The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Find Early Season Success, More Texans Practicing Than Normal, Worst In The NFL

Episode Date: November 21, 2024

Matt Thomas of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" and Chris Gordy react to the Houston Rockets defeating the Indiana Pacers 130-113 to move to an 11-5 record on the season and fourth in the Western Conference. Can the Rockets sustain this success to eventually make the playoffs? Matt and Chris also:preview the Texans hosting the Titans on Sunday with Jonathan Huttondiscuss the Cougars wearing their "Houston Blue" uniform against the Baylor Bearsreview the NFL's worst teams in "Connor's Rotten Five"Say "I Just Don't Get It" and more.

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10-02 and H-Town. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a Thursday edition to the Matt Thomas show with Ross Gordy's with me today. Here until 2 o'clock on Sports Talk 790.

He'll be a year I step his way from 5, missed it. Rebound picked up by Jill and he wants to push. Tries to get by Turner. He'll go to the window and scores. And the Rockets have a 10-2 run of their own, forcing a timeout to Indiana. Shane June's got both feet.

inside the three-point arc. Going against Moses Brown here, of all people, turning, spinning, and scoring as Alperin Shengoon. 50 to 45 as Alpine now has eight points. Out baseline, right, Walker, an airball three. You didn't do that at U of H, I can promise you that. Who comes family to cross the timeline. Straight on three on the way and good.

Freddie B. 15. Timeout to Indiana. Largest lead of the game. 138 o'clock. moves 126105 Houston baseline left here goes with that one is a right-handed flush that will not be denied

Cam to the rim he's got four 128 105 Houston rockets are going to pick up their seventh home win of the season and tonight with a beautiful summit logo it made course how sweet it is as the Rockets beat the Pacers

130 to 113 Hello to Gene Peterson. May he rest on a good night where the Rockets were celebrating the 1993-94 championship with that awesome logo. Really good, updated H-Town and CityConnect uniforms. Surprised that Adam is not at the Rockets Shop right now buying six more jerseys and five more jackets.

Got it. The amount of money, Gordy, we pay Adam Clinton, must be incredible because he's buying, so much gear. He doesn't spend money, though. He gets discounts. He asks for freebies and handouts from everybody. Oh, he's a freebie guy. Oh, yeah.

He did that the minute they got on Space City Home Network. He starts email on the teams. Well, you know, I could put on some more gear if maybe you hooked me up. Let me tell you something, you little miserly me? Spread the wealth. Now, granted, I have plenty of free gear myself, but I don't openly ask for it.

Yeah. I give thank you's when I get it. When somebody like U of H calls and goes, hey, we want to send you a free t-shirt, I go, you know what, send one for the whole team. We'd like stuff for the whole station. That's right. That's right.

Adam Clinton says, me, me, me. That's it. I don't care. I'm the most important person on the station. I have the most influencers on social media. I'm way more popular. Everybody else is. Oh, who?

Oh, you're being Clinton. Yeah. Who does have the most followers? Salisbury? No, it's Adam. But he's on it all the time. Yeah. He's got way more.

44,000 people follow him? Yeah, but like 15,000 are like porn bots. They're not following for his sports tanks. As soon as I get a bot, I block it immediately. Because I try to keep my number as authentic as possible. Oh, he does the videos. That's why he gets all the followers. Yeah.

He didn't know any rocket videos, ironically enough. That'd be a lot of videos. I can't wait for that Texan's first round playoff loss video. He won't be doing that, I don't think. Because you know why they may win that first round playoff game. They're going to, they're going to, it better not be Baltimore, so I'm saying. All right. Good morning, everybody.

It is 10.06. And this is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross. Gordy's going to hang out with us today. Brian McTagerton tomorrow, not that we're looking forward to that, but the one thing, Gordy, that Brian said is, look, I'll come in. You got to pay me a handsomely, which is fine. But then secondly, we have to do all the bits. So we're going to do every bit on the show on Friday for at least a segment.

He wants to do shut your bum ass out. Oh, nice. He wants to do gut feeling. he wants to do anybody got time for that i mean he he wants it all so tomorrow if you mix miss any of this stuff and by the way i'm still getting a lot of people tweeting hey what happened to your show at two 15 well we're on at 10 o'clock so spread the word we are on 10 to 2 every single day we've been that way for a couple weeks now uh and we will be here in the middays at least so i'm 66 i mean other than that i can't promise after that once that one's that medicare kicks in the social security

I'm excited to hear McTagher because we had Chandler Rome sat in for Westgo and he was really good Yeah He they talked a lot of Astros But he showed He spread his wings

And he talked Texans and he talked Other things in this town Now McTaggart's been here Forever He's a big U of H fan I think Tags can talk Just about anything Houston

So we're gonna have to do a Maybe an instapole Who did it better Chandler or Brian McTaggart Continue that robber They're both great No we'll look forward to him By the way Roto

normally with us today his mother is under the weather and he is tending to her so he will join us tomorrow on the radio show in the 1 o'clock hours. So if you're looking for a fantasy football fix, of course, Cordy, this is my last year in fantasy football.

I don't know that or not. I'm done gonzo Finito. I'm picking up running backs during these off weeks that I've never heard of before and when I grabbed them, they get me 1.8. It's been a tough year.

It sucks. I'm done with fantasy football. I'm just absolutely, and there's nothing that Ross can do. He can guilt me. He can make me feel bad. He can say you get some help. I'm not doing it ever again. This is it. And it's been a wonderful run. It's been 25 years of my life doing fantasy football. But all the good things must come to an end. I went in the other night. I was down like, whatever was, like 15 or 20. And I see J. Stroud. I'm like, oh, I got this in the bag. They do the projection. You're projected to win. 90%. And Stroud doesn't throw a touchdown. throws a pick. That loses me too. And didn't win. Yeah. By those projections, you can suck at projections. Yeah. Oh, yeah, they'll be like 90% chance. Like, there's no way. I'm about to lose. There's no way 90%.

And then they, and then all of a sudden they're very inconvenient. Oh, it's 88%, 86%. You know, I hate expected win percentage. Like I hate it. I hate, you know how I feel about some of the metrics. Some of them I agree with and appreciate. XBA sucks. Expected catch percentage. You know, when Todd Cowles goes, oh, I got changed from a five to a four. What? Great catch is a great catch. I don't even know damn scale telling me what kind of catch it was. Jake Myers goes the wall and grabs one. I do like ESPN baseball. They do the win probability. And like when a team takes the lead late and then another team hits a walk off home run, it like shoots up, shoots down, shoots up. Where to go, geniuses over there. All right.

Does it get stuff off my chest there. All right. Hey, our Rockets won again last night. Yeah. How about that? I am... They had lost how many in a row to Indiana? Nine. That's crazy. When did that happen? Over four and a half years?

I didn't even remember. Like, you could have asked me how many a row of the lost in the... I had one had no idea. Didn't know that was a thing. Didn't know that was the monkey on our backs. We couldn't get off. Indiana. Well, how about this?

The Rockets lost, what, 101 to 100 to Milwaukee a couple nights ago. We had never won, we, because I, of course, in the backup point card, we had never won in Milwaukee at the FISA form. The last time we won in Milwaukee, the team was playing at the Bradley Center. Wow. Should have won that game. That's when arenas were named after people and cool stuff. Now they change.

Now they're all cars and airlines. And currency. I will say this. 5-0-4, whatever 5-0-0. I know what it is. Probably won't spend a dime with them. Beautiful arena. If I could take you to the top two arenas for me.

Now, I'm going to L.A. in a few weeks to see the new crypto, not the Intuit Dome. I heard it spectacular. That's the Clippers. That's the Clippers new place. Inglewood next to where the Chargers and Rams play. But if you gave me where the Pacers play their games, because it's got a real basketball-y feel to it, and give me FISA Form in Milwaukee, I'm good to go.

Most overrated arena in sports, and it's been that way for years and years and years. I don't care if you've refurbished it. Can I guess? I'm selling this really hard. You get one guess and one guess only. The garden? The garden.

Wow. I used to, when I was in young and sports broadcasts, I'd say, you know, I always called the world's most famous arena. I always call it the world's most overrated arena. First of all, the people are extraordinarily rude, like the support staff. Really? Second of all, it's a, it's, they put lipstick on a pig as what they did. Yeah.

And granted, it's an iconic location. It's had every major sporting event from championship fights to conventions to concerts. It's hell, Billy Joel played there for a month like 125 times in row or something like that. I mean, it's pretty incredible. Plus the Knicks and the Rangers. I mean, so much a lot of stuff. But to me, give me the other arena in Brooklyn.

Much nicer. Because it's new. Yeah, but there's old arenas that hold up well. There's old baseball stadiums. Wrigley Field, to me, holds up well. Dodge Stadium holds up well. Dodge Stadium's kind of a dump. Yeah, but the biggest problem with Dodger Stadium is,

fear for your life. That's number one. And number two, it's hard to get in and out, especially getting out. Fenway, when we were there for the playoffs a few years ago, and we had to sit in the outfield seats? You realize these seats were built whatever in the 20s when people weighed 100 pounds. Yeah, if you're fat, do not go to Fenway Park. If you have cholesterol issues, don't go to Fenway Park. If there's a two in front of your, the very first number in your weight total, you're probably not going to have a great time. Human bodies have changed since they built that park. Yeah, that's right. All right, we've got a busy show for you nonetheless. 713-212, 570 is how you reach the program.

Then if you want to get in, that's 713212-5-790. We have, I just don't get it at 1130, and I got a brand new one for you today. Have you ever been part of I Just Don't Get it? I think so. You come on the show and you open your soul to the audience, and you tell the audience there's something in life you just don't get. And I have something brand new for you for today, and I just don't get.

Also, we have the news at noon coming up today. we have the debut of Connor D. McGovern's rotten five. Normally it's Ross's rotten five, but that bum is 8,000 miles away taking pictures of some dinners he's eating. Shooting sake. Yeah, I don't need to know what you're eating. Except yesterday I did get me a McRib on the way home. Ooh, baby.

I saw that. Delicious. Food at the Toyota Center last night, the media dining was not particularly appetizing. Just tell me you didn't immediately get home and lay down. Got to sit up a little while after you ate a McRip. Oh, you're saying the indigestion of what if you did? You can't just go right to sleep after that.

That kind of feels fair. I got you on that. And then we've got to believe it or not today. And what else I got going on today? I think that's it. But we've got the news at noon, of course. And we have what I turn out to be, look at this injury report. Look at how small it is.

The Texas are going to be ridiculously healthy for taking on the CFL's Tennessee Titans. They really, really, really suck. The Titans really, really, really suck. And the Texans are going to beat them by what I say that today. Connor, at least did I say 15 points? I felt like I was going to say higher than that. I'm expecting a full Detroit v. Jacksonville blowout game this Sunday.

So if you're going to the game on Sunday, you will see Davis Mills quarterback. Hopefully just in the fourth quarter with eight minutes left to go because the team is up by like four touchdowns. 713-213-190.790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Gordy's hang with me at 8 o'clock. And we appreciate you listening to. Sports Talk 7-90. Lunch timers.

This is the Matt Thomas show. All right, so while Ross is gone, Gordon has kept me in check on things. So I am card before horse guy a lot of times in sports. And so my rockets, your rockets, America's rockets, picked up their, what, 11th win yesterday? 11 and 6, I think the number is?

11 at 5. 11 and 5. Okay, so on-paced guy tells me that's going to be about, let's say it's 16 into 82. That's four times. I mean, we're looking at about what? 50 wins? I mean, you are, I mean, we're a month into the season now, right? Right.

You are one game back of the one seed in the West. Yes. Now, let's be fair and honest here and balance as most television and sports networks are. The Rockets right now are the four seed. They're one out of the top seed, but they're also two and a half out of the playoffs completely. So we got to, it's a tight jumbled mess. I just saw the odds came out. The Rockets' odds are now 16 to 1 to win the NBA in-season tournament cup.

So you're saying there's a chance. There's a chance. All right. I mean, that'd be cool to hang a banner for that, right? I don't care. It's been a while. What I want to know is how do I put a championship? If the Rockets win the half-milly,

is there a delicate way to say, can I have some of that? You don't have like a bonus or something? Not for the end-season tournament. You're the second person that's asked for that. You've got to get that added in there. I know, I've got to work that out. Okay, your eyes,

because you and I don't talk a whole lot about this kind of stuff. Yeah. Let me give you my impression, because I've seen every game, obviously. Still not shooting great. I wouldn't say sporadic, but hot and cold would be maybe a little bit of a better term. Really consistently good defense.

Yes. Really consistent hustle. Tarisa with a career high six deals last night. Crash in the boards. Lots of second chance opportunities. Now, some of that is because of the fact that again, they're not shooting great, so there's a lot of rebounds to be gathered. They're number one in rebounding.

They're number one on offensive rebounding. They're not making a lot of silly mistakes. They're staying close in games. and really with the exception of, I think this appointment of losing at San Antonio and the home opener that lost to Charlotte, they've not given us a pure dud. Now, they didn't get beat pretty badly in Oklahoma City, but Oklahoma City is just spectacular. I mean, now, Holmgren dumbs them down a little bit in terms of talent-wise because he's going to be gone for a long period of time. And look, a lot of teams, even with Milwaukee not playing as good as they normally have been,

Milwaukee's still, I think, an upper echelon team when the dust settles. So with all that being said, what is your take of what you see from the, guys wearing the red uniforms. Yeah, it's interesting that they're almost 20 games in the season and only one lopsod at loss. Point differential, their fifth best in the NBA. That's pretty spectacular. Yeah.

Their number one league in rebounds, I didn't see that coming because Stephen Adams barely played. You know, Shinggoon seems to be kind of stepping his game up a little bit from that. But it seems such sports cliche, because they said you hear this all the time in sports, but they play hard. They play hard. When they, you watch, you see effort. There's way more effort this year than you saw at times last year.

And that's good coaching. That's the EMAIDOCA effect. It's guys taking the next step in their, in their development and everything. But, yeah, I mean, I'm with you. If they start, some guys start getting red hot from three and they, as a team starts, you, it's, the league is on notice. Like, this team just, they're what, their third in defense? It's weird, too. The metric used to be if you held a team.

under 100 points, that was a good defense. That's not the case anymore. Because teams run different paces. It's what they call a rating, and it's per 100 possessions. How many points do the opposing teams score per 100 possessions? Because some teams like Indiana will run the ball really, really fast. Meanwhile, a team like San Antonio will slow things down. But like the last handful of games you're holding a team's to 99, 92, 103, 104, 107, 100. That's good. That's really good. All right. So I'm going to throw the question out to the audience.

and by way, we are with you all throughout the course of the day at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Are some of you slowly and surely buying in to what you've seen? Or, and it's okay to say this, Matt, wake me up at Christmas time because that's when a lot of fans will turn on, frankly, the NBA for the very first time. Or, I'm giving you these oars, or, wake me up when the playoffs begin. because I have been with this team for a long period of time. I've seen them lose 60 games, 60 games.

They were 41 and 41. I'm just not going to buy all in until I see them clinch a playoff spot. Where are you on the Rockets? And I hope that I'm not expecting this to be champion, you know, Clutch City 2.0. Far from it. But for the first time, Gordy, in four years, we've got relevant basketball in this town again. Yeah, there's a really tough. stretch they have coming up at the end of the year.

They're from a day after Christmas, they play in New Orleans, and New Orleans is a mess right now. But after that, it's Timberwolves, Heat, Mavericks, Celtics, Lakers. All here at home, so that's good. But those are all pretty strong teams. That's a tough stretch to go through. And then you get back into your Memphis's and things like that. But, yeah, I mean, there was going to be a stretch where they go on a skid.

We saw that last year, but it felt like every week there was a skid. It was either a three, four-game win streak and then a four-game losing streak. This is the highest. They've been above 500 since EMA has been here, and clearly been the highest since during the three years that Stephen Silas took over. So this is as... Since the Dantone days now, huh? Yeah, this is since McDonnelly days.

Wow. It's as good as it been. So when you go dormant for four years, just like the Astros, you know, look, as much fun as we had Gordy in 2015 with the Astros make of the Wall card, be more slow to that. that too. Yeah. I'm a friend here locally who likes the Rockets, but he told me a few weeks ago, yeah, I just really can't pay attention. With college football still going on, the NFL,

people just, Christmas is always the day where everybody kind of, it starts to pay more attention. So I think if you're the Rockets, keep your head above water. You would have asked me a few weeks ago, I said, just be above 500. Well, now, they're going to be well about 500 by Christmas. But it's almost, you know, what they've done to me selfishly is they've got me way more enthusiastic than I thought I was going to be at this point of of the year. And if they don't maintain what they're doing right now, I'll be kind of let down. But as your point is,

the schedule is, look, the next two games are very winnable games. Portland's not very good. So you're sitting here with a chance to go 13 in 5. And then you've got Minnesota next week, Philadelphia, who's complete hot garbage right now.

Apparently it was a player's only meaning and somebody spilled the beans on what that player's only meaning was about. And what's his face? Embed, get all mad about it. Yeah, by the way, I've heard nothing but terrible things about Joel Embed. That's crazy. He was so likable a few years ago.

And now, yeah. I have a very good friend that it was associated with the Olympic team this year. And we were going through some of the guys. And I'm not going to say who it was. I want to keep it private. But I was like, tell me about the guys and the team, about who he liked and who he didn't like. He said, pound for pound, the player that was the most, that was the least liked. by anybody that was around that Olympic team was Joel Embed.

Wow. And Joel Embed, to me, when he's healthy, which feels like it's not very often these days, is the most, he's way more unstoppable than Nicola Yolkich is. Because he can just beat you up. He can pop three. Now, Yokuch can do the same thing. But it's Joel Embed's incredible ability to not only get you threes,

get you mid-range, but post you up and get to the free thawin 15 times a game. and while you're just sitting there relaxing in the second quarter eating your second hot dog, he's got 31 points. I think Daryl is on the verge of getting handed a pink slip in Philly. I don't know. I'm not close to the Philadelphia situation at all. Yeah. But no one saw this coming, and I would have to think somebody's got to be a sacrificial lamb on this. I'm envisioning a world where he gets let go, and then at some point comes back to work for Raphael.

and the guys here. I don't think that's going to happen. It's not going to happen. You know he's laughing his ass off about this. It's got to be Doc Rivers in Milwaukee now. Yeah. Because he was a scapegoat when things that weren't working well with James Hardin in Philadelphia. All right.

So what does your take on the Rockets? Are you buying it a little bit more? Are you wait and see till December or you're like wait and see until come playoff time? 7-13-212-5-7-0. 7-9. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-9. That's Gordia. Matt, we are very happy that you're going to spend part of your day with us. Hopefully all the way until 2 o'clock this afternoon.

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By the way, I have some deranged fans and buddies, Gordy. I've received two texts in the last 20 minutes. off of a tweet with Cal and Hannah wearing full fireman's gear at first responders day event what does it matter with you people that are my friends

they like to show that they are human and I think they've done a pretty good job of that with Cal getting in the monster truck and all this stuff okay so let me throw four things at you before I go to the phones National Clowns Day yeah

I also like the circus comes to NRG. If it's National Circus status, do Cal and Hannah put the gear on? Yeah, I think you would. Okay. Look, I like that better than the rich, dodgy billionaire owner who just sits in the office and never does anything fun. Like, I give them credit.

They're trying to be human. It's mascoty. I'm going to grill some burgers. That's Cal. Yeah. That's not, no. No, that's orchestrated. What's the old People magazine?

They're like us. The Stars, they're like us. Cal and Hannah, they're like us. They put on the firemen gear. They're like us. You think, if you have a fire in your home in parallel, do you want Cala and Hannah to save your life? No.

All right, let's continue. They saved the Texans. Why didn't we see what Cal and Hannah wore for Halloween? You just want to see what Hannah won for Halloween. I mean, that's part of it, sure. All right, what's a couple other days? What would be a couple other weird days that we want to see them dressed up as? that comes to NRG, like, I don't know, like Cirque de Soleil, maybe we get Cal and Hannah tightrope walking or something.

Hmm. Now, when country music stars come, they're wearing their belt buckles and, you know, and they're taking photos. Rodeo, Cal's got the cowboy hat on. I give them credit. They're trying to, they are of the people, for the people, buy the people. They're worth several billion dollars. They're not for the people. They may have a car service that picks them up at their home of River Oaks.

So here's, so it's a tweet that I got, it's from Aaron Wilson. Let's see what the comments are. Let's just, let's just see how the general people feel about this. Let's take a look here. Any comments? Does Aaron have his comments turned off here? Let's take a look. I'm not getting anything from, let's see.

Yeah, Hannah, Hannah's got the hat on. She's got the full station 33 head on. Kel kind of looks like a fireman. He looks like a fire chief. Yeah, he looks like he'd, yeah, he's not going out there. anymore and doing anything, but he's cooking a hell of a beef stew. Man, they even have them. They were

shooting the fire hose. Aaron's got no comments on any of his stuff. Oh, damn. Damn, damn. This is the last 45 minutes. Aaron Wilson also says the Colts of signed Mark Lewinsky to a practice squad and releasing tray flowers if it appeals

any of you. I don't even know who those people are. Good for him and his family. Yeah. What are you saying? This is the last 45 minutes. Aaron has been posting pictures and videos of Hannah and Cal at the firehouse working with the fire people shooting a fire hose

what do they spraying with the fire hose I give them credit they've come a far long way from where they were a couple years ago getting duped by the pastor and I credit Hannah for that yeah well that's all Hannah Cal why are you listening to this guy

letting him if Cal was if Cal if if if if Cal told Hannah, I got this, Jack would still be running the team. And, what's his face will be the head coach? The backup quarterback forever and ever. What's his name? I'm already forgotten his name. Davis Mills?

No, no, no. The long time back, Josh McCown, not McCown. Is Josh McCown? Yeah. He's the one that, yeah. Josh McCann, if Cal would have told Hannah, go to Neiman Marcus with the black card, I'll see you later tonight. I got this. Josh McCown would have been the quarterback.

It would have been the Texans head football coach. Oh, yeah. And Cal would have never hired a Domingo, and the Jackie Superior would have been the executive vice president of every damn thing in that organization. Now, to his credit, he was the Panthers quarterback coach last year. He's the Vikings quarterback coach this year. And there are people saying he's actually doing a really good job with Sam Darnold.

So he might be on the path to becoming a head coach. And that's all right. But you've got to put the work in. You don't just get hired off the street to become an NFL head coach. That's exactly right. Sorry, David Cully. There you go. Roger on 7.

1037. Roger, good morning. Good morning, gentlemen. Yeah, I was a great game yesterday. Nice to see the old heads. I'm thinking this team resembles a team that we couldn't get past until Barkley came because they come at you in waves.

They're so deep. They're very energetic. And I know it's a small sample size, but I really see the DNA of this team taking full image of Emi Adoka, the head coach. I remind you of the Seattle superstars back of the days. They had so many guys coming off the bench and just doing their job.

And really didn't matter who scored if long as they scored. And just coming at you in drones, I love their energy. Yeah, nice calling on how sweet it is, Matt. And let me see. I'll make a request. You can just mix in a Dixie Duttle shot. That'll be great, too. Oh, you know, I've actually been told us if I could say back in, back in, back in, back in, back in a few times, too.

I guess I should try that, yeah. I used to like what he said back in the heat travel. There were some missed traveling calls last night. I can tell you that for sure. Yeah, yeah, for sure. The little kid, the little guy from Indiana, the little guard. Oh, my God. T.J. McConnell?

Yes. Man, dude. It's like that. Insect. All right. That's all I got, Matt. Have a good way. Thank you very much.

By the way, white guys that can shoot are not. insects. They're just rare. T.J. McConnell. I mean, looks like a guy that would be like your, he wouldn't be your CPA. What is T.J. McConnell? He is like, oh, you know what he is? He's the general manager

at the place where you get your all changed. Yeah. Or, you know, he's the new accountant. He and Reed Shepard could start an accountant firm. Yeah, but Reed's got to get rid of the wispy mustache. I think things are going to change for Reed once that wispy mustache is gone. he's just very green Dalton connect now

oh he's crushing it for the Lakers oh how many threes nine threes the other night oh Lordy SEC player of the year I think he was too and from what I was told not through anybody here in town

but just what you know league circles is that Dalton connects defense was so bad no matter what he did offensively you couldn't put him on the floor for a significant period of time yeah that he was the worst defensive player in the first round of the draft read read is an underrated defender. Reed gives you good

minutes. When it's all said done, I think Reed's going to turn out to be a really, really good player. You know, Reed is not shot a free throw yet? Really? He's to go harder in the paint. Let's get in there and get beat up a little bit, don't you think? Let's talk to Jackie in Pearland at 1040 on the Matt Thomas show, Ross Gordy filling in. Hi, Jackie.

Hey, what's going on, Matt? Hi. What's up? I just want to call him in and talk about the Rockets, man. Matt, you do a great call, by the way. Thank you. I appreciate it. Call the game. Thank you. But, man, the team, when I'm watching the team and listening to the team, man, they just sound great all the way around. You know, I think the Golden State game was a huge, like, momentum shifts. And, like, and Tari coming off the bench aside, and he wasn't going to lose that game.

That showed a lot. And I feel like when you have a player that's just amped up as he is, the team is just going to run off of that. And EMA is a great coach. I feel like he's built a team up, you know, because even when he was the Celtics, he kind of challenged Tatum and Brown. So I feel like him coming in and challenging Green and out. is really good for this team. So I'm really high on the Rockies. And one last thing I want to say, I didn't mention it, but the U.H, Matt, what was Dana?

You know, I don't know if y'all still boys or not. But I remember I heard one interview you called Dana, and he was like walking around to school. They were like birds and squirrels. I'm like, yeah, what if he do? What if he, are you supposed to be recruiting? This is in the seeds. I don't know, Matt. That's that's it.

I hang up. Thanks very much, Jackie. No, Dana would go for walks. Well, you said mine at like 2 o'clock during the season when he was. coaching here and he would go for walks and he's like this is the best opportunity i put my earpiece in drink a red drinker god he was a red bull drinker that was the funniest thing we did we did the a team out there at the what's the walk the cougar walk coog or whatever and they came out they headed everybody red bull so like everybody we're going to toast dana as he walks by and thanks matt

go coogs like when dana was vested i liked dana yeah but i think dana sealed his fate. And not a man had been after the season, but right around the end of the season, when he's people ask him about his recruiting situation, he's like, oh, we've given up. Did you see, you saw Tom Herman got fired this past week. Yeah. What a fall.

What a fall. From top of the mountain top here. Right. I mean, the most relevant U of age football at ever. Could have had had this job for the rest of his life, would have gone to the Big 12, would have gotten serious bumps year after year after year. But, you know, he goes to the

University of Texas, and that doesn't last very long. LSU was hard after him, too. They had a deal in place at LSU. Yeah, and then goes to Florida Atlantic. And then apparently, from what I have been hearing online, is that he was looking for D-1 offensive coordinator jobs. The writing was on the wall. I have heard one job to watch,

Oklahoma, Brent Venables, looking for an O.C. They want to hire somebody quick. That would be really funny to have the former Longhorns coach become these Sooners OC. Well, I mean, Tom Herman was is an excellent offensive mind. Yeah.

And I still think he can run a program. But you maybe know this better than I do, because you follow this stuff way tighter than I do, but how do you go from this incredible run at the University of Houston, I'll be it short, to having everything you possibly could want and then some at Texas. And look, just going to Texas just maybe, you know, if you're not winning 10, 11 games,

anything short of that is unacceptable, which is a lot of power programs that way. And then he went to Florida Atlantic with a chance to, you know, he took a deep breath, got out of the business, got a chance to fire up, got to use some of his charm. And it was a miserable failure there. I go back to 2019. The turning point in that season, they opened with LSU in Week 2.

That was Joe Burrow just starting to become Joe Burrow. And it was a third in 19, I believe, that Joe Burrow converted. He connects with Justin Jefferson. and we didn't know what Justin Jefferson or Jabar Chase were at that time. Yep. But they convert that. If they get a stop there, Texas might win that game. Think of the domino effect.

Tom Herman beats a top-ranked LSU team. They were six at the time. Probably finishes strong that year. Maybe they make the playoff. Right. Everything changes for Herman. I selfishly liked Tom. I got along with Tom very, very, very well.

Now, I could read through his BS. It's a little weird at times. I mean, I'll be brutally honest with you. I've had the only relationships with people I've at U of H coaching-wise, I've never, I never had a great relationship with Dana. It doesn't mean that we were adversaries or we didn't like it. I mean, very pleasant. We always came on the show in a good times and bad.

But I got along really well with Major Applewhite. I still talked to Major Applewhite on a semi-regular basis, which is cool because, Gordy, when I was young and first in his business, it was Major Applewhite was, I mean, a Texas God. Right. I mean, it was just to be able to talk to him. It's just kind of still cool. I love Tony Levine I had no relationship with Kevin someone

but he was in charge when I just came back to town so I don't really count that but yeah I just Dana and I Dan and I just ran in a much faster circle than I was going to ever prepare to be around so but yeah and I think Willie is just fantastic

Willie's gonna be a rock star here well I did I'm afraid of and I'm just telling you brutally I hope that the collective game doesn't sour Willie to lose the passion for college football. Because college football needs Willie Fritz. College football needs more Willie Fritz type character coaches. I'm saying he's not perfect, but I'm saying that he is genuine in building programs,

building relationships, getting to know the kids. And I appreciate that. And I just, I don't want the collective to destroy him. Well, open up your checkbooks, Coog fans. Let's go. Stop it. Head on down to Sethi's fine jewelry right this second. And get that special lady something special this holiday season.

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It's coming up today at 1130. That's where. we are confused about things in life and we need clarification. And Gordy brings a certain Louisiana turn to us so maybe anything that he has will give us a little bit of a different feel because there's a lot of things in Louisiana

I just don't get. Crackland they don't get. The fact that LSU is paying millions of dollars for athletes when the roads don't necessarily pave the right direction. It's about priorities. I mean, I don't know why y'all insist in the state of Louisiana is skipping first to fourth grade. Yeah. Or is it repeating it? I forgot which one it was.

You can spell your name. They jump you four grades. Yeah. It's going to be weird. I'm spending Christmas night in New Orleans. Because the Rockets play the next night, so we leave it. We leave that night, Christmas night to go to New Orleans. You have to go over to the Hotel Montalillon. Yeah. They have, uh, they have all the Christmas trees in the lobby, and then go get a

nice hottie-toddy over at the carousel bar. Look at that. Is Cafe Dumont open up on Christmas night? They are, but that's so touristy. It's not touristy. It's delicious. It's America's treat, just like the McRib. We were just there this past weekend. and my wife wanted to go do that. I'm like, this is stupid.

I'm from here. Why are we standing in line for... Apparently, there are several other places to get good bignets in New Orleans. Yeah, it's fried. It's fried dough. You can get that anywhere. Yeah, but you can't get the rude treatment like you can get a Café Dumont. That's true.

Their coffee's pretty good. It is delicious. Nothing like having a bignet and an iced coffee walking around, New Orleans, passing some homeless people. By the way, I saw Houston's going to start to clean up the homeless thing downtown. that's good. Finally can walk to Minutemate Park without stepping over piles of feces. Thank you.

Jeez. That underpass smells awful. We were talking about the deliciousness of Cafe Dumond and the bignets and you went to feces conversation. I'm sorry. For all the times I go to Minutemate Park throughout the year and I have to park across the street and I have to cross under that overpass and walk past countless homeless people and the smell of piss and fecal matter. It should remind you of home. This is Houston though Clean it up

Come on, man I know Kim's son's going on a business Inito and I'm I mean, God dang That doesn't bother you when you're walking to the ballpark And the smell is absolutely horrendous I'm just used to it But I also get to the stadium like at 4 o'clock

So I don't really get you a lot of that I mean God bless Let's get the people back on their feet Rehabilitated for sure But not on the street I don't want to see that Walk into a baseball game with the family All right Jacob

on 790 at 1055. Jacob, what do you have? Hey, what's up, man? Leave more people alone. That's your people, homeless people? Hey, and Matt, you did a horrible job or imitate me yesterday, man, when I got off the phone. Hey, but I think the Rockman.

Come on, come on, man. I think I did a much better job than that. I think the Rockets, man, they could consider, like, getting Jimmy Buckets, man. Somebody of his caliber. Now with that salary, oh, hell no, I don't want a genuine buckets. Give me a break. Well, okay, well, a veteran that got some defensive intensity

that can help lead them with the guard, man. I think they got a lot of young talent, but I think they miss him one key veteran. But he got to be right for the locker room because Jimmy coming through intense with intensity. He'll lift him up, but you're right. It's going to cost them. And Gordy, hey, Dion didn't change none at Colorado, man.

He's doing the same thing. they just winning because he got the swag man and ain't nobody conform to that to that old boy school stuff no more. But Jacob, Barté Les remember the first few weeks of the season? It was all the story. Shador running up to the student section, talking

trash. They cut all that out. They cut all that out. Check them out Saturday. Hey, but hey, I'll still listen to y'all even though y'all got rid of my god, man. We love Stan. Thank you very much of the phone. I appreciate it. Jimmy Butler, by the way,

making $49 million this year. Oh, hell no. To play 70% of the time, no chance, no way, no how, ain't going to happen. Oh, he wanted him here. Yeah. That ship has passed.

That was, there was talk years ago of getting Butler paired up with Hardin here. That would have been interesting, but. Remember then there was a lot of talk before the stuff, when Jim, when EMA first got signed here that they were going to try to bring James back. Yeah. And James is the second all-time leading three-point score,

and he's actually had a pretty good season for the Clippers, especially because of all the guys that have left and are still heard. But... The only time James Hardin will put on a rocket uniform again is the day they retire his jersey. Is he next? Do you think? Who? Hardin's 13 is gone, right?

Yeah. Okay, I think you're probably right. All right. One hour in the books. We've got, I just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour. We've got the news at noon. We've got the Rotten 5, courtesy of our good friend, Conner D. McGovern at 130. What do you think I haven't started working on Believe it or not today? By the way, I miss, that's the only reason why I miss Ross.

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Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross is in Malaysia. And we got Chris Gorda hanging out this hour with us and we'll be this to 2 o'clock today. I think I'm going to put Ross in a different country every hour

until I actually figure out which one is right. And kind of when I actually get the country correct, you can go and give me an applause or a ding or something. some sort because I just feel like every hour I miss it up. That means I have to figure out where he is. Oh, damn. Well, just go look his Instagram account. What kind of strange food he's eating, like fried goldfish or something.

Is he vlogging? Oh, he put an Instagram photo out of, I'm in heaven. This is good. It looks like he's at a Benihana. I mean, I don't think it's that big of a deal. He likes to go, Ross likes to go into nature and just like shut off from the world and just like be one with the universe. He does it every down then.

It's funny. My shutting off the universe is flying to Los Angeles. Vegas and go to the casino for multiple hours. We know. It is what it is. As I'm saying, I have a bias on this whole thing about the Rock is playing in the tournament. So let me tell you how this in-season tournament works. By the way, they'll be playing the Blazers on Friday.

It's an in-season tournament game. There are six different groups in this in-season tournament. I've made up of five teams. Best record of the six get in. And then the next two best records after that make. make it a total of eight. You play a knockout round game. I think it's 1-8-27-3-6-4-5.

And then the four winners will then go to Las Vegas to play a semifinal game and then a championship game. Yes, that easy to explain. Me, I forgot that. The fans, it's so hard. You have to explain it.

Well, you had to explain to me the college thing yesterday, so I'm just saying, I actually aggressed that. Now, I forgot to ask you one thing. We were talking about the four conference champions. And by the way, I was listening to the college sports channel on Sirius, a little bit last, after the Rockets game?

Don't listen to them. They are a little bit of I don't know how to describe it. There's a few people in there alike and a few I don't. Okay. Well, we'll get to that later. What is Notre Dame going to do? What's the underdame spot? They don't have a conference. What's their bit? That's the thing. They cannot be a top four seed, no matter what they do. Under any circumstance.

Which I love. Hey, D-bags, join a conference. What's they do? In other sports, they're in the ACC. Except football. they're a dependent because they're stupid deal with NBC. It's not stupid. It's a lot of money. You could still have the deal with NBC and be in the ACC. Now, maybe the ACC might have a problem with that because they'll go, well, we want to put some of your games on ACC network. But no, no, no, no, no. This is Notre Dame going, we love you ACC.

We just love our television contract more. Notre Dame can completely, they can get themselves in the top four tomorrow if they decide to ultimately make the same. You know what, we'll give up the embassy money to go to the ACC. Right. But in the meantime, enjoy hosting or either hosting or traveling in the first round of the players. Now, if Notre Dame was to leave the ACC to go to the Big Ten, that's where it makes more sense because NBC does carry Big Ten football. And my guess is that what you could do is if you are the Big Ten, you can, Notre Dame, you can say, look, we'll join your conference, but you have to guarantee every one of our home games is on NBC. You could do that.

I hope Army beats their ass this weekend. Come on. They don't deserve to be. You lost in northern Illinois at home. You don't deserve to be in. Yeah, but the whole thing about this 12th team tournament, we're going to phones in one second here, was to give teams that lost a game a chance to feel like their season wasn't over.

Yeah, the problem with it, though, and I heard Sean and Brian talk about this morning. We are so hung up, Stuart Mandel wrote a whole piece on this in the athletic. We're so hung up on this 80-year mentality of wins over losses. Like, it doesn't matter who you play, but if you're unscathed, you deserve to be in. what we saw last year, the committee

made a willing decision and not put Florida State in, who was undefeated and won their conference. I think you still need, we need to harp on what have you done to earn a spot. It's okay to have losses. You have to have quality wins. And that's the problem this

committee does is they don't go in that room and say, ask the most important question, who have you beaten? And that's who we're going to see Indiana this weekend against Ohio State. Who's Indiana beaten? Nobody has relevance. But the committee goes, well, you're undefeated, so you're going to be in. No, it's okay to leave teams out. If you're, if you've, zero losses or one loss, but you didn't play a damn soul, knock them.

Take them out. Let me just tell you about how little Vegas thinks about Indiana. I was, I woke up this morning at 5.20. My dogs want me up, so I didn't go back to sleep after that. So I went and looked. Indiana, the number fifth ranked team in the country, undefeated, best season ever in Indiana football history, has a chance to go play at Ohio State, a one-lost team, an opportunity to absolutely cement themselves in the 12th team tournament. And right now, the Indiana Hoosiers are 13 and a half point underdogs,

a two-touchdown dog on the road at Ohio State. that should ultimately show you that at the end of the day, as much as the committee thinks highly of Indiana, America does not. Or Vegas is not. Here's my problem with it, too. If they win this game, it's great. Their last game is against Purdue. They're basically, you've played a one-game season.

Anybody can get up for one game. That's all Indiana has to do. Get up for this one game against Ohio State. And to me, that's just like, it's not fair to the Georgia's who had to play at Bama, at Texas, you know, at Ole Miss, just play top seven Tennessee this way. Like, what's the fairness to those teams that play six top 25 teams? But Mr. College Football, when is college that's like ever been fair?

Well, you keep... It's not. And that's the problem is it's not a level playing field. Yet this dumbass committee has to go into a room and decide who's good and who's not. You know, if you were in that room, you wouldn't be calling yourself dumbass first and foremost. Secondly, it's not easy. This isn't, these aren't easy decisions. It's easy to say.

You got parameters because, again, if Indiana's like, you know what, we'll play anybody in the league because we think we're good enough. Well, you gave us the schedule. We can't do much about it. Now, the only thing we could control are non-conference games, and we schedule those bad boys five or six years out. When Michigan and Indiana were on this, when Michigan was on the schedule for Indiana this year, everyone's like defending national champions. If we're going to be really, really, really good, we got to beat Michigan this year. we didn't realize Michigan in September was going to be hot crap, right? Yeah, that's true.

So what is Indiana supposed to do? I'm not sure to me to advocate for Indiana because their schedule is soft as Charmin. But my point is that there's very little these teams can do to control their destiny. I would encourage, go, if you know your conference schedule ahead of time, and you know you look at and go, we're playing Charlotte and Maryland and Northwestern and Nebraska, go schedule a tough non-con. Their non-con was Florida International, Western. in Illinois, like, go schedule a tough non-conference game.

Clemson did that with Georgia. Clemson lost. You cannot. But Clemson said, we went and scheduled a tough non-conference game. You cannot sync up your schedule for your conference playing your non-conce in the same year. It's impossible to do that. No, but what you can do every year is schedule one tough non-con to add to your

resume. Okay, so then you're going to give them no grief because it's Ohio State and let's say they beat, let's say they beat, let's say they scheduled Oklahoma State on the schedule. at Indiana. That have been a good non-conference game. Guess what? Oklahoma State's hot garbage. You know what I'm saying? I don't know if I can't. You know they will. If Oklahoma State is at Indiana, you'd be like, good for the Hoosiers for scheduling somebody. Or schedule a name. Like USC turned out to be trash this year, but I would have given you credit to schedule on USC and non-conference. That's a good one. They're 500.

Yeah. It turned out to not be good. But like, Indiana's done nothing. You know what this is? This is like when you get a degree from, oh, my son just graduate. Oh, really? Where did he go? And he says, I don't know, what's like a real crappy school? Oh. Just give me a school.

Okay. North Texas? I don't know. Hey, I won't do my first year. Let's go Texas State. Go ahead. Okay, yeah. You get it.

Your kid just graduated. My kid just graduated. Really? From where? Texas State. Oh. My kid just graduated from where? Oh, Summa Cum Laudey from Houston.

Oh. There you go. You realize the difference there? That's like what we're doing with these schedules is what is your resume? Oh, Indiana. Oh, yeah, you're in the Big Ten. Who'd you play? Well, we played Washington and Michigan State and Purdue.

Oh. Yeah, but again, I want you to answer my question. How in the hell does anybody in this country sink up a non-conference schedule with the schedule opponents you have? And if you do, like again, you got who with their games coming out, who are their games who did they beat this year? Indiana? Yeah.

A bunch of nobody. Go to it. Let's run into the list. Yeah, they beat FIU. Okay, I'm going to go to the Big Ten. Home of Pit Bullfield. In the Big Ten, they played at UCLA. Okay. UCLA, typically a top 20 program.

Don't crap on it. You get my drift. Don't crap on them. I have for that one. But this is the conference schedule. Yeah, so what are they, so what they, you can't call the Big Ten off and say, please schedule us all these tough games. No.

You can't do it. No, but I'm just saying if you know, if you know what, you knew who your opponents we're going to be, you can complement that by playing a tough non-conference game. When the Big Ten schedule came out for this brand new Big Ten, you can't call Western Illinois and say, hey, bra, we need to cancel this game because we're going to call

Georgia does it all the time. You can't do it too as in advance. Georgia goes, you, Clemson, you, us in Atlanta, next year, let's go. And they do it. No, no, no, no. Home and homes, they schedule years and years in advance. But one game, one-off neutral site, LSU versus USC, that was

scheduled like a year and a half ago. They say, you want to go to Las Vegas. We didn't even know the Big Ten was a Big Ten until like six months ago. Well, I think you're crushing Indiana. Now, look, I don't think Indiana is a real team anyway. They're going to get there asking this week. My point is, I think you're crushing Indiana for things out of their control. I'm just saying in general, not just Indiana, but teams in general.

You want to be taken seriously. Go schedule a tough non-conference. You know who did it all the time? Tom Herman did it here at Houston. He scheduled Oklahoma. Louisville. Louisville. He scheduled tough non-conference.

difference games to say this will help us come postseason. And it did until he got left and then he went to Texas. Well, they went to the, what was it, the Sugar Bowl? Which one? Yeah, Sugar Bowl. We beat Florida State Community College. Jimbo Fisher. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7. It's funny. Jimbo Fisher and Tom Herman are both out of those jobs. Those two are meeting Coach O today at the Country Club and Destin to go enjoy some beers, enjoy some ladies. Yeah, who is an effort? that group. You got Tom Herman. Oh, Kevin someone's there, by the way, too.

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9.0. On the phones we go. 713212.5.790. Geo and Atascata on 790. Geo, good morning. Good morning, fellas. Great stuff as usual. Thank you. Just wanted to touch on the rocket subject that you, we're talking about earlier, Matt. As far as being all in on the rockets, I'm definitely all in this season and definitely, as soon as they hired EMA, seeing what he did with that young Celtics team when he was there. that that was enough for me. And then now you're starting to see, you know, the fruits of his labor when it comes to the evolution of Jalen. And even as of late Jabari and Tari and Amman Thompson,

I mean, it's like Gordy said in the first segment, man, he got these guys playing hard, hard as hell. And it's, I love that he holds them accountable because, Matt, as you've seen in the games, if you're not given 100%, if you're not being a dog out there, you're not getting no playing time. And I think that the team has bought into that.

And in order to get on the floor, they know that they got to do what they got to do in order to play hard. So, yeah, I'm all in, man, as far as that. But I got two questions for you, Matt, real quick. Yeah. Do you think this team needs another piece in order to get far in the playoffs?

Because I think we're getting the playoffs. But as far as getting far and being competitive in the playoffs, do you think we need another piece? And if so, what do you think that piece will be? And my second question is, as far as Cam Whitmore, I mean, you're close to the team, you know, you're in the plane, you're in the hotels with them. What is going on with Cam?

Because to me, I feel like he has a lot of potential. But it's just for whatever reason, it's not being, he's not being consistent enough. So if you could just touch on those two, man, and I hang up listening great shows you. Thank you very much. we'll get Gordy's thoughts on us as well. First and foremost, this team to me, Chris, and the audience out there,

they are rebounding like madmen. They are crashing the boards. But I do think you're going to run into some trouble if you don't start hitting more of your perimeter shots. And I thought we saw that in the last couple of minutes of the game against Milwaukee on Monday night, where the team needed a big two-point or a three-point. point basket and couldn't get over the hump because they couldn't find it.

And so for a team that's shooting about 43, 44% from the floor, three point percentage is probably around 35, give or take. That's going to cause some problems against elite defensive teams. What's the story on Stephen Adams? Is this just a workload? Like they're just trying to manage his workload? Yeah. I don't think he's in the full night in, night out basketball shape that I think he wants

than the Rockets want him to be in at this point. Because it was weird. There are two games he played in the preseason. He was Dominique. He's pulling out rebounds and all this. Yeah, he's still going to rebound. I just don't think it's to the length of time. I think he would like to,

I think the Rockets would like to build to get more out of him, and I just think they have to get it in very, very small spurts. So to the first point of the question, Gio, was do they, if there was anything they were asking for, it would be a perimeter guy. A, I mean, we're talking about T.J. McConnell yesterday. although TJ was getting a lot of his baskets for the Pacers in the lane. Just a come off the bench jump shooter.

And that's where I think, frankly, Chris, that's where a guy like Reed Shepard can squeeze in some more playing time if he can ever knock down that shot on a consistent basis. I thought that was going to be his role. Like I thought they were just going to bring him in and say shoot it. But, I mean, he look, he's good at other stuff. So they're just kind of, you know, I guess just trying to get his feet wet with everything. And the game's still running a little fast for him.

But I think we're getting a little bit more. playing time, especially there have been a couple of blowouts in the last few games that have given them a chance to get some serious minutes on the floor. Again, this game is tough. These are kids that are 19 years old, Gordy, that are playing one year in college basketball. And you're going from high-end ACC, and it's good, to the NBA. It's still a tremendous talent jump. Try to see who some of the better three-point shooters are so far this year.

Most of them are stars and starters. Kyrie is shooting 53%. It's having a very good season. Yeah. Norman Powell, Nikiel Alexander Walker. These are all guys who wouldn't be traded, though. No. No. Norman Powell is playing on a regular basis night for the clips.

He starts at the two-guard offset James Harden. Zach Levine, shooting 43% from 3. He's a name that's been floated out. I think he makes too much money. Yeah. But his name's come up in trade deadlines last few years. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised he gets moved from Chicago,

but I just don't know if the... Because rockets love the nucleus. I think they're good as this. Yeah. think it's search within. All right. To Cam Whitmore. Cam's not shooting well, first of all, by this year.

And there isn't enough of the other things he can do. Like a defensive, I think they're not particularly happy with what's going on with his defensive ethic. And I think when Cam's shots don't drop right away, he kind of drops his head and kind of has the bad demeanor. And, you know, the best part about Cam is that he can let up the score. board really quick in a very short period of time. His per 36 minutes last night,

or last season was so good. He just, he can't, but you can't get good per 36 numbers if you don't put the ball in the basket. One for 21 from three so far. Can't what more. So if you're Eméadoca, if you're, if you're an Eme Adoka shoes, why would you put a guy that's one for 21

for a team that needs permanent shooting? Because look, Dylan's numbers are not good from three. Amends Thompson's numbers are not going to be good from three. Fred's hitting better as, of late, but his numbers have been up and down. You're not looking to add another part to the floor that struggles

from three. You're looking for somebody that can knock down the three. That's why seeing Jabari and his numbers pick up the last week or so has been encouraging. Seeing Fred had these kind of nice renaissance after his little hammy situation is interesting. You need jump shooters. You need to be able to bury some threes because what's going to happen,

especially against the good teams that can rotate, they're going to say, all right, we're going to let you beat us from 24 feet out. Would they be better serves and Whitmore down to the valley and just say hey just there he did he's back but just say just go shoot threes and that's it have him come back i don't know what the report the the recone report was for his time there i mean to me cam's going to go to the rgv all he wants to he's going to light it up i mean he's going to be the best athlete on the team i don't know how much more he could do there yeah he's shot 34% in

college from three so it wasn't great there either he's volume for sure 713 212 5790 713-212-1-2-5-790 Biscuits with us on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And as soon as I punch it up properly here, let's try this one more time. Hello, Biscuit, how are you? Hey, Cougar, Matt, what's that? My brother. You tell me. Hey, let me, before I get to my take, man, Gordy, you got to back off Big Red, man.

Gordy, if Indiana knew they were going to be undefeated right now, maybe they would have scheduled somebody else, but they didn't know either. This is a total surprise. But shouldn't we ding them then Biscuit to go? I mean, look, great story, but there are some other teams that have better resume wins than you have. If you haven't beaten anybody good, you know, 12 wins and zero losses doesn't mean much to me if the 12 wins are against a bunch of nobodies. You've got to earn it. You know, quality wins to me matter more than anything.

Well, they end the big 10. But to me personally, I think the committee set it up. on the fallout, but what they did to Georgia when they lost. So if Indiana loses to Ohio State, they're going to drop way out. I think, I think the committee already set a precedent for it. So when Georgia lost, they said, bam, Georgia dropped like eight, nine spots. If Indiana loses, they're going to drop about eight, nine spots.

BYU dropped a bunch of spots to lose in Kansas, too. As they should. Right. They let the schedule play it out. Matt, let's get to the Rockets. Yeah, one with more, Matt. You've got to be more specific. you got to play defense if you're going to play for you doka. I know. That's bottom line. No, if fans and Cam doesn't play defense,

particularly not like the guys he's competing with to play time, which is Ethan and... Amman Thompson? Yeah, you're not taking minutes away from those guys because they play on both ends of the floor. Yeah, that's right. And they're more versatile defenders, and they're better rebounders than he is.

And they probably handle the ball better than he does. So that's where Whitmore problem is. But another problem of Woodmore is, Matt, And my home girl, Ter Hope, had an interview for a winter last night a couple of days ago with the coach. And she asked him about Whitmore. And one of the problems with Whitmore is he's a ball haul. He shoots too much. And they're like, no, man, we need you to move the ball.

And Whitmore is a guy that just like to shoot. He's off a minding guy, but he takes bad shots. And they're like, no, we're not looking for that. Move the ball. It's a team game. And to be mad, that Chicago game was really. very telling because he came back. He was on the bench. They was up by

40. He played everybody but Whitmore. And I said, man, he's trying to send a message. Well, he also had a sore left knee, too, so I want to be fair about that. Well, I mean, I'm just telling what the report said, so. I mean, I don't think they're making it up. I'm telling you, he

just went to the G League and played, he came back. You know what I mean? Maybe maybe he was sitting in basic economy and got his knee sore. I don't know. Thanks, thanks, Mr. Smith, for the phone call. I appreciate it. friend is good at your voice. Yeah, Cam's got to bring more to the table because guess what, Tar Heise is not giving up his playing time. A man, Thompson, not giving his playing time.

Reed Shepard wants to steal basketballs. He wants to dribble penetrate. He wants to do other things. I think right now Cam's just kind of falling in love with staying out at the three-point line and jacking up shots. And he may his offense and more importantly his defense, that's not going to be able to go. All right. Gordy, what don't you get? A lot of things in life I don't get.

And I'm going to give you an opportunity to tell us what you don't. Oh, okay, I'll save it. I loved algebra two. Precalc, no thank you. But algebra two, I was good with. If there's something in your life you just don't get, we want to hear from you next. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

Do you have something in your life that you just don't get? No need to worry. No need to fret. We will discuss the topic to see if we comprehend. The things that may confuse our friends It's time to say I just don't get it All right I'm going first

So there's been a new wave In social media boys and girls Oh if there's something you just don't get 713212-5-7-9 And we've seen this with a lot of celebrities lately A lot of sports athletes A lot of people LeBron did it yesterday

Mark Jones from ESPN A few days before that People are sending tweets out saying they're not tweeting anymore. They're off. They're saying, you know, they're putting their fingers up in the air.

They're like, it's been real, see you later, deuses, all that kind of stuff. If you don't like something anymore and you don't want to be a part of it, just leave.

I don't need a full explanation. It'd be like me going to the movie theater, going to some terrible movie and pulling the manager inside saying, I'm now leaving this movie theater because,

the movie sucks. And I'm not coming back. Mark Jones, ESPN, LeBron, celebrities, political types. If you're done with Twitter, deuses. I say to you guys, why are you going to Twitter to tell me

you're leaving Twitter? I just don't get it. It's just very self-righteous. It's you think you're way more important. You are not, Mark Jones, you are not important at all. First of all, you're like the ninth best network broadcaster in ESPN. You're doing like, you did the Kansas BYU game late at night.

We don't care. I don't care that you left. And by the way, LeBron, you're coming back to Twitter because you're going to be making out, you've been made a lot of money off of monetizing things on Twitter. Trust me, you're coming back. You're not going to some other plan B or plan C or going off social media altogether because anytime you put a product on Instagram or your Twitter account, you probably get a nice paycheck of it because you're doing product placement.

So for those of you that are saying, I'm leaving and I'm never coming back, and I need to take a break, and I don't feel good, and I made fun of, and I don't, no, no, no, they're, them, them's the breaks. I just don't get it. I'm with you. Thank you. And Twitter is, look, Elon owns it, but come on. It's still a good, good mix of everybody here on the left, the right, everything.

I don't think about politics when I get on my Twitter account. The right created, what was the truth social that Trump went over to? I didn't go there. And now blue sky. I'm not going there. I looked at that. It's a lot on the left. Like, we don't,

that's when you become an echo chamber. We need everybody kind of still intermingling who disagree with each other. That's what makes life fun. There comes a time when we heat a certain call to live together as one. There are people dying.

And their sadness in the air. She should write a song. We should have the greatest gift of all because we are the Twitter world. We are the children. Right, Connor McGovern? Yeah, I don't, people don't need. to announce when they're leaving social media or doing other things.

Guess what? If you announce it. They're just wanting more attention. Yeah. If you announce you're leaving, don't come back. Just don't just leave. So when you come back, we can just say, oh, okay, where you been, bro? Right.

Yeah, you would just literally one day you would go, you know, I don't see Mark Jones tweet anymore. That, you know. Yeah. It's like, you know, I don't, I don't know. It just was like, you're just making it, but more about yourself. Right. You want to make, you want us to let to let you, you want. us to know that you're leaving? I don't know. We didn't pay attention to you leaving to begin

with. We don't really care that you're now making the announcement. I had one, my only interaction of Mark Jones in 2009, I worked with ESPN for the New Orleans Bowl. Yeah. And I had to drive a vehicle. First off, was parked on the middle of Bourbon Street. I had to drive it from Bourbon Street, pick up Mark Jones and Bob Davy and drive them to the Superdome. Okay. And And I pulled out on the Canal Street and I turned the wrong way and didn't realize it. And Mark Jones goes, I think the dome is back that way. So thank you, Mark. You turns.

Did you use your Louisiana thick accent on him? No. Oh, damn. I got one more for you boys. And again, if you have one, 713-212-5-790. I put this out on Twitter today. Speaking of a form I do use, we as Americans and you great farmers in America, we've got to stop producing green melanum cantaloupe.

Nobody eats it. But yet, every time you go to a place where they serve fresh fruit for you, they put it out there. Go look at my Twitter account. I have not one, not two, not three, but four examples of four different media dining examples of people that don't eat green melon and cantaloupe. I say for those of you that serve us fruit salad, why do you continue to give us cantaloupe when we don't eat it? I just don't get it. I'm fond of cantaloupe.

I like cantaloupe, yeah. Well, did you see my pictures on Twitter? I do. I guess other people don't like cannolp. So next time you're the Rockets Insider for us, Connor, I want you to come eat a big old, the plate is all yours. You have as much as you possibly want. I'll just take the dish.

I'll just pick up the dish and take it to me. No one would complain. Seriously. No one would. Now look, on a scale load, on a power scale, strawberries and pineapple at the top. Yes. Watermelon.

Yes. Canalops probably going to be my last pick. Yeah. But I'm still going to eat it. I can avoid it. Kiwi's probably dead last. I'm good on Kiwi. But nobody ever puts a kiwi on a fruit plate.

They do sometimes. Yeah, but you, look at my, I got the evidence, Gordon. I'm not making this up. Nobody likes the melon. In matter of fact, I'm going to open up a Twitter account. And if you guys ever go out to any, like, buffets or, like, brunches and you see a fruit plate, with the green melon left or the canola bluff, let us know.

And it's going to be nobody likes the melons. Strawberry's always first, though. strawberries are absolutely top of the list. All right, Gordy, what don't you get? 288 toll road in the mornings on 288, Matt, to go from Highway 6 to 610. It's only a couple miles. It's not that far.

In the mornings, it is $14 one way. Just to go from Highway 6 to 610 on the toll road. If you want to go to 59, a little bit further, yeah, $17, almost $18 a way. There are people still using it, though. There are people spending $20, $1 way, $40 a day in tolls to go from Pearland to downtown and back. Well, you live in Broussoria County, right? Yeah.

Well, at least your roads are good, your schools are good because of this tax dollars being spent. Now, what I was told is when they built this, it was a private company from China. So what happens is every mile They're going boom, boom, boom And everybody's taking their cuts So Brazoria takes their cuts They're only getting like a dollar or two When you hit Harris County

Harris County's taking a dollar or two But it's this Chinese company That's taking They're getting like five, six bucks of that a pop So that's why it's so much But I have a friend who lives in Katie Drives in, takes the West Park toll road I said what's the most you've ever spent tolls?

Like I don't know five bucks one way Like five dollars They're charging 18 On 288. Yeah, because you, Brazori and people make big money there. You can afford it. I don't know. I've seen some of the cars. There ain't a lot of money. So you're asking the county government to explain themselves. I want KPRC to go over there and expose these frauds. There was a report that the Chinese company was going to sell, and then they came back and said, oh, they're not.

Yeah, I guess not. You're profiting millions. I saw their books last year. It was millions of dollars they profited in tolls. Call that Amy Davis, girl. She gets things figured out. get on it? Who else? What other investigative reporters do we have? Um, I don't know. I was done with Amy Davis. That's a good one. I'm going to say I get it because it's for profit by a Chinese company. And I appreciate

you doing the due diligence on that. John Teddisco who were the other ones? Was Wayne Deltrefino still doing it? I think he's still around. All right. Ted Oberg, he's gone. How about the guy with the strange hair? Yeah. Oh yeah, the Trump hair? Yeah. What's that guy's name? I don't know. Yeah, too much and twice.

call my girl, I'll call my girl to Channel 11 Cheetah. She'll figure it out for you. I got another one I just don't get. Go ahead. All-Star games. Have you seen what's been proposed for the NBA? Do it quickly and then we'll decide. NBA has proposed a new four-team-style tournament for the All-Star game.

You would have three All-Star teams of eight players plus the winner of the Rising Stars game and they would play in a tournament style, team one versus three, two versus four, to 40 points. And then the winners would advance in a finals matchup up to 25 points. Stop. I'm going to say this, Gordy, I get it.

I ain't watching it. That's the problem. They're trying to change it up. Just stop. Because when you allow 200 points to be scored by one team in an all-star game, you killed the all-star game. They killed the Pro Bowl. I just got an email yesterday. Tickets available for the Pro Bowl games, not interested.

Thank you. And what he wants to watch flag football? So I will say, I totally get it. I get that Adam Silver's trying to change it. I'm still not watching it. All right, Mr. McGovern, what don't you get, my man? So these coffee prices are getting pretty high, and they have been for a little bit. So I just don't get people that they like coffee.

They like to start their morning with coffee. Why go to Starbucks every morning? Why do you go to your coffee shop every morning? It's too expensive. Just make your own. You know, well, why do you have to go out for coffee every morning? Because Raw Rux is cocaine. You can make your own.

It doesn't taste same. Well, I don't taste it. I just don't get it. I don't get why people would pay that much for coffee on a consistent basis like every morning. I'm going to tell you, I totally get it because people don't want to take the time to actually put the cur again and go or brew their own coffee. They want to get in their car. They want to get their maca fracapitino and a capa tapalabalino and all that stuff. You can't make that at home.

You can't put whipped cream on coffee and stir it around and have a delicious beverage on the way and your 99-mile drive to work every day. I mean, you could. You're not making some mocha frappuccino half-calf decafrapecalf at home. You're not doing it. Nobody's doing that. Well, then just then get regular creamer and coffee and now it's enough. Have you met America? It's the most you've paid for coffee on the road with the Rockets.

$9 for a cup of drip. Which city? Los Angeles. Good God. I thought I sent you the receipt on that. Well, yeah, I remember your breakfast was like $80. Yeah, I said, we were at the very, we were at a very famous hotel in Los Angeles. and I said, can I get a cup?

I don't put anything fancy fancy fancy. I like a little bit of cream, a little bit of splendid. That's it. Nothing fancy in my coffee. And she said, it would be $9. I said, I don't want the whole pot. And she goes, no, it's for one cup. $9 for one 12-ounce cup of coffee.

Now I'm the same guy who spent $8 on an energy drink in Vegas. So it's pretty insane. So I'm sorry, Conardee. I get it. People want their fracamaucco-macombinos and all that stuff. I mean, I get why people get it. I just don't get it. Well, when you start making big money, which hope won't be here, but when you eventually make the money, you'll be spending that kind of money.

James and Jerry will get to you next, 1145 on Sports Talk 790. There's something in life you just don't get. Let us know. We can help you. 713-212-5-790. Lunch-timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. Today's edition of, believe it or not, today is at 150.

It's going to be highly Googledable, and it's about Twitter. We'll just leave it at that. If you have not heard, LeBron is deactivating because he told us he was going to. It's all anybody's talking about out there. Who's there anybody? The water cooler. People around going, did you hear LeBron drop the Twitter?

Do you think it's politically connected or just? No, I think he's really, I think he doesn't like the blowback. Yeah, he said something like it. The platform's too big now. Yeah. until a advertiser says, what's your social reach? And he says zero. And, okay, that's fine.

We're not going to pay you. Because the reality is, and we work in this industry ourselves, part of who we are is what we can do with our social media outreach. That's just the reality of it. Yeah. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

Let's go to Jerry and Golf Gate. Jerry, my ask you, what don't you get? man i don't get i don't get everybody's take on on cam for the rocket you know first off this guy's never never been a i mean he's a scorer he's not a shooter and there's a think difference second off sending somebody down to minor leagues never has worked you know very seldom i mean that's hosea brayle i can remember uh mt when when the braves had steve averred merker glabin maddo And the wild card in that group was John Smokes Because he could not

You know, control the pitches You know what they did? They sent him to a shrink They sent him to a psychiatrist A guy named Dr. Luehlemm. Didn't send him down in minors You know, they sent him to it Because if you if you add

I remember somebody asking Tiger Woods What does it really take, Tiger? And he said He said you got to see it happening And you ask Steph Curry that too. You got to see it. You got to feel it. You got to know it's going in when you

first touch the ball. The last thing about it, what I don't get, how come they don't call specific plays much anymore for Cam Whitman to get off his best shot? The three pointer is so sexy, ain't it? Thank you.

They're not creating offensive plays for Camden. Because they're not in the rotation. It's what you do at practice. It's what you do in the time you're given on the floor when given the opportunity. And the NBA is a 10-man rotation at the very most. Most teams, Gordigo, 9. And if you're not making the top 10, you're not playing.

Ask Jay Sean Tate. Ask Jeff Green. Ask the center that doesn't play when, you know, if Adams plays, what? Landau? Jack Landell isn't play. By the way, A man Thompson went down to the G league last year.

Did he not? For a cup of coffee? I know Tari Aeson's gone down there. I mean, guys have gone back and been just fine. So, and I like, I mean, if Cam can help out, I'm all for it. Because this team needs a permanent push. Why do they keep Jay Chonte, by the way? I mean, he's the last guy.

One of the last guys. I mean, he doesn't break the bank. He's good utility. Play a Friday positions. But, I mean, he's one of your last two or three guys off the bench. Yeah, I mean, you're bench guys in terms of minutes. It's Tari, it's Amen and Reed. Right?

I mean, that's your, that's your, that's your, that's your, and you're back at five, whoever it is. Yeah. And then the other guys, yeah, you're fighting for playing on it. So I will say, with all their respect, I get it. Let's go to James and Garden Oaks. James, what don't you get my man? We're taking my call, fellas, Governor Thomas, Connor, and Gordy. Listen, I called you, I think a week of Sawgo about this institution called the mini storage unit.

people when they when they you know have it there's house overcrowded with stuff and i've i've been storing stuff there because of kids grandkids and all kind of stuff like for 11 years yeah and you know they they charge the usual price i knew the owner so well i used to bring the the lady donors coffee all kind of stuff and she she knew my wife and i and i went to try to see her uh you know because they said she wasn't doing well and it turned up that she's no longer there this they got some other gobroni there and when i found out that my uh that my um that my um that my monthly payment which my advocate friend would take care of stuff for my wife and her because i'm visually impaired i found out that they raised up my uh my monthly fee it went from like

one hundred and twenty dollars to like two hundred dollars in six months and i'm like is that possible and when i found up uh i got in touch with you know other business entities and they told me yep they have a right this is called capitalism i go look man that ain't capitalism that must be cartel related man but they they didn't and they're all kind of people in to do whatever they can. And it's very frustrating. So I got to get rid of my unit as quickly as I can. I got to give up.

You need to come pick this stuff up or I'm giving it to my favorite church and I'm going to get rid of it. So, I mean, because I'm paying nearly $250 for a five by 10 unit. And that's ridiculous. That's, that's an outrage. I mean, it's worse than when they price gas for gasoline because that's also an outrage when they do that when we have hurricanes. Thank you so much, Governor. that Thomas was taking my call and spread the word out there. If you can avoid dealing with these kind of people, don't deal with them because they're crooks.

Connor, your thoughts? Do you get or you don't get it? That was a lot. Yeah, I don't understand a word he said, but I love James. And James is always welcome to call the show. We're just an outlet for James. Can I get those frustrations out? We don't have to understand. That's right.

And that's what we do here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross is we just let you have a spot to do what you need to do. and James has had a call about his I believe it was his rental unit I think he said five by ten for two-fitty yeah is that good value or no good value I think that's good so why is he complaining about if it's a good value he doesn't think it's good okay

last one before we get to the news at noon Felipe I've got one simple question for you what don't you get well let me start with this I don't understand well I give James a lot of flack a lot a lot about the Yankees but I get I get what he's saying okay okay at least you did I make me feel better because I didn't I get it uh I said his pain there uh man what I don't get

is I don't know why people will take the 288 tollway I come from spring and I work over here off a 28 near Periland and I paid $1.20 for my toll $2 a day there and back home and like coming in and going out so I don't get that why if you were even paying that much well that's let's ask Mr. Periland over here why you why you're on Well, traffic backs up, and sometimes it's a difference of getting to work in 30 minutes versus 50 minutes. I mean, save you 20 minutes, but $17? One way? No, it's a travesty.

It's insane. My second one, sorry, Matt Thomas, man. You're going to hate me for this. I know what you're going to say. Don't you, don't you say it. Don't you say it right now. Do not you say it. Go for it.

I do. I do not get what people like the McRib and why McDonald's brings it back. You hit a nerve. Get out of here. See you later. The McRib is a delicious pork patty. Layered, smothered with delicious barbecue sauce. By the way, you can not buy the barbecue sauce on the side if you want to.

They have gallons of it available. Onion, slivered, pickles, nice toasted bun. After the lack of media options for me last night because the food just didn't look particularly good, I got me a McRib. Now, here's a problem. I ate the McRib on the way home. Major party foul on me. you cannot eat a McRib while driving.

And I did so, and I almost got in the four car accident. So I'm going to say as a McRib connoisseur that I had been, ever since I was able to walk and talk, if you love McRibbs like I do, buy it, live it, love it, but eat it at home. One more, I just don't get if I could. Please. Cocktail prices at restaurants.

Explain. Like you go to a nice dinner, you get cocktails before. Why not? Yeah. And then an app and then food. We haven't even ordered food yet. I'm already $50 in the hole. Where are you going? Why are you charging so much for cocktails? Where are you going? You know, they do the little fancy frou-frew drinks. You don't come across the fru-frew guy. No, but like, you know, it's bourbon. Since you've been married, you've been a bit of bitters and all this other stuff they put in it. It's just like, I know the price of bourbon. I can go get a whole bottle of bourbon for $25. I blame your wife on this big time. She's making you spend money that you shouldn't be spending. First of all, you bought a house in Paraneland with a halacious toll tags.

You're going to every opera or every musical I've seen in the last two years. You're getting these playbills. We saw Shucked last night. Oh, my God. I want my Gordy back. I want regular Gordy back. Am I going to get him back? This is me.

That's who I am. Start on you, Siskel and Ebert, taking all these plays out. Ain't nobody got time for a $30 cocktail. I'm going to start calling you. I'm much like Daryl. You appreciate a good Broadway show. show as much as I do a good sporting event. Do you stand up and go,

Bravo, Bravo. No, but Darrell and I had talked a while back about doing a podcast about talking favorite musicals. Would you listen to that? There's zero chance. I'm super late for break. I'll be unemployed soon. Oh, I'm going to give you a chance.

I've seen one Broadway show in my entire life on Broadway. It was also a very famous movie. I want you to think of you guys can figure out what I saw. if you can figure it out you win nothing except my warm regards what one musical that i see in new york on broadway that was a very successful movie all right the news at noon is up after i tell you about connor d giving you the legal id for this great radio station lunch timers this is the matt thomas show all right 1205 real quick you all get one guess and one guess on let me give you some more hints to this Broadway show that I saw. I'm not a Gordy.

Major, major, popular movie in the 19, maybe 1990s, early 2000s, super, super popular movie had a theme song that was a number one song on the charts, and I saw the Broadway version of it in New York. The only time I've ever gone to see a Broadway play. Okay. So we want to guess.

Major TV, major movie. Oh, I'll give you one more major hint. Based on a real life event. Hmm. Okay. So it's not cats. Real life event.

Major TV, major movie success, had a huge song associated with the movie. Yeah. And it was based on real life. What is your guess? It's not.

West Side Story. That was not based on a real event. A little shop of horrors is out. It's not Chicago. Chicago won Best Picture. Yeah. Gosh, you're really running out of options here. Phantom of the Opera was not based on a real story.

I thought I'd give you a pretty good clue when I said it was based up a real-life event. Yeah. Lion King's not based off for a... No. Mulan Rouge. Is that? You get 20 seconds. We get the news and news.

here. Yeah. I don't know. Y'all giving up? I wrote up. Was it the, was it Titanic? Titanic, correct. Was that a musical?

Yes, nicely done, Connor D. McGovern. What do you win, Connor, for that? What do you? Lakers' rockets tickets. Oh, okay, that's fine. You took him from me. I didn't even see that music. That must have bombed.

I mean, I don't know why I went and saw my boss, Dan Patrick. I went with a lieutenant governor to that. Him and his wife, and I believe, I think I went with them. I don't think I don't think Kim was with me on that trip, but that's another here nor there. Wicked comes out this weekend. Oh, you know, I've got a little crush on Ariana Grande. You know what they're not? She's my favorite.

Oh, I love her. You know what they're not telling anybody about this, though? It's a part one. They divided it into two parts. Every trailer and advertisement I've seen for it doesn't tell you that. It just says Wicked in theaters this weekend. So are you Mrs. Gordy going to hang out from the movie theater early so you get your tickets in advance? No, we're not going.

You're not one. What do you got going? I don't want, you're going on town this weekend, aren't you? Where are you going? I'll be in Austin for Texas, Kentucky. Oh my God. Are you wearing full Kentucky gear? No, I'll be supporting locked on SEC gear. That's my boy. Time now for the news at Dune. This is where we give you the headlines of the day.

We had a rocket victory last night. Among other things, here's Gordy at the news desk. Thanks, Matt. Checking in on your big top stories in the news. Texans. Pro Bowl defensive end. Will Anderson Jr. returned to practice yesterday from an ankle injury after missing the previous several games. It's looking like he should be a go this weekend against the Titans. Also, Kamari Lasseter practiced again today, so he should be good too.

Excellent. Smallest injury report the Texans have had in quite some time. Yeah, the injury report, I have it in front of me from yesterday. Three guys did not participate. The Nico Autry knee, Lake Fisher Concussion, and Folurosso Falukasi. Limited worse Al Z. I'll Shariar, Will Anderson and Singly, and then full was coming off.

That is as low as has been. Meanwhile, the Jaguars, the Titans had one, two, three, four, five, ten players did not practice. We will get an update, by the way, what's going on in Nashville in one hour.

A few other stories here. A week from today is what, Matt? National signing day. No, that's two weeks. Oh. No, people were doing NIL yesterday. NILI the day. Yeah.

What is it? One week for today would be Thanksgiving. Yes, correct. And everyone is buzzing about the big Giants Cowboys matchup where we'll see Tommy DeVito versus Cooper Rush at quarterback. Can you flex out of Thanksgiving games? The answer, of course, is no, but would you like to flex out? I would definitely. I will definitely be sleeping early. Who are the Lions playing early on Greenback?

Well, here's your slate. It will be bears at Lions early, Giants at Cowboys in the afternoon, and then Dolphins at Packers at night. I mean, I'll watch all three, but I feel like I'll be napping between three and six. The NFL announced today they will hold their annual Thanksgiving or their annual John Madden Thanksgiving celebration. You know, all different networks carry the games. One game's on Fox.

One games on NBC, blah, blah, blah. Each network will select a Madden Thanksgiving MVP who will receive a $10,000 donation to be given to a high school or youth football program. Yeah. Kind of cool that they're all honoring John Madden together. Okay. But yeah, looking forward to those crappy games a week from today. Other news, a Florida man has filed a $50 million class action lawsuit against Netflix in relation to the streaming issues during the live boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last Friday.

Good luck with that. Can you suit? You didn't pay anything for it. I mean, you have a Netflix subscription, but it's not like a pay-per-view where you shelved out $80 to get. Correct. What does he want? A subscription, free month a subscription, or something? something. $50 million class action suit.

Okay, so that's not going to go very far. I mean, it was a disaster for Netflix. Let's hope they get that cleaned up. And by the way, can we give us, we're going to end some misinformation. Everybody in town is worried about Netflix issues for the Baltimore-Huston games. Yes. Need not worry, it will be locally televised by an over-the-air station in town. Oh, is that right?

Every time you have a national game on a cable or streaming outlet, you get a local version of the game. You get the simulcast on a local TV channel. So don't ever worry. Like when the Texans were on against the Jets on Amazon Prime, that was over the air. When they played on Monday night football, that was over the air. When you have this game

coming up against Baltimore, I don't know what's, I think all the local stations can bid on it and then somebody gets it. So yeah, need not worry. There will be a 100% chance you'll be able to see Baltimore versus Houston without any streaming problems. Let's hope. Now if you live somewhere else, you've got to worry about it, but not

On the college front, college game day will be in Columbus this Saturday for the Indiana, Ohio State game. College Game Day announced this week, they're seeing their highest ratings ever, up 41% in the age 18 to 24 demographic. The Pat McAfee effect is real. You know, I have not hidden the fact that I think the Pat McAfee radio TV show is atrocious and unwatchable. I do like him on game day. That's not a hypocrisy, is it? I've come around on him, yeah. I don't like the show.

I like him on game day. And I like that field goal kicking thing. By the way, last week, the guy kicked the field goal. He was almost a setup because not only it wasn't good, but he had the form. And I think how long does a kick have to be? I think it's 30. He would have made it from 45 comfortably. Yeah.

And he said he played soccer. So they must be not just, they're not getting some random Joe out there. They're getting somebody that's had some sort of athletic ability. Sometimes. A lot of the kids they've had said they played soccer. But they don't have fat girls doing it. Well, the one this past week, the girl won, she knew she couldn't do it. And this kid was behind her in line.

She said, hey, I won. Do you want a kick for me? And so they split the money. And so it was supposed to be $200,000. Well, Pat McAfee said, because y'all did that, I'm going to double the amount. So it was $400,000. They each got $200,000. Best $200,000 decision that girl ever made.

Yeah. By the way, what do you guys at LSU say when he was, doing the chant a couple weeks back? I can't say it over the air. Can you give us the PG version of it? STTDB. That's the abbreviations for it. Y'all, and see, people rip on us calling us the cougars, the blank and blanking cougars. Two more quick tidbits here.

By the way, where's my rocket headline in this? So we do the news and new. We'll spend two segments of the rockets. But that was two hours ago. We're always changing the audience over. Rockets beat the Pacers last night. We should have played a highlight. We should have done something. You got to know. We got this audience that's constantly changing over.

People need their rockets. We got odds out for teams likely to sign Juan Soto. If he's not with the Yankees, Mets. 2 to 1 odds on favorite if he's not back as a Yankee. All right. Phillies 5 to 2, Dodgers 6 to 1. How about 25 to 1, Houston Astros? You can make it 250 million to 1.

It's not going to happen. Probably not. And then lastly, ESPN, announced today. They are going to cancel. Around the Horn starting next summer. Anybody still watch Around the Horn? I never watch it. I mean, I know what it is.

Do you watch PTI still? All they have on are four people that no one knows nor cares about who are not even in the industry anymore. Let's bring on Tracy Saunders. She runs social media for the Vikings. Like, who is this? Yeah. The guy Kevin Blackstone or whatever, he's a communication professor now. He hasn't been in a locker room or a game in probably 10 years.

Who's the guy in Dallas, Tim Kalashaw? Tim Kalashaw. Is he still right? I don't think so. Where's Randy Galley when you need him? It'd be like having a Around the Horn Houston style. You got Ed Fowler on the show. Ed's a priest now.

It's bringing on a blogger from, I don't know. Oh, I got plenty of ideas for that. A bunch of fake media in this town. 1214. That was the news at noon. Gordy let us down. We had rocket fans that wanted to hear a pristine, amazing call from last night. game. You know we'll give it to them next.

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Rebound picked up by Jill and he wants to push. Tries to get by Turner. He'll go to the window and scores. And the Rockets have a 10-2 run of their own, forcing a timeout to Indiana. Indiana sucks, by the way. Tyree's Halliburton went from this amazing, like, all-MBA player to can't shoot.

shoot under single under double digits last night I mean beat that Rocket scored give up the Pacers gave up 130 for the second straight game they give up 130 to Toronto So I play the video games and stuff And I have NBA 2K last year

Use my voice or no I haven't heard it I've played last year's game like Tyrese Halliburton was one of the best players in the game Like they went overboard Yeah You can't like overcorrect and be like, oh, this guy's having an awesome year. We're going to make him one of the best players in the league.

And then a little bit of our aggression. A little bit. I'll tell you what, rockets, if they win these next two, what would their record be at that point? Oh, they're 11 and 5. 13, I mean 13 and 5. Can we put the car before the horse a little bit? Because you know how that's how I live my life.

I always think of well ahead. So they beat the next, let's say they beat the Portland next two. The tough one's going to be beating Minnesota, in Minnesota. And then you have to play Philadelphia the next night on a back-to-back. Ooh, I'm going to be cranky next Wednesday. It's going to be cold.

You're with me next Wednesday. You're going to have to carry that show for me next Wednesday. Can you do that? We'll see. I got a roto for half and I'll be fine. I couldn't name you three current Portland Trailblazers. Anthony Simons. Okay.

If you say so. I'm done. Oh, the kid who didn't play at Kentucky, who played at Kentucky but didn't play at Kentucky, Shaden Sharp. He's good, actually. He is. But they never played. They couldn't get them eligible or whatever.

And you are all Kentucky. I know my SEC guys. Got a good bit of them in the NBA. So let me real quick. Before I go, the phones. So you're locked on SEC gets lots of traffic during football season. Yeah. So if you're locked on SEC traffic gets you a 10, where's your locked on SEC basketball?

Oh, zero. I mean, like, we, I talk very little. The coaching search with Kentucky, though, brought some of my biggest views ever. Okay. Because the Kentucky fans were. So on a 10. On the 10 scale, football's 10 basketball is a one? It's a three.

It depends, though. Locked on Kentucky, their show, they talk nothing but basketball. They can't talk football. Is that right? Yeah. Okay. And how about SEC baseball? One?

Very little, yeah. I actually like every year I do a visit with my buddy Ben, what's his name? He's such close friend to yours, yeah. With the Orioles broadcast. He was the number one. Ben McDonald. We talk. We'll preview the season every year, and he's awesome.

But, you know, not many people care. Okay. SEC recruiting? That's huge, yeah. So basically, what's happened with our show and, like, SEC stuff all year-round now, when football season ends, we're immediately into recruiting and transfer portal news. And every day there's something happening around the conference. And then Fibom, all he does is talk to wacky-ass people for three hours a day.

Now, they, that show is interesting because with the SEC Network mandate, he has to, they were live from women's basketball media day a few weeks ago. Now, Dawn Staley, okay. She's the best. Her and Kim Mulkey, you're fine, but having on the women's Arkansas coach, like, oh, man, that's a tough sell. There are affiliates in the east and the southeast

that carry that show on the radio? Yeah. Yep. No thanks. It really should just be football talky around. Yeah. And again, I turn it on by accident sometimes on my satellite and my radio,

and you think my callers are whack jobs, those are the worst. My biggest gripe with Paul, though, is he doesn't follow the teams. He doesn't name, he could name you three Vanderbilt Commodores. So he just goes off of generic stuff. He was based in Birmingham for years, and he knows Auburn and Alabama, and that's it. And the majority of the callers are rabid Georgia, Alabama, and Auburn fans, and I'll fight with one another. And then he gets, he's brought in some people that are big A&M fans and Texas fans.

They've slowly integrated, but he couldn't name you. He couldn't probably name the offensive coordinators of any SEC team. I just feel like if I listen to that show for more than five minutes, I feel dumber. Yeah, you're not watching that for football. Cole Kublich is awesome. The show they do on SEC Network where him and Roman Harper breakdown film, like if you want actual football talk, they're the guys to go to. Fondbom's just, he's steering a ship full of dumb-ass callers. Some might be saying that about my show, but I hope that's not the case.

For many years. I love my callers, some more than others. Some day drunk. Some are in day drunk, some or not. we're going to check in, we're going to go to SEC country, we'll talk to a Nashville reporter about the Titans coming up in about 30 minutes from now.

James and Klein on 790 and 1227. James was on your mind. Yeah, I want to talk about the Rockets. Yes. Last year, I didn't care anything about watching them. This year, I've been watching them a lot. And I'm really impressed with the bench. The bench just seems like it's come in

and then they do their job. And this Landale guy, I mean, last year, he was just like, oh, my God, why they putting him in? but this year he's crashing the board, scoring points. He just did a 180 as far as playing. I think anyhow, I don't know what you think about the guy, but... He's good. He's definitely a very aggressive guy on the offensive glass.

He puts in a basket here and there. It doesn't have great toucher on the basket, but it's good enough. And like I said, you're asking him to play, you know, 12, 14 minutes a game, and that's what Stephen Adams will do when Landell doesn't do it. You've got nice depth of the backup five. Again, no all pros, nobody fighting for Alper and Shagoon playing time. but for what you need, they're perfect. Okay, that's basically all ahead.

All right. Thank you, James. Appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, I was a little surprised that Landale came back after the signing of Stephen Adams, but I guess the Rockets do that Stephen Adams was going to take a while to get back into playing shape into playing on a back-to-back or three games and four nights kind of thing. So it's kind of worked that well. And he's a good dude.

Got a great accent. Yeah. Calls me mate. How many times have we seen, like, he gets a lot. the ball and no one's defending him. And he goes, well, I guess they'll just shoot it because he's actually for a while. He's got more three-pointers and Cam went more to us. Yeah. And that's the truth. Poor Cam. Well, I want Cam to be better. I think everybody does. I mean, I love instant offense guys like I love instant hustle guys and that Rockets have two hustle guys

right up the bench. A man Thompson full throttle goes 24-7 both ends of the floor. Same thing with Tarantin. If you could get one more guy like that that could actually score, you'd have a filthy eight-man rotation. But just the three-point shots not falling just yet. So we're getting there. 713-212-5-7-9. If you want to jump in, 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to follow us on Twitter, it's at SportsMT,

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They call him Ju-Jew. and he went on the Pat McAfee show to announce his make his declaration. And the question will be when Dion takes the job as Dallas Cowboys head coach, where will Juju decommit and recommit to? All right, so let's do, let's throw this out there. And I don't want to play the percentages, but just give me your raw motion.

Possible, likely, unlikely, no way in hell. Four options. stays at Colorado next year. This kid? No, I'm talking about Prime. Oh. I mean, it's the favorite right now, but it's not a heavy favorite. Yeah, well, I mean, it's the heavy favorite, but like, I don't know.

Mike McCarthy's on borrowed time. He's going to be fired soon. If Jerry really wants to try something different, I think that'd be really fascinated to see how that you. But you know that if he does that, he's got to go out of the way. Dion's not going to let 80-year-old Jerry Jones

tell him what to do. Yeah, true. Could Jerry really pull back for the first time since owning the Cowboys and just be a business guy? Well, but look on the flip side. The amount of attention you will get,

the amount of, I mean, you're already a king of marketing, but like, how many Cowboys fans would get just super, like right now you've got a lot not bought in. You would get super buy-in from the fan base if you made that move. I don't know if he'd be a good NFL head coach, but I said this all along about Dion.

Dion got the, what was the college in Mississippi? Jackson State. He got the Jackson State job because he was Dion. He got the Colorado job because he can coach. He's like he actually was winning at Jackson State. And they were like, oh, wait, this guy can actually coach football. I wonder, and you, I wonder, is there somebody that could. really give us the behind the scenes on Deon, is he really, when I think of, when you said the word

coach, do I think that Dion Sanders knows the fundamentals of playing good defense and strategy and positioning and technique? The answer, of course, is he's one of the greatest NFL players of all time, right? But is he putting in the time, the hours that it takes, the film room with a couch laying down, looking at the next round of tape, or does he have a great staff around him that's doing all the heavy lifting?

And I guess it doesn't really matter because it's about the end result. That's why you're a head coach. Yeah. You're, you know, it's not on him to do all that. Now I've seen film of him at practice,

coaching DBs one-on-one and all that, which is what Nick Saban did when he was in Alabama. But yeah, ultimately, you're the head coach. You're the ultimate delegate. Like, for instance, when Mack Brown was running things in Austin,

I don't think, I mean, I can't imagine Mac was putting in 18-hour days. Yeah, you've got to have good coordinators. You've got to have good assistant coaches and do all that. NFL is probably a little bit, I don't know. It's tough to say. How different is the NFL?

It feels like the NFL is very much, you watch your film, you come up with your game plan, you practice Wednesday, Thursday, Friday's a walk-through. I would think the amount of time watching game film in the NFL is significantly higher for everybody, especially the position coaches. College though. You do not want to be surprised. You don't want to have Dimeco Ryans come over to Bobby Sloick and saying, why weren't you ready for this run blitz?

In college, though, some of those coaches don't leave the office all week. Like, they're sleeping there. And part of that's recruiting. I mean, you're spending as much time recruiting and monitoring the transfer portal, managing your own roster as much as you are, game planning and all that. Right. And that might be an appeal for Dion going, you know what, almost recruiting crap.

It's a little bit, let me go to the NFL. Or it's just about X's and O's. The greatest benefit to me in staying in colleges, you are really in charge. You don't have a general manager. You don't have an owner. They have an athletic director, but you can usually bypass the athletic director.

You really have to really answer to the president. But you are the true CEO. You get to dictate when you practice, how you travel, or you go, what you do in terms of yes and no. I mean, there's no, there are some media responsibilities. there are some responsibilities for clients and for high-end donors, but you still get to dictate your schedule.

NFL is much more regimented. But the NFL, if you're a head coach, you have a certain guaranteed responsibilities, but you don't have to worry about emotions, you don't have to worry about contracts, you don't have to worry about the transfer portal, you don't have to worry about constantly kissing 17-year-old's asses to tell them how great they are.

Because when you get to the NFL, you know you're great. You know that, you've got to make sure that, you know, that you've made the right decisions, but that's more on your general manager. General manager is roster construction. All you've got to do is show up, turn the lights on, and coach and watch film. Now, there are other sides that you've got to worry about. By the way, his player, Travis Hunter, just moments ago, confirmed he is definitely entering the draft after this year and wants to play both ways as a pro.

I hope he does it. I receive her in corner. Let me ask you this. This is the latest Vegas odds that came out. If you were a Cowboys fan, you could choose one of these three guys to be your ex-head coach. Mike Vrable, Bill Belichick, or Dionne Sanders. Who would you rather? Mike Vribal is the favorite. Do I have to take one of those three? These are the favorites. Oh, and Ben Johnson, but Ben Johnson from Detroit set his asking

price so high because I think he's happy at Detroit. I don't think he wants to. I don't think Ben Johnson wants, I don't think any really awesome young, bright guy wants Jerry Jones constructing his roster because he's been bad at it for a better part of a decade. Rabel would do it because he just wants to get back into coaching. The Belichick thing, that just has disaster written all over it. Belichick's not going to do anything there. You know where Brian, you know where Bill Belichick's going next year, don't you? Where?

He's in the EFC South. Where? Jacksonville. Oh, God. Total waste of time. Why is it a waste of time? He's not a good coach anymore. When's that ever stopped guys from getting that one last gasp at the,

a bite of the apple. Stupid. It's like Popovich, continuing to coach, and God bless him, his health situation. But like, you're ruining your legacy

doing that. Oh, there's, there is nothing that Bill Belichick could do at this point that would ruin his legacy. Because he's the greatest

coach of all time that didn't win Bubkiss without Tom Brady. That's his legacy. But it will, it hurts your winning percentage if you go to Jacksonville. What is he worried about?

If he has a chance to make another $30 million for he retires, so he and his 25-year-old a hot girlfriend can hangout? So of the three, who would you, if you were a Dallas fan, who would you want?

Dion's fun because you don't know what it would be. But this isn't a video game. This is real life. I would probably lean Vrabel. Yeah. But I wouldn't discount Dion. But I just don't know. I think that's oil and water with Dion and with Jerry Jones.

Now, if I got Dionne knowing that Jerry was going to go hire a real general manager, maybe I'd be influenced by that. But like the problem. with Dallas right now is the offense. Defense, you got dudes there. Like, if Rable or Belichick taking over that team, the defense would be awesome. The offense would still suck.

So, I don't know. At this point, you've got to fix DAC and CD Lamb and figure all that stuff out. See, I think Belichick goes to Jacksonville because there will be no pressure on him. You go to Dallas, you're going to have the microscope on you every damn week. You're going to be on television,

eight or nine national television games. Everybody, every shit. When do the Jacksonville Jaguars ever make the national TV shows. Oh, I can't believe this happened this past week. That happens with the Cowboys, whether there are 13 and 4 or 4 and 13. I play a lot of London games. You get a lot of time slots to yourself at 8.30 on Sunday mornings. You get good travel.

The girlfriend go with you on that. Don't you think Jacksonville makes more sense than Dallas? I think doing the media thing he's doing makes more sense than taking either of those jobs. He's actually been pretty good on them. All right. Our buddy, Stephen and L.A. wants to talk some Rockets basketball. We'll get to him in a minute. If you want to get in, you may do so at 713212-5-790.

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I'm very anxious. Well, just a couple of different drops. That's all changed up a little bit. Because maybe if you're better, then we'll take it away from Ross, make it a regular feature for you. I'm not opposed. I mean, I'm having some fun prepping it. All right, good.

You're going to do it for next couple weeks. I'm kind of excited about this. So we got the Rotten Five with Connor D. McGovern coming up in about 40 minutes. We're going to go to Nashville at the top of the hour. Let's talk to Stephen in Los Angeles at 1250 on Sports Talk 7. and 8. Stephen, good afternoon.

and thanks for holding. Thanks for taking my call, Matt. I hope you're doing well today. I'm well, thank you. So just wanted to talk about the rockets in the third quarter, and maybe you can confirm or deny this, but one of the biggest differences between last year and this year to me so far, and it's obviously a small sample size,

is that last year it felt like the third quarter is where they were losing games, and this year the third quarter is where they're not only winning games, but where they're just full-threat. roddle putting their foot on the throat of the opponent and they're just blowing it out. I mean, you know, in the blink of an eye, it went from like a 10-point game to a 20-point game by the end of the third quarter. And, I mean, it looked like Rick Carlisle couldn't believe what he was seeing. I mean, the Rockets were outpacering the Pacers last night. Yeah, it's funny because the Rockets did not want to get into a track meet with the Pacers because their pace is so great, but it didn't hurt him at all yesterday.

The third quarter's been their friend. Fred's had some great third quarters. Jalen's had some great third quarters. I would say this year, and I don't remember a whole lot of third quarters of last year, but I can tell you this year we've seen so many games where one guy has made, you know, five or six shots in a row, or Alpi's put up 12 in a quarter. And that's the thing that has been so good is that you haven't had to rely on one individual person. Well, if Jalen doesn't score, the Rockets can't win.

That hasn't been the case at all. or if Alper and Shingoon gets in a foul trouble, the Rockets can't win. The Rockets have been able to find different people to kind of step up and have those, you know, like five or six minutes spurts. Yeah, I think one of the pleasant things that I've seen is that the Rockets have been able to navigate somebody having a down game. You know, obviously Dylan, Brooks didn't shoot the ball well last night, but, you know, Alfred and Shingoon was able to pick it up in the third quarter,

same with Fred Van Fleet. Obviously, the X factor to me is always Jabari. When he's hitting his shots, this team is completely unbaritable. It's been a lot of fun to watch. Appreciate you taking my call and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you, Stephen, good to hear from you. 713, 212, 570. And I'm just going to be brutally selfish for a minute here.

You know, when I took over this Rockets Play-by-play job many years ago, I was like, I mean, this would be great. I get to call the games, then I get to talk to you guys about it on the radio on a day-to-day basis. And because of the fact the team has not been very good for four straight seasons, it's been hard to kind of bring up the rockets to y'all. And again, I'm not going to try to push anything that I don't think you guys are ultimately interested in. That's why we mix things up between football. We'll do a little baseball here.

We'll go off the beaten track. My hope is that we do get more rockets coverage going, but it has to be organic. I can't force it on you. And so when they win, I'll know it. I'll know there'll be more buzz on my social media accounts. I'll know there's people calling the show. And at some point we are fully paying attention to this team, it's going to be really fun because we're going to be able to do this on a daily basis and hopefully during a decent playoff run. We have EMA Adocon once a week.

We'll have a player on occasionally now and then when we can. But I'm just generally excited that you all are paying more attention. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Because, again, I love basketball. I love the Rockets. I love calling the games. But I'm not going to shove it down your throat if you don't want to get to it. That's what the show's never been pushing a personal agenda.

side. Look, I can tell you, going back when I first came back to Houston in 2010, I love the Astros. I grew up with the Astros. But when the Astros were playing in 2010, 11, 12, 13, 14, I was doing all those postgame shows. They sucked. They didn't suck. They super sucked. And I wasn't going to bury you with Astros Manusia when the team was losing 100 games a year. Sports radio is to be there to talk about all the sports, but frankly, you got to, you got to, when the needle moves, you got to talk about what makes the needle move. And the rockets for four straight seasons have not made the needle move. I know there's a certain faction of people out there that say, I hate basketball.

All it is is three-point shots and dunks. I'm not looking to try to bring new people in. I'm looking for people that said, Matt, I like the rockets. I'm just not going to get into a deep conversation with you about it because they're not good. And I don't blame you for it. This is an eerily similar path. that we had when the Rockets were making the playoffs in 2015. So I'll be patient, and if you're a rocket fan and looking for more coverage,

you should be patient too, because when they win, people will start coming through. And this isn't a question about bandwagoning. It's a question of, there's 24 hours in a day. You only have a certain amount of time to spend and watch fun, interesting things, whether it's on your YouTube or whether it's on your TV, TV shows, sports events. and we're not going to spend a lot of time talking about losing things. When the Texans were in the doldrums, the last handful of years, we didn't spend a lot of time talking about except making fun of Bill O'Brien what a jackass he was

and how awful Cal McNair was as an owner and how awful Jack Yusabry was. Things get better. We started thinking about important games like trying to beat the upper echelon teams and what they're going to do come playoff time. And having different people on from different cities to kind of get a perspective of what they're going to be going against Texans this week. It's not a perfect storm yet, but we're getting there rocket fans.

So if you are a rocket fan, stay with me on this. If they continue to play better and relevant and hopefully get a playoff spot, we're going to be here for you. Now, if you're not a rocket fan, we've got Astros coming up, but I would say this.

If you're not a rocket fan because you don't like basketball, just give them a look. Because the intangibles about this team so far are things that you would appreciate. Hustle, defense, rebounding, no-quit, accountability. D'emico and EMAE

ask for and demand accountability. I think, and I think we want that from our leaders, our coaches, our managers. And there are a lot of coaches that, can't get that or can't command that and that's why they're not successful. It feels like to me, and again, very early so far in both regimes, but the Texans got it right with Tamiko. And by the way, the talk of him plateauing as a coach is just preposterous.

I don't know where that came from. Don't care what it came from. You're not going to hear from this radio show or this voice you hear. And Eme, granted, he took over for a very, very. town and Boston team. But where this team, this rocket team is today, compared to where it was, say, 20 months ago, is, oh, miles and miles apart.

I think we're in good spot. We really are. Back on the Texans when we come back. Let's find out what Tennessee is going through. Talk about a franchise that needs good coaching, a general manager, an overhaul. That's Tennessee. And we'll talk about them next. As we go to Nashville, start the final hour, the Matt Thomas show with Ross, Gordian with me as well, here to 2 o'clock on Sports.

Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 102 on Sports Talk 790. We are very happy to go to Nashville, Tennessee on short notice, and we appreciate bringing in a guy that is widely regarded by the 790 family here. Jonathan Hutton hosts the Hot Mike with Hutton and Withrow, 4 to 6, which will be 3 to 5, our time on the Outkick Network.

And Jonathan joins us from Nashville, Tennessee. Jonathan's Matt, thank you for joining me. Depression level 1 to 10 this year on overall Tennessee Titans football watching on a week-to-week basis. Go and give us the honest results. I'm so depressed here because there's too much optimism about Will Levis. Let me put it that way. It's hit the 10 with the path that they're on. Titans spent a lot of money in free agency.

They had plenty of promise. at least they thought so with their quarterback, and they're scoring about 17 points a game. It's been miserable and pathetic. All right, here's the reality, John. Then we're now close friends. I actually liked Will Levis coming out of college. I know I'm thinking I'm in the minority,

and I thought there was a potential steal taking him early second round. Okay? You know, the extra year of the guarantee. I just thought putting some professional linemen around him, not making some of the silly mistakes. And there are times if you could watch a highlight film of, we'll love us. You know this better than anybody else. There are some throws that he makes that are incredibly accurate.

And then he does one of two dumbass things per game. Why does he continue to make those kind of all shucks? Oh, my God, what the hell is he doing moments per game? He's pressing. I mean, and, you know, he's good for a turnover game. And the interesting part about the turnovers is the new head coach Brian Callahan. He doesn't get upset with the interceptions. But you're right. The dumb-ass plays is where he's asking, you know, WTF, what are you thinking whenever he's coming off to the sideline?

Now, he has reduced those greatly over the last few weeks. He's been hurt. He was hurt for a handful of games. He's back. And he's not making just the idiotic turnover. But they have reduced his role. They have really lessened the deep shots, the risks, and they've tried to lean more on the run game. But the problem is they end up having to throw the football quite a bit because they trail in these games.

And look, you're right about the moments. You know, he had a 98-yard touchdown pass to Nick Westbrookine last week from his own two-yard line, and he let it loose. I mean, you can see the NFL arm. But the problem is he goes six for six in that third quarter and does nothing else to help this offense move the football in the first half or the fourth. So, you know, there's a lot of give and take, but there's a lot more take. And the problem with all of that is there's time running out on the evaluation of Will Levis, which ultimately could include him coming back on the roster next year. Brian Callahan's first year there, obviously did wonderful things in Cincinnati.

He doesn't have enough parts right now to run what that offense was in the Natty, correct, at this juncture of the franchise? guys? Well, I mean, first and foremost, he doesn't have Burrow. He's got a long list of quarterback that he's worked with. I mean, it's impressive. He didn't call plays in Cincinnati. Zach Taylor regards him as one of the top coaches that he's worked with, that he's friends with. He brings his dad, Bill Callahan, here, to run the offensive line. And the offense has been closer to what we, and what Texans fans will know. noticed from the Mike Rable era for Tennessee. It's been bad, man.

And Matt, the thing about what this offense can and can't do, everything, and I've never seen anything like this, the one position that controls how bad they are is at right tackle. The walls cave in around Levis more times than not, and that one position that they overlooked this past off season has come back to really just crater and derail any moment. momentum that they can try to muster. They're really good in starting games. You know, the scripted plays.

They're really good. And beyond that, they're among the NFL's worst. And I haven't seen improvement in that area for an offensive-minded head coach with an owner who, when she hired him, said, she wanted more of the new age NFL offense. It has been, I mean, it's taking football back a few years if you want to watch the Titans. Jonathan Hutton with us from Outkick with us from Nashville here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. So Jonathan, how much regret is there that Derek Henry's having this renaissance in Baltimore, and he's not doing it wearing Titan gear?

The most bizarre thing about that is Titans fans are pulling for Derek Henry when he's a Raven. And the reason is they want to see him win. Henry, so I think the perception is had the Titans given him the money, he would have stayed. Like if all things are equal money, I think he wanted to go win. and the Ravens were the team that tried to trade for him in the middle of last season, and he knew that. He wanted to go play in an RPO offense. And if you watched Henry last year, he's getting hit in the backfield.

He was starting to look like he was 30 years old. Yep. And when you see him run the football, he didn't look like the same Derek Henry that was in the Arthur Smith offense. That was paired with Tanna Hill. It was bad. And the difference is the O line. The Titans have really messed up in drafts of recent years, and it starts up front, and they lost their run game.

But now they're trying to rely on it because their quarterback, as previously mentioned, turning football over. So, Henry didn't, he went out the right way. Very few contracts end up playing out in total. And he did it here. He had a farewell speech in the stadium on the microphone after his final game. And, yeah, I think Titans fans are pulling for him to do the best that he can to win a title, because that's the one thing that he says that he wants to go do before he's done.

And I believe him. He's a standout dude, very quiet, goes about his business. He's a true pro. And that's why he's so respected here. And it still has a spot here. I know he lives in Texas as well. Right. And, I mean, he'll be living in the minds of Titans fans because that was their offense.

You know, he was the identity. and the Titans don't have that anymore. You help, the defense feels like it's getting a pretty good reputation around the league. Now, obviously the Lions game is the exclusion because of what they did a few weeks ago. But how the hell does this defense even wake up knowing that if they don't give up, if they give up more than, say, 13 or 16 points, they're going to lose the game because this Titans offense just has not moved the football down the field at all. Yeah, and it's sudden change moments too during the season.

You mentioned the Lions game. There's a lot of turnovers in that game. It's 14-14, and you see some big plays happen with the turnovers, the lines lead the league, I believe, are tied for the league in 19 takeaways. You know, in Houston, I know, has been able to turn the football over in recent weeks. The sudden change moments, Matt, are the reason why the defense gives up the points. They're put in some really bad spots. But beyond that, the numbers are a bit misleading.

when they need a stop, when the Titans offense actually scores, the defense will give up a long drive. When they need a stop just to get the football back, they haven't been able to get that drive and get that stop. Now, the defense is the least of their worries. They don't have a pass rush. Their secondary is beaten up and banged up.

Legerius Sneed has been out for a month. Chobie Ougeet is maybe, coming back sooner rather than later, but he's been out for the majority of the season. They're playing with backups in the secondary, and they're still doing this through an aggressive style where they're putting pressure on quarterbacks, not getting sacks, but they're getting off the field. And, you know, their offense isn't helping them. I'm surprised that we haven't seen more finger pointing to this point because the defense has carried away, and they'd have a few more wins, if not for the quarterback. All right. So if you're overhauling this team next year,

what are the first two positions you're going for in the draft? Where am I selecting? Well, I would say top four. Would that be fair to say? Okay. I don't think Dion will let Chodor play in Nashville. I think he wants to play it. I think he wants to be in Vegas.

Look, they need right tackle on edge rusher. I never pass on a quarterback, though. They don't have one. They've got a 500 quarterback. when to read out his best and will love us. And I think that's probably being more optimistic than I should be, given the evidence that we have. They got a quarterback coach as a head coach. They need to pair him with a quarterback.

That starts the whole process of where they're selecting. Matt, that right tackle is atrocious. It is a turnstile. You'll see it on Sunday. And edge rush, they don't have a rush. They don't have a pass rush. They've got Jeffrey Simmons in the middle of the defensive line. and that's it.

They have to get more pressure on the quarterback to help out a secondary that is sometimes torched throughout games. And I mean, they draw a penalty. Opponents draw a penalty on the Titans, 7% of all snaps, which is pretty high in the NFL for this season. So, yeah, they've got to get,

it starts with the quarterback, and on the other side, they have to affect the quarterback. The Titans do neither. All right. Two last questions, none about the Titans, or at least one off the field and one non.

Titans. Is the goalpost still in the river after the Vanderbilt victory or they pull that bad boy out yet? They pulled it out and they Vanderbilt and the city, they like cut it up into pieces and then sold off pieces of it for charity for a fundraiser that the university did. So I thought that was cool. You know, the police helped march it down. They led the escort down Broadway. And there was nobody that got hurt. No, nothing dangerous about that. That feels to be like, that was. That was. several miles, correct? It's two miles. Yeah. And also a steep, there's a steep riverbank as well that's not well lit.

I mean, not much lighting over there in pitch darkness because there's no events over there at that time of night. So I'm surprised as well about that. But yeah, no injuries. And look, maybe there's a little luck going. and Morgan Wallin threw a bar stool of a six-floor balcony at Eric Church's bar on Broadway. Didn't hit anybody. He's extremely lucky.

In this case, in this case, you know, the goalpost is pretty easy compared to other things that will happen down on the Farrell Broadway, as I call it. Lastly, my audience knows this. I grew up as an older fan. And when the Oilers left Dakota, Nashville, I was without a football team. I observed the Texans. I have a lot of Texans fans that listen, but I'm just not a per se fan. If they win, it's great, but if they lose, I have a lot of, I'm a cougar fan, so I have a lot of turmoil in my life.

I've had the Astros lose World Series and cheating. So I just can't. You're like me. You're like me. I root for the storyline more than the team nowadays. Yeah, I can't take any more to spare. So I'm just, I temper everything. But with that being said, I was never a fan of Bud Adams as a kid because I just think he

ruined my franchise with poor decisions and general managers and bad coaching fires. Tell me about Amy Strunk. I know she's looking for a new stadium there. I thought it was insulting that she'd wear the older gear against the Texans because it was a thumb you nose at Houston and they got her ass kicked by that last year. She wanted to sue the University of Houston for wearing the Houston blue, which they're wearing this Saturday. So I'm not, I'm really not a fan of hers. Give me the perception of ownership with its Nashville fans. And I know at some point you guys want to get a replacement for Nissan Stadium. What's going on with those two situations?

Well, I'll start with the stadium. The stadium's currently under construction. They've got it. That's a $2.1 billion stadium. Ownership is contributing $700 million. It's amazing what the owners will get across the league from city and state governments. It's going to be amazing. So, yeah, that's a state of the art.

And it will be perfect. It's literally right beside the current stadium. And it should be open in 2027, Super Bowl by 2030, 2031. if I had to guess. Amy Adam Strunk took over after what was just pure misery during the Ken Wisenham era. But Adams passed away. Tommy Smith, the son-in-law, the husband of Susie. Who was involved in a lot here in town, yeah, absolutely, yeah. It was not good, yeah, and it was just not good. You know, they took over a team that they had not been a part of. and from an ownership standpoint, I'm saying.

So, you know, Andy Anastrunk came in and took over and they had them on the path. They went to an AFC championship game, made a hire of a guy who was from Tennessee and John Robinson, who was really the face of the franchise, quite frankly, because he's a Tennesseean. And it was a dream job. She fired him after giving him a raise nine months earlier,

fired him in the middle of the season in December, when the team was seven and five and leading the AFC South. since then they have been awful and that's due to the quick trigger of some higher environment same thing with Mike Brable and I think that's also a lot

of what Bud would have done quite frankly and look I think the whole Oilers Blue Columbia Blue is is more about the family in the city than it is the team right like

and you would know better than me on that. But always had a chip on his shoulder when it came to Houston. The one game you don't want to lose as a head coach is that game there this week. It's always been one of those games. And that's the one that they circle. It's the one that Houston circles. I love the rivalry of it. But there's definitely more than just a rivalry there.

There's a chip on the shoulder. There's some bad blood. And I think both sides lean into it. I'm not pretty yet the full. details of, you know, the Oilers history when Bud had the team there. I know how the team left and that left

a bad taste in everyone's mouth that still felt today. So, I mean, you're a great example. You're not the first to bring it up and ask me. And from this, on this end, it's really not talked about. Yeah. Unless you walk through the facility, there's a lot of Oilers history

in their facility. But they, as soon as they became the Tennessee Titans, they treated almost like two franchises. Titans history, Oilers history, franchise history. That's how they reference it, but their facility is full of Houston

memorabilia. It's like they're in Texas, which is a great thing. And an ode to, I think a tip of the cap to her dad who would love it. I got to let you go and I go throw up in my mouth right now. Yeah.

Jonathan, it was great visiting with you. You're now our official Tennessee Insider, so we're calling you at least twice here. You know these things, right? Yeah, well, still free. And get to Nashville. We'll go down Broadway and we'll do the tour of all of the debauchery that goes down. And all I want to do, we'll get you an NBA franchise and I'll be there in a heartbeat.

Jonathan is great to visit with you. Thanks again for coming on the show. We really appreciate it. Thank you, man. All right, Jonathan Hutton from Outkick. I mean, really good insight. And he knows my pain. Like a lot of you know my pain.

A lot of you are experiencing my pain. Speaking of the H-Town Blue, guess what? You're going to be able to see it this Saturday. Cougars, final home game of the season, they're going to take on the Baylor Bears this Saturday, TDUCU Stadium at 6 o'clock. It's your last chance to see the Cougars at home this year, and tickets are available for as low as $15. It's senior day, cheer on the team in their brand new blue uniforms. Suck it, Amy Crunkstrong.

Bring your friends, bring your family, and let's get the stadium full of Cougar Pride and Cougar Blue as the Cougars take on the Baylor Bears. How do you get tickets you get tickets? Uh-Hcougars.com slash tickets. That's UH cougars.com slash tickets or call 713 go coogs. That's 713 go coogers, Baylor this Saturday, 6 p.m. Td. UC Stadium, tickets as low as $15. Be there. Matt Thomas continues.

On Sports Talk 790. 123 on Sports Talk 790. show with Ross. Ross is in Toronto and we'll look forward to having him back with us in a couple weeks. 713-212-5-7-90. Those out-kid guys have got it going,

don't they? He used to be friends with Clay Travis. He's had a good year. He's had a good couple years. Yeah. Those guys, I was telling you, off the year, they had a they bought a sports bar together in Nashville and they

built, I don't know if Clay built it or they built it, but they built a studio in the bar. So they would just do their show every day live from the sports bar. Can we go to do our show from there if we wanted to? Or does the studio not there anymore? They sold it to Garth Brooks. Well, we can't call Garth? You can call Garth.

I don't know if he's going to answer. You know, it's funny. I have been to, there's really only about three or four major metropolitan cities I've never been to. And I've been to Nashville a couple of times, but I don't know Nashville at all. Because, I mean, I've only called college basketball games in, like, Murfreesboro, and I think I flew in there to go to somewhere in Kentucky somewhere. point being is this

I don't really know it so if I went to Nashville it'd be like going to a new place because I've never been to the grand old Opry I've never been down to where all the bars are we were there for SEC media days but you couldn't I couldn't really get a like we were working every day

they had media events every night so like one night they had a media party at the hockey the hockey arena is like right there Bridgestone arena right right right where all the sports bars are the coolest thing though was we just kind of walked that strip and like poked our heads into some of the sports bar or not sports bars but bars, they have live entertainment constantly.

And every bar is like three or four stories. You go up the stairs, every story has somebody different performing. I mean, it's mostly country, but you got like some poppy, whatever, like, any kind of live music you want. It's basically what would be a times 10 bourbon street, right, basically? A little cleaner. A little, a little, I don't know. New Orleans, though, it's cool to pop in a place and it's live jazz. You're not going to get jazz in national.

You're going to get country and rock. Country, yeah. Okay. Let's go to Bairdough, getting ready for the big game with the Cougars at TDUCU Stadium. You heard me talking about a minute ago. Hi, BD. What you got? How's it going, Matt?

Yeah, as Ross would say, if you were here, throw the record books out on Saturday. Actually, that's part of the problem, I think, is I think the record books have been lost or misplaced or they're under a stack of bills. I'm not sure. so no one knows what the record is between those two teams. But I think that the hiccup that UH had last week, notwithstanding, both these teams are, I mean, to be fair, they've exceeded expectations, especially the way they started out the gate. And I still think it will be a very competitive game.

I think better can win. But I think Coach Fritz will have UH ready as well. And I am going to the game, and I'm real excited about that. I haven't been to a game in decades, quite frankly. But the main reason I called was I have never been to TD ECU Stadium. Do you have any pro tips as far as, you know, parking and concessions and all that kind of jazz? Well, honestly, you're not going to have a real difficult time. There are plenty of garages in the area.

I mean, we're not going to have a full house, so you're going to be just fine. I hope someday when Baylor plays again there, it'll be much more difficult for you to find a place to park. But you should have no issues. Not a bad seat in the stadium. Not a bad seat. Not a bad seat. That's what I've heard. Lots of food options.

The places to eat inside the stadium are really, really good. It's got a good atmosphere. I mean, you know, Roan one built in the day. I've never been to McLean Stadium, so I can't speak to what it's like comparable to where the team play it's now. But it's better. And I think it's just nice to have these two teams playing each other again because I grew up going to Baylor-Huston games all the time with Cody Carlson. and Chuck, what was Chuck's last name? Chuck Reedy?

Was that the quarterback's name? Yeah, Cody Carlson was actually the, he was there. When I was there, it was Thomas Mickey for one year and then Cody Carlson. And so I did see Cody Carlson for like three years. Yeah, I mean, I had a great friend of the family was a huge Baderer fan. So every time Bader would play Rice or Houston, we'd always go see them play whether at the Dome or at Rice Stadium. But yeah. Look, Dave Oranda got the vote of confidence.

He's coming back next year. I think it's a good coach. I think he's going into some serious trouble, and I think COVID certainly hurt. I think NIL is going to help. I don't think he's a good coach. You think he's a good coach? Yeah, I mean, they won six games. They're putting up a boat of points.

They're putting up 45 points a game. I think they owe him a massive buyout. I think that's why he's still the coach there. Look at you being a negative Nellie. You know, these LSU guys come and go. You don't all magically bad. He was great as our defensive coordinator. Well, some guys are better coordinators as the head coach.

He's fine and 29 and 29 as head coach. He's fine. It's Bader. What are you going to do? 500. I hope the Cougars can pull off the upset, but I would not be surprised at Baderer because they're just scoring a bullet of points in the last few weeks. I think it's going to be a game where the Cougars simply can't turn the ball over. They're going to limit possessions, and they've got to do better in the red zone.

And those are issues that hurt him last week against Arizona. Yeah, I think it'll be like a nine or ten point game. And yes, maybe one day they'll get to obviously a basketball matchup would be, you know, get more fans probably than the football. that could change in a couple years when Fritz and Arana just start turning things around, I guess. And I know a lot of fans are excited about Bryson Washington, the freshman for Baylor, the running back. And I don't know, Gordy, this is kind of more up your alley. But because of NIL, is it a lot less likely that a guy like that would bolt for the NFL? I mean, are we going to see him through his junior year or a guy still kind of leaving early, even though they could be making NIL money?

Who was the name? Bryce and Washington They're a freshman running But he's just tearing up the field right now Yeah, I think But I'm just wondering if players like him You know, even on other teams Are they bolting for the NFL

Or are they making enough money at the NIL But you can keep them for a few years Well, yeah, well, I mean, he's a he's a redcher freshman So we've got one more year of college left I think the biggest problem for you in this NIL age is bigger teams are going to be calling him You know what happens if Bamma Or Ole Miss calls and says

We got half a millie for you over here, you know. That's not a tough decision at that age, I guess. Yeah. Thanks for the phone call and sick and bearers after this week. Whatever you got left to calls out there. Thanks for the phone call. I always like Baylor.

I've never been to McClain's team. I don't really want to go there. I've never been by the day. Yeah. I've heard it's nice. All the, let me tell you. The new stuff they did there.

Bailer's got money. They just built another new arena for their basketball team. Their women's team has been always good. The volleyball team's top 20. Football has got work to do. Chip of Joanna. have redone every house in town over there. Here's the troubling thing.

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Matt's really smart. He works hard. He has a good grasp of players. He's been around the game. You love him. We love him. So excited for the opportunity that Matt has in front of him for sure.

This is the Matt Thomas show. A couple of broads. casting notes before we get to the Rotten 5. NBA Central, that's an aggregator, right? They don't have any organic material their own, do they? Who's that? It's an NBA Central. It's a Twitter account? Yeah, I think that's just that.

Says that there are no plans to have Stephen A. Smith a part of the Inside the NBA show next season. Thank God. So did they confirm, is it Shaq and Barclay or we don't know yet? The presumption is that they're all coming together to be their negative because they're going to have a reduced schedule. They're going to do it out of Atlanta. It's going to be produced by TNT, so they're going to take the show and they're going to digitally send it to Atlanta to East to the East Coast. And it'll air on ESPN. On ESPN. Before and after games. Opening week, Christmas Day, All-Star Breakish. Oh, so it's not, it's going to be like a special thing. It's not going to be every week. It would be more than a special, but it won't be every week. So they're going to work less and keep the same money and keep the crew together. Works out perfect for them. Yeah. By the way, TNT is going to be your new home for a slate of big 12 football games and basketball games.

You know, apparently the NBA or TNT sued the NBA and involved the ESPN as part of us. So they all work this out and they're all kumbaya now. So you're going to see those big 12 games that would have been on ESPN go over to TNT. Can I be honest? Most nights. I really a lot of me. If I'm getting into bed putting on TV or whatever, I will put it on NBA on TNT without having one. watch any of the basketball games that night.

Like it's, that show is... Well, hell yeah. But like, you know, whatever. 11 midnight. Shacked in a fool. That show is entertaining in itself. You don't even have to have watched the game that led up to it. You just watch them. Like Ernie Johnson's Nito fact of the day brought to you by nobody.

It feels like my sponsorships in my shows. A few weeks ago, they brought in some guy, what do you call? Like a stunt coordinator on like how to hit people in movies and just did it with them. Like, there was no explanation on why they were doing it. But it's funny you mentioned the big, the T. TNT games. They've had some college games this year via Turner. I don't know where they've aired, but Ticchio Spikes was on the SEC Network the past few years. He disappeared. I'd noticed he's been doing

pregame for TNT all year. I don't even know where that's been airing. No, they don't do it. They don't need college now. They've been doing something. Tikio Spikes has been doing pregame shows. Oh, you know what it's on? It's on True TV. Who's watching that? Nobody. By the way, you'll be watching TNT first round playoff games in the college football playoffs. Yeah, we are all, everybody's so hung up.

Oh, it's going to be awesome. College football playoff, it's going to be awesome. Yeah, let me know how awesome it is when we watch the first round game of Liberty at Penn State. Is that going to be awesome? We'll be watching. People betting on us. All right.

Boise versus BYU. You tune into that one? No chance. By the way, lastly, real quick, Hubey Brown, this will be his last year of broadcasting NBA games on ASPN. He's 91 years old. God, he's still doing them? Yeah.

Ladies gentlemen, it takes absolutely no ability to give you who the five best teams are in the NFL, but we ask Conardee McGovern to do something special for us. We ask him to give us the Rotten Five. They've gone bad if they draw flies. Ooh, it's Ross's Rotten Five. This don't smell quite right. Well, actually, this week it's Connor's Rotter's Rotten Five, so let's get into that first edition. The sky is literally falling in Arlington, Texas.

If you missed it, a piece of the roof at AT&T Stadium fell pregame. Luckily, nobody was hurt. But the Texans handed America's team its fifth straight loss. The city of Houston packed Interstate 45 and took over Jerry World. Yes, Dak Prescott is out, but it's not like Cooper Rush as a rookie. Rush had one pick, but it should have been more like four with the many dropped interceptions by the Texans defense. And you like Derek Barnett, stripped the ball and eventually recover a fumble to score a touchdown. The best part of their team is their kicker, and even Brandon Aubrey had an off night,

shanking a 40-yard field goal try. He would eventually make a 64-yarder, but that doesn't matter. C.D. Lamb looks unhappy after every play. Jerry Jones is sticking with Mike McCarthy at least for the rest of the season. They've got the commanders on the road on Sunday. The Texans are the best team in the state, and the Dallas Cowboys are the fifth worst team in the NFL.

The New York Giants didn't even play a football game last week, but they certainly don't deserve to be taken out of the Rotten Five. The Daniel Jones campaign has ended, With six years as the starter, Jones hasn't led the Giants to anything significant. After signing a four-year, $160 million deal, Jones went 3 and 13 with 10 touchdown passes and 13 interceptions. Now, it's obviously not just Jones's fault, even though going from starter to the third string isn't a good look. It's a team effort to be this bad. It's interesting that the Giants skipped over backup Drew Locke to name Tommy DeVito as their new starter.

DeVito briefly rallied the Giants last season and was a folk hero in the Northeast, but it didn't take him long to find his seat. on the bench again. So I'm not sure Giants fans have anything to be excited about. With five straight losses and the 12th toughest remaining schedule, we'll just have to wait and see if DeVito can perform a miracle. But for now, the Giants are the fourth worst team in the NFL. No, no, Mr. Sinatra, the stadium's actually in New Jersey. Things were looking up for Will Lewis of Matt Thomas Sports Enterprises after throwing the longest touchdown reception in the league this season. The Titans had life when hosting the Minnesota Vikings, but the fourth

quarter arrived and the Titans returned to their original form. After turning the ball over twice on downs, surprise, surprise, Leves threw a pick that sealed the game for the Vikings. The Titans get in their own way. They allowed the Vikings to extend drives by committing penalty after penalty. They've only won once since September and they probably won't get another win this week when they come into town to face the Texans. It's time for Davis Mills to shine against the Tennessee Titans who are the third worst team in the NFL. He sucks. I mean, he doesn't like normal suck.

He super sucks. Matt, you said that about your own guy. Moving right along, the Las Vegas Raiders were wrapped in the Devante Adams drama to start the season. However, he forced to trade with the Jets. Ironically, on that same day, Tom Brady was confirmed as the Raiders minority owner. But even that can't distract us from the fact that there is a bad football team and Matt's favorite place on Earth. The Raiders kept it close with the Miami Dolphins, but things took a turn in the second half. The defense fell apart and the offense couldn't move the ball.

This was the first game with Scott Turner running the offense and while play calling might have looked a little smoother, the standards in Las Vegas aren't very high. The only silver lining is that Brock Bowers is a legitimate star. He just needs a Raiders team that doesn't do the quarterback shuffle. The Raiders earn their sixth straight loss, have some really tough opponents ahead, and are the second worst team in the NFL.

To finish off the Rotten Five, we return to the AFC South. where the Jacksonville Jaguars find themselves right at the bottom. How can you not be the worst team in the NFL this week after suffering your worst loss in franchise history at the hands of the Detroit Lions? Who brought you into their house just to put up 52 points. Jared Goff and Lion starters pulled out of the game pretty early in the fourth quarter after scoring seven touchdowns in seven drives. I know Trevor Lawrence is out, but they weren't exactly doing well with him under center. the Mac Jones lead offense has scored only 13 points combined over the past two games.

Coach Doug Peterson's job is in jeopardy. He could be fired during this by week. It's probably best to shut down Trevor Lawrence for the rest of the season and focus on rebuilding. So the Jacksonville Jaguars are the worst team in the NFL. I've seen teams suck before, but they were to suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked. Everything. Sock, suck, suck. And that's your on five.

Connor. I am beyond impressed. Thank you. Let him do it every week. You know what? We're going to have to do an instapole when Ross gets back. Who did the Better Fantasy 5? Or a rotten 5?

He may be losing one of his crowns. The Matt Thomas show with Ross featuring Connor. No, it's the Matt Thomas show with Connor and the other guy. All right. Let's play, believe it or not. It's highly Googledable. It's about Twitter and athletes. We'll do that after I tell you about what's happening December the 9th at the Golf Club.

of Houston. It's the 11th annual St. Jude's Tournament. I told you I went to Memphis this summer to go see the St. Jude's Hospital and their facilities and how they cure kids thousands and thousands and thousands of children that have life-threatening diseases. And it's very important to me that I spread the message of what St. Jude's can do and they have a big tournament coming up on December the 9th. Four-man teams are available. Only nine of them are left. And what they're looking for is an opportunity for you to play some great golf, beautiful, awesome, tasty lunch and breakfast, a great goody bag, and an opportunity to help St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis take care of some of the sickest children in the world. If you're a boss, it's a fantastic charity donation for your company.

If you're not the boss, ask him or her to buy a team or sponsorship to help these kids and help the folks. meet their goal. And that's what goal is here at I-Hart is to get these tournament filled up so we can send some more money to the great people of St. Jude's. If you would like to get some information on this, I want to give you an email address. Doug Pike, that's our weekend outdoors guy, D-O-U-G-P-I-K-E, D-O-G-P-I-K-E. Dot com. He's the chairman of our tournament this year and wants to button up that budget before the weekend. Email him and someone from St. Jude's will get back to you right away. That's Doug P-O-U-G-P-I-K-E at I-HartMedia. com please put together a team so we can get some money to those great folks and do so much good that is st jude's children's research hospital of memphis dog pike at iheartmedia dot com matt thomas returns on sports talk 790 all right we will have dr roto with us tomorrow because uh he's got his mother's not feeling well and having to tend to her so rhodo's on brym mctaggart's going to be on tomorrow from 10 o'clock until one and it's going to be weird we've never done an all-bit show

with every bit in one show, but that was the only requirement. He says, I'll come in as long as we do, shut your bum ass up. Ain't nobody got time for that. I just don't get it. I love that. We got to tell the truth, we got to tell the truth, too.

Well, you know what ought to do, Conno, we ought to do it to let McTagger do to tell the truth. Bregman's going to sign. Brigman's not going to sign. Which one's he telling the truth on? Oof. Are you ready, by the way? Are you ready? We can pre-record the shows, right?

the day he doesn't sign. He goes somewhere else. Oh, yeah. Okay. I think he's not going to back here. I got a 0% chance. And I know I'm not so negative Nelly on that, but I'm just speaking to truth here. I said 20. You're going to leave the door open a little bit. All right. Okay. Zero.

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I'll give you an athlete, a number of followers they have. If they do, if you believe the number, you'll say this. Believe it. If you don't, you'll say this. Two believe it or not in a row. When you're prize, Connor, what are you playing for today? We've got our final pair of tickets to see the U.S. Cougars take on the Baylor Bears this Saturday, November 23rd at TD ECU Stadium. We also got plenty of pair of tickets to see a comedian Lewis Black this Friday, November 2nd at 713 Music Hall and some 790 T-Shall.

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Believe it. No, just 1.4. You would have think of me pretty high with... What's her face? Let's go to Eric and Katie on 790. Eric, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it? Zion Williamson has 886,000 followers.

Believe it or not? Not. No, just 480. Name number two for the win. Freddie Freeman has 717,000 followers. Believe it or not? Not. No, just 34,000.

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