The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Close Out Preseason vs Hawks, Lets Go Jays! Breece Hall Rumors

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

Rockets Close Out Preseason vs Hawks, Lets Go Jays! Breece Hall Rumors

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Thursday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We come to you today at least half of us from Atlanta, Georgia, where tonight it is a seismic preseason tilt featuring your Houston Rockets, trying to go perfect in the preseason at 4-0. All they have to do, Rossi, is beat those Atlanta Hawks. Huge game coming up. especially after Tray Young's big announcement.

I missed it. What is it? He pulled a LeBron. You didn't see that? Well, I know he did something on Instagram. Is that correct? He teased an announcement and then he partnered with some kind of like spiked tea. Are we going to have to start telling some people to shut their bum asses up?

It would be like if you and I had like a grandiose big announcement on the show and we sold it as something way more than it is. I mean, look, we appreciate our advertising. We oversell sometimes. maybe daily, but that's fine. But yeah, come on. I mean, if you are a NBA star, a professional athlete with a huge reach, don't you got to be kind of careful on that kind of stuff? Well, what did it hurt at the end of the day?

I mean, he just put out some IG posts, and then you got some run for whatever. I don't remember what the name of the Spike T was. Oh, I know what it is. I saw it now. Okay. They're not getting a run on the show unless they want to spend some money. I'm not a fan of Spike T, by the way, which apparently the kids

love because Jonathan Allen was talking about. Yeah. Yeah. See, look. It's, it's too sweet for me, but that's I don't know. I guess because I grew up, the way I grew up, we had tea every day, and then just to have it with alcohol, it's just weird to me. I don't know why. Yeah, I don't even mix my tea with my lemonade. I don't even do that. Like, if dad came home and there was no tea in the fridge, me or my brother or my sister, we were in trouble. Somebody like, hey, where's the tea? What's going on here? That's funny. That's funny. Hey, so last night went out to The suburbs meet some friends for dinner and had a wonderful Asian meal. It was an Asian brew pub, Ross, a little cross-cultured.

You know, Atlanta's hot for those. Yeah, you... Atlanta, Georgia. Well, I mean, it was delicious. I had some pork belly tacos that were really, really good. Okay. Dumplings. Korean-style wings.

Okay. And that would be the Korean double-fried? Yeah, and then two different types of sushi. And all I asked for was to put the playoff. game on. And they said, what game is that? I said, okay, I see Houston ain't alone when it comes to... It wasn't a sports bar, right? No, but

they had TVs on. They had... They had the game on between Jacksonville State and Delaware on, so I knew there was something going on. Oh, no. Was somebody pissed? You had it turned off of there? No, there were multiple TVs in this place. So, I had to help them. I said, it's on Channel 219,

and so they hit 219, and I didn't realize they didn't have a direct TV. They had cable instead, so Remote for you.biz needs to open up an Atlanta branch because it was a work in progress. But the best news of it all, the story is that every time

that I kept looking at it, I was having dinner with my friend, the Toronto Blue Jays were hitting home run. So it made me feel really good. Yeah, I wasn't watching intently, but yeah, I was like you, I checked the score. I think I saw in like the fifth inning. They were crushing them and then come the sixth inning. That's when I stopped paying attention.

I don't know, but you folks. And look, we certainly have had this experience in our life many a time in Houston, Texas, if you're a sports fan. You have to step up your financial interest in your sport if you want to be at these events, correct? I mean, you go into a rando Astros versus Guardians game in July. Ingle is going to cost you probably double to go to a playoff game, right? A triple in some cases. A triple, I would say, yeah.

Yeah. And then if you want to go have that really delicious cold beverage that you like, you know how the Astros always say, hey, come look at our poses and beverages and enjoy this 19 ounces It's only $42. Yeah, and they serve into the ninth inning now. Well, that's because they're not stupid. But you have to, if you are a feeling, if you want to be at the biggest games,

you have to pay. The least the home teams could do is win. We haven't had a home team win yet. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. That's part of the gamble, though. It is part of the game. You know the game, they might lose. It is a flat-out gamble.

There's no guarantee that you being there and you spending $80-80 to part, or those tickets like five times they were during the regular season are ever going to pay off. It's interesting because if you pay like $150 for a concert, I mean, I guess there is a chance you'll be disappointed, but it's a small chance. You're not going to be like this was the worst.

You're not going to be like you're watching your team get bludgeon 13 to 4 in a baseball game. There's less of a gamble spending that money than there is in a football game or a baseball game or whatever. Is there anything else like that? The concert parallel is, really good because it would be like going to see Billy Joel and him not singing Piano Man.

Yeah, but he still has some other hits. You might still enjoy yourself. You're not going to say that was a horrible experience. There's no Mariners fan saying that was a great time. Yeah, when Cal Raleigh hit a home run and anything, they're like, oh, that's worth it now. Exactly. Yeah, at least you're going to see, I don't know, under pressure or what is the scenes from, what you call it?

Italian restaurant. Yeah. He's going to play some hits. Randy or Rosarina, Cat Raleigh hit a home run. They hit two of them in the eighth inning. You got it to 12 to 4. Billy Joel didn't hit the Grand Slam, but he got a couple triples. Yeah, I'm trying to think. What would be a, what's a good travel to? Yeah, is there anything else you pay good money?

I mean, restaurants, but. Oh, I have the great example. How about if you're going to go see a play and the star is not available, so the understudy shows up? Yeah, I guess, but I mean, Romeo and Juliet, still Romeo and Juliet. Yeah, but if it's starring somebody that you live, if it's... The understudy's probably still pretty good. Yeah, if it's Bradley, what's his face from the hangar over movies.

Cooper? It's Bradley Cooper as Romeo and now it's George Miller. It's going to be a little bit of a drop-off. Yeah. I guess if you go to Broadway and the game, but that's probably, that's probably super rare too. I mean, baseball, basically, a home playoff baseball game is like 55, 55-45.

I got one more for you. Let's say that you go to a comedy act. Okay, that can happen and it stinks. Well, either it can stink or the tour or the, or the, or the, or the, or the, or the, or the, or the, or the, or lead guy that's the guy that you're going to see the headliner gets sick or his material's bad well the other guys do fine and you chuckled a couple of times but you

didn't pay $185 to see Morty Wagner you know what I mean? You went to go see the main guy or you sit in the front and he just makes fun of you how ugly you are the whole time oh that's why when Lisa Lampinelli was doing comedy and I used to follow her I was in the second deck are you kidding me

a bald white man oh no you brought the binoculars oh my god I was like can I have the worst possible seats, please. That is, are you serious? Did you consciously buy and not want to be near her? There, when we were living in the Twin Cities and she was playing in a theater house in Minneapolis and I was like, I want no, I want nothing closer than maybe the 30th row.

So they said, we have this great seats in the second deck. I said, I'll take them. That's pretty funny. Yeah, you don't want any part. You don't know. You're in the first four rows of a handful. of comedians and I'm just using Lisa as an example and she doesn't even do common anymore

you want no part of that you don't want to be a part of the bit she doesn't be good natured about it she's retired yeah she uh she went nice she was the queen of mean for the longest time and now she's just not doing it anymore at all so she was on those comedy central roads and she you know

she was mainly known for sleeping with black men was her bit and that's how it became she she would take shots that way and people would take shots at her and I'm like uh-uh staying far away. Hmm. Yeah.

No, as a plain old white guy, that's not going to happen on my watch. That's why that second deck seat was just fine, Ross. Oh, wow. I'm reading her Wikipedia. She went underwent gastric sleeve surgery in 2012. She's very thin now. Super super super super.

Lost 100 pounds. Yeah. And the reported change made her reevaluate many things in her life. And she's no longer funny. She amicably divorced, amicably divorced her husband and introduced him to the woman he ultimately married? What? That's crazy.

That is crazy. Oh, she retired from comedy and became a life coach? You know, that's the job I want. Life coach. Oh, no. No. At the end of the day, who's really qualified to be a life coach? All of us are just trying to figure this all out.

I actually, I got to be honest with you, I actually know a life coach. Uh-huh. And they've been twice divorced and they've got a bunch of credit. card net and when he told me he was a life coach i'm not going to say who it is but when he told me who he was i was like i almost said get the blank out of here but he was serious he was really serious about it yeah i'm gonna you know what i'm just starting transitioning to my how do i how do i become a life coach i don't know declare yourself one i i mean that's a great question the thing i know is is that like they always say that and we're going to get back to sports i

promise because we're chock full of sports today yes um we were talking baseball this is how this how this whole started let me give me quick so people that are therapists typically have the most effed up lives is what not not every therapist but a lot of people with some yes yeah but some definitely have as screwed up that you would say if you knew their background they should never be doing any sort of therapy so i'm curious if the life coach is somebody that we should be taking life lessons from if we think the person's life is terrible. It's like when you're talking to your lady and she's like, I was talking to my

friend and she said I should do this and this and I'm like, have you seen her? She's given she's given like relationship advice and she's been divorced like three times and she breaks up with her boyfriend and falls in love and gets back together with her. Her boyfriend's cheated on her five times and she keeps coming back and she's given relationship

advice. Yeah, yeah. So I'm going to go ahead and call BS anybody that's a life coach. Because Lisa Lampinelli, Ross, you know my sense of humor. She was uber raw, uber insensitive. Uber

just awful human being and I loved it and I miss it. Yeah. Well, she said she felt misunderstood her, Matt. You're part of the problem. Now she's life coaching. I'm going to become a life coach. I've just decided right now. Life coach certification.

All right, can I hear some online classes for this? All right. You know what? Since you're talking this big fight, now here we go. Exactly. I don't know what I'm going to be talking about. Go ahead. You're going to do it right now. What you need. This is not on the deep show, run sheet showdown of the program today. We're going to see how Ross does it life coach.

Okay, let's go. If you want to call 713-1-2-5-790. Here's how it works. Now remember, we're in 10 o'clock hour, Ross. So we're like, we're going to test our 10 o'clock audience right here. Now, of course, you realize I'm saying this, knowing that this is a scam professional. Well, we're about to find out, because I want you to be honest, call 713-212-5-790. If you have any questions about your life, what you could do with it, let's put Ross to the test.

We'll do it in this just just one second here to see how this goes. Hey, I was a student mentor in eighth grade. That doesn't count. Is that going to be a certification? I was a safety officer in the fifth grade. I wrote a bunch of tickets for people that were going to like to possibly. Nobody asked that doesn't have anything to do what we're talking about. All right.

So after that, Jonathan and I will decide whether you should continue this career as a life coach. It was my first day. I could get better. Do you want hands-on training? Guess what? You're getting it right now. Nobody's calling it.

Okay, here we go. Hello! Coach Academy. All right, I'm going to see how much this coach's fraud coach academy costs. $500. Probably at least a few Gs, right? 713, 21, 2, 5, 7.00. Let's see.

Let's find out exactly. if you can handle this whole life coach bit that you think you're going to do because it's not a Google MT segment. It's a definitely what can Ross do for me in my life. And we'll see if it works out. And we'll see if people actually buy this bit you're trying to sell the city of Houston here at 1014. At 1130 today we got, I just don't get it. We've got the news at noon coming up. We've got the Rotten 5 at 1250.

Willie Fritz and our Houston Cougars are back in action on Saturday against Arizona. We'll talk with him at 1.30. And we have, believe it or not. But we're going to try this right now. If you need any sort of life advice, 713-212-5-7-90, can you give, can Ross give you the life advice you need? Or is this going to be an utter train wreck and you'll be further embarrassed with the lack of success in your overall life, Ross? We're about to find out. 7-13-212-5-790.

That's 7-1-3-212-5-790. Sorry. We know that you want some Texan Seahawks preview. We'll get that to you, I promise you. And you want a deep dive in the A.L. playoffs and you want to get into, obviously, the Rockets' final preseason and tilt with the Hawks. But some things organically just pop up on the old Matt Thomas show with Ross.

We're not in a super heavy sports time, at least with the local stuff. So we're going to try this. And my expectations are minimal at best. I would say by the one caller we've had on the line here, Ross, is there people of little faith of you? That's okay. You know, I mean, I'm just starting out. These are free sessions.

Oh, so you're looking to eventually charge a per hour basis. It's like we're at the Visible Changes Academy. You're getting a free haircut. It's like a trial. The University of Houston Dentistry Department. I got you. Oh, they do that? Yeah.

What if they crack your mouth open? Well, that's the chance you take. Oh, all right. Well, that seems a little more serious than a haircut. Well, I mean, what is a crack tooth among friends? I don't know, thousands of dollars. So what did they extract the wrong tooth by accident? I'm not saying U.H would do that because they have great dentistry school.

No, we have a world-renowned dentistry school. I didn't say anything. I'm just trying to get ahead of the curve on that a little bit. Oh, I didn't say a word. But you were thinking it. No, I didn't. George is with us on Ask Ross the Life Coach. George, good morning to you.

Who's house? Coog's house We're off to a bad start Says you Hey So I just spent Nine days in jail 30 days of Ben Todd after an attack

I was 18-0 and fights Then I got sucker punch And then now I've been fighting a leg infection With low plate I count For 30 days So my question is does my lawyer, can I win me a settlement,

or am I going home broke? First of all, let's talk a little bit more about these fights. George, you said you're 18 and 0. Are you a perfect, are you talking about golden gloves or professional boxing, or are we talking about street fights?

Street fight and I learned off of YouTube. Tai Chi and made you just you and I just I thought Tai Chi was a meditation. You mean, like a moitai? Or are you meditating during these fights? It's like confu, but I thought it was Thai. Taekwondo.

Taibo? Oh, Taekwondo, okay. Do you normally go out, are you seeking out and starting these fights? No. You've been in 18 bar, you've been in 19 bar fights and they're all by accident. You didn't start one of them. Sure. I said jail

Wait, you got an 18 fights in jail? Yeah, because that happens in jail. Okay. Are you inebriated right now, George? No, I'm in Benton Hospital. You're at Bentob Hospital. Are you calling us from the hospital bed? Yeah.

Okay. On the I Heart Radio app, thank you for that, I guess. Are you employed? I run my own business. I'm a health insurance broker. Are you running your business for yourself? Are you your number one customer?

No. Okay. Are you married? Are you married? Do you have a girlfriend? I'm divorced. I have about a thousand women who want to go on a date with me. A thousand, really? Where did you come up with this number? I got TikTok famous while I was here.

Can we eject from this like any time you want? No, this is great. What are you talking about? You're TikTok famous in prison? Do you have a smartphone with you in prison and you went, you became TikTok famous and now a thousand, what kind of

videos are you uploading, George? The same bed. It's either me praying or me just rapping or singing songs. with different filters on TikTok. All right, George.

And I got like, I got like 7,000 followers in eight days. Wow. What's the account name? I got five of them, but it's George Robertson. Okay. I don't need more fame, guys. Clearly. George Robertson 0774.

Okay. George Robertson. And where are you right now? You're still at the hospital? Sixthoor, room 2-2, and Ventobia. Probably going to leave tomorrow, but they've been saying that for 30 days now.

Oh, wow. What kind of injuries did you suffer? Oh, man. I don't know if the listeners want to hear this, but when I got 40 people watch while Mr. Incredible Hope socked me upside my wife. right cheekbone and cause a lot of blood and uh i was kind of in the coma for like three days

woke up and bent tall i've been here for 30 days okay well my life advice to you george is first and foremost some psychotherapy i think you need to talk to uh somebody about getting your life in order and and trying to figure out what's going on with these uh all these fights that you've been getting into i sir that's because of prison i'm christian i i'm christian i God's got me. Okay. Well, I need to talk to that guy, too. And, I mean, talk to anybody.

Okay. Well, thank you. What does he say? He says that basically don't put your tent in the shallow, the value of death. You got to keep moving until the sunlight of spirit shines upon you once again. All right. Thank you, George. I thought he said he was undefeated.

He does have 1,2009 followers. Look, I need a molligan. That guy's beyond help. I don't know what you suggested to him, but I have a pretty good feeling it's not going to work. Woo! He's been in the hospital for 30 days. He said the Incredible Hulk smacked him upside the head.

He's got, it looks like he's got multiple, our friend ATX Hobo girl, sending us multiple TikTok accounts. He said he had five, right? Okay, so can Nick K. lead this offense against that pretty ferocious Seattle defense. Will Texas have any issues with Kentucky this weekend? Are the, oh my God, oh my God.

Let's regroup. I don't know how we do this, actually. It's time for a break anyways. That's how we do this. Okay. We're going to take a break. we're going to pretend the first half hour of the show never happened you know what we were actually off the air what was it on monday rossi or two things for about a good half hour that might have been better than we just present our audience here disagree that was gold did you he want his own session too okay good we'll get geo when we come back can this i i i oh my god you started this yes sir that's definitely on you man because it's a light sports week

Don't blame me. I'm trying to keep the people entertained. I think that was entertained. I was entertained. Yeah, but the poor man's been in bed town for 30. I mean, that can't, that can't, it's not going to end well for him. Well, I'm wishing him the best. I am as well.

And I don't think you gave very much good advice. You just told me to see. That's, that's the best advice he could have gotten. All right. Or talk to Jesus. I told him one or the other. Should the Texans go after Bree's, Hall. That's what we should be discussing.

That's what the other stations in town are getting into. What happened to Breece Hall? He may be up on available on those streets, those trade streets. 1035. Matt and Ross with you here on all sports all the time. Sports Talks 7. I mean, hell, I'll even break down.

We were talking prison boxing. That is actually true. And the MMA game. He said Tai Chi. You know, if I have not been in a hospital to spend the night. in a long time. I don't know if I'm calling a radio station

if I'm in there at any point. I appreciate George and I'm wishing him the best. He sounds like a troubled individual, quite frankly. Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, the thought counts. He had probably a handful of minutes to talk before his next check of his vitals

and he said, well, let me call Matt and Ross. Koso is with us. What's your chili can comment today at 1035 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. So, good morning. Good morning. Real quick, I know you guys hate bits stealing, but I'm afraid you all are bits stealing right now with the life advice. Explain.

Are you all familiar with a certain podcast host name Ryan Rusillo? I know the name. I don't listen to his podcast. At the very end of each podcast, he literally has a segment called Life Advice. through people, send in the craziest emails. Sometimes he gets duped, but I don't think we got dup there, honestly. I don't think we got duped.

I think I could hear them. We've been doing a life advice segment since Matt was on with Lance, and he made him before that, so. Yeah. Isn't Ryan Roussel, the guy that broke into somebody's house to steal their pills out of their, out of their bathroom? No, he was Bill Simmons, like, best friend. And he just left to go to that awful bar stool sports, whatever.

Well, no wonder I'm not listening. I think he did do that, what you're talking about. Yeah. That's awesome. No, he broke. He was high as a kite or something and went into some, he went into the wrong house to go get some more pills, and he wound up going into his neighbor's house.

And he was naked or something, right? Breaking in and going to the... Are you serious? Yes. Oh, my God. Yeah. I think I've got Ryan, that's the right, Ryan Russell. I don't know the guy, but I just, that's what I think I know of him.

He was on ESPN for a while. Yeah, him and Bill were on ESPN and Grant Land and they both got fired together, all this other stuff. But the real reason I was calling in was Matt, I was watching Netflix this morning, and I heard your voice. On what? Do you know why? No, I don't.

The starting five, and it has James Hardin on there, and the episode, I think three, when he comes back to Houston to break, Ray Allen's three-point record, you hear your voice talking about James and it makes multiple times where you're on my TV. Was it, is a talk show host or is an announcer? As a, um, honestly, I don't know that it was very clear. I think it was an announcer. You were announcing the game.

Where was that? The home, this was this year. This, whenever he came back, um, the Clippers, I guess, you know, the past, I mean, 2025, but... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I definitely... When he did set a mark while he was in Houston, I remember that, I just remember what it was for, but yeah.

That probably was me. No, like this year. Yeah, it was you. I was like, holy crap. We got to rub this in Ross's face, ASA. No, no. Ross couldn't do anything about that. I don't care.

He probably would have... Good for me. He wouldn't object it to it, I don't think. No, I'm happy for you, Matt. You mean, like, the PA announcer, or like the play-by-play? Play-by-play. Yeah, what's like? They didn't cut you a check for that, Maddie?

Well, you know, it's funny. I get checks from Jimmy Kimmel. I don't know if I should cash them or not, but I just don't get them. You need a check from Netflix. I do. What's the name of the show? Because I want to be able to hear it. Starting five.

It's like a documentary. You know how they do quarterback and they follow a bunch of quarterbacks and wide receiver. It's a starting five. They've been doing it for a few years, too. Okay, well, I'm going to look it up. I'm going to send a little Netflix, a little check, a little email. Yeah, you send a, what do you call it, invoice? Yeah, that's exactly right.

I think it's episode three. and it's when he comes back to Houston and it's him trying to break the record and it's just you basically talking about like, oh, so close, but you didn't do it. So sad. Okay, well, thanks, Koso. And if anybody can get that audio to me or that video,

send me the phone like on Twitter or something and then any money I get from Netflix, I'll get you a finder's fee. Because they're not supposed to use my voice without my permission. Unless the rocket spoke on my behalf, and said, oh, yeah, you can use it. Maybe did we at sports talk

790 allow this to happen didn't they reach out to us i don't know is gordy gordy playing me off and just saying hey he took the check he said hello my name is matt thomas wow that's terrible gordon gordon gordon taking my my profits from uh from being on the on the netflix broadcast yes oh well i guess i got to come to work every day then all right ross uh i would say this segment's been a little bit better than the first two i mean we're crescendoing No. I think the first two were gold. Like the 10 o'clock hours, kind of the warm-up hour? Multiple people saying it was gold, Maddie.

All right, that's good. That's good. What are the other stations in town are doing? What are they breaking down? Don't know. Don't care. All right. Maybe Derek Stingley going against Jackson Smith and Jigma? I guess. I mean, Derek Stingley's not having a lockdown year, quite frankly. No, he's not. By the way, did you check on our PFF grade yesterday? Oh, do you want to know the offensive line rankings? Now, we'll do that next break

We'll get a little bit of time left in this one. Did you see Jay-J Watt went on McAfee and was like, you guys got to stop using PFF grade? Yes. What did you think about him saying those things? What do I say 99% of the time we bring it up? It's one data point. It's not going to hurt you?

It's one data point. Yeah. It's certainly, and it's also different, some things are better at than others. They can generally do a better job of grading, say offensive line because they can tell. Is it a zone block? It is a duo? Is it inside zone?

Is it whatever? And then, but as far as like coverages, for example, with linebackers and cornerbacks and safeties, the waters get a little bit more muddy. Who missed the assignment? Who was supposed to be on this route or that route? Same thing with wide receivers, route combinations and stuff like that. There certainly is a lot of gray area. Well, I'll say this.

And I tease them because I don't think they have sex or have relations with many people. Wrong. Poon House. They do. They are Poonhounds. That's right. I forgot to say that. They put the time in.

I mean, they're doing more work than I am on it. Again, it may not be the end all, but is there any stat service out there that is 100% pristine? I mean, when ESPN graded stuff, is that perfect? Is it when, what other else is there? Pro football references and stuff? I mean, I think nobody's perfect on that kind of stuff. Yeah, they have to do a lot of guesswork as far as what the coverages and calls are and stuff

like that. But it was interesting to me that that JJ Watt would, And I would, would you say umbrage with it or just? I didn't see his exact comments. But yeah, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I mean, they've, take them with a grain of salt. I always say that. So, if you're Chris Collinsworth and you own the thing, or at least partly own it.

Yes. Do you not want to, you all get together in the end of, during the office season, say, hey, how are we going to metricly be more accurate in this? Yeah, I mean, they've, they've refined their process every year, year after year after year. and also teams buy their data. So, I mean, you could say this is bad stuff all you want, but teams are buying into it. So, I mean, believe what you want.

My element, my thought is, again, I don't spend a lot of time on PFF, but if it's going to give me some metrics that the average lay website's not going to give me, I'm going to give them their props. And if their Poonhounds on top of that, it's even better. They live on the best life they can. All right, so the PFF grades and the Texans offensive line, it had been start of the year at number 32. It moved up to, what, 30 last week?

29, I think, or 30. 29, whatever. Do you get the move up when you don't play? We'll find out next. 713, 212, 790. Tim Davis on the Twitter just sent us a tweet that said that Ed Ingram Rossi is the number one rated guard according to pro football focus. Ed Ingram, a guy who was not even on the radar for the Texans,

except for just a guy that was just a seat filler. and he has played very well for the local football team. Yes, credit Nick Casario. Great find. Yeah. The offensive line for the Houston, Texas. No one should be worried. Everything is going to be copacetic.

Nobody said that. I mean, we can go to the offensive line rankings whenever you're ready. I'm ready. Ladies and gentlemen, pro football focus, not the B' Allendoll. Remember, they are the Poonhounds, but they are also evaluators of offensive line. Yes, and they have the Texans at number 29, just like last week. No change. So they didn't move up or down.

Again, I guess it's because they didn't play. Is it the reason why? Is it cumulative? Yeah, it's cumulative. Okay. Dead last, Browns? Oof. We'll count down from 32 or up for 32, I should say.

Browns, Dolphins, Bingles, Texans. So it's actually a minor miracle. The Texans are two and three with the fourth worst offensive line of the NFL, right? Yes. They're getting better, Matt. I think. They've been pretty good in the run game. Ed Ingram's grades are very good in the run game.

Yeah. Less so in pass blocking. Let me ask you this. So not that the playoffs will start today, but you know, I'm a standings update guy. Yes. Tell me who has the worst offensive line among teams that would currently be in the playoffs. Okay, so it wouldn't be the Texans. Dolphins, Browns, who's, let's see, Raiders, yikes.

Chargers, are the Chargers in the playoff race? The Chargers would be the number three seed, ironically enough. All right, there you go. Chargers are 27th. Okay, so that does give you a little bit of food for thought that you can still have a very subpar offensive line and yet still be considered a team that is going to be a playoff contender. Yeah, but I mean, going scrolling through this list.

You know, let's start from the top. Really, that's, I mean, it's not going to shock you. Colts are one. They're very good. Broncos, Chiefs, Bills, Eagles, Rams. I mean, this sounds like all the best teams in football, doesn't it? Buccaneers, seventh. Cardinals, eighth, Patriots, ninth.

Detroit Lions 10th. That's funny. Yeah, it's all the best teams. The Cardinals are the eighth best offensive line, but yet, Conno, Murray, is questionable to play. this week. Well, that's because Jacobi Reset's better.

And, yeah, you're good, Kyler. I don't think they're saying that. Hey, your guy, Drake Mays has been tearing it up. He has. He is my guy, by the way. I know. You know, funny, the Patriots, I want to say Rossi, the opening line

for them in the Vegas folks was nine and a half for ten wins this year. Yeah, we were all confused, right? You know, a lot of it was because the schedule was ridiculously easy early on. Well, they're four and two early on. They beat the bills. I mean, that's legit.

And Drake May is having, I can tell you this, personal from fantasy football experience, he's having a wonderful season. I was wondering how long it would take you to bring up the Toros. That's why I said Drake May is your guy. They have the great win against the bills. Their other wins, though, are the dolphins, Panthers, and Saints. Panthers are actually not that bad. Well, Panthers are mid.

They're three and three. Yeah, Saints are terrible, and the dolphins could be looking for a new coach before too long. they're looking for a new coach they just haven't fired the guy yet by the way did you see two now two attack of Aloha after their loss last week to the Chargers

basically and I'm going to paraphrase on this basically through a lot of his teammates under the bus for not showing up for player run meetings and join up late you see yesterday he apologized for those things yes now did he apologize because they weren't

true or did he apologize because that some things should be kept in house. Yes. Let me ask your thought on that. Now, again, I am of the firm belief that you should keep most of your things in house. But if someone, if a question is directed to you about what is wrong with the team, I guess you're telling me the player can't say, well, we're not all in. I think showing up Ross for meetings late and not being fully best in those meetings

mean you're you're not all in. So are we supposed to just when some, when a player's I got this is such a slippery slope on this and I apologize for Hemming and Haunt us, but I just he's frustrated and frankly sometimes the only way you can get to your teammates is by saying, hey, what you're, I guess the easy argument would be is

if you got a problem with me, just tell me and don't go to tell a microphone. I guess it's the argument. Yeah, but he didn't name anybody. No, he didn't. I don't think this is that big of a deal. I mean, I guess that's up for the Dolphins locker room to decide. Well, they did. Because, too, it was Mr. Apologetic yesterday.

But, yeah, he's like, yeah, we got guys showing up late. He didn't name anybody. And guess what? If you're all salty about him saying that publicly, then don't be late to the meetings. Yeah, if you had to show up on time, no one was going to call you out. But the thing is, he's not all that stellar, like, getting on the winds for him to be justified as saying that. Like, you're just a part of us as well. Yeah, I don't think he was necessarily pointing fingers.

I think he was just talking about leadership. I don't know. I took it as when he was talking about leadership. He meant himself, too. But. Well, there's also another thing, guys, that you have to think about is how much should a team that represents a city in which you as the customer want to know what the product's about, how much should you be forthcoming?

I mean, if you go to your favor, and this is a terrible analogy, go and rip me forward If you go to a terrible restaurant, you ask the manager what's wrong if he says, I can't tell you. I mean, I'm the one spending the money at your restaurant. Shouldn't I know the reason why? If I'm a Miami Dolphin season ticket holder or go to the go to the games and my team is underperforming and not holding on the leads and looks ill-prepared and makes silly penalties and doesn't and gets out of the gates, I mean, all the variety of reasons why the dolphins are where they are,

I kind of want some transparency. But I think what we've learned now is that sports today, even professional sports and collegiate in sports, if you're getting any transparency from your favorite football or basketball team or baseball team, you should be considered lucky because most teams want to keep everything in the house. Yeah, I mean, what he said again, if he's out there like naming names and stuff like that, that would have felt more egregious. But just saying guys are not getting to their meetings on time. And then I don't know, did he clarify that he meant not players-only meetings,

but like team meetings and like positional meetings and stuff like that? I'm not sure. Well, we can look it up. But I mean, the fact that he had to apologize to begin with is kind of weird. Well, he said it was a leadership issue, and that automatically is going to go right to the coach, right? I thought he meant like leaders in the locker. No, no, I don't think you were talking about the players.

I made a mistake and I'm owning up to that right now. I talked to guys in the team about. it, talk to the leaders about it, and they know my heart. They know that the intent was right, no matter of the intent. But when things get misconstrued or however the media wants to portray it, that leaves a void of silence and a lot of questions for guys on our team, now being one in five, we talk about it a lot. All right, we got to get this thing going.

We got to come and excited to go to work. Forget about the noise. And I feel like I just added on that for our guys. Ross, guys, there was nothing misconstrued. What he said, was he criticized team? mates for being late to players-only meetings. Nothing to miss a bit of sure about that. Maybe a finger-pointing than he shouldn't have done when,

quite frankly, he's not very, he hasn't been very good. Well, that whole thing is just a mess. It just is. All right, let's get the second hour of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross started in a matter of moments. Did we celebrate last night? I mean, Toronto, it was kind of fun watching them beat up those Seattle Mariners, right?

We felt a little bit better. Yes, I feel much better. Let's go to Jays. and we know that we know that Toronto can win in Seattle and they can beat them badly. 713212-579 if you want to join our program today, 713-212-5-7-9-0. We've got, I just don't get it coming up in one half hour. We have the news at noon. Ross's Rotten 5.

Do the Miami Dolphids make the Rotten 5 this week, Ross? I'm going to go ahead and say, yes, they do. What do you think? But will they be the number one team on the Rotten 5? Hmm. Hmm. 1250, you'll find out about that. Believe it or not today, 150.

713, 212, 5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Matt and Ross with you here on Sports Talk 790, where we are, at least half of us are coming to you today from Atlanta GA, where tonight the Rockets will be taking on the Atlanta Hawks to close out the pre-season. 7-13-212-5-6. 790 is how you reach program 713212-5790 there is some rumors on the NFL Instagram and Twitter streets about a certain well-known running back

potentially up for trade speculation the Jets apparently are floating in trade rumors Brees Hall who will be a free agent at the end of the season for the Jets being up for trades and there are hands themes that are appear to be interested. One of them sports are you would be your beloved Houston Texans. It would make sense.

Especially if Joe Mixon's going to be out for the year. Apparently Mr. Hall went on his Instagram, which I don't follow. And you should follow mine by the way at AtSports MT. We're getting very close to 3,000. Quote, they want me to lay down, but I got some

to stand for. That's S-U-M. Some. to stand for some hashtag free 20 some some yeah wearing camouflage pants he's got sunglasses on

and he is walking into the Jets facility with a gate so he's all right thanks for that fit check Matt I've worn camouflage in years I don't think I've ever worn for camouflage he's only 24 years old rate the drip Matt

the drip is drippy okay Let's see. He then was asked by the New York media about what exactly what his drip was during this Instagram post. I haven't posted yet this season. It's just a way for me to say I'm ready for whatever comes my way, whether it's going against an opponent, whether it's in my life. For me, it's a football thing, all right? I'm ready for whatever opponent is coming my way, whatever the case may be.

It's a game type of thing. Does free 20 mean hall want to trade? Nah, it's referencing like being in the moment, being in the game. Hall said, I'm ready for whatever. I don't believe that. Apparently, former New England receiver Jeline Polk posted free one on Instagram, and then five days later he was traded the New Orleans Saints.

So when you put the free and the number next to it, your number, that usually means a sign I want to get out. Teams that are showing interests would be the Texans, the Los Angeles Chargers, and the Kansas City Chiefs among those showing some interest. Chiefs, yeah, Pacheco's been terrible. I don't understand how Kareem Hunt still has an NFL job, but he just keeps scoring touchdowns for them.

I bet he does. I don't know. I watch that, how much of that Detroit Kansas City game do you see on Sunday night? A good amount. I don't think Kansas City looks like a 500 team. I think they've just taken on some incredibly difficult opponents. Yeah, they're going to be good. Is you sleeping on the Chiefs or being a disappointing?

And again, when the preseason started, name teams that could take a drop. Well, when you're, you know, 15 to 2 to 12 and 5 is a drop in theory, but it's not really a drop. They still makes them an elite team. Yeah, the schedule is softening up. They're looking good. They're getting Rishi Rice back this week as well. Right. Chiefs are going to be fine.

Now, we mentioned earlier this week. They're AFC betting favorites alongside the bills. Yeah. And we officially kicked the Ravens out of the AFC North. favorite chart after they lost last week? I mean, that would be the favorite. I would say no. Because the AFC North, yeah, well,

the Steelers are four and one now. Yeah. It's close. But is Lamar Jackson's going to miss another week? Well, they're off this week, aren't they? Oh, that's right. Okay. And then he's going to come back for their next game. This is their

upcoming schedule. Bears, dolphins, Vikings, Browns, Jets. Bingos. Dolphins, that's three and three Right For the Ravens If Lamar Jackson is back

Yeah Bears dolphins I mean they'd be favored in Both though it's two Yeah Then at the Vikings That's winnable At the Browns

Eminently winnable Home for the Jets Home for the Bengals Oh forget what I said Five and one Yeah I was like what Maybe I just have seen so much futility.

I mean, and again... Yeah, even when they were playing well... Yeah, it wasn't crisp. But they, I mean, they lost to the Bills 41 to 40 in a crazy comeback. Right. They lost a shootout with the Lions, and then

they were... And they were losing to Kansas City when Jackson went down. Yeah, they wouldn't have won that game even with Lamar Jackson. Yeah. But yeah, their losses are to the bills, lions, and chiefs while Lamar Jackson was healthy.

So, in the NBA, if you are a pending free agent, and in baseball, for that matter, too, you can kind of control your own destiny. Maybe not so much in baseball, but definitely in the NBA. If you go tell your general manager, I want to go play there,

they usually are acquiesced to that. Usually. Can you do that in the NFL if you're a free agent coming up? No. And then what do you give? I mean, look, the Texans we know for their history have 95,000 fifth and six round picks. I mean, that's what Nick Assyria lives for.

Yeah, if it's going to cost you, like a fifth six swap or something cheap like that. I mean, I don't know what the breeze hall, I guess I'll have to look up his contract situation. All I will say is this, not knowing exactly what every pick the Texans have left, not knowing exactly what the Jets would want. If the Texans are going to go win and get a playoff spot in this super, super competitive AFC, if I was a Texans fan, and if I saw Nick Casario, at the barbershop or the grocery store, I'd tell him to go get him. Would you not?

I mean, tell me that's not a no-brainer, especially if you don't, if you can get him for less than, I mean, look, you can't trade up around picks, especially for a guy that's going to be a pending for an agent, but you, are you telling me you're really going to be satisfied with Woody marks a rookie? Um, I will say,

I mean, Brees Hall's been good, but it's not like he's been, unstoppable or some crazy. He's never rushed for a thousand yards. But he'd be automatically better than anything the Texans had. I'd be a rental. I wonder, you know what? Like I said,

depending on what it would cost you, depending on what your cab space is, which I believe it's very limited for the Texans, and the fact that I mean, you've already got a glut of running backs right now. You're still keeping Dario Gubalewawele and British Brooks and whoever else on this roster, Damien Pierce. So obviously

Pierce would probably be the first one out. But you'd have to figure you're something out there. It would cost you. Breece Hall hasn't been like this unstoppable rushing force. And do you feel like you're good enough with Nick Chubb looking a little bit better and coming off of a bye week? He looked like he had some pep in his step this past weekend.

Not past weekend, but the week before, against the race. Back in early September when they last played a game, is what you're trying to say. 10, 15 days ago, whatever was at this point. Yeah, I don't know. So I'm not going to call it a no-brainer, but I mean, I would do it. I think Breeze Hall is better than your current options. That's the bottom line. I think you would get a little energy boost by bringing here here.

And I'll even say this. I would say even more than a little energy boost because that would give me the interpretation that my general manager understands that we need a little oomph. You know, there are sometimes in baseball, when teams don't make trades, it kind of sullens the lot, the clubhouse. Yeah. I don't know if the NFL works that way because I'm not going to be a lot. I wonder the guy's probably like Chubb.

It's how much gas is in the tank, I guess is the question. Yeah, he looks a little bit better, and he's going to be another week removed from the injury. That's what I'm trying to chalk up him looking a little, a couple things. Woody Marks had a great week, and all of a sudden Nick Chub's like, yeah, knee's feeling fine. We're all good. Funny how that works. Sit your ass on a bench. Pay your dues.

Care what you did. Well, let me look at their PFF grades. I'm just kidding. All right, JJ Watt. I don't know. I think using anything in terms of Brees Hall in that Jets offense, which is horrendously bad,

the numbers would be skewed a little bit, that I want to know what I think Bruce Hall could be around a team that actually can put some points up on the board. Now, he wouldn't have a great offensive line in front of him, but we've seen other running backs that haven't had great offensive lines have some success. Yeah, last two years,

Bruce Hall's played 17 and 16 games. And, yeah, he's averaging four and a half yards per carry, basically. And I'm not even saying Breece Hall's the answer. I'm not trying to be the president of the Breece Hall fan call. I'm just saying that I like the fact that I'm hearing the Texans are kind of looking going, you know what? I don't think we've got it solved here. I think they know that.

But I wonder how much confidence they have in their guys. And Nick is here to me is a guy that, does he come across the guy that feels like I can pull this off, that I can be a little risk taker or I want to just keep it safe and conservative that I know that even if I went and got Breeze Hall, I may not be able to outslug Kansas City in the playoff game or the charges or stuff like that. Yeah, of course, Joe Mixing is factor number one. And then you have to wonder, yeah, how much does Nick Casario say this is my draft pick? This is my guy that I brought in and I'm going to back my guys.

Let me give you a more generic statement. You tell me if you wanted to agree or disagree. if we don't see Joe Mixing this year and they don't go get an offense, another running back, did Nick Casero do a disservice of the team? I don't think so right now because Chub and Marks is not like, okay, it's not lightning and thunder in the backfield right now. But it's not bad. It's not Jamir Gibbs and David Montgomery basically. It's not Sonnycan Knuckles, but it's not bad.

I'm actually less concerned about it than I was week one. Okay, that's fair. 713-212-5-790. For those of you their Texans fans, do you like the energy about hearing the Texans being talked about as a team that's looking for additional running back health? I would say if I was in that camp, I'd be pretty excited about it. Yeah, should they get them?

Let us know. Or anybody for that matter. I will say this. I do think they need an overhaul. Not overall. They need an extra set of lives. Devon A-chan. People have voted as a possible.

Now now you say Devon A-chan. I'm 100% in on that. I am a thousand percent on that. 1,000%. 713-212-5-790. Matt and Ross with you. We've got I just don't get it coming up in about 10 minutes from now. 7-13-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90. Let's get to, I just don't get it coming up at about 10 minutes from now. The news at noon. And the Toronto Blue Jays have a chance to eat. even up the America League Championship Series with her win today. Biscuit is with her son, 7-90. Biscuit, what do you got? Cougar, Matt.

Let me say this, man. As far as the attention go, if you can upgrade the team, you got to look into it, you know. So if you deem Brieffaw or upgrade and you don't have to give up much, you know, then you have to look into it. You know, he is going to be free.

Well, the thing of it is, is if you have legitimately three, teams or more fighting for a guy that on the streets they find out that Brice Hall is available do you get into a bidding war? Then the question I guess Biscuit would be is do you want to get into a bidding war for a guy who's going to be a free

agent at the end of the season? And that's where that's what's probably going to keep from getting there. How much are up? You know, we're not talking about like you're Derek Henry. You know what I mean? So how much you upgrade is it? But let me say this, man, about the tour thing.

and this is one of the things that always I guess the phones I just don't get what does it matter how to us playing if what he said was true you know what you see what I'm saying everybody well how are you going to say that

because he ain't even playing good no but if he's telling the truth then that's you know stand on that you just need more credit with the house no you just need more credit with the people because you're you're that's just anything any

dynamic like if you're calling up Like if you're hitting in Thanksgiving food and saying something wasn't good and you didn't help out at all, I mean, you're going to have more fingers pointing out of you. If you're part of the problem, yeah, that's just natural in any group dynamic. Well, that's what I don't feel right. I think what you're trying to say, Biscuit is, he's the quarterback. He's going to naturally be at.

I mean, the quarterback always speaks after every game. I mean, so he is the de facto spokesman. So I think if you do have to. back it up. So if he was, if he's having a terrible season, you have, you don't even utter what he said. So let me ask you this. Is two attack of Aloha having a terrible season for the Miami Dolphins? Yes. But my point is Matt, there's two things to be right. He could be playing bad, but you could be having some cancers in the locker room and he's just calling it out. Now, if you want to say he should have kept it in the locker room, that's a different argument.

but to me, you can't, my point is, the truth is the truth. You know what I mean? If I'm saying something that's wrong, okay, that's fine. Then you could say that. But if you ain't showing up to on things on time and I call you out, but you're saying, but you threw two intercession, what they got to, they don't correlate to me. Well, it does.

Because anytime somebody isn't going to put criticism on anybody, it's got to come from a place where people are going to respect what they're saying and they're going to listen to them. Like, yeah, if Jeff Green starts calling out Kevin Duran, he's going to be like, man, shut up. You're Jeff Green. Like, it's just, it has to come from a place of authority. And it doesn't come. Because that's just how, that's human nature.

That's why. Because, I mean, I understand it doesn't make a lot of logic, but it comes a, there's a difference between a leader and somebody who is performing, criticizing the team or criticizing others, and somebody who is playing poorly and costing them games. Two his numbers this year, by the way. Hold on, real quick. Two his numbers, he's throwing, he has 70% completion percentage, 1213 yards. He has 11 touchdown, seven interceptions. Now, a couple of those interceptions are deflections.

I've seen him personally. He's been sacked 13 times. His quarterback rating is 92.1. So it's mid. He's been, but in 20, but those numbers in 2025, I mean, especially the offense, they're running where it's not like it's, you know, to a gunslinger toa it's a lot of checkdowns a lot of screen game for devon a chan and stuff like that he's not he's not being asked to be uh i mean like a do everything quarterback right

well i guess the point i'm getting to ross let's just take two out of him mat you brought up jim green i'm i'm just saying ross hi if somebody if somebody's saying something and it's i'm going to check to see what they said if that's factual and actually true I'm not worried about You're saying Ross, well, if you're not in good standing, then it doesn't have any merit. Yeah, it's like we're on a group project and you're criticizing the project.

You're like, man, this project sucks. Like, you weren't even here. And you didn't even show up for any of the meetings or didn't even help at all. But the project still could suck. Yeah, it might still suck, but nobody's going to listen to you. You're going to, you're just going to fall on deaf ears. You need the, for criticism to be taken to heart,

it has to come from the right place. Right? Don't you think in human nature? I'm saying you, it is human nature, but that's an ad hominem fallacy. It's just, I mean, you're attacking the person instead of attacking what they say. I understand. I understand. It has more relevance than the person.

I'm saying, I'm just saying, but for people to take it to heart, it has to come from a better place of authority. It just, that's just how, that's just how, yeah, that's how it works. Come on. You don't understand. That's silly. I mean, I don't, like I said, I like, I like the fact. I like the fact that Tua said what he said because it needed to be said, and I don't necessarily even disagree what he said because of the fact that he is the quarterback.

He is the defective spokesperson. But I'm taking the Miami Dolphins example out of the picture. If you have a guy at your office that is performing, if sales are down 23%, you get a junior salesperson who hasn't sold something in six months, is telling everybody to step it up. Yeah. I've got to shut his bum ass up. Yeah, maybe everybody needs to step it up.

But it's coming from the right place. I don't understand how you can't wrap your head around this. Go ahead, go ahead. If you have a last point here, if you go to the scenario you said about somebody at the office or whatever, and he's not doing well. He didn't say step it up. He said, hey, man, you're stealing money from the company.

Or something, you know what I'm saying? Something that has factual merit, not opinion-aided, you know, it's not something about opinion or whatever. That's my point. you got to me we make something wrong when we don't listen to what it's said instead concentrate on the person who said it

All right thank you Biscuit Yeah We're we understand I understand his point Yeah we're talking in circles here at this point But let's put it in the point I understand what he's saying He's saying the criticism is correct

And that's true But that's just human nature That nobody's going to listen to you If you're If you're out there throwing a bunch of picks And not helping the offense either Well I mean I'll put it to a sport

sports perspective for people like their agreement biscuit. If you're on a, let's say a track team, right, and you got one of your people, their athletes is there running, you know, at practice, and he's doing the worst at everybody, you go to team meeting on Friday, and he goes, yeah, we need to pick it up more, y'all and I'm not starting up

the next. It's like, brother, you shut you my ass up. You know, he was drinking a Wednesday. You know what I mean? Like, right. I got to be honest, I I don't think Aaron Holiday is going to run to Kevin Durant and tell him how to do his business. I mean, I'm just going to tell you that right now. Yeah, and two is, it doesn't necessarily apples because Tua

is the quarterback in each but he's just not performing well and it's it's not necessarily that it should make the criticism invalid but it makes it easier for other people who are getting criticized to dismiss because nobody likes being criticized. So if you're going to be criticized you want it to be constructive

and you want to become from a place of authority and someone you respect and if those people aren't respect and not saying nobody's respecting Tua I don't know that but it's just easy for people to ignore and point fingers if somebody like Tua who's not performing well is the one making the criticism. Well, my guess is that when he went in that locker room and word traveled that he was saying the stuff,

if Tua is throwing for 400 yards a game and leaving it on the field and they're losing 42.35 and he's got a 6 to 1 touchdown interception ratio or is not taking the sack, that they're going, damn, Two is right. But when you're having a mid-season and everybody's not performing, no one is performing above expectations except for A-chan. Right? Really?

When you think about it? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Jaylonal's been good since Tyree Kill got hurt. Yeah, but, again, I think Tua gets a little bit of a little bit of a buffer

because of the fact the quarterback has to be the de facto team leader. The quarterback, he gets interviewed more than any other player of anybody on that football team. It's the quarterback that has to answer the questions for on behalf of the team. He was speaking out of frustration. He's just probably, when he said what he said, was accurate, like Biscuit said. And he didn't provide anything that was false. He didn't lie.

He didn't name names. He didn't name names. But he said, like, guys in my locker are shown up late for player-only meetings. That was the truth. But even if he is the truth, sometimes you don't. don't want to hear it. You open yourself up for somebody who's very mid. Well, for him to come and apologize, it must have mean, like, the whole team could

like that had a good conversation after that happened, like for him to come and be okay to apologize? No, I disagree. You would say so, really. You should shut your mouth up. Exactly what they said. And they said, go out there and apologize and we'll let you back in this room. We won't short sheet your bed on the road next year week.

You'll be looking for your underwear while we're practicing. It'll be in an area that you don't. want to go good. Yeah, no, there was, that was probably not well received. When your team is one in five, there's no, man, can we talk this out? No, there was another that. There was probably a lot of yelling. Rossi, what don't you get in your life? You?

I feel like it's been what we've talked about every week since we've started this segment. You and your food habits. Oh, you'd been so proud of me yesterday. I almost took pictures. No response to the tweet I tagged you in. About the biscuits and gravy? Yeah. That looked nasty. All right.

Come on. She was putting in products in that little pan that were just like, I'm not eating. Look at her. She's gross. Hey, whoa. Hey. Hold on.

Her body was built on biscuits and gravy. Come on now. She's eating good. Oh, come on. You're coming after me, Mom, making biscuits and gravy. Wow. That's foul. You need to dial up a Friday.

Sorry for that way. Oh, right. Maybe I'll apologize tomorrow. All she put in there was sausage, salt, pepper, a lot of oil and other things too. She was a little shortening and then evaporated milk and water. That's it. It looks good.

Those biscuits look good too. That's a pretty good line. My body was built on biscuits and gravy. That's pretty good. I'll have to give myself credit for that. She didn't want, yeah, you're a great, Matt. All right. Hey, what don't you get in life? 713-212-5-7-9. And we can help you next.

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his lifeline. And we went through that earlier today. And it didn't go. Ross, how would you describe your life coaching skills in that first caller we had? I thought it was fantastic. What do you mean? I mean, I don't think he got any resolution to his life. He's still at the hospital.

I don't think any, I don't think a five-minute phone call is going to save that young man's life. Well, if you want to be a life coach, you've got to make some split decisions pretty quick. Okay. Well, I told him to seek therapy, and I think it's the best advice I could have given him. Well, all right. Ladies and gentlemen, 713-212-5-7-9. Hey, I'm sorry. Who is?

What? Look, if you, look, you've got time. I mean, the show's only four hours. You could pick up a second shift as a life coach. No, that's true. The show's four hours, but I got to watch games and pre-and-post game shows are starting up Tuesday. All right.

So you're saying you won't have time to do both. I do about 80 pre-imposts a year, but combined between Astros and Rockets. I was thinking more like 90, but that's a... We'll we'll bet that later. All right. Rossi, anything you don't get in your life. We can help you with.

Go to somebody else. Jonathan, what don't you get? You know, I've been thinking about this all week. I don't understand, like, with the big,

like ESPN and all that stuff when they have a whole panel of people, right? Yeah. And they just have one person on a Zoom call, just on a big screen talking to them. I don't, is that because they're traveling? I don't.

It's called cheap. So, okay, so they're just trying to cut, okay, but that's, I don't get that. Why wouldn't you be at the office, like, you pay this much money? I don't know.

It doesn't make sense. Because it happens not just with ESP and our first take. It happens with all these, like, big, even like news. I don't know. I just don't understand that. Well, most of it is because they're traveling. But some of it is, you know, if they can do a Zoom call and save money by not flying the person to the city, that saves them a lot of money. So that should be a nice, easy resolution for you.

I wasn't expecting that. one is I just don't get it. I think it's pretty easy. Save money, save time. Set up, put up a hotel and all that stuff. I got one now. Oh, you do? Okay, go ahead.

I don't get all these names that are being floated with this Penn State job. I mean, look, Penn State's a good program, and they have some history. But the recruiting base and the fan, I mean, people are talking about

Mike Elko, and the talking about, there's a lot of uneducated college football people talking about how Penn State has more money than A&M. I'm like, are you sure about that boss? And Nick Saban is a name that has been floated. I mean, come on. Joel Clatt mentioned Nick Sabin's name.

Well, yeah, it's all the national guys. And, I mean, I don't get it. Penn State's good. Well, Colin Coward yesterday on his podcast was talking about how much money Penn State has. They have money to burn. They just spent

45 million to upgrade, I think, their stadium. They just spent $49 million to let go of James Franklin. Yeah, so they're not worried about money. They haven't won a national championship since when? The early 90s?

Yeah. No, 1986. They've won two in their history, 82 and 86. Well, I guess what you're saying is you don't get why Penn States a great job. Is that what you're trying to I'm saying, I don't think it's an elite job, and people are mentioning literally

Nick Saban and like prying away Mike Elko from and to me it's like, okay, it's maybe it's a slight upgrade to Arkansas, especially with James Franklin, what he's done. Right. But historically it's not. Well, but Joe my Joe Paterno was legendary coach.

Matt Rule and Nebraska. I mean, I've put Nebraska in Penn State about in the same bucket. As far as history. Well, as far as history, but who cares about history in 2025. It's about who's got the cash right now. I mean, I don't know what everybody's NIL budget is.

Well, I mean, yeah, I put Nebraska and Penn State ahead of Texas Tech, but they have a bunch of NIL money. But I'm just talking about prestige. Yeah. Okay, so on its face, well, see, the thing of it is that we, since we don't know the NIL budget, we don't know what job is better.

Because right now and realistically, is Texas Tech a better job than Clemson because Texas Tech has got more NIA money than Clemson does? Probably. Are we judging schools now based off of NIL budgets? I think Texas Tech has the number 127 class right now, by the way. Well, if we're doing that, then we can't use anything in terms of a historical perspective.

Because there are some, like, for instance, Oklahoma State, I was just there last weekend, Rossi. That's a school that wins eight, nine games every year, right? occasionally finds themselves in a big 12 championship game. Yeah. But I mean, 8-9, waking up. That job is not nearly as appealing right now because they don't know where their money is coming from. The up-and-coming schools NIL-wise are just using Texas schools,

Texas Tech and SMU. Not what you would think of as thoroughbreds when it came to football legacy. All right, one more quick. It's also just more of like an addendum to the Penn State. I don't get it. Okay. I think their uniforms suck. Like this, they're this like prestige.

Yeah, I agree. It's plain. It looks like, it looks like they're filming a commercial for foot powder. I don't get it here. It looks like regular ass uniforms with no logo. Yeah. It's, I don't get it. Dark blue uniforms, white helmets, and when they're on the road, they wear white,

I mean, you go to Reratomy and get the football uniforms in there. It looks like the generic. We just put, slapped together a team of misfits. in a movie where we have a low-budget movie and we can't afford logos. There's no stripes. There's no logos. There's nothing distinctive about it. There's no golden dome on the helmets.

There's no, the Buckeyes, little thingies they have on the back. I don't get it. I don't get Penn State period. But don't say that around there because that's, I know. They draw 105,000 with their eyes closed. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually not terrible.

That was a really good. Ross, I think I'm going to have to just piggyback off of years. I just don't get. the mystique of Penn State. Yeah. Gill is with us. Gil, what don't you get, my friend? Okay.

I don't get the fact that you're all shown. I didn't hear him. Hello? Yeah, can you hear any? Go ahead. Yeah, we're having phone issues. Christ.

Of course you do. Yeah. Bye. No, hello? Say it again. You can talk. All right. I said I don't get the fact that the morning.

Oh, I don't get the fact of the morning. I think he's asking about Sean. I mean, yeah. Yeah, we're not trying to... Folks, we are not doing this. The I-Heart media. We got the order from I-HeartMedia. Cut the call.

No, we didn't. We didn't do that. That's not us. Our phones suck on a regular basis. Yeah. If you've been listening to show and only the time you know that we have the best calls in the world that can't get on.

So, Gil, it was on our decision. It was not even done at the local level, to be brutally honest with you. And we missed Sean. Yeah, it wasn't even a Houston call. It was above Houston. Look, if you look around corporate culture, around, you look, just Google corporate layoffs. And you don't get about billion hits.

It just leave it at that. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't know. It was that performance base. It was strictly financial. And that's as much as we can say.

And we miss Sean and hope he does very well. And he's always going to be a friend of ours, period into story. 1144. And if our, I don't get why our phones still don't work on the regular, even though we put in, I don't know, 550 tickets. So just a little transparency. We have to now figure out with IT and with the IP addresses with people's numbers according to the program we use and all that stuff. So they're trying to figure it out on the corporate. This isn't the only station that's happening to.

Really? Yeah. So this is not just Houston. But we're also the only ones that take live calls up. here all day, right? Yes, but I think it's in other city. This is the only city in Texas that happens, but this is happening all across the country. Is or isn't?

It is. It is. Okay. Yeah. I think it's our internet shorts out and our phones are based on the internet and it's going to happen. It's like when you're, people who work from home know this. You're on the internet. It goes out for a few minutes and then that's just how it is. I think that's what it is.

They're trying to blame carriers. They're trying to blame all this. It's just the fact that we have internet phones. to me, but whatever. We miss you, regular phones. What did you? What happened? A good old-fashioned phone line. We miss Sean, we miss phones. You know, Matt Thomas on a call with an ISDN line

that can hold his voice. Oh, ISDN, people are like, what is that? I know, I'm sorry, I'll show it. We all doing radio with the actual phones, like just pick it up. Hey! We used to, that was called a Pots line. We would like, you know, when we go to, like, tired brewing or wherever else?

Yeah, we would connect on a phone line. And sometimes you would have to do, you would have to dial it with like star 68 or something because if it had, if it had call waiting, and somebody called the phone line, it would knock us off the air. Well, I can go one better. When we used, when I was doing college basketball and football for the very first time in the mid-90, we had to use a telex system that required. We had to have three real-life live phone lines. Three lines? Three lines. Two to transmit and one to get the receive the audio back from the station.

Hmm. It's a different time. I mean, technology is good. I mean, look, I'm on the internet here. We're doing good here, but, you know, the phone lines are different stuff. Well, I didn't want to tell you. You blipped a couple times, but it's all right. It's fine.

Wait a minute. I'm on the hardwire. I can't blip on the hard wire. I guess you can't help? You can blip on the hardware, can't you? Well, you know, I'm just saying nothing's, I'm saying nothing's perfect. Nothing is perfect. You're the audience.

You the audience, you all are perfect. Y'all are great. We love you. And Gil, we were not trying to hide your phone. We didn't, trust me. No, we didn't hang up on Gil. Because I think Gil was thinking we were trying to hang up on. Yeah, you said you don't get it.

We explained it. Not our call. Corporate layoffs. All right. 713-213-212-790. 7-1-2-7-9 with the news at noon coming up. We also have Rotten 5 at 1250. Believe it or not today at 150.

Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not? Anybody die? not today actually no 1153 a short segment left here on this hour of the program we got two hours left to go which again will feature the news at noon rotten 5 and believe it or not all between now and 2 o'clock rockets will take on the Atlanta Hawks

in the fourth and final preseason game and a lot of rumors around here in Atlanta the tree young could be on the move and ironically enough the rockets are being considered one of those teams. I really, in my heart of hearts, Ross, believe they're going to give every opportunity because, again, they don't have much flexibility

with trades and dollar amounts at this point without giving up some commodities in return to go get a guy like that. I don't know if there's enough the Hawks would want from the rockets that Triung could all of a sudden be a Houston rocket before the end of the season. Yeah, I'm confused on what exactly

as far as draft assets that the rockets hold. You would need live players, too, I would assume. Yeah, of course. Because especially in the NBA, you got to match the money, which I think it's a great rule. Got to give to get. Yeah. And I don't know exactly where the Rockets contracts would line up and all that type of stuff.

That's above my head. Yeah. And I mean, we love Trey Young as far as offensively. He is great. Number one, an assist. Oof, man. Great shooter. more volume than I thought he would be.

Oh, really? 34% from 3 last year. Okay, what about career? That I don't have in front of me. Okay, let me look. But it's a guy. Yeah, I thought he was better than that. 37 the year before.

Look, he's like he yo-yo's up and down. He's had a year of 38 and 37, but career 352. Hmm, I would have thought he was better than that. Four-time All-Star. All-Star. I get rid of him. No, he sucks. He had 164 more assist than Nikolaeokage did.

I'm kidding, by the way. Yeah, last three seasons, 10 plus assists, assist champ, assist title, whatever you call it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, guys that have scored 24 or more points in a career in a season and dished out 11 or more assist, Trey Young, James Hardin, Tiny Archibald, and Oscar Robertson. That's the list?

That's the list. Wow. Of 24 and 11. Now, those are just kind of weird numbers, but it's still going to be. and put him in that category. Yeah, you know. A tiny ultra Archibald ends up on all these lists, by the way. He's bawling back in the day.

I think we would have, well, you know, the guy that I wish we could have seen play in person. There are probably two or three guys I would have seen him in person, and they're the obvious ones. I would have loved to see Bill Russell play because when you hear of the greatest defensive player in the history of the NBA, Bill Russell's name is the number one name that's brought up, okay? I would have loved to have seen Oscar Robert.

Robertson play. The guy walked into it. He is, he is the modern day Russell Westbrook, right, basically? Triple double guy? Yeah, I mean the triple doubles for sure, but definitely bigger than Russell Westbrook, and I don't know exactly what his game was. I seen, I saw like Hardwood classics, but it was like the end of his career when he was playing with, uh, with, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. That doesn't count. A little bit slower, yeah. Yeah, I, yeah, I wonder, was he a good, was Oscar considered a good shooter? I mean, he did score double digits, so obviously. he did something right. Yeah.

Let me pull up the... Oh, yeah, he was getting 30 a game. Bag of the day. Shooting around 50% from the field. Back in the day, they would love to have been on ABC like once a week.

Now there's like six channels watching NBA. It's Oscar Robinson and the Cincinnati Royals in town. Look at Oscar go. Against the veteran Bob Cousy. They call him the big O. Yeah. Oscar's still alive. That's good.

Yes. 86 years young. He whispered, I can still take you out of the dribble, Russ. With his Walker? Yeah. By the way, I was looking at Twitter, the 4U tab. You know, Pat Beverly's got his little podcast going. What'd you do now? I didn't do anything.

He was like, Russ is one of the top three point guards ever. And I was like, Pat. Pat Beverly, he also says, said the Las Vegas Aces could beat an NBA team. Well, he changed his mind. He said, well, he didn't change his mind, but he said they could beat the last five guys off of a Charlotte or Washington. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, and no.

The answer is no. First of all, size matters. They're going to just dominate you by about four to five inches at every position. Yeah, there's minimum. The ball is different size. The speed of the game is significantly different. And look, WMBA has its place. The WMBA is in its best spot ever.

But we have to stop doing that. We have to stop trying to compare women and men's sports. They should be appreciated for what they are. For instance, I'll give you a small example on my personal side. The men's game of volleyball is ferocious. It's bump, it's set, and it's hit the ball as hard as humanly possible to concuss the guy on the side of the floor. Yes. Okay. That's men's volleyball.

Women's volleyball doesn't have some of that, but it's still a sport. It's an art. It's got much more free-force. More craft. Yeah. It's a women's volleyball is significantly more entertaining than men's volleyball. And I mean, I might be biased, but I will guarantee, Ross, if you and I sat down. I like them both. I watch them during Olympics. I watch both. I like them both. See, I am so out of the men's volleyball because, again, it's just bump, set, crush. Oh yeah, those dudes are athletic and violent and jump

high, yeah, it's horrible. But the average volley is like, you know, rally is like five seconds. We get a volleyball. You get women going. You got girls diving all over the floor. You got all these great acrobatic moves. You got blocks that are put back and back into play. Yeah.

I'm going to say it right now. Women's volleyball 500 times better than men's volleyball. I have to disagree with that. I have to agree with Matt. I would disagree but I like both. It's fine. Yeah, see, I am so anti-man. You're going to agree with 500 times?

500 times. I'll give it 150 times. Only 150 times. I got 34.3 times. I'm a little biased with my girl play, but when you watch, do you want women's volleyball? Yeah, no, they're so good. Yeah, but you can understand the game better as well, too. That's right.

All right. Let's get to the news at noon next. It is approaching 12 noon here on Sports Talk 7. And we've got to two hours left to go. If you'd like to be a part of the program, it's ridiculously easy. Call 713-212. 719. 713. 212.790.

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Let's catch up what's happening in the world of sports from last night. And today we present to you the news at noon. Thank you, Matt. Sports RV. What are you got? What is? I mean, we're going to have a lot of. Toronto-based highlights here.

Oh, Nelly. Should we play O Canada? We need to. Speaking of which, a quick note with you in Atlanta, Matt, Outcast will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame coming up

very soon, and he will be inducted. They will be inducted, I'm sorry. Of course, Outcast, Matt, would that you say your second favorite rap duo outside of UGK? You know who my favorite rap group is of all times? Who's that?

The fat boy. Oh, I thought UGK with Bunby and Pimsy. No, he knows, he's got a special place in my heart, but he knows the fat boys, the OGs. Okay. Well, unpopular opinion, UCHK and Outcast are much better than the Fat Boys. Killer Mike, Sleepy Brown, and J.I.D., inducting Outcast into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Who else is going in besides them?

I don't even know. I just saw that on Twitter. are Atlanta, so it popped up in my mind. By the way, we're going to play two Atlanta song, two Georgia songs in the next two segments here. It's kind of get ourselves the mood for tonight's NBA tilt. Wonderful. Hold on.

I'm trying to find this year's class. Now you've got me curious. It will be, what the heck is this? You do the news, I'll find the three. Yeah, sorry. We don't want this to start a lot of grinding halt. Again?

Yeah, that's true. Major League Baseball action yesterday. The Blue Jays defeating the Mariners 13 to 4 as the Blue Jays come roaring back in the American League Championship Series. Every team winning on the road. Will that continue today? We can only hope so. Brewers taking on the Dodgers. They're at a minus 175 with Tyler Glass now pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

And then the nightcap will be the Blue Jays and Mariners. That'll be a 733. restart on FS1. Max Scherzer getting the start for the Blue Jays, taking on Luis Castillo. It's going to be a tight one. Seattle at a minus 120 on this one. Go Blue Jays. Let's go Blue Jays. Please.

Go Brew. By the way, I can't see that any of these, all the stories I'm seeing on the internet are all months old. They've yet to be announced. Oh, well, maybe Big Boy was just posting a, maybe this is fake. Big Boy, of course, in Outcast. with Andre 3000, Matt. Posted this on his Twitter and I guess it's fake. Because, yeah, I don't see this anywhere else either.

Okay. We usually do it, believe it or not, on all things about members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That's true. Are they already in? All right. I'm sorry. I'll shut up. Yeah, news.

Yeah, I'm sorry. They're being inducted this year. I was just very curious. This is making no sense. All right, let's move on to the news at noon. How about? Kicking Murray's extension with the Kings. No, we're going to skip that.

No, I'm skipping that one. I mean, that's NBA interesting, but it's not an NBA show. All right, Matt. How about this one? A lawsuit is seeking to allow the top high school wide receiver to profit from NIL in Ohio. Jemir Brownie is the country's top wide receiver in 2027. Centerpiece of a lawsuit filed in state court in Ohio seeking to allow him to benefit from his name, image, and likeness while in high school. Ohio.

We have it here in Texas, I believe. Yes. Ohio High School's Athletic Association prohibits athletes from profiting from their NIL. Filed Wednesday in the Court of Common Pleas in Franklin County. This Ohio wide receiver, it's going to shock you who he's committed to, Matt. Ohio State. That is correct. Apparently, according to the complaint, has an earning power of $100,000 per year.

At a high school level. Yes. He goes to Ohio State, national brand, top number one. team in the country, that probably jumps fivefold, no, more and more than that. Yeah, depending. 20-fold. What kind of sweetheart deal is going to get? Lawsuit filed

by his mother, Jasmine, and they are trying to get an NIL allowed in Ohio. Well, somebody's got to do it, right? Somebody has to be the first one. Yes. I think it's 30 states right now,

plus the District of Columbia, allowing name, image, and likeness deals. And Texas is actually, on this list I'm seeing is on a list of not a lot, but I thought you could in Texas, as you said. Well, I saw a story on Channel 2 saying, and again, local news can screw stuff up, unfortunately. But they did a whole series about how high school kids can properly get the NIL. So, look, it's all a waste.

I love my Houston Cougars, Ross, but they're, is a lot of money being spent on athletes in the University of Houston that that company that's asking to do stuff, they'll never get that money back. You know, you have to spend money to make money, but you have to spend money on the right marketing people. And getting athletes at 90% of the schools in this country just doesn't make a lot of sense. That's true. Archmanning makes sense, frankly, because Archmanning carries the name. It carries the University of Texas. He's about the one. I don't know who else. Maybe Carson Beck or a few others as far as the big stars. Yeah. I mean, It's just a way to give, I mean, I said many years ago money laundering.

It's not really money laundering anymore. It's legal money because they are getting it, but it's still a pathway for alums to take care of those high school kids. Yeah, and I do want to bring that because a lot of people are like, oh, well, Texas spends more NIO than this school or that school. Yeah, because that lumps in Arch Manning, who is one of the actual teams where, one of the names, I should say, where the advertisers are getting at least some name recognition from their product endorsement. Let me just give you an example. The young lady that plays softball at Texas Tech, she gets a million dollars. I don't know her name. Nazaree.

And I don't know what she endorses. Where if I watched Arch Manning, the first weekend of the college football season was on like five different commercials. Yeah. It's just a convenient way to use a company to help cipher money to them that the school can't give. school can I'll give money, but there's only a certain amount of money. Very limited. Not a lot of being spent on softball. No.

Speaking of money, the NBA valuations are in for this year. Oh, really? Can you name? We were actually talking about this early in a week. You know who the most expensive, not the most highly valued NBA team is? No. Not the Lakers? I thought you knew this.

Okay, by billions, the most valued NBA. A valuable NBA franchise is not the Los Angeles Lakers. I know this. Yes. The Knicks? No. Rossi, we just talked about this two days ago. The Golden State Warriors.

Warriors were going to be my next guess. $11.33 billion. More than the Lakers. That's, that doesn't surprise you a little bit? Oh, it surprised me a lot. I'm not saying I'm not disagreeing with you. Well, you're acting like I'm some kind of idiot. No, we talked about it other day.

Top five. Remember we were talking about how valuable they were? Okay. We talked about guys staying with one team. Yeah, Golden State was going to be my next. guess. Here are your top five. Celtics at five, Clippers at four, Knicks at three, the Lakers

Two, Golden State is number one. Other teams you may be interested in, the Rockets are 5,67, 8, 9, 10th. They're worth $5.5.3 billion. Really? That went down. Wasn't it $6 billion last year? No, they were up 16% from a year ago. Dallas Mavericks are right behind

the rockets at $5.24 billion. Everybody's up, by the way. You know why they're up is because the new television jokes. Straight cash, homie. Jeff Bezos' money spins. The worst five. Orlando is at 26. Really?

Detroit Pistons, 27. Oh, man. What a storied franchise that is, though. Charlotte Hornets, 28. That makes sense. New Orleans, Pelicans, 29. And the least valuable NBA franchise. The Memphis Grizzlies at number 30.

It's worth just a mere $4 billion. Wow. Well, this is what Here's the reality is this. You do have shared revenue That does allow Charlotte and New Orleans and Memphis In theory to compete as hard

The Warriors, the Lakers, the next. It is again why I do not bat an eye When players are making 50, 60 million dollars a year. How many billions Did Steph Curry make Joe Lough? Is it still Joe LaCobb? Or what's his name?

Yeah. The owner of, of the Warriors. How many billions has Steph Curry made the Golden State Warriors organization? That's why Steph Curry will be able to walk. If he's down to one leg, he'll be able to play for the Golden State Warriors.

He's like, you are not the most viable franchise in the NBA without me. Correct. Marie T Spates didn't do this. I did. Hey. Hey, man, don't be hating on most Spates. Most fantastic game.

That's the dude. 12-15 on Sports Talk, 790. 7-13-212-5-7-90, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 12-20 on Sports Talk 7-90. Matt and Ross, I'm here in Atlanta for Rockets and the Hawks. The game will be tonight on Sports Talks, 70, right here. We'll be a pre-game show at 6 o'clock. Tip-time will be a little bit past 6.30.

And then Rossi, next Tuesday, Oklahoma City, the site, for game number one of the NBA season. Wow. A little outcast for you there, Matt. The artist storytelling, one of your favorites, I think? Is that on my phone? Yes or no? No.

You've never heard of that song before just now. That might be accurate. Let's talk to our friend Mitchell calling us on a mobile line at 713-212-5-790. And my toggle's not working. There we go. Hello, Mitchell. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I sure do enjoy the show. I enjoy all the audience participation.

So I'm going to be real quick. I would, if I talk baseball, I'd talk to all for 10 minutes. But UGK. number one, Ghetto boys number two. And I mean, I guess you've got to go NWA, Snoop Dog, that whole, you know, that whole label, number three. Enjoy your day, guys. Thank you all for doing what you do. Thank you.

Rossi, where do you put Kumodi on your list? Kumol D is kind of a little older for me as far as, I mean, but you got to respect what he did back in the day. And also, I don't know if we were talking groups, duos, as far as rap duos to me. And it depends on where you put Eric B and Raq Kim, because Eric B was more the DJ, Rakim, more the MC.

Of course, Matt. Kind of like DJ, Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith and the Fresh Prince. So, I mean, are those true rap duos? I don't know. If you're going to groups, then of course you're getting into the Wu-Tangs, the roots, those types of guys.

So are we talking duos, trios, full-on groups? I'm not sure. Duos to me, it's UGK and Outcast, number one and two, whatever order you want to put them in.

Solid points by you. Thank you, Matt. Yeah, you definitely. Jonathan, you don't know this, Jonathan. Would you like to guess my favorite early OG rap song? Oh, gosh. Vanilla Ice Ice, Ice, Baby. No.

That's a great guess. Not a bad guess, but not accurate. No, actually, that's the only guess I really got. First, I don't know. Bald-headed ho. Are you serious? Yes. And look at you now.

I know. I am a ball-headed-ho. Wow. I listened to ball-headed ho when I was going to the slick wily to go crack pool sticks on the back of people. That was in my formative years. Billboard list has Best Rap Groups of All Time. Outcast 1.

Wooten Klan 2, Matt. Okay. It feels fair. NWA 3. Where's fat boys? I don't think I've heard of one fat boy song. I don't see. I think we actually have some.

We used to. All right. I'm going to tell you a little story about there was a... Here we go. Play this. They have one big hit. And let's see if you figure it out. Yep, this is it.

Listen to this, Jonathan. Enjoy it. Oh, Fuji's, oh, that's a lot of great groups. Beach Boys is with, what? Beastie boys? Why don't Beastie Boys? This is Beach Boys and Fat Boys. Yeah, it's kind of a...

Hold on. Okay. I can see Matt listen to this. This is Matt's jam. All day, I can see him. This picture Matt with a bag of donuts in his room plus 70 pounds a farmer's

tan shirt doesn't cover his gut oh have man boobs massive man boobs just groveing yeah crank this up quiet quiet for just a second so good so good

and you go back and look at them they actually weren't even that fat compared to 2025 that is accurate the fat boys were just kind of a little chunky they were chunky they were they were poorly so really fast we'll go back to the phones here So K-Y-N-D, which was a radio station, I want to say 15, 20 on the dial.

Used to have a Sunday night sports show. And I would listen to it every Sunday because I was a kid. I was just a radio nerd. I mean, I'm a nerd now, but I'm just a radio nerd back then. And they had a trivia contest, and I got the trivia, and they gave me tickets to an Astros game. And they gave me a bunch of albums. They said, you have to come to the studios at K-Y-N-D, and I don't remember where they were. But I got there.

I met Kevin, a nice guy named is Kevin Anderson, nice guy. his hand. He gave me the tickets, and I got a bunch of albums. And I remember the very first album was the Fat Boys Wipeout album. And that's when I became a fan. And I've been there ever since. Hmm. You've been supporting him ever since, Matt. It's beautiful. Do you remember the trivia question was? Uh, no, I do not. Dang. Something Astros related, though. It had to been. But you remember, this has got to be 1987, I want to say. And to be able to go and take my buddies to a game and not have to pay for the tickets. Oh, sorry. Because we used to always sit in the outfield for a dollar.

That was our jam. And flick jalapinos out of the warning. Wipeout hit number 12 and 1987. Yeah, I think I got the year right. I was pretty happy about that. All right, let's take a quick time out. Kyle, apparently, I won't talk some basketball. We'll get the rest of you in 2 at 713-212-5-79.

We have the rotten five coming up at about 20 minutes from now. Also, Ross and I brought up a topic today. There is an NFL running back that, is being maybe discussed as a potential trade. Is it in Nick Casario's best interest to go improve the running back position for this team, especially if we don't know the future of Joe Mixon, and especially if it's going to take something special for the Texans to get a legitimate ground game to try to jump over a bunch of teams to make the AFC playoff,

because it is a jumbled mess right now in the American Football Conference. 2.579, 713, 212-5-790. We've got to class up the show a little bit here. Dana, Mrs. Mann's voice. Y'all should too. Georgia. The home.

Just an old sweet song. Keep Georgia on my mind. Right. Ray Ray Charles. I wonder if, was he a guy? Now, you and I, this is all before our time. I wonder if you could put on your. regular R&B station if he was

on the radio a lot. Was he a much of a singles guy on the radio stations? Yes. Yeah, especially because he played to all, like, demographics back in that day. I mean, hit the road Jack and, you know, this song

was obviously, but I mean, he had a lot of hits. Yeah, a billion. I'm just curious if he was much of it, you know, because, I mean, you could put on, if you put on rock and roll in 1964, you'd heard Elvis all the time, and you heard a little Richard, you're the video. Yes. You would hear Ray Charles, too.

I mean, yeah, I've got a woman. You said hit the road jack. Ooh, so good. A lot of jazz. I mean, earlier jazz hits and then more R&B slash rock. Mess around was a hit. What else? I don't remember. Oh, what I'd say, that was his big breakout hit. Oh, great song.

We could do a whole day of Ray Charles songs. Yeah, George, I'm on my mind, number one in 1960. So, yeah, that hadn't played a lot for sure. One mint julep? Oh, yeah. that was with Quincy Jones. Hit the Road Jack was another number one hit. Unchained my heart.

Number nine. I can't stop loving you number one hit. You don't know me. Number two hit. That's some hit. Oh, busted. That's a great song. And the movie, Ray was fantastic, too.

I watched it so many times. Jamie Fox just killed it. All right. So, yeah, we're here in Atlanta for Rockets and the Hawks. We did not talk about this yet. We're going to get to that, Bruce Hall stuff in a minute here. But you see the cover of S.

I came out today. I did see it, but I don't know the last... It just made me think of how much prestige that publication has lost, quite frankly. In the drawing... A little, a little off. Yes, okay. I'm glad you said it. You know, you knew where I was going.

Yeah, no. Look, the rockets have no control over that. You know, they have people that they can do artwork, and I'm sure SI has done some... I'm just glad I don't think they went with AI. what do you think they did you think it was like five guys in the back and said hey the best one wins i don't know i imagine they commissioned somebody and then they drew it yeah so uh it's better than no recognition yes oh this looks horrible i'm sure whoever drew it is uh is a very good artist

when uh kevin durant was asked about he goes eh it's fine oh they did they did my boy wrong that's This is messed up. You know, people have asked me a lot. I said, what's Kevin Durant like? And I said, I really don't know. And I don't know if I ever will. Because I don't, I continue to want to tell you all this. What do you mean you don't know?

He's chill. He's hanging out. That's what he was with us. That's my point. He is so incredibly chill. Now, he can get spicy on them internet streets. Yes. His game is still on top.

I mean, he'll find you. You take a little shot at him. He'll find you and make you feel bad about your life. But just being around in the limited time on buses and planes, he is very much basketball, Ross, he is very much about his own individual craft. He is owning up to his responsibilities. He is not going to be a raw guy.

He is not going to be the leader of the team bowling events. but he's going to lead on the court. And if you're a young kid and you want some advice from a guy that's been around those NBA lifestyle the last 18, 19 years, Kevin Durant's going to be a guy you go to. And he's one of the 15 greatest players ever to play the sport. Perid and his story.

And he's wearing Houston Rockets gear. Yeah. It's beautiful. Yeah. And he wants to play into his 40s. But the one thing I've always appreciated, and I think you will hear this and see it more importantly.

If the Rockets are going to be as good if not better this year, I don't even know if Kevin Durana has to be the best player. Does that sound weird for me to say that? If it does, I'll try to explain. I guess if it can be close, he needs to be close, and that would mean... You're saying Shingoon's making a big leap or a man, Tom's going to say Shangoon and Thompson become the faces of the team.

Now, Kevin Durant's the face of the Rockets. Today he is. If you want to get into the NBA championship waters, Schengun and Amin have to take the next step. Yes. Shingun made an all-star game, an all-star team. Yes. And Amin was first team all defense.

A man has to become the most feared, or Washington and most feared one of the most feared two-way players in the NBA respect him as hell on defense appreciate his ball handling appreciate his tenacity on the defensive side

can he become a legitimate not 28 point score but does he wake up with 1920 if he can do that you add that to an improved opera in shangoon

if you believe he has improved and continues to progress like he's on each and every year then you add the layer of Kevin Durant then you add the layer of Doreen Finney Smith who's been a 3-D guy you add the extra depth that you've accumulated and you get just enough improvement from Reed Shepard at the point

whenever he plays whether it's a starter or whether it's coming off the bench then that 52 team win a team of a year ago maybe he wins 54 or 55 and can overcome a couple of teams to play and compete against Minnesota Denver and Oklahoma City for the Western Championship.

That's my storyline. If you were to say, how do you see the Rockets being better today than they were when they left the court after losing Game 7 against Golden State? Durant's a huge part of it. But I think if Durant is just Durant and nobody else takes the forward leap, I can't guarantee a Western Conference championship. Well, yeah. I mean, the Thunder are the championship.

champs. The Thunder are the king and the thunder are going to be far away favorites and the thunder should be. But yeah, if you're going to challenge him, yeah, I would agree with it. You need, you need them in and Alperin Schengoon to both make a leap. Even from where they are. They're already really good NBA players.

I'll give you a baseball analogy. The Seattle Mariners were really good this year, right? They went and got two players. They stuck in their lineup, Nailer and Suarez, and their lineup became potent. I don't know of just adding Durant with as Uber competitive as the Western

Cowrally hit 60 home runs out of nowhere. Not out of nowhere, but I'm talking about pre-trade and post-trade. They were good. We're probably going to make at least a wild card. But they knew they needed to get over the hump.

And those two players were the over the hump. I don't know if Kevin just coming here by himself is enough to go. Because it's not because the rockets, I think, can't be significantly better. I just think the West is, you're going to have a dog fight on your hand for the first playoff game you play.

Look at last year's playoffs. We talked about this Saturday. There were teams that were moving around spots three through eight up until the final games of the season, the last two games of the season. It's going to happen again. I don't just by the being indifferent. It's going to happen again. Yeah. I'm just sad. Fred's gone.

Fred, Fred was boisterous. Fred also handled the ball in his, he had the ball on his and 35 minutes a game. That's not Durant. Durant's going to score. He's going to give you length. He's going to give you a legitimate scoring option every time he touches the basketball.

But if there's a stretch where games aren't working well and teams to turn the ball over or defensive issues come into play, Fred will chew you out. I don't know if Katie's, if that's in his moxie. Unless it hasn't been seen a whole lot. Well, it'll be interesting. I'll just say, yeah, I'm curious to see how much of men can shoot, if a man can shoot, that's going to unlock

everything for him. And if Jabari's been the leading score this preseason, not the preseason man or anything. It's true. But if that's, if he's hitting 40% He told us he's going to go to 40. I'm going to tell you I'm skeptical of that. I understand. But if he gets there, look out.

Well, yeah, because, I mean, Kevin Durant, I think, shot like 43% from three. If you have him and a man shooting, and, yeah, this is going to be one of the most dangerous teams in basketball. I'm going to tell you, yeah, I'm going to tell you, they're going to be right there with Oklahoma City if, if they make these leaps. Also, barring health. Also, yeah, how many, how many games is Kevin Durant going to play?

And hopefully he's ready for the playoffs. We have to realize he's got a lot of tread on the tire and he's, um, he's 37 years old now. So I'm going to say I am ridiculously enthusiastic, but I also want to of deal in some realities. This is going to be a long I mean, we're just, we're not even in the regular season yet. Some team in this group of four or five legitimate title contenders

is going to have some sort of catastrophic injury. It just happens that way. Look at it happen in the east already. Boston, Indiana, aren't even, I know that Jason Tatum said he wants to come back and play for the Celtics this year. I don't know if that's going to happen, but those two teams are already thinking about

the next season. They've already cast aside this year. You know, What if Shegill just goes down? With Anthony Edwards slips, and, I mean, it's just, it's too hard to predict. Well, yeah, it could happen here. And by the way, it already has. It already has with Fred Van Vleet.

Yeah, and LeBron isn't even starting to mid-November. I mean, how much is he going to play this year? I know. He got the sciatica going. You can't have the sciatica going. It's not good. Yeah. All right, let's do this.

We have the ability to give you the five best teams in the NFL. That takes just zero talent. Who do we look forward to to find the utter garbage trash of the NFL? Sports RV with the Rotten 5. That's coming up in a matter of moments. 713-212-5-7-9. They've gone bad. Hey, they draw flies.

Ooh, it's Ross's rotten five. This don't smell quite right. So excited, Ross. In fact, I'm so excited about you doing the Rotten Five this week. I want you to take your time. Take as long as you want. Okay. Craig brought me lunch, so I would like to have a little snack.

Oh, my gosh. Say hi to Craig for me. He's already left. I'll see him tonight. I'll tell you. Okay. All right. Take your time for the 14-minute Rotten Five.

That's not going to happen. We're going to be really brief here, folks. Because I don't like when Matt eats on air. All right. Let's get to the Rodden 5. Let's go ahead and start it with a team that has been a stalwart on this list. They are back in the Rodden 5. They are horrible.

They are 1 in 5 on the year after losing it to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Trading away Joe Flacco in division starting rookie QB Dylan Gabriel. How about a whopping 4.3 yards per attempt? I mean, that's a middling rushing. number. You talk about a passing number for Dylan Gabriel? Yikes. Offense continues to be really bad for the Cleveland Browns. They were

going up against a tough Steelers defense, but Quintan Judkins couldn't get anything going on the ground either. He averaged three yards per attempt on the ground. They only mustered nine points. They are one in five. They have one of the worst offenses in football. They are home for the dolphins and they are favored

by two and a half, which is tell you how bad the dolphins are. They will be later on this list. Right now, the Browns is the fifth worst team. in the NFL. You are a factory of sadness. All right, sir, calm down. All right, let's keep it. Moving on the list to the New Orleans Saints, baby. Yeah, they're one in five. Yes, they are bad. They have some real bad losses this year. Last week's loss to the New England Patriots, not necessarily something to be embarrassed about.

The analytics still continue to be pretty good for Spencer Rattler. 8.7 yards per attempt for him last week, but still hasn't been good enough for the one and five New Orleans Saints. They take on the Bears on the road this weekend. Then they're home for the Buccaneers at the Rams. I mean, that sounds like three straight L's going to only get worse for the fourth worst team in the NFL, the New Orleans

Saints. Believe it, yeah. God suck the head up the crawfish there. All right. Let's keep it rolling. Yeah, the Miami Dolphins are horrible. I feel like any other year they would be further down this list, but there's just some really bad teams in the NFL right now. And the Miami Dolphins are one of them. They also been very

close in just about all their games. They got crushed by the Colts in week one, but one score game against the Patriots. Same thing for one score losses against the Panthers and Chargers. They are snake bit. They can't get it done. They are road dogs to the Cleveland Browns. There's already talk of a fire sale.

You've got the two-a-tongue of Aloha comments this week. And Mike McDaniel, how much longer can he continue to hold on? Dolphins, you suck. You're the third worst team in the NFL. Miami Dolphins number one. No, number three, actually, on the list. Appreciate you guy. All right, keep it on moving down.

on the list. The Tennessee Titans, quite frankly, we're going by record here. They do have a win, and the Jets don't. But that was one of the worst wins in NFL history by the Tennessee Titans. We have to be completely honest. They are averaging, brace yourself, folks, 3.9 yards per play in the NFL. Easily the worst in the league. Seattle Seahawks are best at 6.3.

I mean, you're at 3.9? That's embarrassing. Cam Ward, you are terrible. You're six and a half point home dogs to the New England Patriots who are having a good year. But I mean, come on. Couldn't even get anything going against the Raiders as well. Then you're at the Colts, home for the Chargers and Texans and Seahawks and Jaguars. I mean, the L's are going to keep piling up.

Titans, you're the second worst team in the NFL. I mean, if we're keeping a book right now, we ask. All right, the New York Jetrapolitan, speaking of messes, I mean, poor Aaron Glenn, it basically set up to fail. The defense actually hasn't been that terrible all season long, but they just cannot get it going on offense. How about nine sacks for Justin Fields this past weekend when they played in London for the New York Jets?

They have not been good, really, on either side of the ball overall. I mean, if you want to bench Justin Fields, which they've talked about, you're going to Tarad Taylor? There's some guy named Brady Cook on the practice squad? I don't even know who that is. Already talking about a fire sale. Brees Hall trade rumors. Things are completely falling apart for the New York

Jeterpolisans, but they're only one and a half point dogs to the Panthers, so they could get their first win this weekend, but right now, the worst team in the NFL, the New York Jets. They can't stop with noseble. How's that, Matt? How many bites you get in? You're all right? I'm down to one pancake and two

pieces of bacon, remain. You're eating pancakes? Yeah. It's like two o'clock over there. Yeah, I know. No, I'll eat pancakes any part of the day. I don't know why. I just love pancakes. I was craving pancakes and so I was able to have my great friend Craig Ackerman take care of me and

that's what they call you, pancake Thomas. Well, I used to get pancakes back in the day when I was on the offensive line. All right, in order. Waffles, pancakes, French toast. French toast one, Waffles, two, pancakes. Ooh. Yeah, I said it.

All right, I got one free. Oh, Jonathan's making faces. Jonathan, go ahead. Go ahead, Jonathan. It's just French toast. It really depends on where you're getting it from. That's true. You know what I mean?

Like, pancakes and wallace. up with a usually mama's french toast Hmm Hardest for me to make French toast Of course I have a waffle maker So that helps

You have a waffle maker Are you getting from your wedding Like a full size one? No No It's a mid one It's not great They're too

I like the waffle makers That are circular That you pour when you go To like the rare wheeled inn Hotel you know All right you guys are making me hungry All right Here's one for you

Bacon Sausage Link, sausage patty. Put them in one, two, three. Bacon one, sausage patty two, sausage link three. But I love one. But I love me some sausage links.

I'll go pancakes one. Oof. Waffle two, French toast three, but I love French toast. It's tough, Matt. Bacon one. Oh, I forgot, should we put ham in the mix? Oh, ham's fourth. Yeah, I'll say ham's going to be like the last.

Here's my, bacon one. Put a turkey bacon in there too. F bacon one, sausage, patty, two, ham three, sausage link four. Country ham. Country ham. Okay. I mean, I'll eat some country ham,

but sometimes you just get that part of it. It's like all weird, and you're like, what part of the pig this has come from? It's all chewy and fatty and grisly. Really quick, you get 30 seconds, Jonathan. One, two, three on your pancake waffle. French toast. Let's go.

He's screening. Oh, he's screening. Okay. All right. Well, we'll find out with John. Yeah. I don't get you back for the fourth hour. It's a little radio tease there.

Woo. Oh, real quick, before we go to break, is there any spot that you had pork belly tacos in Houston? I don't think I've ever had pork belly tacos in Houston. Now, the pork belly that I had yesterday was at this Asian place. It wasn't a tortilla that was, it was like a fluffy, white doughy kind of cover it, not covering, but

it was full-blur-thia. Yeah, I'll look it up because it was so good. Oh, you mean the, oh, I don't know what you're talking about. It's a bow? It was probably bow, yeah. It's very fluffy. It's like a steamed bun. Exactly.

That's exactly what it was. Oh, it was good, Ross. I was like, I was eating dinner last night, and I was like, you are. Wow, you're branding your horizons, man. Ross is so proud of me. I am proud. Pork belly bow for you. I'm proud of you. Oh, so good. So good.

Spicy anamame too. Oh, two different types of sushi we had. Ooh, Lordy. In Atlanta, Georgia. What I think of Atlanta? Yeah, you go to L.A. in Seattle. You know, or you don't go to Seattle, I guess. You go to L.A. You don't do any of the San Francisco. You don't do any of that. But you go to Atlanta, that's when you're... Atlanta, the ATL, baby.

Then you're going to the Rillies when you go to L.A. You know what they say? One in Georgia. 7-13-212. 5790, 713, 212, 570. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show, Ross, he's next. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Matt and Ross with you for the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. I'm here in Atlanta.

Ross is back in our Houston studios. I'll be back in studio tomorrow with you. A little blurry I had, Ross, but I'm going to hang out with you because as anything goes Friday. We've got to be together for that. So looking forward to see you tomorrow at 10 a.m. Speaking of travel, uh we've discussed this multiple times we'll go to the phones in a second that twitter can be a great place full of information

funny things funny videos it can also be the cesspool of life and uh when you follow people you tend to be careful who you follow because you want to make sure that your timeline is at least acceptable and if you don't like something somebody says you should the responsible thing for you to do is just scroll on or mute them not not the for you tab my friend there is someone who is catching a lot of heat. It feels like the last 12 months. And we brought his name up a couple of days ago,

and it bears repeating because this gentleman, who I like as a broadcaster, tweeted 25 minutes ago. It's Kirk Herbstree. What happened now? So he's obviously got something going on with a sponsor that he chronicles work, how he travels.

Hmm. He's still under fire for his travel exploits. So his tweet 25 minutes ago, slowing it down this week, but Peter and I are still traveling over 840 miles. From Nashville to Cincinnati to take on for the Steelers Bengals, then a red eye to Athens for college game day, and he's staying put to call Ole Miss versus Georgia that night. Back home in Nashville by Saturday night, catch an arrest the games from the back porch. Okay, that's my life. It is, it's a sponsor. You see the little sponsor?

I do. So he's catching strays from two different groups of people. Go ahead. Group number one is they're tired of seeing Peter the dog. Yesterday at the hotel, there was video of Kirk Herb Street throwing a tennis ball down the floor of the hotel in which he's staying in. This is not crazy that social media. I'm sorry. Ain't nobody got time for that. I'm trying to sleep in my hotel room.

And I hear a dog yelping and a bouncing tennis ball. I'm sorry. The bar stool guys are annihilating him saying I was on that floor and couldn't sleep all night because you and your damn dog were so loud. Okay. I imagine they're kidding, right? I was assuming that's a joke. But people are believing these barstool guys because sometimes when the barstool guys speak, they speak at the gospel. Yeah, you're just trying to sleep. You like shutter your hotel room and you're just here. It's not good.

Jonathan 106 Thursday. Please forget that for tomorrow. So he's getting strays from people about the dog. And he's getting strays about this torture travel that life he's in. I don't think he's talking. I don't think he's acting tortured. Right? Is he, I don't think he.

Britsy says. Go ahead. Oh, this guy's in Houston. He's a die-hard. It's a die-hard coogs. Oh, my God. Leave your dog at home for once, F. I don't care, man.

Who blanking cares you, blanking D? Running your effing mutts and playing catch in a hotel highway. Oh, my God. You are treating a narcissist mother F. F, U. Ohio State, and the horse you wrote it on. That is a little strong, folks. Chuck Rie Wrong says nobody gives a F.

And what else did I see? Oh, you travel for three cities and three to eight for a million dollars? Let me see exactly what it was here. Let's see. There's some safe travels at it. There's some hope you guys have a safe trip. See you in Athens. Go Rebs.

Oh, there is. I'm so sorry you get paid millions of travel for work. must be so taxing. So, oh my God, this is the best one. Somebody adds Grock. You okay?

No. What health complications does weekly travel like this do to a dog? Oh, God, no. Grock, frequent travel like this can stress dogs leading to anxiety,

dead digestive issues, fatigue, or dehydration. Air travel risks include ear pressure changes, respiratory strain, and exposure diseases like kennel cough or parasites in new areas. I think the dog is catching some heat. Yeah. Jonathan said he's sick of, he's sick of this dog being all the way around his TV. I think it's cool, but do we have to show it every time, like every single time?

You know what I mean? I don't know, guys. I don't know. It's jumped the shark. for me with him. The dog is cute. The dogs are cute. And when one of them died,

and he just went next man up. Ross, I'm such a big dog guy. I was like, oh, this. Yeah, I love dogs. I love dogs. I love air travel. I love private jet charter travel.

You, if I took a photo of every place I went with this team that I'm calling games for, you guys would crush me. That's true, actually. So that's why I don't do it. Because I'd crush myself. I don't want to hear about your four days and five nights.

Shut up. I am blessed and I know where my role is. Do the radio show with you. Call a good basketball game. Get back to the family. Get back to my friend. Boom. I just don't like this playing catch with the dog in the hotel hall either.

It's just go outside, dude. Oh, I just saw this. Oh, wow. Go outside. Do you think he, now let me ask you this. Should he have gone outside? Yes. Because I don't think he bought the whole floor.

That's what I'm saying. Unless you're in a literal typhoon. You need, no. No. Don't go in up and down this hotel hallway. What if people are allergic to pet dander? And that's all up and down their hallway. Nope.

I love dogs. Nope. I was going to say. I love dogs. I love dogs. We love dogs. We're saying it. Love dogs.

I live for dogs. This ain't right. This ain't nobody got time for this. Sorry, Kirk. Yeah, exactly. He said, I was trying to sleep at both. If that was happening in the hallway of hotel, I was trying to sleep at, both our names would be on ESPN the next morning.

What I would tell Kirk, if we were friends, give Peter a break. He's not what you want to do. But let's not get him on your social post. Let's not get him on ESPN. Let's give him a little rest. cute at first, but it's just it's, yeah.

This tweet, I love dogs. I love my dogs. I love my dogs. I am bleeping tired of Kirk Herbstreet, it is bleeping dog. Find something else to make your personality about. That's my sentiment, because I love dogs. I really love dogs. David on 7 on a, hello, David.

Gentlemen, this call might be better off for anything goes Friday, because I've got two. If you can stand it, three, items here and they're all fairly eclectic but pertaining to things that you've been discussing on the program today. But the first thing is I just realized that I'm actually going to get to see the Rockets game out here

tonight. It is on the FN. I did not know that. And so that's kind of fun and so with my five TVs I could make room for in between the college football and the Major League Baseball playoffs of a little local hockey interest here with the Golden Knights. I'll have room for the Rockets and I'm excited about it. And then my question about that that was actually, Matt, when you're doing the games, where do you sit in Atlanta?

Are you like courtside or have you up in one of those? No, we are, I'm only courtside in two places down the NBA. Most of the places we are in the top part of the lower level of the arenas. Okay. All right, so I will not look for you on TV tonight. You will not see me. There's zero chance. My second thing concerns Georgia's songs.

Just because I used to have a girlfriend named Georgia, and actually specifically her name was Georgia Baylor, which I used to just think was hysterical because I used to say she was named after a bowl game. But anyway, you don't know how many songs about Georgia there are until you date someone named Georgia. Everything comes up on the radio. So I'm just offering that.

You don't have to stop it too. You can go into the hundreds. I made a playlist, actually, which I played for myself on a drive across Georgia. And I came up between groups, they're from Georgia, songs that have Georgia in the title, whether it's the state or a girl or whatever, I came up, which is massive amounts of Georgia stuff. Thank you, David.

You know what? I think it's probably the, I think Georgia, New York, and California, when you say Ross are the three states that have the most music attached to them? That's probably accurate. Like, I don't think Idaho's on the list. Oh, Texas is a lot of songs about us. We've got a lot of songs about Texas. That's true. I'm going to give you a little country rap.

when we come back when it comes to Georgia. By the way, shout out to Aaron, listener. I'd love to see your photos everywhere you go. I live my life through those. Aaron, I love you. It's not happening. I will get annihilated. I just will.

I know me, and I know my friends, and I know my enemies. They would crush me. Not happening. Not happening. Here I am, and you're at your home having pork and beans. No chance. No chance.

Ross, I can send you some photos if you want, me too. I'm good. Okay. Willie Fritz is going to join us in about 15 minutes here on... Oh, lovely. Yeah, you can work on believe it or not during that time if you'd like. The category is?

Mm. Georgia songs? I mean, we've done Atlanta before, right? Sweet Georgia Brown? That's a jam. Ooh. But I'm going with a country rap. Although you said you didn't like sweet Georgia Brown. It's okay. I like it. I'm on an...

Are you going with Bubba Sparks? What do you got? What do you got going? No, this is going to be like... 1979. Oh, yeah, that's, you know what, I should have guessed. He was looking for a soul to steal. He was in a bind because he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal. When he came across this young man sawing on a fiddle and playing it hot and the devil jumped up on a hickory stump and said, boy, let me tell you what. I guess you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too. And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you. Now, you play pretty good fiddle, boy, but give the devil as

due. I bet a fiddle a gold against your soul because I think I'm better to you. The boy said my name's Johnny and it might be a sin. But I'll take your big. You're going to regret because I'm the best. You like Charlie Daniels, Rossi? Yes. What's your favorite, second favorite Charlie Daniels song? The reprise of this?

Oh. I mean, yeah, it's classic. That's some good fiddling. Country rap, yes or no? No, it's... How would you describe the song? Just good old-fashioned country music? grass maybe?

Country Rock? I don't know. I don't know. What the genre was. That's pretty funny. You called it rap. I don't know. I didn't go where I thought I was going to go.

I mean, it works. I mean, he's talking. It's lyrical. You know, our job is to get us to appreciate all of our different music. I appreciate Kendrick Lamar more than I ever had before. That's not true. And I got, I'm trying to. and get Jonathan to get the music of the yesterday year.

The classic the OG hits. It's all working well for us. There's a bunch of fire. You've always got something going on on the road. It's funny. No fire alarms yet here at the hotel, which is kind of a nice thing. That's good.

All right. Texans are back on the practice field. Monday night tilt in Seattle. It is confirmed. It's going to be on Channel 11 for those of you in Houston. I mean, presumably most of us live in Houston. So if you want to watch the game, If you're going to be out of town like I will be, it'll be on ESPN, the main network.

So it'll be on ESPN and Channel 11 and ESPN Plus? I think everything's on ESPN Plus anyway. So if you're like, if you're literally like driving around and you can't get to your, you know, if your phone, if you're ESPN Plus. Yeah, I think it's on all that stuff. Pretty soon, like I get the Cougars basketball schedule came out today, yesterday, Ross. The Cougars are on like seven different channels. Okay. That's cool.

Peacock, ABC, ESPN, Fox, everybody's got involved in their own package of the games because there's just so much out there. And, you know, these big networks, whether they're cable-based or wired base or over-the-air, they're paying these obnoxious amounts of money. And these conferences are like, yeah, we'll put our games on digital. We don't care. You write the check. Peacock, you're home for Big 12 basketball. I don't know how great a games they are, but they're certainly getting their. share. All right, so back on the Texans.

So there have been some talk of Brees Hall leaving the Jets. And my philosophy has been, whether it's Brees Hall or anybody else that you may hear on the streets of being potentially a trade being traded running back wise. I don't know. If the

Ravens don't get out of this funk, do they try to trade Derek Henry? Does he have enough left in the tank to help somebody out? I would say probably so. I guess so. Jard per carry numbers have gone down significantly with Lamar Jackson out. Funny how that works. Isn't that weird how that works? Yeah. So how much, how important is it for you to see the Texans and it's namely general manager Nick Casera and for that matter, DiMico.

I mean, DiMico's kind of a saying this as well. I mean, D'Amico goes to Nick and says, hey, Woody Marks is a nice young kid, fourth round pick, got a bright future ahead of him, and Nick Chubb was a nice little acquisition, didn't break the bank, but we need some, we need some more oomph. Are we going to be disappointed if a running back the caliber of Brice Hall winds up being in Kansas City or in L.A. Chargers, two teams directly that will be fighting with the Texans for a playoff position. I mean, yeah, he's good, but I don't think of Brice Hall is like he's like a franchise changer.

But of course, that's why he's available. Well, it's part of this available. And it's also, remember, too, he is a free agent at the end of this year. So it's literally a rental. You're not committed. I mean, it kind of feels like to me a perfect Nickas stereotype acquisition, does it not? I have a good feeling. I don't know it's Thursday.

That's okay. He's going to get traded somewhere, or we're going to say, why didn't the Texans make that trade? I think it happens all the time. It's going to be like a fourth for a fifth swap or something like that. Exactly. You're going to hear, widen the Texans with all this draft stock,

why didn't they do something like that when they knew they had an area of need? No, I don't think people are going to have a tough time sleeping over this. Because, again, if Nick Chubb can, let's say Nick Chub, could he rush for 70 yards a game? Would that be enough? I would say yes, right? Yeah, if you get them combined, I mean, yeah, it doesn't have to be one or the other.

It's what are you getting out of the backfield? What are you getting out of the running back position? Right. And if you combine Woody Marks and Woody and Chubb, geez, if you combine their powers, their powers, they can be good enough. I'm feeling increasingly worse about the Seahawks Monday Night matchup. Is that just me?

Well, here's, there's two. problems. One, we don't know much about them. What do you mean? Well, they're not a household team. I mean, it's Sam Darnold, Jackson Smith, and Jigma, and what else you want to go with? Kenneth Walker? It's not Marshawn Lynch. Zach Chaubunay, AJ Barner, I don't know. I think, okay,

I think your point is my point is well taken. Cooper Cup just caught his first touchdown pass last week. Now, they did win at Jacksonville. That's impressive. Texans couldn't do that. Correct. And I also think they're better than you

They're three and a half point favorites. Yeah, I don't. It's not a huge rivalry game. It's not a game that's people at the bars are like, man, I cannot wait for Texan Seahawks. I'd be excited about the game, but they're not going to be like sitting there right now going, man, we've got to break down the front seven of Seattle.

I just, yeah, a lot of accounts that I follow there are like analytics forward, Matt, and it ends up on my 4U tab. A lot of it has like Seahawks, and Sam Donald is one of the best in football and the Seahawks is one of the best in football. I'm worried. I'm worried. That's all I'm saying.

Do you think Seahawk fan as obnoxious as Mariner fan? Yeah, they're the same, right? At least they won't know. Yeah, the Seahawks have a much more prolific postseason life than the Mariners do. And as we talk to Willie Fritz in a matter of moments, we say let's go Blue Jays. Let's tie that series up. 713-212-5790. if you want to join our show today.

713, 212, 579. We've got, believe it or not, coming up in just a few minutes. And the category today, I believe, is... Go ahead. Okay. What is it? I don't know. Georgia songs?

Good. Wouldn't be the worst thing. 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-2-790. With a word right now, where tonight the Rock Take on the Hawks. Let's spend a few minutes right now with the head football coach of your Cougars, my Cougars, America's Cougars. Very impressive win against Oklahoma State back home for a Saturday tilt with Arizona, 11 o'clock start time at TDCU Stadium. Willie Fritz is with us on the show. Willie, first of all, congratulations.

7-0 Oklahoma State started off. A lot of trick plays early on. Once things got settled down, you guys took over. Were you surprised at the amount of trickery that Oklahoma State try to throw at you guys, especially in that first half. Well, they've been doing it, you know, the last couple of ball games. They've got an interim head coach and really, you know, all their play callers. You know, why not? You know, I told our kids, you know, they're going to throw the kitchen sink ahead us, and we've got to do a great job of having good eyes on every single play.

You know, for the most part we did, but early in the ball game, they ran a little double pass and sent a backup of a shoot. and unfortunately we rallied for the first throw, and they had two throws involved in the play. But after that, we settled down and played pretty darn good. I don't think we gave up another trick play after that. You settled down. Your offense was great.

You got a lot of different receivers involved. That had to be pleasing, especially for guys that are running those routes and practicing hard during the week to finally see their name being called in a play and to reach the end zone and have the big numbers they had. It had to be very pleasing to that group. Yeah, I really did. We threw for over 300 and rushed for almost 200 yards, Harvey Broussard, who's done a great job in practice, kind of like you were saying. And as this hasn't had a chance to get much action in the game,

he had some really big-time catches for us and also forced, you know, big 15-yard penalty. Sometimes that doesn't show up on the stat sheet, but, you know, you're throwing the ball deep and, you know, you beat the defender. He has to go ahead and interfere with you. That's still a huge play for you. But we were glad to see Harvey get going. Was there a part of you that had to have gotten the guys on the bus and the pregame hype and at the stadium to say,

look, we had a disappointing loss against Texas Tech. Oklahoma State's going through transition. Let's get out to a fast start because you don't want a team like that who's all fighting for positions in their future to make this a ballgame. And really after that first touchdown they scored, it really wasn't much of a ball game. Yeah, you know, we kind of took care of all that on the Monday, you know, after the previous game. And I always talk about, you know, every week is its own season.

And, you know, flesh in the previous game, whether you won or lost, go down the toilet and doing everything you can to play better and keep it proven every single week. And that's what elite people do. Elite teams do. They're able to focus and concentrate day after day after day after day. and he's stacking up good days on top of each other. You're going to improve and be the very best you can possibly be. So the guys, I thought we had a good week of practice.

And, you know, in this big 12, you've got to do that every single week. Everybody's pretty darn good. And, you know, we just want to keep striving to play that perfect game. Willie, you were talking about getting some different guys involved. When you were coaching and managing a roster, you were thinking about some red shirts and whatnot and getting guys in and maybe burning them. I don't know if that's even a possibility much anymore because of the portal and guys moving left and right, but do you, especially for the kids you have recruited that you said

maybe they're not ready to go just yet, but we can sneak them in. Are you spending as much time you and your staff about who's playing red shirts or is that just the kind of thing of the past now? No, we do talk about that. But I tell all our guys all hands on deck at the beginning of the year. I said anybody who's, you know, wanted to play just four games and then decide to redshirt, you know, just go ahead and head out of the door. We're wanting everybody in, all in for the coogs. You know, but when you start getting to this point of the year and the

guys only played a little bit, that does come into your thought, your thought process. So there's a few guys that will end up being redshirted, but, you know, I don't have a crystal ball. I don't know, you know, what's where we're going to be at in two, three, four weeks. You know, so we just and everybody all in on the 25 coogs. Willie, you got an Arizona team coming in, a double overtime loss to BYU. As you looked at that game tape, they played a late-night game,

a thought or two about what they did well, and do you anticipate another game like that where they could come down to a final possession late in the contest? Yeah, but, you know, possibly could. You know, they had a long game. They had a rain delay. I think the game actually lasted, you know, over five hours. from the beginning to the very end.

They were up, and BYU did a great job of getting a field goal, I think it was five minutes to go and then score with just a few seconds left to send it into overtime. But this is a very talented Arizona team. The quarterback probably going to end up being their all-time leading passer in school history, and they've had a lot of great quarterbacks out there at Arizona and good receiving core. They've run the ball very successfully.

defensively, they really throw a lot at you. They're, you know, three-man front, four-man-front. They'll bring guys from the second level. They'll blitz. They'll drop, you know, defensive linemen at times. So, you know, it's a team we've really had to study early in the week, you know, just with our scout team to make sure those guys line up properly and give our guys a good look.

And the kids now acclimated this early start time. We had the 11 o'clock kickoff last week. steel water. No plane trip this time around, but still a fairly early wake-up call for the boys. Yeah, you know, we practice every morning, so we start our meetings at 7 a.m. So tell our guys we can't sleep

in a little bit. So I think they're excited about it. Willie, thank you for the time. By the way, a sixth win gets his Cougar football program back to the Bowls, and that's something we need to be on a regular basis. I don't know if that's a huge thing for your kids that are in that

locker room now, but for an alumni base that has seen some leaner times. It's a pretty big accomplishment you could be getting here on this game against the Wildcats. Well, our big goal, obviously, is to win this week. We just want to do that every single week. Do the very best we can't keep improving, and good things will happen for Houston.

And we'll leave it with that. Coach, thank you for the time. As always, really appreciate it, and best luck on that midday Saturday. Thanks for having me on. Go Coogs. Thank you. Willie Fritz with us here on Sports Talk. 790. Cougars and Arizona, 11 a.m. start time. You want to listen to the game on the radio. We'll begin at 10 o'clock over on 950 KPRC. And of course, if you want to go to the game, UHcougars.com slash tickets or call 713 go coogs. All right, a couple things to get to tonight.

We have the Rockets and the Atlanta Hawks. We'll have it for you here on 790 beginning at 6 o'clock. Tiptown will be a little bit past 630. Rockets will be off until next Tuesday. open up the regular season. It'll be the very first game of the NBA season against the Oklahoma City. They'll have their big ring ceremony and all that kind of stuff. And hopefully it'll be an opportunity for the rockets to kind of show off in front of the national folks what this team is all about. If you've not gotten your sports illustrated yet, there is a cover that you probably want to get. It is a picture portrait of Kevin Durant, wearing rocket gear. And it's kind of a big deal to be the NBA kickoff first S-I-S-I.

cover and that's exactly where Kevin Durant is so that's going to be cool to see that. There's also a lot of Netflix documentaries out about the NBA starting five and a lot of stuff about Kevin Durant and James Hardin and LeBron James. I'm going to have to be looking. Is that in that starting five show

that all this audio video material is coming from? Yeah man you got to watch it now. I'm very interested because the clips that are coming across on Twitter are amazing. The amount of blank talking among the superstar athletes of this generation is crazy right now.

Great. Katie? Not afraid of mince words. He's not going to solve playing anything. So if you have Netflix, I guess it's called starting five, and I think I'm going to have to start watching it for sure. Texans are on the practice field,

getting ready for the game Monday night in Seattle. We've got game number four of the American League Championship series. That is tonight as the Toronto Blue Jays find themselves down two games to one. That's the night game. The game that starts before that, is in Los Angeles, it's game three between the Brewers and the Dodgers,

and that thing is going to, the first pitch of that is at 5 o'clock Houston time. Brewers, Dodgers, with L.A. up two games to none in that series. Blue Jays, Mariners, again, it's 2-1 in favor of Seattle. All right, we're going to play, believe it or not next, and I've given Ross plenty of time to come up with the definitive, unbelievable topic is, yeah, we'll see. All right. we'll see is the topic of conversation today on believe it or not and that is coming up in a matter of moments

713212 5790 713 212 5790 before we go to break oh I see the latest wind totals for the rockets this year this is according to a website we're not giving them run to still the rock is at 52 and a half on the wind total That was as of today. Number one of the win total would be, I'm going to assume Oklahoma City at 62.5. Rockets last year before the start of the season, their win total was 43.5. So there are a plus nine difference. I'm about that. Pretty dramatic increase of what Kevin Durand hopefully can do for the rockets this year.

713-212-5-790 to play, believe it or not. We are playing, are we playing for Cougar tickets? Is that correct, Jonathan? All right, Cougar versus Arizona tickets. If you want to play for those, stick around for that here on Sports Talk 790. Ross, can we really quick give a man his flowers to the casino? Go ahead. There is the governor of Illinois.

He's a billionaire, by the way. His name is J.B. Pritzker. J.B. Pritzker. Okay. J.B. Pritzker. He is a potential 2028 presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. Okay. Uh, he filed his tax returns most recently, as billionaires do.

They tend to take their time. No, he filed an extension. That's a matter of respect. According to his tax filing, he played black check quite a bit in Las Vegas last year. Oh, let's go. Proceeds, $1.4 million. Legal kickbacks. Uh-huh.

Sorry. Uh, where was he playing? Pritzker reported the earnings in his latest tax filing. after he played the card game while on a vacation with his wife and some friends. Where, what casino was it? I'm about to find out. And is the operator of this casino received any tax breaks? The governor will be great.

Just politicians equal corruption to me. I don't mean to be so cynical. The governor will say he would donating the money to charity. That's nice. Okay. Never mind then. The governor apparently also likes to play poker and found that a charity poker tournament. Oh, let's go.

he and his wife reported the net income last year of $10.6 million. That's pretty good. The revelations of gambling winnings come as Pritzker has increasingly moved on to the national scene as a White House critic. Britsker is locked in a pitched political fight with President Trump as immigration agents have aggressively carried out operations making hundreds of arrests in Chicago. Pritzker is arrested to speak, expected to speak more on the casino income at a news conference later today. It doesn't say where he played. Okay. 1.4 million, dude.

That's good. It's not a bad weekend. Doesn't say if he counts cards, Ross. Doesn't say, you know what he says? He says, don't sit next to blue hairs that hit 14s against fours. No, actually, if he's a smart player, he knows that it's just as likely to help his hurt. Don't even do that. Five minutes left to go on the show.

What should we do? We should play. America's fastest growing sports radio game show we simply call it B. Believe it or not, and here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90. Today's edition of Believe or not, is all things about the city of Atlanta. Our read your statement about Atlanta, the statement is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this.

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Anything Ross says. The Hartsfield-Jackson-Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta is the most busy. It's the busiest United States of America, the busiest. Believe it or not. Not. It is the busiest. Believe it. Oh, sorry, Jerry.

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