a lot of Xavier Hutchinson and John Metchy and Robert Woods. You know, It's very pretty easy. I like Xavier Hutchinson. He's a good blocker.

Come on now, Nick. You know what you do? Let's fire up Nick right now. Wake him up? You know Nick listens to a show every day? He does? All those Texans and people over there. I don't think so.

Well, there are some rabbit ears. Over there on Curry. Do we know that for a fact? Are we just guessing? Really? Is the words on the streets? Do they like us or not like us? I don't think they like us.

That's okay. They like one of them. They like Adam Wexler. Well, Adam gets more treats than anybody else. Hmm. Adam's treats. Although I did get a JJ Watt autographed jersey. Yeah, that's good.

When he retired. Yeah, I didn't get one of his plane, obviously. No. That's cool. Where do you have that? It's my office. You flipped out on eBay already? No, it says, thanks, Matt, for your coverage.

I'm like, you don't even know who I am. It was nice. I mean, the thought was most important. That's great. I also have a football from the Texans of a few years ago. Yeah, I mean, they can care of me okay. Yeah, what do you want about? Like, Wex gets pizza and cookies and flowers and shoes and stuff.

I don't get it on. every day on the air. You know what they, you know what they do? The Texans like me. Because I'm real. I'm not, you know, vomiting over every single thing they do. They're like, you know what, Matt's real. Matt is a real radio host. Is that what they're saying over there? Yeah. Matt is real. I like his radio show. Is that what they're saying over there? No, no. Forrest Gump is not talking Texans with them. No. I would like a rack of ribs. Because guess what? When the Texans play well, guess who talks about them? Like, there are a really good excellent football team. Me. No, they're six and two right now and you're hating on them.

I'm not hating on them. You're talking about how bad they are. I'm doing realism. They're the worst. I know. Again, that's just... The worst six and two team in history. Matt Thomas and I quote. You know, you hear that? Okay, maybe I don't quote.

Yeah, that's right. You know, like, you know, like, Matt handles itself very well with a guy who lies more than he does. That's not true. You do lie. Yeah, everybody's saying that. I tell the truth. Texans are good and they haven't played their best football. Diggs is bad.

I say that. You think I'm a hater. As long as Nico Collins. is healthy. These are the guys we need to stay healthy. Go ahead. This is the only thing that will shake my confidence in this team is if Nico Collins, Laramie Tunsell, C.J. Stroud or Joe Mixon. Laramie Tonsel, I don't care if it's healthy or not. He's just a guy.

He's the Victor Wemanniamma of the Texans. He is not just a guy. Unfortunately. Now, I know you hate him. I do hate him. I don't have the Texans. I do not like Larry. I think Laramie Tonsle is completely selfish and is all about Laramie Tunsell and doesn't care about the goodness of the team. in huge trouble. I've got one for you.

One player goes healthy the rest of the way, but only one. C.J. Stroud. Joe Mixon. So you say non-quarterback? You say non-quarterback? C.J. Strat. I mean, Joe Nixon or Nican. Not even thinking about it. Joe Nixon. Let's go. That's right. Yeah.

Because here's what I'm a little bit... They have no run game. Here's I'm a little afraid of. Okay. Can you, do you, I have the belief of once a hammy always a hammy? They are, yeah, re-injurable. I think the good thing is they, they are, him. They said, you know what, we're not going to mess with it. We're going to IR you're going to be out for four weeks,

and then we're going to reevaluate you. Right. So I love that the Texans actually approached it that way, but at the time, of course, it was easier to do so because you had Stefan Diggs. Now, he's down with his ACL injury, but yeah, I think you've had, when you rush guys back, they re-injure it, and hopefully that doesn't happen

for Nico Collins, and he's good to go. All right, 713, 23, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show. A little rocket chatter we will take, right? Rockets with a nice win yesterday over the San Antonio Spurs.

We'll take that. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-5-7-90. Texans with the big news. Connor, you are to find a song if you're okay with this. Find us a song with some Steph Day highlights. And you're saying, Matt,

you should have told me this 10 minutes ago. I didn't think about these things 10 minutes ago. Let me tell you're going to get a great Christmas gift from me. You just are. I don't know what it's going to be yet. Maybe tickets to a bowl game of your choice, not in the national championship. Well, certainly wouldn't involve in Missouri at that point, but that's another good. Come on, man.

But you're going to get a good gift. That's rude. Because I'm giving him about three minutes to come up with a song with some Steph dig highlights. Okay. Do you go, I will remember you? Just throwing that out there. That's the first thing that came to my mind. That's what I was thinking.

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stephan diggs stroud on the slant he's got diggs who's got a touchdown stephan diggs his first touchdown as a member of the houston texasons And if they don't make it here, they got to go 98 yards to get in the end zone. Fourth and goal, Stroud throws. Claw, touchdown. Stefan Dix is second of the game. And Ryan's rolls the dice and it pays off. Second down and goals stover in motion to the end zone.

Codd touchdown. Stefan Dix. He got it, right down the middle. Third touchdown pass for C.J. Stroud today. This song is first of all really, really good. Now when I died, do you want this at my funeral? Or do you want to put something else? You're a little more uplifting.

Because you're going to be there. You're going to speak at my funeral. I thought we were going to put on Walking on Sunshine, like Katrina in the Waves. That feels like you're tapping on my grave or dancing at it. No, this is one of your favorite songs, Matt. It's not one of my favorite. It's a summer jam. I'm walking on sunshine.

That's not going to happen. Matt's dead. I'm walking on. You hear that, folks? I'm walking on sunshine. Matt is dead. That's just fantastic. You know what?

You're off the dais. I crack myself up. Yeah, I know. You're the only one. When I die, it's not a roast. Oh, yeah, it is not? It's a tribute. Now, if you want to roast me later, you can do you can, if you want to set up a roast,

you can roast me. That's fine. That's too easy. But remember, I get a chance to do it at very end. That's true. You go at the end. Yes. And I, and I would be.

I'll be writing that script for months. Good. You don't need it. Yeah, just be nice. The next time you'd be nice to me is at my funeral. And then other than that, you can be as rude as you want to, like you are daily 12 to 3. You want to only say nice things for the rest of the day? No.

I'm only going to say nice things. Matt, you do a great job on a call on Rockets. You can't go 55 minutes without taking some slam at me. Matter of fact, I'm going to try to bait you. Yeah. Is that me with the electrical shocks? If I say something mean about Matt in the next hour, I can do. There's no problem.

All right. So in all honesty, Stefan Diggs, it's not losing Nico, but with Nico being gone, it's, remember how this was supposed to be a triple-headed monster than the most unstoppable? Yeah, well, let's be brutally honest. Shultz has been okay. Matter of fact, Schultz's been disappointment this year. His targets and catches have been ticking up with Nico Collins up and I expected to tick up more. So this week, you've got the receiving card will be Hutchinson, Woods, Dell, Metchie. Matchy, that's four. Am I forget anybody? Schultz. Cade Stover's got a couple of catches in the last few weeks.

So you have those guys. You have Joe Mixin, and you have a very porous offensive line. Yeah, I'd be fine. If I was underdog fantasing on the, fantasing these guys, I'd be hitting the unders on these bad boys. To be brutally honest. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's going to be a team effort. So I'll put, how about this way? How about this grandiose statement? Okay. If the Texans win this game, no matter what the score is, no matter how it's played out, Texans win this game, it is their most impressive one of the season. Fight me on it. Short week. Yes. Long travel. Short-handed. Short-handed. Terrible surface. I would still say bills are the biggest feather in the cap at this moment. But, I mean, I'm okay with that statement. It'd be big.

it'd be absolutely huge. That's the reason why I mean, let's be honest, Vegas doesn't feel it. Because when does a two-win team a favorite against any six-win team? It never happened. It's probably fairly rare.

It's also two points. You are on the road. It is a short week. You are shorthanded, as we all mentioned on all those fronts. And with Diggs out, it's going to be, it's going to take everybody. It's not going to be Xavier Hutchson, you're Stefan Dund.

digs now and you're going to fill in, he's going to get seven catches for 80 yards like Diggs has been doing. It's not going to happen that way. It's going to have to be everybody. It's going to be a little Dalton Schultz, little Tank Dell, little Xavier Hutchinson, match you whoever else. And you're going to need that line to hold up. It's going to start with the run game. And again, we just saw the trade with Carolina and Baltimore, where we thought the price of doing businesses lately before the deadline would be high, but it's not. maybe Casario's like, you know, we got Nico coming back in two weeks.

We'll be fine. Maybe we'll get Stover and Schultz more involved in the offense because honestly, how much, how many, how often is CJ going to have a chance to throw five and seven steps drops with all the pressure coming out of him? It's going to throw underneath and underneath guys, typically are tight ends, aren't they? Yeah. I mean, or throwing running backs.

I mean, Mixon's a pretty good receiver out of the backfield. Yes. I mean, here's reality. Tanks have to have to. It's a lot. lot of pressure for a 5-8-1-65 guy to be wide receiver 1. It just is. He's going to have to do more. It's going to be economical. It's going to be ball control. It's going to be one of those situations. It's funny. We had Willie Fritz on a few weeks ago, and he was talking about U.H playing Kansas, and he said, look, it's going to be a ball control game where there may be eight total possessions between the two teams. Maybe we're looking at similar situation where you're needing 9, 10, 11 play drives, take five off the clock, ball control, run.

If Pierce can't go, you're going to use a Guma Walee or somebody. Because you can't, I mean, you'd like to throw Joe Mixing, hand the ball to him 35 times on a short week that's just not possible. That's also what the defense is. The opposing defense is going to be gearing up for. Yeah, yeah. So I, yeah, the vibe ain't right. It's not good.

Team doesn't play well on the road. Mm-hmm. I mean, this is the first week, I think this year I've picked them to lose. I think. And wait a minute. Your email address is not at Houston, Texans.com? No, it is not. Hmm.

Stunner. Well, I've been right every week except two. Okay. Well, I've been right every week except maybe two or three. You're doing a great job. Ooh, see, I was waiting. You wanted to see something to root about me. Your predictions are so accurate.

Yeah. Every week. Yep. Including, I told you the Cougars going to be Utah last week. You did. Well, you also picked them every week. I do. I think so.

Okay. Well, you know what? I feel very encouraged about Saturday's game against Kansas State. You should. Willie Fritz is a good ball coach. Yep. Teams have been playing better. Yep.

All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-19. We should peel the curtain back here. There's not a lot on daytime television. There's no soccer going on, so Roth can't watch some game featuring two countries. No one gives two craps about. So we're watching the replay of the UT Vanderbill game. Well, we got Wolfburg.

Wolfsburg and Barusia Dortman comes on it, but 245 mounts. Okay. So let me ask you this. If you're ESPNU, you're throwing this game on, which was a, and I didn't see it. It was a good game, not a great game. It wasn't one for the ages. It was one for the ages, but Vanderbilt fought back. So let me ask you this, how many people are legitimately sitting at home watching this game? Are they literally throwing it up there because it's already on? The commercials are already plea-plan. It doesn't cost you. Doesn't cost you anything. There's no talent involved. Yeah. You don't have to pay anybody.

about it, you throw up for free and then maybe you throw a little advertising dollars. Some bonus spots. It's like a package deal. Yeah. Like, you know, they sell Michael Berry and then they throw in a little 790. That's what happens. They sell a ESPN and they throw in a little SPNU. So basically we're the ESPNU of this radio cluster. We'll put something on, see if it hits.

We'll get you on Dana Tyson and then we'll throw you a little bone. We'll throw some on 794. Yeah, you want Michael Berry unavailable. You want Ramon unavailable. How about Matt and Roe? There are plenty available. But we're not bitter. I don't even want to hear it from you. You're doing great. I have to.

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If you want to follow us on Twitter, you may do that at SportsMT and at SportsSovie. Can we get some rocket chatter? on next segment? I thought last night was fun. There's a new brooding rivalry within the San Antonio Houston matchup.

And it's a Dennis Robben lookalike. Yes. Things got a little chippy in both games. A little bit. How about the fact that Dylan Brooks and Victor get after it on Saturday night? Dylan the villain. Doing his thing. And so too, Fred Van Vleet and Tari

and Jabari Smith. Starts with Coach Udocha. He likes this. He likes when they scrapping up. You know, I'm kind of taking on the person eye on that team, too. I'm ready to throw hands too, yeah. Really? You're dumping people in the hallways and forth? I was ready to fight some Spurs fans when I went to the bathroom and halftime.

You were? Why? Because they were getting in my way. I need to go the bathroom. I only got to go the bathroom. I've only got to go. There's not like a media. No, we're in the concourse with the people.

We're way away from the action, frankly. Don't bring that up. At the Frost Bank Center now. At the Nost rank. Is this the first year of it being called that? Second year. Oh. Whoops.

713-212-5-790. If you saw the Rockets game or listened to the Rockets game last night, would like to chime in on your squad and went even against the league last night with a win over the Spurs. I want to tell you about something that my family is very excited about, and that is professional volleyball coming to Houston this January. It's called Love Volleyball. It's spelled L-O-V-B, because V-B is volleyball.

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Rocket Red Glass is hopefully that says yes for the next 78 games. There is one reason Oh, here we go. That I'm a little skeptical. Ooh, the skepticism. This is the real Jalen Green.

I want it to be the real Jalen Green. Okay. And we will see if this is the real Jalen Green, but career. 33% 3-point shooter so far this season and four-game shooting 41% I expect he had 6 3s in the first half last night I expect that number to come down regress to the norm regress he's taking 11 3s a game this year which is to me is far too many for him I prefer him to get to the basket a little bit more yeah But if he's going to knock up

This is the real Jaylin Green If he's going to shoot 40% from 3 all year But I just don't think he is I kind of like That Alpi has been a hero a couple nights And Jalen's been a hero a couple of nights Yeah Well Jaylin has led the team in scoring all four games

Mm-hmm But it hasn't been super efficient Until last night Yeah He was held in check in the third I think he had 10 fourth quarter points And then the big assist The double team came out

to him. Fram Bleet was wide open for 25 feet. And as a really good announcer said, he knocked it down for a game winner. I actually won't a game winner. It was the feta complete for the San Antonio comeback. By the way, there is a new biotch in the NBA for the San Antonio Spurs.

Okay. Jeremy Sohan. What makes him a biotch? Well, he got into scrapes in each of the two games. Yes. And word travels around the San Antonio Spurs Circle. San Antonio Spurs Circle I don't think the Spurs are a huge fan of his. Oh, really?

A little bit of a... Relax. What's what we call you, Maddie the insider? So I'm saying. I don't know. It's to be completely true. I only heard it second and third hand. Are you trying to take up for Woj now that he's retired?

I like this. They call me Shams Thomas. Is that what they call you? Mm-hmm. You better drink that water. Felipe on 790 at 221. Good afternoon, Felipe. How's it going, real?

Matt, Red Ross. What's up? it's a hater man you said something bad about me oh damn no that's just a factor hit this is that bad yeah yeah I don't think it counts nobody's yeah you can't say nice things about it

when you call someone a hater well it's not bad get the shot I think it's fine dang it well it's just being honestly being a realist Matt about you're being a hater enjoy it's different

I think he I think Matt I just honestly it couldn't realist like nothing wrong about that you're not a hater if you're speaking real truth. Thank you. Thank you, Felipe. Hey, so I'll just sign in because, you know, you're talking about fighting over there in San Antonio, you know,

about these fans, you know, you should give me a call next time. But you did, last week, I know, on the home opener for the Rockets, you did some, like, underdog, you know, fantasy picks. I think you should really do a bit like that. Like, every day the Rockets played, like, hey, underdog fantasy picks,

that would be a great one. You know what I'll do? I'll start doing that. I'll start. Every time the Rockets play, anything Houston related, like a Texans game, or an Astros or an NBA game. Yeah, because we'll localize a little bit. That's a great idea because I gave you three picks for you on Underdog, and I was right on all three of them. You weren't.

I capitalized on it, but when I realized, I was like, hold on, this, Matt just said everything, everything he said that it was just hit. Yes. I said it was a good money on it, but, you know, I didn't, I didn't think about it. But I was like, there'll be a great little bit. Just one day, you know. I'm going to start doing it. Shout out there.

I'm going to start doing it. James and Klein took me up. on the bets and he won some serious cash. Yeah, I like that. Let's do that. Let's keep track. All right, thank. We don't have to keep track. We only talk about the good stuff. What? I said, yeah, let's do it. Let's keep track. We don't have to keep track.

Hey, if Vegas gets, if you win, if you go to the book and you win 50% of the time, you are considered an outstanding handicapper. Now, I'm not picking games and I'll give you some player stats. I'm going to start doing that. I think that's a great idea. And let's keep track. we can keep track if you want to keep track all that money i'm going to send you your way that's what i'm talking about of course matt using underdog fantasy promo code sports mt get that dollar for dollar match let's go all right um oh by the way stephen adams loved seeing him for the first time yesterday

he's great we're not we've not built on our relationship just yet but it's about playing so far that's good yeah sets good screens he's opening up things for jalen green opening up things for other people rebounding pushing around Victor Wimbonyama. He had six points last night too. Got a couple of garbage baskets. Yeah. Get some putbacks, make some hook shots. Set the tone.

Be physical. Let's go. I like Stephen Adams. Jabari played better last night with some early first quarter scoring. What else? Men Thompson's knocking the three down once in a while. Corner? Yeah, they clearly are comfortable with him taking corner three.

Those are the easiest per se of the three-point shots around the league. And he's been doing okay with him. me tell you, he had a terrible season last year from three. If he gets to average, that's a win-win. I'm not going to predict that yet. So far, shooting 33%. I don't want to get too much in the weeds, but real quick. Stefan Castle is the guy that's the Spurs.

Yes. Number five, he was the fourth pick in the draft. Reed Shepard was the third pick. Did you get any thought about Castle what you saw so far? Not really. Just a guy right now? I think, yeah. And Reed Shepard is kind of, if,

Feels like he's finding his way. He's, yeah, this is, he's rolling this going from high-end college to the NBA's grown-ass man basketball. It seems like his head's spinning a little bit. That's okay. And that's okay. He doesn't need to be anything more than just learning on the fly and kind of picking his spots. I think he's doing a little more watching than participating.

But I think he'll get better. So let me give you an example of how things have turned and changed in basketball. When Elijah won was picked first at 84. Mm-hmm. And Samson was picked first. No, Elijah 1 was 85. I think it was 83. Let me change it.

Elijah 1, 84, Samson, 83. Because 40 years ago today, or yesterday, was Elijah one's first game in an NBA uniform. So it had to be 40, yeah, it was 40 years ago, 84 draft. CBS put his first game on as their national game of the week. When Ralph Samson was the first pick in 83, they put him on as the very first game on CBS that year. when you used to be the first pick in the NBA draft, it absolutely meant something because the draft absolutely meant something. My case and point is that Reed is right now,

Deer in Headlights, he'd probably be the first admit that. Stefan Castle, who was the pick right after that by the Spurs at 4 was, is right now just a guy. How's Zachary Orshae doing? I have no idea. But point being is we have the third and the fourth pick on the floor and last night in an NBA game, and they were for the most part innocent bystander.

is that an indictment against college basketball? Is that the improved overall play of the NBA? Or is there a little bit of both to say that even though you were a top five pick, no minutes for you in the NBA are ever guaranteed? I would say, I mean, Ralph Samson was three-time national player of the year, correct? Like, Victor came in right away and took over. Paolo Ben-Carrot took in number one pick by the Ornino Magic. Scored 50 the other night.

came right in and stepped in. But that's not happening a lot. Well, yeah, I know. That's a shame. But it was, I mean, Hakeem Olajuon had been to multiple final fours. It was also the fact that he was staying in, you know, you had to stay in college. Right. And you built a name for yourself.

Maybe it's a bigger deal. It's older guys getting more seasoning at the college level that's making those guys coming out of the NBA, out of college in the NBA, a much smaller transition period. Mm-hmm. Okay. Maybe that's the answer. Because, I mean, I get this list of these players we see, and they're all one and done. I mean, Stefan Castle of the Spurs was the rookie, was the freshman of the year in the Big East Conference.

Huge deal. Yeah. But on a national championship team. He was there one year. Reed Shepard, what, second team All-American? Yeah. One year. Done.

Let's go. Get out of there. Yep. And it's, I mean, it makes the drafters jobs harder. You don't grow up. You don't have to see the, you don't get to see a couple years of. bodies feeling out, skills honing, and all that type of stuff. It's way more inexact science than it used to be.

And also the injection of the international game. 1984, how many foreign players were in the NBA? Well, it came to watch one. A couple? Yeah, not many. But how about this? Now it's, what, like 25, 30% of the league or something? I got two seconds here.

Can NIL keep some kids in college when we're here? Maybe. It's happening in the NFL, I think. Well, especially with running backs. Well, especially because you have to be in the NFL three years. Or you have to be out of high school three years. That's true. So there's a little more of a time.

It's not an apples to apples. It's throwing it out there. Well, we'll see how much are the jazz owners going to play for that one kid, the number one overall kid, they want to go to BYU. Millions? So a pro team is paying for a college player to play college. Oh, the whole thing's dirty. 713-212-5-790.

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What was that the term of the draft? The second round pick, not conditional, right? The second round pick, I don't know. Okay. So there may have been no conditions on it. And I was... I was beyond thrilled. Then it was the next day that we found out that Gassarion nullified the remaining years on the contract, making him a free agent at the end of this season.

And I'm like restructured the deal. And I said, Rossi, that's too much to give. They got a sixth and a fifth in exchange for a second. And digs. Okay. And I said, Rossi, that is, I think second round picks are very, very important. And unless this thing becomes a major hit, he's a major hit here. this is going to be a deal that I think the Texans will regret.

Now, you can't predict injuries, you don't want to get injuries, but everything that Stefan did as a Texan while on the field, both on and off, was good. He was well-liked, named the team captain, did the right things, built a relationship with C.J. Stroud. Injuries unfortunately happen. But the end result will be a loss if Stefan Diggs does not return to the Houston Texans. Now, you and I cannot determine. what a value is. We don't know what his injury status is going to be, how long he's going

to be out. It was a long shot bet from the get-go to where the only way this trade was going to be a big win for the Texans was if they won the Super Bowl. Anything short of that, you probably

wasted a second round pick. Of all the number of outcomes it could have happened, which this tearing an ACL and week A is absolutely on the table, absolutely one of them. A 30-year-old receiver could be mired by other injuries, hamstring, whatever. It was going to be an L. They shot for the moon. They swung for the fences. Whatever you want to say, it was in all likelihood, not going to work out. And that's what happened here.

Nick Casario was pushing his chips all in saying, I got a franchise quarterback on a rookie deal. I'm getting them some more weapons. I'm trading for Joe Mixon. We're going Super Bowl in 2020. So the reason why I asked this is using betting, not betting, but poker, if you're chasing after a bad bet. Yes. He went all in on a flush draw. Do you

continue to take the L by giving up more commodities before this trade deadline in order to go get a replacement for him knowing that whatever you're going to get, whatever player is out there still? Like Cooper Cup may be available.

Sean McVeigh put the kibosh on that. this past week after Thursday night football last week. And they have also won two consecutive games, right? And Pooka Naku is back. I mean, that offense is, I mean, they destroyed the Vikings defense, which is the best defense on the planet should have been. Anybody else that may or may not be out there?

Does Casera in the back of his mind say, look, I've already taken an L by giving up the second round for a guy that's not going to help me win. Why am I going after chasing another guy for a short-term fix and I may have to give up more draft come out? There's one thing that Nick Casarra likes and that's having draft picks. true, but two reasons. Number one,

in that deal for Diggs, you got a fifth and a sixth. It was a fifth and a six swap is what the Baltimore Ravens. I don't know if you would have to offer them more, but well, right now the Texans draft pick would be higher than the Ravens. But anyways, I don't know, offer a fourth swap. Because

you can get Deontay Johnson here. I know he's a problem with drops and all he's a possession receiver and probably average depth of target isn't great, but that's what Stefan Diggs was here. He gets open a lot and he's a veteran and he can help your offense. Is he going to be better than Xavier Hutchinson?

That's all you're asking for. The answer to that is yes. And then you prevent him from going to one of your top AFC rivals. We've been talking about all season, the teams that scare you most in the AFC, Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens, the Ravens got that much better and you are not able to, you're not, I want to say worse, but you didn't make yourself better and the Ravens got better. That's two losses. I don't know.

I mean, I actually do know. I know how Texans fans are going to react if he doesn't pull the trigger on something. Either offensive line, another wide receiver. Hell, Rossi, he could go get an extra corner at this point. Carmine Lassar's back. He's playing well. But did miss some time.

My point is this. If you are as serious as you think you are in trying to get in that tier one group, which I believe still to this day is Kansas City and Baltimore, I think standing pat at the deadline would not be the right thing to do. It would be atypical for this team to do it. But this is an atypical squad.

You got enough talent. Don't you? Yeah. I mean, it was atypical for Nick Casario to make a bunch of splashes in the offseason. But he recognized the situation. It's not like money mills and we're just turning over one-year contracts over and over. It's time to go all in. And so, yeah, that does me some belief that something could happen.

But, yeah, the fact that Nick Casario didn't even make a call on Deonti Johnson. I find interesting, shall we say. Your wide receivers right now for the Texans are as follows. Tank Dell, John Mechie, Xavier Hutchinson, Stephen Sims, Robert Woods, and Nico Collins back in a couple of weeks. Nico comes back, you're good. Nico comes back. It's 100%. You ain't sweating it.

But you are sweating this Thursday's game against the Jets for sure. Yes, you are. And then you have Detroit after that. You know what? Darling, if you listen to me, Darling, this is me and you're talking. I know you're going to have your bling on. I know you're going to have your dumbass hat on.

And you're going to be, it's a chance to be on national TV on NBC. I don't think you want to go to that game. I would call in sick. Something's happened at the house. I'm going to be at work early in the morning. If they don't, if, can Nico be back for that Detroit game? I don't think you can. his fourth week. Isn't this his fourth week

on IR? So he can come back if he's available. If you don't have Nico Collins to stretch out that secondary, how the hell are you going to win a 43 to 37 game with the Detroit Lions? The Lions are looking pretty unstoppable. For sure.

I'm going to say right now, I think even Rossi, with Nico Collins, you need to go get somebody. You can score on them. Unless you absolutely believe that Robert Woods will step up and help, that Xavier Hutchson can be the legitimate WR3. I mean, they

crushed the Titans 52 to 14. Yeah, that doesn't count. But they turned the ball over on their own side of the field like three or four times, I think. Did the Titans. Before that, they were in a dog fight for the Vikings. They did lose the Buccaneers. They are not. Man, they're so good, though. But they're going to try.

They're going to give up points. Do you have enough firepower without Nico Collins to know? To go in there and ain't even close. you can stop them a couple of drives. And I guess the good question is, why receivers out there right now that automatically you put on the other side of the field

opposite Nico Collins against Turing? Go, all right, we can win this game. You're just going to have to keep up with them. You're going to have to keep up scoring with them because they have probably the best offensive line in football, two dynamic running backs, and a bunch of pass catchers. And I think is James and William's going to be back by that.

You've got a two-game suspension. So let's look at the next two weeks. Texans have a two-game. on Indianapolis, relate to three game lead because they've got the timebreaker. Yeah, ASE South is over. Colts at Vikings, I don't care if Joe Flacco or Payton Manning comes out of retirement.

They're not winning in Minnesota. Minnesota's lost two straight games. They're going to beat up on that Colt football team. I would agree with that. So let's say you lose the next two. That would then put you at 6 and 4. The Colts are then home for the bill. It's over.

Even if you lose the next two games, they're not going to win at home again. against the Buffalo Bills. Probably not. And they're sure as hell isn't going to win in Minnesota. But again, here's the back to the central point we talked about on the show yesterday. We're not, the Texans shouldn't be thinking. They're not thinking this, but in the back of their mind, they might be thinking this.

We've got to climb the first hurdle, and that is winning the division championship. The division is wrapped up. Matter of fact, with that Detroit game, Ross, they should drop the banner already. Really? It's over. Your Texans are the AFC South champions. It's a question now of seating. And it's a question of can you go

and win a game at Baltimore and or at Kansas City with the firepower you have as long as Nick goes 100%. As long as Nick goes back, yes. You can. But how about getting a swing lineman too, doing something to fill the gaps? Lyman would be nice.

Very nice. I wonder, I'm trying to find future lines if we can find an early line on that Lions Texans game. I'm curious what the Lions would be favored by. Five or six maybe? That seems a bit high. If Nick goes back for that game, it's not six.

Ooh, is this real? This can't be real. You're saying the Texans are favorite, aren't they? By one. Yeah, Sunday Night game gives you probably four points. Wow. I think the average NFL game gives you two and a half to three. I think you get four for a night game.

I'm feeling optimistic now. So is Nick. Nick, you know what, Nick did? Cassario. Nick, you seen one to the lines that said, look, Vegas likes us, and I ain't changing a damn thing. By one point. 713-212-5-790.

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We will have E.M. Adoka for his first of his weekly appearances. Normally Wednesdays will be at 1 o'clock. We'll have him. Awesome. They will be probably, he'll probably be in the car headed at Dallas going to the airport. In the car? Oh, okay. I will be flying a little bit later with a team

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doesn't spend any money with us it's a bad rhyme it's a bad producer man old producer so we'll have that we have shut your bum ass up tomorrow on the program

we have an MMA fighter joining us tomorrow at 1250 yes Derek Lewis a Houston guy Houston legend Derek Lewis and so we'll have him on the show tomorrow and have the dump button ready

for Derek Lewis that actually make the interview a little bit better now I'm gonna let you lead that really I don't okay I mean I know who he is. I've seen him fight a couple times. He's good. Yep.

And then what else we got on the show tomorrow? I put together a bunch of stuff here. What else we got? Let's see here. We got the MMA, Derek Lewis, E. May, shut you. Oh, Willie Fritz will be on the show at 2 o'clock tomorrow too. Oh, my goodness. What a show? That is a radio program. I love it. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

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Category is all things about the late actress Terry Gar. I'll read your statement about Terry. Statements is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. Same it's erroneous, full of bunk and made up. You'll say this. Two believe or not's in a row.

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There it is. Just popped up. Let's talk to Matt on 7-90. Matt, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Matt, Terry Gar comes from a family of performers. Her father was a vaudeville and Broadway actor. Her mother was a model and dancer.

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Should have been listening to the show. Anthony on 7 on your favorite part of today's radio show. Your Texan's positivity. Thank you. Terry Gar was a dual American and an Italian citizen throughout her, through her husband, Italian actor Giancarlo Gianni. Believe it or not? Not. That's right.

Statement number two for the win. In the late 1980s, Terry Gar had a stalker following. her around and a LA County judge had to restrict the woman from contacting or being near Gar. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. That's my boy right there.

Nice job. Marikon 790. You ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it? In 1983, Terry Gar was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Tootsie, but she did not win. Believe it or not?

Believe it. Believe it. Do you ever see Tutsi Ross? Really funny movie. Statement number two for the win, a young Gina Davis. Ooh, me, ow. Terry Gar was a board member for the Screen Actors Guild and voted in favor of the 1987 television production strike. Believe it or not?

Believe it! No, she would never vote for such a thing. Taylor on 790. Ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. In the 1990s, Terry Gar wrote the Terry and Missy series of children's books about she and her childhood cat. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, her cat's name was Doris.

Actually, she had a dog. Let's go to John on 790. John, your favorite part of today's radio show. They'll talk about Degs and the Texans. Terry Gar was arrested for trespassing in Nevada back in 1988 as she was protesting nuclear weapons testing. Believe it or not? Not. No, of course he was. If I've said it once, said a thousand times, you've got to know who gets arrested for nuclear bomb testing and who doesn't.

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